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Thinking Animals: Why Animal Studies Now? by Kari Weil 9780231148092
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $44.94Kari Weil provides a critical introduction to the field of animal studies as well as an appreciation of its thrilling acts of destabilization. Examining real and imagined confrontations between human... -
The Storyteller: Tales out of Loneliness by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $17.87The Storyteller gathers for the first time the fiction of the legendary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, best known for his groundbreaking studies of culture and literature, including... -
Being Posthuman: Ontologies of the Future by Zahi Zalloua 9781350151086
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $91.39Posthumanism is both a descriptive and a prescriptive term. Firstly, it registers a shift beginning in the late 1960s and epitomized by Foucault's "the death of Man". Secondly, it refers to the... -
Fanon, Psychoanalysis and Critical Decolonial Psychology: The Mind of Apartheid Derek Hook 9781032308012
RRP: $98.68Booksplease Price: $92.27This groundbreaking book examines the psychological dimension of decolonial thought in reference to foundational texts. Previously published as A Critical Psychology of the Postcolonial, this new... -
Gone to the Forest by Katie Kitamura 9781846689246
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.34Set on a struggling farm in a fiercely beautiful colonial country teetering on the brink of civil war, this second novel by one of international literature's rising young stars weaves a brilliant... -
Indian Arrivals, 1870-1915: Networks of British Empire by Elleke Boehmer
RRP: $47.23Booksplease Price: $43.72Indian Arrivals, 1870-1915: Networks of British Empire explores the rich and complicated landscape of intercultural contact between Indians and Britons on British soil at the height of empire, as... -
Mouthful of Birds: LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE, 2019 by Samanta Schweblin 9781786076694
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $13.48A SPELLBINDINGLY CREEPY COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES, FROM AN ARGENTINIAN LITERARY STAR 'The Grimm brothers and Franz Kafka pay a visit to Argentina in Samanta Schweblin's darkly humorous... -
Modernity and the Political Fix by Professor Andrew Gibson 9781350212541
Booksplease Price: $74.47From their decisive emergence in the late eighteenth century, modernity and modern politics were long haunted by irony and paradox. Ours, however, is the age of the implosion of modernity. Modernity... -
Landscape with Rowers: Poetry from the Netherlands by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $49.75Though the Netherlands has been the site of vigorous literary activity since at least the Beweging van Vijftig (Movement of the Fifties) poets, the status of Dutch as a "minor" language spoken by... -
How Novels Work by John Mullan 9780199281770
RRP: $68.23Booksplease Price: $56.85Never has contemporary fiction been more widely discussed and passionately analysed; recent years have seen a huge growth in the number of reading groups and in the interest of a non-academic... -
Indian Arrivals, 1870-1915: Networks of British Empire by Elleke Boehmer 9780198744184
Booksplease Price: $129.19Indian Arrivals 1870-1915: Networks of British Empire explores the rich and complicated landscape of intercultural contact between Indians and Britons on British soil at the height of empire, as... -
Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage by Jonny Steinberg
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $35.09'Gripping and profoundly moving' DAMON GALGUT 'Deft and operatic' OBSERVER A TIMES BEST BIOGRAPHY OF 2023 ... -
Transatlantic Fictions of 9/11 and the War on Terror by Susana Araujo 9781350030381
Booksplease Price: $85.66Extending the study of post-9/11 literature to include transnational perspectives, this book explores the ways in which contemporary writers from Europe as well as the USA have responded to the... -
Biographical Fiction: A Reader by Professor Michael Lackey 9781501318009
Booksplease Price: $83.35In recent years, the biographical novel has become one of the most dominant literary forms-J.M. Coetzee, Margaret Atwood, Hilary Mantel, Colum McCann, Anne Enright, Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Carey,... -
Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage by Jonny Steinberg 9780008353810
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.12*Shortlisted for the 2024 Wolfson History Prize* 'Gripping and profoundly moving' DAMON GALGUT 'Deft and... -
Postmodernism and Architecture at the End of Apartheid Hilton Judin 9781041193074
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.35Set against a social and political urban landscape of segregation and forced removals, Postmodernism and Architecture at the End of Apartheid unpacks postmodernism in the 1970s and 1980s as it... -
Beyond Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism: Between Literature and Mind Benjamin H. Ogden (Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA) 9780815377283
RRP: $79.78Booksplease Price: $76.19Through a series of radical and innovative chapters, Beyond Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism: Between Literature and Mind challenges the tradition of applied psychoanalysis that has long dominated... -
The Question of the Animal and Religion: Theoretical Stakes, Practical Implications by Aaron Gross
RRP: $245.70Booksplease Price: $192.07Through an absorbing investigation into recent, high-profile scandals involving one of the largest kosher slaughterhouses in the world, located unexpectedly in Postville, Iowa, Aaron S. Gross makes a... -
The Question of the Animal and Religion: Theoretical Stakes, Practical Implications by Aaron Gross 9780231167512
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $52.94Through an absorbing investigation into recent, high-profile scandals involving one of the largest kosher slaughterhouses in the world, located unexpectedly in Postville, Iowa, Aaron S. Gross makes a... -
Conversations with Rene Girard by Dr Rene Girard 9781350075160
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $52.48French theorist Rene Girard was one of the major thinkers of the twentieth century. Read by international leaders, quoted by the French media, Girard influenced such writers as J.M. Coetzee and Milan... -
