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Diaries Volume Three: Power and Responsibility by Alastair Campbell
RRP: £16.99£12.28POWER AND RESPONSIBILITY is the third volume of Alastair Campbell's unique daily account of life at the centre of the Blair government. It begins amid conflict in Kosovo, and ends on September 11, 2001, a day which immediately wrote itself into the... -
Theaetetus by Plato
RRP: £14.99£10.95Set immediately prior to the trial and execution of Socrates in 399 BC, Theaetetus shows the great philosopher considering the nature of knowledge itself, in a debate with the geometrician Theodorus and his young follower Theaetetus. Their dialogue... -
The Iliad of Homer by Homer 9780226470498
RRP: £15.00£13.45"Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus' son Achilleus / and its devastation." For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the Iliad in English, in Richmond Lattimore's faithful translation-the gold standard for generations of students and general readers... -
Medea and Other Plays by Euripides 9780140449297
RRP: £9.99£7.11Alcestis/Medea/The Children of Heracles/Hippolytus'One of the best prose translations of Euripides I have seen' Robert FaglesThis selection of plays shows Euripides transforming the titanic figures of Greek myths into recognizable, fallible human beings... -
Sarn Helen: A Journey Through Wales, Past, Present and Future by Tom Bullough 9781783788118
RRP: £10.99£7.32WATERSTONES WELSH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2023 From the author of Addlands, and featuring illustrations by Jackie Morris, an immersive and evocative non-fictional journey through Wales and a revelatory meditation on... -
My Mother Laughs by Chantal Akerman
RRP: £14.99£10.77In 2013, the filmmaker Chantal Akerman's mother was dying. She flew back from New York to care for her, and between dressing her, feeding her and putting her to bed, she wrote. She wrote about her childhood, the escape her mother made from Auschwitz but... -
Phaedrus by Plato 9780199554027
RRP: £8.99£6.45'Some of our greatest blessings come from madness Phaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato's most profound and beautiful works. It takes the form of a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus and its ostensible subject is love, especially... -
On Women: A new collection of feminist essays from the influential writer, activist and critic, Susan Sontag by Susan Sontag
RRP: £16.99£12.28'A brilliant, glittering intelligence' Sunday TimesOn Women brings together Susan Sontag's most fearless and incisive writing on women, a crucial aspect of her work that has not until now received the attention it deserves.For the most part written in... -
Letters of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
RRP: £12.00£8.44The same inimitable voice and dazzling insights that make Emily Dickinson's poems immortal can be found in the whimsical, humorous, and often deeply moving letters she wrote to her family and friends throughout her life. The selection of letters... -
Collected Poems by Chinua Achebe 9781400076581
£15.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Man Booker International Prize 2007 and New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age.Book InformationISBN 9781400076581Author Chinua AchebeFormat PaperbackPage... -
The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz del Castillo
RRP: £12.99£9.09Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers. Bernal Diaz del Castillo,... -
Beyond the Pleasure Principle by Sigmund Freud
RRP: £12.99£9.09A collection of some of Freud's most famous essays, including ON THE INTRODUCTION OF NARCISSISM; REMEMBERING, REPEATING AND WORKING THROUGH; BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE; THE EGO AND THE ID and INHIBITION, SYMPTOM AND FEAR.About the AuthorSigmund Freud... -
Abandoned Scotland by Alastair Horne 9781838863142
RRP: £19.99£15.25An ancient land with a turbulent past and haunting landscape, Scotland's material culture stretches back to the time of ancient Roman incursions north of Hadrian's Wall and includes Viking raids, wars with England, and clan wars that still stir the blood... -
Viz Annual 2024: The Barber's Pole: A Heap of Clippings Swept Up from Issues 302-311 by Viz Magazine
RRP: £13.99£10.02Back in 1922, when Howard Carter first smashed his way into the tomb of long-dead Egyptian King Tutankhamun, the guttering candle in his hand illuminated a scene of unimaginable splendour. "Can you see anything?" asked Lord Carnarvon."Yes! Wonderful... -
Rhetorica ad Herennium by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95£23.39Spurious composition.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and... -
A Bathroom Book for People Not Pooping or Peeing But Using the Bathroom as an Escape by Joe Pera
RRP: £16.99£11.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250782694Author Joe PeraFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint ForgePublisher ForgeWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 193mm * 130mm * 15mm -
Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls by David Sedaris 9780349119427
RRP: £9.99£6.80A guy walks into a bar . . . From here the story could take many turns. A guy walks into a bar and meets the love of his life. A guy walks into a bar and finds no one else is there. When this guy is David Sedaris, the possibilities are endless. In Let's... -
Painting The Beauty Queens Orange: The Skinny on Life in the 70s by Rebecca F John 9781912905478
RRP: £12.99£8.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912905478Author Rhian E. JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Honno Welsh Women's PressPublisher Honno Welsh Women's Press -
Greek Myths: Gods and Goddesses by Jean Menzies
RRP: £10.99£7.40The stories of the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece are sprawling, dramatic and wonderfully strange; their lives intertwine with mortals and their behaviours fluctuate wildly from benevolent to violent, from didactic to fickle, from loving to enraged... -
Hijab Butch Blues: A Memoir by Lamya H
RRP: £16.99£11.58'A masterful, must-read contribution to conversations on power, justice, healing, and devotion from a singular voice I now trust with my whole heart'GLENNON DOYLE, author of Untamed**Roxane Gay's Book Club March 2023 Pick**When Lamya is fourteen, she... -
