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The Lonely Planet Travel Anthology: True stories from the world's best writers by T. C. Boyle
RRP: £8.99£6.45Lonely 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... -
Paris: The Passenger by Various
RRP: £18.99£12.83The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, and reportage from around the world. Its aim, to break down barriers and introduce the essence of the place. Packed with essays and investigative journalism; original photography and... -
Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish by Tom McCarthy
RRP: £15.99£11.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681370866Author Tom McCarthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,... -
Goodbye Soldier by Spike Milligan
RRP: £10.99£8.43Goodbye Soldier is volume six of Spike Milligan's outrageous, hilarious, legendary War Memoirs.'My namer is Maria Antonoinetta Fontana, but everyone call me Toni.''I'm Spike,' sometimes known as stop thief or hey you.'Yeser, I know.'The sixth volume of... -
Works: v. 5 by Philo
RRP: £24.95£23.39Syncretistic exegesis.The philosopher Philo was born about 20 BC to a prominent Jewish family in Alexandria, the chief home of the Jewish Diaspora as well as the chief center of Hellenistic culture; he was trained in Greek as well as Jewish ... -
Brexit Unfolded by Christopher Grey 9781785906923
RRP: £14.99£11.13Britain's 2016 vote to leave the EU divided the nation, unleashing years of political turmoil. The result has been a sulphurous atmosphere in which many remain unreconciled to Brexit whilst, in a tragic irony, some of those most committed to it are angry... -
The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster by Helen Carr
RRP: £10.99£7.12War, revolution, treason and love - the thrilling tale of Sir John of Gaunt brought to life by medieval history's rising star. 'The Red Prince announces Helen Carr as one of the most exciting new voices in narrative history.' Dan Jones Son of... -
Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation: 2022 by Jeremy Tiang 9781911284789
RRP: £12.00£8.30Frantz Fanon wrote in 1961 that 'Decolonisation is always a violent phenomenon,' meaning that the violence of colonialism can only be counteracted in kind. As colonial legacies linger today, what are the ways in which we can disentangle literary... -
Seneca: Oedipus: Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary by A. J. Boyle
RRP: £56.00£55.69Seneca's Oedipus is a work of exceptional historical and dramatic interest. It is the only surviving ancient Roman play on one of the most important and enduring myths of European intellectual history. It is poetically experimental, intellectually... -
The Portable Abraham Lincoln by Abraham Lincoln 9780143105640
RRP: £12.99£12.90Abraham Lincoln endowed the American language with a vigor and moral energy that has all but disappeared from today's public rhetoric. Lincoln's writings are testaments of our history, windows into his enigmatic personality, and resonant examples of the... -
The Flame Trees Of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood by Elspeth Huxley
RRP: £10.99£7.77When Elspeth Huxley's pioneer father buys a remote plot of land in Kenya, the family sets off to discover their new home: five hundred acres of Kenyan scrubland, infested with ticks and white ants, and quavering with heat. What they lack in know-how they... -
Epigrams from the Greek Anthology by Gideon Nisbet
RRP: £11.99£8.43Lush Diodorus sets the lads on fire, But now another has him in his net - Timarion, the boy with wanton eyes . . . Meleager, AP 12.109 Encompassing four thousand short poems and more, the ramshackle classic we call the Greek Anthology gathers up... -
The Leonard Bernstein Letters by Leonard Bernstein
RRP: £16.99£15.01An extraordinary selection of revealing letters to and from one of the titans of 20th-century music Leonard Bernstein was a charismatic and versatile musician-a brilliant conductor who attained international super-star status, and a gifted composer of... -
Metamorphoses by Ovid 9780141394619
RRP: £25.00£18.20Ovid's deliciously clever and exuberant epic, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectable editions are bound in high-quality, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the... -
Wicked Words by Terry Deary 9780702330292
RRP: £8.99£5.82Discover 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... -
George Orwell: A Life in Letters by George Orwell
RRP: £16.99£12.28With such varied correspondents as T. S. Eliot, Stephen Spender and Anthony Powell, for nearly forty years George Orwell wrote and received the letters that are now collected together in A Life in Letters, edited with an introduction by Peter Davison in... -
Company / Ill Seen Ill Said / Worstward Ho / Stirrings Still by Samuel Beckett
RRP: £10.99£7.32These four last prose fictions by Samuel Beckett were originally published individually, and their composition spanned the final decade of his life. In Company a solitary hearer lying in blackness calls up images from the far-off past. Ill Seen Ill Said... -
Parallel Text: French Short Stories: Nouvelles Francaises by Simon Lee
RRP: £10.99£8.53These eight stories by leading 20th century French writers offer fascinating insights into French life and literature and are accompanied by a parallel English text, making them valuable for both French and English language students.Among the diverse and... -
The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers by Sinead Gleeson
RRP: £11.99£7.77An instant classic, The Long Gaze Back, edited by Sinead Gleeson, is an exhilarating anthology of thirty short stories by some of the most gifted women writers this island has ever produced. Featuring: Niamh Boyce, Elizabeth Bowen, Maeve Brennan, Mary... -
The Great British Speeches by Simon Heffer
RRP: £12.99£8.6050 speeches from every period of British history from the medieval era to the present and a fascinating dip-in history title that will both inspire readers and give them a greater understanding of British history. The speechmakers are: King Henry V;... -
Signal Failure: London to Birmingham, HS2 on Foot by Tom Jeffreys 9781910312148
