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The Swann Way by Proust 9780198871521
RRP: £9.99£7.36'The memory of a particular image is only regret for a particular moment...' The Swann Way is the first volume of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time (1913-27), one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. The work is a portal to... -
The Gender Bias: The Barriers That Hold Women Back, And How To Break Them by Dr. Sabrina Cohen-Hatton
RRP: £18.99£12.27Two people are firefighters and do the same job. When one is asked what they do for a living, their response is met with: 'That's amazing, you are so brave!', while the other is asked: 'Isn't that dangerous? Aren't you scared? What about your kids?' Can... -
One Robe, One Bowl by John Stevens
RRP: £17.99£11.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780834805705Author John StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Weatherhill IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams) 108gDimensions(mm)... -
I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft, Volume 2 by Author S T Joshi 9781614980520
RRP: £30.00£27.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614980520Author Author S T JoshiFormat PaperbackPage Count 598Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 789gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
The Uncanny by Nicholas Royle
RRP: £16.99£12.88This is the first book-length study of the uncanny, an important topic for contemporary thinking on literature, film, philosophy, psychoanalysis, feminism and queer history. Much of this importance can be traced back to Freud's extraordinary essay of... -
Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year by Eleanor Parker 9781789147735
RRP: £10.99£8.02Now available in paperback, Winters in the World is a beautifully observed journey through the cycle of the year in Anglo-Saxon England, exploring the festivals, customs and traditions linked to the different seasons. Drawing on a wide variety of source... -
The Screwtape Letters: Letters from a Senior to a Junior Devil (C. S. Lewis Signature Classic) by C. S. Lewis
RRP: £9.99£6.89A milestone in the history of popular theology, 'The Screwtape Letters' is an iconic classic on spiritual warfare and the power of the devil. This profound and striking narrative takes the form of a series of letters from Screwtape, a devil... -
Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World by Irene Vallejo
RRP: £25.00£15.95The bestselling phenomenon - an enthralling 6,000-year journey through the history of books and readingA FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST AND MAIL ON SUNDAY BOOK OF THE YEAR'Outstanding, universal and unique' NEW YORK TIMES'A literary phenomenon.' TLS'Masterly... -
The Prophets by Abraham Joshua Heschel 9780060936990
RRP: £19.99£12.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060936990Author Abraham J. HeschelFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
The Literary Almanac: A year of books by Francesca Beauman
RRP: £14.99£9.57Discover over 300 seasonal book recommendations in the ultimate reading list for book lovers everywhere.-----'I will be giving this book to everyone I know' - Elizabeth Day'Francesca Beauman writes about the books she loves with irresistible passion,... -
I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft, Volume 1 by Author S T Joshi
RRP: £30.00£27.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614980513Author Author S T JoshiFormat PaperbackPage Count 578Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 762gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village by Maureen Johnson
RRP: £13.99£9.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984859624Author Maureen JohnsonFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale -
Disintegration in Frames: Aesthetics and Ideology in the Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Cinema by Pavle Levi
RRP: £54.00£45.95Disintegration in Frames examines the ways in which national identity and interethnic relations are approached, evaluated, and critically dissected in films by directors such as Dusan Makavejev, Emir Kusturica, and Srdan Dragojevic; subcultural... -
Wanderers: A History of Women Walking by Kerri Andrews
RRP: £9.99£7.36Now in B-format paperback, this book describes ten women over the past three hundred years who have found walking essential to their sense of themselves, as people and as writers. Wanderers traces their footsteps, from eighteenth-century parson's... -
A Century of Poetry: 100 Poems for Searching the Heart by Lord Rowan Williams
RRP: £19.99£15.62'All serious lovers of poetry will want this book.' A. N. Wilson All good poetry has the power to transport and transform us, to inspire and challenge us, to comfort and heal us, and to hold up a mirror to the world around us. In A Century of... -
Trivium: The Classical Liberal Arts of Grammar, Logic, & Rhetoric by John Martineau
RRP: £19.95£13.46If you've ever wanted to know more about the power of 'P', the hypnotic rhythm of anapestic tetrameter, or how to change the mood of a verb, then look no further. If you've ever needed to catch a red herring, wield a zeugma, deepen your pathos or... -
The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature by C. S. Lewis 9781107604704
RRP: £14.99£12.55The Discarded Image paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. It describes the 'image' discarded by later years as 'the medieval synthesis... -
Butterfly's Burden, The by Mahmoud Darwish
RRP: £20.00£13.96Mahmoud Darwish (1942-2008) was the poetic voice of the Palestinian people. One of the most acclaimed contemporary poets in the Arab world, he was also a prominent spokesman for human rights who spent most of his life in exile. In his early work, the... -
The Making of Middle-Earth: The Worlds of Tolkien and the Lord of the Rings by Christopher A Snyder
RRP: £25.00£16.87This volume is perhaps the most in-depth exploration ever undertaken of Tolkien's world. Accessible but authoritative, and fully illustrated, it is now being reissued with a stunning new cover treatment and updated commentary on new books, films, games,... -
If Not, Winter: Fragments Of Sappho by Anne Carson
RRP: £16.99£10.70From the critically acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson: a brilliant new translation of the work of Sappho, together with the original Greek. During her life on the island of Lesbos, Sappho is said to have composed nine books of lyrics. Only one... -
