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Apologies 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

Coolitude is both an intellectual interpretation of and a poetic and artistic immersion into the world of the vanished coolie. This collection of previously unpublished texts, poems and sketches captures the essence of the Indian plantation experience...

What was it like to be Charles Dickens? His letters are the nearest we can get to a Dickens autobiography: vivid close-up snapshots of a life lived at maximum intensity. This is the first selection to be made from the magisterial twelve-volume British...

Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western thought. His books were widely read by specialists and the general public, and his influence had been...

The statesman at the height of his powers.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise,...

Paul Dukes was sent into Russia in 1918, shortly after the Bolshevik Revolution. His role was to keep the British spy networks in place during the "Red Terror", when the Cheka secret police were killing large numbers of opponents of the communist regime...

Underneath that chilled exterior is a potty-mouthed mouser ready to let rip. Sweary Cats features over 60 fabulous felines itching and scratching to tell it like it is, either through withering sarcasm or deeply insulting remarks. Cats may...

Rudolph de Lisle RN entered Naval College in 1868 aged 13, and was only 31 when he died, ironically for a naval officer, in the Sudanese desert at the Battle of Abu Klea, 17 January 1885. An inveterate letter writer and talented artist, he consistently...

The Seven Deadly Sins is an ambitious project bringing together seven of the most exciting, vibrant voices in Catalan literature to write seven essays on what are perhaps the most enigmatic - and least understood - aspects of religion and morality...

Fashioning the Future in Roman Greece: Memory, Monuments, Texts uses literature, inscriptions, art, and architecture to explore the relationship of elite Greeks of the Roman imperial period to time. This wide-ranging work challenges conventional thinking...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619025462Author Gary SnyderFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Lawrence asserted that 'the proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it'. In these highly individual, penetrating essays he has exposed 'the American whole soul' within some of that continent's major works of literature...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143133926Author John FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Be inspired by Football Legend, Tammy Abraham! Discover the inspirational story of this top player's journey, from his early life growing up in London, to his success at Chelsea FC football academy and his...

A volume of four new plays as part of the RSC's Midsummer Mischief by Alice Birch, E. V. Crowe, Timberlake Wertenbaker and Abi Zakarian. The writers had the famous quote by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, "Well-behaved women seldom make history" as an initial...

THE SECOND INSTALMENT IN THE HANNE WILHELMSEN SERIESThe detective hunts down a serial rapist - but can she find him before a father devastated by an attack on his daughter takes the law into his own hands?The Oslo police are baffled. Crime scenes are...

Syncretistic exegesis.The philosopher Philo was born about 20 BC to a prominent Jewish family in Alexandria, the chief home of the Jewish Diaspora as well as the chief center of Hellenistic culture; he was trained in Greek as well as Jewish learning. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781855682535Author Gervase PhinnFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Dalesman Publishing Co LtdPublisher Dalesman Publishing Co LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156444453Author Ana s NinFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm)...

A. C. Grayling's lucid and stimulating books, based on the idea that philosophy should engage with the world and make itself useful, are immensely popular. The Challenge of Things joins earlier collections like The Reason of Things and Thinking of...

The Independent Best Book for Walkers 2022 Where can a walk take you? It goes without saying, walking can connect us to our surroundings and free us from our worries. It can raise our heart rate and relax our minds. It can lead us...

A writer for whom the journey has always mattered reinvents the very form itself in this inviting collection of in-the-moment impressions of his journeys A writer of enormous erudition and wide-ranging travels, Claudio Magris selects for this volume...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679748106Author Janet MalcolmFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 335gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

John Hopkins brings back to life all the decadence and flamboyance of Tangier in the 1960s and 1970s. Tangier in the 1960s and '70s was a fabled place. This edge city, the 'Interzone', became muse and escapist's dream for artists, writers,...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910263297Author Dorothy WhippleFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books Ltd

Joan Acocella, "one of our finest cultural critics" (Edward Hirsch), has the rare ability to examine literature and unearth the lives contained within it - its authors, its subjects, and the communities from which it sprung. In her hands, arts criticism...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870613067Author Dorothy DayFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Ave Maria PressPublisher Ave Maria Press

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781494181314Author Francis L WellmanFormat HardbackPage Count 498Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams)...

These reflective essays about Deon's life and experiences in the west of Ireland describe the colourful and varied personalities that the French novelist has come across since he and his family moved there in the mid 1970s. From his friendship with John...

Basil Davidson on the nation-state in Africa and its huge disappointments, its relationship to the colonial years and the parallels with events in Eastern Europe. North America: Times/Random HouseBook InformationISBN 9780852557006Author Basil...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780006280682Author Thora HirdFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint ZondervanPublisher ZondervanWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 175mm * 127mm * 16mm

Set in contemporary India, Love and Longing in Bombay confirms Vikram Chandra as one of today's most exciting young writers. In five haunting tales he paints a remarkable picture of Bombay - its ghosts, its passions, its feuds, its mysteries - while...

Dated the 14th of December 1908, A Letter to a Hindu was a letter written by Leo Tolstoy to Tarak Nath Das, a Bengali revolutionary and scholar, in response to a request for support for India's separation from British rule, which argued that the Indian...

A century ago woodlands were at the heart of daily life. Trees and hedgerows, copses and spinneys provided wood-fuel, thatch and bedding, woodland pasture for pigs and cattle, medicine from tree bark and a wild harvest of nuts and fruit for the home. But...

The biographer Suetonius is one of the most fascinating writers of ancient Rome, but he is rarely afforded serious critical attention. This volume of new essays focuses on the various aspects of Suetonius' work, from his lost writing on Roman courtesans...

Yves Bonnefoy (1923-2016), a major poet, was equally a seminal essayist and thinker. This companion volume to Yves Bonnefoy: Poems contains what he regarded as his foundational essays, as well as a generous selection from all periods. In his art...

When the New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead relocated to her birth city, London, with her family in the summer of 2018, she was both fleeing the political situation in America and seeking to expose her son to a wider world. With a keen sense of what she'd...

Fabulous verse.Babrius is the reputed author of a collection (discovered in the 19th century) of more than 125 fables based on those called Aesop's, in Greek verse. He may have been a Hellenized Roman living in Asia Minor during the late first century of...