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Insomnia by Marina Benjamin 9781911344933
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02An intense, lyrical, witty, and humane exploration of a state we too often consider only superficially. At once philosophical and poetical, Insomnia ranges widely over history and culture,... -
Rocket Dreams by Marina Benjamin 9780743255349
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743255349Author Marina BenjaminFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Free PressPublisher Free... -
The Middlepause: on life after youth by Marina Benjamin 9781911344025
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67In a society obsessed with living longer and looking younger, what does middle age mean today? Spurred by her own brutal propulsion into menopause, Marina Benjamin's clear-eyed account of our... -
The Middlepause: On Life After Youth by Marina Benjamin 9781936787340
Booksplease Price: £14.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936787340Author Marina BenjaminFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint CatapultPublisher... -
A Little Give: the unsung, unseen, undone work of women by Marina Benjamin
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Featured in Stylist's 'Can't Miss' Books of 2023 Sometimes I think that carrying - other people, the continuity of history, generational identity, the emotional load of the everyday - is the main... -
A Little Give: The Unsung, Unseen, Undone Work of Women by Marina Benjamin 9781957363455
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £12.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957363455Author Marina BenjaminFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Scribe UsPublisher Scribe... -
Last Days in Babylon: The Exile of Iraq's Jews, the Story of My Family by Marina Benjamin 9781416572046
Booksplease Price: £16.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416572046Author Marina BenjaminFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon... -
Lev's Violin: An Italian Adventure by Helena Attlee 9780141991078
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42*A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK*'Utterly enthralling - a beautifully-written voyage of discovery that takes us deep into the heart of music-making' Deborah MoggachFrom the moment she hears Lev's violin... -
The Shapeless Unease: ‘A small miracle of a book’ – Nathan Flier by Samantha Harvey
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.80**Featured on BBC Radio 4's A Good Read** 'A profound meditation on language and loss and time, and on how we construct ourselves through stories. And it's painful. And it's beautiful. And I love it... -
Chopping Onions on My Heart: on losing and preserving culture Samantha Ellis 9781784745028
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Samantha's mother tongue is dying out. An urgent need to find out more becomes an expansive investigation into how to keep hold of her culture -- and when to let it go The daughter of Iraqi-Jewish... -
In Ishmael's House: A History of Jews in Muslim Lands by Martin Gilbert
Booksplease Price: £21.98A powerful account of Jews living in Muslim lands and the surprising truths about their shared history The relationship between Jews and Muslims has been a flashpoint that affects stability in the... -
Old Man Goya by Julia Blackburn
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42In 1792, when he was forty-seven, the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya contracted a serious illness which left him stone deaf. In this extraordinary book Julia Blackburn follows Goya through the... -
Small Pieces: A Memoir of Loss and Consolation by Joanne Limburg
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67The suicide of Joanne Limburg's beloved brother Julian left her shattered. When her mother dies too, Joanne pulls herself from the depths of grief by embarking on a journey of salvage, collecting up... -
Love and the Novel: Life After Reading by Christina Lupton
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.58'It is a clever, well-written book, and I often found myself underlining whole paragraphs as I read. ... wonderfully insightful. ... I've never read accounts of any of these texts that manage to be... -
Not the Enemy: Israel's Jews from Arab Lands by Rachel Shabi 9780300167696
Booksplease Price: £29.69Mention Israel and internal conflict, and most people immediately think of the seemingly insoluble Palestinian problem. However, as Rachel Shabi explains in this acclaimed book, there is another... -
Into Being: The Radical Craft of Memoir and its Power to Transform Lily Dunn 9781526179258
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.37The acclaimed author of Sins of My Father shares the secrets of writing a new, transformative kind of memoir.Into being is an essential guide to writing memoir in a radical and empowering way... -
Returning to Reims by Didier Eribon
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.74'A deeply intelligent and searching book, one that makes you re-consider the narrative of your own life and reframe the story you tell yourself' Hilary MantelA Guardian reader's Best Book of 2018... -
Money and Class in America by Lewis Lapham 9781944869892
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.97Extensively expanded and revised, with a new foreword by Thomas Frank In the United States, happiness and wealth are often regarded as synonymous. Consumerism, greed, and the insatiable... -
