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From Spitfire to Focke Wulf: The Diary and Log Book of Pilot H. Leonard Thorne, 1940-45 by H. Leonard Thorne 9781803993584
RRP: £14.99£11.55'I hold the greatest respect for Len for what he achieved in the RAF'. - Gordon Mitchell, son of Spitfire designer R.J. MitchellIn May 1940, 20-year-old Len Thorne joined the RAF, as did many young men during the Second World War. After two hectic tours... -
Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson
RRP: £35.00£31.74Beginning with the dim prehistory of the mythical gods and their descendants, Heimskringla recounts the history of the kings of Norway through the reign of Olaf Haraldsson, who became Norway's patron saint. Once found in most homes and schools and still... -
British Folk Tales and Legends: A Sampler by Katharine M. Briggs
RRP: £14.99£13.58In 1970 Katharine Briggs published in four volumes the vast and authoritative Dictionary of British Folktales and Legends to wide acclaim. This sampler comprises the very best of those tales and legends. Gathered within, readers will find an extravagance... -
Index Cards by Moyra Davey 9781913097264
RRP: £12.99£8.56In these essays, the acclaimed artist, photographer, writer, and filmmaker Moyra Davey often begins with a daily encounter - with a photograph, a memory, or a passage from a book - and links that subject to others, drawing fascinating and unlikely... -
The Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power by David Shields
RRP: £17.95£13.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814255193Author David ShieldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)... -
Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations by Toni Morrison
RRP: £9.99£7.11"She was our conscience. Our seer. Our truth-teller. She was a magician with language, who understood the power of words." - Oprah WinfreyA vital non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated and revered American writersSpanning four decades,... -
Comrades: A Lifetime of Friendships by Rosita Boland
RRP: £9.99£7.11'I was fascinated, moved and entertained by every page. This is the kind of book the world needs right now' DONAL RYAN_______________'My dictionary's first two definitions of 'comrade' are:A close companion.An intimate associate or friend.The third one... -
The Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
RRP: £12.99£9.09Widely regarded as the first modern autobiography, The Confessions is an astonishing work of acute psychological insight. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) argued passionately against the inequality he believed to be intrinsic to civilized society. In his... -
Field Work: Faber Modern Classics by Seamus Heaney
RRP: £9.99£6.70Seamus Heaney was 'the greatest poet of our age' (Guardian). From his remarkable debut in 1966, he pioneered the poetry of our times across five decades of cultural and political change, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995.Field Work,... -
Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 9780822330158
RRP: £19.99£17.54A pioneer in queer theory and literary studies, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick brings together for the first time in Touching Feeling her most powerful explorations of emotion and expression. In essays that show how her groundbreaking work in queer theory has... -
Travels with a Dangerous Friend: Searching the world for a message in the bottle by Anthony Fitzgerald 9781915972170
£10.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915972170Author Anthony FitzgeraldFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint YouCaxton PublicationsPublisher YouCaxton Publications -
A Girl's Story by Annie Ernaux 9781913097158
RRP: £11.99£7.93'I too wanted to forget that girl. Really forget her, that is, stop yearning to write about her. Stop thinking that I have to write about this girl and her desire and madness, her idiocy and pride, her hunger and her blood that ceased to flow. I have... -
Timaeus and Critias by Plato 9780140455045
RRP: £10.99£7.77Timaeus and Critias is a Socratic dialogue in two parts. A response to an account of an ideal state told by Socrates, it begins with Timaeus's theoretical exposition of the cosmos and his story describing the creation of the universe, from its very... -
Poems and Prose by Gerard Hopkins
RRP: £9.99£7.11Dazzling in its prosodic innovations, such as the 'sprung rhythm' he pioneered, and wide-ranging in its complexity and metaphysical interest. The Penguin Classics edition of Gerard Manley Hopkins's Poems and Prose is selected and edited with an... -
The Odyssey: A New Translation by Homer
RRP: £12.99£8.60The classic tale of Odysseus's return home in a stunning new translation.THE ODYSSEY, which tells of Odysseus's long voyage home after the battle of Troy, is one of the defining masterpieces of Western literature.Populated by one-eyed man-eating giants,... -
Peace Work by Spike Milligan
RRP: £10.99£8.43Peace Work is volume seven of Spike Milligan's outrageous, hilarious, legendary War Memoirs.'I had not informed my parents of my return, I wanted it to be a lovely surprise; it was, for me, they were away ...'The seventh and last volume of Spike... -
The Gifts of Reading by Robert Macfarlane 9781474624930
RRP: £9.99£6.80With contributions by: William Boyd, Candice Carty-Williams, Imtiaz Dharker, Roddy Doyle, Pico Iyer, Robert Macfarlane, Andy Miller, Jackie Morris, Jan Morris, Sisonke Msimang, Dina Nayeri, Chigozie Obioma, Michael Ondaatje, David Pilling, Max Porter,... -
Japanese Short Stories for Intermediate Learners: Learn Japanese and Build Your Vocabulary The Fun and Easy Way by Language Guru 9781950321421
RRP: £7.99£6.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950321421Author Language GuruFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Language Mastery PublishingPublisher Language Mastery PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Wildflower by Drew Barrymore
RRP: £14.99£10.95'We all have stories to tell. These are mine.' Drew BarrymoreBorn into Hollywood royalty, Drew Barrymore is one of the biggest stars of her generation. Despite an unconventional childhood, she has built a life and career of her own that millions of fans... -
