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Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide to Happiness by Bill Bailey 9781529412482
RRP: £10.99£7.40WHAT MAKES US HAPPY? BILL BAILEY PLAYS CRAZY GOLF AND HUGS TREES TO FIND OUT.'A warm, funny read, full of personal anecdotes and love letters to things that bring Bill Bailey pleasure' Sunday Mirror'Very thoughtful and written in a delightfully humorous... -
Theory of Prose by Viktor Shklovsky
RRP: £12.99£8.63As time has proven, Theory of Prose still remains one of the twentieth century's most significant works of literary theory. It not only anticipates structuralism and poststructuralism, but poses questions about the nature of fiction that are as... -
Politics and the English Language by George Orwell
RRP: £2.99£2.48'Politics and the English Language' is widely considered Orwell's most important essay on style. Style, for Orwell, was never simply a question of aesthetics; it was always inextricably linked to politics and to truth.'All issues are political issues,... -
Henry and June by Anais Nin
RRP: £9.99£7.11The brilliant tale of Anais Nin's true love affair with Henry Miller, and her ambiguous, charged relationship with his wife, June. Drawn from the journals of a single momentous year in Paris, Henry and June provides a wildly lyrical account of a woman's... -
Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson by Emily Dickinson 9780963818362
RRP: £21.95£14.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780963818362Author Emily DickinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Paris Press IncorporatedPublisher Paris Press Incorporated -
The Diaries of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka
RRP: £38.00£25.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805243550Author Franz KafkaFormat HardbackPage Count 704Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 1009gDimensions(mm) 243mm * 163mm *... -
Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton by Richard P. Feynman
RRP: £10.99£7.77Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure. An artist, safecracker, practical joker and storyteller, Feynman's life... -
Modern Nature: Journals, 1989 - 1990 by Derek Jarman
RRP: £10.99£7.77Read this meditative and inspiring diary of Derek Jarman's famous garden at Dungeness, which is also a powerful account of his life as an HIV positive man in the 1980s. In 1986 Derek Jarman discovered he was HIV positive and decided to make a garden at... -
How Does That Make You Feel?: True Confessions from Both Sides of the Therapy Couch by Sherry Amatenstein
RRP: £11.99£8.00How Does That Make You Feel? obliterates the boundaries between the shrink and the one being shrunk with unabashedly candid writers breaking confidentiality and telling all about their experiences in therapy.This revelatory, no-punches-pulled book... -
Aniara: a Review of Man in Time and Space by Harry 1904- Martinson 9781014154347
RRP: £18.95£15.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781014154347Author Harry 1904- MartinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams)... -
The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to the Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
RRP: £9.99£6.75Selected by NYU as one of the century's best books of American journalism.Gathered in this volume are seven long-form articles that John Steinbeck wrote in 1936 for The San Francisco News about the plight of migrant farmworkers during the Dust Bowl,... -
Hobson-Jobson: The Definitive Glossary of British India by Sir Henry Yule
RRP: £8.99£6.45'A glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases, and of kindred terms, etymological, historical, geographical and discursive.' Hobson-Jobson is a unique work of maverick scholarship. Compiled in 1886 by two India enthusiasts, it documents the... -
The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde
RRP: £7.99£5.79'A brave, beautiful book that could double as a handbook to accompany anyone on their journey through cancer' Jackie Kay, New StatesmanThe Cancer Journals is an intimate, poetic and invigorating account of the experience of breast cancer, from biopsy to... -
Nay Rather: The Cahier Series 21 by Anne Carson 9781909631038
RRP: £14.00£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909631038Author Anne CarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Sylph EditionsPublisher Sylph Editions -
Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi 9780755651481
RRP: £10.99£8.38Internationally acclaimed Egyptian feminist writer Nawal El Saadawi's landmark novel Woman at Point Zero, published here with a new foreword. Firdaus is on death row. Her crime, the murder of a man. Born into poverty in a rural Egyptian village, her... -
The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg 9781911547143
RRP: £9.99£6.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of The Strega Prize 1963.Book InformationISBN 9781911547143Author Natalia GinzburgFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books -
Pro Caelio: Text in Latin, Commentary in English by Cicero 9780929524658
RRP: £11.99£9.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524658Author CiceroFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 110g -
The Empathy Exams: Essays by Leslie Jamison
RRP: £10.99£6.75The subjects of this stylish and audacious collection of essays range from an assault in Nicaragua to a Morgellons meeting; from Frida Kahlo's plaster casts to a gangland tour of LA. Jamison is interested in how we tell stories about injury and pain, and... -
In the Presence of Absence by Mahmoud Darwish
RRP: £12.99£8.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsRunner-up for Literary Award (Translation) 2012.Book InformationISBN 9781935744016Author Mahmoud DarwishFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher... -
