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La Batarde by Violette LeDuc
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £10.73An obsessive and revealing self-portrait of a remarkable woman humiliated by the circumstances of her birth and by her physical appearance, La Batarde relates Violette Leduc's long search for her own... -
Therese and Isabelle by Violette Leduc 9781558618893
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £11.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558618893Author Violette LeducFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Feminist PressPublisher... -
Therese And Isabelle by Violette Leduc 9780993234491
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993234491Author Violette LeducFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Salammbo PressPublisher... -
The Lady and the Little Fox Fur by Violette Leduc
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'The great French feminist writer we need to remember' Guardian 'Violette Leduc's novels are works of genius and also a bit peculiar' Deborah Levy, from the introduction An old woman lives alone... -
The Pleasures of the Text: Violette Leduc and Reader Seduction by Elizabeth Locey 9780742515277
Booksplease Price: £43.76Why was Violette Leduc's 1954 novel ThZr_se et Isabelle not published in its entirety until November 2000? Under threat of scandal and obsenity charges, French publisher Gallimard withheld the novel,... -
The question of gender in La bâtarde by Violette LEDUC by Siaka Sori 9786203558326
RRP: £51.00Booksplease Price: £45.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786203558326Author Siaka SoriFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint International Book Market Service... -
Love Me Tender by Constance Debre
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'Destined to become a classic of its kind' Maggie Nelson 'One of the most compulsive voices I've read in years' Olivia Laing, Observer When Constance told her ex-husband that she was dating... -
Love Me Tender by Constance Debré 9781800814844
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'Destined to become a classic of its kind' Maggie Nelson 'One of the most compulsive voices I've read in years' Olivia Laing, Observer When Constance told her ex-husband that she was dating... -
Someone: The Pragmatics of Misfit Sexualities, from Colette to Herv Guibert Michael Lucey 9780226606187
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.30Imagine trying to tell someone something about yourself and your desires for which there are no words. What if the mere attempt at expression was bound to misfire, to efface the truth of that... -
Someone: The Pragmatics of Misfit Sexualities, from Colette to Herv Guibert by Michael Lucey 9780226606217
Booksplease Price: £26.68Imagine trying to tell someone something about yourself and your desires for which there are no words. What if the mere attempt at expression was bound to misfire, to efface the truth of that... -
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All About Sarah by Pauline Delabroy-Allard 9781529111705 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.91An intoxicating and evocative novel about the all-consuming love affair between two women in Paris and the ruin it leaves in its wake.'Captivating...intense...seductive' GuardianA thirty-something... -
Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women Selection'Late into the night we talked of love, of its complications. In my father's eyes they were imaginary. . . This conception of rapid,... -
The Beautiful Summer by Cesare Pavese
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'An astonishing portrait of an innocent on the verge of discovering the cruelties of love... there are whispers here of the future work of Elena Ferrante' Elizabeth Strout, from the introduction'Life... -
All About Sarah by Pauline Delabroy-Allard
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83An intoxicating and evocative novel about the all-consuming love affair between two women in Paris and the ruin it leaves in its wake.'Captivating...intense...seductive' GuardianA thirty-something... -
All About Sarah Pauline Delabroy-Allard 9781787301719
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78'All About Sarah moves impressively from the chaos and noise of love, to silence and solitude, like a spun coin settling.' John Self, Observer'A brief, intense read...compulsive... seductive prose.'... -
The Paris Trilogy: A Life in Three Stories by Colombe Schneck 9781398529397
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.88The Paris Trilogy is celebrated French author Colombe Schneck's first English language publication, translated by Lauren Elkin and Natasha Lehrer. Writing in response to Annie Ernaux and in... -
Women by Mihail Sebastian
