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Virgil, Aeneid II: A Selection by Dominic Jones
RRP: £16.99£15.22This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 3) prescription of Virgil's Aeneid Book 2, lines 40-249 and the A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Book 2, lines 268-317, 370-558, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary,... -
Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971 - 2001 by Seamus Heaney 9780571210916
RRP: £20.00£13.46Finders Keepers is a gathering of Seamus Heaney's prose of three decades. Whether autobiographical, topical or specifically literary, these essays and lectures circle the central preoccupying questions: How should a poet properly live and write? What is... -
The Tales of Ise by Peter Macmillan
RRP: £12.99£9.34One of the three seminal works of Japanese literature, this beautiful collection of poems and tales offers an unparalleled insight into ancient Japan.Along with the Tale of Genji and One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each, The Tales of Ise is considered one of... -
A Royal Life HRH The Duke of Kent 9781529389708
RRP: £25.00£17.03'A pleasure to read... a timely reminder of the need for service' -- The Daily Telegraph'The voices and reminiscence of family and friends merge seamlessly, giving the impression of gathering round the fire on a winter evening' -- The OldieHRH The Duke... -
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters by Andrew Stauffer 9781009200165
RRP: £25.00£18.30Lord Byron was the most celebrated of all the Romantic poets. Troubled, handsome, sexually fluid, disabled, and transgressive, he wrote his way to international fame - and scandal - before finding a kind of redemption in the Greek Revolution. He also... -
Poems And Prose by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 9781857157352
RRP: £9.99£7.32A 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... -
The Haunting of Alma Fielding: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020 by Kate Summerscale
RRP: £9.99£7.97SHORTLISTED 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... -
On Cats Charles Bukowski 9781782117278
RRP: £9.99£6.90'A cat is only ITSELF, representative of the strong forces of life that won't let go'For Charles Bukowski there was something majestic and elemental about cats. He considered them to be sentient beings, whose searing gaze could penetrate deep into our... -
The Histories by Cornelius Tacitus 9780199540709
RRP: £10.99£7.99`The story I now commence is rich in vicissitudes, grim with warfare, torn by civil strife, a tale of horror even during times of peace.' Edward Gibbon called The Histories an `immortal work, every sentence of which is pregnant with the deepest... -
I Remember by Joe Brainard
RRP: £14.99£12.75Joe 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... -
Written in History: Letters that Changed the World Simon Sebag Montefiore 9781474609197
RRP: £9.99£7.00INCLUDES NEW MATERIALWRITTEN IN HISTORY celebrates the great letters of world history, creative culture and personal life. Acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore selects over one hundred letters from ancient times to the twenty-first century: some... -
What Writers Read: 35 Writers on their Favourite Book Pandora Sykes 9781526657480
RRP: £12.99£9.34A 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... -
How to Land an A330 Airbus: And Other Vital Skills for the Modern Man by James May
RRP: £10.99£7.61Being given yet another pointless 'man manual' that told him fifty ways to tie a bow tie in under 30 seconds made James May, co-presenter of The Grand Tour, certain there was a need for another kind of book. This book, in fact. He reckons there are nine... -
Keith Haring Journals by Keith Haring
RRP: £16.99£12.47Keith Haring is synonymous with the downtown New York art scene of the 1980's. His artwork-with its simple, bold lines and dynamic figures in motion-filtered in to the world's consciousness and is still instantly recognizable, twenty years after his... -
Oscar Wilde - The Major Works by Oscar Wilde
RRP: £11.99£8.66This 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... -
Republic by Plato 9780872201361
RRP: £13.99£12.01The revised edition of Grube's classic translation follows and furthers Grube's noted success in combining fidelity to Plato's text with natural readability, while reflecting the fruits of new scholarship and insights into Plato's thought since... -
Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies 1932-1935: Starring Bucky Bug and Donald Duck by Al Taliaferro 9781683967019
RRP: £39.99£28.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683967019Author Al TaliaferroFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Fantagraphics BooksPublisher Fantagraphics BooksWeight(grams) 1152gDimensions(mm) 226mm... -
Oxford Student Texts: Wilfred Owen: Selected Poems by Helen Cross
£11.76One of a series designed to provide a new, accessible approach to the works of great poets and playwrights. Each text includes general notes on the text; discussion of themes, issues and context; and suggestions for further reading.One of a series, this... -
Chicken Soup For The Soul: 101 Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit by Jack Canfield
RRP: £16.99£12.28Chicken Soup for the Soul is a heartwarming collection of tales that will inspire you to live your dreams. The stories demonstrate the best qualities we share as human beings: compassion, grace, forgiveness, generosity and faith and they share a... -
Farewell the Trumpets by Jan Morris
