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The Daily Charles Dickens: A Year of Quotes by Charles Dickens
£13.84A charming memento of the Victorian era's literary colossus, The Daily Charles Dickens is a literary almanac for the ages. Tenderly and irreverently anthologized by Dickens scholar James R. Kincaid, this collection mines the British author's beloved... -
Penbanc - Notes from a Welsh Farmhouse by Gaynor Funnell 9781999952242
£12.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999952242Author Gaynor FunnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint The Hmm FoundationPublisher The Hmm FoundationDimensions(mm) 200mm * 135mm * 13mm -
Whatever Happened To Queer Happiness? by Kevin Brazil 9781910312957
RRP: £9.99£6.80In this highly accessible, entertaining and provocative work of non-fiction Kevin Brazil combines essay and memoir to ask one of the most pertinent questions of our current age, 'whatever happened to queer happiness?' Exploring the lives of artists... -
Fences & Ma Rainey's Black Bottom by August Wilson
RRP: £12.99£9.09NOW A NETFLIX FILM STARRING VIOLA DAVIS AND CHADWICK BOSEMAN *Two stunning, intensely powerful modern classics about race in 20th century America from the legendary Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright August Wilson*In Ma Rainey's Black... -
Openhearted: Eighty Years of Love, Loss, Laughter and Letting Go by Ann Ingle
RRP: £14.99£10.95SHORTLISTED FOR TWO IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2021'Something they don't tell you about getting older is that you fall. Oh, you hear about it in passing, of course, "She had a fall, poor thing". Falling is not something you ever think about as a younger woman... -
MFA vs NYC: The Two Cultures of American Fiction by Chad Harbach 9780865478138
RRP: £24.00£15.28Apologies 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)... -
Questionnaire by Dr. Evan Kindley
RRP: £9.99£7.67Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Questionnaires are everywhere: we fill them out at doctors' offices and at job interviews, to express ourselves and to advance knowledge, to... -
The Colour of Madness: Mental Health and Race in Technicolour by Samara Linton
RRP: £16.99£12.68'An invaluable collection' BBC'A seminal body of work that centres our voices authentically and unapologetically'Melissa Cummings-Quarry, co-author of Grown and co-founder of Black Girls Book ClubThe Colour of Madness is a groundbreaking anthology... -
The Man with the Golden Typewriter: Ian Fleming's James Bond Letters by Fergus Fleming
RRP: £16.99£12.23'Constantly entertaining ... So much here to amuse and inform' Observer 'These friendly, knockabout letters are a treat' Sunday Telegraph 'Irresistible' New York Times ________________________ Before the world-famous Bond films came the... -
Merlin and the Grail - Joseph of Arimathea, Merlin, Perceval: The Trilogy of Arthurian Prose Romances attributed to Robert de Boron by Robert De Boron 9780859917797
RRP: £19.99£15.94It is hard to overstate the importance of this trilogy of prose romances in the development of the legend of the Holy Grail and in the evolution of Arthurian literature as a whole. They give a crucial new impetus to the story of the Grail by establishing... -
Selected Essays by George Orwell
RRP: £8.99£6.45It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it. George Orwell was one of the most celebrated essayists in the English language, and there are quite a few of his essays which are probably... -
The Quotable Anais Nin: 365 Quotations with Citations by Paul Herron 9780988917064
RRP: £14.99£12.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988917064Author Paul HerronFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Sky Blue PressPublisher Sky Blue PressWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape by Jay Griffiths 9780141039459
RRP: £16.99£12.28From Jay Griffiths, the author of the award-winning Wild comes a passionate polemic defence of childhood 'Her work isn't just good -- it's necessary' Philip PullmanIn Kith, Jay Griffiths seeks to discover why we deny our children the freedoms of space,... -
What Are People For?: Essays by Wendell Berry
RRP: £15.99£8.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582434872Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 205g -
Tales from Russian Folklore by Alexander Afanasyev
RRP: £9.99£6.70Towards the middle of the nineteenth century, following the example of the Brothers Grimm in Germany, Alexander Afanasyev embarked on the ambitious task of sifting through the huge repository of tales from Russian folklore and selecting the very best... -
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by Michael Swanton
RRP: £18.99£11.61The most important written work in English before the Norman Conquest, newly translated.Made up of annals written in the monasteries of Winchester, Canterbury, Peterborough, Abingdon, and Worcester, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle marks the beginning of the... -
Wedding Readings: Centuries of Writing and Rituals on Love and Marriage by Various 9780140088793
£16.46Apologies 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 *... -
Greek Tragedy by Aeschylus
RRP: £10.99£7.77Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war to be murdered by his treacherous wife Clytemnestra. In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex the king sets out to uncover the cause of... -
The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews by Adam Biles 9781805300038
