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Freedom And Its Betrayal by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: £18.99£13.82Isaiah Berlin's celebrated radio lectures on six formative anti-liberal thinkers were delivered on the BBC's Third Programme in 1952. They are published here for the first time, fifty years on. Freedom and its Betrayal is one of Isaiah Berlin's earliest... -
The Selected Plays of Philip Massinger: The Duke of Milan, The Roman Actor, A New Way to Pay Old Debts, The City Madam by Philip Massinger 9780521292436
RRP: £43.99£37.16This volume provides a selection of four plays by Philip Massinger who, from 1625 to 1640, replaced John Fletcher as principal dramatist for the King's Men, the chief London theatre company for more than forty years. The selection consists of two of... -
Rilke in Paris by Rainer Maria Rilke
RRP: £10.99£6.96Rainer Maria Rilke offers a compelling portrait of Parisian life, art, and culture at the beginning of the 20th century In 1902, the young German poet Rainer Maria Rilke travelled to Paris to write a monograph on the sculptor Auguste Rodin. He... -
Writers' Letters: Jane Austen to Chinua Achebe by Michael Bird
RRP: £20.00£14.91Delve into the lives and work of some of the world's great writers with this intriguing collection of correspondence. There is much to discover in this illustrated compendium of letters written by great novelists, poets, playwrights and essayists, from... -
The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology by Roger S. Bagnall
RRP: £52.00£48.17Thousands of texts, written over a period of three thousand years on papyri and potsherds, in Egyptian, Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Hebrew, Persian, and other languages, have transformed our knowledge of many aspects of life in the ancient Mediterranean and... -
If the War Goes On . . .: Reflections on War and Politics by Hermann Hesse
RRP: £9.99£6.90Herman Hesse remained clear-sighted and consistent in his political views and his passionate espousal of pacifism and the bloody absurdity of war from the start of the First World War to the end of his life. He wrote the earliest essay in this book in... -
Letters by Pliny the Younger
RRP: £24.95£23.76Correspondence from a distinguished and eventful life.The Younger Pliny was born in AD 61 or 62, the son of Lucius Caecilius of Comum (Como) and the Elder Pliny's sister. He was educated at home and then in Rome under Quintilian. He was at Misenum at... -
Oval by Elvia Wilk 9781913512095
RRP: £10.99£7.61Berlin is changing. Economic inequality is spiralling out of control, the party is moving on. Anja and Louis live on the mountain - an eco-community built and run by the corporation Anja works for. It is an experiment in green living. But soon enough the... -
Medieval English Lyrics and Carols Thomas G. Duncan 9781843843412
RRP: £29.99£25.23A new and comprehensive anthology of medieval lyrics and carols, in new editions, with introduction and commentary. Lyrics and carols are two of the most important types of medieval literature. This anthology provides a generous and wide-ranging... -
On Reading by Marcel Proust 9781843916161
RRP: £12.95£8.85Apologies 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 *... -
A A Walk with Charles Dickens through A Christmas Carol: The Good Old City: 2019 by Rosamund Connelly 9781916074316
RRP: £9.99£7.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916074316Author Rosamund ConnellyImprint The Literary Map CompanyPublisher The Literary Map Company -
The Correspondence Between Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia and Rene Descartes by Princess Elisabeth
RRP: £32.00£31.11Between the years 1643 and 1649, Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia (1618-80) and Rene Descartes (1596-1650) exchanged fifty-eight letters - thirty-two from Descartes and twenty-six from Elisabeth. Their correspondence contains the only known extant... -
Artaud 1937 Apocalypse - Letters from Ireland August to 21 September 1937 Antonin Artaud 9783035801538
RRP: £8.00£7.24Antonin Artaud's journey to Ireland in 1937 marked an extraordinary-and apocalyptic-turning point in his life and career. After publishing the manifesto The New Revelations of Being about the "catastrophic immediate-future," Artaud abruptly left Paris... -
The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories by William Trevor 9780199583140
RRP: £11.99£8.66Ireland has long been a nation of story-tellers. What began as a lively form of entertainment has grown into an unrivalled literary genre. Although Ireland may mourn the loss of the seanchai, the old hearthside story-teller, the Irish art of... -
Categories by Aristotle
RRP: £24.95£23.76The philosopher's toolkit.Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-347); subsequently he spent three years ... -
The Masters: Conversations with Dylan, Lennon, Jagger, Townshend, Garcia, Bono, and Springsteen by Jann S Wenner 9780316571050
RRP: £25.00£16.78During fifty years of publishing the "Bible of Rock and Roll," Jann Wenner conducted a series of interviews that are now regarded among the most important historical documents of rock. Some of these conversations broke headlines-in 1970, his interview... -
The Inky Digit of Defiance: Tony Harrison: Selected Prose 1966-2016 by Tony Harrison
RRP: £25.00£16.99In this richly varied selection of Tony Harrison's provocative prose of the last fifty years, the great poet of page, stage and screen presents a lifetime's thinking about art and politics, creativity and mortality. In so doing, he takes us on an... -
Teller and the Tale by Gabriel Josipovici
RRP: £14.99£10.93'We seem to live, intellectually and emotionally, in sealed-off universes,' writes Gabriel Josipovici in an essay on Hebrew poetry in medieval Spain, just one in a lively multiverse of writings gathered in The Teller and the Tale. The book draws on a... -
Forgetting by Gabriel Josipovici 9781784108908
RRP: £10.99£7.86We cannot understand the phenomenon of remembering without invoking its opposite, forgetting. Taking his cue from Beckett - 'only he who forgets remembers' - Josipovici uncovers a profound cultural shift from societies that celebrated ritual remembrance... -
Ovid's Heroides: A New Translation and Critical Essays by Paul Murgatroyd
RRP: £31.99£28.54This volume offers up-to-date translations of all 21 epistles of Ovid's Heroides. Each letter is accompanied by a preface explaining the mythological background, an essay offering critical remarks on the poem, and discussion of the heroine and her... -
