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In the Land of the Cyclops: Essays by Karl Ove Knausgaard
RRP: £10.99£7.77A brilliantly wide-ranging essay collection from the author of My Struggle, spanning literature, philosophy, art and how our daily and creative lives intertwine.In the Land of the Cyclops is Karl Ove Knausgaard's first collection of essays to be... -
For Crying Out Loud: The World According to Clarkson Volume 3 by Jeremy Clarkson
RRP: £10.99£7.77The publication of The World According to Clarkson in 2004 launched a multi-million-copy bestselling phenomenon. But to no avail. Jeremy's one-man war on crimes against common sense has not yet been won. And our hero's still scratching his head at the... -
The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Volume 1: 1915-19 by Virginia Woolf 9781783788668
RRP: £30.00£19.70With an introduction by Virginia Nicholson Saturday 2 February 1918. The first walk we've had for ever so long. Damp, mild vaporous day. Funeral bells tolling as we went out, & marriage as we came in. The streets lined with people waiting their meat... -
The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 12: True Stories from Around the World by Lavinia Spalding
RRP: £14.99£9.88As Andrew McCarthy wrote in The New York Times Book Review, "For more than 20 years, Travelers' Tales has been publishing books that might best be described as the literary equivalent of a group of travelers sitting around a dim cafe, sipping pints or... -
Almost Wild Camping: 50 British campsites on the wilder side by James Warner Smith 9781906889456
RRP: £12.95£8.91At a time when interest in the outdoors is at an all time high, this year sees the launch of a brand new guidebook: Almost Wild Camping, from the experts behind the best-selling Cool Camping series. Featuring 50 off-grid-style campsites in some of... -
The Fran Lebowitz Reader by Fran Lebowitz
RRP: £14.99£11.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679761808Author Fran LebowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Selected Poems by Lord Byron
RRP: £16.99£12.68Described as 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' by one of his lovers, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lord Byron was the quintessential Romantic. Flamboyant, charismatic and brilliant, he remains almost as notorious for his life - as a political revolutionary, sexual... -
Daemon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling by Philip Pullman
RRP: £12.99£8.56Warm, entertaining, and above all thought-provoking, Daemon Voices provides a remarkable insight into the mind of one of our greatest writers. He explains which storytellers have meant the most to him, including William Blake and John Milton, why their... -
I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country by Elena Kostyuchenko 9781847927699
RRP: £22.00£15.62To be a journalist is to tell the truth. I Love Russia is Elena Kostyuchenko's fearless attempt to document Russia as experienced by those whom it systematically and brutally erases: village girls recruited into sex work, queer people in the outer... -
The Iliad by Homer 9780199536795
RRP: £7.99£5.79'Fitzgerald has solved virtually every problem that has plagued translators of Homer.' Atlantic Monthly The Iliad is the story of a few days' fighting in the tenth year of the legendary war between the Greeks and the Trojans, which broke out when... -
The Rebel by Albert Camus 9780141182018
RRP: £9.99£7.11A philosophical exploration of the idea of 'rebellion' by one of the leading existentialist thinkers, Albert Camus' The Rebel looks at artistic and political rebels throughout history, from Epicurus to the Marquis de Sade. This Penguin Modern Classics... -
Parsnips, Buttered: How to win at modern life, one email at a time by Joe Lycett
RRP: £10.99£7.40**THE ESSENTIAL & IRREVERENT BOOK FROM AWARD-WINNING COMEDIAN AND STAR OF JOE LYCETT'S GOT YOUR BACK AND THE GREAT BRITISH SEWING BEE **Also seen on Epic Win, The Time it Takes, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and Taskmaster. He's seen everywhere in... -
Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One's Books by Georges Perec
RRP: £7.99£5.79'A problem of space first of all, then a problem of order'One of the most singular and extravagant imaginations of the twentieth century, the novelist and essayist Georges Perec was a true original who delighted in wordplay, puzzles, taxonomies and... -
Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays by Jill Gutowitz
RRP: £10.99£7.00Named One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2022 by Vogue, BuzzFeed, Bustle, Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar, Electric Lit, Thrillist, Glamour, CNN, and Shondaland "Wickedly funny and heartstoppingly vulnerable...every page twinkles with brilliance."... -
A Commentary on Vergil, Aeneid 3 by S. J. Heyworth 9780198727828
RRP: £29.49£25.94The Aeneid, generally considered the greatest poem of Roman literature, is a story of migration, and Book 3 is at the heart of this story-the arrestingly dramatic account that Aeneas gives to the Carthaginian Queen Dido of his people's journey from the... -
Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004-2021 by Margaret Atwood
RRP: £20.00£14.69In this funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient collection of essays cultural icon Margaret Atwood asks:- Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories?- How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating?- How can we... -
Spring: An Anthology for the Changing Seasons by Melissa Harrison
RRP: £12.99£8.73It is a time of awakening. In our -fields, hedgerows and woodlands, our beaches, cities and parks, an almost imperceptible shift soon becomes a riot of sound and colour: winter ends, and life surges forth once more. Whether in town or country, we all... -
The Wit and Wisdom of Winston Churchill: A Treasury of More Than 1000 Quotations by James C. Humes 9780060925772
RRP: £11.00£10.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060925772Author James C. HumesFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Everything Is an Emergency: An Ocd Story in Words & Pictures by Jason Adam Katzenstein 9780062950079
RRP: £22.99£14.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062950079Author Jason Adam KatzensteinFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)... -
Everybody by Olivia Laing
