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Van Gogh's Letters: The Mind of the Artist in Paintings, Drawings, and Words, 1875-1890 by H. Anna Suh
RRP: £20.00£16.24A beautiful, one-of-a-kind collection of more than 150 of Van Gogh's letters, paired with more than 250 works of art.Vincent Van Gogh wrote hundreds of letters to his brother Theo, as well as to family members and fellow artists including Paul Gauguin... -
Theaetetus by Plato 9780674991378
RRP: £24.95£23.39An epistemological diptych.Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BC. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is uncertain; that... -
How Do We Know We're Doing It Right?: The Sunday Times bestselling essay collection by Pandora Sykes 9781786091000
RRP: £10.99£7.77__________________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERStop searching for the answers - and start delighting in the questions with Pandora Sykes, co-host of The High Low podcast.'Deliciously fascinating' MARIAN KEYES'Refreshing ... thoughtful, considered'... -
Oscar Wilde - The Major Works by Oscar Wilde
RRP: £11.99£8.43This 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 Wilde's poetry and prose short stories, plays, critical dialogues and his... -
Poems And Prose by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 9781857157352
RRP: £9.99£7.11A few magical poems by Coleridge remain among the most celebrated works in the language: KUBLA KHAN, CHRISTABEL and - above all -THE ANCIENT MARINER. All are included in this volume, together with many other superb but lesser-known poems and a selected... -
Feeding the Monster: Why horror has a hold on us Anna Bogutskaya 9780571385768
RRP: £16.99£12.18Zombies want brains. Vampires want blood. Cannibals want human flesh. All monsters need feeding.Horror has been embraced by mainstream pop culture more than ever before, with horror characters and aesthetics infecting TV, music videos and even TikTok... -
A Date with Language: Fascinating Facts, Events and Stories for Every Day of the Year by David Crystal 9781851246113
RRP: £25.00£19.47In this ingenious and diverse collection of 366 stories, events and facts about language, David Crystal presents a selection of insights from literary and linguistic writers, poets and global institutions, together with the weird and wonderful creations... -
The Haunting of Alma Fielding: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020 by Kate Summerscale
RRP: £9.99£7.70SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'A page-turner with the authority of history' PHILIPPA GREGORY 'As gripping as a novel. An engaging, unsettling, deeply satisfying read' SARAH WATERS London, 1938. Alma Fielding, an ordinary young... -
The Notebook by Jose Saramago
£19.99Thought-provoking and lyrical, The Notebook records the last year in the life of Jose Saramago. In these pages, beginning on the eve of the 2008 US presidential election, he evokes life in his beloved city of Lisbon, revisits conversations with friends,... -
Swann in Love by Marcel Proust 9780198744894
RRP: £8.99£6.45'Swann's love . . . could not have been torn out of him without destroying him almost entirely' Swann in Love is a brilliant, devastating novella that tells of infatuation, love, and jealousy. Set against the backdrop of Paris at the end of the... -
What Writers Read: 35 Writers on their Favourite Book by Pandora Sykes
RRP: £12.99£9.09A WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH In this love letter to reading, curated by Pandora Sykes in aid of the National Literacy Trust, bestselling and beloved writers share their favourite books: the ones they hold most dearly, that they return... -
The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe 9780393972856
£12.77In this Norton Critical Edition, G. R. Thompson has fully introduced, annotated, and edited each text. "Backgrounds and Contexts" includes fifty-seven carefully chosen documents that illuminate Poe's prolific but short career, among them reviews,... -
From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction by Robert Olen Butler
RRP: £12.99£11.01This comprehensive guide to writing creative fiction collects the lectures of the Pulitzer Prize winning author, Robert Olen Butler, transcribed and edited by Janet Burroway, the author of the classic text on creative writing, "Writing Fiction". "From... -
Black Renaissance: St. Orpheus Breviary, Vol. II by Miklos Szentkuthy 9781940625263
RRP: £16.50£13.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940625263Author Miklos SzentkuthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Contra Mundum PressPublisher Contra Mundum PressWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm)... -
Welcome Home: A Memoir with Selected Photographs and Letters by Lucia Berlin
RRP: £9.99£7.27'Evocative . . . poignant . . . acute and funny' Observer'The Revival of the Great Lucia Berlin Continues Apace' New York TimesBest known for her short fiction, it was upon publication of A Manual for Cleaning Women in 2015 that Lucia Berlin's status as... -
The Trojan Women and Other Plays by Euripides
RRP: £8.99£6.45Hecuba The Trojan Women Andromache In the three great war plays contained in this volume Euripides subjects the sufferings of Troy's survivors to a harrowing examination. The horrific brutality which both women and children undergo evokes a... -
Chasing Shadows: A true story of drugs, war and the secret world of international crime by Miles Johnson 9780349128641
RRP: £25.00£16.78LONGLISTED FOR THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION 2024 ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR BEST NEW AUTHOR AT THE 2024 TRUE CRIME AWARDS'Read this powerful book by Miles Johnson right now. It will make you realise that what we call terrorism is... -
Letters of Note: Love by Shaun Usher
RRP: £6.99£4.84In Letters of Note: Love, Shaun Usher gathers together some of the most powerful messages about love ever composed, whether inspired by love's first blush or the recriminations at its ending, the regrets of unrequited feelings and the joys of passions... -
Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun: An Almanac of Extreme Girlhood by Jackie Wang 9781635901924
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635901924Author Jackie WangFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher Semiotext (E) -
My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem 9781780749204
