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Essays by George Orwell
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08The articles collected in George Orwell's Essays illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who elevated political writing to an art. This outstanding... -
Literature and Evil by Georges Bataille
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $8.84'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... -
Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65'Radical, humane, witty' Alain de Botton 'Magisterial' Will Self, Guardian Explore historical, political and philosophical paths traced by walkers in this profound and diverting modern classic. ... -
And Yet...: Essays by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37A Sunday Times bestsellerChristopher Hitchens was an unparalleled, prolific writer, who raised the polemical essay to a new art form, over a lifetime of thinking and debating the defining issues of... -
J.R.R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle Earth by Bradley J. Birzer 9781684515356
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41With a new introduction by the authorPeter Jackson's film version of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy - and the accompanying Rings-related paraphernalia and publicity - has played a unique... -
Jane Austen's Table: Recipes Inspired by the Works of Jane Austen: Picnics, Feasts and Afternoon Teas by Robert Tuesley Anderson 9780753734704
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.99From the picnic on Box Hill and the strawberry picking at Donwell Abbey in Emma, to supper at the Netherfield Ball and Mrs. Bennet's family dinners in Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's novels are... -
What is Art? by Leo Tolstoy
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65During his decades of world fame as a novelist, Tolstoy also wrote prolifically in a series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice and religion. These works culminated in What... -
Leadership Is Language: The Hidden Power of What You Say and What You Don't L. David Marquet 9780241373668
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66'Full of compelling advice on how to lead more effectively by choosing your words more wisely' - ADAM GRANT, author of Originals and Give and TakeFT Book of the MonthYour words matter more than you... -
Culture and Society: 1780-1950 by Raymond Williams
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68Acknowledged as a masterpiece of materialist criticism, this book delves into the complex ways economic reality shapes the imagination. Surveying two hundred years of history and English literature -... -
The Sin of Abbe Mouret by Emile Zola 9780198736639
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.21'I really don't understand how people can blame a priest so much, when he strays from the path.' The Sin of AbbA (c) Mouret tells the compelling story of the young priest Serge Mouret. Striving... -
The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever Christopher Hitchens 9780306816086
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $17.33Christopher Hitchens's personally curated New York Times bestselling anthology of the most influential and important writings on atheism, including original pieces by Salman Rushdie and Ian... -
This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality by Peter Pomerantsev
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.33**HOW TO WIN AN INFORMATION WAR: THE PROPAGANDIST WHO OUTWITTED HITLER AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW**WINNER OF THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2020A TIMES and GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR'Quietly frightening.'... -
The Iliad: A New Translation by Peter Green by Homer 9780520281431
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.67One of the oldest extant works of Western literature, the Iliad is a timeless epic poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic pride and the arbitrary, often vicious decisions of fate and... -
A Queen for All Seasons: A Celebration of Queen Elizabeth II Joanna Lumley 9781529375923
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.50'Lovely... delivers the warmest of glows' - Telegraph'Who wouldn't love this chocolate-box delight of insights and snapshots of The Queen...A treasure chest' - Good HousekeepingA sparkling... -
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,... -
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... -
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... -
Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again Rachel Held Evans 9780718022310
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.55If the Bible isn't a science book or an instruction manual, what is it? What do people mean when they say the Bible is inspired? When New York Times bestselling author Rachel Held Evans found herself... -
By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean: The Birth of Eurasia by Barry Cunliffe
RRP: $38.18Booksplease Price: $31.46By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean is nothing less than the story of how humans first started building the globalized world we know today. Set on a huge continental stage, from Europe to China, it is a... -
Lifting the Veil: Imagination and the Kingdom of God by Malcolm Guite 9781786224545
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $19.43Christianity has often been suspicious of the human imagination, equating it with what is imaginary or merely made-up, while in the secular world the arts are often seen as little more than a source... -
The Hidden World of the Fox by Adele Brand
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28'A lovely little book ... quietly lyrical, often funny and gently persuasive' Sunday Times 'Succinct, clear, sophisticated. I couldn't stop reading... -
The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power by Robert D. Kaplan 9780300276770
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.73A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedy "Spare, elegant and poignant. . . . If there is a single contemporary book that should be... -
The Aphorisms of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $22.77A splendid new translation of an extraordinary work of modern literature-featuring facing-page commentary by Kafka's acclaimed biographerIn 1917 and 1918, Franz Kafka wrote a set of more than 100... -
All Down Darkness Wide: A Memoir by Seán Hewitt 9781529114478
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68A luminous memoir from the prize-winning poet - a story of love, heartbreak and coming of age, and a tender exploration of queer identity.'Beautiful' Colm Toibin'Rapturous' New York... -
The Negro Bible - The Slave Bible: Select Parts of the Holy Bible, Selected for the use of the Negro Slaves, in the British West-India Islands by Joseph B Lumpkin 9781936533800
RRP: $60.23Booksplease Price: $46.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936533800Author Joseph B LumpkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 578Imprint
Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.51'Wonderful. A manifesto of horticultural delight' Literary Review 'Beautiful. Perfect for literary garden lovers' Good Housekeeping'Rich and unusual, a book to treasure. Few recent gardening books...
Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World by Daniel Sherrell
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143136538Author Daniel SherrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint
Wild Mind, Wild Earth: Our Place in the Sixth Extinction by David Hinton
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $16.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645471479Author David HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint <
Marx's Literary Style by Ludovico Silva
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.96In 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...
The Prevention of Literature by George Orwell 9781913724313
RRP: $6.70Booksplease Price: $6.19George Orwell set out 'to make political writing into an art', and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature - his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new...
Emile Zola: A Very Short Introduction by Brian Nelson 9780198837565
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.72Emile Zola was the leader of the literary movement known as 'naturalism' and is one of the great figures of the novel. In his monumental Les Rougon-Macquart (1871-93), he explored the social and...
Great Code: The Bible and Literature by Northrop Frye
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156027809Author Northrop FryeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint
Hut/Hytte by Lesley Riddoch 9781913025632
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.76Victorian visitors had shooting lodges - Scots had trips doon the watter. Norwegian citizens had hytte - Scots had Butlins. Why have the inhabitants of one of Europe's prime tourist destinations...
Time Come: Selected Prose by Linton Kwesi Johnson
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.10A Financial Times Music Book of the Year 2023'Key to understanding black British history' - Sunday Times'Sharp and still relevant' - Zadie SmithRecognized as one of the great poets of modern times,...
This Woman's Work: Essays on Music Various 9781474621496
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75This Woman's Work: Essays on Music is edited by Kim Gordon and Sinead Gleeson and features contributors Anne Enright, Fatima Bhutto, Jenn Pelly, Rachel Kushner, Juliana Huxtable, Leslie Jamison, Liz...
Shakespearean: On Life & Language in Times of Disruption by Robert McCrum
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'Enchanting' - Simon Russell Beale 'Remarkable' - James Shapiro'Wonderful . . . compulsively readable' - Nicholas HytnerWhy do the collected works of an Elizabethan writer continue to speak to us as...
Rebel Writers: The Accidental Feminists: Shelagh Delaney * Edna O'Brien * Lynne Reid-Banks * Charlotte Bingham * Nell Dunn * Virginia Ironside * Margaret Forster by Celia Brayfield
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.55'Make this your next inspirational read. Trust us, it's Oprah's Book Club worthy' Vice In London in 1958, a play by a 19-year-old redefined women's writing in Britain. It also began a movement...
The Country and the City by Raymond Williams
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68Taking inspiration from classic authors from Jane Austen to Thomas Hardy, Williams shines a light on our society's changing views of the rural and industrial landscapes in which we work and live.Our...
The Rockschool Bass Method by 9781789361315
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $21.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789361315Imprint Rockschool LtdPublisher Rockschool Ltd
Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man Thomas Mann 9781681375311
RRP: $28.14Booksplease Price: $20.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681375311Author Thomas MannFormat PaperbackPage Count 468Imprint