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Faulks on Fiction by Sebastian Faulks
RRP: £15.99£11.61Ever 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: £13.99£9.20What 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... -
All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age by Hubert Dreyfus 9781416596165
RRP: £19.00£11.44A sense of certainty and unhesitating confidence is rare in the contemporary world. An unrelenting flow of choices confronts us at nearly every moment of our lives, and if we are honest about it then most of us will admit that we waver in the face of... -
The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books Saved My Life by Andy Miller
RRP: £10.99£7.25A working father whose life no longer feels like his own discovers the transforming powers of great (and downright terrible) literature in this laugh-out-loud memoir. Andy Miller had a job he quite liked, a family he loved and no time at all... -
The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell's 1984 by Dorian Lynskey 9781509890736
RRP: £16.99£12.28Longlisted 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.'... -
Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald by Jonathan Bate 9780008425005
RRP: £10.99£7.25A 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 French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers by Ted Jones
RRP: £14.99£11.75A 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 Riviera have been a magnet for writers since the... -
Pure Pleasure: A Guide to the 20th Century's Most Enjoyable Books by Professor John Carey 9780571204489
RRP: £12.99£8.56Pure Pleasure gives us fifty of the most enjoyable books of the twentieth century, chosen on a single principle - the pleasure they inspire. Pure Pleasure is an idiosyncratic antidote to the 'definitive' lists of twentieth-century classics. John Carey,... -
Inventing Scrooge: The Incredible True Story Behind Charles Dickens' Legendary A Christmas Carol by Carlo DeVito 9781604337792
RRP: £9.99£6.64Inventing Scrooge uncovers the real-life inspirations from Charles Dickens' own world that led to the fascinating creation of his most beloved tale: A Christmas Carol.When Charles Dickens created the story that would become A Christmas Carol, little did... -
Who Says?: Mastering Point of View in Fiction by Lisa Zeidner
RRP: £12.99£11.46Who is telling the story to whom is the single most important question about any work of fiction; the answer is central to everything from style and tone to plot and pacing. Using hundreds of examples from Jane Austen to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Leo... -
Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino
RRP: £9.99£7.11'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... -
Mothering by the Book - The Power of Reading Aloud to Overcome Fear and Recapture Joy Jennifer Pepito 9780764239533
RRP: £11.99£8.71"Wit and wisdom for every mother, everywhere."--ERIN LOECHNER, author of Chasing Slow Becoming a better, happier mom starts with the stories you tell your kids As a mom, you want to nurture a strong family, but fear steals your joy. Sometimes you... -
The Allure of the Archives by Arlette Farge
RRP: £16.99£15.81An 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... -
To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight by Terrance Hayes 9781940696614
RRP: £17.99£12.30"Hayes leaves resonance cleaving the air." -NPRIn these works based on his Bagley Wright lectures on the poet Etheridge Knight, Terrance Hayes offers not quite a biography but a compilation "as speculative, motley, and adrift as Knight himself." Personal... -
Franz Kafka: The Drawings Andreas Kilcher 9780300260663
RRP: £35.00£31.97The 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... -
Reading Picture Books with Children: How to Shake Up Storytime and Get Kids Talking about What They See by Megan Dowd Lambert 9781580897914
RRP: £15.99£11.44Apologies 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. -
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: A Routledge Study Guide by David Whittaker
RRP: £37.99£33.38Offering an insight into African culture that had not been portrayed before, Things Fall Apart is both a tragic and moving story of an individual set in the wider context of the coming of colonialism, as well as a powerful and complex political statement... -
The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky, a Crime and Its Punishment by Kevin Birmingham
RRP: £25.00£16.53From the acclaimed author of The Most Dangerous Book, the incredible true story behind the creation of a masterpiece of world literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and PunishmentIn the summer of 1865, the former exile Dostoevsky found himself trapped in... -
Outlaw History: The Portable L.A. Rollins by L a Rollins 9781943687275
RRP: £15.00£12.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943687275Author L a RollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Underworld AmusementsPublisher Underworld AmusementsWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm)... -
Puss in Books: Our best-loved writers on their best-loved cats by Paul Magrs 9780008605377
RRP: £12.99£8.32A 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... -
The Book About Everything: Eighteen Artists, Writers and Thinkers on James Joyce's Ulysses by Declan Kiberd
RRP: £10.99£7.12To 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... -
A Year and a Day: An Experiment in Essays Phillip Lopate 9781681377780
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies 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 -
Report from the Interior by Paul Auster
RRP: £10.99£7.32'In the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts . . .' Having recalled his life through the story of his physical self in Winter Journal, internationally best-selling novelist Paul Auster now remembers the... -
Be More Jane: Bring out Your Inner Austen to Meet Life's Challenges by Sophie Andrews
RRP: £7.99£5.94Follow 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 Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them by Antonia Fraser
RRP: £14.99£10.95The 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... -
Around the World in 80 Books by David Damrosch
RRP: £12.99£9.09'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... -
The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction by Meghan Cox Gurdon
RRP: £10.99£7.40'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... -
Seduction and Betrayal by Elizabeth Hardwick 9780571347001
RRP: £10.99£7.32ONE 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.'... -
Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald by Jonathan Bate
RRP: £25.00£22.19A 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 Heroine's Journey: For Writers, Readers, and Fans of Pop Culture by Gail Carriger 9781944751340
RRP: £15.99£10.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944751340Author Gail CarrigerFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Gail Carriger LLCPublisher Gail Carriger LLCWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America by Jay Parini 9780307386182
RRP: £17.32£13.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307386182Author Jay PariniFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams) 329g -
Book Nerd by Holly Maguire
RRP: £9.99£8.01Book 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... -
Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions by Alberto Manguel
RRP: £11.99£10.15A best-selling author and world-renowned bibliophile meditates on his vast personal library and champions the vital role of all libraries."The author brings a fresh hopefulness to the enterprise of books and reading. Vintage Manguel-a pleasure for his... -
Thrill Me: Essays on Fiction by Benjamin Percy 9781555977597
RRP: £14.99£10.32In 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... -
The Art of Being Human: What Old Books Can Tell Us (And Warn Us) About Living in the 21st Century by Michael S Rose 9781621388951
RRP: £16.00£14.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621388951Author Michael S RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm... -
Days of Reading by Marcel Proust
RRP: £7.99£5.79In 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... -
Release the Bats: A Pocket Guide to Writing Your Way Out Of It by DBC Pierre
RRP: £12.99£8.56A 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 tell stories, and the craft of writing fiction. DBC... -
The Weird Tale by S. T. Joshi 9780809531226
RRP: £16.99£15.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809531226Author S. T. JoshiFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Wildside PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 455g -
Tolstoy Together: Reading War and Peace with Yiyun Li by Yiyun Li
RRP: £15.99£11.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Windham-Campbell Prize 2020 (United States) and PEN/Jean Stein Book Award 2020 (United States) and Whiting Literary Magazine Prize 2018 and Whiting Award 2006... -
Aftermath by Preti Taneja
RRP: £11.99£11.43Apologies 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