Petrograd, 1917: Witnesses to the Russian Revolution by John Pinfold
RRP: £25.00£21.24'It's damned hard lines asking for bread and only getting a bullet!' The dramatic and chaotic events surrounding the Russian Revolution have been studied and written about extensively for the last hundred years, by historians and journalists alike... -
Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare by Clare Asquith
£21.95In 16th century England many loyal subjects to the crown were asked to make a terrible choice: to follow their monarch or their God. The era was one of unprecedented authoritarianism: England, it seemed, had become a police state, fearful of threats from... -
In Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbas by Stanislav Aseyev 9780674268791
RRP: £16.95£14.06In this collection of dispatches, Stanislav Aseyev attempts to understand the reasons behind the success of Russian propaganda among the residents of the industrial region of Donbas. For the first time, an inside account shows the toll on real human... -
Advertisements for Myself by Norman Mailer 9780241340455
RRP: £12.99£9.34Advertisements for Myself is a comprehensive collection of the best of Norman Mailer's essays, stories, interviews and journalism from the Forties and Fifties, linked by anarchic and riotous autobiographical commentary. Laying bare the heart of a witty,... -
Believe in People: The Essential Karel Capek by John Carey
RRP: £16.99£11.58Playful and provocative, irreverent and inspiring, Capek is perhaps the best-loved Czech writer of all time. Novelist and playwright, famed for inventing the word 'robot' in his play RUR, Capek was a vital part of the burgeoning artistic scene of... -
My Beautiful Despair: The Philosophy of Kim Kierkegaardashian by Kim Kierkegaardashian 9781982100988
RRP: £17.99£11.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982100988Author Kim KierkegaardashianFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 185mm *... -
Fifteen One Act Plays by Sam Shepard
RRP: £13.99£9.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345802767Author Sam ShepardFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 335gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Monkey King's Amazing Adventures: A Journey to the West in Search of Enlightenment. China's Most Famous Traditional Novel by Cheng'en Wu
RRP: £12.99£9.99Discover the thrilling exploits of this unlikely hero in China's most famous traditional novel.This classic Chinese epic tells the story of the Monkey King, his incredible origin and downfall, and his epic quest to redeem himself with his trusted... -
The Tradition Of The New by Harold Rosenberg 9780306805967
£18.09Harold Rosenberg was undoubtedly the most important American art critic of the twentieth century. It was he who first coined the term "Action Painters" to refer to the American Abstract Expressionists such as Pollock, Kline, and de Kooning... -
The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 4, 1966-1989 by Samuel Beckett 9780521867962
RRP: £37.99£34.17This fourth and final volume, which completes the Cambridge edition of The Letters of Samuel Beckett, covers the final twenty-four years of what was, as Beckett saw it, a surprisingly long life. During these years he produced many of his finest and most... -
Pen in Hand: Reading, Rereading and other Mysteries by Tim Parks
RRP: £14.99£12.34How can other people like the books we don't like? What benefit can we get from rereading a work? Can we read better? If so, how? These and many other questions, ranging from the field of writing to that of reading and translation, are given a... -
Oxford Reading Tree Word Sparks: Level 1: The Life of a Caterpillar by Sam Hogan 9780198497684
RRP: £4.60£3.52Find out about the life of a caterpillar, from tiny egg to beautiful butterfly. Using the world's largest known database of writing for and by children, our experts have defined 300 ambitious words to help children succeed at school. We've combined... -
Granta 130: India: Another Way of Seeing by Ian Jack 9781905881857
RRP: £12.99£8.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905881857Author Ian JackFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 385gDimensions(mm) 212mm * 147mm *... -
Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers by Tom Wolfe 9781250321886
RRP: £17.00£11.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250321886Author Tom WolfeFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454g -
Ustinov Still at Large by Peter Ustinov 9780879759674
RRP: £17.99£13.84"I wish to cause no pain, except where it is deserved." -- Peter Ustinov The legendary Peter Ustinov was one of the world's most versatile and talented contributors to the arts. Ustinov's talents were widely demonstrated both in print and on... -
Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers: Accountability for Those Who Caused the Crisis by John Nichols
RRP: £16.99£12.26This short book calls to account the government misrulers and corporate criminals who made suffering from the global coronavirus pandemic more acute. Modeled on a famous 1940 bestseller--a pamphlet exposing appeasers of Nazi Germany--Guilty Men shows how... -
Reportage Drawing: Vision and Experience Louis Netter (University of Portsmouth, UK) 9781350253087
RRP: £19.99£16.80How does drawing shape the truth and our understanding of the visual world? Why has the act of reportage drawing persisted and thrived in our ever-changing media landscape? This book offers a deep dive into the world of reportage drawing, a world... -
The Secret Agent's Bedside Reader: A Compendium of Spy Writing by Michael Smith 9781785904813
£11.88Espionage fact and fiction collide in this thrilling compendium of spy writing, where some of the greatest spy stories ever told meet the genuine agent records and instructions that altered history. Ian Fleming's genre-defining genius and John le... -
Dear Mr. You by Mary-Louise Parker 9781501107849
RRP: £16.00£9.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501107849Author Mary -Louise ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams)... -
A Means to Freedom: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard (Volume 1) by H P Lovecraft 9781614981862
RRP: £30.00£26.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614981862Author H P LovecraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 676gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...