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See/Saw: Looking at Photographs by Geoff Dyer 9781838852115
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.88'Wide-ranging and eclectic' TLS'Seductively curious' Observer'A visual and intellectual journey' HeraldSee/Saw is an illuminating history of how photographs frame and change our perspectives... -
Working the Room: Essays and Reviews: 1999-2010 by Geoff Dyer
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Alive with insight, wit and Dyer's characteristic irreverence, this collection of essays offers a guide around the cultural maze, mapping a route through the worlds of literature, art, photography... -
White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World by Geoff Dyer
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70SHORTLISTED FOR STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEARFrom a trip to The Lightning Field in New Mexico, to chasing Gauguin's ghost in French Polynesia, White Sands is a creative exploration of why... -
The Modernist Art of Queer Survival by Benjamin Bateman 9780190676537
RRP: $163.80Booksplease Price: $157.79Whether we speak of queer bodies targeted for harassment, queer sensibilities derided as dangerous, or queer intimacies denied legitimacy, we acknowledge a close companionship between queerness and... -
Something to Believe In: Creating Trust and Hope in Organisations: Stories of Transparency, Accountability and Governance by Malcolm McIntosh
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $79.78In a world where trust in politicians, corporations and the processes that determine our lives continues to dwindle, this innovative book brings together research, case studies and stories that begin... -
Something to Believe In: Creating Trust and Hope in Organisations: Stories of Transparency, Accountability and Governance by Malcolm McIntosh 9781874719694
Booksplease Price: $155.38In a world where trust in politicians, corporations and the processes that determine our lives continues to dwindle, this innovative book brings together research, case studies and stories that begin... -
Alexandrian Sphinx: The Hidden Life of Constantine Cavafy Peter Jeffreys 9781398551268
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05A gripping and revealing new biography of one of the greatest of modern poets, the queer, Greek-Egyptian Constantine Cavafy, whose admirers have ranged from E.M. Forster, T.S. Eliot and Virginia... -
See/Saw: Looking at Photographs by Geoff Dyer
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $38.66See/Saw is an illuminating history of how photographs frame and change our perspectives. Starting from single images by the world's most important photographers - from Eugene Atget to Alex Webb -... -
Bombay--London--New York Amitava Kumar 9780415942119
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $37.57First published in 2003.When Amitava Kumar left Patna, India, he envisioned himself as an up-and-coming citizen of the world, leaving behind the confines of Indian traditions. Yet like the wave of... -
Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane 9780241998212
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $19.68SHORTLISTED FOR BLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION WRITING 2025SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2026SHORTLISTED FOR THE... -
Bombay--London--New York by Amitava Kumar 9780415942102
Booksplease Price: $97.63First published in 2003.When Amitava Kumar left Patna, India, he envisioned himself as an up-and-coming citizen of the world, leaving behind the confines of Indian traditions. Yet like the wave of... -
On the Boardwalk Martin Sherman 9781912620357
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.36A memoir from the writer of BENT with a foreword by Ian McKellenSherman takes us on a journey through America in the mid twentieth century, starting in New Jersey - where he was born in the 1930s to... -
Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H. W. Bush by Geoff Dyer
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70In November 2011, Geoff Dyer fulfilled a childhood dream of spending time on an aircraft carrier. Dyer's stay on the USS George Bush, on active service in the Arabian Gulf, proved even more intense,... -
Attack of the Copula Spiders: Essays on Writing by Douglas Glover
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45A GLOBE & MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR 2012 "Glover is a master of narrative structure." --Wall Street Journal In the tradition of E.M. Forster, John Gardner, and James Wood, Douglas Glover has... -
Grimoire by Robin Robertson 9781529051117
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.74Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize 2020 'I've long admired Robin Robertson's narrative gift . . . If you love stories, you will love this book.' Val McDermidThe new book from the author of The... -
It Takes Two to Know One: The Therapy Relationship and Unconscious Dialogues by Anthony Bass 9781032210698
Booksplease Price: $83.14This book explores the nature of relational psychoanalysis in clinical practice, drawing on the author's over four decades of clinical experience as a firstgeneration relational psychoanalyst and... -
Secrets of Happiness by Joan Silber
