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Dark Night of the Soul by St. John of the Cross
RRP: €5.94€4.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486426938Author St. John Of theFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
NIV Pocket Mint Soft-tone Bible with Zip by New International Version
RRP: €22.60€16.20Small enough to take with you everywhere you go, this pocket Bible will ensure you have the Word of God at hand at all times. With a pastel mint soft imitation leather cover and matching zip, the Bible pages will be kept tidy and clean.This lovely gift... -
Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton
RRP: €13.08€9.25TIKTOK BOOK AWARDS WINNER 2023Read and loved it? Gift it to a friend this festive season!"Nearly everything I know about love, I've learnt from my long-term friendships with women."I know that love can be loud and jubilant. It can be dancing in the... -
A Russian Journal by John Steinbeck
RRP: €15.46€10.82Just after the iron curtain fell on Eastern Europe John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer, Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune. This rare opportunity took the famous travellers not only to... -
The Glamour Boys: The Secret Story of the Rebels who Fought for Britain to Defeat Hitler by Chris Bryant
RRP: €11.89€8.46A STORY OF UNSUNG BRAVERY AT A DEFINING MOMENT IN BRITAIN'S HISTORY 'Superb' Stephen Fry 'Thrillingly told' Dan Jones 'Fascinating' Neil MacGregor 'Astonishing' Peter Frankopan We like to think we know the story of how Britain went to war with... -
One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder by Brian Doyle
RRP: €17.84€11.66When Brian Doyle passed away at the age of sixty after a bout with brain cancer, he left behind a cult-like following of devoted readers who regard his writing as one of the best-kept secrets of the twenty- first century. Doyle writes with a delightful... -
Lost Woods by Rachel Carson
RRP: €11.89€7.97'Our origins are of the earth. And so there is in us a deeply seated response to the natural universe, which is part of our humanity.'Rachel Carson was one of the most important environmental thinkers and writers of the twentieth century. This collection... -
Everyday Shakespeare: Lines for Life by Ben Crystal
RRP: €20.22€11.88An absolutely joyous, gasp-out-loud achievement. - Stephen FryA cathedral of consciousness - Shakespeare's uncanny insight into human nature finds us, unearthed here. - LionHeart, artist, poet, and BBC Radio London presenterShakespeare had an ear and... -
How Does That Make You Feel?: True Confessions from Both Sides of the Therapy Couch by Sherry Amatenstein
RRP: €14.27€9.52How Does That Make You Feel? obliterates the boundaries between the shrink and the one being shrunk with unabashedly candid writers breaking confidentiality and telling all about their experiences in therapy.This revelatory, no-punches-pulled book... -
Wild Geese: A Collection of Nan Shepherd's Writings by Nan Shepherd 9781912916108
RRP: €10.70€7.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912916108Author Nan ShepherdFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo Publishers -
Notes on Camp by Susan Sontag
RRP: €3.57€2.96'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.'These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture, and made Susan Sontag a literary sensation.Penguin Modern: fifty new... -
Initiates of the Flame: The Deluxe Edition by Manly P Hall
RRP: €14.27€9.52Manly P. Hall was a leading writer on the occult and the esoteric during the 20th century. His work, including the legendary Secret Teachings for All Ages, has proven to be timeless, inspiring and fascinating readers for decades. Initiates of the Flame... -
The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg 9781911547143
RRP: €11.89€7.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of The Strega Prize 1963.Book InformationISBN 9781911547143Author Natalia GinzburgFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books -
The Paris Trilogy: A Life in Three Stories by Colombe Schneck 9781398529397
RRP: €17.84€11.14The Paris Trilogy is celebrated French author Colombe Schneck's first English language publication, translated by Lauren Elkin and Natasha Lehrer. Writing in response to Annie Ernaux and in conversation with Elena Ferrante, Colombe Schneck's three... -
On Not Knowing: How to Love and Other Essays by Emily Ogden 9781913512156
RRP: €13.08€8.81Moments of clarity are rare and fleeting; how can we become comfortable outside of them, in the more general condition of uncertainty within which we make our lives? Written by critic Emily Ogden while her children were small, On Not Knowing forays into... -
The Work Of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing by Adam Moss 9780593297582
RRP: €48.78€32.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593297582Author Adam MossFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Bantam PressPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey 9781900322911
RRP: €11.89€9.13While an illness keeps her bedridden, Elisabeth Bailey watches a wild snail that has taken up residence in a terrarium alongside her bed. She enters the rhythm of life of this mysterious creature, and comes to a greater understanding of her own confined... -
Lovebug by Daisy Lafarge 9781913512378
RRP: €13.08€8.81In Lovebug, Daisy Lafarge explores metaphors of love and disease as she seeks to understand human vulnerability and our intimacy with microbial life. Turning to microbiology, mysticism, and psychoanalysis - as well as the raw materials of love and... -
Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide to Happiness by Bill Bailey 9781529412482
RRP: €13.08€8.81WHAT MAKES US HAPPY? BILL BAILEY PLAYS CRAZY GOLF AND HUGS TREES TO FIND OUT.'A warm, funny read, full of personal anecdotes and love letters to things that bring Bill Bailey pleasure' Sunday Mirror'Very thoughtful and written in a delightfully humorous... -
Theory of Prose by Viktor Shklovsky
