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House of Snow: An Anthology of the Greatest Writing About Nepal by Ellen Parnavelas
RRP: £20.00£14.29A ground-breaking collection of stories, poems and articles about Nepal covering the length and breadth of this enchanting nation and its people. 'If you want a book in English that tells you about Nepalese thinking, and gives a taste of the country's... -
Lord Chesterfield's Letters by Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
RRP: £10.99£7.77`My object is to have you fit to live; which, if you are not, I do not desire that you should live at all.' So wrote Lord Chesterfield in one of the most celebrated and controversial correspondences between a father and son. Chesterfield wrote almost... -
Pity The Reader by Suzanne McConnell
RRP: £15.99£11.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644210215Author Suzanne McConnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
A Modern Man: The Best of George Carlin by George Carlin
RRP: £13.99£9.75It is impossible to talk about 20th century comedy without discussing George Carlin. Named the 2nd greatest standup of the 20th century by both Comedy Central and Rolling Stone, Carlin garnered multiple gold records, 4 Grammys, 6 Emmy nominations, and... -
Why Orwell Matters by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: £13.99£8.02"Hitchens presents a George Orwell fit for the twenty-first century." --Boston GlobeIn this widely acclaimed biographical essay, the masterful polemicist Christopher Hitchens assesses the life, the achievements, and the myth of the great political writer... -
I Remember by Joe Brainard
RRP: £14.99£12.55Joe Brainard's I Remember is a cult classic, envied and admired by writers from Frank O'Hara to John Ashbery and Edmund White. As autobiography, Brainard's method was brilliantly simple: to set down specific memories as they rose to the surface of his... -
Nature and Selected Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
£13.01Through his writing and his own personal philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson unburdened his young country of Europe's traditional sense of history and showed Americans how to be creators of their own circumstances. His mandate, which called for harmony... -
The Ring of Bright Water Trilogy: Ring of Bright Water, The Rocks Remain, Raven Seek Thy Brother by Gavin Maxwell
RRP: £14.99£10.95'Gavin Maxwell's trilogy is essential reading' Sunday HeraldFifty years ago Gavin Maxwell went to live in an abandoned house on a shingle beach on the west coast of Scotland. A haven for wildlife - he named his home Camusfearna and settled there with the... -
Seven Dada Manifestoes and Lampisteries by Tristan Tzara
RRP: £8.99£6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714548609Author Tristan TzaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Calder Publications LtdPublisher Alma Books Ltd -
The Major Works by William Wordsworth
RRP: £12.99£9.49This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Wordsworth's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by... -
My New Job by Catherine Wagner
RRP: £13.95£10.10With her third collection, Catherine Wagner assumes a mantle of responsibility. Each opportunity for productivity is a personal call-out; she responds, 'diligent and strict'. A repetitive stretching exercise produces sectional meditations on obedience to... -
Wild Women: and Their Amazing Adventures Over Land, Sea and Air by Mariella Frostrup
RRP: £20.00£14.29A collection of the greatest women's travel writing selected by journalist and presenter Mariella Frostrup. From Constantinople to Crimea; from Antarctica to the Andes. Throughout history adventurous women have made epic, record-breaking journeys... -
Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings by Thomas Paine
RRP: £6.99£5.13`An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot . . . it will march on the horizon of the world and it will conquer.' Thomas Paine was the first international revolutionary. His Common Sense (1776) was the most widely read... -
A Bradford Pal: `It was Simply Heart Breaking' - From Mill Town to the Battlefields of France by John Broadhead
RRP: £20.00£14.46In 1914 the City of Bradford was the world's leading manufacturer of fine woollen goods. On the outbreak of war, at the urging of the city's wealthy industrialists, thousands of young men rushed to join the colours and within a matter of months two... -
12 Bytes: How artificial intelligence will change the way we live and love by Jeanette Winterson
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Joins the dots in a neglected narrative of female scientists, visionaries and code-breakers' ObserverHow is artificial intelligence changing the way we live and love? Now with a new chapter, this is the eye-opening new book from Sunday Times bestselling... -
Primer of Greek Grammar by Evelyn Abbott
RRP: £19.99£17.73Abbott and Mansfield's primer, first published in the nineteenth century and many times reprinted, remains one of the best introductions to Greek grammar. This is the latest edition, containing both accidence and syntax.A classic and respected... -
Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of 'Housewife, 49' by Richard Broad
RRP: £8.99£6.45In 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... -
Rhuddin by Laura Karadog 9781911584513
RRP: £9.95£9.90An original and unique volume in the Welsh language presenting essays and brand new poems on themes relating to yoga and mindfulness.ReviewsGeiriau o Lyfr Du Caerfyrddin sydd yn yr isdeitl, ac adlais o gerdd gan Waldo ac o lythyr Paul at y Rhufeinaid yn... -
How Did We End Up Here?: Unpublished Letters to the Daily Telegraph: Volume 15 by Kate Moore 9780711291225
RRP: £9.99£6.84In another surreal and unprecedented year in which even the most seasoned commentators have struggled to keep pace with the news cycle, letter writers to The Daily Telegraph have once again provided their refreshing and witty take on events. Now in its... -
Asylum Speakers: Stories of Migration From the Humans Behind the Headlines by Jaz O'Hara
