Literary Collections

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780915008155Author Larry GoodellFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Duende PressPublisher Duende PressWeight(grams) 249g

Shortlisted for the 2022 National Book Critics' Circle John Leonard Prize for best first book '...I don't know what comes after, once I decide to let desire have its way with me. How to un-melt the melted? How to turn the ground powder back into a...

'As deft and devastating as a piece of non-fiction writing in miniature as you're ever likely to read ... A collection to be savoured, its urbanity, wisdom and humorous probing best digested at leisure' Daily Telegraph In Facts and Fiction, Michael...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787247185Author ConfuciusFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Big NestPublisher Big NestWeight(grams) 41gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 2mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974878980Author H. P. LovecraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 529g

In this anthology of contemporary eco-literature, the editors have gathered an ensemble of a hundred emerging, mid-career, and established Indigenous writers from Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and the global Pacific diaspora. This book itself is an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Kirkus Prize (Nonfiction) 2018.Book InformationISBN 9781608469468Author Rebecca SolnitFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Haymarket BooksPublisher Haymarket...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679745396Author Joan DidionFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Edited by poet and scholar Ryan Dobran, this volume of correspondence between the American poet Charles Olson (1910-1970) and the English poet J. H. Prynne (b. 1936) sheds light on a little-known but incredibly influential aspect of twentieth-century...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804162453Author Alastair ChisholmFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Rily Publications LtdPublisher Rily Publications LtdDimensions(mm) 198mm * 12mm *...

Originally published in 1958, this book forms the second part of a two-volume edition of Keats's letters, covering the period from 1819 to 1821. Several letters and papers not previously contained in English editions of the correspondence are included,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912436125Author Karen StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley PressDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 16mm

After his mom dies, PJ reluctantly leaves his New York home and everyone he loves, to live with his Aunt Katie in Edinburgh. A series of strange events begin when his aunt's elderly neighbour and her cat Azrael convince him that his mom, weirdly, is...

Millions of Suns is an open invitation for all writers to create something new. Each chapter features a pair of essays-in-dialogue between two working artists, Sharon Fagan McDermott and M. C. Benner Dixon, which addresses a specific writing element such...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593764173Author Rebecca WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher Soft Skull Press

In Africa Dances Gorer takes the reader on an odyssey across West Africa, in the company of Feral Benga, one of the great black ballet stars of 1930s Paris. It is a devastating critique of colonial rule, which is shown to be destroying African society...

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Famous literary friendships such as those between H.L. Mencken and James Joyce, Gustave Flaubert and Ivan Turgenev, and Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore are examined in this magnificent collection of stories, legends, poems, essays, letters, and...

Since its founding in 2011, The Atavist Magazine has garnered an unprecedented eight National Magazine Award nominations and was the first all-digital publication to win in feature writing. This collection presents the finest examples of a new kind of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912368136Author Morgan LlwydFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Cockatrice BooksPublisher Cockatrice Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614982579Author H P LovecraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 554Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 730g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788285490Author Richard BurtonFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Arcturus EditionsPublisher Arcturus EditionsWeight(grams) 771gDimensions(mm) 246mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685891053Author Octavia E ButlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing

The best-known literary achievement of Anglo-Saxon England, Beowulf is a poem concerned with monsters and heroes, treasure and transience, feuds and fidelity. Composed sometime between 500 and 1000 C.E. and surviving in a single manuscript, it is at once...

The novelist J.G. Farrell - known to his friends as Jim - was drowned on August 11, 1979 when he was swept off rocks by a sudden storm while fishing in the West of Ireland. He was in his early forties. Had he not sadly died so young,A" remarked Salman...

Scheherazade's Children gathers together leading scholars to explore the reverberations of the tales of the Arabian Nights across a startlingly wide and transnational range of cultural endeavors. The contributors, drawn from a wide array of disciplines,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800745605Author Roger BloorFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for TA First Translation Prize 2022.Book InformationISBN 9781916218628Author Yismake WorkuFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Henningham Family...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523504268Author Mo WelchFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Workman PublishingPublisher Workman PublishingWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 157mm * 160mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916011441Author Amina ChitemboFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Diverse Cultures PublishingPublisher Diverse Cultures PublishingWeight(grams)...

The once-dreaded scourge of smallpox has been eradicated through barrier immunization. The eminent scientist Edward Jenner (1749-1823) was a pioneer in demonstrating that vaccination was an effective means of preventing smallpox. In the three...

Satyric is the most thinly attested genre of Greek drama, but it appears to have been the oldest and according to Aristotle formative for tragedy. By the 5th Century BC at Athens it shared most of its compositional elements with tragedy, to which it...

A masterful overview of Islamic law and its diversity Al-Qadi al-Nu'man was the chief legal theorist and ideologue of the North African Fatimid dynasty in the tenth century. This translation makes available for the first time in English his major work...

Refined midnight oil.Aulus Gellius (ca. AD 123-170) is known almost wholly from his Noctes Atticae, "Attic Nights," so called because it was begun during the nights of an Attic winter. The work collects in twenty books (of Book VIII only the index is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375726392Author Gore VidalFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 357gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

This new critical edition situates 'After London' in a tradition of mid-late Victorian texts that respond to the evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace and responds to a host of other key social, political, and cultural issues...

The foreigner whose style shaped Athens' greatest orator.Though he occupies a firm place in the canon of the ten Attic orators, Isaeus seems not to have been an Athenian, but a metic, being a native of Chalcis in Euboea. From passages in his work he is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250206299Author Paul AusterFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 135mm * 30mm

Charts the governments frustrated attempts to democratize local government and the long campaigns by many southern chiefs to resist being marginalized. A study of a radical nationalist government's attempts to destroy chieftaincy in Ghana. It shows...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525510567Author Jia TolentinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...