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It's Not About the Burqa: Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race by Mariam Khan
RRP: £10.99£7.73It's Not About the Burqa is an anthology of frank and insightful essays by Muslim women about the contemporary Muslim female experience.'Passionate, angry, self-effacing, nuanced and utterly compelling in every single way' - Nikesh Shukla, editor of The... -
Beyond the Pleasure Principle by Sigmund Freud
RRP: £12.99£9.34A 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... -
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days: And Other Writings by Nellie Bly
RRP: £9.99£7.32Born Elizabeth Jane Cochran, Nellie Bly was renowned as America's first 'girl stunt reporter'. She was a pioneer of investigative journalism, including an expose of patient treatment at a mental asylum and a travelogue from her record-breaking race... -
The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists by Irene Taylor
RRP: £25.00£17.59'A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen', wrote William Soutar in 1934. But a diary is also a place for recording everyday thoughts and special occasions, private fears and hopeful dreams. The... -
Almost Wild Camping: 50 British campsites on the wilder side by James Warner Smith 9781906889456
RRP: £12.95£9.16At 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... -
Viz Annual 2024: The Barber's Pole: A Heap of Clippings Swept Up from Issues 302-311 by Viz Magazine
RRP: £13.99£10.22Back 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... -
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 Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James
RRP: £12.99£9.34Standing at the crossroads of psychology and religion, this catalyzing work applied the scientific method to a field abounding in abstract theory. William James believed that individual religious experiences, rather than the precepts of organized... -
A Bite of the Apple: A Life with Books, Writers and Virago by Lennie Goodings
RRP: £19.99£14.28'The moment I got my job at Virago in 1978 I knew it would be a long time before I would leave. I certainly wouldn't have had the brazen hope then-only twenty-five and very recently new to Britain-that I would ever become the Publisher, but I did know... -
Histories: Bk. VIII-IX by Herodotus
RRP: £24.95£23.76The "Father of History."Herodotus the great Greek historian was born about 484 BC, at Halicarnassus in Caria, Asia Minor, when it was subject to the Persians. He traveled widely in most of Asia Minor, Egypt (as far as Aswan), North Africa, Syria, the... -
Carrington's Letters: Her Art, Her Loves, Her Friendships by Dora Carrington
RRP: £30.00£22.29'Your letters are a great pleasure. I lap them down with breakfast and they do me more good than tonics, blood capsules or iron jelloids' Lytton StracheyDora Carrington was considered an outsider to Bloomsbury, but she lived right at its heart. Known... -
The Mitfords: Letters between Six Sisters by Charlotte Mosley
RRP: £18.99£13.30Carefree, revelatory and intimate, this selection of unpublished letters between the six legendary Mitford sisters, compiled by Diana Mitford's daughter-in-law, is alive with wit, passion and heartbreak. The letters chronicle the social quirks... -
Librorum Ridiculorum: Bizarre Books from a Rare Bookshop by Brian Lake
RRP: £10.99£7.46A 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 Alfred Lord Tennyson 9780140424430
RRP: £9.99£7.32As 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... -
The Penguin Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature by Robert Irwin
RRP: £14.99£10.95Spanning the fifth century to the sixteenth, and ranging from Afghanistan to Spain, this unique collection provides a profound insight into the sheer vitality and depth of Classical Arabic literature. From the earliest surviving fragments of The Thousand... -
A Bathroom Book for People Not Pooping or Peeing But Using the Bathroom as an Escape by Joe Pera
RRP: £16.99£11.59Apologies 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 -
Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of 'Housewife, 49' Richard Broad 9781846680007
RRP: £8.99£6.65In September 1939, housewife and mother Nella Last began a diary whose entries, in their regularity, length and quality, have created a record of the Second World War which is powerful, fascinating and unique. When war broke out, Nella's younger son... -
The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks
RRP: £10.99£8.15How does the brain perceive and interpret information from the eye? And what happens when the process is disrupted? In The Mind's Eye, Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing... -
Love by Stendhal
RRP: £10.99£7.99A timeless treatise on the unique power of human emotion, Stendhal's Love is translated by Gilbert and Suzanne Sale with an introduction by Jean Stewart and B.C.J.G. Knight in Penguin Classics.In 1818, when he was in his mid-thirties, Stendhal met and... -
Jane Austen's Wardrobe by Hilary Davidson 9780300263602
RRP: £25.00£21.24Hilary Davidson delves into the clothing of one of the world's great authors, providing unique and intimate insight into her everyday life and material world What did Jane Austen wear? Acclaimed dress historian and Austen expert Hilary Davidson... -
Life in Occupied Guernsey: The Diaries of Ruth Ozanne 1940-1945 by William Parker
