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The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway by Merve Emre
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $44.60"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." So begins Virginia Woolf's beloved fourth novel. First published in 1925, Mrs. Dalloway has long been considered Woolf's masterpiece. A pivotal... -
Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America by Merve Emre
Booksplease Price: $52.08Literature departments are staffed by, and tend to be focused on turning out, "good" readers attentive to nuance, aware of history, interested in literary texts as self-contained works. But the vast... -
Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America Merve Emre 9780226473833
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $162.33Literature departments are staffed by, and tend to be focused on turning out, "good" readers attentive to nuance, aware of history, interested in literary texts as self-contained works. But the vast... -
What's Your Type?: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing by Merve Emre
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $18.88A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 'History that reads like biography that reads like a novel - a fluid narrative that defies expectations and plays... -
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 9780393543797
Booksplease Price: $19.28"Mrs. Dalloway is a novel that thinks with extraordinary precision and virtuosity about what modern novelists mean when they talk about character: how characters are born; how they age and grow; . . ... -
Melancholy I & II Jon Fosse 9781628976571
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $32.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628976571Author Jon FosseFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint Dalkey Archive PressPublisher... -
Barley Patch Gerald Murnane 9781916751149
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.36Published in Australia in 2009, Barley Patch was Murnane's first book in fourteen years, written after a period in which he had thought he would never write fiction again. The book begins with the... -
A Room of One’s Own Virginia Woolf 9781841594255
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $23.96A Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf's classic plea for aworld in which women are free to use their gifts. In this influential extended essay and using powerful images and... -
The Politics of Friendship by Jacques Derrida
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.22Jacques Derrida was one of most influential philosophers of the 20th century. In The Politics of Friendship he explores the idea of friendship and its political consequences, past and future in order... -
Art Essays: A Collection by Alexandra Kingston-Reese 9781609388119
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $42.38Art Essays is a passionate collection of the best essays on the visual arts written by contemporary novelists. This vibrant and diverse selection includes essays by award-winning writers such as... -
A Sense of Occasion by Brodie Crellin 9781787335868
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.20A death in the (dysfunctional) family - can they hold it together long enough to organise the funeral?'Sexy, terrifying, keen and startling' DAISY JOHNSON'At once shrewd and ethereal' CHRIS KRAUS'A... -
The Oak and The Larch: A Forest History of Russia and its Empires by Sophie Pinkham 9780008554958
Booksplease Price: $29.27'A towering achievement' MERVE EMRE An FT 'What to Read in 2026' Book A majestic cultural and environmental history that reveals how... -
The Oak and The Larch: A Forest History of Russia and its Empires Sophie Pinkham 9780008554941
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $37.13'A towering achievement' MERVE EMRE NYT 25 Books Coming in January A majestic cultural and environmental history that reveals how forests have made - and resisted... -
A Leopard-Skin Hat by Anne Serre 9780811234511
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $20.81A Leopard-Skin Hat may be the French writer Anne Serre's most moving novel yet. Hailed in Le Point as a "masterpiece of simplicity, emotion and elegance," it is the story of an intense friendship... -
Texas: The Great Theft: 10th Anniversary edition Carmen Boullosa 9781646053537
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45A contemporary classic from award-winning author Carmen Boullosa, in the tradition of Juan Rulfo, Jorge Luis Borges and Cesar Aira, now available in a special Tenth Anniversary Edition. Loosely... -
Skateboard by Jonathan Russell Clark
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $17.93Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. How did the skateboard go from a menacing fad to an Olympic sport? Writer and... -
Rachel Cusk: Contemporary Critical Perspectives Dr Roberta Garrett 9781350371026
Booksplease Price: $64.13Rachel Cusk is one of the most critically acclaimed and controversial contemporary British authors. Her diverse body of work offers a striking portrait of trends in 21st-century literature, and the... -
On Women: A new collection of feminist essays from the influential writer, activist and critic, Susan Sontag by Susan Sontag 9780241996843
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $18.04'A brilliant, glittering intelligence' Sunday TimesOn Women brings together Susan Sontag's most fearless and incisive writing on women, a crucial aspect of her work that has not until now received... -
Rachel Cusk: Contemporary Critical Perspectives Dr Roberta Garrett 9781350370982
Booksplease Price: $190.20Rachel Cusk is one of the most critically acclaimed and controversial contemporary British authors. Her diverse body of work offers a striking portrait of trends in 21st-century literature, and the... -
The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality William Egginton 9781805337652
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $36.98A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explore the greatest enigmas of the universe in this scintillatingly original book about the limits of human knowledge'Fascinating' Carlo Rovelli'Remarkable..... -
Abject Eroticism in Northern Renaissance Art: The Witches and Femmes Fatales of Hans Baldung Grien by Yvonne Owens 9781350283503
