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Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story Ursula K. Le Guin 9781739371722
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $14.02Revised and updated for the twenty-first century, Steering the Craft is Ursula K. Le Guin's carrier bag of the essentials of a writer's craft, a generous gift from one of the great thinkers about how... -
Shakespeare: The World as a Stage by Bill Bryson
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.05Bill Bryson's biography of William Shakespeare unravels the superstitions, academic discoveries and myths surrounding the life of our greatest poet and playwright. ... -
How Fiction Works James Wood 9781845950934
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.68Rediscover this deep, practical anatomy of the novel from 'the strongest ... literary critic we have' (New York Review of Books) in this new revised 10th anniversary edition.What do we mean when we... -
Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World by Mark Aldridge
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.05From the very first book publication in 1920 to the recent film release of Death on the Nile, this investigation into Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot celebrates a century of probably... -
The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell's 1984 by Dorian Lynskey
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionLonglisted for the Orwell Prize for Political WritingThe Ministry of Truth charts the life of George Orwell's 1984, one of the most influential... -
A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel 9780006546818
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.54This study of the history of reading goes from the earliest examples of the clay tablets and cuneiform of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt via the invention of printing in the 15th century to the birth... -
The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.17Learn about the greatest works of literature, and the lives of those who wrote them in The Literature Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a... -
The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time by Will Durant 9780743235532
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $11.95In this remarkable little book, Will Durant answers the questions that most people would have wanted to ask him - what are the conclusions he drew from the experience of a long lifetime; what eras,... -
Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading by Lucy Mangan
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.68A love letter to the joys of childhood reading from Wonderland to Narnia.When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up new worlds and cast light on all the complexities she... -
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... -
The Novel Cure: An A to Z of Literary Remedies by Ella Berthoud
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Mumsnet 'Best Books for Christmas 2016''Ideal for anyone who has ever wondered what on earth to read next' SJ WATSON'Witty, engaging and informative. The sort of book you choose for a friend and end... -
The Oxford Book of English Verse by Christopher Ricks
RRP: $32.15Booksplease Price: $25.53Here is a treasure-house of over seven centuries of English poetry, chosen and introduced by Christopher Ricks, whom Auden described as 'exactly the kind of critic every poet dreams of finding'. The... -
The Gifts of Reading by Robert Macfarlane
RRP: $4.02Booksplease Price: $3.82From the bestselling author of UNDERLAND, THE OLD WAYS and THE LOST WORDS - an essay on the joy of reading, for anyone who has ever loved a bookEvery book is a kind of gift to its reader, and the act... -
Release the Bats: A Pocket Guide to Writing Your Way Out Of It by DBC Pierre
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37A guide to writing fiction by the Booker Prize-winning author of Vernon God Little.Part biography, part reflection and part practical guide, Release the Bats explores the mysteries of why and how we... -
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... -
The Elements of Academic Style: Writing for the Humanities by Eric Hayot
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.94Eric Hayot teaches graduate students and faculty in literary and cultural studies how to think and write like a professional scholar. From granular concerns, such as sentence structure and grammar,... -
Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative by Jane Alison
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948226134Author Jane AlisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint -
My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing by Carl Phillips 9780300274141
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.73An invaluable companion for any writer seeking to make the writing life a more complex and cooperative venture "Illuminating, deeply endearing essays."-Ron Charles, Washington Post "A lovely,... -
A Little Book on Form: An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry by Robert Hass
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10From the former U.S. Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winner, an illuminating dissection of poetic form for students, enthusiasts, and newcomers alike A Little Book on Form... -
Critical Revolutionaries: Five Critics Who Changed the Way We Read by Terry Eagleton
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.55Terry Eagleton looks back across sixty years to an extraordinary critical milieu that transformed the study of literature Before the First World War, traditional literary scholarship was isolated... -
Librorum Ridiculorum: Bizarre Books from a Rare Bookshop by Brian Lake