The Collected Works of Jo Ann Beard by Jo Ann Beard 9781800817883
RRP: £17.99£11.87'Too good... You should read her and not look away' Anne Enright, Guardian 'The stories are essays, the essays are stories. Even when they are not literally true, they contain the kind of truth that great fiction thrives on' The Times 'Literature's... -
Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium by Seneca
RRP: £9.99£5.98'It is philosophy that has the duty of protecting us ... without it no one can lead a life free of fear or worry'For several years of his turbulent life, in which he was dogged by ill health, exile and danger, Seneca was the guiding hand of the Roman... -
Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast by Oscar Wilde
RRP: £3.00£1.89'It would be unfair to expect other people to be as remarkable as oneself'Wilde's celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous biographers, the stupidity of the English - and his own genius. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little... -
Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries by Alan Rickman
RRP: £25.00£14.10A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2022: ENTERTAINMENTA MAIL ON SUNDAYS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022Alan Rickman remains one of the most beloved actors of all time across almost every genre, from his breakout role as Die Hard's villainous Hans... -
Paddy Mayne: Lt Col Blair 'Paddy' Mayne, 1 SAS Regiment by Hamish Ross 9781803993720
RRP: £12.99£8.23'The best biography I've read recently' - Colin Bateman, Sunday Independent An excellent examination of Mayne... Ross corrects many of the myths about him that have flourished over the years - History of War magazine 'This welcome reassessment,... -
Rave New World: Confessions of a Raving Reporter by Kirk Field
RRP: £20.00£10.93'Love this book! It triggers so many memories of the rave era. Thoroughly recommended.' - FATBOY SLIM 'Captures the hedonism and humour of the nineties with a laugh-out-loud honesty. The perfect Ibiza holiday read...if you can get it through customs!' -... -
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
RRP: £8.99£5.39George Orwell's searing account of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over timeOrwell's... -
Selected Diaries by Virginia Woolf
RRP: £12.99£7.73Virginia Woolf turned to her diary as to an intimate friend, to whom she could freely and spontaneously confide her thoughts on public events or the joys and trials of domestic life. Between 1st January 1915 and her death in 1941 she regularly recorded... -
Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings by Yoko Ono 9780743201100
£14.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743201100Author Yoko OnoFormat HardbackImprint Simon & Schuster LtdPublisher Simon & Schuster Ltd -
Bluets by Maggie Nelson 9781933517407
RRP: £11.99£9.43Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color ...A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With Bluets, Maggie... -
The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination by Ursula K. Le Guin 9781590300060
RRP: £21.99£12.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Locus Awards (Nonfiction) 2005.Book InformationISBN 9781590300060Author Ursula K. Le GuinFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher... -
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
RRP: £18.00£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374531386Author Joan DidionFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)... -
Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver 9780143130086
RRP: £18.00£9.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143130086Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 127mm *... -
This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us by Cole Arthur Riley
RRP: £18.00£10.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593239797Author Cole Arthur RileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint ConvergentPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
The Devil Finds Work by James Baldwin
RRP: £15.00£8.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307275950Author James BaldwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 147gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Disability Visibility by Alice Wong
RRP: £14.99£9.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984899422Author Alice WongFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology by Ellen Ullman
RRP: £19.00£12.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250181695Author Ellen UllmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 9780140144574
RRP: £24.00£16.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140144574Author John SteinbeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 182gDimensions(mm) 194mm *... -
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre 9780811220309
RRP: £11.99£9.15Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogs his every feeling and sensation. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea... -
The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition by Fernando Pessoa 9780811226936
RRP: £21.99£17.79The Book of Disquiet is the Portuguese modernist master Fernando Pessoa's greatest literary achievement. An "autobiography" or "diary" containing exquisite melancholy observations, aphorisms, and ruminations, this classic work grapples with all the... -
How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History by Josephine Quinn 9781526605184
RRP: £30.00£21.35A Guardian, Financial Times, New Statesman, The Rest is Politics and Waterstones Highlight for 2024 'Quinn has done a lot more than reinvent the wheel. What we have here is a truly encyclopaedic and monumental account of the ancient world' THE TIMES 'A...