ReadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2025

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Trista Selous Editor & Translator

Edward Said cover

Edward Said

Dominique Eddé - Hardback

£17.99

What Is Subjectivity? cover

What Is Subjectivity?

Jean-Paul Sartre - Paperback

£13.99

Hipparchia's Choice cover

Hipparchia's Choice

Michele Le Doeuff - Paperback

£30.00

Echoes of Narcissus cover

Echoes of Narcissus

2 contributors - Hardback

£104.00

Proud to Punish cover

Proud to Punish

2 authors - Paperback

£21.99

Spectralities in the Renaissance cover

Spectralities in the Renaissance

Caroline Callard - Hardback

£92.00

Hipparchia's Choice cover

Hipparchia's Choice

Michele Le Doeuff - Hardback

£92.00

Massin

Trista Selous - Hardback

£45.00

A Historian in Gaza cover

A Historian in Gaza

Jean-Pierre Filiu - Hardback

£16.99

Paternity and Fatherhood cover

Paternity and Fatherhood

2 contributors - Paperback

£89.99