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $30.18One of O: The Oprah Magazine's Most Anticipated Books of 2021One of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 picks for Spring 2021Ethan, a young lawyer in New York, learns that his father has long kept a second... -
A Voyage Around the Queen Craig Brown 9780008557492
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $39.48From one of the funniest writers of our time, the award-winning author of One Two Three Four and Ma'am Darling turns his attention to Queen Elizabeth II in an unforgettable and... -
A Voyage Around the Queen Craig Brown 9780008557539
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.39THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE TIMES and SUNDAY TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2024 ... 'GENIUS' A BOOK OF THE YEAR for theSPECTATOR, MAIL ON SUNDAY, NEW... -
Cheryl's Destinies by Stephen Sexton
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.95Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best CollectionA Financial Times, Irish Times and Telegraph Book of the Year history is what we call / what might have happened differently / and didn'tIt is the... -
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters 9780349004600 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $5.06SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZEThis novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Little Stranger, is a brilliant 'page-turning melodrama and a fascinating portrait of London of the... -
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $15.35SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZEThis novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Little Stranger, is a brilliant 'page-turning melodrama and a fascinating portrait of London of the... -
Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Histories by Diarmuid Hester 9780141998060
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38'With originality and subtlety, Diarmuid Hester examines how the gay imagination deals with place and with displacement, allowing for mystery and a kind of magic' Colm Toibin'Hester is a fizzingly... -
The Ferryman by Jez Butterworth
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.68'Vanishing. It's a powerful word, that. A powerful word.' County Armagh, Northern Ireland, 1981. The Carney farmhouse is a hive of activity with preparations for the annual harvest. A day of hard... -
Literature and Liberty: Essays in Libertarian Literary Criticism by Allen Mendenhall 9780739186336
Booksplease Price: $200.53The economic theories of Karl Marx and his disciples continue to be anthologized in books of literary theory and criticism and taught in humanities classrooms to the exclusion of other, competing... -
Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Histories by Diarmuid Hester 9780241528457
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $36.62'With originality and subtlety, Diarmuid Hester examines how the gay imagination deals with place and with displacement, allowing for mystery and a kind of magic' Colm Toibin'Hester is a fizzingly... -
Michael Tippett: The Biography Oliver Soden 9781474606035
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05'A delight to read' Philip Pullman'Essential reading ... a genuine landmark publication' Tom ServiceA BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'The music of the British composer Michael Tippett - including the... -
The Road Home: A Novel by Rose Tremain 9780316002622
Booksplease Price: $38.62In the wake of factory closings and his beloved wife's death, Lev makes his way from Eastern Europe to London, seeking work to support his mother and his little daughter. After a spell of... -
The Three Graces by Amanda Craig
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $26.19'Hugely entertaining' Telegraph'She's such a skilful storyteller who vividly dramatises our lives with wit, wisdom and compassion'BERNARDINE EVARISTO'I revelled in The Three Graces - such an... -
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi Geoff Dyer 9781782115144
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35Jeff Atman, a journalist, is in Venice to cover the opening of the Biennale. He's expecting to see a load of art, go to a lot of parties and drink too many bellinis. He's not expecting to meet the... -
Tiepolo Blue: 'The best novel I have read for ages' Stephen Fry by James Cahill
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $14.09SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS' CLUB FIRST NOVEL AWARD'Divine . . . the smart, sexy read you need' Evening Standard'Startlingly impressive' Daily Mail'An electric new novel' GuardianExiled from his... -
The Long Take: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize by Robin Robertson 9781509846887 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $5.92Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, winner of the Goldsmiths Prize, The Roehampton Poetry Prize and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. 'A beautiful, vigorous and achingly melancholy... -
Stefan and Lotte Zweig's South American Letters: New York, Argentina and Brazil, 1940-42 by Professor Darién J. Davis 9781441107121
Booksplease Price: $64.13This title presents the previously unpublished letters of a major twentieth-century writer and his wife. Born in Vienna in 1881, Stefan Zweig was one of the most respected authors of his time...