RRP: €15.46€10.27As time has proven, Theory of Prose still remains one of the twentieth century's most significant works of literary theory. It not only anticipates structuralism and poststructuralism, but poses questions about the nature of fiction that are as... -
Sea and Fog by Etel Adnan 9780984459872
RRP: €15.46€10.27These interrelated meditations explore the nature of the individual spirit and the individual spiritedness of the natural world. As skilled a philosopher as she is a poet, in Sea & Fog, Adnan weaves multiple sonic, theoretical, and syntactic pleasures... -
AZADI: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction. by Arundhati Roy
RRP: €13.08€9.25FROM THE BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF MY SEDITIOUS HEART AND THE MINISTRY OF UTMOST HAPPINESS, A NEW AND PRESSING DISPATCH FROM THE HEART OF THE CROWD AND THE SOLITUDE OF A WRITER'S DESKThe chant of 'Azadi!' - Urdu for 'Freedom!' - is the slogan of the freedom... -
Pro Caelio: Text in Latin, Commentary in English by Cicero 9780929524658
RRP: €14.27€11.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524658Author CiceroFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 110g -
The Empathy Exams: Essays by Leslie Jamison
RRP: €13.08€8.03The subjects of this stylish and audacious collection of essays range from an assault in Nicaragua to a Morgellons meeting; from Frida Kahlo's plaster casts to a gangland tour of LA. Jamison is interested in how we tell stories about injury and pain, and... -
The Way of Ch'an: Essential Texts of the Original Tradition by David Hinton
RRP: €30.94€20.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611809237Author David HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
RRP: €11.89€8.46'The story of the negro in America is the story of America ... it is not a very pretty story'James Baldwin's breakthrough essay collection made him the voice of his generation. Ranging over Harlem in the 1940s, movies, novels, his preacher father and his... -
The Diaries of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka 9780241695746
RRP: €28.56€18.96Available for the first time in English, the complete, uncensored diaries of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers 'The writing glimmers with sensitivity, and openness to the world' - The Wall Street JournalDating from 1909 to 1923,... -
On Being Blue by William H. Gass
RRP: €10.70€7.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590177181Author William H. GassFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History by Josephine Quinn 9781526605191
RRP: €20.22€16.58A Guardian, Financial Times, New Statesman, The Rest is Politics and Waterstones Highlight for 2024 'Quinn has done a lot more than reinvent the wheel. What we have here is a truly encyclopaedic and monumental account of the ancient world' THE TIMES 'A... -
Politics and the English Language by George Orwell
RRP: €3.56€2.95'Politics and the English Language' is widely considered Orwell's most important essay on style. Style, for Orwell, was never simply a question of aesthetics; it was always inextricably linked to politics and to truth.'All issues are political issues,... -
Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson by Emily Dickinson 9780963818362
€26.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780963818362Author Emily DickinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Paris Press IncorporatedPublisher Paris Press Incorporated -
Warning to the West by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
RRP: €10.70€7.68'Can one part of humanity learn from the bitter experience of another or can it not? Is it possible or impossible to warn someone of danger...to assess soberly the worldwide menace that threatens to swallow the whole world?I was swallowed myself. I have... -
Essays by George Orwell
RRP: €17.84€13.03The articles collected in George Orwell's Essays illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who elevated political writing to an art. This outstanding collection brings together Orwell's longer, major... -
Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures by Mary Ruefle
RRP: €21.41€14.64This is one of the wisest books I've read in years...--New York Times Book Review No writer I know of comes close to even trying to articulate the weird magic of poetry as Ruefle does. She acknowledges and celebrates in the odd mystery and mysticism of... -
The Diaries of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka
RRP: €45.22€30.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805243550Author Franz KafkaFormat HardbackPage Count 704Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 1009gDimensions(mm) 243mm * 163mm *... -
The Road to Wigan Pier (Collins Classics) by George Orwell
RRP: €3.56€2.78HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. If there is one man to whom I do feel myself inferior, it is a coalminer. In the mid-1930s, George Orwell was given an assignment from his... -
A Man's Place – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE by Annie Ernaux
RRP: €11.89€7.97Annie Ernaux's father died exactly two months after she passed her exams for a teaching certificate. Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labour, Ernaux's father had grown into a hard, practical man who showed his family little... -
No Time to Spare: Thinking about What Matters by Ursula K Le Guin
RRP: €19.03€10.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Hugo Award (Related Book) 2018.Book InformationISBN 9781328507976Author Ursula K Le GuinFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper... -
Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton by Richard P. Feynman
RRP: €13.08€9.25Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure. An artist, safecracker, practical joker and storyteller, Feynman's life... -
Modern Nature: Journals, 1989 - 1990 by Derek Jarman
RRP: €13.08€9.25Read this meditative and inspiring diary of Derek Jarman's famous garden at Dungeness, which is also a powerful account of his life as an HIV positive man in the 1980s. In 1986 Derek Jarman discovered he was HIV positive and decided to make a garden at...