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I entered without words: Poems by Jody Gladding
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.51An innovative and inviting book of poems about the places where language and landscape convergeIn this strongly visual and environmentally engaged collection, award-winning poet and translator Jody... -
I entered without words: Poems by Jody Gladding 9780691238951
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £44.25An innovative and inviting book of poems about the places where language and landscape convergeIn this strongly visual and environmentally engaged collection, award-winning poet and translator Jody... -
Occupation Journal by Jean Giono
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.61A renowned writer and committed pacifist throughout the 1930s - a conviction that resulted in his imprisonment before and after the Occupation - Jean Giono spent the war in the village of Contadour... -
Queen, Warrior, Captain: The Story of Artemisia of Caria by Violaine Sebillotte Cuchet 9780300270761
Booksplease Price: £45.62The story of Artemisia, formidable queen of the Greek city-state of Halicarnassus, that counters longstanding misconceptions about women's roles in antiquityHerodotus's listeners never doubted that... -
The Best American Poetry 1995 by David Lehman 9780684801513
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.26The Best American Poetry 1995 once again highlights the dazzling spectrum of style and subject matter to be found in the art today. Guest editor Richard Howard's accent is on discovery and surprise,... -
Every Minute Is First: Poems by Marie-Claire Bancquart 9781639550906
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64A penetrating and encompassing English-language translation from the celebrated French poet touching on death, domesticity, nature, language itself, and-always-the body.French literary icon... -
Album: Unpublished Correspondence and Texts by Roland Barthes
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.76Album provides an unparalleled look into Roland Barthes's life of letters. It presents a selection of correspondence, from his adolescence in the 1930s through the height of his career and up to the... -
The Severed Head: Capital Visions Julia Kristeva 9780231219051
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.46Informed by a provocative exhibition at the Louvre curated by the author, The Severed Head unpacks artistic representations of severed heads from the Paleolithic period to the present. Surveying... -
A History of New York by Francois Weil 9780231129343
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £72.43New York is not America, Francois Weil writes, "but what America promises, perhaps its greatest promise." It may be hard to believe, then, that the quintessential symbol of American enterprise and... -
Finding Dora Maar by Brigitte Benkemoun
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £16.21Merging biography, memoir, and cultural history, this compelling book, a bestseller in France, traces the life of Dora Maar (1907-1997) through a serendipitous encounter with the artist's address... -
A History of New York by Francois Weil 9780231129350
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.88New York is not America, Francois Weil writes, "but what America promises, perhaps its greatest promise." It may be hard to believe, then, that the quintessential symbol of American enterprise and... -
The Novelist's Lexicon: Writers on the Words That Define Their Work by Villa Gillet 9780231150804
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.23At the renowned, international literary conference hosted by Villa Gillet and Le Monde, organizers asked more than seventy prominent authors to choose a word that opens a door to their work. Their... -
The Severed Head: Capital Visions by Julia Kristeva 9780231157216
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.57Informed by a provocative exhibition at the Louvre curated by the author, The Severed Head unpacks artistic representations of severed heads from the Paleolithic period to the present. Surveying... -
Proust, a Jewish Way Antoine Compagnon 9780231211345
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £74.71Marcel Proust once wrote, "There is no longer anybody, not even myself, since I cannot leave my bed, who will go along the Rue du Repos to visit the little Jewish cemetery where my grandfather,... -
Proust, a Jewish Way Antoine Compagnon 9780231211352
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.57Marcel Proust once wrote, "There is no longer anybody, not even myself, since I cannot leave my bed, who will go along the Rue du Repos to visit the little Jewish cemetery where my grandfather,... -
The Science of the Oven by Herve This 9780231147071
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.46Mayonnaise "takes" when a series of liquids form a semisolid consistency. Eggs, a liquid, become solid as they are heated, whereas, under the same conditions, solids melt. When meat is roasted, its... -
Christian Polemic against the Jews in the Middle Ages, The by Gilbert Dahan 9780268008307
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Gilbert Dahan offers a compact overview of Jewish conditions in medieval Western Christendom, then moves to a discussion of the changing patterns of Christian-Jewish polemical confrontation. Dahan... -
Christian Polemic against the Jews in the Middle Ages, The by Gilbert Dahan 9780268063009
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £57.35Gilbert Dahan offers a compact overview of Jewish conditions in medieval Western Christendom, then moves to a discussion of the changing patterns of Christian-Jewish polemical confrontation. Dahan... -
Kitchen Mysteries: Revealing the Science of Cooking by Herve This
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.06An international celebrity and founder of molecular gastronomy, or the scientific investigation of culinary practice, Herve This is known for his ground-breaking research into the chemistry and... -
Kitchen Mysteries: Revealing the Science of Cooking by Herve This 9780231141703
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.09An international celebrity and founder of molecular gastronomy, or the scientific investigation of culinary practice, Herve This is known for his ground-breaking research into the chemistry and... -
Virginia Woolf: A Portrait by Carl Woodring 9780231153560
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £78.51Winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt award for biography, this remarkable portrait sheds new light on Virginia Woolf's relationships with her family and friends and how they shaped her work... -
Virginia Woolf: A Portrait by Carl Woodring 9780231153577
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.45Winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt award for biography, this remarkable portrait sheds new light on Virginia Woolf's relationships with her family and friends and how they shaped her work... -
Album: Unpublished Correspondence and Texts by Roland Barthes 9780231179874
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.51Album provides an unparalleled look into Roland Barthes's life of letters. It presents a selection of correspondence, from his adolescence in the 1930s through the height of his career and up to the...