Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf 9780141395920
RRP: £12.99£9.09A Room of One's Own is Virginia Woolf's most powerful feminist essay, justifying the need for women to possess intellectual freedom and financial independence. Based on a lecture given at Girton College, Cambridge, the essay is one of the great feminist... -
Aniara: a Review of Man in Time and Space by Harry 1904- Martinson 9781014154347
RRP: £18.95£15.24Apologies 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)... -
Please Do Not Touch by Casey Bailey 9781913958053
RRP: £9.99£7.11Walk around any stately home, museum or National Trust property and you are likely to see the words please do not touch more than a few times. The irony is in most cases the sign is telling you not to touch something that was stolen from another land,... -
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,... -
Thousand Times Broken: Three Books by Henri Michaux
RRP: £12.99£8.63Thousand Times Broken brings together three extraordinary, previously untranslated books in which Henri Michaux's art and poetry merge in ways never seen before, composing a journey in which we----with the great visionary Michaux as our guide----are... -
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... -
What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence by Michele Filgate
RRP: £10.99£7.00In the early 2000's, as an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an essay about being abused by her stepfather. It took many years for her to realize what she was actually trying to write about: the fracture this caused in her relationship... -
New and Selected Essays by Denise Levertov 9780811212182
£12.97Denise Levertov's New & Selected Essays gathers three decades' worth of the poet's most important critical statements. Her subjects are various--poetics, the imagination, politics, spirituality, other writers--and her approach independent minded and... -
China Root: Taoism, Ch’an, and Original Zen by David Hinton
RRP: £17.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611807134Author David HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
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... -
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... -
My Theology: The Word within the words by Malcolm Guite 9781913657383
RRP: £8.99£6.45My Theology: The world's leading Christian thinkers explain some of the principal tenets of their theological beliefs. The Word within the words is a Poet's Credo, in which Malcolm Guite describes how his Christian faith informs and underpins his... -
Poemland by Chelsey Minnis 9781933517414
RRP: £9.99£6.75A fearless and uproarious litany of contentions and revelations on poetry and the poetic mind, continuing the charge against the sacred in contemporary poetry. Poemland alternates brilliantly between the deadpan, the spectacular, and the outrageous. If... -
The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry by Wendell Berry
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593760076Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 487g -
Munkey Diaries by Jane Birkin 9781474617710
RRP: £9.99£6.80'Birkin's diary entries ultimately expose the toxic reality behind one of the 20th century's most glamorous couples' Sunday TimesJane Birkin - actor, singer, songwriter and model - may have shot to worldwide fame through her relationship with Serge... -
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... -
Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson 9780679603313
RRP: £21.00£13.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679603313Author Hunter S. ThompsonFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm)... -
The Right to Sex: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Amia Srinivasan 9781526612540
RRP: £9.99£6.87A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER BLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 Essential lessons on the world we live in, from one of our greatest young thinkers - a guide to what everybody is talking about today 'Unparalleled and extraordinary . . . A bracing... -
I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz by Eve Babitz
RRP: £17.99£12.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681373799Author Eve BabitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Real Estate by Deborah Levy
RRP: £10.99£7.77From one of the great thinkers and writers of our time, comes the unmissable final instalment in Deborah Levy's critically acclaimed 'Living Autobiography'.'A beautifully crafted and thought-provoking snapshot of a life' The Evening... -
Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 9780008470333
RRP: £7.99£5.41A personal and powerful essay on loss from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun. 'Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full... -
An Elemental Thing by Eliot Weinberger
RRP: £13.99£12.25With An Elemental Thing, Weinberger turns from his celebrated political chronicles to the timelessness of the subjects of his literary essays. With the wisdom of a literary archaeologist-astronomer-anthropologist-zookeeper, he leads us through histories,... -
The Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt & Greece by Three Initiates
RRP: £5.48£5.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781979014441Author Three InitiatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
The Double Flame: Essays on Love & Eroticism by Octavio Paz
RRP: £15.99£11.61A discourse on the connection between sex, eroticism and love in literature by the Nobel Prize-winning poet and essayist.About the AuthorThe celebrated poet and essayist, Octavio Paz was born in 1914 in Mexico City. Paz began to write at an early age,... -
Inciting Joy: Essays by Ross Gay 9781399716017
RRP: £9.99£6.80'Punchy and compassionate' OBSERVERA collection of gorgeously written and timely pieces in which prize-winning poet and author Ross Gay considers the joy we incite when we care for each other, especially during life's inevitable hardships.In "We Kin" he... -
The Anxiety Workbook: Practical Tips and Guided Exercises to Help You Overcome Anxiety by Summersdale Publishers
RRP: £10.99£6.28Take control of your anxiety with this step-by-step workbook to help you identify and overcome your worries Life has plenty of challenges, and it's normal to feel anxious from time to time. But when worry starts to affect your health and happiness,... -
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... -
Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries by Alan Rickman 9781838854805
RRP: £12.99£7.26A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA WATERSTONES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR 2023A 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... -
Fighter by Andy Lee
RRP: £13.99£8.32In 2005, at the age of 20, Andy Lee decided he was going to try to make it in the harsh and unforgiving world of professional boxing. Leaving home for the dust and faded glamour of Detroit, over the next ten years, under the guidance of the legendary... -
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House by Audre Lorde
RRP: £3.00£1.89From the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on the power of women, poetry and anger are filled with darkness and light. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic... -
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... -
And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou 9780860687573
RRP: £9.99£5.75The classic collection of poetry from the author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS.'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMAMaya Angelou's poetry - lyrical and dramatic, exuberant and playful - speaks of love,... -
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
RRP: £9.99£5.98The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deepThe revolutionary writings of Audre Lorde gave voice to those 'outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women'. ... -
Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings by Yoko Ono 9780743201100
£14.70Apologies 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£9.45Suppose 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£13.02Apologies 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£10.93Apologies 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)... -
This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us by Cole Arthur Riley
RRP: £18.00£10.21Apologies 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£8.59Apologies 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 *...