The Aesthetics of Care: On the Literary Treatment of Animals by Josephine Donovan
Booksplease Price: $66.19In this important new book from a distinguished scholar, Josephine Donovan develops a new aesthetics of care, which she establishes as the basis for a critical approach to the representation of... -
The Novel and the New Ethics by Dorothy J. Hale 9781503614062
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31For a generation of contemporary Anglo-American novelists, the question "Why write?" has been answered with a renewed will to believe in the ethical value of literature. Dissatisfied with... -
Political Correctness: A History of Semantics and Culture Geoffrey Hughes (University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa) 9781405152785
RRP: $174.20Booksplease Price: $157.12Political Correctness "Geoffrey Hughes has brought together with great panache the very many manifestations of political correctness, both absurd and vicious, and shown how they express a single... -
Discrepant Solace: Contemporary Literature and the Work of Consolation David James 9780198985914
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $51.05Consolation has always played an uncomfortable part in the literary history of loss. But in recent decades its affective meanings and ethical implications have been recast by narratives that appear... -
Present Tense: A Poetics by Armen Avanessian 9781628927641
Booksplease Price: $71.74The invention of the present-tense novel is a literary event whose importance is on par with the discovery of perspective in painting. From the first novels shaped by interior monologues and the use... -
The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability before Pascal by James Franklin
RRP: $69.30Booksplease Price: $53.70How did we make reliable predictions before Pascal and Fermat's discovery of the mathematics of probability in 1654? What methods in law, science, commerce, philosophy, and logic helped us to get at... -
Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck 9780811225946
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.72Go, Went, Gone is the masterful new novel by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, "one of the most significant German-language novelists of her generation" (The Millions). The novel tells the... -
Discrepant Solace: Contemporary Literature and the Work of Consolation by David James
RRP: $197.40Booksplease Price: $150.68Consolation has always played an uncomfortable part in the literary history of loss. But in recent decades its affective meanings and ethical implications have been recast by narratives that appear... -
Political Correctness: A History of Semantics and Culture Geoffrey Hughes (University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa) 9781405152792
RRP: $71.30Booksplease Price: $67.24Political Correctness "Geoffrey Hughes has brought together with great panache the very many manifestations of political correctness, both absurd and vicious, and shown how they express a single... -
Present Imperfect: Contemporary South African Writing by Andrew van der Vlies 9780198793762
Booksplease Price: $188.71Present Imperfect asks how South African writers have responded to the end of apartheid, to the hopes that attended the birth of the 'new' nation in 1994, and to the inevitable disappointments that... -
The Other Americans by Laila Lalami 9781526606716
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73Finalist for the National Book Award 2019 An Observer, Literary Review and Time Book of the Year 'One of the most affecting novels I have read. Subtle, wise and full of humanity' The Times ... -
The Lives of Animals by J. M. Coetzee 9780691173900
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $21.82The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her... -
Writing for Dark Times: A Literary History of Human Rights Hadji Bakara 9780226847825
Booksplease Price: $56.03A history of human rights that places writers and their ideas at its center.At Amnesty International's headquarters in London hangs a large copy of Seamus Heaney's "From the Republic of Conscience,"... -
Virtual Diaspora, Postcolonial Literature and Feminism Ashmita Khasnabish 9781032135175
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.35This book analyses the resolution of the psychic problem of diasporic existence from a postcolonial feminist perspective, by inscribing and defining the meaning of "virtual diaspora" through the lens... -
Little Red Barns: Weaponized Storytelling from Farm to Fable 9780872869141
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $24.68"We are in a fight for our lives against a rising authoritarian tide, and this clear-eyed, compelling, clarion call of a book has a message everyone needs to hear."-Astra Taylor, author of Democracy... -
Studying English Literature and Language: An Introduction and Companion by Rob Pope
RRP: $86.08Booksplease Price: $82.17Studying English Literature and Language is unique in offering both an introduction and a companion for students taking English Literature and Language degrees. Combining the functions of study... -
Speaking in Tongues by J. M. Coetzee 9781324098560
Booksplease Price: $28.01Language, historically speaking, has always been slippery. Two dictionaries provide two different maps of the universe: which one is true, or are both false? Speaking in Tongues-taking the form of a... -
The Pole: A Novel by J. M. Coetzee 9781324093862
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $34.50Renowned for his sparse yet powerful prose, J. M. Coetzee is unquestionably among the most influential-and provocative-authors of our time. With characteristic insight and a "brittle wit that forces... -
Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics Sarah Glaz 9781568813417
RRP: $252.00Booksplease Price: $231.82Strange Attractors is a collection of approximately 150 poems with strong links to mathematics in content, form, or imagery. The common theme is love, and the editors draw from its various... -
The Pole: A Novel J. M. Coetzee 9781324095668
Booksplease Price: $21.38Renowned for his sparse yet powerful prose, J. M. Coetzee is unquestionably among the most influential-and provocative-authors of our time. With characteristic insight and a "brittle wit that forces...