RRP: £14.99£10.06Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat traces the momentous decline and fall of the greatest of empires - from Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee to the death of Winston Churchill in 1965. With characteristic balance, this masterpiece of narrative... -
Welcome Home: A Memoir with Selected Photographs and Letters by Lucia Berlin
RRP: £9.99£7.48'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... -
Complete Poems by Christina G. Rossetti
RRP: £18.99£14.61Rossetti is unique among Victorian poets for the sheer range of her subject matter and the variety of her verse form. This collection brings together fantasy poems, such as Goblin Market, and terrifyingly vivid verses for children, love lyrics and... -
The Harlem Ghetto: Essays by James Baldwin 9780807018651
RRP: £17.99£12.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807018651Author James BaldwinFormat HardbackPage Count 56Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
The Flame Trees Of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood by Elspeth Huxley
RRP: £10.99£7.99When Elspeth Huxley's pioneer father buys a remote plot of land in Kenya, the family sets off to discover their new home: five hundred acres of Kenyan scrubland, infested with ticks and white ants, and quavering with heat. What they lack in know-how they... -
Spring: An Anthology for the Changing Seasons by Melissa Harrison
RRP: £12.99£8.96It is a time of awakening. In our -fields, hedgerows and woodlands, our beaches, cities and parks, an almost imperceptible shift soon becomes a riot of sound and colour: winter ends, and life surges forth once more. Whether in town or country, we all... -
Notes from the Henhouse: Collected Essays by Elspeth Barker 9781399612494
RRP: £18.99£12.94'This book is heaven. Elspeth Barker writes like no one else'OLIVIA LAING'Deserves to be permanently on the bedside table - to cheer, reassure and inspire'OBSERVER'Gothic, poetic and exuberantly funny. What a pleasure it was to read'ESTHER FREUD'Joyous,... -
How to Use Your Enemies by Baltasar Gracian
RRP: £3.00£2.63'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... -
Old and Middle English c.890-c.1450: An Anthology Elaine Treharne (Florida State University) 9781405181204
RRP: £36.95£34.36Spanning almost seven centuries, this anthology encapsulates the foundation and consolidation of literature written in English, culminating in some of the finest works produced in English in the high Middle Ages. New edition of this widely-used... -
Selected Writings John Muir 9781841593777
RRP: £14.99£11.51This volume of John Muir's selected writings chronicles the key turning points in his life and study of the American wilderness. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth is Muir's account of his childhood on a Wisconsin farm, where his interest in nature was... -
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... -
Plays by Anton Chekhov 9780140447330
RRP: £9.99£7.42Five masterful dramatic works from one of the world's best-loved playwrights, Anton Chekhov's Plays is translated with notes by Peter Carson, and an introduction by Richard Gilman in Penguin Classics.At a time when the Russian theatre was dominated by... -
Collected Maxims and Other Reflections by Francoi de La Rochefoucauld
RRP: £10.99£7.21'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,... -
Sex & Disorganisation by Jamieson Webster
RRP: £11.99£8.22Apologies 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 -
The Kindness of Strangers: Travel Stories That Make Your Heart Grow Levison Wood 9781786855312
RRP: £10.99£7.20Travel is the only thing you can buy that makes you richerTravel opens our minds to the world; it helps us to embrace risk and uncertainty, overcome challenges and understand the people we meet and the places we visit. But what happens when we arrive... -
The Words of Gandhi by Mahatma Gandhi
RRP: £8.99£7.85Gandhi'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... -
What are Universities For? by Stefan Collini
RRP: £10.99£7.99Across the world, universities are more numerous than they have ever been, yet at the same time there is unprecedented confusion about their purpose and scepticism about their value. What Are Universities For? offers a spirited and compelling argument... -
The Norton Anthology of English Literature by Stephen Greenblatt 9780393603057
£37.86The most trusted anthology for complete works and helpful editorial apparatus. The Tenth Edition supports survey and period courses with NEW complete major works, NEW contemporary writers, and dynamic and easy-to-access digital resources. NEW video... -
Franz Kafka by Max Brod
RRP: £16.99£15.38Max Brod, a successful novelist, was a boyhood companion of Kafka's and remained closely tied to him until Kafka's death in 1924. He was undoubtedly the one man whom Kafka trusted more than any other, and it is to Brod, as his literary executor and... -
Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries (Volume 3): 1943-57 by Chips Channon
RRP: £35.00£25.29This third and final volume of the unexpurgated diaries of Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon begins as the Second World War is turning in the Allies' favour. It ends with Chips descending into poor health but still able to turn a pointed phrase about the... -
The Wheel of Fire by G. Wilson Knight 9780415253956
RRP: £14.99£13.58Originally published in 1930, this classic of modern Shakespeare criticism proves both enlightening and innovative. Standing head and shoulders above all other Shakespearean interpretations, this is the masterwork of the brilliant English scholar, G...