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Days of Reading by Marcel Proust
RRP: €9.51€6.89In these inspiring essays about why we read, Proust explores all the pleasures and trials that we take from books, as well as explaining the beauty of Ruskin and his work, and the joys of losing yourself in literature as a child. Throughout history, some... -
The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime by Prof. Harold Bloom
RRP: €29.74€21.43Hailed as 'the indispensable critic' by The New York Review of Books, Harold Bloom has for decades been sharing with readers and students his genius and passion for understanding literature and explaining why it matters. In The Daemon Knows, he turns... -
How to Read Literature by Terry Eagleton
RRP: €14.27€12.08A literary master's entertaining guide to reading with deeper insight, better understanding, and greater pleasure What makes a work of literature good or bad? How freely can the reader interpret it? Could a nursery rhyme like Baa Baa Black Sheep be full... -
Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives by Helen Taylor 9780198827689
RRP: €19.03€14.16Ian McEwan once said, 'When women stop reading, the novel will be dead.' This book explains how precious fiction is to contemporary women readers, and how they draw on it to tell the stories of their lives. Female readers are key to the future of fiction... -
Words Are My Matter: Writings on Life and Books by Ursula K Le Guin
RRP: €19.03€13.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358212102Author Ursula K Le GuinFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
Marx's Literary Style by Ludovico Silva
RRP: €17.84€15.36In Marx's Literary Style, the Venezuelan poet and philosopher Ludovico Silva argues that much of the confusion around Marx's work results from a failure to understand his literary mode of expression. Through meticulous readings of key passages in Marx's... -
The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making by Adrian Johns 9780226401225
€44.47In The Nature of the Book, a tour de force of cultural history, Adrian Johns constructs an entirely original and vivid picture of print culture and its many arenas-commercial, intellectual, political, and individual."A compelling exposition of how... -
A Little Book About Books: Quotes for the Bibliophile in Your Life by Orange Hippo!
RRP: €7.13€5.24The world of books in one little book. It doesn't matter how well read you are, A Little Book About Books is packed full of quotes, one-liners and famous lines from names that everyone will recognise. For bibliophiles, they'll enjoy recognising their... -
Blurb Your Enthusiasm: An A-Z of Literary Persuasion by Louise Willder
RRP: €17.84€13.03A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A small masterpiece. There is something funny, notable or awe-inspiring on every single page' Jenny Colgan, Spectator A joyful celebration of books - the perfect gift for bibliophiles, word lovers and anyone who's ever... -
Books v. Cigarettes by George Orwell
RRP: €9.51€6.89Beginning with a dilemma about whether he spends more money on reading or smoking, George Orwell's entertaining and uncompromising essays go on to explore everything from the perils of second-hand bookshops to the dubious profession of being a critic,... -
So We Read on: How the Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures by Maureen Corrigan 9780316230063
RRP: €23.79€16.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316230063Author Maureen CorriganFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 206mm *... -
A Book of Book Lists: A Bibliophile's Compendium by Alex Johnson 9780712352253
RRP: €11.89€8.09This is a book of book lists. Not of the '1,001 Books You MUST Read Before You Die' variety but lists that tell stories. Lists that make you smile, make you wonder, and see titles together in entirely new ways. From Bin Laden's bookshelf to the books... -
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020 by Salman Rushdie 9781529111996
RRP: €15.46€10.82From 'Best of the Booker' winner Salman Rushdie, an incisive and inspiring collection of non-fiction essays, criticism and speeches that takes readers on a thrilling journey through the evolution of language and culture.'One of the greatest writers of... -
Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
RRP: €22.60€16.20A darkly comic and moving reflection on what it means to be human in a world where nothing is certain, from the award-winning Oxford professor'The best book about multiple sclerosis'THE TIMES'An outstanding feat'SUNDAY TIMESWe all have trapdoors in our... -
The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination by Ursula K. Le Guin 9781590300060
RRP: €26.17€15.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Locus Awards (Nonfiction) 2005.Book InformationISBN 9781590300060Author Ursula K. Le GuinFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher... -
F.M.R.L.: Footnotes, Mirages, Refrains and Leftovers of Writing Sound by Daniela Cascella
RRP: €11.89€10.22Listening into writing, reading into writing take shape in F.M.R.L. through a collection of short texts, fragments and 'deranged essays', with attention to pacing and linguistic derives. An archive of books, notebooks, events and records prompts the... -
The Bookseller's Tale by Martin Latham
RRP: €11.89€8.46A SPECTATOR AND EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'A joy. Each chapter instantly became my favourite' David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas'Wonderful' Lucy Mangan'The right book has a neverendingness, and so does the right bookshop.'This is the story... -
The Book Lover's Almanac: A Year of Literary Events, Letters, Scandals and Plot Twists by Alex Johnson 9780712354240
RRP: €23.79€15.89Enjoy daily distraction with this engaging Almanac. Each date is assigned one or more literary connections. Book lovers will find extracts from authors' diaries and letters, chance upon the narrative twists and transformative moments in their favourite... -
Novel Houses: Twenty Famous Fictional Dwellings by Christina Hardyment
RRP: €29.75€22.69'Novel Houses' visits unforgettable dwellings in twenty legendary works of English and American fiction. Each chapter stars a famous novel in which a dwelling is pivotal to the plot, and reveals how personally significant that place was to the writer who... -
Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino
