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The Mummy's Curse: The true history of a dark fantasy by Roger Luckhurst 9780199698714
RRP: £22.49£16.77In the winter of 1922-23 archaeologist Howard Carter and his wealthy patron George Herbert, the Fifth Earl of Carnarvon, sensationally opened the tomb of Tutenkhamen. Six weeks later Herbert, the sponsor of the expedition, died in Egypt. The popular... -
Mythologies by Roland Barthes
RRP: £9.99£7.32'Barthes' purpose is to tear away masks and demystify the signs, signals and symbols of the language of mass culture' The TimesIn this magnificent and often surprising collection of essays Barthes explores the myths of mass culture. Taking subjects as... -
Antigone by Sophocles
RRP: £3.00£2.63'It's a dreadful thing to yield...but resist now?Lay my pride bare to the blows of ruin?That's dreadful too.'The remarkable story of Greek tragedy's most intrepid heroine.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little... -
Committed Writings by Albert Camus
RRP: £10.99£7.99'To create today means to create dangerously'This new collection contains some of Camus' most brilliant political writing as he reflects on moral responsibility and the role of the artist in the world. Letters to a German Friend, written and published... -
Personal Writings by Albert Camus
RRP: £10.99£7.99'It was the discovery of the essays celebrating his childhood and youth that altered my perception of Camus, from a thinker to a writer whose intellectual lucidity was a product of the wealth - the sensual immediacy and clarity - that had been heaped on... -
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller 9780486292496
RRP: £3.99£3.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486292496Author Helen KellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 60gDimensions(mm)... -
The Last Narco: Hunting El Chapo, The World's Most-Wanted Drug Lord by Malcolm Beith
RRP: £10.99£7.99Mexico, April 2009. The bodies of pair of undercover military intelligence agents, disguised as campesinos (farmers), are dumped by the side of the road. Beside the corpses is a message on a scrap of paper: "You'll never get El Chapo."Authorities did -... -
OCR Anthology for Classical Greek GCSE 2025-2026 Judith Affleck 9781350161818
RRP: £14.99£13.75This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Greek GCSE set text prescriptions examined from 2025 to 2026. The texts covered are: Homer Iliad VI, lines 370-413 and 429-502 Herodotus Sections XIa (First Capture of Babylon), XII (Rebuff to... -
The Penguin Book of Haiku by Adam L. Kern
RRP: £12.99£9.34'A revelation' Sunday Times, Books of the Year 2018The first Penguin anthology of Japanese haiku, in vivid new translations by Adam L. Kern. Now a global poetry, the haiku was originally a Japanese verse form that flourished from the sixteenth to... -
Inside the Whale by George Orwell
RRP: £5.00£4.59George 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 Funniest Thing You Never Said: The Ultimate Collection of Humorous Quotations by Rosemarie Jarski
RRP: £14.99£11.35The ultimate loo book: a laugh-out-loud collection of funny quotations from the classics to the contemporary. Looking for a stocking-filler gift or a Secret Santa present? LOOK NO FURTHER. This bestselling book has you covered...!'Outstanding' - The... -
Devil in a Coma by Mark Lanegan
RRP: £12.00£8.10One 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 Solution: How Africans in America Achieve Unity, Justice and Repair by Jay Morrison 9781943686575
RRP: £14.99£13.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943686575Author Jay MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Good2go PublishingPublisher Good2go PublishingWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Soldiers in Zimbabwe`s Liberation War by Ngwabi Bhebe 9780852556092
RRP: £24.99£17.61This work is an attempt to look at some of the realities of Zimbabwe's liberation war and at what happened afterwards, rather than at the comfortable myths. Both heroic and terrible deeds are recorded. Zimbabwe: University of Zimbabwe PublicationsBook... -
Greek Tragedy by Aeschylus
RRP: £10.99£7.99Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war to be murdered by his treacherous wife Clytemnestra. In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex the king sets out to uncover the cause of... -
Essays in Idleness: and Hojoki by Meredith McKinney
RRP: £9.99£7.32These two works on life's fleeting pleasures are by Buddhist monks from medieval Japan, but each shows a different world-view. In the short memoir Hojoki, Chomei recounts his decision to withdraw from worldly affairs and live as a hermit in a tiny hut in... -
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark
RRP: £20.00£15.51The 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 ... -
Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World Neil Gaiman 9781472260086
RRP: £10.99£7.61A creative call to arms from the mind of Neil Gaiman, combining his extraordinary words with deft and striking illustrations by Chris Riddell. Art Matters will inspire its readers to seize the day in the name of art. 'Like a bedtime story for the rest of... -
Speaking and Being: How Language Shapes Our Lives by Kubra Gumusay
RRP: £14.99£11.11A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 'I can't stop talking about this book' Jamie Klingler, co-founder #ReclaimTheseStreets 'What a gem. ... Makes you look at the world, and yourself, afresh.' Minna Salami, author of Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist... -
As You Like It by William Shakespeare 9781108969192
RRP: £9.99£8.40Michael Hattaway's Introduction to this bestselling edition of As You Like It accounts for what makes this popular play both innocent and dangerous. This third edition includes a new section on recent critical interpretations, including sections on... -
Wanderland: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE by Jini Reddy
RRP: £11.99£9.32SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR UK NATURE WRITING Alone on a remote mountaintop one dark night, a woman hears a mysterious voice. Propelled by the memory and... -
