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A Dragon Apparent: Travels in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam Norman Lewis 9780907871330
RRP: £12.99£8.83a poignant description of Cambodia, Laos & Vietnam in 1950, with all their beauty, gentleness, grandeur and intricate political balance intact - Restores this lost world, like a phoenix, from the ashes of the Vietnam war and its aftermath - shows the... -
The Praise of Folly and Other Writings: A Norton Critical Edition by Desiderius Erasmus 9780393957495
£15.23Besides the celebrated Praise of Folly, Robert M. Adams has included the political "Complaint of Peace," the brutal antipapal satire "Julius Excluded from Heaven," two versions of Erasmus's important preface to the Latin translation of the New Testament,... -
Moksha: Aldous Huxley's Classic Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience by Aldous Huxley 9780892817580
RRP: £14.00£9.01In May 1953 Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gram of mescaline. The mystical and transcendent experience that followed set him off on an exploration that was to produce a revolutionary body of work about the inner reaches of the human mind. Huxley was... -
Selected Poems by Rabindranath Tagore
RRP: £12.99£9.34The poems of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) are among the most haunting and tender in Indian and in world literature, expressing a profound and passionate human yearning. His ceaselessly inventive works deal with such subjects as the interplay between... -
Daemon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling by Philip Pullman
RRP: £12.99£8.80Warm, entertaining, and above all thought-provoking, Daemon Voices provides a remarkable insight into the mind of one of our greatest writers. He explains which storytellers have meant the most to him, including William Blake and John Milton, why their... -
The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories Margaret Jull Costa 9780241390504
RRP: £12.99£9.34This exciting collection celebrates the richness and variety of the Spanish short story, from the nineteenth century to the present day.Featuring over fifty stories selected by revered translator Margaret Jull Costa, it blends old favourites and hidden... -
A Greek Anthology by Joint Association of Classical Teachers 9780521000260
RRP: £26.99£23.44This book offers an ideal first reader in ancient Greek. It presents a selection of extracts from a comprehensive range of Greek authors, from Homer to Plutarch, together with generous help with vocabulary and grammar. The passages have been chosen for... -
As You Like it by William Shakespeare
RRP: £8.99£8.22With its explorations of sexual ambivalence, As You Like It speaks directly to the twenty-first century. Juliet Dusinberredemonstrates that Rosalind's authority in the play grows from new ideas about women and reveals that Shakespeare's heroine reinvents... -
An Image of Africa/ The Trouble with Nigeria by Chinua Achebe
RRP: £7.99£5.98Beautifully written yet highly controversial, An Image of Africa asserts Achebe's belief in Joseph Conrad as a 'bloody racist' and his conviction that Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness only serves to perpetuate damaging stereotypes of black people. Also... -
Dark Heart: The Story of a Journey into an Undiscovered Britain by Nick Davies
RRP: £12.99£9.34'This all began quite unexpectedly one rainy autumn evening a couple of years ago in a fairground near to the centre of Nottingham...' In amongst the bright lights and bumper cars, Nick Davies noticed two boys, no more than twelve years old, oddly... -
Frank Get The Door!: ma feet are KILLIN me by Janey Godley
RRP: £12.00£9.23Since lockdown began, people have woken up to Janey Godley's comedy by the hundreds of thousands... [She] has provided much-needed relief throughout the coronavirus pandemic with her gallus Glesga interpretations which have been shared around the country... -
London War Notes by Mollie Panter-Downes 9781910263013
RRP: £17.00£15.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910263013Author Mollie Panter-DownesFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books LtdWeight(grams)... -
Montaigne: A Very Short Introduction by William M. Hamlin
RRP: £8.99£6.65The French author Michel de Montaigne is widely regarded as the founder and greatest practitioner of the personal essay. A member of the minor aristocracy, he worked as a judicial investigator, served as mayor of Bordeaux, and sought to bring stability... -
On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud by Andrew Blauner 9780691242439
RRP: £25.00£19.45A collection of colorful and candid essays and other pieces about Freud and his legacy today, featuring twenty-five leading writersWith original contributions by André Aciman • Sarah Boxer • Jennifer Finney Boylan • Susie Boyt • Gerald Early • Esther... -
Pensees by Blaise Pascal
RRP: £12.99£9.19A passionate defence of religious faith by the great seventeenth-century philosopher, mathematician and physicistBlaise Pascal was the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon... -
The Major Works by Robert Browning
RRP: £13.99£10.41This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Browning's poetry and prose chosen from the whole range of his career to... -
These Foolish Things: A Memoir by Dylan Jones 9781408719855
RRP: £25.00£16.78Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
England Your England by George Orwell 9781913724689
RRP: £5.00£4.59George Orwell set out 'to make political writing into an art', and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature - his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding... -
Out of Gaza: New Palestinian Poetry by Alan Morrison 9781739473457
RRP: £9.99£7.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739473457Author Alan MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books -
AndBloom The Art of Aging Unapologetically: Inspiration about life from more than 100 women by Denise Boomkens
