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Forgetting by Gabriel Josipovici 9781784108908
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.68We cannot understand the phenomenon of remembering without invoking its opposite, forgetting. Taking his cue from Beckett - 'only he who forgets remembers' - Josipovici uncovers a profound cultural... -
In a Hotel Garden by Gabriel Josipovici
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $12.38"In a Hotel Garden" is the strangest and most enigmatic of Gabriel Josipovici's many strange, enigmatic novels. On the surface it is a simple story of the growing obsession young Englishman with a... -
Teller and the Tale by Gabriel Josipovici
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.96'We seem to live, intellectually and emotionally, in sealed-off universes,' writes Gabriel Josipovici in an essay on Hebrew poetry in medieval Spain, just one in a lively multiverse of writings... -
Touch by Gabriel Josipovici 9780300181067
Booksplease Price: $29.73Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Goldberg: Variations by Gabriel Josipovici 9780060897239
RRP: $23.22Booksplease Price: $17.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060897239Author Gabriel JosipoviciFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprin -
Everything Passes by Gabriel Josipovici 9781857548501
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.41'Everything passes. The good and the bad. The joy and the sorrow. Everything passes. Or does it?' At the beginning of the sixteenth century, the painter Jan Gossaert paints Danae, upon whom Jupiter... -
Hotel Andromeda by Gabriel Josipovici 9781847772633
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $12.38In a house in a quiet street in North London, Helena struggles with her self-appointed task of writing a book about the reclusive American artist Joseph Cornell. At the same time she dreams and... -
The Cemetery in Barnes: A Novel by Gabriel Josipovici 9781784105464
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.82Longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize 2019. Shortlisted for The Goldsmiths Prize 2018. Gabriel Josipovici's The Cemetery in Barnes is a short, intense novel that opens in elegiac... -
Partita and A Winter in Zürau Gabriel Josipovici 9781800174313
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.96PartitaFiction and non-fiction are two sides of the same coin. Or are they? Michael Penderecki is in flight. Someone has threatened to kill him. But who is the woman dead in the bathtub? And why does... -
Infinity: The Story of a Moment by Gabriel Josipovici 9781847771667
Booksplease Price: $18.41"The piano is not an instrument for young ladies Massimo, he said, it is an instrument for gorillas. Only a gorilla has the strength to attack the piano as it should be attacked, only a gorilla has... -
Singer on the Shore: Essays 1991-2004 by Gabriel Josipovici 9781857548440
RRP: $24.45Booksplease Price: $18.42The novelist Gabriel Josipovici's new book of essays ranges from writings on the Bible, Shakespeare, Kafka, Borges and the Israeli novelist Aharon Appelfeld to considerations of Rembrandt's... -
Contre-jour: A Triptych After Pierre Bonnard by Gabriel Josipovici 9781857544107
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.41A novel based on the life of painter, Pierre Bonnard.Book InformationISBN 9781857544107Author Gabriel JosipoviciFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint -
Dreaming of Dead People by Rosalind Belben 9781916751316
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.96Shortlisted for the 2026 Republic of Consciousness Prize, US & CanadaIn the 'middle of life' - although this is only thirty-six - and with the unsparing eye of a portraitist, Lavinia reviews her... -
Collected Stories Franz Kafka 9781857151459
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $19.03Kafka was an obsessive writer who produced a huge volume of stories, novels, diaries and letters in his brief lifetime. The present volume includes all his available shorter fiction in a new... -
The Pauline Epistles by John Muddiman 9780199580262
Booksplease Price: $18.05The Oxford Bible Commentary is a Bible study and reference work for 21st century students and readers that can be read with any modern translation of the Bible. It offers verse-by-verse explanation... -
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The Prince of West End Avenue by Alan Isler 9780099701514 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $3.44In the Emma Lazarus retirement home in uptown Manhattan, the Jewish inmates embark on a chaotic, bitchy production of Hamlet.Comedy and tragedy combine as our hero, Otto Korner, directs his quirky,... -
If These Apples Should Fall: Cezanne and the Present by T. J. Clark
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $28.19A Financial Times Book of the Year 2022A penetrating analysis of the work of one of the most influential painters in the history of modern art by one of the world's most respected art historians. ... -
