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Space Crone by Ursula K. Le Guin
RRP: £13.99£9.84Ursula K. Le Guin witnessed and contributed to many of the twentieth century's rebellions and upheavals, including women's liberation, the Civil Rights movement and US anti-war and environmental activism. Spanning fifty years of her life and work, Space... -
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... -
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For by Henry Thoreau
RRP: £7.99£5.98Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched... -
My Seditious Heart by Arundhati Roy
RRP: £30.00£21.35Twenty years, a thousand pages, and now a single beautiful edition of Arundhati Roy's complete non-fiction.'Arundhati Roy is one of the most confident and original thinkers of our time' Naomi Klein 'The world has never had to face such global confusion... -
Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 3): 1943-57 by Chips Channon 9781529158885
RRP: £16.99£11.27The third and final volume of the remarkable Sunday Times bestselling diaries of Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon___________________________________________'An utterly addictive glimpse of London high society and politics in the 40s and 50s.' Robert Harris'An... -
Metamorphoses by Ovid 9780141394619
RRP: £25.00£18.32Ovid's deliciously clever and exuberant epic, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectable editions are bound in high-quality, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the... -
Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell 9780141187396
RRP: £9.99£7.32'Shooting an Elephant' is Orwell's searing and painfully honest account of his experience as a police officer in imperial Burma; killing an escaped elephant in front of a crowd 'solely to avoid looking a fool'. The other masterly essays in this... -
The Song of the Whole Wide World: On Grief, Motherhood and Poetry by Tamarin Norwood 9781911648734
RRP: £9.99£7.00An extraordinary memoir of anticipatory grief, seventy-two minutes of life and a silent maternity leave, from artist and academic Tamarin Norwood. A few months into pregnancy, Tamarin Norwood learned that the baby she was carrying would not live. Over... -
Night Walks by Charles Dickens
RRP: £7.99£5.98Charles Dickens describes in Night Walks his time as an insomniac, when he decided to cure himself by walking through London in the small hours, and discovered homelessness, drunkenness and vice on the streets. This collection of essays shows Dickens as... -
Emma by Jane Austen 9780521824378
RRP: £138.00£113.82Emma is Austen's most technically accomplished novel, with a hidden plot, the full implications of which are only revealed by a second reading. It is here presented for the first time with a full scholarly apparatus. The text retains the spelling and the... -
The Iliad & The Odyssey: 2-Volume box set edition by Homer 9781398803633
RRP: £19.99£14.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398803633Author HomerImprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd -
The Early History of Rome by Livy
RRP: £12.99£9.34'I hope my passion for Rome's past has not impaired my judgement; for I do honestly believe that no country has ever been greater or purer than ours or richer in good citizens and noble deeds'Livy dedicated most of his life to writing some 142 volumes of... -
The Lake District Survival Guide: The essential toolkit for surviving life in Cumbria as a tourist or local by Ian Young 9781999894054
RRP: £8.00£6.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999894054Author Ian YoungFormat HardbackPage Count 124Imprint Jake Island LtdPublisher Jake Island Ltd -
Return Of The Timewaster Letters Robin Cooper 9780751539424
RRP: £10.99£7.61'Even funnier than the funniest book I've read' - Matt Lucas In his 2004 bestseller The Timewaster Letters, Robin Cooper plagued everyone from the Campaign for Courtesy to the British Halibut Association with his bizarre and surreal written requests. In... -
Waugh in Abyssinia by Evelyn Waugh
RRP: £10.99£7.99A witty account of Waugh's time in Abyssinia as a war correspondentIn 1935 Italy declared war on Abyssinia and Evelyn Waugh was sent to Addis Ababa to cover the conflict. His acerbic account of the intrigue and political machinations leading up to the... -
Confessions of a Bookseller: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Shaun Bythell 9781788162319
RRP: £10.99£7.99A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Irreverently funny ... kept me giggling all week.' Scotland on Sunday "Do you have a list of your books, or do I just have to stare at them?" Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland. With more... -
Journal Of An Ordinary Grief by Mahmoud Darwish
RRP: £12.99£8.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Literary Award (Translation) 2011.Book InformationISBN 9780982624647Author Mahmoud DarwishFormat PaperbackPage Count 175Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher... -
Coventry by Rachel Cusk
RRP: £10.99£7.54Author of the Booker-longlisted novel Second Place'Cements her reputation as one of the most fierce and elegant chroniclers of how we live now.' Stephanie Merritt, ObserverCoventry is a collection of essays about choices, womanhood and art. Encompassing... -
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2023 by Lawrence Booth
RRP: £57.00£43.12It is a book of three parts: comment; record; and delightful minutiae, which always brings the most cheer. - Mike Atherton, The Times The publication of Wisden is cricket's equivalent of the state opening of Parliament. It's another great edition. -... -
The Collected Works of Jim Morrison: Poetry, Journals, Transcripts, and Lyrics by Jim Morrison
RRP: £40.00£28.84NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe definitive anthology of Jim Morrison's writings with rare photographs and numerous handwritten excerpts of unpublished and published poetry and lyrics from his 28 privately held notebooks.You can also hear Jim Morrison's... -
Russian Short Stories for Beginners and Intermediate Learners: Engaging Short Stories to Learn Russian and Build Your Vocabulary by Language Guru 9781950321223
