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Ardor by Roberto Calasso
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11In this revelatory volume, Roberto Calasso, whom the Paris Review has called 'a literary institution', explores the ancient texts known as the Vedas. Little is known about the Vedic people who lived... -
Ka by Roberto Calasso
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37'To read Ka is to experience a giddy invasion of stories - brilliant, enigmatic, troubling, outrageous, erotic, beautiful' The New York Times'Who?' - or 'ka' - is the question that runs through... -
The Art of the Publisher by Roberto Calasso
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $9.80'All the books published by a certain publisher could be seen as links in a single chain'In this fascinating memoir and manifesto the author and publisher Roberto Calasso meditates on the art of book... -
The Unnamable Present by Roberto Calasso
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37Tourists, terrorists, secularists, hackers, fundamentalists, transhumanists, algorithmicians: in this book Roberto Calasso considers the tribes that inhabit and inform the world today. A world that... -
Bobi by Roberto Calasso 9788433949264
Booksplease Price: $16.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788433949264Author Roberto CalassoFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint -
The Book of All Books by Roberto Calasso
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08'Beautiful, intellectually thrilling . . . unlike anything else' TelegraphPromise and separation. Grace and guilt. The chosen and the damned. Roberto Calasso's captivating retelling of key stories... -
La Folie Baudelaire by Roberto Calasso
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Roberto Calasso is one of the most original and acclaimed of writers on literature, art, culture and mythology. In Baudelaire's Folly, Calasso turns his attention to the poets and writers of Paris in... -
The Ruin of Kasch by Roberto Calasso 9780141397016
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37A sparkling new translation of the classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and artThe Ruin of Kasch takes up two subjects: "the first is Talleyrand, and the second is... -
The Ruin of Kasch by Roberto Calasso 9780374252106
RRP: $38.85Booksplease Price: $27.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374252106Author Roberto CalassoFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint -
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony by Roberto Calasso
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.12'It will be read and re-read not as a treatise but as a story: one of the most extraordinary that has ever been written of the origins of Western self-consciousness' Simon SchamaThe marriage of... -
Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy 9780811229036
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.82A novel about obsessive love and madness set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's eerily beautiful novel begins innocently enough: "At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell." But... -
A Double Thread by John Gross 9780099422266
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04John Gross was the son of a Jewish doctor who practised in Mile End at the time of WW2. His parents were the children of immigrants, steeped in the language and traditions of a European past, yet... -
Who Among Us? by Mario Benedetti 9780241350997
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11'This novel is a jewel ... one of those books that enters the soul, which it is impossible not to be conquered by. It is a masterpiece like few others' Huffington PostMiguel and Alicia fall... -
The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel 9780300151305
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.41A celebration of reading, of libraries, and of the mysterious human desire to give order to the universe Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire,... -
Silk Alessandro Baricco 9781786896421
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80In 1861 French silkworm merchant Herve Joncour travels to Japan, where he encounters the mysterious Hara Kei. He develops a painful longing for Kei's beautiful concubine - but they cannot touch; they... -
The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna by Tim Parks
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92'Elegantly written, full of wit and charm, this is travel writing at its very best' Orlando FigesIn the summer of 1849, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italy's legendary revolutionary hero, fled Rome and led... -
The Zurau Aphorisms by Franz Kafka 9781846558382
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Franz Kafka spent eight months at his sister's house in Zurau between September 1917 and April 1918, enduring the onset of tuberculosis. Illness paradoxically set him free to write, in a series of... -
Under the Jaguar Sun by Italo Calvino
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80A couple on an epicurean journey across Mexico are excited by the idea of a particular ingredient, suggested by ancient rituals of human sacrifice. Precariously balanced on his throne, a king is able... -
Night Bus Ann Goldstein 9781904738114
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92Leila is young, beautiful and a hustler. She robs hapless men picked up in the trendy nightclubs of Bologna. Easy money, until she ends up with a document at the centre of a carefully crafted plot of... -