Earth's Almanac Lucy Newlyn 9781910392102
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97The poems in Earth's Almanac emerged over a fifteen-year period following the untimely death of the poet's sister. Lucy Newlyn adapts the tradition of the 'Shepherd's Calendar' to the phases of... -
PN Review 277 by Michael Schmidt 9781800174207
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.82The May-June 2024 issue. Since we started as Poetry Nation, a twice yearly hardback, in 1973, we've been publishing new poetry, rediscoveries, commentary, literary essays, interviews and reviews from... -
PN Review 279 by Michael Schmidt 9781800174221
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.82The September-October 2024 issue. Since we started as Poetry Nation, a twice yearly hardback, in 1973, we've been publishing new poetry, rediscoveries, commentary, literary essays, interviews and... -
Aesop's Fables by Aesop 9780199540754
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.02'The story goes that a sow who had delivered a whole litter of piglets loudly accosted a lioness. "How many children do you breed?" asked the sow. "I breed only one", said the lioness, "but it is... -
Repetition by Peter Handke
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.26WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE'Repetition made a great and, as I have since learned, lasting impression on me' W. G. SebaldFilip Kobal, an Austrian teenager, is on the trail of his missing... -
The World New Made: Figurative Painting in the Twentieth Century by Timothy Hyman 9780500296530
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $23.74A celebration of the richness of figurative painting over the last 100 years and a passionate critique of the accepted history of art in the 20th century. Figurative painting is due a reappraisal... -
The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 1, 1929-1940 by Samuel Beckett 9780521867931
RRP: $51.59Booksplease Price: $48.47The letters written by Samuel Beckett between 1929 and 1940 provide a vivid and personal view of Western Europe in the 1930s, and mark the gradual emergence of Beckett's unique voice and sensibility... -
Diaries and Selected Letters by Mikhail Bulgakov
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97The career of Mikhail Bulgakov, the author of Master and Margarita - now regarded as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century literature - was characterized by a constant and largely unsuccessful... -
A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History by Edward Wilson-Lee
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $23.61A Times History Book of the Year 2022 A TLS Book of the Year 2022 'Exhilarating and whip-smart' THE SUNDAY TIMES From award-winning writer Edward... -
A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History by Edward Wilson-Lee 9780008358259
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $10.67A Times History Book of the Year 2022 A TLS Book of the Year 2022 'Exhilarating and whip-smart' THE SUNDAY TIMES From award-winning writer Edward... -
The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580 by Eamon Duffy
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $21.23This prize-winning account of the pre-Reformation church recreates lay people's experience of religion, showing that late-medieval Catholicism was neither decadent nor decayed, but a strong and... -
Shakespeare in Bloomsbury Marjorie Garber 9780300281880
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.06The untold story of Shakespeare's profound influence on Virginia Woolf and the rest of the Bloomsbury Group "A spirited dance of minds."-Chris Vognar, Boston Globe For the men and women of the... -
Beer in the Snooker Club by Waguih Ghali
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35Behind the bar at Jameel's in Cairo hang two mugs engraved with the names of Ram and Font. During their years together in London, they drank many a pint of Bass from these mugs. But there is no... -
Speak, Silence: In Search of W. G. Sebald by Carole Angier
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.98A SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'The best biography I have read in years' Philippe Sands 'Spectacular' Observer 'A remarkable portrait' Guardian W. G. Sebald was one... -
Speak, Silence: In Search of W. G. Sebald by Carole Angier 9781526634795
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $29.82A SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'The best biography I have read in years' Philippe Sands 'Spectacular' Observer 'A remarkable portrait' Guardian W. G. Sebald was one... -
A Horse Walks into a Bar by David Grossman 9781784704223
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.51WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017The setting is a comedy club in a small Israeli town. An audience that has come expecting an evening of amusement instead sees a comedian falling...