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The Second Body by Daisy Hildyard
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97Every living thing has two bodies. To be an animal is to be in possession of a physical body, a body which can eat, drink and sleep; it is also to be embedded in a worldwide network of ecosystems... -
Who Will Build the Ark?: Debates on Climate Strategy from 'New Left Review' by Benjamin Kunkel
RRP: $47.58Booksplease Price: $33.89In Who Will Build the Ark?, leading radical thinkers debate left alternatives to runaway global heating, capitalist crisis and wider environmental breakdown, clarifying the stakes in today's key... -
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $14.35With his trademark dry wit, Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle is an inventive science fiction satire that preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon - and, worse still, surviving it. This Penguin... -
The philosophy of Marx by Etienne Balibar 9781784786038
RRP: $42.82Booksplease Price: $35.58Written by one of political theory's leading thinkers, The Philosophy of Marx examines all the key areas of Marx's writings in their wider historical and theoretical context-including the concepts of... -
Perdita: On Loss Dylan Riley 9781804296080
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $29.32"Our marriage was, from any conventional point of view, wildly implausible; and you, my dear son, are the miraculous product of this beautiful, rather crazy, and all too brief love affair." When... -
The Future of Decline: Anglo-American Culture at its Limits by Jed Esty
Booksplease Price: $29.94As the US becomes a second-place nation, can it shed the superpower nostalgia that still haunts the UK? The debate over the US's fading hegemony has raged and sputtered for 50 years, glutting the... -
Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil by Timothy Mitchell 9781804292495
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.78With the rise of coal power, the producers who oversaw its development acquired the ability to shut down energy systems, a threat they used to build the first mass democracies. Oil offered the West... -
The Walk by Robert Walser
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $19.09Ranging from one-page fantasies to novella-length studies of everyday existence, The Walk reveals the irresistible genius of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Under-appreciated even in... -
Inventions of a Present: The Novel in its Crisis of Globalization by Fredric Jameson 9781804292402
RRP: $59.50Booksplease Price: $41.53A novel is an act, an intervention, which, most often, the naive reader takes as a representation. The novel intervenes to modify or correct our conventional notions of a situation and, in the best... -
Lost Illusions by Honore de Balzac 9781517905439
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $32.53A new annotated translation of the keystone of Balzac's Comedie Humaine-a sweeping narrative of corrupted idealism in a cynical urban milieu Lost Illusions is an essential text within Balzac's... -
Vertigo by W. G. Sebald 9780811226165
Booksplease Price: $28.04Perfectly titled, Vertigo -W.G. Sebald's marvelous first novel - is a work that teeters on the edge: compelling, puzzling, and deeply unsettling. An unnamed narrator, beset by nervous ailments,... -
The Lives of Animals by J. M. Coetzee 9780691173900
RRP: $33.30Booksplease Price: $25.54The 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... -
White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism by Andreas Malm
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $33.92In recent years, the far right has done everything in its power to accelerate the heating: an American president who believes it is a hoax has removed limits on fossil fuel production. The Brazilian... -
The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition by Fernando Pessoa 9780811226936
RRP: $52.34Booksplease Price: $46.24The Book of Disquiet is the Portuguese modernist master Fernando Pessoa's greatest literary achievement. An "autobiography" or "diary" containing exquisite melancholy observations, aphorisms, and... -
Intern Nation: How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy by Ross Perlin 9781844678839
RRP: $47.58Booksplease Price: $33.89Millions of young people-and increasingly some not-so-young people-now work as interns. They famously shuttle coffee in a thousand magazine offices, legislative backrooms, and Hollywood studios, but... -
Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner 9781803510040
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40'The sharpest and funniest novel I read this year' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday A hilarious, intelligent cult classic, from one of the most celebrated contemporary novelists. Adam Gordon is a... -
Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner 9781847086914
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40'The sharpest and funniest novel I read this year' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday A hilarious, intelligent cult classic, from one of the most celebrated contemporary novelists. Adam Gordon is a...