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The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White 9780199591961
RRP: £14.99£10.95Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne (1789) reveals a world of wonders in nature. Over a period of twenty years White describes in minute detail the behaviour of animals through the changing seasons in the rural Hampshire parish of Selborne. He... -
The Art of Rhetoric by Aristotle 9780198724254
RRP: £9.99£7.32For all men are persuaded by considerations of where their interest lies... Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric is the earliest systematic treatment of the subject, and it remains among the most incisive works on rhetoric that we possess. In it, we are asked:... -
Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years by Sue Townsend
RRP: £9.99£7.32The sensational final instalment in comic legend Sue Townsend's hilarious and iconic Adrian Mole series'Effortlessly hilarious. Brilliant satire and tragedy' Times'My comfort read. The best diaries ever written - with apologies to Samuel Pepys, Bridget... -
Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang
RRP: £10.99£7.87Eileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth-century China, where she enjoys a passionate following both on the mainland and in Taiwan. At the heart of Chang's achievement is her short fiction-tales of love, longing, and the shifting and... -
Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
RRP: £8.99£6.65Both a gripping tale of adventure and a poetic meditation, Antoine de Saint Exupery's Wind, Sand and Stars is the lyrical autobiography of an aviation pioneer, from the author of The Little Prince. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is translated from... -
Rave New World: Confessions of a Raving Reporter by Kirk Field
RRP: £20.00£13.10'Love this book! It triggers so many memories of the rave era. Thoroughly recommended.' - FATBOY SLIM 'Captures the hedonism and humour of the nineties with a laugh-out-loud honesty. The perfect Ibiza holiday read...if you can get it through customs!' -... -
Parallel Text: German Short Stories: Deutsche Kurzgeschichten by Richard Newnham
RRP: £10.99£7.99Much maligned in pre-war Germany, the short story enjoyed a creative rebirth in 1945. Initially imported by the Allies, the form also matched perfectly the prevailing mood of irony, objectivity and mistrust of the didactic. With the original German text... -
Medea and Other Plays by Euripides 9780199537969
RRP: £9.99£7.32`the most tragic of the poets' Aristotle Euripides was one of the most popular and controversial of all Greek tragedians, and his plays are marked by an independence of thought, ingenious dramatic devices, and a subtle variety of register and mood... -
Hamlet: Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare 9781316606735
RRP: £9.99£8.40The third edition of Hamlet offers a completely new introduction to this rich, mysterious play, examining Shakespeare's transformation of an ancient Nordic legend into a drama whose philosophical, psychological, political, and spiritual complexities have... -
A Medieval Family: The Pastons of Fifteenth-Century England by Frances Gies 9780060930554
RRP: £10.99£9.84In the late 18th century, Members of the English gentry - a tiny group of roughly 1,000 households sandwiched between the ruling nobility and the peasants, and a rough analog for the contemporary "middle class" - the Pastons' experience, recorded ... -
Selected Poems by Deceased Bertolt Brecht 9780156806466
RRP: £20.00£14.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156806466Author Deceased Bertolt BrechtFormat PaperbackPage Count 179Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 217mm * 140mm... -
Samuel Johnson: The Yale Anthology of His Prose and Poetry by Samuel Johnson
RRP: £32.50£29.15An anthology of the essential and enduring works of Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson was eighteenth-century Britain's preeminent man of letters-moral and literary critic, biographer, lexicographer, and poet-and his influence endures to this day. This... -
Innards by Magogodi oaMphela Makhene 9781805460978
RRP: £14.99£10.06'A gut punch of a collection...it astonishes as it reveals how malignant political forces can both ravage and vitalize the human spirit.' New York TimesSet in Soweto, the urban heartland of South Africa, Innards tells the intimate stories of everyday... -
What is Art? by Leo Tolstoy
RRP: £9.99£7.32During 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 is Art?, published in 1898. Impassioned and... -
Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees by Roger Deakin
RRP: £10.99£7.33A much-loved classic of nature writing from environmentalist and the author of Waterlog, Roger Deakin, Wildwood is an exploration of the element wood in nature, our culture and our lives. 'Breathtaking, vividly written . . . reading Wildwood is an... -
The Wicked Wit of Queen Elizabeth II by Karen Dolby
RRP: £9.99£7.05A beautiful collection celebrating the Queen's humour, with amusing quotations and stories about royal life.When thinking of the Queen, our first image is one of dignity and authority. She is the very definition of majesty: the British monarch, the... -
Stephens Plays: v. 1: "Bluebird", "Christmas", "Herons", "Port" by Simon Stephens
RRP: £21.99£20.59First collection from the 2004 Pearson Award-winning playwright Simon Stephens Plays: 1 brings together four of the early plays from the winner of the 2002 Pearson Best New Play Award. Since Bluebird in 1998, Stephens has gained recognition for humane... -
Outspoken: 50 Speeches by Incredible Women from Boudicca to Michelle Obama Deborah Coughlin 9780753554050
RRP: £18.99£13.82History didn't listen to women, but that never stopped them from speaking out ...A lot of history is made up of speeches. Speeches about big ideas, celebratory speeches, rousing speeches to inspire soldiers to fight to the death, comic speeches to help... -
The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius by George Orwell
RRP: £6.99£5.30George Orwell's moving reflections on the English character and his passionate belief in the need for political change.The Lion and the Unicorn was written in London during the worst period of the blitz. It is vintage Orwell, a dynamic outline of his... -
Moments Of Being Virginia Woolf 9780712646185
RRP: £12.99£9.34Virginia Woolf's only autobiographical writing is to be found in this collection of five unpublished pieces. Despite Quentin Bell's comprehensive biography and numerous recent studies of her, the author's own account of her early life holds new... -
