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John Wayne in His Own Words by Ethan Wayne
RRP: £24.99£19.19The John Wayne archives boast thousands of never before published letters to and from fans, celebrities, heads of state, Presidents and many others. John Wayne left a legacy as the quintessential American and leading man - one that we may never see again... -
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... -
Lyrical Ballads by Samuel Coleridge
RRP: £8.99£6.65A collection of poems exemplifying Romantic aesthetic ideals, whose unique beauty lies in their revolutionary exploration of the 'overflow of powerful emotions recollected in tranquility', Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads... -
Aesop's Fables by Aesop 9780199540754
RRP: £8.99£6.65'The story goes that a sow who had delivered a whole litter of piglets loudly accosted a lioness. "How many children do you breed?" asked the sow. "I breed only one", said the lioness, "but it is very well bred!"' The fables of Aesop have become one... -
Textual Events: Performance and the Lyric in Early Greece by Felix Budelmann 9780198805823
£105.00Recent decades have seen a major expansion in our understanding of how early Greek lyric functioned in its social, political, and ritual contexts, and the fundamental role song played in the day-to-day lives of communities, groups, and individuals has... -
The Notebook by Jose Saramago
£20.31Thought-provoking and lyrical, The Notebook records the last year in the life of Jose Saramago. In these pages, beginning on the eve of the 2008 US presidential election, he evokes life in his beloved city of Lisbon, revisits conversations with friends,... -
Phaedrus by Plato 9780199554027
RRP: £8.99£6.65'Some of our greatest blessings come from madness Phaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato's most profound and beautiful works. It takes the form of a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus and its ostensible subject is love, especially... -
Swahili, State and Society - The Political Economy of an African Language by Ali A. Mazrui 9780852557297
£20.23The authors consider the spread of the Swahili language in Eastern and Central Africa against a background of interaction between church and state, and between economics and politics. North America: Africa World Press; Kenya: EAEPBook InformationISBN... -
Too Much of Life: Complete Chronicles by Clarice Lispector 9780241597583
RRP: £14.99£10.95A TLS Book of the Year This exhilarating collection of non-fiction sees one of the greatest twentieth-century writers meditating on the moments that make up a life'How did I so unwittingly transform the joy of living into the great luxury of being... -
Mrs Griffin Sends Her Love: and other writings by Miss Read
RRP: £9.99£7.00A nostalgic collection on rural schools, childhood and English country life from the much-loved author of VILLAGE SCHOOL.From organising the school summer fete...'Because of our inability to recognise our climatic shortcomings from the outset,... -
Basho: The Complete Haiku of Matsuo Basho by Basho
RRP: £14.99£11.52This is the essential English edition of the complete poems of the eminent Japanese master of the haiku, Matsuo Basho. Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) is arguably the greatest figure in the history of Japanese literature and the master of the haiku. Basho:... -
MFA vs NYC: The Two Cultures of American Fiction by Chad Harbach 9780865478138
RRP: £24.00£15.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865478138Author Chad HarbachFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)... -
Hens, Hooves, Woollies and Wellies: The Diary of a Farmer's Wife by Bobbi Mothersdale
RRP: £14.95£10.07Behind every good farmer is a great farmer's wife though the farmer in question may not always appreciate this! Having been married to John for over 30 years, Bobbi Mothersdale knows this more than anyone. Through her diary, Bobbi gives a wry, comical... -
Egil's Saga Leifur Eiriksson 9780140447705
RRP: £9.99£7.32Egil's Saga tells the story of the long and brutal life of tenth-century warrior-poet and farmer Egil Skallagrimsson: a morally ambiguous character who was at once the composer of intricately beautiful poetry, and a physical grotesque capable of... -
How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart by Florentyna Leow
RRP: £8.99£6.5420-something and uncertain about her future, Florentyna Leow is exhilarated when an old acquaintance offers her an opportunity for work and cohabitation in a little house in the hills of Kyoto. Florentyna begins a new job as a tour guide, taking... -
Yorkshire: There and Back Andrew Martin 9781472154873
RRP: £12.99£7.72In Yorkshire: There and Back, Andrew Martin celebrates Britain's most charismatic county, looking back at the Yorkshire of his 1970s childhood and as it is today.Journeying to every historic corner, Martin writes affectionally about its past, present and... -
Selected Essays by Virginia Woolf
RRP: £9.99£7.32'A good essay must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in, not out.' According to Virginia Woolf, the goal of the essay 'is simply that it should give pleasure...It should lay us under a spell with its first word, and we... -
Anything We Love Can Be Saved by Alice Walker
RRP: £8.99£5.62From the author of THE COLOR PURPLE, a unique collection of essays about her life and her activism'The passion of lyricism that Alice Walker put to such good use in her novel The Color Purple is here in this collection of essays' Fay Weldon, Mail on... -
The Best American Food Writing 2023 by Mark Bittman 9780063322523
RRP: £14.99£9.96A collection of the year’s top food writing, selected by prolific food writer and author of How to Cook Everything Mark Bittman.Food writer Mark Bittman selects the best twenty articles published in 2022 that celebrate the many innovative, comforting,... -
The Love Letters of Dylan Thomas Dylan Thomas 9781780227252
RRP: £8.99£6.39Fascinating 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... -
Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation by Nuar Alsadir
