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Levels 3-4 English: Reading for Understanding, Analysis and Evaluation Skills by Jane Cooper
£17.44Syllabus: CfE (Curriculum for Excellence, from Education Scotland) and SQALevel: BGE S1-3: Third & Fourth LevelsSubject: EnglishFocus specifically on RUAE skills at Third and Fourth Levels with this popular book from Jane Cooper, comprising examples,... -
How to Write About Africa by Binyavanga Wainaina
RRP: £16.99£12.28A trailblazing collection of writing from Binyavanga Wainaina's extraordinary life 'In your text, treat Africa as if it were one country. It is hot and dusty with rolling grasslands and huge herds of animals and tall, thin people who are starving. Or it... -
The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today by Eric Adler 9780197518786
RRP: £30.99£22.85These are troubling days for the humanities. In response, a recent proliferation of works defending the humanities has emerged. But, taken together, what are these works really saying, and how persuasive do they prove? The Battle of the Classics... -
Metamorphosis: Selected Stories by Penelope Lively
RRP: £9.99£7.11Including new and never-before-published stories and forgotten treasures: the definitive selection of short stories from one of our greatest living writers, curated by the author herselfWry, compassionate and glittering with wit, Penelope Lively's... -
Fasti by Ovid
RRP: £11.99£8.43'Times and their reasons, arranged in order through the Latin year, and constellations sunk beneath the earth and risen, I shall sing.' Ovid's poetical calendar of the Roman year is both a day by day account of festivals and observances and their... -
The Lonely Stories: 22 Celebrated Writers on the Joys & Struggles of Being Alone by Natalie Eve Garrett
RRP: £15.99£9.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948226608Author Natalie Eve GarrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint CatapultPublisher Catapult -
Dialogues and Letters by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: £9.99£7.11A major writer and a leading figure in the public life of Rome, Seneca (c. 4BC-AD 65) ranks among the most eloquent and influential masters of Latin prose. This selection explores his thoughts on philosophy and the trials of life. In the Consolation to... -
Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader by Harry Crews 9780671865276
£19.11Includes two of Crews' full-length novels, The Gypsy's Curse and Car, his autobiography, and three of his essays.Book InformationISBN 9780671865276Author Harry CrewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon &... -
Mum's List by St John Greene
RRP: £8.99£6.45The heartbreaking and heartwarming true story of a mother dying of a cancer and the special gift she left for her husband and two young sons - it'll have you crying and laughing equally. Now a major film starring Rafe Spall and Emilia Fox, which the... -
Hidden Agendas by John Pilger 9780099741510
RRP: £18.99£13.61In this powerful book, journalist and film maker John Pilger strips away the layers of deception, dissembling language and omission that prevent us from understanding how the world really works. From the invisible corners of Tony Blair's Britain to... -
Fall of the Roman Republic by Plutarch
RRP: £12.99£9.09Dramatic artist, natural scientist and philosopher, Plutarch is widely regarded as the most significant historian of his era, writing sharp and succinct accounts of the greatest politicians and statesman of the classical period. Taken from the Lives, a... -
The Great Irish Famine: A History in Four Lives by Enda Delaney
RRP: £16.99£12.28The Great Irish Famine of 1845-52 was the defining event in the history of modern Ireland. At least one million people died, and double that number fled the country within a decade. The Great Irish Famine surveys the history of this great tragedy... -
The Tao of Travel by Paul Theroux
RRP: £10.99£7.77A compendium of travel writing from a master travellerPaul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe by collecting the best writing on travel from the books that shaped him, as a reader and a traveller. Part philosophical guide, part... -
Eternal Echoes: A Book of Poems: 1994-2021, From the New York Times bestselling author, Sadhguru, a rare poetry anthology, a collector's edition perfect for gifting by Sadhguru
£20.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670096466Author SadhguruFormat HardbackPage Count 588Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 200mm * 140mm * 40mm -
White Girls by Hilton Als
RRP: £10.99£7.77'I defy you to read this book and come away with a mind unchanged' John Jeremiah Sullivan'Als has a serious claim to be regarded as the next James Baldwin' Observer'I see how we are all the same, that none of us are white women or black men; rather,... -
The Lunatics Have Taken Over the Asylum: Political Letters to The Daily Telegraph by Ian Hollingshead 9781472121547
RRP: £14.99£9.80Telegraph letter writers, that most astute body of political commentators, are probably not alone in thinking that politics has taken some strange turns in recent years. The first coalition government since 1945 has led the country from the subprime to... -
The Gardener's Year by Karel Capek 9781529096248
RRP: £10.99£7.51The Gardener's Year is a charming and light-hearted insight into the life of an amateur gardener. Structured loosely around what to plant, grow or cultivate each month, Karel Capek takes us on a rollicking journey through a year in his own small garden... -
One Hundred Miracles: Music, Auschwitz, Survival and Love by Zuzana Ruzickova
RRP: £10.99£7.77The remarkable memoir of Zuzana Ruzickova, Holocaust survivor and world-famous harpsichordist. 'Extraordinary' Sunday Times 'Compelling' Daily Telegraph Zuzana Ruzickova grew up in 1930s Czechoslovakia dreaming of two things: Johann Sebastian... -
The Book of Forgotten Authors by Christopher Fowler
RRP: £12.99£8.60'JOYOUS . . . READERS WILL LOVE THIS FASCINATING BOOK' CATHY RENTZENBRINK'A GODSEND WITH THE PRESENT SEASON APPROACHING' IRISH INDEPENDENT'THE PERFECT GIFT FOR A BOOK-OBSESSED FRIEND' STYLIST, 50 UNMISSABLE BOOKS FOR AUTUMN 2017'EXCELLENT . . . SHOULD BE... -
Nothing Sacred: Selected Writings by Angela Carter