RRP: £6.99£6.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950321223Author Language GuruFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Language GuruPublisher Language GuruWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 6mm -
The Sin of Abbe Mouret by Emile Zola 9780198736639
RRP: £9.99£6.61'I really don't understand how people can blame a priest so much, when he strays from the path.' The Sin of AbbA (c) Mouret tells the compelling story of the young priest Serge Mouret. Striving after spiritual purity and sanctity, he lives a life of... -
Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley
RRP: £9.99£5.30In his 1932 classic dystopian novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley depicted a future society in thrall to science and regulated by sophisticated methods of social control. Nearly thirty years later in Brave New World Revisited, Huxley checked the... -
The Space of Literature: A Translation of "L'Espace litteraire" by Maurice Blanchot
RRP: £27.99£24.52Maurice Blanchot, the eminent literary and cultural critic, has had a vast influence on contemporary French writers-among them Jean Paul Sartre and Jacques Derrida. From the 1930s through the present day, his writings have been shaping the international... -
Teenage Writings by Jane Austen
RRP: £9.99£7.32'Jane Austen practising' Virginia Woolf Three notebooks of Jane Austen's teenage writings survive. The earliest pieces probably date from 1786 or 1787, around the time that Jane, aged 11 or 12, and her older sister and collaborator Cassandra left... -
Wilfred Owen by Wilfred Owen 9780571315284
RRP: £12.99£8.80No poetry has touched readers' hearts more deeply than the soldier poets of the First World War. Published to commemorate the centenary of 1914, this stunning set of books, with specially commissioned covers by leading print makers, is an essential... -
Plot 29: A Memoir: LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD AND WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE by Allan Jenkins
RRP: £10.99£7.46'When I am disturbed, even angry, gardening has been a therapy. When I don't want to talk I turn to Plot 29, or to a wilder piece of land by a northern sea. There, among seeds and trees, my breathing slows; my heart rate too. My anxieties... -
Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius by Nick Hornby
RRP: £9.99£7.32The essential gift for lovers of Prince, Dickens and everyone in between!In Nick Hornby's completely joyous and original new book two great figures share the stage. Charles Dickens and Prince. Two wildly different artists who caught fire and lit up the... -
Rome: The Passenger by Various
RRP: £18.99£12.83The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, and reportage from around the world. Its aim, to break down barriers and introduce the essence of the place. Packed with essays and investigative journalism; original photography and... -
The Turkish Embassy Letters (1763) by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
£22.97In 1716, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's husband Edward Montagu was appointed British ambassador to the Sublime Porte of the Ottoman Empire. Despite discouragement from friends that feared for her safety, she accompanied her husband to Turkey and wrote an... -
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... -
The Wheel is Spinning but the Hamster is Dead: A Journey Around the World in Idioms, Proverbs and General Nonsense by Adam Sharp 9781398715929
RRP: £10.99£7.50Know your tater trap from your sniffle herring in Sharp's journey around the world in idioms, proverbs and general nonsense - the perfect gift for Christmas'Brilliant, hilarious fun from a master wordsmith - you will LOVE this book' Kit de Waal'Extremely... -
The Ghosts of Birds by Eliot Weinberger
RRP: £12.99£11.63The Ghosts of Birds offers thirty-five essays by Eliot Weinberger: the first section of the book continues his linked serial-essay, An Elemental Thing, which pulls the reader into "a vortex for the entire universe" (Boston Review). Here, Weinberger... -
Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004–2022 by Margaret Atwood 9781529114980
RRP: £12.99£9.34In Burning Questions Atwood aims her constant curiosity and impish humour at our world and reports back to us on what she finds.In it she seeks answers to Burning Questions such as:Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories?How can we live... -
Everybody by Olivia Laing
RRP: £10.99£7.73'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 Message from Ukraine by Volodymyr Zelensky
RRP: £9.99£7.32'Remarkable' The Times'Inspiring' Caroline Lucas 'Compelling' Observer'A masterpiece' Paul MasonPresident Volodymyr Zelensky's message to the world - a rallying cry for us all to stand up, support Ukraine and fight for democracyThe words of a man. The... -
The Narrative of Trajan's Column by Italo Calvino
RRP: £7.99£5.98'When the last fire goes out, time too will be finished'Italo Calvino was one of the most joyful and imaginative writers of the twentieth century. Here he muses on what the things we leave behind - whether waxworks or ancient graffiti, enigmatic maps or... -
Italian Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Hainsworth 9780199231799
RRP: £8.99£6.65In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey consider Italian literature from the Middle Ages to the present day, looking at themes and issues which have recurred throughout its history and continue to be of importance today. ... -
Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other by Danielle Dutton 9781913513535
RRP: £12.00£8.53In Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other, Danielle Dutton imagines new models for how literature might work in our fractured times. Dutton’s writing is as protean as it is beguiling, using the different styles and different spaces of experience to create a... -
Look Evelyn, Duck Dynasty Wiper Blades, We Should Get Them: A Collection of New Essays by David R Thorne 9780988689527
RRP: £18.16£16.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988689527Author David R ThorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint 27bslash6Publisher 27bslash6Weight(grams) 236g