RRP: £25.00£17.63***'Are you aging fabulously? Here's how.' Anna Murphy, The Times'A lovely book celebrating female beauty over 40.' Top Sante'You become what you see. What you see determines what you believe - and the most powerful way of inspiring people is with... -
Becoming Mr Nice: The Howard Marks Archive by Amber Marks 9780857303936
RRP: £19.99£13.85Welcome to the personal archives of Britain's biggest dope smuggler. For 40 years Howard Marks traversed the globe: an international businessman who became an inmate in America's toughest penitentiary before standing for election in the United Kingdom... -
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.: Essays by Samantha Irby
RRP: £17.00£10.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101912195Author Samantha IrbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Major Works by Jonathan Swift
RRP: £12.99£9.34This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique selection from the full range of Swift's fifty-year career - prose, poetry, and letters... -
Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka 9780805212679
RRP: £19.00£11.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805212679Author Franz KafkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 130mm *... -
Selected Prose by John Donne
RRP: £12.99£9.34This selection of John Donne's most powerful prose shows that the man remembered predominantly for his poetry was also a preacher, and a prose writer of extraordinary power. In it, he explores the metaphysical collision between poetry and religion,... -
Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare 9780521612876
RRP: £9.99£8.40The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with... -
Candles and Water by Timothy Thornton 9781739364991
RRP: £12.00£11.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739364991Author Timothy ThorntonFormat PaperbackPage Count 347Imprint Pilot PressPublisher Pilot Press -
Essays in Humanism by Albert Einstein
RRP: £14.95£11.24The great thinker reflects on such topics as nuclear weapons, world poverty, and international affairs in this Wall Street Journal bestseller. Nuclear proliferation, Zionism, and the global economy are just a few of the insightful and surprisingly... -
Walden by Henry David Thoreau 9781509826704
RRP: £10.99£7.73Henry David Thoreau is considered one of the leading figures in early American literature, and Walden is without doubt his most influential book. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold... -
Works: v. 1 by Lucian
RRP: £24.95£24.84Antiquity's satirist supreme.Lucian (ca. AD 120-190), the satirist from Samosata on the Euphrates, started as an apprentice sculptor, turned to rhetoric and visited Italy and Gaul as a successful traveling lecturer before settling in Athens and... -
Reporting the Troubles: Journalists Tell Their Stories of the Northern Ireland Conflict by Deric Henderson
RRP: £14.99£12.75In some ways, I didn't - don't - want to remember any of it. Which is not to say that one ever forgets. I don't know any journalist who worked through the Troubles, with its relentless cycle of murders and doorstepping the homes of the dead and funerals... -
The Harz Journey and Selected Prose by Heinrich Heine
RRP: £12.99£12.06A poet whose verse inspired music by Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn and Brahms, Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) was in his lifetime equally admired for his elegant prose. This collection charts the development of that prose, beginning with three meditative... -
Of Gods and Men: 100 Stories from Ancient Greece and Rome by Daisy Dunn
RRP: £20.00£14.29A rigorously and imaginatively researched anthology of classical literature, bringing together one hundred stories from the rich diversity of the literary canon of ancient Greece and Rome. Striking a balance between the 'classic classic' (such as... -
Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius in a New English Translation, with Notes and Introduction by Brian P. Copenhaver 9780521425438
RRP: £44.99£36.19The Hermetica are a body of theological-philosophical texts written in late antiquity, but long believed to be much older. Their supposed author, Hermes Trismegistus, was thought to be a contemporary of Moses, and the Hermetic philosophy was regarded as... -
My Grandmother's Glass Eye: A Look at Poetry by Craig Raine
RRP: £25.00£16.85'By poetry we - we the masses - mean something vague, something untrue, something uplifting, something beautiful, something so eloquent it isn't for everyday. The word "poetry" is up there with "soul". And I am against it.'My Grandmother's Glass Eye... -
Spider Queen's Halloween by Russell Punter 9781474982313
RRP: £5.99£4.07The Spider Queen wants a Halloween feast. So Weevil and his team set to work. But will a sneaky thief spoil the party? Find out in this latest addition to the popular phonics readers series. With phonically regular text, this funny story is all treat and... -
The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House Between the Wars by Adrian Tinniswood
RRP: £20.00£15.29'A masterpiece of social history' Daily MailThere is nothing quite as beautiful as an English country house in summer. And there has never been a summer quite like that Indian summer between the two world wars, a period of gentle decline in which the sun... -
Plays Unpleasant by George Bernard Shaw
RRP: £12.99£9.34With Plays Unpleasant, Shaw issued a radical challenge to his audiences' complacency and exposed social evils through his dramatization of the moral conflicts between youthful idealism and economic reality, promiscuity and marriage, and the duties of... -
The Welsh Way: Essays on Neoliberalism and Devolution by Daniel Evans 9781914595028
RRP: £12.00£8.68Neoliberalism has firmly taken hold in Wales. The 'clear red water' is darkening. The wounds of poverty, inequality, and disengagement, far from being healed, have worsened. Child poverty has reached epidemic levels: the worst in the UK. Educational... -
Plainwater: Essays And Poetry by Anne Carson
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375708428Author Anne CarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...