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Liberty: Vintage Minis by Virginia Woolf
RRP: £5.99£4.63Why should one half be free to live, while the other is doomed to watch silently from the sidelines? In this visionary collection, Virginia Woolf leads us on a transformative journey through the liberating powers of the mind. From an exploration of why... -
Do You Speak Football?: A Glossary of Football Words and Phrases from Around the World by Tom Williams 9781399410212
RRP: £12.99£9.34'At last, the definitive guide to football phraseology across the world... Sparky and very funny' - Paul Hayward 'Amusing and informative in equal measure' - Oliver Kay, The Athletic 'A wonderful, endlessly delightful book' - When Saturday Comes ... -
The Complete Poems by Walt Whitman
RRP: £16.99£12.68In 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass, the work which defined him as one of America's most influential voices, and which he added to throughout his life. A collection of astonishing originality and intensity, it spoke of politics, sexual... -
The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant: The Complete Annotated Edition by Ulysses S. Grant 9780674237858
RRP: £19.95£17.90"Leaps straight onto the roster of essential reading for anyone even vaguely interested in Grant and the Civil War."-Ron Chernow, author of Grant"Provides leadership lessons that can be obtained nowhere else... Ulysses Grant in his Memoirs gives us a... -
Guide to Greece: Central Greece by Pausanias
RRP: £14.99£10.95Written in the second century AD by a Greek traveller for a predominantly Roman audience, Pausanias' Guide to Greece is an extraordinarily literate and well-informed guidebook. A study of buildings, traditions and myth, it describes with precision and... -
Rosamunde Pilcher's Cornwall by Gill Knappett
RRP: £6.00£4.21From the elegance of the grand salons of Prideaux Place, Padstow's most stately of homes, to the wild and remote Cornish coastline, Rosamunde Pilcher captured in her novels Cornwall's unique, diverse beauty and compelling charm. WINNER of the Gorsedh... -
Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens
RRP: £11.99£8.66'When Dickens has described something you see it for the rest of your life' George OrwellIn 1844, Charles Dickens took a break from novel writing to travel through Italy for almost a year, and Pictures from Italy is an illuminating account of his... -
Transatlantic Vistas: Engagements with the Literatures of Wales and the United States M. Wynn Thomas 9781837721597
RRP: £19.99£15.47An edited collection of essays, interviews, and book reviews by M. Wynn Thomas. For more than half a century, M. Wynn Thomas has been Wales’s foremost literary critic. His ground-breaking work – on subjects ranging from Welsh Puritanism to Walt Whitman,... -
Epigrams: v. 1 by Martial
RRP: £24.95£23.76Poetic concision in abundance.It was to celebrate the opening of the Roman Colosseum in AD 80 that Martial published his first book of poems, "On the Spectacles." Written with satiric wit and a talent for the memorable phrase, the poems in this... -
Don’t Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet by Alice Robb 9780861547333
RRP: £10.99£7.99Can ballet ever be reconciled with feminist ideals? 'Beautiful, difficult, and compelling.' VANITY FAIR 'Don't think, dear,' said Balanchine. 'Just do.' For centuries, being a ballerina has been synonymous with being beautiful, thin, obedient... -
Image and Imagination: Essays and Reviews by C. S. Lewis 9781107639270
RRP: £16.99£14.10This selection from the writings of C. S. Lewis gathers together forty book reviews, never before reprinted, as well as four major essays which have been unavailable for many decades. A fifth essay, 'Image and Imagination', is published for the first... -
Letters of Note: Cats by Shaun Usher
RRP: £6.99£5.02In Letters of Note: Cats, Shaun Usher collects together the most engaging missives that celebrate, eulogise, rail against and analyse the idiosyncratic ways of our feline companions.Nikola Tesla, Elizabeth Taylor,Charles Dickens, Anne Frank,T.S. Eliot,... -
Paradise Lost by John Milton 9780393617085
£13.33This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1674 text of Paradise Lost, with emendations and adoptions from the first edition and from the scribal manuscript. Spelling and punctuation have been modernised for student readers.An illuminating introduction... -
