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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King 9781444723250
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Twentieth Anniversary Edition with Contributions from Joe Hill and Owen King Part memoir, part masterclass by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and... -
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65A fascinating insight into the vibrant culture of Modernism, and the rich artistic world of Paris's Left Bank, Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas includes an introduction by Thomas... -
Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.63The response of one writer to the work of another can be doubly illuminating. In this series, a poet selects and introduces another poet whom they have particularly admired. Ted Hughes's classic... -
Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F.Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald by F. Scott Fitzgerald
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79____________________ 'A superbly edited and evocatively illustrated collection that brings together everything that Scott wrote to his wife' - Sunday Telegraph 'Heartbreaking ... Love has... -
Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems by Reni Eddo-Lodge
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $13.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995716223Author Reni Eddo-LodgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint -
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.15Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works. Since Hemingway's personal papers were released in 1979, scholars have examined and debated the... -
Truth and Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10From the bestselling author of The Dutch House, Commonwealth and Bel Canto, Winner of The Women's Prize for Fiction and the Pen/Faulkner Award. When Ann Patchett and Lucy Grealy met in... -
The Collected Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Dorothy Parker, more than any of her contemporaries, captured the spirit of the Jazz Age in her poetry and prose, and The Collected Dorothy Parker includes an introduction by Brendan Gill in Penguin... -
Annotated Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
RRP: $30.82Booksplease Price: $21.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804168885Author Raymond ChandlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint
Seduction and Betrayal by Elizabeth Hardwick 9780571347001
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65ONE OF THE WHITE REVIEW'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019Elizabeth Hardwick's iconic essay collection Seduction and Betrayal is a radical portrait of women and literature, reissued with a new introduction by...
That's Not How You Wash a Squirrel: A collection of new essays and emails by David R Thorne 9780988689596
RRP: $24.33Booksplease Price: $22.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988689596Author David R ThorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint
Darkness Visible by William Styron
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04This is a story of depression a condition that reduced William Styron from a person enjoying life and success as an acclaimed writer, to a man engulfed and menaced by mental anguish. With profound...
Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin 9780393935615
Booksplease Price: $17.41Written during the most eventful years of Benjamin Franklin's life (1771-90), the Autobiography is one of the most influential memoirs in history. This newly edited Norton Critical Edition includes...
The David Foster Wallace Reader by David Foster Wallace
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.80'One of the most dazzling luminaries of contemporary American fiction' Sunday Times 'The most commanding and exciting and inventive rhetorical virtuosity of any writer alive... [He] nailed it like...
The Whole Harmonium: The Life of Wallace Stevens by Paul Mariani 9781451624380
Booksplease Price: $20.46Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) lived a richly imaginative life that he expressed in his poems. The Whole Harmonium presents Stevens within the living context of his times and as the creator of a poetry...
Emily Dickinson: A selection of poems from one of America's most iconic poets Emily Dickinson 9781474625647
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.25American poet Emily Dickinson is revered around the world, and influenced many feminist artists and writers. Her work is some of the best known and most quoted or adapted:'Hope is the thing with...
The Portable Beat Reader by Ann Charters
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $17.58Beginning in the late 1940's, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was "beat." Beat as in poverty and beatitude, ecstasy and exile. Beat was Jack Kerouac touring the...
This Boy's Life Tobias Wolff 9780747546016
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79The author of "The Barracks Thief" and "Hunters in the Snow" recreates his boyhood experiences, relating how he and his mother travelled throughout the United States, and tracing his experiences and...
the princess saves herself in this one by Amanda Lovelace 9781449486419
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.19Winner of the 2016 Goodreads Choice Award, the princess saves herself in this one is a collection of poetry about resilience. It is about writing your own ending. From Amanda Lovelace, a poetry...
Mom and Me and Mom by Maya Angelou
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09'In the first decade of the twentieth century, it was not a good time to be born black, or woman, in America.' So begins this stunning portrait of Vivian Baxter Johnson: the first black woman officer...
A Man without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut 9780747586050
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11This is vintage Vonnegut - hilariously funny and razor-sharp as he fixes his gaze on art, politics, himself and the condition of the soul of America today. Written over the last five years in the...
Dad Jokes: Good, Clean Fun for All Ages! by Jimmy Niro
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.25Dad Jokes: the good, the bad, and the terrible, a perfect gift for dads and pun-lovers alike!With over 600 knee-slappers, head-shakers, and groan-makers, Dad Jokes is packed with enough witty quips...
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $15.26This Norton Critical Edition includes: The New York Edition text of the novel-the one that had James's final authority-newly and fully annotated by Jonathan Warren.A full introduction, compositional...
Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Sally Rooney: 'High intelligence and beauty.'Margo Jefferson: 'Extraordinary'Rediscover a lost American classic in this kaleidoscopic scrapbook of one woman's memories, with a new introduction by...
Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S.Grant by Ulysses S. Grant
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Faced with cancer and financial ruin, the Civil War's greatest general and former president, Ulysses S. Grant wrote his personal memoirs to secure his family's future. In doing so he won himself a...
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard 9780060919887
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060919887Author Annie DillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 111Imprint
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton 9780393624540
Booksplease Price: $17.41This Norton Critical Edition includes: * The 1905 book edition of the novel, complete with A. B. Wenzell's eight original illustrations. * A preface and explanatory footnotes by Elizabeth Ammons. *...
Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures by Mary Ruefle
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $20.11This is one of the wisest books I've read in years...--New York Times Book Review No writer I know of comes close to even trying to articulate the weird magic of poetry as Ruefle does. She...
We Over Me: The Counterintuitive Approach to Getting Everything You Want from Your Relationship by Khadeen Ellis 9780593577622
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $12.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593577622Author Khadeen EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being by Christina Elizabeth Sharpe
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $21.68In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake."...
Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy by Dr Steven Powell
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.14THE TELEGRAPH'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR 2024 EDGAR ALLAN POE AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE H.R.F KEATING AWARD FOE BEST BIOGRAPHICAL/CRITICAL BOOK "As gripping and twisted as a James...
If This Isn't Nice, What Is? by Kurt Vonnegut
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609806101Author Kurt VonnegutFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint
Through the Window: Seventeen Essays (and one short story) by Julian Barnes 9780099578581
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68In these seventeen essays (and one short story) the 2011 Man Booker Prize winner examines British, French and American writers who have meant most to him, as well as the cross-currents and...
Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters by John Steinbeck
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11This collection of letters forms a fascinating day-by-day account of Steinbeck's writing of EAST OF EDEN, his longest and most ambitious novel. The letters, ranging over many subjects - textual...
Schrader on Schrader by Paul Schrader
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.82Schrader on Schrader is an essential set of dialogues with one of the most genuinely fascinating and uncompromising writer-directors in American film.Raised as a Calvinist and hence forbidden to...
The Odd 1s Out: How to Be Cool and Other Things I Definitely Learned from Growing Up by James Rallison
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143131809Author James RallisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint
Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O'Hara 9780802134523
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.87Collected poems from one of the Twentieth Century's most influential voices.Frank O'Hara was one of the great poets of the twentieth century and, along with such widely acclaimed writers as Denise...
The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen 9780199552580
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.71'Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.' In The Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen sets out 'to discuss the place and value of...
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Nick Flynn met his father when he was twenty-seven years old, working as a caseworker in a homeless shelter in Boston. As a teenager he'd received letters from this mystery father - self-proclaimed...
A Gravity's Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel by Steven Weisenburger 9780820328072
RRP: $54.87Booksplease Price: $44.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820328072Author Steven WeisenburgerFormat PaperbackImprint