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Shop Talk by Philip Roth
RRP: £12.99£9.34Philip Roth is the voice of our times.In a sequence of intimate conversations with some of the most influential and insightful writers of the twentieth century, Roth explores the importance of region, politics and history in their work and that of their... -
Raising Raffi: A Book about Fatherhood (For People Who Would Never Read Such a Book) by Keith Gessen 9781837730223
RRP: £10.99£7.54'A wise, mild and enviably lucid book about a chaotic scene' - Dwight Garner, New York Times 'Memoirs of fatherhood are rarely so honest or so blunt' - Daniel Engber, Atlantic'Tender and generous' - New York magazineKeith Gessen had always assumed that... -
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Charlie Lovett
RRP: £10.99£8.61A deluxe edition of Lewis Carroll's timeless tale of wondrously charming nonsense, in time for its 150th anniversaryWhen Alice follows the White Rabbit down the rabbit hole, little does she know that she is traveling to a world of magic where... -
The Medusa Reader by Marjorie Garber
RRP: £38.99£34.22Ranging from classical times to pop culture, this collection will appeal to art historians, feminists, classicists, cultural critics, and anyone interested in mythology.About the AuthorMarjorie Garber is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English at... -
From the Body by Charley Barnes 9781915606099
RRP: £10.99£7.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915606099Author Charley BarnesFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley Press -
E. E. Cummings: Selected Works by E. E. Cummings 9780393617115
£17.13This Norton Critical Edition includes: 166 poems spanning the range of Cummings's career, selections of his prose and dramatic writing, twelve paintings and sketches, and three facsimiles of his drafts-the first ever annotated and cross-genre collection... -
Autumn: A Collection of Poems, Songs and Stories for Young Children by Jennifer Aulie 9780946206483
£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946206483Author Jennifer AulieFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Wynstones PressPublisher Wynstones Press -
Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch by Henry Miller
RRP: £14.99£12.71In his great triptych "The Millennium," Bosch used oranges and other fruits to symbolize the delights of Paradise. Whence Henry Miller's title for this, one of his most appealing books; first published in 1957, it tells the story of Miller's life on the... -
The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism by Octavio Paz 9780156003650
RRP: £16.99£12.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156003650Author Octavio PazFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm * 23mm -
Five Moral Pieces by Umberto Eco
RRP: £9.99£7.32Embracing the web of multi-culturalism that has become a fact of contemporary life from New York to New Delhi, Eco argues that we are more connected to people of other traditions and customs than ever before, making tolerance the ultimate value in... -
General History of Africa volume 3 (pbk abridged - Africa from the 7th to the 11th Century by I. Hrbek
RRP: £25.99£25.22SPECIAL COMMENDATION in Africa's 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century. The series is illustrated throughout with maps and black and white photographs. The period covered by Volume 3 is dominated by two movements of major and lasting significance in... -
Goethe, Volume 9: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 9780691043449
RRP: £25.00£22.20Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, a novel of self-realization greatly admired by the Romantics, has been called the first Bildungsroman and has had a tremendous influence on the history of the German novel. The story centers on Wilhelm, a young man... -
In Loving Memory Funeral Guest Book, Memorial Guest Book, Condolence Book, Remembrance Book for Funerals or Wake, Memorial Service Guest Book: HARDCOVER with a gloss finish. A lasting memory for the family. by Angelis Publications 9780995694934
RRP: £19.97£14.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995694934Author Angelis PublicationsFormat HardbackPage Count 100Imprint Angelis PublicationsPublisher Angelis PublicationsWeight(grams)... -
Life Times: Stories 1952-2007 Nadine Gordimer 9780747596189
RRP: £14.99£11.11Throughout her career the internationally renowned South African writer Nadine Gordimer has built a literary reputation with her incisive short stories as much as with her acclaimed novels. Together with her essays, this highly imaginative and committed... -
Writings on Body and Soul by Aelred of Rievaulx
RRP: £29.95£24.03Aelred (1110-1167), abbot of Rievaulx Abbey in Yorkshire, has always been a controversial figure. He was beloved by his monks and widely admired, but also sharply criticized for his frankness about his own sinfulness and what some considered his... -
Daodejing by Laozi 9781324092476
RRP: £21.99£17.12Grounded in a lifetime of research and interpretive work and informed by careful study of recent archaeological discoveries of alternate versions of the text, Brook Ziporyn, one of the preeminent explicators of Eastern religions in English, brings us a... -
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution by Adrienne Rich
RRP: £12.99£11.52In Of Woman Born, originally published in 1976, influential poet and feminist Adrienne Rich examines the patriarchic systems and political institutions that define motherhood. Exploring her own experience-as a woman, a poet, a feminist and a mother-she... -
The Complete Stories by Alice Walker
£14.87A fantastic collection of stories - funny, touching, surprising - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of THE COLOR PURPLE 'Stories are, after all, like a thumbprint. Unique to the soul and heart they are by creation attached' Comprising two volumes -... -
Edith Wharton: Collected Stories Vol 1. 1891-1910 (LOA #121) by Edith Wharton
RRP: £40.00£24.42Library of America presents the first volume in a landmark two-volume collector's edition of the incomparable stories of an American masterBorn into an upper-class New York family, Edith Wharton broke with convention and became a professional writer,... -
Kilometer 101 by Maxim Osipov
RRP: £16.99£10.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376868Author Maxim OsipovFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Granta 152 by Sigrid Rausing
RRP: £14.99£13.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909889347Author Sigrid RausingFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 520gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
Knight's Move: By Viktor Shklovsky by Viktor Shklovsky
RRP: £11.99£10.05First published in 1923, Knight's Move is a collection of articles and short critical pieces that Viktor Shklovsky, no doubt the most original literary critic and theoretician of the twentieth century, wrote for the newspaper The Life of Art between 1919... -
We Are the Change We Seek by E.J. Dionne Jr.
