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When I Was A Child I Read Books by Marilynne Robinson
RRP: £10.99£7.61From 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... -
Utilitarianism and Other Essays by Jeremy Bentham
RRP: £10.99£7.99One 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... -
Hermit in Paris by Italo Calvino
RRP: £10.99£7.99Italo Calvino once said that he preferred to give false details about his biography since he felt that even the genuine data of a writer's life shed no light on the creative work. But this volume of posthumously collected personal writings is the closest... -
Hardship and Happiness by Lucius Annaeus Seneca 9780226748337
RRP: £31.00£30.19Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and advisor to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca is a fresh and compelling series of new... -
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... -
Roman Lives: A Selection of Eight Lives by Plutarch
RRP: £11.99£8.66Marcus Cato Sulla Aemilius Paullus Pompey The Gracchi Marius Julius Caesar Anthony 'I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with them: I... -
The Waste Books by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
RRP: £16.99£11.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940322509Author Georg Christoph LichtenbeFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
In the Presence of Absence by Mahmoud Darwish
RRP: £12.99£8.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsRunner-up for Literary Award (Translation) 2012.Book InformationISBN 9781935744016Author Mahmoud DarwishFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher... -
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023 by Carl Zimmer 9780063293212
RRP: £14.99£9.96Award-winning writer, columnist, and journalists Carl Zimmer selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in 2022.A collection of the best science and nature articles written in 2022, selected by guest... -
The Horizontal Oak: A Life in Nature by Polly Pullar
RRP: £16.99£11.58'Peppered with humour, empathy and kindness' - Sunday Post Ever since her pet sheep Lulu accompanied her to school at the age of seven, animals and nature have been at the heart of Polly Pullar's world. Growing up in a remote corner of the Scottish... -
Twenty Years A-Growing by Maurice O'Sullivan
RRP: £9.49£6.98Maurice O'Sullivan was born on the Great Blasket in 1904, and 'Twenty Years A-Growing' tells the story of his youth and of a way of life which belonged to the Middle Ages. He wrote for his own pleasure and for the entertainment of his friends, without... -
The Miser and Other Plays by Jean-Baptiste Moliere 9780140447286
RRP: £12.99£9.34Moliere combined all the traditional elements of comedy - wit, slapstick, spectacle and satire - to create richly sophisticated and enduringly popular dramas. The Miser is the story of Harpagon, a mean-spirited old man who becomes obsessed with making... -
Brazillionaires: The Godfathers of Modern Brazil by Alex Cuadros
RRP: £12.99£9.34Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award Wealth and power on the trail of the super-rich In 2012, Brazilian tycoon Eike Batista was the eighth richest man in the world, his $30bn fortune built on Brazil's incredible... -
Art Matters by Neil Gaiman
RRP: £7.99£5.92Seize the day in the name of art. This creative call to arms from the mind of Neil Gaiman combines his extraordinary words with deft and striking illustrations by Chris Riddell. 'Like a bedtime story for the rest of your life, this is a book to live by... -
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: A Facsimile in Full Color by William Blake 9780486281223
RRP: £12.49£8.11Apologies 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)... -
Paris: A Literary Anthology by Zachary Seager 9781035023615
RRP: £9.99£7.08Take a literary stroll through the streets of Paris, visit its world-famous monuments, delve into its history and wander amongst its poets and artists.Countless author and poets have found home on the streets of Paris. In Paris: A Literary Anthology,... -
The Three Kingdoms, Volume 2: The Sleeping Dragon: The Epic Chinese Tale of Loyalty and War in a Dynamic New Translation (with Footnotes): Volume 2 Lu Guanzhong 9780804843942
RRP: £16.99£11.71This exciting new translation of the Chinese classic is designed to delight modern readers.The Three Kingdoms is an epic Chinese novel written over six centuries ago. It recounts in vivid historical detail the turbulent years at the close of the Han... -
Incidental Inventions by Elena Ferrante
RRP: £15.99£11.1118M copies of Elena Ferrante's books sold worldwide "This is my last column, after a year that has scared and inspired me." With these words, Elena Ferrante, the bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend, bid farewell to her year-long collaboration... -
Heart to Heart: A Cardinal Newman Prayer Book by Cardinal John Henry Newman 9780870612558
RRP: £11.99£9.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870612558Author Cardinal John Henry NewmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Christian Classics IncPublisher Christian Classics IncWeight(grams) 318g -
On Living and Dying Well by Cicero
RRP: £10.99£7.99In the first century BCE, Marcus Tullius Cicero, orator, statesman, and defender of republican values, created these philosophical treatises on such diverse topics as friendship, religion, death, fate and scientific inquiry. A pragmatist at heart,... -
