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Low Life - Irreverent Reflections from the Bottom of a Glass by Late Jeffrey Bernard
RRP: £12.99£8.87Described as the Tony Hancock of journalism, for forty years Bernard wrote only about himself and the failures of his life - with women, drink, doctors, horses - which have become legendary. Low Life is an irresistible collection of the best of... -
Insomniac City: New York, Oliver Sacks, and Me by Bill Hayes
RRP: £12.99£9.34____________________________ A moving celebration of what Bill Hayes calls 'the evanescent, the eavesdropped, the unexpected' of life in New York City, and an intimate glimpse of his relationship with the late Oliver Sacks. ... -
Early Socratic Dialogues by Emlyn-Jones Chris
RRP: £12.99£9.34Rich in drama and humour, they include the controversial Ion, a debate on poetic inspiration; Laches, in which Socrates seeks to define bravery; and Euthydemus, which considers the relationship between philosophy and politics. Together, these dialogues... -
Antigone and other Tragedies: Antigone, Deianeira, Electra by Sophocles 9780192806864
RRP: £4.99£3.90Sophocles stands as one of the greatest dramatists of all time, and one of the most influential on artists and thinkers over the centuries. His plays are deeply disturbing and unpredictable, unrelenting and open-ended, refusing to present firm answers to... -
Parallel Text: French Short Stories: Nouvelles Francaises by Simon Lee
RRP: £10.99£7.99These eight stories by leading 20th century French writers offer fascinating insights into French life and literature and are accompanied by a parallel English text, making them valuable for both French and English language students.Among the diverse and... -
A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain by Daniel Defoe
RRP: £14.99£11.35Britain in the early eighteenth century: an introduction that is both informative and imaginative, reliable and entertaining. To the tradition of travel writing Daniel Defoe brings a lifetime's experience as a businessman, soldier, economic journalist... -
Catiline's War, The Jugurthine War, Histories by Sallust
RRP: £10.99£7.99Sallust (86-c. 35 bc) is the earliest Roman historian of whom complete works survive, a senator of the Roman Republic and younger contemporary of Cicero, Pompey and Julius Caesar. His Catiline's War tells of the conspiracy in 63 bc led by L. Sergius... -
An Editor's Burial: Journals and Journalism from the New Yorker and Other Magazines by Various
RRP: £10.99£7.54A glimpse of post-war France through the eyes and words of 14 (mostly) expatriate journalists including Mavis Gallant, James Baldwin, A.J. Liebling, S.N. Behrman, Luc Sante, Joseph Mitchell, and Lillian Ross; plus, portraits of their editors William... -
No Judgement: On Being Critical by Lauren Oyler 9780349016511
RRP: £20.00£11.65A brilliant and addictive collection of brand-new essays on modern culture - from 'the pre-eminent and most widely read critic of her generation' The Times Included as a 2024 highlight in the Observer, Stylist, the Skinny, BBC Online and the Independent... -
If You're A Girl: Revised and Expanded Edition by Ann Rower 9781635902020
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635902020Author Ann RowerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher Semiotext (E) -
Styles of Radical Will by Susan Sontag
RRP: £14.00£10.02This collection of essays contains some of the most important pieces of criticism of the twentieth century, including the classics 'The Aesthetics of Silence', a brilliant account of language, thought and consciousness, and 'Trip to Hanoi', written... -
The VERY Embarrassing Book of Dad Jokes: Because your dad thinks he's hilarious Ian Allen 9781907554537
RRP: £12.99£8.71Why did the banana go to the doctors? Because he wasn't peeling very well! Proving the age-old maxim that 'it's in the way that you tell them', Dads - for the best part of forever - have always been renowned for being truly god-awful joke tellers... -
The Complete Plays by Christopher Marlowe
RRP: £12.99£9.34Marlowe's seven plays dramatise the fatal lure of potent forces, whether religious, occult or erotic. In the victories of Tamburlaine, Faustus's encounters with the demonic, the irreverence of Barabas in THE JEW OF MALTA, and the humiliation of Edward... -
Fences & Ma Rainey's Black Bottom by August Wilson
RRP: £12.99£9.34NOW A NETFLIX FILM STARRING VIOLA DAVIS AND CHADWICK BOSEMAN *Two stunning, intensely powerful modern classics about race in 20th century America from the legendary Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright August Wilson*In Ma Rainey's Black... -
Wouldn't Take Nothing For My Journey Now Dr Maya Angelou 9781860491405
RRP: £10.99£7.61Lessons in living from the bestselling and beloved author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGSA brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMAThe woman warrior who is armed with wit and courage will be among the first to... -
Of the Abuse of Words by John Locke
RRP: £7.99£5.98John Locke was one of the greatest figures of the Enlightenment, whose assertion that reason is the key to knowledge changed the face of philosophy. These writings on thought, ideas, perception, truth and language are some of the most influential in the... -
Modern Love: Now an Amazon Prime series Daniel Jones 9781472270337
RRP: £14.99£10.05A joyful collection of the most popular, provocative, and unforgettable essays from the New York Times 'Modern Love' column, featuring stories from the upcoming anthology series starring Tina Fey, Andy Garcia, Anne Hathaway, Catherine Keener, Dev Patel,... -
My Man Jeeves P.G. Wodehouse 9781841591469
RRP: £15.00£11.13Containing drafts of stories later rewritten for other collections (including Carry On, Jeeves), My Man Jeeves offers a fascinating insight into the genesis of comic literature's most celebrated double-act. All the stories are set in New York, four of... -
Matter and Making in Early English Poetry: Literary Production from Chaucer to Sidney by Taylor Cowdery 9781009223744
RRP: £85.00£77.00What is literature made from? During the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries, this question preoccupied the English court poets, who often claimed that their poems were not original creations, but adaptations of pre-existing materials. Their... -
My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass 9780300190595