The Collected Schizophrenias by Esme Weijun Wang
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Dazzling ... in her kaleidoscopic essays, memoir has been shattered into sliding and overlapping pieces ... mind-expanding' The New York Times Book Review Esme Weijun Wang was officially diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder in 2013, although the... -
The Unforgivable: And Other Writings by Cristina Campo 9781681378022
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681378022Author Cristina CampoFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus 9780141182001
RRP: £9.99£7.11In this profound and moving philosophical statement, Camus poses the fundamental question: If human existence has no meaning, is life worth living?'What I touch, what resists me - that is what I understand'As Camus argues, if there is no God to give... -
The Iliad and the Odyssey Boxed Set by Homer 9780520306653
RRP: £42.00£35.44A stunning set of Homer's epics, brilliantly translated by a leading ancient world scholar. Hailed by reviewers and readers alike, Peter Green's landmark translations of Homer's timeless epics are now available for the first time in this striking and... -
Librorum Ridiculorum: Bizarre Books from a Rare Bookshop by Brian Lake
RRP: £10.99£7.25A celebration of all the weird and wonderful books to be found at an antiquarian bookshop. Books have the power to enrich the soul, to enliven the senses, to expand our horizons... and others are simply mad. This... -
Selected Poems: Tennyson by Alfred Lord Tennyson
RRP: £9.99£7.11As Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign, Alfred Lord Tennyson's spellbinding poetry epitomized the Victorian age, and Selected Poems is edited with an introduction and notes by Christopher Ricks.'Into the jaw of DeathInto the mouth of... -
Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar by Colm Toibin 9780330491389
RRP: £9.99£7.27In Love in a Dark Time, Colm Toibin looks at the life and work of some of the greatest and most influential artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His subjects range from figures such as Oscar Wilde, born in the 1850s, to Pedro Almodovar,... -
Richard II: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
RRP: £8.99£6.45The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor: Stanley Wells The Oxford Shakespeare offer authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers - a new, modern-spelling text, collated and... -
Sweeney Astray by Seamus Heaney
RRP: £10.99£9.09Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibhne - the first complete translation since 1913. Its hero, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a saint and turned into a bird at... -
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 9780393696875
£11.42This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1890 (Lippincott's Magazine) version and the 1891 (book) version of the novel. Under the editorial guidance of Wilde scholar Michael Patrick Gillespie, students have the opportunity to comparatively read and... -
I Could Pee on This: And Other Poems by Cats by Francesco Marciuliano 9781452110585
RRP: £9.99£7.00Animal lovers will laugh out loud at the quirkiness of their feline friends with these insightful and curious poems from the singular minds of funny cats. In this hilarious book of tongue-in-cheek poetry, the author of the internationally syndicated... -
Letters of Note: Mothers by Shaun Usher
RRP: £7.99£5.46The perfect Mother's Day gift - a compulsive collection of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and powerful letters with mothers at their heart, curated by the founder of the global phenomenon lettersofnote.comIn Letters of Note: Mothers, Shaun... -
Dad Jokes: The very best of @DadSaysJokes by Dad Says Jokes
RRP: £10.00£6.80THE FIRST COLLECTION FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERS @DADSAYSJOKESFrom the most-followed dad jokes page on Instagram, @dadsaysjokes, comes a collection of hilariously cheesy jokes that will leave your friends and family laughing and groaning in equal... -
Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell
RRP: £9.99£7.11Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithCelebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they... -
Dear Gay: Letters to The Gay Byrne Show – a handwritten history of Ireland by Suzy Byrne 9780717195633
RRP: £25.99£23.89For 25 years, Gay Byrne received thousands of letters from listeners all over Ireland. Some of these letters were light-hearted and innocent, but others were more challenging. While many people didn't feel comfortable sharing their issues with their... -
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
RRP: £10.99£7.51In this extraordinary essay, Virginia Woolf examines the limitations of womanhood in the early twentieth century. With the startling prose and poetic licence of a novelist, she makes a bid for freedom, emphasizing that the lack of an independent income,... -
Romanticism: An Anthology by Duncan Wu
RRP: £29.95£29.01ROMANTICISM Praise for the third edition: "An outstanding anthology, an excellent choice for advanced undergraduate courses on the Romantic era. This edition's improvements include illustrations, a detailed chronology, and expanded selections from women... -
Northern Protestants: 20 Years on by Susan McKay
RRP: £24.95£14.10Twenty years on from her critically acclaimed book, Northern Protestants: An Unsettled People, Susan McKay talks again to the people she 'uneasily' called 'her own', those from a Protestant background in Northern Ireland. Against the backdrop of... -
Ending Fossil Fuels: Why Net Zero is Not Enough by Holly Jean Buck
RRP: £9.99£9.88Around the world, countries and companies are setting net-zero carbon emissions targets. But "net-zero" is a term that conveniently obscures multiple futures. There could be a version of net-zero where the fossil fuel industry is still spewing tens of... -
Ideas and Opinions by Albert Einstein
RRP: £22.00£14.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679601050Author Albert EinsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)...