Essays by George Orwell 9780141395463
RRP: £9.99£7.32These essays, reviews and articles illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who created a unique literary manner from the process of thinking aloud and who elevated political writing to an art.About... -
We Must Learn to Sit Down Together and Talk About a Little Culture: Decolonizing Essays, 1967-1984 by Sylvia Wynter
RRP: £39.99£28.29The beginnings of the anti-colonial struggle in Jamaica coincided with the childhood and early adolescence of Sylvia Wynter, providing the motivation for this, the first phase of her important body of work. The essays and articles collected here go... -
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,... -
nothing but a set of eyes for stars: New Writing Scotland 41 by Kirstin Innes 9781906841546
RRP: £9.95£7.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906841546Author Kirstin InnesFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish Literary... -
The Three Kingdoms, Volume 3: Welcome The Tiger: The Epic Chinese Tale of Loyalty and War in a Dynamic New Translation (with Footnotes): Volume 3 Luo Guanzhong 9780804843959
RRP: £19.99£13.55This exciting new translation of the Chinese classic is designed to delight modern readers.The Three Kingdoms is an epic Chinese novel written over six centuries ago. It recounts in vivid historical detail the turbulent years at the close of the Han... -
Letters Between a Father and Son by V. S. Naipaul
RRP: £16.99£12.47In 1950, V. S. Naipaul travelled from Trinidad to England to take up a place at Oxford University. Over the next few years, letters passed back and forth between Naipaul and his family - particularly his beloved father Seepersad, but also his mother and... -
The Phone Box at the Edge of the World by Laura Imai Messina 9781786580399
RRP: £12.99£8.96'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,... -
David Wojnarowicz: Dear Jean Pierre by David Wojnarowicz
RRP: £31.00£24.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737797951Author David WojnarowiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Primary InformationPublisher Primary Information -
Epistulae Morales: v. 2: Letters LXVI-XCII by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: £24.95£23.76Meditative missives.Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BC, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt's care. He became famous in rhetoric, philosophy, money-making, and imperial ... -
De Profundis and Other Prison Writings by Oscar Wilde
RRP: £9.99£7.32De Profundis and Other Prison Writings is a new selection of Oscar Wilde's prison letters and poetry in Penguin Classics, edited and introduced by Colm Toibin.At the start of 1895, Oscar Wilde was the toast of London, widely feted for his most recent... -
How Far You Have Come: Musings on Beauty and Courage by Morgan Harper Nichols
RRP: £14.99£10.95In the midst of the hurt and the mundane, the questions and the not yets, you can forget just how far you have come. This illustrated collection of poetry and essays invites you to reclaim moments of brokenness, division, and pain and re-envision them as... -
Self-Consciousness by Professor John Updike 9780812982961
RRP: £19.00£13.65Apologies 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 View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction Neil Gaiman 9781472208026
RRP: £14.99£10.05'Gaiman is god in the universe of story' Stephen Fry 'A perfect antidote to cynicism and a paean to the power of reading' Observer--- 'Literature does not occur in a vacuum. It cannot be a monologue. It has to be a conversation' This collection will draw... -
The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath by Leslie Jamison 9781783781539
RRP: £10.99£7.54Addiction 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,... -
The Treasure of the City of Ladies: Or the Book of the Three Virtues by Christine
RRP: £12.99£9.34Written by Europe's first professional woman writer, The Treasure of the City of Ladies offers advice and guidance to women of all ages and from all levels of medieval society, from royal courtiers to prostitutes. It paints an intricate picture of daily... -
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... -
Francis Bacon: The Major Works by Francis Bacon
RRP: £12.99£9.74This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together an extensive collection of Bacon's writing - the major prose in full, together with sixteen other... -
I'll Just Be Five More Minutes: And Other Tales from My ADHD Brain by Emily Farris 9780306830310
RRP: £15.99£10.93A hilariously-honest, heart-warming essay collection about life, love, and discovering you have ADHD at age 35Despite being a published writer with a family, a gaggle of internet fans, and (most shockingly) a mortgage, Emily Farris could never get her... -
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... -
The Moronic Inferno: And Other Visits to America by Martin Amis 9780099461869
RRP: £10.99£7.99At the age of ten, when Martin Amis spent a year in Princeton, New Jersey, he was excited and frightened by America. As an adult he has approached that confusing country from many arresting angles, and interviewed its literati, filmmakers, thinkers,...