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Wicked Words by Terry Deary 9780702330292
RRP: £8.99£6.01Discover all the cut-throat facts about Wicked Words with history's most horrible headlines: Wicked Words edition. Jump into the origins of lamentable language with Terry Deary, the master of making history fun. Learn... -
About Ed Robert Gluck 9781681377766
RRP: £16.99£11.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681377766Author Robert GluckFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Richard Jefferies: A Miscellany by Richard Jefferies 9781912916054
RRP: £9.99£7.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912916054Author Richard JefferiesFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo Publishers -
A Walk With A White Bushman by Laurens Van der Post
RRP: £15.99£11.61Explorer, novelist, writer and film-maker, Sir Laurens van der Post was one of the most influential figures of our era. Here, in conversation with Jean-Marc Pottiez, he records his ideas and insights into a wide range of issues and personalities, forged... -
The Analects by Confucius
RRP: £10.99£7.73Formed 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... -
The Man Who Played with Fire: Stieg Larsson's Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin Jan Stocklassa 9781542092944
RRP: £8.99£6.32"A fascinating 'creative nonfiction' account of the greatest unsolved mystery in Swedish history." -Wall Street Journal "It's more than just a thrilling book...There's a lot of evidence that points to an international conspiracy." -CBS This Morning... -
Less Than One: Selected Essays Joseph Brodsky 9780141196510
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 Thomas De Quincey 9780141397887
RRP: £2.00£1.96'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... -
Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf by Oliver Sacks
RRP: £10.99£8.15'Seeing Voices is both a history of the deaf and an account of the development of an extraordinary and expressive language' - Evening Standard Imaginative and insightful, Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks offers a way into a world that is, for many people,... -
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... -
Artaud Anthology by Antonin Artaud 9780872860001
RRP: £12.99£8.87"I am the man," wrote Artaud, "who has best charted his inmost self." Antonin Artaud was a great poet who, like Poe, Holderlin, and Nerval, wanted to live in the infinite and asked that the human spirit burn in absolute freedom. To society, he was a... -
The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
RRP: £10.99£7.99When Carrie Fisher discovered the journals she kept during the filming of the first Star Wars movie, she was astonished to see what they had preserved - plaintive love poems, unbridled musings with youthful naivete, and a vulnerability that she barely... -
Bodies Under Siege: How the Far–Right Attack on Reproductive Rights Went Global by Sian Norris
RRP: £18.99£15.89Think today's anti-abortion ideas are rooted in religious prohibitions or arguments about where life begins? Wrong: today's anti-abortion movements is largely financed and planned by far-right extremists. Many of them are avowedly fascist and white... -
The Essential Brendan Kennelly: Selected Poems by Brendan Kennelly 9781930630574
RRP: £15.95£11.18Apologies 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)... -
An Irish Navvy by Donall MacAmhlaigh
RRP: £8.99£7.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848891883Author Donall MacAmhlaighFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint The Collins PressPublisher The Collins PressWeight(grams) 194g -
Selected Poetry by Alexander Pushkin
RRP: £12.99£9.34WINNER 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... -
Political Speeches by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £10.99£7.99'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... -
Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls by David Sedaris 9780349119427
RRP: £9.99£7.00A guy walks into a bar . . . From here the story could take many turns. A guy walks into a bar and meets the love of his life. A guy walks into a bar and finds no one else is there. When this guy is David Sedaris, the possibilities are endless. In Let's... -
The Journals of Captain Cook by James Cook
RRP: £12.99£9.74Cook led three famous expeditions to the Pacific Ocean between 1768 and 1779. In voyages that ranged from the Antarctic circle to the Arctic Sea, Cook charted Australia and the whole coast of New Zealand, and brought back detailed descriptions of the... -
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,... -
Latin Unseens for A Level by Ashley Carter
£20.43This collection of Latin unseen passages forms a companion volume to Latin Momentum Tests for GCSE, and is intended to be used similarly by students preparing for examinations at AS, A2 and AEA levels. The largest section is set at AS level and comprises... -
An Apology for Idlers by Robert Louis Stevenson
RRP: £7.99£5.98An irresistible invitation to reject the work ethic and enjoy life's simple pleasures (such as laughing, drinking and lying in the open air), Robert Louis Stevenson's witty and seminal essay on the joys of idleness is accompanied here by his writings on,... -
