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Wedding Readings: Centuries of Writing and Rituals on Love and Marriage by Various 9780140088793
£16.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140088793Author VariousFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 221gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 130mm *... -
The Politics and Poetics of Everyday Life by Kristin Ross
RRP: £19.99£16.68The texts in this volume represent Kristin Ross's attempt to think the question of the everyday across a range of discourses, practices and knowledges, from philosophy to history, from the visual arts to popular fiction, all the way to the forms taken by... -
Footprints: David Foot's Lifetime of Writing by Stephen Chalke 9781739929343
RRP: £22.00£18.67A 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... -
Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: Winston Churchill's Famous Speeches by Winston Churchill
RRP: £12.99£9.34The most eloquent and expressive statesman of his time - phrases such as 'iron curtain', 'business as usual', 'the few', and 'summit meeting' passed quickly into everyday use - Winston Churchill used language as his most powerful weapon at a time when... -
A Tale of a Tub and Other Works by Jonathan Swift
RRP: £8.99£6.65A Tale of a Tub is the masterpiece of Swift's earlier years. It is presented here with The Battle of the Books, The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit, and the Additions. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available... -
A Naturalist's Guide to the Birds of the Hong Kong (2nd ed) by Ray Tipper 9781913679088
RRP: £12.99£9.34A fully updated second edition of this introductory identification guide to the 279 bird species most likely to be seen in Hong Kong, including every species classified as Abundant, Common or Uncommon in the Hong Kong Bird Report. High quality... -
Untold Stories by Alan Bennett
RRP: £14.99£10.06Here, at last, is the astonishing sequel to Alan Bennett's classic Writing Home, updated for paperback. Untold Stories contains significant previously unpublished work, including a poignant memoir of his family and of growing up in Leeds, together with... -
Letters to Gwen John by Celia Paul
RRP: £18.99£14.22A unique combination of memoir and artistic biography, interspersed with original artworks, from the acclaimed artist and author of SELF-PORTRAIT.We are both painters. We can connect to each other through images, in our own unvoiced language. But I will... -
Twin Truths by Shelan Rodger
RRP: £8.99£8.31What is the truth? And how do you recognise it when you hear it?Jenny and Pippa are twins. Like many twins they often know what the other is thinking. They complete each other.When Pippa disappears Jenny is left to face the world alone, as she tries to... -
Letters from an Astrophysicist by Neil deGrasse Tyson
RRP: £12.99£9.34INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Join the galactic conversation on the biggest issues in the universe, from the 'most popular scientist in the world''Don't fear change. Don't fear failure. The only thing to fear is loss of ambition. But if you've got... -
Suppose a Sentence by Brian Dillon 9781913097011
RRP: £10.99£7.54In Suppose a Sentence, Brian Dillon turns his attention to the oblique and complex pleasures of the sentence. A series of essays prompted by a single sentence - from Shakespeare to Gertrude Stein, John Ruskin to Joan Didion - the book explores style,... -
Rhetorical Treatises: De Oratore: v. 4: Book III, De Fato by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95£23.76The philosopher-statesman on ethics and rhetoric.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise,... -
The Oresteian Trilogy by Aeschylus
RRP: £10.99£7.99Aeschylus (525-c.456 bc) set his great trilogy in the immediate aftermath of the Fall of Troy, when King Agamemnon returns to Argos, a victor in war. Agamemnon depicts the hero's discovery that his family has been destroyed by his wife's infidelity and... -
Reporting the Troubles 2: More Journalists Tell Their Stories of the Northern Ireland Conflict by Deric Henderson
RRP: £16.99£14.32In this follow-up to their landmark first book, Deric Henderson and Ivan Little have gathered new stories from seventy journalists who have worked in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. These contributors write powerfully about the victims they have... -
Letters from Tove by Tove Jansson
RRP: £12.99£8.96"I find myself talking to you about all the great joys, all the agonies, all my thoughts..." Letter to Eva Konikova, 1946 Out of the thousands of letters Tove Jansson wrote a cache remains that she addressed to her family, her dearest confidantes, and... -
The Praise of Folly: Updated Edition by Desiderius Erasmus 9780691165646
RRP: £14.99£11.44Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) was a Dutch humanist, scholar, and social critic, and one of the most important figures of the Renaissance. The Praise of Folly is perhaps his best-known work. Originally written to amuse his friend Sir Thomas More, this... -
Andy Murray (A Life Story) by Stephen Davies 9780702316821
RRP: £5.99£4.21Andy Murray: tennis player, sports icon, Olympian. Get the inside track on one of history's most spectacular athletes! A Life Story: this thrilling series throws readers directly into the lives of modern... -
Why Orwell Matters by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: £13.99£10.17"Hitchens presents a George Orwell fit for the twenty-first century." --Boston GlobeIn this widely acclaimed biographical essay, the masterful polemicist Christopher Hitchens assesses the life, the achievements, and the myth of the great political writer... -
Selected Letters by Madame Sevigne
RRP: £12.99£9.19One of the world's greatest correspondents, Madame de Sevigne (1626-96) paints an extraordinarily vivid picture of France at the time of Louis XIV, in eloquent letters written throughout her life to family and friends. A significant figure in French... -
Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw
RRP: £8.99£6.65One of Shaw's most unusual and enduringly popular plays. With SAINT JOAN (1923) Shaw reached the height of his fame and Joan is one of his finest creations; forceful, vital, and rebelling against the values that surround her. The play distils Shaw's... -