The Breaks by Julietta Singh 9781914198007
RRP: £9.99£6.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914198007Author Julietta SinghFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books -
Selected Poems: Blake by William Blake
RRP: £10.99£7.99Writer and religious rebel, William Blake ((1757-1827) sowed the seeds for Romanticism in his innovative poems concerning faith and the visions that inspired him throughout his life. Whether describing his own spirituality, the innocence of youth or the... -
Compl Poetry Blake Rev Ed by William Blake
RRP: £25.00£17.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385152136Author William BlakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 1024Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1032gDimensions(mm)... -
The Four Horsemen: The Discussion that Sparked an Atheist Revolution Foreword by Stephen Fry by Richard Dawkins
RRP: £16.99£12.28_________________Includes a foreword by STEPHEN FRY'A classic for our time...And all time.' - Michael Shermer'The words of Hitchens, Dawkins, Harris and Dennett are needed more than ever. These are the heirs to Voltaire.' - Matt RidleyKnown as the 'four... -
Papers and Journals by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: £16.99£12.28One of the greatest thinkers of the nineteenth century, Soren Kierkegaard (1814-55) often expressed himself through pseudonyms and disguises. Taken from his personal writings, these private reflections reveal the development of his own thought and... -
The Invention of Solitude by Paul Auster
RRP: £10.99£7.54'One day there is life . . . And then, suddenly, it happens there is death.'So begins Paul Auster's moving and personal meditation on fatherhood, The Invention of Solitude. The first section, 'Portrait of an Invisible Man', reveals Auster's memories and... -
The Young Man – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE by Annie Ernaux 9781804270677
RRP: £6.99£5.02In her latest work, Annie Ernaux recounts a relationship with a student thirty years her junior - an experience that transforms her, briefly, back into the 'scandalous girl' of her youth. When she is with him, she replays scenes she has already lived... -
D.H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study by Anais Nin
RRP: £12.99£10.33In 1932, two years after D. H. Lawrence's death, a young woman wrote a book about him and presented it to a Paris publisher. She recorded the event in her diary: "It will not be published and out by tomorrow, which is what a writer would like when the... -
Selected Prose of T. S. Eliot by T. S. Eliot
RRP: £16.99£11.58'Literary criticism is a distinctive activity of the civilised mind.' With Eliot's dictum in mind, Professor Kermode has selected from the whole range of his critical writings, some of them dating back to before 1918. There are essays of generalisation,... -
The Crooked Timber Of Humanity by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: £20.00£14.29'Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.' Immanuel KantIsaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century - an activist of the intellect who marshalled vast erudition and eloquence in defence... -
Decline of the English Murder by George Orwell
RRP: £7.99£5.98In these timeless and witty essays George Orwell explores the English love of reading about a good murder in the papers (and laments the passing of the heyday of the 'perfect' murder involving class, sex and poisoning), as well as unfolding his... -
All Around the Year by Michael Morpurgo 9781915068224
RRP: £16.00£11.80Originally published in 1979, All Around the Year is a diary following a year at Parsonage Farm, a mixed farm in Devon, close to Dartmoor. The book documented a way of life unchanged for centuries, but which was already remote to most people. In All... -
The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole, 1999-2001 by Sue Townsend
RRP: £9.99£7.32'An achingly funny anti-hero' Daily Mail'My comfort read. The best diaries ever written - with apologies to Samuel Pepys, Bridget Jones and me' ADAM KAYIn the SIXTH book in Sue Townsend's hilarious and iconic series, Adrian, Leicester's most unlikely... -
Nobody Leaves: Impressions of Poland by Ryszard Kapuscinski
RRP: £8.99£6.65'A masterpiece ... a moving image of post-war Poland, and the first breathing of one of the essential voices of the twentieth century... the master of literary reportage' The Times Literary SupplementWhen the great traveller-reporter Ryszard... -
The Soccer War by Ryszard Kapuscinski 9781862079595
RRP: £9.99£6.90In 1964 Ryszard Kapuscinski was appointed by the Polish Press Agency as its only foreign correspondent, and for the next ten years he was 'responsible' for fifty countries. He befriended Che Guevara in Bolivia, Salvador Allende in Chile and Patrice... -
More Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience Shaun Usher 9781782114543
RRP: £30.00£21.62More Letters of Note is another rich and inspiring collection, which reminds us that much of what matters in our lives finds its way into our letters.These letters deliver the same mix of the heartfelt, the historically significant, the tragic, the comic... -
A Chill in the Air: An Italian War Diary 1939-1940 by Iris Origo
RRP: £10.99£6.96Iris Origo, one of the twentieth century's great diarists, was born in England in 1902. As a child, she moved between England, Ireland, Italy and America, never quite belonging anywhere. It was only when she married an Italian man that she came to rest... -
The Essays by Michel Montaigne
RRP: £9.99£7.32A survey of one of the giants of Renaissance thought, The Essays: A Selection collects some of Michel de Montaigne's most startling and original works, translated from the French and edited with an introduction and notes by M.A. Screech in Penguin... -
Barack Obama Speeches by Barack Obama
RRP: £18.99£13.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645173465Author Barack ObamaFormat HardbackPage Count 704Imprint Readerlink Distribution Services, LLCPublisher Readerlink Distribution Services,...