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In the Land of Pain by Alphonse Daudet
RRP: £8.99£6.65Alphonse Daudet was a highly popular nineteenth-century French novelist, whose work radiated humour and good cheer. Few knew that for his entire adult life he suffered from syphilis, a disease both unmentionable and incurable at the time. What even fewer... -
Troll Magic: Hidden Folk from the Mountains and Forests of Norway by Theodor Kittelsen
RRP: £16.99£16.11A collection of macabre and magical folklore from the "godfather" of the Norwegian troll Across the stillness of the sprawling mountain heath, the shadow of the mighty forest falls, its wildness calling to the child in all of us. Here the Hidden Folk... -
Westering: Footways and folkways from Norfolk to the Welsh coast Laurence Mitchell 9781913393069
RRP: £9.99£7.00From Great Yarmouth to Aberystwyth, Westering is a coast-to-coast journey crossing the Fens, Leicester, the Black Country and central Wales. It connects landscape, place and memory to evoke a narrative unravelling the deep topography, and following a... -
Negative Capability: The Intuitive Approach in Keats by Walter Jackson Bate 9780983697237
RRP: £14.00£9.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983697237Author Walter Jackson BateFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Contra Mundum PressPublisher Contra Mundum PressWeight(grams) 135gDimensions(mm)... -
On Imagination by Mary Ruefle 9781941411476
RRP: £10.99£9.18"It is impossible for me to write about the imagination; it is like asking a fish to describe the sea," Mary Ruefle announces at the start of her essay. With wit and intellectual abandon, Ruefle draws inspiration from Wittgenstein, Shakespeare, Jesus,... -
Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat
RRP: £18.00£10.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Hurston/Wright Legacy Award 2008 and National Book Critics Circle Awards 2007. Short-listed for National Book Awards 2007.Book InformationISBN 9781400034307Author... -
Highgate Mums: Overheard Wisdom from the Ladies Who Brunch by Dan Hall
RRP: £7.99£5.64'Her first words were "shoes" and "brioche".' 'There's no nicer way to put this, but frankly anyone can afford to go skiing these days.' 'Of course I said "no". A trampoline in the garden gives out entirely the wrong message.'Based on the popular... -
Who's In, Who's Out: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume One 1944-1979 Kenneth Rose 9781474601559
RRP: £16.99£12.11'The most detailed, amusing and accurate account ever of the post-war world of the English Establishment' William Shawcross, Daily Telegraph'Extremely entertaining' Jane Ridley, Literary ReviewKenneth Rose was one of the most astute observers of the... -
Seneca: De otio; De brevitate vitae by Seneca
RRP: £30.99£27.52This edition, the first modern one in English, introduces undergraduates and more advanced students to the therapeutic possibilities of Seneca's Stoic philosophy. The short treatises De otio and De brevitate vitae balance each other by representing... -
microbursts by Elizabeth Reeder
RRP: £12.00£8.53microbursts is a collection of hybrid, lyric essays about the places between life and death; memoir and poetry; making and letting go. Originally written by Reeder as an intense text-based collection of lyric and experimental essays responding to the... -
We'll Never Have Paris Andrew Gallix 9781912248384
RRP: £16.99£11.71In 1948 Robert Doisneau took a picture of a young woman working at her typewriter on the banks of the Seine. With her stylish sunglasses and short skirt, she seems to epitomise Left Bank bohemian chic. In fact she turns out to be the English author Emma... -
Nothing Sacred: Selected Writings by Angela Carter
RRP: £9.99£7.00In the pursuit of magnificence, nothing is sacred,' says Angela Carter, and magnificence is indeed her own achievement. One of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation, her work as a journalist and critic was no less original. Long... -
In Praise of Listening: On Creativity and Slowing Down by Christian McEwen 9780872333741
RRP: £20.00£15.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780872333741Author Christian McEwenFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Bauhan PubPublisher Bauhan Pub -
Nart Sagas: Ancient Myths and Legends of the Circassians and Abkhazians by John Colarusso
RRP: £18.99£14.79The sagas of the ancient Narts are to the Caucasus what Greek mythology is to Western civilization. This book presents, for the first time in the West, a wide selection of these fascinating myths preserved among four related peoples whose ancient... -
Archives of Joy: Reflections on Animals and the Nature of Being by Jean-François Beauchemin
RRP: £16.99£11.67"Beauchemin discovers again and again that happiness is a function of the connection between beings-the nonhuman animals as well as the human."-Maria Popova, A Favorite Book of 2023For readers of Ross Gay's The Book of Delights comes a joyful, tender... -
The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare 9780521671620
RRP: £9.99£8.40This second edition of Shakespeare's narrative poems contains an introductory section on recent critical interpretations. Fully annotated and introduced, it includes all the poems which can be confidently assigned to Shakespeare, excluding the Sonnets:... -
Lives for Sale: Biographers' Tales by Mark Bostridge 9780826487841
£17.13Biography is well recognised as a peculiarly British vice. This new anthology is a collection of essays by some of the best biographers now writing in Britain. They tell of the ups and downs of life writing: of problems with families and friends of their... -
The Flight to Italy: Diary and Selected Letters by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 9780198901228
RRP: £6.99£5.64'At three in the morning I crept out of Carlsbad, they wouldn't have let me go if I hadn't. I wasn't going to be stopped, for it was time.' This is the authentic day-to-day record never before translated, of the first eight weeks of freedom as Germany's... -
Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare 9781316626733
RRP: £9.99£8.40Much Ado about Nothing has always been popular on the stage. This edition pays especial attention to the history and range of theatrical interpretation, in which famous actors, from the time of Garrick to the present, have appeared as the sparring lovers... -