Fascinating Facts to Blow Your Curious Mind: An awesome collection of the wildest trivia about everything on Earth … and beyond! by MJC Matthew 9781529917147
RRP: £14.99£10.95Did you know that the reason you can never find the end of a rainbow is because they are actually full circles? Or that our fingers shrivel up when they get wet because our bodies are adapting to give us a better grip in the water?Fascinating Facts to... -
Writings from Ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson
RRP: £12.99£9.34'Man perishes; his corpse turns to dust; all his relatives pass away. But writings make him remembered'In ancient Egypt, words had magical power. Inscribed on tombs and temple walls, coffins and statues, or inked onto papyri, hieroglyphs give us a... -
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence 9780521280419
RRP: £39.99£33.66D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love - 'the beginning of a new world', as he called it - suffered in the course of its revision, transcription, and publication some of the most spectacular damage ever inflicted upon one of his books. Until now no text of Women... -
Ten Sorry Tales by Mick Jackson
RRP: £9.99£6.90From the pen of Mick Jackson, author of The Underground Man and Five Boys, come these ten acclaimed tales. Featuring undertakers, dark forests, resurrected butterflies and a singularly mean-spirited horse, the stories are nevertheless rooted in the... -
The Odyssey by Homer 9780198736479
RRP: £8.99£6.65'Tell me, Muse, of the man of many turns, who was driven far and wide after he had sacked the sacred city of Troy' Twenty years after setting out to fight in the Trojan War, Odysseus is yet to return home to Ithaca. His household is in disarray: a... -
Sentimental Tales by Mikhail Zoshchenko 9780231183796
RRP: £12.99£10.41Mikhail Zoshchenko's Sentimental Tales are satirical portraits of small-town characters on the fringes of Soviet society in the first decade of Bolshevik rule. The tales are narrated by one Kolenkorov, who is anything but a model Soviet author: not only... -
The London Scene by Hermione Lee
RRP: £10.99£7.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907970429Author Hermione LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 100Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt BooksWeight(grams) 192g -
Un-Discovered Islands: An Archipelago of Myths and Mysteries, Phantoms and Fates by Malachy Tallack
RRP: £14.99£10.46Journey through the imagined islands of history. Gathered in this book are over twenty islands that have decidedly human origins, whether they are the products of imagination, deception or simply human error. They are phantoms, fakes and legends: an... -
Selected Poems and Prose by Edward Thomas
RRP: £10.99£7.99The selected poems and prose writings of Edward Thomas, with a Foreword from Robert Macfarlane, author of The Old Ways'I have come to the borders of sleep, The unfathomable deepForest where all must loseTheir way, however straight,Or winding, soon or... -
The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
RRP: £22.99£15.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143039532Author Dorothy ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The Complete Poems of C.P. Cavafy by Daniel Mendelsohn
RRP: £25.00£18.62The complete Cavafy poems - including the unfinished works - in a stunning new translation. From the acclaimed author of 'The Lost', a translation that scales new heights in modern poetic rendering. With a masterful eye for irony and an ear... -
France in Mind: an Anthology: An Anthology by Alice Leccese Powers 9780375714351
RRP: £25.00£17.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375714351Author Alice Leccese PowersFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 247gDimensions(mm)... -
Besieged: Life Under Fire on a Sarajevo Street by Barbara Demick 9781847084118
RRP: £12.99£8.80For four centuries, Logavina Street was a quiet residential road in a city known for its ethnic tolerance and cosmopolitan charm. Muslims, Christians, Serbs and Croats lived easily together, sharing an identity as Bosnians. Then the war tore their lives... -
The Best of Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore 9781841594156
RRP: £20.00£14.91Rabindranath Tagore published his first volume of poetry at the age of thirteen. He went on to become a towering figure in Bengali and world literature.Tagore was remarkably productive over his long life; his complete works fill 32 large volumes and... -
No Echo Anne Holt 9780857892300
RRP: £8.99£6.28THE SIXTH INSTALMENT IN THE HANNE WILHELMSEN SERIES. A high-profile murder brings Hanne back to the city she fled in the wake of heartbreak.When celebrity chef Brede Ziegler is discovered stabbed to death on the steps of the Olso police headquarters it... -
Pericles: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare 9780199536832
RRP: £7.99£5.98The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor: Stanley Wells The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers - The only single-volume, modern-spelling... -
Summer: (Seasons Quartet 4) by Karl Ove Knausgaard
RRP: £10.99£8.39Summer is the fourth volume of the Seasons quartet, a collection of short prose and diaries written by a father for his youngest daughter, with stunning artwork by Anselm Kiefer.'Knausgaard unearths the mysteries of the commonplace' Observer In Summer,... -
Yorkshire: There and Back Andrew Martin 9781472154859
RRP: £20.00£13.95In 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... -
The Sacred Conspiracy: The Internal Papers of the Secret Society of Acephale and Lecturers to the College of Sociology by Georges Bataille
RRP: £24.99£23.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900565950Author Georges BatailleFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Atlas PressPublisher Atlas PressDimensions(mm) 228mm * 170mm * 30mm -
The Best Minds of My Generation: A Literary History of the Beats by Allen Ginsberg
RRP: £11.99£8.66A unique history of the Beats, in the words of the movement's most central member, Allen Ginsberg, based on a seminal series of his lecturesIn 1977, twenty years after the publication of his landmark poem 'Howl', Allen Ginsberg decided it was time to...