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Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It by Oliver Burkeman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46**The instant Sunday Times bestseller**What if you tried to stop doing everything, so you could finally get round to what counts?Rejecting the futile modern obsession with 'getting everything done,'... -
How to Read a Book by Charles Van Doren
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02With half a million copies in print, How to Read a Book is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader, completely rewritten and updated with new material. ... -
The Collected Poems by Robert Frost
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41A wonderful collection of Robert Frost's writingNo poet is more emblematically American than Robert Frost. Hailed as 'the most eminent, the most distinguished Anglo-American poet' by T.S. Eliot, he... -
The Screwtape Letters: Letters from a Senior to a Junior Devil (C. S. Lewis Signature Classic) by C. S. Lewis
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28A milestone in the history of popular theology, 'The Screwtape Letters' is an iconic classic on spiritual warfare and the power of the devil. This profound and striking narrative takes the... -
Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £15.71The first full-length translation in English of an essential work of postmodernism.The publication of ""Simulacra et Simulation"" in 1981 marked Jean Baudrillard's first important step toward... -
Norfolk: A photographic journey through the land of Ruth Galloway by Elly Griffiths 9781529427523
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.85A stunning companion to Elly Griffiths' beloved crime series, the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries, and a photographic journey through magical Norfolk.Norfolk, a land of peaceful broads, marshy fens,... -
The Great Gatsby: York Notes for A-level by Julian Cowley 9781447982289 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.50Booksplease Price: £2.34An enhanced exam section: expert guidance on approaching exam questions, writing high-quality responses and using critical interpretations, plus practice tasks and annotated sample answer extracts... -
Emma by Jane Austen 9780198837756
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.43'I wonder what will become of her!' So speculate the friends and neighbours of Emma Woodhouse, the lovely, lively, wilful,and fallible heroine of Jane Austen's fourth published novel. Confident... -
The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Nietzsche's first published book, The Birth of Tragedy is a compelling argument for the necessity of art in lifeThis landmark work of criticism is fuelled by Nietzsche's enthusiasms for Greek... -
A Level English Text Guide - The Great Gatsby by CGP Books 9781847626684 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.66Perfect for achieving the best grades in 2025 and 2026.This book contains everything you need to write better A-Level and Undergraduate English essays on F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby',... -
A Short History of Queer Women by Kirsty Loehr
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.12No, they weren't 'just friends'! Queer women have been written out of history since, well, forever. 'But historians famously care about women!', said no one. From Anne Bonny and Mary Read who... -
The Library of Greek Mythology by Apollodorus
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.07The only work of its kind to survive from classical antiquity, the Library of Apollodorus is a unique guide to Greek mythology, from the origins of the universe to the Trojan War. Apollodorus'... -
Country Girl by Edna O'Brien
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls trilogy begins in August 2019.I thought of life's many bounties, to have known the extremities of joy and sorrow, love, crossed love... -
Literature and Evil by Georges Bataille
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.60'Literature is not innocent,' stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging its complicity with the knowledge of evil can literature... -
A Doll's House: York Notes for A-level by Frances Gray
RRP: £8.50Booksplease Price: £6.37An enhanced exam section: expert guidance on approaching exam questions, writing high-quality responses and using critical interpretations, plus practice tasks and annotated sample answer extracts. ... -
Where I Was From by Joan Didion 9780679752868
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £12.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679752868Author Joan DidionFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint -
Jane Eyre: York Notes for AS & A2 Karen Sayer 9781447948834
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.97THE ULTIMATE GUIDES TO EXAM SUCCESS from York Notes - the UK's favourite English Literature Study Guides. York Notes for AS & A2 are specifically designed for AS & A2 students to help you get the... -
The Serpent Power: The Secrets of Tantric and Shaktic Yoga by Arthur Avalon 9780486230580
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £20.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486230580Author Arthur AvalonFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint -
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard 9780060919887
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £10.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060919887Author Annie DillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 111Imprint -
Daphne Du Maurier by Daphne Du Maurier
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74The definitive biography of Daphne Du Maurier, one of history's greatest psychological thriller novelistsRebecca, published in 1938, brought its author instant international acclaim, capturing the... -
Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F.Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald by F. Scott Fitzgerald
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78____________________ 'A superbly edited and evocatively illustrated collection that brings together everything that Scott wrote to his wife' - Sunday Telegraph 'Heartbreaking ... Love has... -
The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands by Huw Lewis-Jones
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.05The Writer's Map winner of Trade Illustrated category in the British Design and Production AwardsPhotography & Illustrated Travel Book of the Year at the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards... -
Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin 9780141036939
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Charles Dickens is the acclaimed definitive biography by bestselling author Claire Tomalin Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless... -
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them Francine Prose 9781908526076
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.67In her entertaining and edifying New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and tricks of the masters to discover... -
The Fran Lebowitz Reader by Fran Lebowitz
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679761808Author Fran LebowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint -
An Analysis of Roland Barthes's The Death of the Author Laura Seymour 9781912453061
Booksplease Price: £6.50Roland Barthes's 1967 essay, "The Death of the Author," argues against the traditional practice of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author into textual interpretation... -
The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.05Learn 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 Best of A. A. Gill Adrian Gill 9781474607759
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42For over twenty years, people turned to A. A. Gill's columns every Sunday - for his fearlessness, his perception, and the laughter-and-tear-provoking one-liners - but mostly because he was the best... -
Twelfth Night: Third Series William Shakespeare 9781903436998
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.49Critically acclaimed as one of Shakespeare's most complex and intriguing plays, Twelfth Night is a classic romantic comedy of mistaken identities. In recent years it has returned to the centre of... -
Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets: A New Commentary by Don Paterson
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43Shakespeare's Sonnets are as important and vital today as they were when first published four hundred years ago. Perhaps no collection of verse before or since has so captured the imagination of... -
The Assommoir by Emile Zola 9780198828563
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.01'in this life, even if you don't ask for much you still end up with bugger all!' In a run-down quarter of Paris, Gervaise Macquart struggles to earn a living and support her family. She earns a... -
How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton 9780330354912 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £1.97'What a marvellous book this is . . . de Botton dissects what [Proust] had to say about friendship, reading, looking carefully, paying attention taking your time, being alive and adds his own... -
The Qur'an by Muhammad Abdel Haleem 9780192805485
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.90'Read! Your Lord is the Most Bountiful one who taught by the pen, who taught man what he did not know.' The Qur'an, believed by Muslims to be the word of God, was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad... -
J.R.R. Tolkien: A Very Short Introduction Matthew Townend 9780192882042
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.25Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring J.R.R. Tolkien was the author of two of the most extraordinary, most original, and most popular books of the twentieth century: The Hobbit,... -
Trivium: The Classical Liberal Arts of Grammar, Logic, & Rhetoric by John Martineau
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £15.76If you've ever wanted to know more about the power of 'P', the hypnotic rhythm of anapestic tetrameter, or how to change the mood of a verb, then look no further. If you've ever needed to catch a... -
Der Besuch der alten Dame by Friedrich Durrenmatt
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £28.16The full German text of Durrenmatt's play is accompanied by German-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context.About the... -
Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition by Robert Pogue Harrison 9780226317892
RRP: £26.50Booksplease Price: £25.18Humans have long turned to gardens - both real and imaginary - for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. With "Gardens", Robert Pogue Harrison graces readers with a thoughtful,... -
Darkness Visible by William Styron
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49This 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... -
The Riverside Chaucer: Reissued with a new foreword by Christopher Cannon by Geoffrey Chaucer
Booksplease Price: £32.32The third edition of the definitive collection of Chaucer's Complete Works, reissued with a new foreword by Christopher Cannon. Since F. N. Robinson's second edition of the The Works of Geoffrey... -
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.11***AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4***NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER'A gripping account of the heartbreaks and triumphs of two of history's most formidable female intellectuals, Mary Wollstonecraft...