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The Emergence Of Memory: Conversations with W.G. Sebald by Lynne Sharon Schwartz 9781583229156
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583229156Author Lynne Sharon SchwartzFormat PaperbackPage Count 176 -
Time's Anvil: England, Archaeology and the Imagination Richard Morris 9781780222448
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.65A personal and lyrical rediscovery of the history of England through archaeology and the imagination.History thrives on stories. TIME'S ANVIL explores archaeology's influence on what such stories... -
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95When We Cease to Understand the World shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schroedinger: these are... -
Austerlitz by W G Sebald
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £13.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812982619Author W.G. SebaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
The Place of Shells: 'An extraordinary, beautiful novel' Sarah Bernstein, Booker-shortlisted author of Study for Obedience by Mai Ishizawa 9781399750394
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.89WINNER OF THE AKUTAGAWA PRIZE'This attempt to imprint upon humanity the experiences of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in a way that only a novel can achieve deserves to be highly... -
The Place of Shells: 'An extraordinary, beautiful novel' Sarah Bernstein, Booker-shortlisted author of Study for Obedience by Mai Ishizawa 9781399750424
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02WINNER OF THE AKUTAGAWA PRIZE'A hypnotic dissection of memory, trauma and belonging'New Statesman'This attempt to imprint upon humanity the experiences of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in a... -
On the Natural History of Destruction by W G Sebald
Booksplease Price: £14.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375756573Author W.G. SebaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint -
The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'Sebald is the Joyce of the 21st Century' The TimesWhat begins as the record of W. G. Sebald's own journey on foot through coastal East Anglia, from Lowestoft to Bungay, becomes the conductor of... -
After Sebald: Essays and Illuminations by John Coetzee 9780957152861
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £12.29A collection of essays and other texts by eleven internationally acclaimed writers, critics and artists.Over a decade after his death W.G. Sebald remains a major presence in world literature. He has... -
Vertigo by W. G. Sebald 9780811226165
Booksplease Price: £11.74Perfectly titled, Vertigo -W.G. Sebald's marvelous first novel - is a work that teeters on the edge: compelling, puzzling, and deeply unsettling. An unnamed narrator, beset by nervous ailments,... -
Black Ice Anthea Bell 9781904738084
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78This is a beautifully crafted thriller set in a European world of small-town hypocrisy. Erika, an attractive local heiress, is married to Wallmann. When she falls to her death near their lakeside... -
After Nature by W. G. Sebald 9780141003368
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31After Nature is the very first literary work by W. G. Sebald, author of Austerlitz'The greatest writer of our time' Peter CareyAfter Nature by W.G. Sebald, author of Austerlitz, is his first literary... -
Campo Santo by W. G. Sebald
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Campo Santo is a collection of essays by W. G. SebaldWhen W.G. Sebald died tragically in 2001 a unique voice was silenced. Campo Santo is a collection of the pieces he left behind - none of them... -
Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A classic novel of post-war Europe, haunting and timelessly beautiful'The greatest writer of our time' Peter CareyIn 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and... -
Who Occupies This House by Kathleen Hill 9780810152250
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.69Kathleen Hill's finely wrought novel tells the story of four generations of an Irish-American family that has lived in the same house for almost a century. Grieving the death of her mother and the... -
The East Edge: Nightwalks with the Dead Poets of Tower Hamlets by Chris McCabe 9781908058683
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Headstones are sliding earthwards. An urban fox forages for slugs. A jogger disappears into a forest of sycamores as high-rise blocks glister with the last of the sun. Follow Chris McCabe into the... -
Known and Strange Things by Teju Cole
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Shortlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayA blazingly intelligent first collection of essays from the award-winning author of Open... -
Peter Grimes Sam Kinchin-Smith 9781138678668
Booksplease Price: £13.64'Who can turn skies back and begin again?'-PeterThis book contends that Peter Grimes, widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential operas of the 20th century, is also one of the... -
Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald 9780241984482
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Austerlitz is W. G. Sebald's haunting novel of post-war Europe.In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple... -
Cinema Stories by Alexander Kluge 9780811217354
RRP: £11.50Booksplease Price: £9.84Each of the thirty-nine tales of Alexander Kluge's Cinema Stories combines fact and fiction, and they revolve around movie-making. The book compresses a lifetime of feeling, thought, and practice:... -
The Devil's Blind Spot: Tales from the New Century by Alexander Kluge 9780811217361