RRP: £12.99£9.34'Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change we seek' In his speeches as president, Barack Obama had the power to move people from all over the world as few... -
Literature and Politics: Selected Writings by Robert Musil 9781940625546
RRP: £28.00£20.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940625546Author Robert MusilFormat PaperbackPage Count 562Imprint Contra Mundum PressPublisher Contra Mundum PressWeight(grams) 603gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write by Sarah Ruhl
£11.66Sarah Ruhl is a mother of three and one of America's best-known playwrights. She has written a stunningly original book of essays whose concerns range from the most minimal and personal subjects to the most encompassing matters of art and culture. The... -
Necessary Angel by Wallace Stevens
RRP: £14.00£10.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394702780Author Wallace StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Random House USA PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Rationalists by Rene Descartes
RRP: £16.99£12.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385095402Author Rene DescartesFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)... -
Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: £25.00£18.30A celebration of writers and their encounters with politics and public life from one of our greatest critics.Unacknowledged Legislation is a celebration of Percy Shelley's assertion that 'poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world'. In over... -
The Book Lovers' Anthology: A Compendium of Writing about Books, Readers and Libraries by Bodleian Library the
RRP: £20.00£16.10'Much reading is like much eating, wholly useless without digestion.' - R. South 'If I had read as much as other men, I should have been as ignorant as they.' - T. Hobbes 'Choose an author as you choose a friend.' - W. Dillon 'A blessed... -
Walden: Or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau 9780486284958
RRP: £6.49£4.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486284958Author Henry David ThoreauFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Letters to a Young Scientist by Edward O. Wilson 9780871403858
RRP: £11.99£9.28Edward O. Wilson has distilled sixty years of teaching into a book for students, young and old. Reflecting on his coming-of-age in the South as a Boy Scout and a lover of ants and butterflies, Wilson threads these twenty-one letters, each richly... -
Outlines of Pyrrhonism: v. 1 by Empiricus Sextus
RRP: £24.95£23.76A suspicious mind.Sextus Empiricus (ca. AD 160-210), exponent of scepticism and critic of the Dogmatists, was a Greek physician and philosopher, pupil and successor of the medical sceptic Herodotus (not the historian) of Tarsus. He probably lived for... -
The Water Margin: Outlaws of the Marsh: The Epic Tale of Brotherhood, Bravery and Rebellion in Imperial China by Shi Naian 9784805317877
RRP: £24.99£19.85"[The Water Margin] is a great pageant of China. I think it is one of the most magnificent pageants ever made of any people." -Pearl S. BuckThe Water Margin is an epic tale set in 12th century Imperial China, and is one of the earliest and greatest... -
She Memes Well: Essays by Quinta Brunson 9781328638984
RRP: £25.00£19.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328638984Author Quinta BrunsonFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Dey Street BooksPublisher Dey Street BooksWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm) 212mm *... -
On Friendship: One Hundred Maxims for a Chinese Prince by Matteo Ricci 9780231149242
RRP: £30.00£23.66"On Friendship, with its total of one hundred sayings, is the perfect gift for friends."--Feng Yingjing, renowned scholar and civic official, 1601 Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) is best known as the Italian Jesuit missionary who brought Christianity to China... -
Decadence: An Annotated Anthology by Jane Desmarais 9780719075513
RRP: £19.99£14.52The tradition of Decadent writing in the 19th century remains a fascinating current in the evolution of modern literature. This new anthology brings together key texts from an international range of Decadent writings and writings about Decadence, many of... -
General History of Africa volume 8 (pbk unabridg - Africa since 1935 by Ali A. Mazrui 9780852550984
£30.46SPECIAL COMMENDATION in Africa's 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century. The series is illustrated throughout with maps and black and white photographs. Africa has moved from international conflict under foreign domination to struggles for political... -
I'm Not Here to Give a Speech by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
RRP: £9.99£7.32Penguin presents I'm Not Here to Give a Speech, the complete speeches of Nobel laureate and beloved novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez collected and published in English for the first time.Gabriel Garcia Marquez has charmed generations of readers with his... -
Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge the Golden Nugget Boat: The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library Vol. 26 by Carl Barks 9781683965657
RRP: £35.00£25.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683965657Author Carl BarksFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Fantagraphics BooksPublisher Fantagraphics BooksWeight(grams) 853gDimensions(mm) 259mm *... -
The Language of Hoofbeats by Catherine Ryan Hyde 9781477824689
RRP: £8.99£6.32When a troubled girl steals a horse, her foster moms are thrown together with their reluctant neighbor in this award-winning novel from New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde. From the bestselling author of Pay It Forward comes a story...