RRP: £9.99£6.80One November morning, Tom Jeffreys set off from Euston Station with a gnarled old walking stick in his hand and an overloaded rucksack. His aim was to walk the 119 miles from London to Birmingham along the proposed route of HS2. Needless to say, he... -
The Common Reader: Second Series (Collins Classics) by Virginia Woolf 9780008658458
RRP: £2.99£2.31HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts,... -
English Food: A People's History by Diane Purkiss 9780007255566
RRP: £30.00£20.53'An absolute gem' Sunday Times 'A mouthwatering history' The Guardian In this delicious history of Britain's food traditions, Diane Purkiss invites readers on a unique journey through the centuries, exploring the... -
Clouds over Paris: The Wartime Notebooks of Felix Hartlaub by Felix Hartlaub 9781782278467
RRP: £10.99£7.32New paperback of the acclaimed, sharply immediate diary written from the heart of Occupied Paris by a classic German writer 'Delicately drawn, inventive and unmistakably Parisian' Financial Times The writer Felix Hartlaub died in obscurity at just... -
The Kojiki: An Account of Ancient Matters by Gustav Heldt 9780231163897
RRP: £25.00£19.59Japan's oldest surviving narrative, the eighth-century Kojiki, chronicles the mythical origins of its islands and their ruling dynasty through a diverse array of genealogies, tales, and songs that have helped to shape the modern nation's views of its... -
The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks
RRP: £10.99£7.93How does the brain perceive and interpret information from the eye? And what happens when the process is disrupted? In The Mind's Eye, Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing... -
Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, 4: 1938-1940 by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £26.95£21.81"Every line we succeed in publishing today...is a victory wrested from the powers of darkness." So wrote Walter Benjamin in January 1940. Not long afterward, he himself would fall prey to those powers, a victim of suicide following a failed attempt to... -
Yorkshire: There and Back by Andrew Martin
RRP: £20.00£13.75In Yorkshire: There and Back, Andrew Martin celebrates Britain's most charismatic county, looking back at the Yorkshire of his 1970s childhood and as it is today.Journeying to every historic corner, Martin writes affectionally about its past, present and... -
Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years by Sue Townsend
RRP: £9.99£7.11'One of the greatest comic creations. I can't remember a more relentlessly funny book' Daily Mirror'My comfort read. The best diaries ever written - with apologies to Samuel Pepys, Bridget Jones and me' ADAM KAYThe fifth book in his hilarious diaries,... -
Evening Descends Upon the Hills: Stories from Naples by Anna Maria Ortese
RRP: £9.99£6.70A stunning classic set in Italy's most vibrant and turbulent metropolis - Naples - in the immediate aftermath of World War Two. These lively and superbly written stories helped inspire Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels. Ortese's work was also championed... -
Wainwright: The Biography by Hunter Davies
RRP: £10.99£7.40The classic biography of Alfred Wainwright.Alfred Wainwright's unique hand-drawn and hand-written PICTORIAL GUIDES TO THE LAKELAND FELLS have been an inspiration to walkers for over forty years. Yet despite many bestselling books and three television... -
Daemon Voices: Essays on Storytelling by Philip Pullman
RRP: £25.00£16.99In over 30 essays, written over 20 years, one of the world's great story-tellers meditates on story-telling. Warm, funny, generous, entertaining and, above all, deeply considered, they offer thoughts on a wide variety of topics, including the origin... -
Anti - Woke: Selected Essays by Brendan O'Neill by Brendan O'Neill 9781925826265
RRP: £16.00£12.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925826265Author Brendan O'NeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Connor Court Publishing Pty LtdPublisher Connor Court Publishing Pty... -
Flight of the Garuda: Dzogchen Teachings of Tibetan Buddhism by Keith Dowman
RRP: £16.99£13.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861713677Author Keith DowmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Poetics: WITH On the Sublime AND On Style by Aristotle
RRP: £24.95£23.39Classic criticism.This volume brings together the three most influential ancient Greek treatises on literature.Aristotle's Poetics contains his treatment of Greek tragedy: its history, nature, and conventions, with details on poetic diction. Stephen... -
When I Was A Child I Read Books by Marilynne Robinson
RRP: £10.99£7.40From the author of the magnificent, award-winning novels GILEAD, HOME and LILA comes this wonderful, heart-warming collection of essays about reading.'Grace and intelligence ...[her work] defines universal truths about what it means to be human' Barack... -
The Breaks by Julietta Singh 9781914198007
RRP: £9.99£6.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914198007Author Julietta SinghFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books -
Utilitarianism and Other Essays by Jeremy Bentham
RRP: £10.99£7.77One of the most important nineteenth-century schools of thought, Utilitarianism propounds the view that the value or rightness of an action rests in how well it promotes the welfare of those affected by it, aiming for 'the greatest happiness of the... -
De Anima (On the Soul) by Aristotle
RRP: £10.99£7.77For the Pre-Socratic philosophers the soul was the source of movement and sensation, while for Plato it was the seat of being, metaphysically distinct from the body that it was forced temporarily to inhabit. Plato's student Aristotle was determined to... -
The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend by Alan Lupack 9780199215096
RRP: £14.99£11.53The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend is both a critical history of the Arthurian tradition and a reference guide to Arthurian works, names, and symbols. It offers a comprehensive survey of the legends in all of their manifestations, from...