Letter from New York: 2023 by Helene Hanff 9781919642147
RRP: £18.99£13.82Manderley Press is delighted to announce the publication of a brand-new edition of Helene Hanff's Letter from New York - another literary jewel from the author of 84, Charing Cross Road. To showcase this wonderful book, we commissioned the New York... -
Girlhood by Melissa Febos
RRP: £18.99£13.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635572520Author Melissa FebosFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 488g -
Table Talk: Sweet And Sour, Salt and Bitter by Adrian Gill
RRP: £9.99£7.32The first collection of food writing by Britain's funniest and most feared criticA.A. Gill knows food, and loves food. A meal is never just a meal. It has a past, a history, connotations. It is a metaphor for life. A.A. Gill delights in decoding what... -
Bloody Yorkshire: Volume 1 by W M Rhodes 9780995775220
RRP: £8.99£7.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995775220Author W M RhodesFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Lah-Di-Dah-Publishing.comPublisher Lah-Di-Dah-Publishing.comWeight(grams) 152g -
The Mirror and the Road: Conversations with William Boyd by Alistair Owen 9780241987339
RRP: £10.99£7.99'One of Britain's most celebrated contemporary novelists' Sunday TimesIn this probing series of exclusive interviews, Alistair Owen talks to William Boyd about his works and the life which has inspired them. The conversations which emerge are a deep-dive... -
To All the Living by Monica Felton 9781912423422
RRP: £8.99£6.61Monica Felton's 1945 novel gives a lively account of the experiences of a group of men and women working in a munitions factory during the Second World War.Book InformationISBN 9781912423422Author Monica FeltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint... -
De Rerum Natura: Bks. 1-6 by Titus Lucretius Carus
RRP: £24.95£23.76Atomic atheism in verse. Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus) lived ca. 99-ca. 55 BC, but the details of his career are unknown. He is the author of the great didactic poem in hexameters, De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things). In six books compounded of... -
The Uncanny by Sigmund Freud
RRP: £10.99£7.99An extraordinary collection of thematically linked essays, including THE UNCANNY, SCREEN MEMORIES and FAMILY ROMANCES.Leonardo da Vinci fascinated Freud primarily because he was keen to know why his personality was so incomprehensible to his... -
Miss Molly's School of Confidence by Zanna Davidson 9781474999854
RRP: £9.99£6.01Rosie Rabbit is shy and scared of many things. So when she and her family come across Miss Molly's School of Confidence, Miss Molly welcomes her in. Here Rosie learns how to build her confidence, make friends and even teach Papa Rabbit a thing or two... -
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction by Joan Didion
RRP: £40.00£25.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307264879Author Joan DidionFormat HardbackPage Count 1160Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 987gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
Gertrude Bell: The Arabian Diaries, 1913-1914 by Rosemary O'Brien
RRP: £25.95£21.55The Englishwoman Gertrude Bell lived an extraordinary life. Her adventures are the stuff of novels: she rode with bandits; braved desert shamals; was captured by Bedouins; and sojourned in a harem. Called the most powerful woman in the British empire,... -
Wild Geese: A Collection of Nan Shepherd's Writings by Nan Shepherd 9781912916108
RRP: £8.99£6.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912916108Author Nan ShepherdFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo Publishers -
Letters of Note: Grief by Shaun Usher
RRP: £7.99£5.64In 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... -
The Lonely Planet Travel Anthology: True stories from the world's best writers by T. C. Boyle
RRP: £8.99£6.65Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher A collection of great travel writing by authors from around the globe, including original stories set in Scotland, Thailand, Malaysia, Moldova, Tanzania, Austria and beyond, edited by long-term... -
Letters to a Young Poet: A New Translation and Commentary by Rainer Maria Rilke
RRP: £15.99£11.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611806861Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
The Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin 9780486290737
RRP: £5.99£2.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486290737Author Benjamin FranklinFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
A Room of One's Own (Vintage Feminism Short Edition) by Virginia Woolf
RRP: £5.99£4.63Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short formWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JEANETTE WINTERSON'What conditions are necessary for the creation of works of art?' Security, confidence, independence, a degree of prosperity - a room of one's own. All things... -
Love from Boy: Roald Dahl's Letters to his Mother Donald Sturrock 9781444786286
RRP: £10.99£7.61'Dear Mama, I am having a lovely time here. We play football every day here. The beds have no springs . . .'So begins the first letter that a nine-year-old Roald Dahl penned to his mother, Sofie Magdalene, under the watchful eye of his boarding-school...