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Essayism by Brian Dillon
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Imagine a type of writing so hard to define its very name means a trial, effort or attempt. An ancient form with an eye on the future, a genre poised between tradition and experiment. The essay wants... -
Affinities by Brian Dillon
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $20.90What do we mean when we claim affinity with an object or picture, or say affinities exist between such things? Affinities is a critical and personal study of a sensation that is not exactly taste,... -
Suppose a Sentence by Brian Dillon 9781913097011
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.38In Suppose a Sentence, Brian Dillon turns his attention to the oblique and complex pleasures of the sentence. A series of essays prompted by a single sentence - from Shakespeare to Gertrude Stein,... -
Ambivalence: An Education by Brian Dillon 9798896231103
RRP: $35.60Booksplease Price: $25.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798896231103Author Brian DillonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint < -
In The Dark Room by Brian Dillon 9781910695722
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.55Boldly combining the highly personal with the brilliantly scholarly, In the Dark Room explores the question of how memory works emotionally and culturally. It is narrated through the prism of the... -
Affinities: On Art and Fascination by Brian Dillon 9781681377261
RRP: $39.80Booksplease Price: $33.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681377261Author Brian DillonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint < -
Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction by Brian Dillon
RRP: $39.80Booksplease Price: $28.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681372822Author Brian DillonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint < -
The Hypochondriacs: Nine Tormented Lives by Brian Dillon 9780865479463
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $31.88Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Great Explosion: Gunpowder, the Great War, and a Disaster on the Kent Marshes by Brian Dillon 9780241956762
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $26.19A masterful account of a terrible disaster in a remarkable place: shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje PrizeIn April 1916, shortly before the commencement of the Battle of the... -
The Thinking-About-Gladys Machine by Mario Levrero 9781916751064
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.36Levrero's writing is distinguished by its bounteous imagination, and nowhere more so than in this 1970 story collection. From the Escher-like grammatical maze of 'The Boarding House' to the Lewis... -
Hidden City: Adventures and Explorations in Dublin by Karl Whitney 9780241966129
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.68Karl Whitney's Hidden City: a brilliant portrait of DublinDublin is a city much visited and deeply mythologized. In Hidden City, Karl Whitney - who has been described by Gorse as 'Dublin's best... -
Exquisite Cadavers by Meena Kandasamy
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.60From the author of When I Hit You, shortlisted for the 2018 Women's Prize for FictionKarim and Maya:[x] share a home [x] worry about money [x] binge-watch films [x] argue all the time Karim, a young... -
Ai Weiwei: Making Sense by Justin McGuirk
RRP: $73.40Booksplease Price: $52.98The first book to dive exclusively into Ai Weiwei's approach to design and collecting, shedding light on the value we ascribe to everyday objects. Artist, film-maker, architect, activist, collector... -
The Anatomy of Harpo Marx by Wayne Koestenbaum 9780520269002
RRP: $132.30Booksplease Price: $125.43"The Anatomy of Harpo Marx" is a luxuriant, detailed play-by-play account of Harpo Marx's physical movements as captured on screen. Wayne Koestenbaum guides us through the thirteen Marx Brothers... -
American Genius, A Comedy Lynne Tillman 9781913512521
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45A former historian is spending time in a residential home - but is it an artist's retreat, a sanatorium, or a psychiatric hospital?In hypnotic and digressive prose, Tillman's narrator spins tales of... -
Ways of Curating by Hans-Ulrich Obrist
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.79Drawing on his own experiences and inspirations - from staging his first exhibition in his tiny Zurich kitchen in 1986 to encounters with artists, exhibition makers and thinkers - Hans Ulrich Obrist... -
We'll Never Have Paris Andrew Gallix 9781912248384
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.38In 1948 Robert Doisneau took a picture of a young woman working at her typewriter on the banks of the Seine. With her stylish sunglasses and short skirt, she seems to epitomise Left Bank bohemian... -
Chris Marker by Nora M. Alter 9780252073168
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.31The maverick filmmaker's personal and political relationships with film Best known in the United States for his visionary short film La Jetee, Chris Marker spearheaded the bourgeoning Nouvelle Vague... -
The View from the Train by Patrick Keiller 9781781687765
Booksplease Price: $47.04In his classic sequence of films, Patrick Keiller retraces the hidden story of the places where we live, the cities and landscapes of our everyday lives. This collection explores the surrealist... -