£13.03"David Blight has produced a fine edition of Douglass' second autobiography. This is an essential work in African-American and American history, and displays Douglass' developing strength as a writer and political leader."-Richard Slotkin, Wesleyan... -
The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs by William S. Burroughs
RRP: £12.99£9.34William Burroughs' work was dedicated to an assault upon language, traditional values and all agents of control. Produced at a time when he was at his most extreme and messianic, The Job lays out his abrasive, incisive, paranoiac, maddened and maddening... -
In the Land of the Cyclops: Essays by Karl Ove Knausgaard
RRP: £10.99£7.99A brilliantly wide-ranging essay collection from the author of My Struggle, spanning literature, philosophy, art and how our daily and creative lives intertwine.In the Land of the Cyclops is Karl Ove Knausgaard's first collection of essays to be... -
The Life Audit: A workbook for a healthier, happier you by Michelle Moroney
RRP: £17.99£13.35Michelle Moroney, life coach and owner of The Cliffs of Moher Retreat, has been facilitating retreats for over 15 years, and has recognised the desires that connect us all. We want to be happy. We want to feel better. We want to get the most out of life... -
The Excellence of the Arabs by Ibn Qutaybah 9781479899265
RRP: £13.99£11.46The Excellence of the Arabs is a spirited defense of Arab identity-its merits, values, and origins-at a time of political unrest and fragmentation, written by one of the most important scholars of the early Abbasid era. In the cosmopolitan milieu of... -
Victims of a Map: A Bilingual Anthology of Arabic Poetry by Adonis 9780863565243
RRP: £9.99£7.00Mahmud Darwish, Samih al-Qasim and Adonis are amongst the leading poets in the Arab world today. Victims of a Map presents some of their finest work in translation, alongside the original Arabic, including thirteen poems by Darwish never before published... -
Roots of Yoga by James Mallinson
RRP: £12.99£9.34'An indispensable companion for all interested in yoga, both scholars and practitioners' Professor Alexis G. J. S. SandersonDespite yoga's huge global popularity, relatively little of its roots is known among practitioners. This compendium includes a... -
Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh
RRP: £14.99£12.57*THE NO.1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*For the first time in seven years, Allie Brosh, the creator of the immensely popular blog 'Hyperbole and a Half' and #1 New York Times bestselling author, returns with her new collection. Solutions and Other Problems... -
Known and Strange Things by Teju Cole
RRP: £14.99£10.06Shortlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayA blazingly intelligent first collection of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and Every Day Is for the Thief.With these pieces... -
The Sonnets: A Dual-Language Edition With Parallel Text by Jorge Luis Borges
RRP: £15.92£12.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143106012Author Jorge Luis BorgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 196mm... -
My Invented Country: A Memoir by Isabel Allende 9780007163106
RRP: £10.99£7.46The life story of Isabel Allende - one of the world's favourite writers - is as exotic, passionate and inspiring as one of her novels. Just three when her parents divorced, Isabel Allende was raised in her grandparents' home in Chile. She left... -
The Roads, Cols and Passes of the Pyrenees by Peter Cossins 9781912101245
£12.87Where do you turn when you want to ride in the mountains, to follow in the wheeltracks of professional racers by climbing the famous passes of the Tour de France? There are several books and websites that highlight these renowned ascents, detailing their... -
Oroonoko, the Rover and Other Works by Aphra Behn
RRP: £10.99£7.99When Prince Oroonoko's passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, the lovers are cast into slavery and transported from Africa to the colony of Surinam. Oroonoko's noble bearing soon wins the respect of his English captors,... -
The Odd 1s Out: How to Be Cool and Other Things I Definitely Learned from Growing Up by James Rallison
RRP: £13.99£9.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143131809Author James RallisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa by Haruki Murakami
RRP: £12.99£9.34An intimate conversation about music and creativity, between the internationally bestselling writer Haruki Murakami and world-class conductor, Seiji Ozawa. Haruki Murakami's passion for music runs deep. Before turning his hand to writing, he ran a jazz... -
Charlie Chan Is Dead 2: At Home in the World (An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction-- Revised and Updated) by Jessica Hagedorn 9780142003909
RRP: £30.00£22.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142003909Author Jessica HagedornFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)... -
The Seven Good Years by Etgar Keret 9781783780471
RRP: £8.99£6.28Over the last seven years Etgar Keret has had plenty of reasons to worry. His son, Lev, was born in the middle of a terrorist attack in Tel Aviv. His father became ill. And he has been constantly tormented by nightmarish visions of the Iranian president... -
Life is Real Only Then, When 'I Am': All and Everything Third Series by George Gurdjieff
RRP: £10.99£7.99This is one of the few records published by Gurdjieff in which he offers guidance to his 'community of seekers', the pupils from many countries who joined him in Paris and New York.The first section is mainly autobiographical, relating material crucial... -
One Hundred Letters From Hugh Trevor-Roper by Richard Davenport-Hines 9780198703112
RRP: £28.99£21.20The one hundred letters brought together for this book illustrate the range of Hugh Trevor-Roper's life and preoccupations: as an historian, a controversialist, a public intellectual, an adept in academic intrigues, a lover of literature, a traveller, a... -
Haywire: The Best of Craig Brown by Craig Brown
RRP: £25.00£16.83'The most screamingly funny living writer' Barry Humphries, Mail on Sunday From the bestselling and award-winning author of Ma'am Darling and One Two Three Four, a selection of Craig Brown's finest writing collected together for... -
Medea by Euripides 9780486275482
£4.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486275482Author Euripides EuripidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...