RRP: €11.89€8.46Why Read the Classics? is an elegant defence of the value of great literature by one of the finest authors of the last century. Beginning with an essay on the attributes that define a classic (number one - classics are those books that people always say... -
The Sublime by Philip Shaw 9781138859647
RRP: €30.93€26.93Related to ideas of the great, the awe-inspiring and the overpowering, the sublime has been debated for centuries amongst writers, artists, philosophers and theorists and has become a complex yet crucial concept in many disciplines. In this thoroughly... -
The Allure of the Archives by Arlette Farge
RRP: €20.22€19.56An exquisite appreciation of the distinctive rewards of historical research and a classic guide to the personal yet disciplined craft of discovery, now in its first English translation. Arlette Farge's Le Gout de l'archive is widely regarded as a... -
How to be Well Read: A guide to 500 great novels and a handful of literary curiosities by John Sutherland
RRP: €13.08€9.25'Generous, enjoyable and well informed.' Observer'500 expertly potted plots and personal comments on a wide range of pop and proper prose fiction.' The Times___________________________________________________________Ranging all the way from Aaron's Rod... -
Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative by Jane Alison
RRP: €15.46€13.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948226134Author Jane AlisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint CatapultPublisher CatapultWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 139mm * 20mm -
A Little Book on Form: An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry by Robert Hass
RRP: €13.08€8.63From 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 brilliantly synthesizes Hass's formidable gifts as both a... -
A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
RRP: €20.22€14.13This 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 of a mass reading public and today's digital revolution... -
Making: The Proper Habit of Being by Marion Montgomery 9781890318390
€38.56The concern in this essay is for our age as one suffering an intellectual severance between our response to existential reality in which the beauty of a created particular thing is divorced from the Cause of that thing's existence. The separation speaks... -
Puss in Books: Our best-loved writers on their best-loved cats by Paul Magrs 9780008605377
RRP: €15.46€9.90A charming collection of quotes about cats from our favourite authors, accompanied by artwork in the trademark style of Paul Magrs (author of The Panda, the Cat and the Dreadful Teddy). 'I love them, they are so nice and selfish' - L.M... -
Critical Revolutionaries: Five Critics Who Changed the Way We Read by Terry Eagleton
RRP: €13.08€11.15Terry 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 from society at large. In the years following, a younger... -
Books that Changed the World: The 50 Most Influential Books in Human History by Andrew Taylor
RRP: €13.08€8.81Books That Changed the World tells the fascinating stories behind 50 books that, in ways great and small, have changed the course of human history. Andrew Taylor sets each text in its historical context and explores its wider influence and legacy... -
Faulks on Fiction by Sebastian Faulks
RRP: €19.03€13.82Ever since Robinson Crusoe in 1719, the novel has introduced British readers to truly unforgettable characters - people in whom we can find deeper understanding of our own lives. In this engaging and personal book, Sebastian Faulks examines and... -
Literary Yarns: Rochet Patterns Inspired By Classic Books by Cindy Wang
RRP: €16.65€10.95What s the perfect gift for your friend who loves literature? How about an adorable crocheted Moby Dick? Or a delightfully miniature Elizabeth Bennet? Or an elegant and fuzzy Jay Gatsby? Whether you need some holiday decor (Ebenezer Scrooge!) or want to... -
Agatha Christie’s Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World by Mark Aldridge
RRP: €29.75€20.03From the very first book publication in 1920 to the upcoming film release of Death on the Nile, this investigation into Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot celebrates a century of probably the world's favourite fictional detective. ... -
Ian McEwan's "Enduring Love": A Reader's Guide by Roger Clark 9780826414786
€21.53A critical examination of Ian McEwan and his novel, "Enduring Love", this title forms part of a series that aims to provide accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, acclaimed and influential novels of recent years. A team of... -
The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell's 1984 by Dorian Lynskey 9781509890736
RRP: €20.22€15.04Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionLonglisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing'If you have even the slightest interest in Orwell or in the development of our culture, you should not miss this engrossing, enlightening book.'... -
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book by James Raven 9780198702986
RRP: €41.65€30.10In 14 original essays, The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book reveals the history of books in all their various forms, from the ancient world to the digital present. Leading international scholars offer an original and richly illustrated narrative... -
Letters to Gil by Malik Al Nasir
RRP: €23.80€7.91'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 Letters to Gil is... -
The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews by Adam Biles 9781805300038
RRP: €23.80€16.02Shakespeare and Company, Paris, is one of the world's most iconic and beautiful bookshops. Located on the banks of the Seine, opposite Notre-Dame, it's long been a meeting place for anglophone writers and readers. In that tradition, determined for the... -
The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time by Will Durant 9780743235532
RRP: €17.84€11.14In 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, individuals, and achievements stand out as being the... -
Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino
RRP: €11.89€8.46'Words connect the visible track to the invisible thing ... like a fragile makeshift bridge cast across the void'With imagination and wit, Italo Calvino sought to define the virtues of the great literature of the past in order to shape the values of...