RRP: £16.99£11.65The diaries of Ruth Ozanne give us a remarkable eyewitness account of daily life during the German occupation of Guernsey from 1940 to 1945. At the beginning of the occupation, there is an atmosphere of good-humoured defiance on the Island. The... -
Mediterranean: The Passenger by Various 9781787704794
RRP: £18.99£12.83IN THIS VOLUME: The Sea Between Lands by David Abulalfia; The Liquid Road by Leila Slimani; The Cold One, the Hot One, the Mad One, and the Angry One by Nick Hunt * plus: the sounds and smells of the Mediterranean; the invention of the Mediterranean... -
Medea and Other Plays by Euripides 9780140441291
RRP: £9.99£7.26Medea/Hecabe/Electra/HeraclesFour devastating Greek tragedies showing the powerful brought down by betrayal, jealousy, guilt and hatredThe first playwright to depict suffering without reference to the gods, Euripides made his characters speak in human... -
Letters from a Stoic (Collins Classics) by Lucius Seneca 9780008425043
RRP: £7.99£5.59HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. No man can live a happy life, or even a supportable life, without the study of wisdom Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC-AD 65) is one of the most... -
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
RRP: £10.99£7.73In 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,... -
The Writings of Julian of Norwich: A Vision Showed to a Devout Woman and A Revelation of Love by Nicholas Watson
RRP: £39.95£35.88Julian of Norwich (ca. 1343-ca. 1416), a contemporary of Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, and John Wyclif, is the earliest woman writer of English we know about. Although she described herself as "a simple creature unlettered," Julian is now widely... -
In the Margins. On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing by Elena Ferrante
RRP: £13.99£9.27"Elena Ferrante has established herself as the foremost writer in Italy - and the world." THE SUNDAY TIMES A delightful collection of original essays on reading and writing. From the internationally acclaimed author of My Brilliant Friend, The Lying... -
The Essays by George Orwell
RRP: £30.00£22.29Includes 'The Freedom of the Press', intended as the preface to 'Animal Farm' but undiscovered until 1972. Considered by Noam Chomsky to be Orwell's most important essay. These essays demonstrate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of... -
Ending Fossil Fuels: Why Net Zero is Not Enough by Holly Jean Buck
RRP: £9.99£8.40Around 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 Albert Einstein 9780679601050
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)... -
Sisters of the Cross by Roger Keys
RRP: £12.99£10.41Thirty-year-old Piotr Alekseevich Marakulin lives a contented, if humdrum life as a financial clerk in a Petersburg trading company. He is jolted out of his daily routine when, quite unexpectedly, he is accused of embezzlement and loses his job. This... -
This is Not Miami by Fernanda Melchor
RRP: £12.99£8.80Set in and around the city of Veracruz in Mexico, This Is Not Miami delivers a series of devastating stories - spiralling from real events - that bleed together reportage and the author's rich and rigorous imagination. These cronicas - a genre unique to... -
The Portable Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £16.99£12.28The works of Friedrich Nietzsche have fascinated readers around the world ever since the publication of his first book more than a hundred years ago. As Walter Kaufmann, one of the world's leading authorities on Nietzsche, notes in his introduction, "Few... -
Ordinary Beast by Nicole Sealey 9780062688811
RRP: £16.99£13.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062688811Author Nicole SealeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint ECCO PressPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh by Evelyn Waugh
RRP: £14.99£10.95Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh were two of the twentieth century's most amusing and gifted writers, who matched wits and traded literary advice in more than five hundred letters over twenty-two years. Dissecting their friends, criticizing each other's... -
Pull Up a Sandbag: A Celebration of Squaddie Humour by Jonathan Smiles 9781846830747
£12.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846830747Author Jonathan SmilesFormat PaperbackImprint Woodfield PublishingPublisher Woodfield Publishing -
Personal Pleasures: Essays on Enjoying LIfe by Rose Macaulay
RRP: £12.99£8.87In 1935 Rose Macaulay (1881-1958) was a well-established novelist, reviewer, columnist and feminist wit. She was part of the 'intellectual aristocracy' of England, but was also passionately interested in everyday life and its foolishnesses. Personal... -
Abandoned Scotland by Alastair Horne 9781838863142
RRP: £19.99£16.10An 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... -
The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches by Brian MacArthur
RRP: £14.99£10.95From Moses to Nelson Mandela, speeches have changed the way we see the world and the way the world is shaped.The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches gathers together the world's greatest speeches, bringing together the words of over one hundred men and... -
Blood and Roses by Helen Castor
RRP: £12.99£8.80The Wars of the Roses turned England upside down. Between 1455 and 1485 four kings, including Richard III, lost their thrones, more than forty noblemen lost their lives on the battlefield or their heads on the block, and thousands of the men who followed...