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The World According to Clarkson: The World According to Clarkson Volume 1 by Jeremy Clarkson
RRP: £10.99£7.77Jeremy Clarkson shares his opinions on just about everything in The World According to Clarkson.Jeremy Clarkson has seen rather more of the world than most. He has, as they say, been around a bit. And as a result, he's got one or two things to tell us... -
Works and Days and Theogony by Hesiod 9780872201798
RRP: £12.99£11.78"Robert Lamberton's Introduction is an excellent, concise exposition of current scholarly debate: his notes are informative and helpful. . . . Those who want a translation that captures something of the spirit of an ancient Greek poetic voice and its... -
The Bacchae and Other Plays by Euripides
RRP: £12.99£9.09Through their sheer range, daring innovation, flawed but eloquent characters and intriguing plots, the plays of Euripides have shocked and stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. Phoenician Women portrays the rival sons of King Oedipus and their... -
Notes to Self by Emilie Pine
RRP: £10.99£7.77'I am afraid of being the disruptive woman. And of not being disruptive enough. I am afraid. But I am doing it anyway.'In this dazzling debut, Emilie Pine speaks powerfully from her painful personal experience - on the emotional labour of caring for her... -
Language Myths by Laurie Bauer
RRP: £10.99£9.79A unique collection of original essays by 21 of the world's leading linguists. The topics discussed focus on some of the most popular myths about language: The Media Are Ruining English; Children Can't Speak or Write Properly Anymore; America is Ruining... -
Why I Write by George Orwell
RRP: £7.99£4.81Whether puncturing the lies of politicians, wittily dissecting the English character or telling unpalatable truths about war, Orwell's timeless, uncompromising essays are more relevant, entertaining and essential than ever in today's era of spin.About... -
Devil in a Coma by Mark Lanegan
RRP: £12.00£8.00One morning in March 2021 with the second wave of infections ripping through Ireland where he was newly resident, Mark Lanegan woke up breathless, fatigued beyond belief, his body burdened with a gigantic dose of Covid-19. Admitted to Kerry Hospital and... -
The Jungle: A Personal Journey with the Enfant Terrible of Nigerian Journalism by David Hundeyin 9781739267599
RRP: £15.99£11.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739267599Author David HundeyinFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Abibiman Publishing UKPublisher Abibiman Publishing UK -
Kurt Cobain: Journals by Kurt Cobain
RRP: £25.00£18.02The first publication of Kurt Cobain's diaries, which were found after his death in 1994. Genuinely moving, provocative and candid, and suprisingly funny, pieces of writing which, as a whole, provide a unique account of the rise and fall of a... -
Parallel Text: French Short Stories: Nouvelles Francaises by Pamela Lyon
RRP: £9.99£7.11Originally written to entertain, move or chill, the eight short stories in this collection accompanied by parallel English translations now also help students gain deeper insights into French literature and life.Arranged in approximate order of... -
The Letters of Seamus Heaney by Seamus Heaney 9780571341085
RRP: £40.00£27.68'A marvellous book, lovingly edited, beautifully produced. . . and brimming with literary insights, much laughter, a sprinkle of gossip and the poet's insuppressible joie de vivre, even in adversity. Buy it, read it, and keep it to hand on to your... -
On Reading: Bookshop Memories, Good Bad Books, Nonsense Poetry, Books vs. Cigarettes and Confessions of a Book Reviewer by George Orwell
RRP: £5.00£4.42George Orwell set out 'to make political writing into an art', and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature - his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding... -
The Best British Travel Writing of the 21st Century: A Celebration of Outstanding Travel Storytelling from Around the World by Jessica Vincent
RRP: £10.99£7.40Travel writing matters Explore the world through this beautiful collection of the finest travel writing published in British media in the 21st century – as judged by some of the most respected travel writers in the world: Levison Wood, Monisha Rajesh,... -
In Italy: Venice, Rome and Beyond by Cynthia Zarin 9781914198700
RRP: £6.99£4.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914198700Author Cynthia ZarinFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books -
Library of History: v. 10 by Siculus Diodorus
RRP: £24.95£23.39Remains of a universal chronicle.Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily (ca. 80-20 BC), wrote forty books of world history, called Library of History, in three parts: mythical history of peoples, non-Greek and Greek, to the Trojan War;... -
The president's keepers: Those keeping Zuma in power and out of prison by Jacques Pauw 9780624083030
£14.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780624083030Author Jacques PauwFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Tafelberg Publishers LtdPublisher Tafelberg Publishers Ltd -
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For by Henry Thoreau
RRP: £7.99£5.79Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched... -
The Masnavi, Book One by Jalal al-Din Rumi
RRP: £8.99£6.45'The pen would smoothly write the things it knew But when it came to love it split in two, A donkey stuck in mud is logic's fate - Love's nature only love can demonstrate.' Rumi's Masnavi is widely recognized as the greatest Sufi poem ever written,... -
The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry by Jonathan Wordsworth
RRP: £18.99£14.01The Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of the imagination and the spirit, and a celebration of the soul of humanity with its capacity for love. This extraordinary collection... -
John Keats by John Barnard 9780521318068
RRP: £30.99£21.89This book offers a revaluation of Keats' major poetry. It reveals how Keats' work is both an oblique criticism of the dominant attitudes to literature, sexuality, religion and politics in his period, and a powerful critique of the claims of the... -