RRP: £12.99£8.80Laughter shakes us out of our deadness. An outburst of spontaneous laughter is an eruption from the unconscious that, like political resistance, poetry, or self-revelation, expresses a provocative, impish drive to burst free from external constraints... -
The Complete Plays of Sophocles: A New Translation by Sophocles
RRP: £14.99£11.35Sophocles was the dominant Athenian playwright of the fifth century BCE. His best-known work, the three-play "Oedipus cycle" ("Oedipus the King", "Oedipus at Kolonos", and "Antigone"), traces three generations of a family ravaged by the inscrutably... -
Everybody by Olivia Laing 9781509857111
RRP: £20.00£16.29'Intensely moving, vital and artful' - Guardian'A dizzying ride . . . both timely and beguiling' - Sunday TimesFrom the award-winning author of Crudo, this is an exhilarating and eminently readable study of the long struggle for bodily freedom - from gay... -
The Grand Tour: Letters and photographs from the British Empire Expedition 1922 by Agatha Christie
RRP: £12.99£8.71Unpublished for 90 years, Agatha Christie's extensive and evocative letters and photographs from her year-long round-the-world trip to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and America as part of the British trade mission for the... -
The South Country by Edward Thomas 9780956254511
RRP: £15.00£10.96Edward Thomas's death in the Second World War robbed the world of a great poet, a fine writer, and a pioneering environmentalist. Published in 1909, The South Country is the happiest of all his books. Lyrical, passionate, acutely sensitive to life in the... -
Selected Dialogues by Lucian
RRP: £9.99£7.32'you'll find another man to harvest, Glycerion: let this one go' The Greek satirist Lucian was a brilliantly entertaining writer who invented the comic dialogue as a vehicle for satiric comment. His influence was immense, not only in the Greek world,... -
The Rope and Other Plays by Plautus
RRP: £12.99£9.34Brilliantly adapting Greek New Comedy for Roman audiences, the sublime comedies of Plautus (c. 254 -184 bc ) are the earliest surviving complete works of Latin literature. The four plays collected here reveal a playwright in his prime, exploring classic... -
My Unapologetic Diaries Joan Collins 9781474621298
RRP: £9.99£7.00'As brutal, withering and funny as you'd expect' Julian Clary'A rollicking read, packed with wit and old-school glamour' Sunday Telegraph'Fabulously entertaining, impossibly glamorous and utterly irresistible' Piers Morgan'Packed with insight and fun'... -
The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript: Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Malcolm Andrew 9780859897914
RRP: £29.99£27.99For students of Middle English, Andrew and Waldron's The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript has been the key edition of the four Pearl poems (the best-known of which is Gawain and the Green Knight) for 30 years. Now, with the changing needs of today's student... -
Dear Dawn: Aileen Wuornos in Her Own Words by Aileen Wuornos
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593762902Author Aileen WuornosFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher Soft Skull Press -
Xenophon: "Persian Expedition" by J. Antrich 9780906515112
RRP: £22.99£22.85Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life by Yiyun Li
RRP: £10.99£7.99'Profoundly engaging in depth, with remarkable subtlety and rare, limpid beauty. A must-read' - Mary GaitskillA luminous memoir about reading, writing and how to find meaning in a lifeWritten over two years while the author battled depression, Dear... -
The Diaries of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka
RRP: £38.00£25.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805243550Author Franz KafkaFormat HardbackPage Count 704Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 1009gDimensions(mm) 243mm * 163mm *... -
The Book Lover's Almanac: A Year of Literary Events, Letters, Scandals and Plot Twists by Alex Johnson 9780712354240
RRP: £19.99£13.55Enjoy daily distraction with this engaging Almanac. Each date is assigned one or more literary connections. Book lovers will find extracts from authors' diaries and letters, chance upon the narrative twists and transformative moments in their favourite... -
Thrilling Cities by Ian Fleming
RRP: £9.99£7.00In 1959, Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, was commissioned by the Sunday Times to explore fourteen of the world's most exotic cities. Fleming saw it all with a thriller writer's eye. An unforgettable and uniquely personal journey through the... -
Paris: The Passenger by Various
RRP: £18.99£12.83The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, and reportage from around the world. Its aim, to break down barriers and introduce the essence of the place. Packed with essays and investigative journalism; original photography and... -
Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939 Janet Flanner 9781844080267
RRP: £10.99£7.61'Gave New Yorker readers a witty guide to the minutiae of life abroad' JAMES CAMPBELL, GUARDIAN 'Cafe Society described from the best table in the place, by a writer with rare and vivid gifts' ROBERT LACEY 'Lively and witty . . . fascinating escapist... -
On Murder, Mourning and Melancholia by Sigmund Freud
RRP: £12.99£9.34These works were written against a background of war and racism. Freud sought the sources of conflict in the deepest memories of humankind, finding clear continuities between our 'primitive' past and 'civilized' modernity. In Totem and Taboo he explores... -
Sophocles II: Ajax, the Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, the Trackers by David Grene
£12.14Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers. They succeeded. Under the expert management of eminent... -
Wow, No Thank You. by Samantha Irby
RRP: £10.99£7.54**QUIETLY HOSTILE - THE HILARIOUS NEW BOOK FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR - IS AVAILABE TO PRE-ORDER NOW**'Irby might be our great bard of quarantine.' New York Times'SO funny. Samantha Irby makes staying in feel like like a luxury, and...