Walking on Lava: Selected Works for Uncivilised Times by Dougald Hine 9781603587419
RRP: £20.00£12.95The Dark Mountain Project began with a manifesto published in 2009 by two English writers-Dougald Hine and Paul Kingsnorth-who felt that literature was not responding honestly to the crises of our time. In a world in which the climate is being altered... -
The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative by Vivian Gornick
RRP: £18.00£10.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374528584Author Vivian GornickFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux -
Existentialism Is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre 9780300115468
RRP: £9.95£6.57It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Jean-Paul Sartre, the most dominent European intellectual of the post-World War II decades, accepted an invitation to speak on October 29, 1945, at the Club Maintenant in Paris. The unstated... -
Emma by Jane Austen 9780198837756
RRP: £6.99£5.38'I wonder what will become of her!' So speculate the friends and neighbours of Emma Woodhouse, the lovely, lively, wilful,and fallible heroine of Jane Austen's fourth published novel. Confident that she knows best, Emma schemes to find a suitable... -
The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English by Hana Videen 9780691232744
RRP: £22.95£15.53An entertaining and illuminating collection of weird, wonderful, and downright baffling words from the origins of English-and what they reveal about the lives of the earliest English speakersOld English is the language you think you know until you... -
Martha Maps It Out by Leigh Hodgkinson 9780192777782
RRP: £7.99£4.58Martha LOVES drawing maps. She creates maps of everything, from outer space to her little (but very exciting) bedroom! This entertaining picture book is perfect for sharing with young children. Let Martha be your guide as she explores all the people... -
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
RRP: £22.00£14.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385720250Author Sylvia PlathFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Bantam Doubleday DellPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)... -
Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson
RRP: £14.00£10.77Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time A book about romantic love, Eros the Bittersweet is Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros" in both classical philosophy and literature. Beginning with, "It... -
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne - Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022 by Katherine Rundell
RRP: £10.99£7.57**A Sunday Times top ten bestseller****Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2023****Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize for Non-Fiction 2023****Shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize 2023**'Masterly.'... -
Norfolk: A photographic journey through the land of Ruth Galloway by Elly Griffiths 9781529427523
RRP: £30.00£19.41A stunning companion to Elly Griffiths' beloved crime series, the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries, and a photographic journey through magical Norfolk.Norfolk, a land of peaceful broads, marshy fens, sprawling coastline and shady brecks, is the home of Dr Ruth... -
Goodbye Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land by Jacob Mikanowski 9780861547326
RRP: £10.99£8.02An epic history of the 'other' Europe, a place of conflict and coexistence, of faith and folklore. 'Do not rush to bid farewell to eastern Europe until reading this book. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, this very personal story of the... -
Much Ado About Numbers by Rob Eastaway 9781805460275
RRP: £16.99£11.58"A spectacular journey... Highly recommended!" Dr Simon Smith, The Shakespeare Institute "A fascinating and hugely entertaining guide to Shakespearean mathematics." Prof Sarah Hart, author of Once Upon A Prime"A playful and engaging book ... bound to... -
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
RRP: £8.99£5.46One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'A worldwide bestseller and the first part of Achebe's African Trilogy, Things Fall Apart is the compelling story of one man's battle to protect his community against the forces of changeOkonkwo is the... -
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders
RRP: £20.00£9.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984856036Author George SaundersFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 9780140449266
RRP: £9.99£7.76The epic tale of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge, in its definitive translationThrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on... -
Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley
RRP: £25.00£15.95** Shortlisted for the @CrimeFest H.R.F. Keating Award **'A smart and highly entertaining portrait of a literary powerhouse'- THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR'A riveting portrait' - GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR***'Christie lovers should read this biography... -
What Was Shakespeare Really Like? by Stanley Wells 9781009340373
RRP: £14.99£10.95Sir Stanley Wells is one of the world's greatest authorities on William Shakespeare. Here he brings a lifetime of learning and reflection to bear on some of the most tantalising questions about the poet and dramatist that there are. How did he think,... -
Mere Christianity (C. S. Lewis Signature Classic) by C. S. Lewis
RRP: £9.99£6.89One of the most popular and beloved introductions to the concept of faith ever written, 'Mere Christianity' has sold millions of copies worldwide. The book brings together C.S. Lewis's legendary radio broadcasts during the war years, in which... -
Fingerprints Of The Gods by Graham Hancock
RRP: £22.99£17.28THE MULTI-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING SENSATION THAT TURNED HISTORY ON ITS HEAD, FROM THE CREATOR OF NETFLIX'S ANCIENT APOCALYPSE 'One of the intellectual landmarks of the decade' Literary Review'Readers will hugely enjoy their quest in these pages of... -
All Of Us: The Collected Poems by Raymond Carver 9781860463648
RRP: £18.99£13.61Raymond Carver, who became a master-storyteller of his generation and was hailed in Europe as 'the American Chekhov', wrote of himself: "I began as a poet. My first publication was a poem. So I suppose on my tombstone I'd be very pleased if they put...