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Things My Son Needs to Know About The World by Fredrik Backman
RRP: £10.99£7.99Things My Son Needs To Know About The World is a tender and funny series of letters from a new father to his son about one of life's most daunting experiences: parenthood From the 18 million copy internationally bestselling author of A Man Called... -
Pedro and Ricky Come Again: Selected Writing 1988-2020 Jonathan Meades 9781800181427
RRP: £18.99£12.64'Ought to become a classic. It is an enshrinement of [Meades's] intense baroque and catholic cleverness' Roger Lewis, The Times'One of the foremost prose stylists of his age in any register . . . Probably we don't deserve Meades, a man who apparently has... -
On Writing Charles Bukowski 9781782117247
RRP: £9.99£6.90A collection of previously unpublished letters from America's cult icon on the art of writing.Charles Bukowski was one of our most iconoclastic, raw and riveting writers, one whose stories, poems and novels have left an enduring mark on our culture. On... -
Cold War Steve Annual 2024 by Cold War Steve 9781408719770
RRP: £18.99£11.70Embark on an annual excursion of scandals, absurdities and farcical monstrosities with satirist and artist Cold War Steve.Enclosed in this esteemed tome you will find a land of hereditary weirdos and despicable world leaders; contemptible party-hosting... -
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... -
Journeys Through Britain with a Pack Pony: 1985 - 1987 Jane Dotchin 9780955939570
RRP: £8.90£8.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955939570Author Jane DotchinFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Wagtail PressPublisher Wagtail Press -
Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World: Essays by Barry Lopez 9781912559558
RRP: £12.99£11.01An ardent steward of the land, fearless traveller and unrivalled observer of nature and culture, Barry Lopez died after a long illness on Christmas Day in 2020. The previous summer, a wildfire had consumed much of what was dear to him in his home and the... -
Everything Is an Emergency: An Ocd Story in Words & Pictures by Jason Adam Katzenstein 9780062950079
RRP: £22.99£14.38Apologies 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)... -
Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe by Andrew Boyd 9780393322811
RRP: £15.00£12.58Revolutionizing the best-selling genre, this thinking man's parody hijacks the format of daily affirmations but offers a different message: only in paradox, truth; only in darkness, light; only in affliction, affirmation. These "daily afflictions" offer... -
The Art of Happiness by Epicurus
RRP: £12.99£9.34The teachings of Epicurus-about life and death, religion and science, physical sensation, happiness, morality, and friendship-attracted legions of adherents throughout the ancient Mediterranean world and deeply influenced later European thought. Though... -
Monkey King: Journey to the West (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Wu Cheng'en
£13.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143136309Author Wu Cheng'enFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 425gDimensions(mm) 213mm *... -
The Complete Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Volume 1 by Don Rosa
RRP: £35.00£28.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683961741Author Don RosaFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Fantagraphics BooksPublisher Fantagraphics BooksWeight(grams) 1157gDimensions(mm) 287mm *... -
The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals by Dorothy Wordsworth
RRP: £9.99£7.32'I went & sat with W & walked backwards & forwards in the Orchard till dinner time - he read me his poem. I broiled Beefsteaks.' Dorothy Wordsworth's journals are a unique record of her life with her brother William, at the time when he was at the... -
Kilvert's Diary by William Plomer
RRP: £10.99£7.99Few have written more beautifully about the British countryside than Francis Kilvert. A country clergyman born in 1840, Kilvert spent much of his time visiting parishioners, walking the lanes and fields of Herefordshire and writing in his diary. Full of... -
The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition by Shihab Al-Din Al-Nuwayri
RRP: £11.99£8.66An astonishing record of the knowledge of a civilization, The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition catalogues everything known to exist from the perspective of a 14th-century Egyptian scholar and litterateur. More than 9,000 pages and 30... -
Make It Scream, Make It Burn by Leslie Jamison
RRP: £9.99£6.90'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£12.83"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... -
The Sorrows of Mexico Lydia Cacho 9780857056221
RRP: £12.99£8.83With contributions from seven of Mexico's finest journalists, this is reportage at its bravest and most necessary - it has the power to change the world's view of their country, and by the force of its truth, to start to heal the country's many sorrows... -
York Mystery Plays: A Selection in Modern Spelling by Richard Beadle
RRP: £8.99£6.65This volume offers 22 of the central pageants which make up York's famous Corpus Christi cycle. The York cycle is the oldest and best-known of the English mystery cycles, and its depth and scope are reflected in the selection printed here. The shape of... -
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body Roxane Gay 9781472153791
RRP: £10.99£7.61'I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. . . . I was trapped in my... -
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£8.38London: 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... -
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... -
Selected Poems by Robert Browning
RRP: £10.99£7.99Robert Browning was one of the greatest of English poets, whose intense and original imagination enabled him to transform any subject he chose - whether everyday or sublime - into startling memorable verse. In his work he brought to life the... -
The Alexiad by Anna Komnene
RRP: £16.99£12.28Written between 1143 and 1153 by the daughter of Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, The Alexiad is one of the most popular and revealing primary sources in the vast canon of medieval literature. Princess Anna Komnene, eldest child of the imperial... -
English Food: A People’s History by Diane Purkiss 9780007255573
RRP: £12.99£8.71'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£8.80Lviv, 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£7.91Apologies 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£9.96A 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... -
The Moneyless Man: A Year of Freeconomic Living by Mark Boyle
RRP: £9.99£7.32The astonishing reality of living without our most important resource: money. 'An inspiring and entertaining guide to escaping the money trap and reconnecting with reality.' Paul Kingsnorth, author of Real England Imagine a year living without... -
Der Besuch der alten Dame by Friedrich Durrenmatt
RRP: £29.99£26.64The full German text of Durrenmatt's play is accompanied by German-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context.About the AuthorFriedrich Durrenmatt, P.K.AckermannBook InformationISBN... -
How to Cure a Fanatic by Amos Oz
RRP: £6.99£5.30'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... -
Poems and Readings for Funerals by Julia Watson
RRP: £9.99£7.32Words of sadness and loss, comfort and consolationSummoning the words to express our feelings of loss for a loved one in the days following a death can feel almost impossible. And often the choice of readings available can seem daunting.Poems and... -
Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes by Claire Wilcox
RRP: £10.99£8.61WINNER OF THE 2021 PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE 'A strange and mesmerising piece of work' Sunday Times 'An absolute masterpiece' Laura Cumming 'An uncommon delight' Observer Claire Wilcox has been a curator of fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum... -
Home/Land: A Memoir of Departure and Return by Rebecca Mead
RRP: £9.99£6.90When the New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead relocated to her birth city, London, with her family in the summer of 2018, she was both fleeing the political situation in America and seeking to expose her son to a wider world. With a keen sense of what she'd... -
The Iliad: A New Translation by Peter Green by Homer 9780520281431
RRP: £14.99£12.55One of the oldest extant works of Western literature, the Iliad is a timeless epic poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic pride and the arbitrary, often vicious decisions of fate and the gods. Renowned scholar and acclaimed translator... -
Theaetetus by Plato
RRP: £14.99£11.11Set 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... -
Sarn Helen: A Journey Through Wales, Past, Present and Future by Tom Bullough 9781783788118
RRP: £10.99£7.54WATERSTONES 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... -
Great British Wit by Rosemarie Jarski
RRP: £16.99£12.28There's nothing much left to feel good about these days if you're British, but one of the few things where we all agree that we're still a world leader is our defining sense of humour. Thematically covering every subject imaginable, from God to dogs,...