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Living with Our Dead by Delphine Horvilleur 9781787704275
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98In this moving and engaging book by one of France’s few female rabbis and leader of the country’s Liberal Jewish Movement, Delphine Horvilleur recounts eleven stories of loss, mourning, and... -
The Ingenious Language: Nine Epic Reasons to Love Greek by Andrea Marcolongo
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €11.75"It is to the Greeks that we turn when we are sick of the vagueness, of the confusion, of our own age."-Virginia WoolfDiscover a new passion for a very old language, a language that can express what... -
What Is Progress by Aldo Schiavone 9781787702998
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.22Does it still make sense to talk about progress? The word "progress" conjures up a positivistic view of the world, a late Victorian boundless trust in humanity's talents for discovery and... -
The Danger to be Sane Rosa Montero 9781787706200
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.34"An ebullient examination of madness, mortality, suicide... Montero finds that 'deviance' is often just a more truthful account of normal human behavior." -Chris Kraus A dazzling journey into the... -
Living and Dying with Proust by Christopher Prendergast
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.79A LIFETIME'S READING OF PROUST'S MASTERPIECE "A work buzzing with appetite and curiosity."-Andrew Marr, author and broadcaster "Living and Dying with Marcel Proust is a feast."-Lydia Davis, winner... -
The Art of Running: From Marathon to Athens on Winged Feet by Andrea Marcolongo 9781787705043
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98In 490 BCE the indefatigable Athenian herald Philippides made his legendary 26 mile run to deliver to the people of Athens news of their city's victory over the Persians. Each year, all over the... -
The Art of Resilience: The Lessons of Aeneas by Andrea Marcolongo
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46Lucid, compelling, enlightening "Marcolongo is today's Montaigne."-Andre Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name "Shows how languages gives us new ways of seeing and understanding the world."-The... -
Berezina by Sylvain Tesson
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98October 1812, Napoleon enters Moscow. The Russians have set fire to the city, soon it will be reduced to a pile of ash. The Emperor equivocates, decides to turn back. This is the beginning of the... -
A Short History of Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce by Massimo Montanari
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46THE MYTHS SURROUNDING THE WORLD'S FAVOURITE DISH, DEBUNKED Did Marco Polo bring pasta back from China, or is that a myth? How did the Neapolitan "macharoni" turn into the ubiquitous spaghetti? Is... -
The End of Love: Sex and Desire in the Twenty-First Century by Tamara Tenenbaum 9781787704978
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98"A feast for the mind." -PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY "A contemporary voice with the ease of Natalia Ginzburg's or Irene Nemirovsky's." -GUADALUPE NETTEL, author of Still Born "Nuanced, deeply rich, and a... -
Shifting the Moon from its Orbit: A Night at the Acropolis Museum Andrea Marcolongo 9781787705180
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98One day in late spring, Andrea Marcolongo walks into an outdoor store in Paris to buy a camp bed, a sleeping bag, and a flashlight. Her destination, not a forest or mountain peak, but the deserted... -
The Night in Gethsemane: On Solitude and Betrayal by Massimo Recalcati
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46As the Gospels tell us, after the Last Supper Jesus retreats to a small field just outside the city of Jerusalem: Gethsemane, the olive grove. His prayers are interrupted when Judas arrives with a... -
A New Sublime: Ten Timeless Lessons on the Classics by Piero Boitani
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.64"[It] will move you across the globe and back in time." - Library Journal Europa Compass series - new format and covers For the readers of Mary Beard and Bethany Hughes (Re)discover the... -
Cain's Act by Massimo Recalcati
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.22An urgent, stirring reflection on violence and morality. "Recalcati explores the most fundamental of questions-for Cain, Abel, and every human being: can we believe in love?"-La Stampa What lies... -
Atlantis: A Journey in Search of Beauty by Carlo Piano
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.51"For those who love boats, architecture and original enquiring minds, this book is a dream. " -Jeremy Irons World-famous architect Renzo Piano and his son Carlo set sail from Genoa one late...