RRP: £9.99£7.11THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE HIT BBC SERIES, MRS. AMERICA Gloria Steinem had an itinerant childhood. Every fall, her father would pack the family into the car and they would drive across the country, in search of their next adventure. The seeds were... -
The Diaries of Nella Last: Writing in War and Peace by Patricia Malcolmson 9781846685460
RRP: £14.99£10.95'I can never understand how the scribbles of such an ordinary person ... can possibly have value.' So wrote Nella Last in her diary on 2 September 1949. More than sixty years on, tens of thousands of people have read and enjoyed three volumes of her... -
The Andy Warhol Diaries Edited by Pat Hackett by Andy Warhol
RRP: £16.99£12.68NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES'His last great work of art' Nicholas Lezard, Guardian'Cruel, sexy, and sometimes heartbreaking ... Warhol is no neutral observer, but a character in his own right' Newsweek Andy Warhol kept these diaries faithfully from... -
How to Use Your Enemies by Baltasar Gracian
RRP: £3.00£2.49'Better mad with the crowd than sane all alone'In these witty, Machiavellian aphorisms, unlikely Spanish priest Baltasar Gracian shows us how to exploit friends and enemies alike to thrive in a world of deception and illusion.Introducing Little Black... -
No Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul Satre
RRP: £16.00£11.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679725169Author Jean-Paul SartreFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
What are We Doing Here? by Marilynne Robinson 9780349010465
RRP: £18.99£16.78New essays by the Orange and Pulitzer Prize winning author of Gilead, Home and Lila. In this collection, Marilynne Robinson, one of today's most important thinkers - admired by President Obama, and so many others - impels us to action and offers us hope... -
Selected Poems and Fragments by Friedrich Holderlin
RRP: £14.99£10.95Friedrich Hoelderlin (1770-1843) is now recognized as one of Europe's supreme poets. He first found his true voice in the epigrams and odes he wrote when transfigured by his love for the wife of a rich banker. He later embarked on an extraordinarily... -
Theft by Finding: Diaries: Volume One by David Sedaris
RRP: £10.99£7.40THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'He's like an American Alan Bennett, in that his own fastidiousness becomes the joke, as per the taxi encounter, or his diary entry about waiting interminably in a coffee-bar queue' Guardian review of An Evening with David... -
Don Juan by Lord Byron
RRP: £16.99£12.28Byron's exuberant masterpiece tells of the adventures of Don Juan, beginning with his illicit love affair at the age of sixteen in his native Spain and his subsequent exile to Italy. Following a dramatic shipwreck, his exploits take him to Greece, where... -
The Complete Fables by Aesop
RRP: £8.99£7.07A slave who represented his masters in court and negotiations, Aesop relied on allegorical animal stories, collected here in The Complete Fables, to convey his key points. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Greek by Olivia and Robert... -
Sex & Disorganisation by Jamieson Webster
RRP: £11.99£8.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916425095Author Jamieson WebsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Divided PublishingPublisher Divided Publishing -
How to Be Healthy: An Ancient Guide to Wellness by Katherine D. Van Schaik 9780691206271
RRP: £14.99£12.15Timeless wisdom about how to be healthy in body and mind from one of the greatest physicians of the ancient worldThe second-century Greek physician Galen-the most famous doctor in antiquity after Hippocrates-is a central figure in Western medicine. A... -
Welsh (Plural): Essays on the Future of Wales by Darren Chetty 9781913462666
RRP: £12.99£8.13What does it mean to imagine Wales and 'The Welsh' as something both distinct and inclusive? In Welsh (Plural), some of the foremost Welsh writers consider the future of Wales and their place in it. For many people, Wales brings to mind the same old... -
In the Margins. On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing by Elena Ferrante
RRP: £13.99£9.03"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 Four Horsemen: The Discussion that Sparked an Atheist Revolution Foreword by Stephen Fry by Richard Dawkins
RRP: £16.99£12.28_________________Includes a foreword by STEPHEN FRY'A classic for our time...And all time.' - Michael Shermer'The words of Hitchens, Dawkins, Harris and Dennett are needed more than ever. These are the heirs to Voltaire.' - Matt RidleyKnown as the 'four... -
The Givenness Of Things by Marilynne Robinson
RRP: £9.99£5.96A profound essay collection from the beloved author of Gilead, Houskeeping and Lila, including Marilynne Robinson's conversation with President Barack Obama. 'Grace and intelligence ...[her work] defines universal truths about what it means to be human'... -
Confessions of a Bookseller: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER by Shaun Bythell 9781788162319
RRP: £10.99£7.77A 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... -
The Words of Gandhi by Mahatma Gandhi
RRP: £8.99£7.56Gandhi's ideas are as meaningful today as they were during his long and inspiring life. His enlightening thoughts and beliefs, especially on violence and the atomic bomb, reveal his eloquent foresight about our contemporary world. The words of one of the... -
Tales of the Elders of Ireland by Ann Dooley
RRP: £10.99£7.77"'Dear holy cleric,' they said, 'these old warriors tell you no more than a third of their stories, because their memories are faulty. Have these stories written down on poets' tablets in refined language, so that the hearing of them will provide... -
This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers by Elias Jahshan 9780863564789
RRP: £14.99£9.80This ground-breaking anthology features the compelling and courageous memoirs of eighteen queer Arab writers - some internationally bestselling, others using pseudonyms. heart-warming connections and moments of celebration sit alongside essays exploring... -
The Fall of Icarus by Ovid
RRP: £3.00£2.49'Drawn on by his eagerness for the open sky, he left his guide and soared upwards...'Ovid tells the tales of Theseus and the Minotaur, Daedalus and Icarus, the Calydonian Boar-Hunt, and many other famous myths.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books...