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A gorgeous, tender modern classic about the complexities of love, with an introduction from the Booker-winning author John BanvilleStefan Valeriu, a young Romanian student, holidays alone in the... -
Mrs Caliban (Faber Editions) by Rachel Ingalls
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.81The amphibious cult classic: a magical tale of a suburban housewife's affair with a frogman ...'Disturbing but seductive ... Wonderful.' Margaret Atwood'Perfect.' Max Porter'Still outpaces,... -
Liberty, Equality, Maternity by Alison Fell
RRP: £69.99Booksplease Price: £61.79The concept of motherhood emerges strongly in the writings of Simone de Beauvoir, Violette Leduc and Annie Ernaux, whose work is examined here in the light of current debates about women's... -
Damned Women: Lesbians in French Novel by Jennifer Waelti-Walters 9780773520714
RRP: £99.00Booksplease Price: £70.59While homosexual men are legion in the history of French literature and criticism, until now no critic writing in French or English has given the same sort of attention to lesbians. Waelti-Walters... -
Madness in Twentieth-Century French Women’s Writing: Leduc, Duras, Beauvoir, Cardinal, Hyvrard by Peter Collier 9783039115402
RRP: £37.70Booksplease Price: £34.47This book offers a discussion of the trope of madness in twentieth-century French women's writing, focusing on close readings of the following texts: Violette Leduc's L'Asphyxie (1946), Marguerite... -
Beyond French Feminisms: Debates on Women, Culture and Politics in France 1980-2001 by Roger Celestin 9780312240400
Booksplease Price: £46.28This volume, a collection of essays by a number of high-profile personalities working in philosophy, literature, sociology, cinema, theatre, journalism, and politics, covers a number a of recent and... -
Mitra-Varuna - An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty Georges Dumezil 9781912808977
Booksplease Price: £25.08A classic text that develops one prong of Dumezil's tripartite hypothesis of Indo-European tribes: the sacred sovereign. Georges Dumezil's fascination with the myths and histories of India, Rome,... -
Cousins by Aurora Venturini 9780571372393
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23** With an introduction by Mariana Enriquez **A Granta Book of the Year'Cruel and strange and colourful.' Catherine Lacey 'Brimming with life, humour and a vital twist of darkness.' Alexandra Kleeman... -
Politics with Beauvoir: Freedom in the Encounter by Lori Jo Marso
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24In Politics with Beauvoir Lori Jo Marso treats Simone de Beauvoir's feminist theory and practice as part of her political theory, arguing that freedom is Beauvoir's central concern and that this is... -
Politics with Beauvoir: Freedom in the Encounter by Lori Jo Marso 9780822369554
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £66.46In Politics with Beauvoir Lori Jo Marso treats Simone de Beauvoir's feminist theory and practice as part of her political theory, arguing that freedom is Beauvoir's central concern and that this is... -
Fearless and Free: A Memoir Josephine Baker 9781784878344
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.07This is the iconic Josephine Baker in her own words.Funny, candid and unconventional: the wildly famous but elusive Josephine Baker tells her own story in this enchanting memoir. Baker took Paris by... -
Keshed Stu Hennigan 9781738466764
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26In the derelict shell of what was once his family home, a dying man surveys the wreckage of his former life and drinks himself senseless, haunted by the chain of events that led him there.Dark,... -
To Leave with the Reindeer by Olivia Rosenthal 9781911508427
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.94To Leave with the Reindeer is the account of a woman who has been trained for a life she cannot live. She readies herself for freedom, and questions its limits, by exploring how humans relate to... -
Feminism for the World Lola Olufemi 9780745350332
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.86In the years since #MeToo, misogyny, sexism and gender based violence have flooded the news and our social media timelines. Anti-privilege politics and intersectionality have entered the... -
Blue Self-Portrait by Noemi Lefebvre 9780993009327
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A French woman haunted by her encounter with an American-German pianist-composer who is obsessed with Arnold Schoenberg's portrait, flies home with her lively sister and a volume of Adorno's letters... -
This Tilting World by Colette Fellous 9781999331801
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £9.26Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia: on the night after the terrorist attack killing thirty-eight tourists on the nearby beach of Sousse, a woman sits facing the sea, and attempts to take stock. Personal...