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Making It by Benjamin Moser 9781681370804
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681370804Author Benjamin MoserFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint New York Review BooksPublisher... -
Sontag: Her Life by Benjamin Moser
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £11.50WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHYSelected as a Book of the Year 2019 by the SPECTATOR, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN and FINANCIAL TIMES 'Definitive and delightful' Stephen Fry 'There can... -
Sontag: Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser
Booksplease Price: £21.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062896391Author Benjamin MoserFormat HardbackPage Count 832Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco... -
Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector by Benjamin Moser
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.35"That rare person who looked like Marlene Dietrich and wrote like Virginia Woolf," Clarice Lispector is one of the most popular but least understood of Latin American writers, and now in Why this... -
Sontag: Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser 9780062896407
Booksplease Price: £14.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062896407Author Benjamin MoserFormat PaperbackPage Count 832Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins... -
Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History Benjamin Moser 9780008722814
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.50Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters by Benjamin Moser 9781324092254
Booksplease Price: £26.58Arriving as a young writer in an ancient Dutch town, Benjamin Moser found himself visiting—casually at first, and then more and more obsessively—the country’s great museums. Inside these old... -
The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters Benjamin Moser 9781802060829
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer turns his eye to the seventeenth-century Dutch Golden Age Twenty years ago, Benjamin Moser followed a love affair to an ancient Dutch town. In order to make... -
The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters by Benjamin Moser 9780241586457
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.98The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer turns his eye to the seventeenth-century Dutch Golden Age Twenty years ago, Benjamin Moser followed a love affair to an ancient Dutch town. In order to make... -
The Hour of the Star: 100th Anniversary Edition by Clarice Lispector 9780811230049
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.85The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of... -
The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector 9780811219495
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.37Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabea, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a... -
The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector 9780811219686
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.95The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector's mystical novel of 1964, concerns a well-to-do Rio sculptress, G.H., who enters her maid's room, sees a cockroach crawling out of the wardrobe, and,... -
An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures by Clarice Lispector 9780811232210
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.12Lori, a primary school teacher, is isolated and nervous, comfortable with children but unable to connect to adults. When she meets Ulisses, a professor of philosophy, an opportunity opens: a chance... -
Too Much of Life: The Complete Cronicas by Clarice Lispector
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.54The things I've learned from taxi drivers would be enough to fill a book. They know a lot: they really do get around. I may know a lot about Antonioni that they don't know. Or maybe they do even when... -
Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector 9780811220026
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.20Near to the Wild Heart, published in Rio de Janeiro in 1943, introduced Brazil to what one writer called "Hurricane Clarice": a twenty-three-year-old girl who wrote her first book in a tiny rented... -
Agua Viva by Clarice Lispector 9780811219907
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.46A meditation on the nature of life and time, Agua Viva (1973) shows Lispector discovering a new means of writing about herself, more deeply transforming her individual experience into a universal... -
When We Sold God's Eye: Diamonds, Murder and a Clash of Worlds in the Amazon Alex Cuadros 9781399628891
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.38'A first-class work of reporting [and] a work of compassion for Indigenous peoples everywhere' BENJAMIN MOSER, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of SONTAG'A non-fiction novel of modern conquest,... -
The Besieged City Clarice Lispector 9780811238502
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.72Rich with visions, miraculous horses, and linguistic ecstasy, The Besieged City stars Lucrecia. Clarice Lispector's heroine is a materialistic girl free of the burden of thought: "Behold, behold, all... -
The Chandelier by Clarice Lispector 9780811228718
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.95The Chandelier, written when Lispector was only twenty-three, reveals a very different author from the college student whose debut novel, Near to the Wild Heart, announced the landfall of "Hurricane... -
Too Much of Life: Complete Chronicles by Clarice Lispector 9780241597583
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78A TLS Book of the Year This exhilarating collection of non-fiction sees one of the greatest twentieth-century writers meditating on the moments that make up a life'How did I so unwittingly transform... -
The Chandelier Clarice Lispector 9780241371343
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Clarice Lispector's masterly second novel, now available in English for the first time'She found the best clay that one could desire: white, supple, sticky, cold ... She would get a clear and tender... -
Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabea loves movies, Coca-Cola and her philandering rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly and... -
Portraits in Life and Death Peter Hujar 9781324092179
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £44.54The 1976 publication of Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life and Death, with an introduction by Susan Sontag, “was and remains one of the most somberly beautiful and influential photography collections of... -
Geography of Rebels Trilogy: The Book of Communities, The Remaining Life, and In the House of July & August by Maria Gabriela Llansol
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £9.96"If anyone might be profitably compared to Clarice Lispector, it might well be Maria Gabriela Llansol. This is because of the fundamentally mystical impulse that animates them both, their... -
A Breath of Life by Clarice Lispector 9780811219624
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.81A mystical dialogue between a male author (a thinly disguised Clarice Lispector) and his/her creation, a woman named Angela, this posthumous work has never before been translated. Lispector did not... -
When We Sold God's Eye: Diamonds, Murder and a Clash of Worlds in the Amazon by Alex Cuadros 9781399628914
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'A first-class work of reporting [and] a work of compassion for Indigenous peoples everywhere' BENJAMIN MOSER, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of SONTAG'A non-fiction novel of modern conquest,... -
Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume II, Issue 1 by Leon Wieseltier
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.95"A Meteor of Intelligent Substance""Something was Missing in our Culture, and Here It Is""Liberties is THE place to be. Change starts in the mind."Liberties, a journal of Culture and Politics, is... -
The Apple in the Dark by Clarice Lispector 9780811226752
Booksplease Price: £16.21"It's the best one," Clarice Lispector remarked on the occasion of the publication of The Apple in the Dark: "I can't define it, how it is, I can only say that it's much better constructed than the... -
Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume I, Issue 3 by Leon Wieseltier
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.95"A Meteor of Intelligent Substance" "Something was Missing in our Culture, and Here It Is" "Liberties sure is needed in these times."In a short time since its launch, Liberties - A Journal of... -
An Apprenticeship or the Book of Pleasures by Clarice Lispector
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'One of the very great writers of the last century' Guardian'Lispector had an ability to write as though no one had ever written before' Colm Toibin'He'd wait for her, she knew that now. Until she... -
Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism Cathy Gere 9780226289533
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £37.93In the spring of 1900, British archaeologist Arthur Evans began to excavate the palace of Knossos on Crete, bringing ancient Greek legends to life just as a new century dawned amid far-reaching... -
The Apple in the Dark by Clarice Lispector 9780241371350
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Described by Clarice Lispector as 'the best one', this intoxicating portrayal of a man searching for his destiny is her mystical, enigmatic masterpiece'All I've got is hunger. And that instable way... -
Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism by Cathy Gere 9780226289540
Booksplease Price: £18.63In the spring of 1900, British archaeologist Arthur Evans began to excavate the palace of Knossos on Crete, bringing ancient Greek legends to life just as a new century dawned amid far-reaching... -
Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector 9780811227933
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.21Here, gathered in one volume, are the stories that made Clarice a Brazilian legend. Originally a cloth edition of eighty-six stories, now we have eighty- nine in all, covering her whole amazing... -
Trippy: The Peril and Promise of Medicinal Psychedelics by Ernesto Londoño 9781398714052
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.82A moving, tender and thoughtful exploration of a complicated subject. Johann Hari, Sunday Times bestselling author of Stolen Focus and Lost ConnectionsA compulsively readable romp through a... -
Burning Secret by Stefan Zweig
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.11The Baron, bored on holiday, begins a flirtation with a beautiful woman via her twelve-year-old son. He befriends the child and charms him, all the while attempting to seduce the mother - but he... -
Outcast: A History of Us Through Leprosy Oliver Basciano 9780571384303
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38A revelatory history of humanity - spanning thousands of years and ranging across the world - told through the lens of a misunderstood disease.'Remarkable . . . grippingly and humanely recounted.'... -
Dom Casmurro: A Novel Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis 9781324095149
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.50Originally published in 1899, Dom Casmurro is widely considered to be Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis's masterpiece and a progenitor of twentieth-century Latin American fiction. This exuberant new... -
Dom Casmurro: A Novel by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis 9781324090700
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £18.42Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson's critically acclaimed translations of Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas and The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis introduced a new generation of readers to... -
If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution: 'as good as journalism gets' by Vincent Bevins 9781035412310
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50'A stunning history of now' GREG GRANDIN'Phenomenal . . . it would be criminally negligent not to read it if you'd like to change the world' ROB DELANEYFrom 2010 to 2020, more people took part in...