RRP: £10.99£7.51'Intensely moving, vital and artful' - Guardian'A dizzying ride . . . both timely and beguiling' - Sunday TimesFrom the award-winning author of Crudo, this is an exhilarating and eminently readable study of the long struggle for bodily freedom - from gay... -
A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction by Terry Pratchett
RRP: £10.99£7.77Terry Pratchett in his own wordsWith a foreword by Neil GaimanTerry Pratchett earned a place in the hearts of readers the world over with his bestselling Discworld series - but in recent years he became equally well-known as an outspoken campaigner for... -
Advice to Little Girls by Vladimir Radunsky
RRP: £10.99£7.27You should ever bear in mind that it is to your kind parents that you are indebted for your food, and for the privilege of staying home from school when you let on that you are sick. Therefore you ought to respect their little prejudices, and humor their... -
Make It Scream, Make It Burn by Leslie Jamison
RRP: £9.99£6.70'Intelligent, compassionate, and so fiercely, prodigiously brave. This is the essay at its creative, philosophical best' Eleanor Catton, author of The Luminaries on THE EMPATHY EXAMS A profound exploration of the oceanic depths of longing and... -
Shakespeare and Company by Sylvia Beach 9780803260979
RRP: £16.99£11.17"Miss Beach's book is intimate, not scholarly, and thus full of interesting information. Her reminiscences are literally an index of everybody in the twenties, and she knew them all."-Janet Flanner, New YorkerSylvia Beach was intimately acquainted with... -
Plague, Fall, Exile And The Kingdom And Selected Essays by Albert Camus
RRP: £17.99£13.35Once overshadowed by Sartre, Camus has proved the more durable of the two most celebrated French writer-philosophers of the last century. This collection of his work makes the reasons for his survival self-evident. In prose of bleak but piercing clarity,... -
London: An Illustrated Literary Companion by Rosemary Gray
RRP: £11.99£8.15London: An Illustrated Literary Companion, compiled by Rosemary Gray, captures the varying moods of the great city over recent centuries, through diary entries, with quotations, poems, essays and extracts from great works written in its honour. It is... -
Last Stop Auschwitz: My story of survival from within the camp by Eddy de Wind
RRP: £10.99£7.77THE SUNDAY TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'The ultimate Holocaust testimony.' HEATHER MORRIS, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's JourneyAfterword by JOHN BOYNE, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas_______________Eddy de Wind, a... -
On the Front Line: The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin by Marie Colvin
RRP: £19.99£13.73Veteran Sunday Times war correspondent, Marie Colvin was killed in February 2012 when covering the uprising in Syria. On the Front Line is an Orwell Special Prize winning journalism collection from veteran war correspondent Marie Colvin, who... -
The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology by Kevin Crossley-Holland
RRP: £7.99£5.79Beowulf, The Battle of Maldon, The Dream of the Rood, The Wanderer, and The Seafarer are among the greatest surviving Anglo-Saxon poems. They, and many other treasures, are included in The Anglo-Saxon World: chronicles, laws and letters, charters and... -
Great Dialogues Of Plato by Plato 9780451471703
RRP: £6.99£5.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451471703Author PlatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Signet ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
What are Universities For? by Stefan Collini
RRP: £10.99£7.77Across the world, universities are more numerous than they have ever been, yet at the same time there is unprecedented confusion about their purpose and scepticism about their value. What Are Universities For? offers a spirited and compelling argument... -
Major Works by John Clare
RRP: £11.99£8.43This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a generous selection of Clare's poetry and prose, including autobiographical writings and letters... -
English Food: A People’s History by Diane Purkiss 9780007255573
RRP: £12.99£8.48'An absolute gem' Sunday Times 'A mouthwatering history' The Guardian In this delicious history of Britain's food traditions, Diane Purkiss invites readers on a unique journey through the centuries, exploring the... -
City of Lions by Jozef Wittlin
RRP: £12.99£8.56Lviv, Lwow, Lvov, Lemberg. Known by a variety of names, the City of Lions is now in western Ukraine. Situated in different countries during its history, it is a city located along the fault-lines of Europe's history. City of Lions presents two essays,... -
101 Best-Loved Poems by Philip Smith
RRP: £10.99£7.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486417790Author Philip SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Best American Short Stories 2023 by Min Jin Lee 9780063275904
RRP: £14.99£9.70A collection of the year's best short stories, selected by National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee and series editor Heidi Pitlor."Without stories, we cannot live well," shares guest editor Min Jin Lee, describing how storytelling affects and nurtures... -
How to Cure a Fanatic by Amos Oz
RRP: £6.99£5.13'A hero of mine, a moral as well as literary giant' Simon SchamaAmos Oz, the internationally acclaimed author of A Tale of Love and Darkness and Judas, grew up in war-torn Jerusalem, where as a boy he witnessed first-hand the poisonous consequences of... -
Selected Writings by Meister Eckhart
RRP: £10.99£7.77Composed during a critical time in the evolution of European intellectual life, the works of Meister Eckhart (c. 1260-1327) are some of the most powerful medieval attempts to achieve a synthesis between ancient Greek thought and the Christian faith... -
Invitation To The Dance by Hilary Spurling
RRP: £12.99£9.09A unique reference book for all fans of Anthony Powell's 12-volume novel, A Dance to the Music of Time, which has become a literary landmark of twentieth-century writing. More than a simple glossary, Invitation to the Dance contains extensive Character,... -
The Little Men: An Afghanistan Diary by George McCafferty 9781398114036
RRP: £22.99£15.58Helmand Province in Afghanistan in 2008 was the most dangerous place on earth. George McCafferty of Delta Company led 12 Platoon Delta Company, 5 SCOTS through the fighting season. He kept a diary. For some of that period Ross Kemp went out with the...