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The Star-Nosed Mole: An Anthology of Scented Garden Writing by Isabel Bannerman
RRP: £20.00£13.75After publishing Scent Magic, an acclaimed memoir of plants, gardens and scent, Isabel Bannerman couldn't leave the subject alone. 'I came across the star-nosed mole, an adorable and preposterous creature with a highly specialized sensory-motor organ,... -
Our Women on the Ground: Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World by Zahra Hankir
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Determination, grit and humour shine through' Lindsey Hilsum, ObserverNineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it's like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection.A growing number of intrepid Arab and... -
Ghalib: Selected Poems and Letters by Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib 9780231182072
RRP: £22.00£17.36This selection of poetry and prose by Ghalib provides an accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the preeminent Urdu poet of the nineteenth century. Ghalib's poems, especially his ghazals, remain beloved throughout South Asia for their arresting... -
Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Sabina Knight 9780195392067
RRP: £8.99£6.45Perhaps nowhere else has literature been as conscious a collective endeavor as in China, and China's survival over three thousand years may owe more to its literary traditions than to its political history. This Very Short Introduction tells the story of... -
The Norton Anthology of English Literature by Stephen Greenblatt 9780393603057
£37.60The most trusted anthology for complete works and helpful editorial apparatus. The Tenth Edition supports survey and period courses with NEW complete major works, NEW contemporary writers, and dynamic and easy-to-access digital resources. NEW video... -
The Letters of Private Wheeler: An eyewitness in action at the Battle of Waterloo by B.H. Liddell Hart
RRP: £10.99£7.40'In a later age he would have become a successful war correspondent ... We have no more human account of the Peninsular War from a participant in all its battles. Vivid images - of people, landscapes, events - flows from his pen ... One of military... -
The Phone Box at the Edge of the World by Laura Imai Messina 9781786580399
RRP: £12.99£8.73'Absolutely breathtaking' Christy Lefteri, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo.We all have something to tell those we have lost . . .On a windy hill in Japan, in a garden overlooking the sea stands a disused phone box. For years,... -
Hellenica: Bks. 1-4 by Xenophon
RRP: £24.95£23.39A continuation of Thucydides.Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BC) was a wealthy Athenian and friend of Socrates. He left Athens in 401 and joined an expedition including ten thousand Greeks led by the Persian governor Cyrus against the Persian king. After... -
The Book of Reykjavik: A City in Short Fiction by Frida Isberg
RRP: £10.99£7.77Iceland is a land of stories; from the epic sagas of its mythic past, to its claim today of being home to more writers, more published books and more avid readers, per head, than anywhere in the world. As its capital (and indeed only city), Reykjavik has... -
The Declared Enemy: Texts and Interviews by Jean Genet
RRP: £29.99£26.50This posthumous work brings together articles, interviews, statements, prefaces, manifestos, and speeches dating from 1964 to 1985 (just before Genet's death in 1986). These texts bear witness to the many political causes and groups with which Genet felt... -
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: A Facsimile in Full Color by William Blake 9780486281223
RRP: £12.49£7.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486281223Author Ronald K GetoorFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Love Letters of Dylan Thomas by Dylan Thomas
RRP: £8.99£6.20Fascinating insight into the tempestuous life of one of our great poets through his letters, including those to the two great loves of his life. Featuring a bold new livery in celebration of the Dylan Thomas centenary.Dylan Thomas' letters to the many... -
Joyce Carol Oates: Letters To A Biographer by Joyce Carol Oates 9781636141169
RRP: £27.99£18.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636141169Author Joyce Carol OatesFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S. -
In Defence of the Republic by Cicero
RRP: £10.99£7.77Cicero (106-43BC) was the most brilliant orator in Classical history. Even one of the men who authorized his assassination, the Emperor Octavian, admitted to his grandson that Cicero was: 'an eloquent man, my boy, eloquent and a lover of his country'... -
The Joy of Walking: Selected Writings by Suzy Cripps
RRP: £10.99£7.12Just like the best walks, The Joy of Walking takes you on a journey with lots to surprise and enjoy along the way. Through the best of classic writing, this inspiring anthology shows how the simple act of walking goes to the heart of life itself.Part of... -
Twenty Bunnies at Bedtime (PB) by Mark Sperring 9780702314766
RRP: £6.99£4.64A super sweet count-to-twenty picture book filled with cute and cuddly bunnies! Once upon a bouncy bed . . . What's the best way to help little ones fall asleep? By counting super fluffy bunnies, of course! ... -
So This is Permanence: Joy Division Lyrics and Notebooks by Ian Curtis
RRP: £25.00£17.59So this is permanence, edited by Jon Savage with a foreword by Deborah Curtis, presents the intensely personal writings of one of the most enigmatic and influential songwriters and performers of the late twentieth century, Joy Division's Ian Curtis. The... -
The Man Who Played with Fire: Stieg Larsson's Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin by Jan Stocklassa 9781542092944
RRP: £8.99£6.13"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... -
The Hall Of Uselessness by Simon Leys
RRP: £21.00£14.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590176207Author Simon LeysFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 565gDimensions(mm)... -
The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
RRP: £10.99£7.77When 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... -
