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Phaedo by Plato
RRP: £6.99£5.13The Phaedo is acknowledged to be one of Plato's greatest masterpieces, showing him both as a philosopher and as a dramatist at the height of his powers. For its moving account of the execution of Socrates, the Phaedo ranks among the supreme literary... -
Letters of Note: Fathers by Shaun Usher
RRP: £7.99£5.46In Letters of Note: Fathers, Shaun Usher collects together remarkable correspondence by and about fathers, including proud parental words of love, advice from experienced dads to new ones, as well as letters from both frustrated and adoring offspring... -
Spanish Stories: A Dual-Language Book by Angel Flores 9780486253992
RRP: £15.99£10.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486253992Author Angel FloresFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Trains and Buttered Toast by John Betjeman
RRP: £10.99£7.40Eccentric, sentimental and homespun, John Betjeman's passions were mostly self-taught. He saw his country being devastated by war and progress and he waged a private war to save it. His only weapons were words - the poetry for which he is best known and,... -
Alice Walker: Living by the Word by Alice Walker
RRP: £8.99£6.80'An extraordinarily diverse collection; pure Walker, fresh-eyed and sassy' NEW YORK TIMESLiving by the Word is a memorable collection of essays, letters and journal extracts from Pulitzer Prize winner, Alice Walker.In her own immaculate prose, Alice... -
English Humour for Beginners by George Mikes
RRP: £10.99£7.77'To write a book is hard; to write a funny book is harder; to write a funny book both wise and funny is the prerogative of Mr. Mikes' The Times_________________________If you want to succeed here you must be able to handle the English sense of humour.So... -
Arthur Rimbaud: Complete Works by Arthur Rimbaud
RRP: £10.99£7.25Arthur Rimbaud is remembered as much for his volatile personality and tumultuous life as he is for his writings, most of which he produced before the age of eighteen. This book brings together his poetry, prose, and letters, including "The Drunken Boat,"... -
A Thing of Beauty: Travels in Mythical and Modern Greece by Peter Fiennes 9780861544356
RRP: £10.99£7.12A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE ANGLO-HELLENIC LEAGUE RUNCIMAN AWARD 2022 'Peter Fiennes's road trip around Greece [is] engagingly described' Mary Beard, TLS 'Fiennes is a brilliant and generous guide through Greece' Observer ... -
50 Speeches That Made the Modern World: Famous Speeches from Women's Rights to Human Rights by Chambers
RRP: £20.00£14.35Throughout history, great speeches have produced great change. From inciting violence and asserting control to restoring peace and securing freedom, nothing has the raw emotional power of a speech delivered at the right moment, in the right place, with... -
The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy by Sofia Tolstoy 9781846881022
RRP: £12.99£9.09When Sofia Behrs married Count Leo Tolstoy, the author of "War and Peace", husband and wife regularly exchanged diaries covering the years from 1862 to 1910. Sofia's life was not an easy one: she idealized her husband, but was tormented by him; even her... -
Greek Myths: Heroes and Heroines by Jean Menzies
RRP: £10.99£7.51Find out what happened when King Midas was granted his wish, how Icarus flew too close to the sun, and relive the adventures of Jason and the Argonauts in these stories of love, betrayal, infatuation and punishment.Greek Myths: Heroes and Heroines is... -
Masques of Difference: Four Court Masques by Ben Jonson by Kristen McDermott
RRP: £10.99£7.90Masques of difference presents an annotated edition of four seventeenth-century entertainments written by Ben Jonson for the court of James I. These masques reflect both the confidence and the anxieties of the English aristocracy at a time when notions... -
Selected Writings of Alexandra Kollontai by Alexandra Kollontai 9780393009743
RRP: £21.00£16.50Alexandra Kollontai-the only woman member of the Bolshevik central committee and the USSR's first Minister of Social Welfare-is known today as a historic contributor to the international women's movement, and as one of the first Bolshevik leaders to... -
Selected Prose by John Donne
RRP: £12.99£9.09This 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,... -
Aftermath by Preti Taneja 9781913505462
RRP: £12.00£8.30Usman Khan was convicted of terrorism-related offences at age 20, and sent to high-security prison. He was released eight years later, and allowed to travel to London for one day, to attend an event marking the fifth anniversary of a prison education... -
Frank Pantridge MC: Japanese Prisoner of War and Inventor of the Portable Defibrillator by Lowry, Cecil 9781399002929
RRP: £14.99£10.95Countless thousands of men and women around the world have good reason to be thankful that Frank Pantridge survived three and a half years of brutal Japanese captivity. Had he not, they too would in all probability have died too. Taken prisoner at the... -
The Sick Bag Song by Nick Cave
RRP: £15.00£10.21THE SICK BAG SONG chronicles Cave's journey with his band the Bad Seeds on a twenty-two-day, North American tour. It is a highly personal account that blends memories, musings, poetry, lyrics, flights of fancy and road journal.Drawing inspiration from... -
Charles Dickens: Four Novels by Charles Dickens
RRP: £18.99£13.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684129058Author Charles DickensFormat HardbackPage Count 912Imprint Silver Dolphin BooksPublisher Silver Dolphin BooksWeight(grams) 1318gDimensions(mm)... -
High Tide in Tucson by Barbara Kingsolver
RRP: £10.99£7.32**NOW INCLUDING THE FIRST CHAPTER OF DEMON COPPERHEAD**TWICE WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION FROM THE WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONTHE MULTI-MILLION COPY SELLING AUTHORWith the eyes of a scientist and the vision of a poet, Barbara... -
Letters From Brenda: Two suitcases. 75 lost letters. One mother by Emma Kennedy
RRP: £18.99£11.13After her mother, Brenda, passed away and her father sold the family home, broadcaster and writer Emma Kennedy found herself floundering, unable to make peace with the complex, charismatic woman who had been her mum. And then they found the letters . . ... -