Sacred Wood & Major Early Essays by T S Eliot 9780486299365
RRP: £7.95£7.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486299365Author T S EliotFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 159g -
Mind of an Outlaw: Selected Essays by Norman Mailer
RRP: £16.99£12.28The definitive Norman Mailer collection, as he writes on Marilyn Monroe, culture, ideology, boxing, Hemingway, politics, sex, celebrity and - of course - Norman MailerFrom his early 'A Credo for the Living', published in 1948, when the author was... -
The Red Hand: Stories, reflections and the last appearance of Jack Irish by Peter Temple
RRP: £10.99£7.61Peter Temple held crime writing up to the light and, with his poet's ear and eye, made it his own incomparable thing.Peter Temple started publishing novels late, when he was fifty, but then he got cracking. He wrote nine novels in thirteen years. Along... -
The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 3: 1926-1927 by T. S. Eliot
RRP: £40.00£27.68In the period covered by this richly detailed collection, which brings the poet to the age of forty, T.S. Eliot was to set a new course for his life and work. Forsaking the Unitarianism of his American forebears, he was received into the Church of... -
Selected Essays of William Carlos Williams by William Carlos Williams 9780811202350
RRP: £18.99£18.00Throughout his life, Dr. Williams tirelessly defended and promoted the best in modern literature and art. He contributed widely to leading literary magazines, wrote prefaces and introductions, and lectured at many universities. This selection represents... -
Sherlock Holmes Volume 2 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
RRP: £6.99£5.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553212426Author Sir Arthur Conan DoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 9780199538263
RRP: £9.99£7.32Wives and Daughters, Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel, is regarded by many as her masterpiece. Molly Gibson is the daughter of the doctor in the small provincial town of Hollingford. Her widowed father marries a second time to give Molly the woman's... -
Among You Taking Notes... Naomi Mitchison 9781399602518
RRP: £14.99£10.05'As in a good novel, the people, their feelings and reactions are instantly recognisable and as fresh and immediate today as they were then' GUARDIAN'She writes vividly and movingly' DAILY TELEGRAPH26th September 1939. I am beginning to wonder whether... -
In Brief: Short Takes on the Personal by Mary Paumier Jones 9780393319071
RRP: £15.95£10.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393319071Author Mary Paumier JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams)... -
London in Quotations by Jaqueline Mitchell
£3.29'When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford,' said Samuel Johnson in 1777. Since then the capital has been characterised variously as a 'riddle', a 'cesspool' and a 'modern Babylon', and both... -
Rein Gold by Elfriede Jelinek
RRP: £12.99£8.80Originally written as a libretto for the Berlin State Opera, Elfriede Jelinek's rein GOLD reconstructs the events of Wagner's epic Ring cycle and extends them into the present day. Brunnhilde diagnoses Wotan, father of the gods, to be a victim of... -
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell
RRP: £12.99£11.95The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry Mitchell with lush illustrations by Ned Asta, published by Calamus Press in 1977. Part-fable, part-manifesto, the book takes place in Ramrod, an empire in... -
Jethro Tull Thick As A Brick: In-depth by Laura Shenton 9781912782574
RRP: £14.99£11.11The year 1972 saw the release of Jethro Tull's iconic album, Thick As A Brick. A song spanning two whole sides of the LP with no gaps in between, Thick As A Brick was unusual even by so-called progressive rock standards at the time. Ironically, even... -
Cousin Henry by Anthony Trollope
RRP: £9.99£7.32Henry Jones, an unprepossessing London insurance clerk, knows that his uncle has disinherited him. The old man's will, made out at the last minute in favour of Henry's charming cousin Isabel Brodrick, lies neatly folded in a well-thumbed volume of... -
Moralia: v. 2 by Plutarch
RRP: £24.95£23.76Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given... -
Letters to Atticus: v. 2 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95£23.76The private correspondence of Rome's most prolific public figure.To his dear friend Atticus, Cicero reveals himself as to no other of his correspondents except perhaps his brother. In Cicero's Letters to Atticus we get an intimate look at his motivations... -
The Wake Up by Catherine Ryan Hyde 9781542047951
£10.25From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde comes an emotional novel of how one man's life changes forever when he rediscovers his ability to feel the pain of others. Something has been asleep in forty-year-old cattle rancher Aiden... -
Mr Noon by D. H. Lawrence 9780521272476
RRP: £37.99£31.31Mr Noon is a sardonic tale about the amorous adventures of Gilbert Noon, a young schoolmaster in Lawrence's home county of Nottinghamshire who gets entangled with a girl, loses his job, and decides to leave the country to escape the narrow provincial... -
A Diary of The Lady: My First Year As Editor Rachel Johnson 9780718192327
RRP: £16.99£12.47Rachel Johnson takes on the challenge of saving The Lady, Britain's oldest women's weekly, in her hilarious diary, A Diary of The Lady: My First Year and a Half as Editor.'The whole place seemed completely bonkers: dusty, tatty, disorganized and... -
The Best American Essays 2020 by Robert Atwan
RRP: £12.99£9.95Andre Aciman "quite simply, one of the finest essayists of the last hundred years" (Los Angeles Review of Books) and one of the most poignant stylists of his generation, selects the best essays of the year from hundreds of magazines, journals, and... -
Difficult Lives - Hitching Rides by James Sallis 9780857302564
RRP: £9.99£6.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857302564Author James SallisFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint No Exit PressPublisher Oldcastle Books Ltd