Persians and Other Plays by Aeschylus
RRP: £10.99£7.99Aeschylus is the first of the great Greek playwrights, and the four plays in this volume demonstrate the remarkable range of Greek tragedy. Persians is the only surviving tragedy to draw on contemporary history, the Greeks' extraordinary victory over... -
Andromache, Hecuba, Trojan Women by Euripides 9781603847353
RRP: £12.99£11.06Diane Arnson Svarlien's translation of Euripides' Andromache, Hecuba, and Trojan Women exhibits the same scholarly and poetic standards that have won praise for her Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus. Ruth Scodel's Introduction examines the cultural and... -
I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries Of Victor Klemperer 1933-41 Victor Klemperer 9781474623179
RRP: £14.99£10.05A publishing sensation, the publication of Victor Klemperer's diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period.'A classic ... Klemperer's diary deserves to rank alongside that of Anne Frank's' SUNDAY TIMES'I can't... -
The Poems of Norman MacCaig by Norman MacCaig 9781846971365
RRP: £25.00£17.25This collection of Norman MacCaig's poems is offered as the definitive edition of his work. It has been edited by his son, Ewen. A prolific writer, MacCaig left about 600 unpublished poems after his death; 99 have been selected for inclusion here. The... -
The Christ Impulse: And the Development of Ego-Consciousness by Rudolf Steiner 9781855844063
RRP: £15.99£13.33Christ will reappear but in a higher reality than the physical one - in a reality which we will only see if we have first acquired a sense and understanding of spiritual life. Inscribe in your hearts what anthroposophy should be: a preparation for the... -
Ovid Fasti: A Selection by Dr Robert Cromarty
RRP: £12.99£12.05This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Ovid, Fasti 2.533-616, 687-852, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary, with a detailed introduction that also covers the prescribed material to be read in... -
Questions of Travel: William Morris in Iceland by Lavinia Greenlaw 9781910749562
RRP: £9.99£8.40Morris's intimate journals, written for a friend, unconsciously explore questions of travel, noting his reaction to the idea of leaving or arriving, to hurry and delay, what it means to dread a place you've never been to or to encounter the actuality of... -
Pro Caelio by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95£23.60Three postconsular speeches.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of ... -
The Discourses: Reflections on History, Sufism, Theology, and Literature-Volume One by al-Hasan al-Yusi
£33.75Wide-ranging essays on Moroccan history, Sufism, and religious life Al-Hasan al-Yusi was arguably the most influential and well-known Moroccan intellectual figure of his generation. In 1084/1685, at the age of roughly fifty-four, and after a long and... -
The Complete English Poems by John Donne 9780140422092
RRP: £12.99£9.34No poet has been more wilfully contradictory than John Donne, whose works forge unforgettable connections between extremes of passion and mental energy. From satire to tender elegy, from sacred devotion to lust, he conveys an astonishing range of... -
A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction by Terry Pratchett
RRP: £10.99£7.99Terry Pratchett in his own wordsWith a foreword by Neil GaimanTerry Pratchett earned a place in the hearts of readers the world over with his bestselling Discworld series - but in recent years he became equally well-known as an outspoken campaigner for... -
NKJV, Thinline Bible, Large Print, Leathersoft, Blue, Red Letter, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, New King James Version by Thomas Nelson
RRP: £25.00£16.83A balance of being both easy-to-read and easy-to-carry, this Bible is an ideal choice to take with you wherever you go.This edition is published in large NKJV Comfort Print type, which was designed exclusively for Thomas Nelson to be the most readable at... -
The Horrors and Absurdities of Religion by Arthur Schopenhauer
RRP: £7.99£5.98A fascinating examination of ethics, religion and psychology, this selection of Schopenhauer's works contains scathing attack on the nature and logic of religion, and an essay on ethics that ranges from the American slavery debate to the vices of... -
Horace: A Very Short Introduction by Llewelyn Morgan 9780192849649