NIV Pocket Lilac Soft-tone Bible with Zip by New International Version
RRP: £18.99£13.82Small enough to take with you everywhere you go, this pocket Bible will ensure you have the Word of God at hand at all times. With a lilac pastel purple soft imitation leather cover and matching zip, the Bible pages will be kept tidy and clean. This... -
Modernism: An Anthology Lawrence Rainey (University of York) 9780631204497
RRP: £39.95£36.91Modernism: An Anthology is the most comprehensive anthology of Anglo-American modernism ever to be published. Amply represents the giants of modernism - James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore,... -
Dear Lupin...: Letters to a Wayward Son by Charlie Mortimer
RRP: £10.99£7.61Nostalgic, witty and filled with characters and situations that people of all ages will recognise, Dear Lupin is the entire correspondence of a Father to his only son, spanning nearly 25 years. Roger Mortimer's sometimes hilarious, sometimes touching,... -
The Norton Anthology of English Literature by Stephen Greenblatt 9780393603026
£37.12The most trusted anthology for complete works and helpful editorial apparatus. The Tenth Edition supports survey and period courses with NEW complete major works, NEW contemporary writers, and dynamic and easy-to-access digital resources. NEW video... -
Second-hand Time by Svetlana Alexievich 9781913097219
RRP: £10.99£7.54Second-hand Time is the latest work from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. Here she brings together the voices of dozens of witnesses to the collapse of the USSR in a formidable attempt to chart the disappearance of a... -
Timaeus and Critias by Plato 9780140455045
RRP: £10.99£7.99Timaeus and Critias is a Socratic dialogue in two parts. A response to an account of an ideal state told by Socrates, it begins with Timaeus's theoretical exposition of the cosmos and his story describing the creation of the universe, from its very... -
Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea by Barbara Demick 9781803510064
RRP: £9.99£7.54WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION A spectacular, definitive portrait of ordinary life within one of the world's most repressive states - North Korea. 'A most perceptive and eye-opening account of everyday life in North Korea'... -
Grounding: Finding Home in a Garden by Lulah Ellender 9781783786992
RRP: £9.99£6.90Lulah Ellender's garden in Sussex is an unruly but beloved place. It is also not permanently her own. When just a few weeks after losing her mother, Lulah is told that she and her family might have to leave the rented house that they have made their... -
Socrates' Defence by Plato
RRP: £3.00£2.63'I'll stop doing it as soon as I understand what I'm doing.'Somewhere between a historical account and work of philosophy, Socrates' Defence details the final plea of Plato's beloved mentor.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th... -
On Cats by Doris Lessing
RRP: £9.99£7.32A collection of charming and celebrated writings about cats, from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Doris Lessing's love affair with cats began at a young age, when she became intrigued with the semi-feral creatures on... -
The Duchess of Malfi A Level Edition John Webster 9780582817791
£16.00Ferdinand forbids his widowed sister to marry again. When he discovers that she is not only married but had a child he is driven mad with fury. The Duchess of Malfi is a study in strong characters, dark deeds and dreadful revenge. This edition includes... -
Letter to My Mother by Georges Simenon
RRP: £2.00£1.96'As you are well aware, we never loved each other in your lifetime. Both of us pretended.' Simenon explores the complexity of parent child relationships and the bitterness of things left unsaid in this stark, confessional piece.Penguin Modern: fifty new... -
The Face Of The Third Reich: Portraits Of The Nazi Leadership by Joachim E. Fest 9780306809156
£19.29In these searing profiles the author dissects the lives of fifteen infamous Nazis,including Hermann Goering, Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler, Martin Bormann, Ernst Roehm, Hans Frank, Rudolph Hoess, Albert Speer, and Hitler himself. He also analyzes the... -
Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations by Oscar Wilde
RRP: £3.99£3.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486401461Author Oscar WildeFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 55gDimensions(mm)... -
British Folk Tales and Legends: A Sampler by Katharine M. Briggs
RRP: £14.99£13.58In 1970 Katharine Briggs published in four volumes the vast and authoritative Dictionary of British Folktales and Legends to wide acclaim. This sampler comprises the very best of those tales and legends. Gathered within, readers will find an extravagance... -
Poetics by Aristotle 9780140446364
RRP: £9.99£7.32One of the most powerful, perceptive and influential works of criticism in Western literary history In his near-contemporary account of classical Greek tragedy, Aristotle examines the dramatic elements of plot, character, language and spectacle that... -
Surfacing by Kathleen Jamie
RRP: £9.99£7.05Collective Winner of the 2019 Highland Book Prize Under the ravishing light of an Alaskan sky, objects are spilling from the thawing tundra linking a Yup'ik village to its hunter-gatherer past. In the shifting sand dunes of a Scottish shoreline,... -
The River of Consciousness by Oliver Sacks 9781447263654
RRP: £10.99£8.10Two weeks before his death, Oliver Sacks outlined the contents of The River of Consciousness, the last book he would oversee . . .The bestselling author of On the Move, Musicophilia, and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Sacks is known for his... -
Dear Friend and Gardener: Letters on Life and Gardening Beth Chatto 9780711255807
RRP: £9.99£7.00In this engaging and fascinating exchange of personal letters, two of the most influential gardeners of all time compare notes on successes and failures in their two very different gardens. As Christopher Lloyd and Beth Chatto convey their gardening... -
Unto This Last and Other Writings by John Ruskin
RRP: £13.99£10.01First and foremost an outcry against injustice and inhumanity, Unto this Last is also a closely argued assault on the science of political economy, which dominated the Victorian period. Ruskin was a profoundly conservative man who looked back to the...