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The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway by Merve Emre
RRP: $37.51Booksplease Price: $31.96"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 9780226473970
Booksplease Price: $38.26Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
What's Your Type?: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing by Merve Emre
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $12.05A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 'History that reads like biography that reads like a novel - a fluid narrative that defies expectations and plays... -
Barley Patch Gerald Murnane 9781916751149
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.54Published 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... -
The Politics of Friendship by Jacques Derrida
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.26Jacques 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... -
The Oak and The Larch: A Forest History of Russia and its Empires by Sophie Pinkham 9780008554958
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.59'A towering achievement' MERVE EMRE An FT 'What to Read in 2026' Book A majestic cultural and environmental history that reveals how... -
A Leopard-Skin Hat by Anne Serre 9780811234511
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $13.35A 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... -
Skateboard by Jonathan Russell Clark
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.44Object 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... -
If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution: 'as good as journalism gets' by Vincent Bevins 9781035412310
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07'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... -
Always Take Notes: Advice from some of the world's greatest writers Simon Akam 9781804188866
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.19FEATURING 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... -
Always Take Notes: Advice from some of the world's greatest writers by Simon Akam 9781804183182
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $18.76'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... -
Nymph: A Novel by Stephanie LaCava 9781804299913
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.40Not 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,... -
The Fool and Other Moral Tales by Anne Serre 9781838014155
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41From the brilliant, sui generis Anne Serre - author of the celebrated Governesses - come three bewitching, thoroughly out-of-the-way tales. 'To make a pact with the thing that threatens you is... -
The Invisible Painting: My Memoir of Leonora Carrington by Gabriel Weisz Carrington 9781526169648
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.32Since 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: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.47A 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... -
What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice Anastasia Berg 9780861549481
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $18.77Having children is one of the biggest decisions you'll make in your life. Increasingly, we aren't making it at all. 'A book for lovers of sound reasoning.' THE NEW YORKER Across the developed... -
The Last Samurai Reread Lee Konstantinou 9780231185837
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.77Considered by some to be the greatest novel of the twenty-first century, Helen DeWitt's brilliant The Last Samurai tells the story of Sibylla, an Oxford-educated single mother raising a possible... -
Corey Fah Does Social Mobility by Isabel Waidner 9780241632536
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.87The radical, joyful follow-up to the Goldsmiths Prize-winning Sterling Karat Gold.This is the story of Corey Fah, a writer on the cusp of a windfall, courtesy of the Social Evils prize committee, for... -
How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History Josephine Quinn 9781526605221
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68Ancient Greece and Rome have long been considered the parents of Western civilisation. But the ancient world was a very wide one, of conversation, commerce and theft, sex, war and enslavement. It was... -
The Right to Sex: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Amia Srinivasan 9781526612540
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.92A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER BLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 Essential lessons on the world we live in, from one of our greatest young thinkers - a guide to what everybody is talking about today ... -
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.27"AN INCENDIARY PORTRAIT OF THE VOLCANIC CURRENTS OF SEX AND BETRAYAL."-Mail on Sunday THE INTERNATIONAL No. 1 BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF MY BRILLIANT FRIEND A BBC2 Between The Covers Book Club... -
Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life Agnes Callard 9780241476192
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $25.02From philosopher Agnes Callard, one of today's leading public intellectuals, comes a new and vibrant understanding of Socrates, his work, and his unique approach to learningThe ancient Greek... -
Love's Work by Gillian Rose 9780241645499
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $8.08'This small book contains multitudes' Marina Warner'For those who have suffered for and in love, this may prove to be one of the most useful books they will ever read' Nicholas Lezard, GuardianAn... -
Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy with Kids by Scott Hershovitz
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65'Witty and learned ... Hershovitz intertwines parenting and philosophy, recounting his spirited arguments with his kids about infinity, morality, and the existence of God' Jordan Ellenberg, author of... -
The Lying Life of Adults: A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER by Elena Ferrante
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65"AN INCENDIARY PORTRAIT OF THE VOLCANIC CURRENTS OF SEX AND BETRAYAL."-Mail on Sunday THE INTERNATIONAL No. 1 BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF MY BRILLIANT FRIEND A BBC2 Between The Covers Book Club... -
Home/Land: A Memoir of Departure and Return by Rebecca Mead
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80When the New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead relocated to her birth city, London, with her family in the summer of 2018, she was both fleeing the political situation in America and seeking to expose her... -
Home/Land: A Memoir of Departure and Return by Rebecca Mead 9781611856606
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.71When the New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead relocated to her birth city, London, with her family in the summer of 2018, she was both fleeing the political situation in America and seeking to expose her... -
The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle by Anna Shechtman 9780063275478
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $21.51"A surprising and ambitious investigation of language and the varied ways women resist the paradoxes of patriarchy both on and off the page."-New York TimesCombining the soul-baring confessional of... -
Quarterlife by Devika Rege 9780349705156
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75**Winner of the 2024 MATHRUBHUMI BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD and the 2024 RAMNATH GOENKA SAHITYA SAMAAN AWAWRD FOR BEST DEBUT FICTION / Shortlisted for the 2023 ATTA GALATTA PRIZE FOR FICTION and the 2023... -
Speaking in Tongues by J. M. Coetzee 9781324098560
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.75Language, 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 Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle Anna Shechtman 9780063275485
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28"A surprising and ambitious investigation of language and the varied ways women resist the paradoxes of patriarchy both on and off the page."-New York TimesCombining the soul-baring confessional of... -
Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life by Agnes Callard 9781324123415
RRP: $16.75Booksplease Price: $13.92Socrates has been hiding in plain sight. We call him the father of Western philosophy, but what exactly are his philosophical views? He is famous for his humility, but readers often find him arrogant... -
I Fear My Pain Interests You: A Novel by Stephanie LaCava
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.70Margot is the child of renowned musicians and the product of a particularly punky upbringing. Burnt-out from the burden of expectation and the bad end of the worst relationship yet, she leaves New... -
Heaven by Mieko Kawakami
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2022From the bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs and international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami comes a sharp and illuminating novel about a...