RRP: £20.00£14.69"Asylum Speakers is truly an anthology of humanity. It's a reminder of how much we all have in common and that each of us has an equal right to be safe." - Josie Naughton, founder of Choose LoveBased on the popular podcast, Asylum Speakers is a... -
Speeches of Note: A celebration of the old, new and unspoken by Shaun Usher
RRP: £25.00£19.22______________________A richly illustrated and wonderfully eclectic collection of THE WORLD'S GREATEST SPEECHES - THE OLD, THE NEW AND THE UNSPOKEN - from the author of the international bestseller, Letters of Note. Discover speeches that altered the... -
Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, the Children of Heracles, Hippolytus by David Grene
£12.14Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers. They succeeded. Under the expert management of eminent... -
One Hundred Ways for a Cat to Train Its Human by Celia Haddon
RRP: £6.99£3.53At last, the handbook all you cool cats have been waiting for! One hundred easy ways to discover the joys of a purrfectly obedient human.Though humans cannot speak cat, they vocalise repeatedly. Most of their vocalisations are meaningless and can be... -
The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White
RRP: £8.99£7.09More than any other writer Gilbert White (1720-93) has shaped the relationship between man and nature. A hundred years before Darwin, White realised the crucial role of worms in the formation of soil and understood the significance of territory and song... -
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days: And Other Writings by Nellie Bly
RRP: £9.99£7.11Born 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... -
Best of Myles: A Selection from Cruskeen Lawn: Best of Myles by Flann O'Brien 9780007247189
RRP: £12.99£8.48Under the pseudonym Myles na Gopaleen, Flann O' Brien wrote a daily column in the 'Irish Times' called 'Cruiskeen Lawn' for over twenty years which hilariously satirised the absurdities and solemnities of Dublin life. With shameless irony and... -
Responses to Love's Work (1995) by Gillian Rose by Richard Porter
RRP: £12.00£10.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739702953Author Richard PorterFormat PaperbackImprint Pilot PressPublisher Pilot Press -
Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London by Lauren Elkin
RRP: £10.99£7.77*Shortlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay*Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 by the Financial Times, Guardian, New Statesman, Observer, The Millions and Emerald Street'Flaneuse [flanne-euhze], noun, from the French... -
The Mirror and the Road: Conversations with William Boyd by Alistair Owen 9780241987339
RRP: £10.99£7.77'One of Britain's most celebrated contemporary novelists' Sunday TimesIn this probing series of exclusive interviews, Alistair Owen talks to William Boyd about his works and the life which has inspired them. The conversations which emerge are a deep-dive... -
Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
RRP: £10.00£6.65A devastating essay on loss and the people we love from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun. 'Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can... -
Letters to a Young Poet: A New Translation and Commentary by Rainer Maria Rilke
RRP: £15.99£9.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611806861Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul by Jack Canfield
RRP: £16.99£12.28There are many ways to define a woman: daughter, mother, wife, professional, friend, student. We are each special and unique, yet we share a common connection. What bonds all women are our mutual experiences of loving and learning, feeling the tenderness... -
Aesop's Fables by Aesop 9780199540754
RRP: £8.99£6.45'The story goes that a sow who had delivered a whole litter of piglets loudly accosted a lioness. "How many children do you breed?" asked the sow. "I breed only one", said the lioness, "but it is very well bred!"' The fables of Aesop have become one... -
Becoming Mr Nice: The Howard Marks Archive by Amber Marks 9780857303936
RRP: £19.99£13.85Welcome to the personal archives of Britain's biggest dope smuggler. For 40 years Howard Marks traversed the globe: an international businessman who became an inmate in America's toughest penitentiary before standing for election in the United Kingdom... -
The Uncanny by Sigmund Freud
RRP: £10.99£7.77An extraordinary collection of thematically linked essays, including THE UNCANNY, SCREEN MEMORIES and FAMILY ROMANCES.Leonardo da Vinci fascinated Freud primarily because he was keen to know why his personality was so incomprehensible to his... -
Pro Caelio by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95£23.39Three postconsular speeches.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 death of ... -
Collected Maxims and Other Reflections by Francoi de La Rochefoucauld
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Our virtues are, most often, only vices in disguise.' Deceptively brief and insidiously easy to read, La Rochefoucauld's shrewd, unflattering analyses of human behaviour have influenced writers, thinkers, and public figures as various as Voltaire,... -
De Rerum Natura: Bks. 1-6 by Titus Lucretius Carus
RRP: £24.95£23.39Atomic atheism in verse. Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus) lived ca. 99-ca. 55 BC, but the details of his career are unknown. He is the author of the great didactic poem in hexameters, De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things). In six books compounded of... -
Saints and Sinners by Edna O'Brien
RRP: £9.99£6.70The BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls trilogy begins in August 2019.'Edna O'Brien writes the most beautiful, aching stories of any writer, anywhere.' Alice MunroA woman walks the streets of Manhattan and contemplates with... -
Journal by Helene Berr 9781906694197
RRP: £10.99£7.40From April 1942 to March 1944, Helene Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is both an intensely moving, intimate, harrowing, appalling document and a text of astonishing literary maturity. With her colleagues, she plays the violin...