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The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing by Richard Dawkins
RRP: £13.99£10.41Selected and introduced by Richard Dawkins, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing is a celebration of the finest writing by scientists for a wider audience - revealing that many of the best scientists have displayed as much imagination and skill with... -
Dispatches for the New York Tribune: Selected Journalism of Karl Marx by Karl Marx
RRP: £14.99£10.95Karl Marx (1818-1883) is arguably the most famous political philosopher of all time, but he was also one of the great foreign correspondents of the nineteenth century. During his eleven years writing for the New York Tribune (their collaboration began in... -
The Mad Pride: A Celebration of Mad Culture by Ted Curtis 9780952574422
£10.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780952574422Author Ted CurtisFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Spare Change BooksPublisher Spare Change BooksWeight(grams) 321g -
Henry James Collected Stories Box Set: 2 Volumes Henry James 9781857152449
RRP: £30.00£23.69Encompassing a period of almost fifty years, the stories of Henry James represent the most remarkable feat of sustained literary creatio n in modern times. For sheer richness, variety and intensity, they have no equal in fiction, enabling us to trace the... -
Pointless Book Alfie Deyes 9781905825905
RRP: £8.99£3.10Brought to you by YouTube Vlogger Alfie Deyes, The Pointless Book, accompanied by the free downloadable app, is the ultimate addition to his YouTube channel a weird and funny video-diary of fun, challenges and nothingness: bake a cake in a mug; take part... -
A Harp in the Stars: An Anthology of Lyric Essays by Randon Billings Noble
RRP: £19.99£17.81Apologies 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 -
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... -
Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory by Sarah Polley 9781914613296
RRP: £11.99£8.22FROM THE DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITER OF WOMEN TALKING 'Fascinating, harrowing, courageous, and deeply felt, these explorations of "dangerous stories", harmful past events and trials of the soul speak to all who've encountered dark waters and have had to... -
The Three Kingdoms, Volume 1: The Sacred Oath: The Epic Chinese Tale of Loyalty and War in a Dynamic New Translation (with Footnotes): Volume 1 Luo Guanzhong 9780804843935
RRP: £14.99£10.05This 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... -
Life Is a Dream by Pedro Calderon de la Barca
RRP: £10.99£10.79Considered one of the outstanding Spanish dramas of all time, this 17th-century allegory explores the mysteries of human destiny, the illusory nature of existence, and the struggle between predestination and free will.About the AuthorPedro Calderon de la... -
Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art (Updated Edition) Julian Barnes 9781787332898
RRP: £20.00£14.91The updated edition of Julian Barnes' best-loved writing on art, with seven new exquisite illustrated essays'Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that great paintings required no words of explanation... -
Bacchae and Other Plays by Euripides
RRP: £9.99£7.61Iphigenia among the Taurians Bacchae Iphigenia at Aulis Rhesus The four plays newly translated in this volume are among Euripides' most exciting works. Iphigenia among the Taurians is a story of escape and contrasting Greek and barbarian... -
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... -
Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth Margaret Atwood 9780747598718
RRP: £9.99£7.32In this wide-ranging history of debt Margaret Atwood investigates its many meanings through the ages, from ancient times to the current global financial meltdown. Many of us wonder: how could we have let such a collapse happen? How old or inevitable is... -
A Girl's Story by Annie Ernaux 9781913097158
RRP: £11.99£8.16'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... -
Letters To Felice by Franz Kafka 9780749399481
RRP: £17.99£13.15Kafka's letters to Felice Bauer were written between 1912 and 1917, during which time they were twice engaged to be married. This complex relationship, which coincided with a period of great productivity for Kafka, gave him both hope and strength, but... -
A Little Order: Selected Journalism by Evelyn Waugh
RRP: £9.99£7.32Whether celebrating Hogarth or savaging Hollywood, mocking modern manners or defending traditional English architecture, inviting readers to 'come inside' the Catholic Church or expressing his contempt for modish Marxism and American-style religion,... -
The Essential Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore 9780674417045
RRP: £25.95£21.96The Essential Tagore showcases the genius of India's Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian Nobel Laureate and possibly the most prolific and diverse serious writer the world has ever known.Marking the 150th anniversary of Tagore's birth, this ambitious... -
Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas by Patrick Modiano
RRP: £12.99£11.17A trio of intertwined novellas from the 2014 Nobel laureate for literature In this essential trilogy of novellas by the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, French author Patrick Modiano reaches back in time, opening the corridors of memory... -
The The Slow Downfall of Margaret Thatcher: The Diaries of Bernard Ingham by Bernard Ingham 9781785904783
RRP: £20.00£11.93Branded `the rough-spoken Yorkshire Rasputin', Bernard Ingham served as Margaret Thatcher's press secretary for virtually all of her eleven-year premiership, adroitly steering the government's relationship with the media - and the Prime Minister's... -