Insomniac City: New York, Oliver Sacks, and Me by Bill Hayes
RRP: £12.99£9.09____________________________ 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. ... -
Thick And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
RRP: £12.99£8.63In eight highly praised treatises on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom - award-winning professor and acclaimed author of Lower Ed - is unapologetically 'thick': deemed 'thick where I should have been thin, more where I should have... -
The Analects by Confucius
RRP: £10.99£7.51Formed in a time of great unrest in ancient China, The Analects is vital to an understanding of Chinese history and thought, and, 2,500 years on, it remains startlingly relevant to contemporary life.Complete and unabridged. Part of the Macmillan... -
Comic Verse by Peter Washington
RRP: £10.99£7.77This anthology of comic verse is drawn from sources which range from the Greek Anthology to the present day. Divided into thematic sections (to be determined) for case of use, it covers a wide range of forms including limericks, clerihews, ballads,... -
Less Than One: Selected Essays by Joseph Brodsky
RRP: £14.99£10.95'Genius ... bringing ardent intelligence to bear upon poetry, politics and autobiography' Seamus HeaneyEssayist and poet Joseph Brodsky was one of the most penetrating voices of the twentieth century. This prize-winning collection of his diverse essays... -
On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts by Thomas De Quincey 9780141397887
RRP: £2.00£1.83'People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill and be killed - a knife - a purse - and a dark lane...'In this provocative and blackly funny essay, Thomas de Quincey considers murder in a... -
Letters of Note: Grief by Shaun Usher
RRP: £7.99£5.46In Letters of Note: Grief, Shaun Usher gathers together some of the most powerful messages about grief, from the heart-wrenching pain of losing a loved one to reliving fond memories of those who have passed on.Includes letters by:Audre Lorde, Robert... -
Teenage Writings by Jane Austen
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Jane Austen practising' Virginia Woolf Three notebooks of Jane Austen's teenage writings survive. The earliest pieces probably date from 1786 or 1787, around the time that Jane, aged 11 or 12, and her older sister and collaborator Cassandra left... -
Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac
RRP: £9.99£7.11An experimental novel which remained unpublished for years, Visions of Cody is Kerouac's fascinating examination of his own New York life, in a collection of colourful stream-of-consciousness essays. Transcribing taped conversations between members of... -
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke 9780872202160
RRP: £13.99£11.83Includes generous selections from the Essay, topically arranged passages from the replies to Stillingfleet, a chronology, a bibliography, a glossary, and an index based on the entries that Locke himself devised.About the AuthorJohn Locke (1632-1704) was... -
Collins Complete Works Of Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
RRP: £16.99£12.47The Complete Works of Shakespeare contains the recognized canon of the bard's plays, and his sonnets and poems. The texts were edited by the late Professor Peter Alexander, making it one of the most authoritative editions, recognized the world over for... -
The Essential Brendan Kennelly: Selected Poems by Brendan Kennelly 9781930630574
RRP: £15.95£10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781930630574Author Brendan KennellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Wake Forest University PressPublisher Wake Forest University PressWeight(grams)... -
Reporting the Troubles: Journalists Tell Their Stories of the Northern Ireland Conflict by Deric Henderson
RRP: £14.99£12.55In 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... -
Selected Poetry by Alexander Pushkin
RRP: £12.99£9.09WINNER OF THE READ RUSSIA PRIZE 2020Alexander Pushkin established what we know as Russian literature. This collection includes his strongly personal lyric verse, which springs spontaneously from his everyday life - his numerous loves, his exile, his... -
Don't You Have Time to Think? by Richard P. Feynman
RRP: £14.99£10.95Don't You Have Time to Think? collects the witty, eccentric and moving letters letters of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman. Richard Feynman was no ordinary genius. Brilliant, free-spirited and irreverent, he upset those in authority,... -
Political Speeches by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £10.99£7.97'Two things alone I long for: first, that when I die I may leave the Roman people free...and second, that each person's fate may reflect the way he has behaved towards his country.' Cicero (106-43 BC) was the greatest orator of the ancient world and a... -
Letters concerning the English Nation by Voltaire 9780199555321
RRP: £9.99£7.11Inspired by Voltaire's two-year stay in England (1726-8), this is one of the key works of the Enlightment. Exactly contemporary with Gulliver's Travels and The Beggar's Opera, Voltaire's controversial pronouncements on politics, philosophy, religion, and... -
The Complete Poetry by George Herbert
RRP: £12.99£10.95A wonderful edition of Herbert's poetry, edited by his acclaimed biographer John Drury and including elegant new translations of his Latin verse by Victoria Moul.George Herbert wrote, but never published, some of the very greatest English poetry,... -
The Oxford Book of Essays by John Gross
RRP: £14.99£11.35The essay is one of the richest of literary forms. Its most obvious characteristics are freedom, informality, and the personal touch - though it can also find room for poetry, satire, fantasy, and sustained argument. All these qualities, and many... -
Man Alone with Himself by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £7.99£5.79Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary thinkers in Western philosophy. Here he sets out his subversive views in a series of aphorisms on subjects ranging from art to arrogance, boredom to passion, science to vanity, rejecting conventional...