All the Rage: Why Anger Drives the World Josh Cohen 9781783789450
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43Anger is all around us, from divisive social media arguments and heightened political divides to road rage and personal spats; from Black Lives Matter and climate justice movements to Trump, incels... -
All the Rage: Why Anger Drives the World Josh Cohen 9781783789467
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Anger is all around us, from divisive social media arguments and heightened political divides to road rage and personal spats; from Black Lives Matter and climate justice movements to Trump, incels... -
Trans: Gender and Race in an Age of Unsettled Identities by Rogers Brubaker 9780691181189
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.47How the transgender experience opens up new possibilities for thinking about gender and raceIn the summer of 2015, shortly after Caitlyn Jenner came out as transgender, the NAACP official and... -
The Marriage Question: George Eliot's Double Life by Clare Carlisle 9780141992945
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78*A Times, Telegraph, TLS and Prospect Book of the Year*'The best book I've read on George Eliot' John Carey, Sunday TimesAn exceptional new biography that shows how George Eliot wrestled with the... -
Letters To My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism by Joanne Limburg
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Limburg describes movingly her own struggles as a new mother and the pressure of society's expectations...Through such delicately intertwined experiences, Limburg quietly shouts for change.' Times... -
Trans: Gender and Race in an Age of Unsettled Identities by Rogers Brubaker 9780691172354
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.18In the summer of 2015, shortly after Caitlyn Jenner came out as transgender, the NAACP official and political activist Rachel Dolezal was "outed" by her parents as white, touching off a heated debate... -
In the Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'Ravishingly beautiful' Observer 'Excruciatingly honest and yet vibrantly creative' Irish Times 'Provocative and rich' Economist 'Daring, chilling, and unlike anything else you've ever read'... -
Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative by Melissa Febos 9781526165848
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.94In this bold and exhilarating mix of memoir and writing guide, Melissa Febos tackles the emotional, psychological, and physical work of writing intimately while offering an utterly fresh examination... -
Monsters: a memoir by Alison Croggon
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.23'I was born as part of a monstrous structure - the grotesque, hideous, ugly, ghastly, gruesome, horrible relations of power that constituted colonial Britain. A structure that shaped me, that shapes... -
Immanuel by Matthew McNaught
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23At what point does faith turn into tyranny? In Immanuel, winner of the inaugural Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize, Matthew McNaught explores his upbringing in an evangelical Christian community in... -
Home Is Where We Start: Growing Up in the Fallout of the Utopian Dream Susanna Crossman 9780241650905
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.75A Guardian book to look out for for 2024'A bold and intimate grappling with the hidden history at the heart of a childhood that was set up as a collectivist social experiment' EWAN MORRISON, author... -
The Chosen: who pays the price of a writer's fame? by Elizabeth Lowry
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'A delicate novel, finely judged and full of insight' Hilary MantelSHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA GOLD CROWN AWARD 2023One Wednesday morning... -
Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution by Tania Branigan
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £20.83"It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution," Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children turned on... -
Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians Tara Isabella Burton 9781529364736
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'We're all now self-makers, whether we like it or not - and this witty, sceptical book is the thought-provoking story of how we got here'GUARDIAN'A fast-moving train of a book'NEW YORK... -
Sins of My Father: A Guardian Book of the Year 2022 – A Daughter, a Cult, a Wild Unravelling by Lily Dunn
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'An extraordinary story' CLOVER STROUD'Astonishing and valuable' THE SPECTATOR'Beautifully written' DAILY MAIL'Intensely gripping . . . as brutal and funny as it is raw and candid' VIV GROSKOP'As... -
Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians Tara Isabella Burton 9781529364699
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.71'We're all now self-makers, whether we like it or not - and this witty, sceptical book is the thought-provoking story of how we got here' GUARDIAN'This funny, startling, insightful story of the... -
Hotel by Joanna Walsh
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. During the breakdown of an unhappy marriage, writer Joanna Walsh got a job as a hotel...