Difficult Loves and Other Stories by Italo Calvino
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92A spectacular display of this key European writer's early workThis dazzling collection of stories follows the individual adventures of a varied cast of characters and masterfully illustrates... -
The Living Goddess: A Journey into the Heart of Kathmandu by Isabella Tree 9781780600468
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.60In a small medieval palace on Kathmandu's Durbar Square lives Nepal's famous Living Goddess - a child as young as three who is chosen from a caste of Buddhist goldsmiths to watch over the country and... -
Calm: Vintage Minis Tim Parks 9781784872595
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $6.50How do we find calm in our frantic modern world? Tim Parks - lifelong sceptic of all things spiritual - finds himself on a Buddhist meditation retreat trying to answer this very question. With brutal... -
Marcovaldo by Italo Calvino
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04Marcovaldo is an enchanting collection of twenty stories that are both melancholy and funny, farce and fantasy. Calvino charts the struggles of an Italian peasant to reconcile country habits with... -
Mr Palomar by Italo Calvino
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04Mr Palomar is a delightful eccentric whose chief activity is looking at things. He is seeking knowledge; 'it is only after you have come to know the surface of things that you can venture to seek... -
An Iliad: A Story of War Alessandro Baricco 9781847671035
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Alessandro Baricco re-creates the siege of Troy through the voices of 21 Homeric characters. Sacrificing none of Homer's panoramic scope, Baricco forgoes Homer's detachment and admits us to realms of... -
If On A Winter's Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $8.87A masterwork by the incomparable, genre-defying, wondrous Italo Calvino. You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But there is a printer's... -
Where I'm Reading From: The Changing World of Books by Tim Parks
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63Should you finish every book you start?How has your family influenced the way you read?What is literary style?How is the Nobel Prize like the World Cup?Why do you hate the book your friend likes?Is... -
Resistance by Alberto Manguel 9780300282498
Booksplease Price: $17.46A passionate tribute to literature and writing as beacons of clarity and truthCan a society compel its inhabitants to admit the evidence of facts? Can literature help us see the world as it really... -
Mr Geography Tim Parks 9781787304536
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29Daniel Burrow once began a beautiful walk from Konstanz to Como with Julia, mercurial professor of literature, mother to two of his pupils, married, and the love of his life.After years of their... -
Italian Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal by Tim Parks
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68'Parks...offers detailed cultural observation, witty yet eagle-eyed, of what makes Italians so Italian' The TimesHow does Italy really work?When Valeria travels from hot, dusty Basilicata to begin... -
HOPE: The Autobiography Author 241768 9780241764107
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $25.38The groundbreaking, intimate and inspiring memoir from Pope Francis.Pope Francis originally intended this exceptional book to appear only after his death, but the needs of our times and the 2025... -
Thomas and Mary: A Love Story by Tim Parks 9781784702007
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.15'Somehow it seemed to him the only thing that would really solve the problem would be to return to the sea and find the old ring with their names and the wedding date engraved inside, in 22-carat... -
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.09Fifty-five fictional cities, each described in beautiful detail - each with a woman's name... In Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai... -
The History of Akbar: Volume 1 by Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak
RRP: $40.13Booksplease Price: $34.71The exemplar of Indo-Persian history, at once a biography of Emperor Akbar and a chronicle of sixteenth-century Mughal India.Akbarnama, or The History of Akbar, by Abu'l-Fazl (d. 1602), is one of the... -
Poems of the First Buddhist Women: A Translation of the Therigatha by Charles Hallisey 9780674251359
RRP: $22.71Booksplease Price: $17.90A stunning modern translation of a Buddhist classic that is also one of the oldest literary texts in the world written by women.The Therigatha is one of the oldest surviving literatures by women,... -
Out of My Head: On the Trail of Consciousness by Tim Parks
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04Is my experience real?Or just a movie in my head?Am I no more than a super computer? You are your brain, neuroscientists tell us. Everything happens in there. Yet even the most sophisticated brain... -
Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions by Alberto Manguel
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $14.55A best-selling author and world-renowned bibliophile meditates on his vast personal library and champions the vital role of all libraries."The author brings a fresh hopefulness to the enterprise of...