Letters to a Young Poet: The Norton Centenary Edition by Rainer Maria Rilke
RRP: £16.99£12.65These letters from the poet and mystic Rainer Maria Rilke to a nineteen-year-old cadet and aspiring poet have inspired millions of readers since they were first published in English in 1934. The first and most popular translator of this work was Mary... -
Marxist Literary Theory: A Reader by Terry Eagleton 9780631185819
RRP: £45.95£40.51Marxist Literary Theory: A Reader is designed to give both students and lecturers a sense of the historical formation of a Marxist literary tradition. A unique compilation of principal texts in that tradition, it offers the reader new ways of reading... -
Birds: An Anthology by Jaqueline Mitchell
RRP: £16.99£13.29Thomas Hardy notes the thrush's 'full-hearted evensong of joy illimited', Gilbert White observes how swallows sweep through the air but swifts 'dash round in circles' and Rachel Carson watches sanderlings at the ocean's edge, scurrying 'across the beach... -
Footprints: David Foot's Lifetime of Writing by Stephen Chalke 9781739929343
RRP: £22.00£18.38A bumper collection of the work of award-winning West Country journalist and author David Foot, 'Footprints' spans the full range of his work - from cricket, football and boxing to theatre, local history and murder. With an observant eye, a fascination... -
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... -
Bones & Honey: A Heathen Prayer Book by Danielle Dulsky 9781608688920
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608688920Author Danielle DulskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World LibraryWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 226mm *... -
Artful by Ali Smith
RRP: £10.99£7.77A playful, form-bending novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted, Women's Prize-winning author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet 'Playful and audacious' Independent Narrated by a character who is haunted - literally - by a... -
John Keats: Major Works by John Keats
RRP: £12.99£9.33This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Keats's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by a... -
Keith Haring Journals by Keith Haring
RRP: £16.99£12.28Keith Haring is synonymous with the downtown New York art scene of the 1980's. His artwork-with its simple, bold lines and dynamic figures in motion-filtered in to the world's consciousness and is still instantly recognizable, twenty years after his... -
Selected Writings by Alan Shelston 9780141396767
RRP: £12.99£9.09The most important writings by the great and controversial Victorian polemicist.Carlyle was one of the great figures of his age: thunderous, passionate, irascible, sceptical and idealistic. This selection is representative of all stages of Carlyle's... -
Edward Marsh: A Life of Poets, Painters and Players by Sharon Mather 9781911397786
RRP: £25.00£17.30Sir Edward 'Eddie' Marsh was an ornament of early twentieth-century society; a respected civil servant, polymath and scholar who led a remarkable life. Always at the heart of the establishment, he was Winston Churchill's longest serving Private Secretary... -
Lines in the Sand: Collected Journalism by Adrian Gill
RRP: £9.99£6.80'By miles the most brilliant journalist of our age' Lynn Barber'A golden writer' Andrew MarrA. A. Gill was rightly hailed as one of the greatest journalists of our time. This selection of some of his recent pieces, which he made himself before his... -
Have I Got Views For You by Boris Johnson
RRP: £12.99£8.48In his own inimitable style, Boris Johnson, the new Mayor of London, turns his attention to the culture, manners and morals of British society, giving us a humorous, at times furious, but always entertaining read. A witty anthology of pieces... -
We're Doomed. Now What?: Essays on War and Climate Change by Roy Scranton
RRP: £14.99£11.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616959364Author Roy ScrantonFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Soho Press IncPublisher Soho Press Inc -
Street Haunting and Other Essays by Virginia Woolf
RRP: £12.99£9.09Virginia Woolf began writing reviews for the Guardian 'to make a few pence' from her father's death in 1904, and continued until the last decade of her life. The result is a phenomenal collection of articles, of which this selection offers a fascinating... -
The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass, Aged 37 3/4 by Adrian Plass
RRP: £12.99£7.11Saturday, December 14thFeel led to keep a diary. A sort of spiritual log for the benefit of others in the future. Each new divine insight and experience will shine like a beacon in the darkness!Can't think of anything to put in today.Still, tomorrow's... -
Beauty and the Inferno by Oonagh Stransky 9780857050106
RRP: £10.99£7.40Roberto Saviano is best known for his work on the Italian mafia, but Beauty and the Inferno, winner of the European Book Award 2010, also tackles universal themes with great insight and humanity, with urgency, and often with anger. This important... -
Are We Having Fun Yet? by Lucy Mangan 9781788161084
RRP: £16.99£12.28Shortlisted for the 2022 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 'Utterly, utterly perfect and brilliant - I think it is, simply, a new classic, and the book every woman will be able to trust to make her happy when she picks it up' -... -
Angels by Cecil Collins 9780954440909
RRP: £4.99£4.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954440909Author Cecil CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 51Imprint Fools' PressPublisher Fools' Press -
The Granta Book Of Reportage by Ian Jack
RRP: £14.99£9.80Since its relaunch in 1979, Granta magazine has championed the art and craft of reportage - journalism marked by vivid description, a novelist's eye to form and eyewitness reporting that reveals hidden truths about people and events that have shaped the... -
A Very Private Diary: A Nurse in Wartime by Mary Morris
RRP: £8.99£5.45The newly discovered diary of a wartime nurse - a fascinating, dramatic and unique insight into the experiences of a young nurse in the Second World War.'I always seem to be saying good-bye to men whom I might have loved had there been enough time.....