Erik Satie Three Piece Suite Ian Penman 9781804271537
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.07Composer, pianist and writer Erik Satie was one of the great figures of Belle Epoque Paris. Known for his unvarying image of bowler hat, three-piece suit and umbrella, Satie was a surrealist before... -
Milkweed Smithereens by Bernadette Mayer
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.83Milkweed Smithereens gathers lively, wickedly smart, intimate, and indelible Bernadette Mayer poems: the volume ranges from brand-new nature poems, pastiches, sequences, epigrams, and excerpts from... -
Umbrella by Will Self 9781408831670
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.64SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2012 For half a century Audrey Death has been in a state of semi-consciousness. Severed from the world of the living after falling victim to Encephalitis... -
Shapeshifters: A Doctor's Notes on Medicine & Human Change Gavin Francis 9781781257739
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $21.11Unreliable bodies and shifting symptoms are all in a day's work for a GP. In his years of practising, Gavin Francis has seen it all: the promising law student trapped under the spell of anorexia;... -
On Mysticism: The Experience of Ecstasy Simon Critchley 9781800816947
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.14'A significant and courageous invitation to think again about the kinds of thinking that matter; the kinds of thinking that keep us awake' Rowan Williams Mysticism has been called 'experience at... -
Shapeshifters: A Doctor's Notes on Medicine & Human Change Gavin Francis 9781781257746
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.14'Stylish and exhilarating... from a wide-ranging mind and a profound humanity... inspiring' Hilary Mantel 'A wonderful series of meditations - clinical, anthropological, literary and deeply humane... -
Modern Poetry Diane Seuss 9781804271599
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Diane Seuss's signature voice-audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its attitude-has become one of the most original in contemporary poetry. Her latest collection takes its... -
Unfinished Business by Michael Bracewell
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $14.93UNFINISHED BUSINESS focuses on an ordinary suburban office worker, fundamentally weak but always keeping his eyes fixed on some horizon where a heightened, romantic, better world must surely exist. ... -
It Gets Me Home, This Curving Track by Ian Penman 9781910695876
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38When all else fails, when our compass is broken, there is one thing some of us have come to rely on: music really can give us a sense of something like home. With It Gets Me Home, This Curving Track,... -
The Employees: A workplace novel of the 22nd century by Olga Ravn 9780811234825
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $21.00Now in paperback, The Employees chronicles the fate of the interstellar Six-Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid crew members complain about their daily tasks in a series of staff reports and memos... -
Night Train A. L. Snijders 9780811228565
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $22.81Gorgeously translated by Lydia Davis, the miniature stories of A. L. Snijders might concern a lost shoe, a visit with a bat, fears of travel, a dream of a man who has lost a glass eye: uniting them... -
Long Live the Post Horn! by Vigdis Hjorth
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.55Ellinor, a 35-year-old media consultant, has not been feeling herself; she's not been feeling much at all lately. Far beyond jaded, she picks through an old diary and fails to recognise the woman in... -
![Reading Boyishly: Roland Barthes, J. M. Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust, and D. W. Winnicott by Carol Mavor 9780822338864 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/6583942/6660863/9780822338864__56075.1738900268.jpg?c=1 "Reading Boyishly: Roland Barthes, J. M. Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust, and D. W. Winnicott by Carol Mavor 9780822338864 [USED COPY]")
Reading Boyishly: Roland Barthes, J. M. Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust, and D. W. Winnicott by Carol Mavor 9780822338864 [USED COPY]
RRP: $226.80Booksplease Price: $69.62An intricate text filled to the brim with connotations of desire, home, and childhood-nests, food, beds, birds, fairies, bits of string, ribbon, goodnight kisses, appetites sated and denied-Reading... -
The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise by Olivia Laing 9781324110385
Booksplease Price: $27.13In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an eighteenth-century walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work brought to light a crucial question for our age: Who gets to live... -
Berlin Childhood around 1900 by Walter Benjamin 9780674022225
RRP: $39.80Booksplease Price: $35.87Begun in Poveromo, Italy, in 1932, and extensively revised in 1938, Berlin Childhood around 1900 remained unpublished during Walter Benjamin's lifetime, one of his "large-scale defeats." Now... -
Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights by Marina Warner
RRP: $46.10Booksplease Price: $43.41Our foremost theorist of myth, fairytales, and folktales explores the magical realm of the imagination where carpets fly, objects speak, dreams reveal hidden truths, and genies grant prophetic wishes...