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So This is Permanence: Joy Division Lyrics and Notebooks by Ian Curtis
RRP: £25.00£17.59So this is permanence, edited by Jon Savage with a foreword by Deborah Curtis, presents the intensely personal writings of one of the most enigmatic and influential songwriters and performers of the late twentieth century, Joy Division's Ian Curtis. The... -
This is Not a Suicide Letter by Martin Douglas 9781800748576
RRP: £8.99£6.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800748576Author Martin DouglasFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers -
John Milton's Paradise Lost in Plain English by Professor John Milton 9780963962157
RRP: £13.30£12.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780963962157Author Professor John MiltonFormat PaperbackImprint New Arts LibraryPublisher New Arts LibraryWeight(grams) 513g -
Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time by Clive James
RRP: £16.99£12.27With fascinating essays on artists from Louis Armstrong to Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud to Franz Kafka and Beatrix Potter to Marcel Proust, Cultural Amnesia is one of the crowning achievements in Clive James's illustrious career as a critic.'One... -
Didn't You Use to Be Chris Mullin?: Diaries 2010-2022 by Chris Mullin
RRP: £25.00£12.12'The Queen was at the next table. I caught her staring at me during the national anthem and half-wondered whether someone had pointed me out as the author of that incident which the Mail on Sunday had splashed all over the front page of its review... -
Dandelions by Thea Lenarduzzi
RRP: £12.99£9.34Where, or what, is home? What has it meant, historically and personally, to be 'Italian' or 'English', or both in a culture that prefers us to choose? What does it mean to have roots? Or to have left a piece of oneself somewhere long since abandoned? ... -
Parodies, Hoaxes, Mock Treatises: Polite Conversation, Directions to Servants and Other Works by Jonathan Swift
£29.38Swift's parodies are among his most fascinating works, but perhaps require most explication for the modern reader. Valerie Rumbold brings a new depth and detail to the editing of Swift's Bickerstaff papers, 'Polite Conversation', 'Directions to Servants'... -
The Monsters and the Critics by J. R. R. Tolkien
RRP: £10.99£7.46Complete collection of Tolkien's essays, including two on Beowulf, which span three decades beginning six years before The Hobbit to five years after The Lord of the Rings. The seven 'essays' by J.R.R. Tolkien assembled in this new paperback... -
Come Close by Sappho
RRP: £3.00£2.63'Yes, we did many things, then - allBeautiful ...'Lyrical, powerful poems about love, sexuality, sun-soaked Greece and the gods.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and... -
Ancient Anger: Perspectives from Homer to Galen by Professor Susanna Morton Braund 9780521036429
RRP: £30.99£28.28Anger is found everywhere in the ancient world, starting with the very first word of the Iliad and continuing through all literary genres and every aspect of public and private life. Yet it is only recently, as a variety of disciplines start to devote... -
The Ramayana of Valmiki: The Complete English Translation by Robert P. Goldman
RRP: £25.00£20.90The definitive English translation of the classic Sanskrit epic poem-now available in a one-volume paperbackThe Ramayana of Valmiki, the monumental Sanskrit epic of the life of Rama, ideal man and incarnation of the great god Visnu, has profoundly... -
The Lost Diaries by Craig Brown 9780007436491
RRP: £12.99£8.71The Lost Diaries is a wide-ranging anthology of the world's greatest diarists, each of them channelled onto paper through the considerable psychic force that is Craig Brown. Arranged on a day-to-day basis, spread throughout an entire year,... -
Faces of Love by Hafez
RRP: £12.99£9.34Acclaimed translator Dick Davis breathes new life into the timeless works of three masters of fourteenth-century Persian literature.Together, Hafez, a giant of world literature; Jahan Malek Khatun, an eloquent princess; and Obayd-e Zakani, a dissolute... -
Claudia Jones: Beyond Containment by Carole Boyce Davies 9780956240163
RRP: £16.99£11.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956240163Author Carole Boyce DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Ayebia Clarke Publishing LtdPublisher Ayebia Clarke Publishing LtdWeight(grams)... -
Experiments in Imagining Otherwise Lola Olufemi 9781914221057
£13.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914221057Author Lola OlufemiFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Hajar PressPublisher Hajar Press -
Masques of Difference: Four Court Masques by Ben Jonson by Kristen McDermott
RRP: £10.99£9.99Masques of difference presents an annotated edition of four seventeenth-century entertainments written by Ben Jonson for the court of James I. These masques reflect both the confidence and the anxieties of the English aristocracy at a time when notions... -
Letters of Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson 9781841597898
RRP: £12.00£8.68The same inimitable voice and dazzling insights that make Emily Dickinson's poems immortal can be found in the whimsical, humorous, and often deeply moving letters she wrote to her family and friends throughout her life. The selection of letters... -
Aeschylus: v. I: Persians, Seven Against Thebes, Suppliants, Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
RRP: £24.95£23.60Four unconnected but unforgettable plays from ancient Athens' first great tragedian.Aeschylus (ca. 525-456 BC), the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world's great art forms, witnessed the establishment of democracy at Athens, fought ... -
Art Heals: How Creativity Cures the Soul Shaun McNiff 9781590301661
RRP: £26.00£17.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590301661Author Shaun McNiffFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Once There Was a War by John Steinbeck
RRP: £12.99£9.19'Do you know it, do you remember it, the drives, the attitudes, the terrors and, yes, the joys?' Thus Steinbeck introduces his collection of poignant and hard-hitting dispatches for the New York Herald Tribune when the Second World War was at its height... -