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10A celebration of all the weird and wonderful books to be found at an antiquarian bookshop. Books have the power to enrich the soul, to enliven the senses, to... -
Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread by Michiko Kakutani
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.54**SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020** From renowned, Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic, Michiko Kakutani, comes an inspiring... -
Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald by Jonathan Bate 9780008425005
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10A dazzling biography of two interwoven, tragic lives: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald. 'Highly engaging ... Go now, read this book' THE TIMES 'For... -
Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers by Emma Smith
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28'A fascinating journey into our relationship with the physical book...I lost count of the times I exclaimed with delight when I read a nugget of information I hadn't encountered before' Val McDermid,... -
Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop: The heartwarming story that inspired a nation, now an international bestseller Alba Donati 9781399605489
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92HOW A BOOKSELLER INSPIRED A NATIONThe diary of a publicist-turned bookseller who left Florence to open a tiny bookshop on a Tuscan hill. 'Like Chocolat meets Penelope Fitzgerald's The Bookshop, set... -
Only a Voice: Essays by George Scialabba 9781804292006
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.10In Only a Voice, George Scialabba examines the chasm between modernity's promise of progress and the sobering reality of our present day through studies of the most influential public intellectuals... -
Bowie's Books: The Hundred Literary Heroes Who Changed His Life by John O'Connell
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Brilliant. The unwritten Bowie book that needed writing' CAITLIN MORAN 'Splendid. Provides plenty of evidence of Bowie's restless, rummaging intelligence, and his... -
Dinner with Joseph Johnson: Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age by Daisy Hay 9781784701079
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92*Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize*In late eighteenth-century London, a group of extraordinary people gathered around a dining table once a week.The host was Joseph Johnson, publisher and... -
What Writers Read: 35 Writers on their Favourite Book Pandora Sykes 9781526657480
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11A WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH In this love letter to reading, curated by Pandora Sykes in aid of the National Literacy Trust, bestselling and beloved writers share their favourite... -
The Amis Collection: Selected Non-fiction by Kingsley Amis 9780141195308
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37'Amis has no faults. He is clever, witty, ironical' GuardianWhat advice can one give a green young author? What purpose do literary prizes serve? Where on earth can a man get a decent bite to eat?... -
The Literary Almanac: A year of seasonal reading Francesca Beauman 9781529412918
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $13.21Discover 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... -
The Heroine's Journey: For Writers, Readers, and Fans of Pop Culture by Gail Carriger 9781944751340
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944751340Author Gail CarrigerFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint -
The French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers by Ted Jones
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.17A reader's journey along the French Riviera, from Hyeres and Saint-Tropez to the Italian border, introducing the lives and work of writers who passed this way. The sunlight and calm of the French... -
On Close Reading Professor John Guillory 9780226837437
RRP: $21.44Booksplease Price: $20.37John Guillory considers close reading within the larger history of reading and writing as cultural techniques. At a time of debate about the future of "English" as a discipline and the fundamental... -
Ulysses Unbound: A Reader's Companion to James Joyce's Ulysses by Terence Killeen
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37Ulysses is one of the foundational texts of modern literature, yet has a reputation for complexity and controversy. In Ulysses Unbound, Joyce expert Terence Killeen untangles this seemingly knotty... -
Letters to Gil by Malik Al Nasir
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $25.77'A searing, triumphant story. A testament to the tenacity of the human spirit as well as a beautiful ode to an iconic figure' IRENOSEN OKOJIE ... -
How to Read Novels Like A Prof by Thomas C Foster
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $14.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061340406Author Thomas C FosterPage Count 336Imprint -
Bookishly Ever After by Mia Page 9780008587345
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $8.36‘Enemies to lovers? YES PLEASE. I loved every second of this book.’ Reader Review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A modern day You’ve Got Mail.’ Reader Review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Two rival bookstore owners. One chance for a happily ever... -
Comprehension Bumper Book Ages 7-9 (Collins Easy Learning KS2) by Collins Easy Learning
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $6.02Level: KS2 Subject: English Engaging reading comprehension activities to help boost your child's progress at every stage of their... -
A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition 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...