RRP: £20.00£13.46Shakespeare and Company, Paris, is one of the world's most iconic and beautiful bookshops. Located on the banks of the Seine, opposite Notre-Dame, it's long been a meeting place for anglophone writers and readers. In that tradition, determined for the... -
Pericles: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare 9780199536832
RRP: £7.99£5.93The 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... -
The Elagin Affair: And Other Stories by Ivan Bunin 9781566636414
RRP: £18.99£16.18Graham Hettlinger's brilliant translations of Bunin's stories in Sunstroke (2002) were widely acclaimed. In The Elagin Affair, Mr. Hettlinger continues to acquaint English-language readers with a Bunin they may not have appreciated. Bunin's sensual,... -
A Sinister Assassin – Last Writings, Ivry–Sur–Seine, September 1947 to March 1948 by Antonin Artaud
RRP: £12.00£10.16A Sinister Assassin contains original translations of Antonin Artaud's last writings and interviews, most never previously available in English.A Sinister Assassin presents translations of Antonin Artaud's largely unknown final work of 1947-48, revealing... -
Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops by Jen Campbell
RRP: £9.99£6.80'Can books conduct electricity?''My children are just climbing your bookshelves: that's ok... isn't it?' A John Cleese Twitter question ['What is your pet peeve?'], first sparked the "Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops" blog, which grew over three... -
"I Am a Phenomenon Quite Out of the Ordinary": The Notebooks, Diaries, and Letters of Daniil Kharms by Daniil Kharms
RRP: £24.99£24.17In addition to his numerous works in prose and poetry for both children and adults, Daniil Kharms (1905-1942), one of the founders of Russia's "lost literature of the absurd," wrote notebooks and a diary for most of his adult life. Published for the... -
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung by Lester Bangs
RRP: £10.99£7.12Until his death aged thirty-three in 1982, Lester Bangs wrote wired, rock 'n' roll pieces on Iggy Pop, The Clash, John Lennon, Kraftwerk, Lou Reed. As a rock critic, he had an eagle-eye for distinguishing the pre-packaged imitation from the real thing;... -
The Portable Beat Reader by Ann Charters
RRP: £12.99£9.09Beginning in the late 1940's, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was "beat." Beat as in poverty and beatitude, ecstasy and exile. Beat was Jack Kerouac touring the American road in prose as fast and reckless as a V-8 Chevy... -
Letters from Tove by Tove Jansson
RRP: £12.99£8.73"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... -
Collected Poems by Jack Gilbert
RRP: £25.00£16.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Pulitzer Prize 2013.Book InformationISBN 9780375711763Author Jack GilbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA... -
The Cynic Philosophers: from Diogenes to Julian by Lucian
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Poverty does not consist in the want of money,' I answered, 'nor is begging to be deplored. Poverty consists in the desire to have everything, and through violent means if necessary'From their founding in the fifth century BC and for over 800 years, the... -
The Portable Roman Reader by Various 9780140150568
£15.74THE CULTURE OF THE ROMAN STATE - ONE OF THE GREAT FORMATIVE FACTS OF OUR WORLD - AS REPRESENTED BY SELECTIONS FROM THE WORKS OF ITS FINEST WRITERS, IN THE BEST ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS, INCLUDING: PLAUTUS; LUCRETIUS; CAESAR; CICERO; CATULLUS; VIRGIL; HORACE;... -
Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw
RRP: £8.99£6.45One 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... -
De Re Rustica: v. 2: Bks.V-IX by Columella
RRP: £24.95£23.39A Roman farmer on farming.Columella (Lucius Iunius Moderatus) of Gades (Cadiz) lived in the reigns of the first emperors to about AD 70. He moved early in life to Italy where he owned farms and lived near Rome. It is probable that he did military ... -
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£6.70From 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... -
Sentimental Tales by Mikhail Zoshchenko 9780231183796
RRP: £12.99£10.15Mikhail 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 Paston Letters: A Selection in Modern Spelling by Norman Davis
RRP: £8.99£6.45The Pastons of Norfolk left behind them an incomparable picture of life in fifteenth-century England in the earliest great collection of family letters in English. The letters span three generations and most were written during the reigns of HenryVI,... -
Pedro and Ricky Come Again: Selected Writing 1988-2020 by Jonathan Meades 9781783529506
RRP: £30.00£20.92'Ought to become a classic. It is an enshrinement of [Meades's] intense baroque and catholic cleverness' Roger Lewis, The Times'One of the foremost prose stylists of his age in any register . . . Probably we don't deserve Meades, a man who apparently has... -
Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation by Michael Chabon
RRP: £13.99£10.15Published to coincide the with 50th anniversary of the Israel occupation of the West Bank, an anthology that explores the human cost of the conflict there as witnessed by such notable writers as Colum McCann, Colm Toibin, Dave Eggers, Madeleine Thien,... -
All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays by George Orwell
RRP: £10.99£7.25Orwell demonstrates in piece after piece how intent analysis of a work or body of work gives rise to trenchant aesthetic and philosophical commentary. As a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at home discussing Charles Dickens and Charlie...