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.56The 173 stories collected in Alexander Kluge's The Devil's Blind Spot range from a dozen pages to just half a page in length: these tales are like novels in pill form. The whole is arranged in five... -
Why Read: Selected Writings 2001 – 2021 by Will Self 9781611854213
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Will Self may not be the last modernist at work but at the moment he's the most fascinating of the tradition's torch bearers.' New YorkFrom one of the most unusual and distinctive writers working... -
Little Houses, Big Forests - Desire is No Light Thing by Siouxzi Connor
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The book is an invitation to get lost within varied landscapes of its pages: middle-of-nowhere Australia, the minds of Susan Sontag and W.G Sebald, and, most prominently, the proverbial forests of... -
Kafka's Prague by Klaus Wagenbach
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Nearly 100 years after Franz Kafka's death, his works continue to intrigue and haunt us. Even for those who are only fleetingly acquainted with his unfinished novels, or his stories, diaries, and... -
Appendix Project Kate Zambreno 9781913513689
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.96Inspired by the lectures of Roland Barthes, Anne Carson, and Jorge Luis Borges, Kate Zambreno's Appendix Project collects eleven talks and essays written in the course of the year following the... -
The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald 9780811226158
Booksplease Price: £12.05The Rings of Saturn-with its curious archive of photographs-records a walking tour of the eastern coast of England. A few of the things which cross the path and mind of its narrator (who both is and... -
Augustus: The Biography by Jochen Bleicken
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38'Masterful ... a breathtaking panorama of Roman politics at a crucial turning point in history' Simon J. V. Malloch, Literary ReviewHe was named son and heir by a murdered dictator. He came to Rome... -
Digital Literary Creative Practice: Six Memos for Writers in the Current Millennium by David Thomas Henry Wright 9781032418254
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.08In 1985, Italo Calvino proposed six values he deemed crucial to literature as it moved into the next millennium: lightness, quickness, 'crystal' exactitude, visibility, multiplicity, and consistency... -
The Emigrants by W. G. Sebald
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'A book of excruciating sobriety and warmth and a magical concreteness of observation... I know of no book which conveys more about that complex fate, being a European at the end of European... -
On The Natural History Of Destruction by W. G. Sebald
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Sebald's On the Natural History of Destruction explores German writers' silence about a moment of mass destructionIn the last years of World War II, a million tons of bombs were dropped by the Allies... -
Look Again: The Sea by Philip Hoare 9781849768276
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.40Look Again is a new series of short books from Tate Publishing, opening up the conversation about British art over the last 500 years, and exploring what art has to tell us about our lives today... -
A Mountain to the North, A Lake to The South, Paths to the West, A River to the East by Laszlo Krasznahorkai 9781800814592
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40The grandson of Prince Genji lives outside of space and time and wanders the grounds of an old monastery in Kyoto. The monastery, too, is timeless, with barely a trace of any human presence. The... -
Dr. B by Daniel Birnbaum
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.69The former director of the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm makes his literary debut with this dramatic and riveting novel of book publishing, emigres, spies, and diplomats in World... -
Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005 by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Following on from Stranger Shores, which contained J.M. Coetzee's essays from 1986 to 1999, Inner Workings gathers together his literary essays from 2000 to 2005.Of the writers discussed in the first... -
The Melancholy of Resistance by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize The Melancholy of Resistance, Laszlo Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in a small Hungarian town. ... -
The Envoy by Edward Wilson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The brilliant opening novel of the Catesby series, by a former special forces officer and 'the thinking person's John le Carre' 'Edward Wilson seems poised to inherit the mantle of John le Carre'... -
Roads to Berlin Laura Watkinson 9781848662919
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Roads to Berlin maps the changing landscape of Germany, from the period before the fall of the Wall to the present. Written and updated over the course of several decades, an eyewitness account of... -
The Darkling Spy by Edward Wilson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A spy thriller that will change your view of the Cold War forever, by a former special forces officer who is 'poised to inherit the mantle of John le Carre' 'Edward Wilson seems poised to inherit... -
Foley's Asia: A Sketchbook by Ronan Sheehan 9781901866360
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.86While an anarchist group blows up the equestrian statue of General Gough in Dublin's Phoenix Park during the 1950s, the narrator recalls his mother's Kiplingesque tales of childhood in India,... -
Trust Exercise by Susan Choi 9781788161688
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR Both inventive and shocking, Trust Exercise became a sensation on publication in the USA for its timely insights into...