RRP: £8.99£6.65Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Horace was one of the greatest poets during the reign of Augustus and is seen as a mark of cultural sophistication since this time. This Very Short Introduction examines how Horace's poetry has... -
African Enclosures? - The Social Dynamics of Wetlands in Drylands by Philip Woodhouse
RRP: £24.99£24.30This text examines community-based natural resource management in Africa. This book reveals a dynamic picture of African rural society in which production patterns change rapidly in response to market opportunities. These changes are driven largely by... -
Blueberries: essays concerning understanding by Ellena Savage 9781912854677
RRP: £10.99£7.54'I mean who cares about opinions, gossip, whatever, when bodies are so vulnerable, in search only of love and breath.' Brilliant young writer Ellena Savage explores Portuguese police stations and Portland college campuses, suburban Melbourne libraries... -
The Dark Interval: Letters for the Grieving Heart by Rainer Maria Rilke
RRP: £12.99£9.34From one of the most famous poets in history comes a new selection of writings to bereaved friends and acquaintances, providing comfort in a time of grief and words to soothe the soul. 'A treasure. The solace Rilke offers is uncommon, uplifting and... -
A Date with Language: Fascinating Facts, Events and Stories for Every Day of the Year by David Crystal 9781851246113
RRP: £25.00£19.77In 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 Letters of Ernest Hemingway : Volume 4, 1929-1931 by Ernest Hemingway 9780521897365
RRP: £30.00£23.63The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 4, spanning April 1929 through 1931, featuring many previously unpublished letters, records the establishment of Ernest Hemingway as an author of international renown following the publication of A Farewell to Arms... -
Russian Roulette: The Life and Times of Graham Greene by Richard Greene
RRP: £25.00£18.90Probably the greatest British novelist of his generation, Graham Greene's own story was as strange and compelling as those he told of Pinkie the Mobster, Harry Lime, or the Whisky Priest. A restless traveller, he was a witness to many of the key events... -
Lockdown Secrets: Postcards from the pandemic Eleanor Tattersfield 9781849947282
RRP: £12.99£9.54A compelling collection of anonymous postcards sent during lockdown, revealing hilarious, salacious, relatable and sometimes heartbreaking secret confessions. In the thick of the 2021 coronavirus lockdown, designer and shopowner Eleanor Tattersfield put... -
You're Dad: A Little Book for Fathers (and the People Who Love Them) by Liz Climo 9781250228130
RRP: £19.99£9.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250228130Author Liz ClimoFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Flatiron BooksPublisher Flatiron BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 132mm * 15mm -
A Hitch in Time: Writings from the London Review of Books by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: £12.99£8.80'Revisiting this selection of diaries and essay-reviews from the London Review of Books is restorative, an extended spa treatment that stretches tired brains and unkinks the usual habitual responses where Hitchens is concerned.' James Wolcott in his... -
Emma Raducanu by Sally Morgan 9780702316647
RRP: £5.99£4.21Read all about superstar tennis champion, Emma Raducanu! The incredible winner of the 2021 US Open has shot to fame and straight into the hearts of the world. Emerging as one of the most influential young sports stars ... -
The Eclogues by Virgil 9780140444193
RRP: £9.99£7.32Haunting and enigmatic, Virgil's Eclogues combined a Greek literary form with scenes from contemporary Roman life to create a work that inspired a whole European tradition of pastoral poetry. For despite their rustic setting and the beauty of their... -
GIRL: Essays on Black womanhood by Kenya Hunt
RRP: £9.99£6.01'Powerful, intelligent and vital - one of the year's must-reads' Hannah Nathanson, Features Director, ELLE Featuring contributions from Candice Carty-Williams, Jessica Horn, Ebele Okobi, Funmi Fetto and... -
Phaedrus by Plato 9780140449747
RRP: £9.99£7.27Phaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato's most profound and beautiful works. It takes the form of a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus and its ostensible subject is love, especially homoerotic love. This new translation is accompanied by an...