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Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream by Sue Prideaux
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.99Who was the man behind The Scream, the iconic painting that so acutely expresses the anguish of the twentieth century? Edvard Munch (1863 - 1944) was twenty-eight when he embarked on a lifelong... -
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin Sue Prideaux 9780571365944
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31A TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, ECONOMIST, NEW STATESMAN AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2025SHORTLISTED... -
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin Sue Prideaux 9780571365937
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.68A TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, ECONOMIST AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024A vital re-examination of the trailblazing and controversial... -
Jan Morris: A Life Sara Wheeler 9780571379453
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.91'Wonderful.' Paul Theroux'Brilliant.' Simon Jenkins'Superb.' Colin Thubron'Breathtakingly good.' Michael PalinA captivating authorised biography of the legendary writer Jan Morris.She was the... -
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... -
Mozart in Motion: His Work and His World in Pieces by Patrick Mackie
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'A dazzling celebration and recalibration of Mozart's genius, written with an energy to match its subject' Ian Bostridge Mozart is one of the most familiar and beloved icons of our culture, but... -
The Rising Down by Alexandra Harris 9780571350520
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.91'Remarkable.' THE TIMES'Wonderful.' GUARDIAN'Fascinating.' TELEGRAPH'As a portrait of a place, it's hard to better.' COUNTRY LIFE'A thrill akin to discovering buried treasure.' RICHARD MABEY'Humane,... -
Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Soren Kierkegaard by Clare Carlisle
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Selected as a Book of the Year in The Times Literary Supplement'This lucid and riveting new biography at once rescuses Kierkegaard from the scholars and shows why he is such an intriguing and useful... -
The Trouble With Being Born by E. M. Cioran
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.60'Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately it is within no one's reach.'In The Trouble With Being Born, E. M. Cioran grapples with the major questions of human existence:... -
God is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him. by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.99'We have left dry land and put out to sea! We have burned the bridge behind us - what is more, we have burned the land behind us!'Nietzsche's devastating demolition of religion would have seismic... -
Time of the Magicians: The Great Decade of Philosophy, 1919-1929 by Wolfram Eilenberger
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.26AN ECONOMIST, GUARDIAN AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A gripping narrative of the intertwined lives of the four philosophers whose ideas reshaped the twentieth centuryThe year is 1919. Walter... -
Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in English by Jonathan Ree
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Astonishing ... enjoy its riches slowly, and savour every generous, erudite and undogmatic page' Boyd Tonkin, Financial Times'We English men have wits,' wrote the clergyman Ralph Lever in 1573, and,... -
The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil and the Salvation of Philosophy Wolfram Eilenberger 9780141998473
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'The question Eilenberger sets out to answer in this ambitious, enthralling book: what use is philosophy in the middle of a war?' The Sunday TimesThe year is 1933. Hannah Arendt escapes Berlin,... -
So Much Longing in So Little Space: The art of Edvard Munch Karl Ove Knausgaard 9781787300545
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74In So Much Longing in So Little Space, Karl Ove Knausgaard explores the life and work of Edvard Munch. Setting out to understand the enduring power of Munch's painting, Knausgaard reflects on the... -
Burning Man: The Ascent of DH Lawrence by Frances Wilson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78**LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2021** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2021** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE** **FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PLUTARCH... -
Undreamed Shores: Five Women Who Sought Out the World by Dr Frances Larson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The inspiring story of five women who set out to explore the furthest reaches of the globe and redefine scholarship At the dawn of the twentieth century, Katherine Routledge, Maria Czaplicka,... -
The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung by Roger Scruton
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'The ideal interpreter of the Ring ... a fascinating and valuable study ... absorbing and convincing' Sunday TimesThe Ring of the Nibelung is one of the greatest works of art created in modern times... -
Wagner's Parsifal: The Music of Redemption by Roger Scruton
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A superbly insightful and moving exploration of Wagner's last opera, by one of Britain's leading intellectuals Wagner's last music-drama tells the story of Parsifal, the 'pure fool, knowing through... -
Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life by Alex Christofi
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.86'A daring and mesmerizing twist on the art of biography' - Douglas Smith, author of Rasputin: The Biography 'Anyone who loves [Dostoevsky's] novels will be fascinated by this book' - Sue... -
Michel the Giant: An African in Greenland by Tete-Michel Kpomassie
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The gripping true story of one man's ten year expedition from a village in West Africa to the Arctic CircleWITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHORScorching heat, rich, fertile soil, and treacherous snakes... -
Hiking with Nietzsche: Becoming Who You Are by John Kaag 9781783784950
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Hiking with Nietzsche is a tale of two philosophical journeys in the Swiss Alps: one made by John Kaag as an introspective teenager, the other seventeen years later in radically different... -
Fabulous by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.97Not since Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber have old stories been made to feel so electrically new. Not since Wim Winders' Wings of Desire have the... -
Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found by Andrew Graham-Dixon 9781324124115
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £28.06One spring day in 1683, a notary's clerk in Delft entered the home of the late Magdalena Pieters van Ruijven and stumbled upon one of the wonders of the seventeenth-century world: twenty paintings by... -
Looking for Trouble: 'One of the truly great war correspondents: magnificent.' (Antony Beevor) by Virginia Cowles
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23This sensational 1941 memoir of life on wartime Europe's frontline by a trailblazing female reporter is an 'unforgettable' (The Times) rediscovered classic, introduced by Christina Lamb.Paris as it... -
Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life by Alex Christofi 9781472964694
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £11.99'A daring and mesmerizing twist on the art of biography' - Douglas Smith, author of Rasputin: The Biography 'Anyone who loves [Dostoevsky's] novels will be fascinated by this book' - Sue... -
Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy’s Greatest Pessimist David Bather Woods 9780226829760
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £20.31An engaging biography of one of the most influential Western philosophers and a thought-provoking exploration of how to live with Arthur Schopenhauer's pessimism. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)... -
Dictators: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century by Frank Dikoetter
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15A New Statesman, Financial Times and Economist Book of the Year 'Brilliant' NEW STATESMAN, BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'Enlightening and a good read' SPECTATOR 'Moving and perceptive' NEW STATESMAN ... -
The Traveller: The Revolutionary Life of George Forster and his Search for Humanity by Andrea Wulf 9780241711217
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.23'Andrea Wulf belongs to the small, splendid canon of writers unafraid to render fact with feeling' Maria Popova, creator of The Marginalian and author of FiguringAn inspiring biography of the... -
Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are by John Kaag 9780374170011
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £6.12Hiking with Nietzsche: Becoming Who You Are is a tale of two philosophical journeys - one made by John Kaag as an introspective young man of nineteen, the other seventeen years later, in radically...Qty in Cart: 0Price:RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £6.12Subtotal: