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Blurb Your Enthusiasm: A Cracking Compendium of Book Blurbs, Writing Tips, Literary Folklore and Publishing Secrets by Louise Willder 9780861546169
RRP: $19.48$13.86A 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... -
Last Letter to a Reader by Gerald Murnane
RRP: $23.38$16.17In the first days of spring in his eighty-second year, Gerald Murnane - perhaps the greatest living writer of English prose - began a project that would round off his strange career as a novelist. He would read all of his books in turn and prepare a... -
Franz Kafka: The Drawings by Andreas Kilcher
RRP: $68.25$62.34The first book to publish the entirety of Franz Kafka's graphic output, including more than 100 newly discovered drawings "The figures he drew stand alone as stories in themselves."-Lauren Christensen, New York Times Book Review "A sensational new book... -
Sticking It To The Man: Revolution and Counterculture in Pulp and Popular Fiction, 1950 to 1980 by Andrew Nette
RRP: $64.33$43.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629635248Author Andrew NetteFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
Reading Picture Books with Children: How to Shake Up Storytime and Get Kids Talking about What They See by Megan Dowd Lambert 9781580897914
RRP: $31.18$22.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580897914Author Megan Dowd LambertFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S.Publisher Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S. -
The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them by Antonia Fraser
RRP: $29.23$21.35The inspiration for the annual Pleasure of Reading Prize A charming and revealing collection of essays from some of our best-loved writers about the pleasures of reading, with royalties donated to the Give a Book charity In this delightful... -
A Year and a Day: An Experiment in Essays by Phillip Lopate 9781681377780
RRP: $33.13$22.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681377780Author Phillip LopateFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Be More Jane: Bring out Your Inner Austen to Meet Life's Challenges by Sophie Andrews
RRP: $15.58$11.21Follow the wise words of one of the world's best-loved authors to lead a happier life. Are you more Marianne than Elinor, Lydia rather than Lizzy? Be More Jane will teach you to address life with more sense and less prejudice, taking useful lessons... -
The Victorian Art of Fiction: Nineteenth-century Essays on the Novel by Rohan Amanda Maitzen 9781551117690
RRP: $91.55$74.69The Victorian Art of Fiction presents important Victorian statements on the form and function of fiction. The essays in this anthology address questions of genre, such as realism and sensationalism; questions of gender and authorship; questions of form,... -
Thrill Me: Essays on Fiction by Benjamin Percy 9781555977597
RRP: $29.23$21.74In his first book of nonfiction, Benjamin Percy challenges the notion that literary and genre fiction are mutually exclusive. In fifteen essays on the craft of fiction, Percy looks to disparate sources to discover how contemporary writers engage issues... -
Book Nerd by Holly Maguire
RRP: $19.48$13.26Book nerds rule! And what better gift than a book that celebrates bookishness? You know you're a Book Nerd when...-You have a minimum of 5 books on your night table.-You never once thought the movie was better.-Your favorite mug says "I'd rather be... -
The Art of Libromancy: On Selling Books and Reading Books in the Twenty-first Century by Josh Cook 9781771965415
RRP: $27.28$18.06ONE OF LIT HUB'S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2023 * ESQUIRE's August 2023 Book Club Pick"If books are important to you because you're a reader or a writer, then how books are sold should be important to you as well. If it matters to you that your... -
Consciousness And The Novel by David Lodge
RRP: $25.33$17.73'The professor, the critic and the novelist work in harmony to provide a valuable tutorial on modern fiction' ObserverHow does the novel represent human consciousness on the page?In eleven sparkling essays on some of the great novelists of the last 200... -
Seduction and Betrayal by Elizabeth Hardwick 9780571347001
RRP: $21.43$14.27ONE 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 Deborah Levy.'Hardwick's sentences are burned in my brain.'... -
How to Live. What To Do.: Life Lessons from Literature by Josh Cohen
RRP: $33.13$29.46'This is a really beautiful book...It's a genuinely therapeutic read - it takes your particular sorrows and by sharing them seems to halve them' Nick Laird'By the end of this wonderful book, we have learned to read its title not as a prescription but as... -
Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things: A Routledge Study Guide by Alex Tickell
RRP: $38.98$34.50On publication Arundhati Roy's first novel The God of Small Things (1997) rapidly became an international bestseller, winning the Booker Prize and creating a new space for Indian literature and culture within the arts, even as it courted controversy and... -
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway 9780099285045
RRP: $19.48$13.86Hemingway's captivating memoir of living in Paris during the twenties.'If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast'Hemingway's memories of... -
The Book About Everything: Eighteen Artists, Writers and Thinkers on James Joyce's Ulysses by Declan Kiberd
RRP: $21.43$13.88To celebrate the centenary of the publication of Ulysses, the most important literary work of the twentieth century, eighteen artists, writers and thinkers respond to an episode each of the great modernist text. Each essayist is an expert in one of... -
Dante in Love by Harriet Rubin 9780743262989
RRP: $37.03$27.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743262989Author Harriet RubinFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
The Book Club Journal: All the Books You've Read, Loved, & Discussed by Adams Media
RRP: $25.33$16.73Keep track of your book club selections and record your latest literary adventures with this reading journal to stay organized for your next meeting! Book clubs are a great way to read new books and discover different genres and new topics that you may... -