Connected Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Samyutta Nikaya by Bhikkhu Bodhi 9780861713318
RRP: £65.00£42.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861713318Author Bhikkhu BodhiFormat HardbackPage Count 2080Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S. -
Letters to a Young Poet (Translated and with an Afterword by Ulrich Baer) by Rainer Maria Rilke 9781959891116
RRP: £9.95£6.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781959891116Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Warbler PressPublisher Warbler PressWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Symposium by Plato 9780199540198
RRP: £9.99£5.98In his celebrated masterpiece, Symposium, Plato imagines a high-society dinner-party in Athens in 416 BC at which the guests - including the comic poet Aristophanes and, of course, Plato's mentor Socrates - each deliver a short speech in praise of love... -
Man Walks Into A Bar: The Ultimate Collection of Jokes and One-Liners by Mike Haskins
RRP: £16.99£12.68Man Walks Into A Bar is a one-stop shop for anyone who likes to hear and tell jokes. The jokes are ordered thematically - wives, husbands, doctors, lawyers, the French, the Germans, jokes about nuns, jokes about monkeys, the lot. There are also regular... -
Women on Nature by Katharine Norbury 9781800181410
RRP: £12.99£8.13There has, in recent years, been an explosion of writing about place, landscape and the natural world. But within this, women's voices have remained in the minority. This anthology gathers the voices of women from the fourteenth to the twenty-first... -
Complete Works of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde
RRP: £14.99£10.70The Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde is the only truly complete and authoritative single-volume edition of Oscar Wilde's works, and is available in both hardback and this paperback edition. Continuously in print since 1948, the Collins... -
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark
RRP: £20.00£15.29The first biography of this great and tragic poet that takes advantage of a wealth of new material, this is an unusually balanced, comprehensive and definitive life of Sylvia Plath.'Surely the final, the definitive, biography of Sylvia Plath' Ali Smith ... -
A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems: The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman by A. E. Housman
RRP: £8.99£6.45A.E. Housman was one of the best-loved poets of his day, and A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems is a collection of poems whose elegant simplicity of form belies their hidden complexities. This Penguin Classics edition is introduced by Nick Laird with... -
The Explorer and the Journalist: Frederick Cook, Philip Gibbs and the Scandal that Shocked the World by Richard Evans
RRP: £20.00£15.04On 1 September 1909, American explorer Frederick Cook caused one of the biggest sensations in exploration history when, after a year with no word from him, news arrived that he had not only survived his Arctic expedition but had become the first person... -
Diary of an MP's Wife: Inside and Outside Power: 'riotously candid' Sunday Times by Sasha Swire 9780349144405
RRP: £12.99£4.11SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR'The wickedest political diaries since Alan Clark's' Daily Mail'Riotously candid' Decca Aitkenhead, Sunday Times'An acute political intelligence at work' Guardian'Glorious, compelling, jaw-dropping'... -
Diaries and Notebooks by Patricia Highsmith
RRP: £30.00£28.28'It promises to be one of the literary highlights of 2021 - publication of the diaries of Patricia Highsmith, one of the most conflicted, fascinating novelists of the 20th century' Edward Helmore, Guardian'My secrets-the secrets that everyone has-are... -
The Gifts of Reading by Robert Macfarlane
RRP: £2.50£2.16From the bestselling author of UNDERLAND, THE OLD WAYS and THE LOST WORDS - an essay on the joy of reading, for anyone who has ever loved a bookEvery book is a kind of gift to its reader, and the act of giving books is charged with a special emotional... -
Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch by Henry Miller
RRP: £14.99£13.03In 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 Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Sebald is the Joyce of the 21st Century' The TimesWhat begins as the record of W. G. Sebald's own journey on foot through coastal East Anglia, from Lowestoft to Bungay, becomes the conductor of evocations of people and cultures past and present. From... -
In the Thick of It: The Private Diaries of a Minister by Alan Duncan 9780008422295
RRP: £10.99£7.25'Sensational ... One of the most explosive political diaries ever to be published ... As candid, caustic and colourful as the sensational Alan Clark Diaries of the 1990s' DAILY MAIL The Sunday Times bestseller As... -
William Shakespeare: The Complete Works by Stanley Wells 9780199267170
RRP: £34.49£26.34A compact edition of the complete works of William Shakespeare. It combines impeccable scholarship with beautifully written editorial material and a user-friendly layout of the text. Also included is a foreword, list of contents, general introduction,... -
Sir David Attenborough by Lizzie Huxley-Jones 9780702302879
RRP: £5.99£4.05Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The River of Consciousness by Oliver Sacks 9781447263654
RRP: £9.99£7.27Two 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... -
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
RRP: £12.99£9.09Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor in 1978, while suffering from breast cancer herself. In her study she reveals that the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of the patients and often inhibit... -
Two years in the french west indies by Lafcadio Hearn 9781540530660
RRP: £9.99£8.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540530660Author Lafcadio HearnFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...