Dhuoda, Handbook for her Warrior Son: Liber Manualis by Marcelle Thiebaux 9780521395991
RRP: £49.99£43.02The Liber Manualis is a distinctive guidebook to conduct and survival in tumultuous times written by a Carolingian mother for her adolescent son. This edition provides a complete translation in English, accompanied by the Latin original. Advancing views... -
Letters of Note: Dogs by Shaun Usher
RRP: £7.99£5.64In Letters of Note: Dogs, Shaun Usher brings together a delightful collection of correspondence about our canine friends, featuring affectionate accounts of pups' playful misdemeanours, heartfelt tributes to loyal fidos and shared tales of remarkable... -
Gardening Without Work: For the Aging, the Busy, and the Indolent by Ruth Stout 9781626549531
£14.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626549531Author Ruth StoutFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Echo Point Books & MediaPublisher Echo Point Books & Media -
Wilfred Owen by Wilfred Owen
RRP: £8.99£6.28In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an... -
The Yage Letters: Redux by William S. Burroughs
RRP: £14.99£10.95William Burroughs closed his classic debut novel, Junky, by saying he had determined to search out a drug he called 'Yage' which he believed transmitted telepathic powers, a drug that could be 'the final fix'. In The Yage Letters - a mix of travel... -
The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of the Whole Stupid World Matt Kracht 9781797212272
RRP: £11.99£8.50Let's face it-all birds are fascinating, wonderful, idiotic jerks-no matter where in the world they reside. Following in the footsteps of the bestselling book The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America, this hilarious sequel ventures beyond to... -
Learn Ancient Greek by Peter Jones
RRP: £22.99£17.72Based on the same principles that lay behind the book "Learn Latin", this book provides the chance to read real ancient Greek. It teaches the reader enough Greek in 20 chapters to be able to read selected passages from the New Testament and from... -
Njal's Saga by Leifur Eiricksson
RRP: £10.99£7.99Written in the thirteenth century, Njal's Saga is a story that explores perennial human problems-from failed marriages to divided loyalties, from the law's inability to curb human passions to the terrible consequences when decent men and women are swept... -
Women on Nature: 100+ Voices on Place, Landscape & the Natural World Katharine Norbury 9781800181410
RRP: £12.99£8.35There has, in recent years, been an explosion of writing about place, landscape and the natural world. But within this, women's voices have remained in the minority. This anthology gathers the voices of women from the fourteenth to the twenty-first... -
Our Women on the Ground: Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World by Zahra Hankir
RRP: £10.99£7.99'Determination, grit and humour shine through' Lindsey Hilsum, ObserverNineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it's like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection.A growing number of intrepid Arab and... -
Speeches of Note: A celebration of the old, new and unspoken by Shaun Usher
RRP: £25.00£19.50______________________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... -
The Tale Of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu 9781857151084
RRP: £30.00£22.29This is the prose masterpiece of the Heian era of the 10th and 11th centuries, which is recognized as a great period in Japanese literature. It is an account of the intricate, exquisite, highly ordered court culture which made such a masterpiece possible... -
Constellation Myths: with Aratus's Phaenomena by Eratosthenes
RRP: £9.99£7.32'Athena seized the writhing serpent and hurled it into the sky, and fixed it to the very pole of the heavens.' The constellations we recognize today were first mapped by the ancient Greeks, who arranged the stars into patterns for that purpose. In... -
A Roland Barthes Reader by Roland Barthes
RRP: £16.99£12.28'To read through A Barthes Reader is finally to be left with the image of Barthes as one of the great public teachers of our time' New RepublicEdited by Susan Sontag, A Roland Barthes Reader offers a definitive selection of works by the French... -
The Dance of Death by Hans Holbein
RRP: £9.99£7.32'The underlying message of the series is, of course, that Death comes for us all, and if it interrupts the recreations of the wealthy rather more insolently than those of the poor, then let that be a lesson to us' Nick Lezard, GuardianA new departure in... -
Classic Krakauer: Mark Foo's Last Ride, After the Fall, and Other Essays by Jon Krakauer
RRP: £13.99£8.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984897695Author Jon KrakauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The Jungle: A Personal Journey with the Enfant Terrible of Nigerian Journalism by David Hundeyin 9781739267599
RRP: £15.99£11.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739267599Author David HundeyinFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Abibiman Publishing UKPublisher Abibiman Publishing UK -
Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries: English Literature and its Background 1760-1830 by Marilyn Butler 9780192891327
£52.03The Age of Revolutions and its aftermath is unparalleled in English literature. Its poets include Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats; its novelists, Jane Austen and Scott. But how is it that some of these writers were apparently... -
Dramatic Techniques for Creative Writers: Turbo-Charge Your Writing by Jules Horne 9780993435492
£11.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993435492Author Jules HorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint TexthousePublisher TexthouseDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 13mm -
How Do We Know We're Doing It Right?: The Sunday Times bestselling essay collection by Pandora Sykes 9781786091000
RRP: £10.99£7.99__________________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'...