The Chain Of Curiosity by Sandi Toksvig
RRP: £14.99£9.80Sandi Toksvig - broadcaster, writer, actor, and seeker of all things whimsical, has turned her probing mind to many of the most intriguing questions of our times in the pages of the Sunday Telegraph for many years. Now, for the very first time, these... -
As You Like It by William Shakespeare 9781108969192
RRP: £9.99£8.17Michael Hattaway's Introduction to this bestselling edition of As You Like It accounts for what makes this popular play both innocent and dangerous. This third edition includes a new section on recent critical interpretations, including sections on... -
Letters to Eugene: Correspondence 1977-1987 by Herve Guibert
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635901726Author Herve GuibertFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher Semiotext (E) -
The Golden Legend by Jacobus
RRP: £14.99£10.95One of the central texts of the Middle Ages, The Golden Legend deeply influenced the imagery of poetry, painting and stained glass with its fascinating descriptions of saints' lives and religious festivals. By creating a single-volume sourcebook of core... -
Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers by Janet Malcolm
RRP: £9.99£6.70Selected essays from America's foremost literary journalist and essayist, featuring ruminations on writers and artists as diverse as Edith Wharton, Diane Arbus and the Bloomsbury Group. This charismatic and penetrating collection includes Malcolm's now... -
On Grief And Reason: Essays by Joseph Brodsky
RRP: £14.99£10.95In this richly diverse collection of essays, Joseph Brodsky casts a reflective eye on his experiences of early life in Russia and exile in America. With dazzling erudition, he explores subjects as varied as the dynamic of poetry, the nature of history... -
Letters From Brenda: Two suitcases. 75 lost letters. One mother. by Emma Kennedy
RRP: £10.99£7.40'Beautiful . . . insightful, fascinating and moving. It's a lovely LOVELY book' Marian Keyes'This book made me cry' Sara Cox After her mother, Brenda, passed away and her father sold the family home, broadcaster and writer Emma Kennedy found herself... -
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 9780393284164
£12.37This Norton Critical Edition includes: The American first edition text, plus the reinstated "raft passage" from Life on the Mississippi (1883), complete with all original illustrations by Edward Windsor Kemble and, for the raft passage, John Harley... -
Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin by Clive James
RRP: £12.99£9.09Erudite and entertaining in equal measure, Somewhere Becoming Rain is a love letter from the much-loved writer Clive James to one of the world's most cherished poets: Philip Larkin.'This is the finest critic of his generation on the best poet of his... -
AndBloom The Art of Aging Unapologetically: Inspiration about life from more than 100 women by Denise Boomkens
RRP: £25.00£17.38***'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... -
Self-Consciousness by Professor John Updike 9780812982961
RRP: £19.00£13.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812982961Author John UpdikeFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath by Leslie Jamison 9781783781539
RRP: £10.99£7.32Addiction is seemingly inexplicable. From the outside, it can look like wilful, arrogant self-destruction; from the inside, it can feel as inevitable and insistent as a heartbeat. It is possible to describe, but hard to explore. Yet in The Recovering,... -
Beginning and End of the Snow: followed by Where the Arrow Falls by Yves Bonnefoy 9781611484588
RRP: £30.00£26.68Yves Bonnefoy's book of poems, Beginning and End of the Snow followed by Where the Arrow Falls, combines two meditations in which the poet's thoughts and a landscape reflect each other. In the first, the wintry New England landscape he encountered while... -
This is Europe: The Way We Live Now by Ben Judah
RRP: £22.00£15.10A Times, Financial Times and Telegraph Book of the Year 2023'Illuminates some of the great trends of our time' - Gideon Rachman, Financial Times'Vivid, urgent and unsettling' - Tom Holland, author of Dominion_____What does it now mean to call yourself... -
A Love Letter to Europe: An outpouring of sadness and hope - Mary Beard, Shami Chakrabati, Sebastian Faulks, Neil Gaiman, Ruth Jones, J.K. Rowling, Sandi Toksvig and others by Frank Cottrell Boyce
RRP: £10.99£7.78How are great turning points in history experienced by individuals?As Britain pulls away from Europe great British writers come together to give voice to their innermost feelings. These writers include novelists, writers of books for children, of comic... -
How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks by Adam Nicolson
RRP: £25.00£12.27A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How should we treat each other? Before the... -
Outraged: Why Everyone is Shouting and No One is Talking by Ashley 'Dotty' Charles
RRP: £9.99£8.11'The powerful new voice of her generation' The Times 'Funny, nuanced and wonderful' Jon Ronson 'A book that had me hollering, nodding and questioning at the same time' Candice Carty-Williams, author of Queenie ------- A candid... -
The Birds and Other Plays by Aristophanes
RRP: £10.99£7.77Offering a window into the world of ordinary Athenians, Aristophanes' The Birds and Other Plays is a timeless set of comedies, combining witty satire and raucous slapstick to wonderful effect. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Greek by... -
Andy Murray (A Life Story) by Stephen Davies 9780702316821
RRP: £5.99£4.05Andy Murray: tennis player, sports icon, Olympian. Get the inside track on one of history's most spectacular athletes! A Life Story: this thrilling series throws readers directly into the lives of modern... -
Read Write Inc. Phonics: Get Writing! Red Ditty Book 3 Pack of 10 by Ruth Miskin 9780198414292
£13.97The Get Writing! Ditty Books contain handwriting, spelling and composition activities linked to each of the corresponding Red Ditty reading books. Childrens writing is supported at every step from forming letters correctly to writing simple words and...