Booksplease Price: $70.33Hans Baldung Grien, the most famous apprentice and close friend of German artist Albrecht Durer, was known for his unique and highly eroticised images of witches. In paintings and woodcut prints, he... -
If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution: 'as good as journalism gets' by Vincent Bevins 9781035412310
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05'A stunning history of now' GREG GRANDIN'Phenomenal . . . it would be criminally negligent not to read it if you'd like to change the world' ROB DELANEYFrom 2010 to 2020, more people took part in... -
Not One Day by Anne Garréta
RRP: $27.30Booksplease Price: $19.45Winner of the 2018 Albertine Prize Finalist for the 2018 Lamba Literary Awards Finalist for the 2018 French American Foundation Translation Prize Available in a new edition, Anne Garreta's sensual... -
Odd Affinities: Virginia Woolf's Shadow Genealogies by Professor Elizabeth Abel 9780226832678
Booksplease Price: $56.03A new reading of Virginia Woolf in the context of "long modernism." In recent decades, Virginia Woolf's contribution to literary history has been located primarily within a female tradition... -
The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of "The Magic Mountain" Morten Høi Jensen 9780300233742
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $35.01The arresting story of how Thomas Mann wrote The Magic Mountain as a defeated Germany descended into political chaos Like many writers of his generation, Thomas Mann (1875-1955) welcomed the... -
The Odd Women George Gissing 9781961884243
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45When their father's death leaves them with no money and a dim future, the Madden sisters, Alice, Virginia, and Monica, must negotiate the gender roles and class constraints of 1890s Victorian London... -
Always Take Notes: Advice from some of the world's greatest writers by Simon Akam 9781804183182
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $29.40'Inspiring' - Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of Write It All Down'Fascinating and useful' - Joe Moran, author of First You Write A SentenceBestselling and award-winning authors share the secrets to their... -
Always Take Notes: Advice from some of the world's greatest writers Simon Akam 9781804188866
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.11FEATURING BRAND NEW UPDATED CONTENT EXCLUSIVE TO THIS EDITION 'Inspiring' - Cathy Rentzenbrink'Fascinating' - Joe Moran'A very lovely book' - Kate MosseBestselling and award-winning authors share the... -
Nymph: A Novel by Stephanie LaCava 9781804299913
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $17.87Not yet thirty, Bathory has assembled a peculiar resume: model, sex worker, linguist, Latin scholar, and assassin. The last of these has been the family trade for generations. Growing up, Bathory,... -
Hypochondria Will Rees 9781552454848
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45A personal and literary examination of hypochondria.A free-wheeling philosophical essay, Hypochondria combines cultural critique, literary history, and Rees's own experience of health anxiety to ask... -
Speaking in Tongues by J M Coetzee 9781324096450
RRP: $44.10Booksplease Price: $41.16Language, historically speaking, has always been slippery. Two dictionaries provide two different maps of the universe: which one is true, or are both false? Speaking in Tongues-taking the form of a... -
The Invisible Painting: My Memoir of Leonora Carrington by Gabriel Weisz Carrington
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $29.55Since her death in 2011, the legendary Surrealist Leonora Carrington has been reconstructed and reinvented many times over. In this book, Gabriel Weisz Carrington draws on remembered conversations... -
Women in Dark Times Jacqueline Rose 9781804271711
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.07Women in Dark Times begins with three remarkable women: revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg; German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon; and film icon Marilyn Monroe. Bound together by their... -
The Invisible Painting: My Memoir of Leonora Carrington by Gabriel Weisz Carrington 9781526169648
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.87Since her death in 2011, the legendary Surrealist Leonora Carrington has been reconstructed and reinvented many times over. In this book, Gabriel Weisz Carrington draws on remembered conversations... -
Second Chances: Shakespeare and Freud Stephen Greenblatt 9780300283334
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $21.11A powerful exploration of the human capacity for renewal, as seen through Shakespeare and Freud "A compellingly readable and intelligent book. . . . Both authors write with impressive energy... -
B-Side Books: Essays on Forgotten Favorites by John Plotz
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $39.00There are the acknowledged classics of world literature: the canonical works assigned in schools, topping every must-read list . . . and then there are the B-Sides. These are the books that slipped... -
Second Chances: Shakespeare and Freud by Stephen Greenblatt 9780300276367
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $36.54A powerful exploration of the human capacity for renewal, as seen through Shakespeare and Freud "A compellingly readable and intelligent book. . . . Both authors write with impressive energy... -
B-Side Books: Essays on Forgotten Favorites by John Plotz 9780231200561
RRP: $193.20Booksplease Price: $152.10There are the acknowledged classics of world literature: the canonical works assigned in schools, topping every must-read list . . . and then there are the B-Sides. These are the books that slipped... -
I Hear You’re Rich: stories by Diane Williams 9781915590589
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38'The writer who saved my life - or my soul.' Merve Emre, The New Yorker 'A true living hero of the American avant-garde.' Jonathan Franzen 'One of the very few contemporary prose writers who seem... -
Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation by Professor John Guillory 9780226830599
Booksplease Price: $53.30An enlarged edition to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of John Guillory's formative text on the literary canon. Since its publication in 1993, John Guillory's Cultural Capital has been a signal...