I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life by Anne Bogel
RRP: $25.33$17.73For so many people, reading isn't just a hobby or a way to pass the time--it's a lifestyle. Our books shape us, define us, enchant us, and even sometimes infuriate us. Our books are a part of who we are as people, and we can't imagine life without them. ... -
Around the World in 80 Books by David Damrosch
RRP: $25.33$16.52'Restlessly curious, insightful, and quirky, David Damrosch is the perfect guide to a round-the-world adventure in reading' Stephen GreenblattA transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, told through eighty classic and modern books'It is... -
How to Live. What To Do.: In search of ourselves in life and literature by Josh Cohen
RRP: $19.48$13.86What can Alice in Wonderland teach us about childhood? Could reading Conversations with Friends guide us through first love? Does Esther Greenwood's glittering success and subsequent collapse in The Bell Jar help us understand ambition? And, finally,... -
Aftermath by Preti Taneja
RRP: $23.38$23.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945492549Author Preti TanejaFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Transit BooksPublisher Transit Books -
The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home by Abigail Williams 9780300240252
RRP: $37.03$31.55A vivid exploration of the evolution of reading as an essential social and domestic activity during the eighteenth century Two centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and... -
The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction by Meghan Cox Gurdon
RRP: $21.43$14.43'As soon as I began to read, I was filled with that kind of engrossed blossoming that happens somewhere inside of you when you start a really nourishing book.' - Pandora SykesA conversation-changing look at the social, familial, neurological, and... -
Bibliostyle: How We Live at Home with Books by Nina Freudenberger
RRP: $53.63$43.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525575443Author Nina FreudenbergerFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Clarkson PotterPublisher Random House USA Inc -
To Write as if Already Dead by Kate Zambreno
RRP: $29.23$23.15To Write As If Already Dead circles around Kate Zambreno's failed attempts to write a study of Herve Guibert's To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life. In this diaristic, transgressive work, the first in a cycle written in the years preceding his death,... -
Reality and Other Stories: Exploring the life we long for through the tales we tell by Matt Lillicrap
RRP: $13.63$10.00Stories shape us and give us meaning - but is it coincidence that the same seven basic plots repeat over time and across the world? What if stories not only reveal something about human psychology, but also give us clues to the meaning of the reality... -
The Book of Dissent: Revolutionary Words from Three Millennia of Rebellion and Resistance by Andrew Hsiao
RRP: $19.48$12.95Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in protest-rallying others around them or, sometimes, inspiring uprisings many years later. Their echoes reverberate from Ancient Greece,... -
Things I Learned on the 6.28: A Guide to Daily Reading by Stig Abell
RRP: $21.43$14.43For a whole year on his train to work, Stig Abell read books from across genres and time periods. Then he wrote about them, and their impact on our culture and his own life.The result is a work of many things: a brisk guide to the canon of Western... -
My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing by Carl Phillips 9780300274141
$20.42An 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, loving letter to aspiring writers."-Diego Baez, Booklist ... -
The Pages by Hugo Hamilton 9780008451660
RRP: $29.23$18.92'A rich, strange book. Very truthful and moving' Tessa Hadley 'A terrific, engrossing novel' Roddy Doyle 'A masterpiece' Sebastian Barry The new novel about the transformative power of art,... -
On Reading by Marcel Proust 9781843916161
RRP: $25.25$17.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843916161Author Marcel ProustFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Hesperus Press LtdPublisher Hesperus Press LtdWeight(grams) 160gDimensions(mm) 195mm *... -
Around the World in 80 Books: A Literary Journey by David Damrosch
$29.76'Restlessly curious, insightful, and quirky, David Damrosch is the perfect guide to a round-the-world adventure in reading' Stephen GreenblattA transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, told through eighty classic and modern books'It is... -
Marking the Hours: English People and Their Prayers, 1240-1570 by Eamon Duffy
RRP: $43.88$37.73Personal prayer books and the jottings in their margins tell us about their owners and about life in late medieval and Reformation England In this richly illustrated book, religious historian Eamon Duffy discusses the Book of Hours, unquestionably the... -
English Paleography and Manuscript Culture, 1500-1800 by Kathryn James
RRP: $58.50$51.58An engaging, accessible introduction to reading and understanding early modern English manuscripts This engaging book provides an essential introduction to the manuscript in early modern England. From birth to death, parish record to probate inventory,... -
Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald by Jonathan Bate
RRP: $48.75$43.27A dazzling biography of two interwoven, tragic lives: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald. 'Highly engaging ... Go now, read this book' THE TIMES 'For awhile after you quit Keats,' Fitzgerald once wrote,... -
The Poetry of Thought: From Hellenism to Celan by George Steiner
RRP: $25.33$22.35With his hallmark discernment, George Steiner presents in The Poetry of Thought his magnum opus, staking out his claim for the essential oneness of great thought and great style. Steiner spans the entire history of Western philosophy as it entwines with... -
Inscription and Erasure: Literature and Written Culture from the Eleventh to the Eighteenth Century by Roger Chartier
RRP: $50.68$42.98The fear of oblivion obsessed medieval and early modern Europe. Stone, wood, cloth, parchment, and paper all provided media onto which writing was inscribed as a way to ward off loss. And the task was not easy in a world in which writing could be...