RRP: £9.99£6.80In the pursuit of magnificence, nothing is sacred,' says Angela Carter, and magnificence is indeed her own achievement. One of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation, her work as a journalist and critic was no less original. Long... -
Your Madness, Not Mine: Stories of Cameroon by Makuchi
RRP: £16.99£15.07Women's writing in Cameroon has so far been dominated by Francophone writers. The short stories in this collection represent the yearnings and vision of an Anglophone woman, who writes both as a Cameroonian and as a woman whose life has been shaped by... -
The Tales of Ise by Peter Macmillan
RRP: £12.99£9.09One of the three seminal works of Japanese literature, this beautiful collection of poems and tales offers an unparalleled insight into ancient Japan.Along with the Tale of Genji and One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each, The Tales of Ise is considered one of... -
The Letters of Gustave Flaubert : 1830-1880 by Gustave Flaubert 9781681377162
RRP: £23.00£15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681377162Author Gustave FlaubertFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Diaries Volume 8: One the Slide to Cameron by Alastair Campbell
RRP: £25.00£18.84'If the face that Brexit Britain presents to the world today had been the face we had presented when going for the Games... no chance. In less than a decade it feels like we have taken that Olympic spirit, the mood of London 2012, and created a... -
Elegies: With parallel Latin text by Albius Tibullus
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Delia, when flames engulf my bier you'll weep for me, and then you'll mix your kisses with sad tears.' Tibullus (?55-18 BC) was one of a group of poets known as the Latin elegists, whose number included Ovid and Propertius. Living in the age of... -
Wodehouse At The Wicket: A Cricketing Anthology by P. G. Wodehouse
RRP: £9.99£7.11'The funniest writer ever to put words to paper' HUGH LAURIE_____________________________________________From his early days Wodehouse adored cricket and references to the game run like a golden thread though his writings. He not only wrote about this... -
Sumerian Mythology by Samuel Noah Kramer 9781773239712
RRP: £8.95£8.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773239712Author Samuel Noah KramerFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Must Have BooksPublisher Must Have BooksWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica by Philip Larkin
RRP: £18.99£13.23Philip Larkin met Monica Jones at University College Leicester in autumn 1946, when they were both twenty-four; he was the newly-appointed assistant librarian and she was an English lecturer. In 1950 Larkin moved to Belfast, and thence to Hull, while... -
The Zionist Idea: A Historical Analysis and Reader by Arthur Hertzberg
RRP: £27.99£24.54A classic since its initial publication in 1959, The Zionist Idea is an anthology of writings by the leading thinkers of the Zionist movement, including Theodor Herzl, Ahad Ha-Am, Martin Buber, Louis Brandeis, Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, Judah Magnes, Max... -
Immanuel by Matthew McNaught
RRP: £12.99£8.56At what point does faith turn into tyranny? In Immanuel, winner of the inaugural Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize, Matthew McNaught explores his upbringing in an evangelical Christian community in Winchester. As he moved away from the faith of his... -
Good Enough: 40ish Devotionals for a Life of Imperfection by Kate Bowler
RRP: £12.99£9.09***THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER***We begin to feel less alone, more loved and less judged when good is . . . enough.In this collection of 40ish short spiritual devotionals, Good Enough reveals the small things we can do to inch toward a deeper,... -
The Lake District Survival Guide: The essential toolkit for surviving life in Cumbria as a tourist or local by Ian Young 9781999894054
RRP: £8.00£6.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999894054Author Ian YoungFormat HardbackPage Count 124Imprint Jake Island LtdPublisher Jake Island Ltd -
Artaud Anthology by Antonin Artaud 9780872860001
RRP: £12.99£8.63"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... -
An Autobiography: and Other Writings by Anthony Trollope 9780199675296
RRP: £10.99£7.77'I hated the office. I hated my work...the only career in life within my reach was that of an author.' The only autobiography by a major Victorian novelist, Trollope's account offers a fascinating insight into his literary life and opinions. After a... -
Notes Towards the Definition of Culture by T. S. Eliot
RRP: £10.99£7.32'The term culture ... includes all the characteristic activities and interests of a people; Derby Day, Henley Regatta, Cowes, the twelfth of August, a cup final, the dog races, the pin table, the dart board, Wensleydale cheese, boiled cabbage cut into... -
A Harp in the Stars: An Anthology of Lyric Essays by Randon Billings Noble
RRP: £21.99£17.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496217745Author Randon Billings NobleFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint University of Nebraska PressPublisher University of Nebraska Press -
The Moronic Inferno: And Other Visits to America by Martin Amis 9780099461869
RRP: £10.99£7.77At 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,... -
Harold and Joan: Letters Home, an intimate glimpse of one man's journey through World War II by Karen Geraldine Croft 9781915067180
RRP: £8.99£6.45"Darling the hour has almost arrived. We leave tonight ... I am feeling it very much but I must not weaken. I must be brave. I think that will be the best attitude to take for us all" Harold Bishop is called up to the army in 1941, aged 39. He leaves... -
How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing by Michel de Montaigne 9780141397221
RRP: £3.00£2.49'No one characteristic clasps us purely and universally in its embrace.'A selection of charming essays from a master of the genre exploring the contradictions inherent to human thought, words and actions.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for... -
The Portable Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson
RRP: £9.99£8.76Philosopher John Dewey called Ralph Waldo Emerson "the one citizen of the New World fit to have his name uttered in the same breath with that of Plato."Through his writing and his own personal philosophy, Emerson unburdened his young country of Europe's...