How to be Idle by Tom Hodgkinson
RRP: £10.99£7.99How to be Idle is Tom Hodgkinson's brilliant guide to reclaiming your right to be idle'Well written, funny and with a scholarly knowledge of the literature of laziness, it is both a book to be enjoyed at leisure and to change lives' Sunday TimesAs Oscar... -
Consider the Oyster by M. F. K. Fisher 9781911547273
RRP: £9.99£6.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911547273Author M. F. K. FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books -
170 Chinese Poems by Arthur Waley 9780094677104
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Japanese Short Stories for Intermediate Learners: Learn Japanese and Build Your Vocabulary The Fun and Easy Way by Language Guru 9781950321421
RRP: £7.99£6.27Apologies 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)... -
The Heart of Things: On Memory and Lament by Richard Holloway
RRP: £10.99£7.54Richard Holloway is one of our most beloved public thinkers. Throughout his life he has turned to poets and writers to help answer the big questions, and for solace and guidance in the face of life's challenges. Now he shares those poems and words which... -
The Harold Nicolson Diaries: 1907-1964 Harold Nicolson 9780753819975
RRP: £14.99£10.05One of the great 20th century political diaries'A tremendous read' SPECTATOR'One stops to marvel at the achievement. Honesty, decency, modesty, magnanimity, are stamped on every page, as evident as the wit' EVENING STANDARDHarold Nicolson was one of the... -
Oppositions: Selected Essays by Mary Gaitskill
RRP: £16.99£12.47'Mary Gaitskill is willing to think about the problematic with complexity and humanity, and without taking sides or engaging in all the fashionable moral hectoring that passes for serious thought these days.' Eimear McBride Nuanced, daring and tender,... -
Lines in the Sand: Collected Journalism Adrian Gill 9781474605175
RRP: £9.99£7.00'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... -
My Life Goals Journal by Andrea Hayes
RRP: £18.99£14.22'These strategies worked for me and I know they can work for you too.' Andrea Hayes Do you dream of creating a change in your life but feel stuck or unsure where to start? Andrea Hayes' inspirational and practical journal will help you clarify what... -
A Monk's Confession: The Memoirs of Guibert of Nogent by Guibert, Abbot of Nogent-sous-Coucy
RRP: £31.95£28.61A Monk's Confession is the first completely new English translation of Guibert of Nogent's remarkable memoirs in over seventy years. Written around the year 1115, they offer an unparalleled look at the life of a monk in the Middle Ages. Guibert, who... -
Nairn's Towns by Ian Nairn 9781907903816
RRP: £14.99£13.84A new edition of Britain's Changing Towns (1967), introduced, edited and updated by Owen Hatherley: "These essays show him writing about cities and towns as wholes rather than as collections of individual buildings. In each of them, there are several... -
The Book of Rumi: 105 Stories and Fables That Illumine, Delight, and Inform by Rumi 9781571747464
RRP: £15.99£12.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781571747464Author RumiFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Hampton Roads Publishing CoPublisher Hampton Roads Publishing Co -
Dear Gay: Letters to The Gay Byrne Show – a handwritten history of Ireland by Suzy Byrne 9780717195633
RRP: £25.99£19.57For 25 years, Gay Byrne received thousands of letters from listeners all over Ireland. Some of these letters were light-hearted and innocent, but others were more challenging. While many people didn't feel comfortable sharing their issues with their... -
Forest of A Thousand Daemons: A Hunter's Saga by D. O. Fagunwa 9780872866300
RRP: £11.99£9.24"His total conviction in multiple existences within our physical world is as much an inspiration to some of the most brilliant fiction in Yoruba writing as it is a deeply felt urge to 'justify the ways of God to man.'"--Wole Soyinka, translator... -
The Granta Book Of Reportage by Ian Jack
RRP: £14.99£10.06Since 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... -
Orwell and England: Selected Essays by George Orwell
RRP: £10.99£7.73George Orwell, perhaps one of the most perceptive writers of the twentieth century, wrote extensively about English life and politics. This selection of his essays and journalism brings together his most provocative and insightful writing on England and... -
Gathering: Women of Colour on Nature by Durre Shahwar 9781912489749
RRP: £10.99£7.21"The beautiful rolling hills and coastlines are for all of us. Together, we can reimagine the British countryside (and all it represents) and make space so that everyone is welcomed." Gathering brings together essays by women of colour across the UK... -
Modern Drama: Plays of the '80s and '90s: Top Girls; Hysteria; Blasted; Shopping and F***ing; The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Caryl Churchill
RRP: £19.99£18.80With an introduction by Graham Whybrow, literary manager of the Royal Court Theatre, this anthology collects the defining plays of the 1980s and 1990s in one volume - Top Girls 'The best British play ever from a woman dramatist' (The Guardian) Hysteria... -
Brexit Unfolded by Christopher Grey 9781785906923
RRP: £14.99£11.30Britain'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... -
Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions by Alberto Manguel
RRP: £11.99£10.41A best-selling author and world-renowned bibliophile meditates on his vast personal library and champions the vital role of all libraries."The author brings a fresh hopefulness to the enterprise of books and reading. Vintage Manguel-a pleasure for his...