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Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet by Alice Robb
RRP: £16.99£12.47Can ballet ever be reconciled with feminist ideals? 'Beautiful, difficult, and compelling.' VANITY FAIR 'Don't think, dear,' said Balanchine. 'Just do.' For centuries, being a ballerina has been synonymous with being beautiful, thin, obedient... -
Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, the Suppliant Women, Electra 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... -
The Log from the Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck
RRP: £16.99£12.28In 1940 Steinbeck sailed in a sardine boat with his great friend the marine biologist, Ed Ricketts, to collect marine invertebrates from the beaches of the Gulf of California. The expedition was described by the two men in SEA OF CORTEZ, published in... -
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 9781857150742
RRP: £17.99£13.55These tales bring together a band of pilgrims who represented most of the occupations and social groups of the time. The diversity of the narrators in turn made possible a varied collection of tales including chivalric romance, spiritual allegory,... -
Russian Stories: A Dual-Language Book by Gleb Struve 9780486262444
RRP: £20.99£13.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486262444Author Gleb StruveFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 490gDimensions(mm)... -
28 Portuguese poets: A bilingual anthology by Richard Zenith
RRP: £13.00£9.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910251003Author Richard ZenithFormat PaperbackPage Count 319Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 420g -
Euripides III: Heracles, the Trojan Women, Iphigenia Among the Taurians, Ion 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... -
Aeschylus I: The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, the Suppliant Maidens, Prometheus Bound 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... -
The Best American Essays 2023 by Vivian Gornick 9780063288843
RRP: £14.99£9.96A collection of the year’s best essays, selected by award-winning writer Vivian Gornick.Vivian Gornick, renowned essayist and celebrated feminist writer, selects twenty essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the... -
Letters of Note: Love by Shaun Usher
RRP: £6.99£5.02In Letters of Note: Love, Shaun Usher gathers together some of the most powerful messages about love ever composed, whether inspired by love's first blush or the recriminations at its ending, the regrets of unrequited feelings and the joys of passions... -
The Book of Forgotten Authors Christopher Fowler 9781786484901
RRP: £12.99£8.83'JOYOUS . . . READERS WILL LOVE THIS FASCINATING BOOK' CATHY RENTZENBRINK'A GODSEND WITH THE PRESENT SEASON APPROACHING' IRISH INDEPENDENT'THE PERFECT GIFT FOR A BOOK-OBSESSED FRIEND' STYLIST, 50 UNMISSABLE BOOKS FOR AUTUMN 2017'EXCELLENT . . . SHOULD BE... -
Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer by Wendell Berry
RRP: £3.00£2.63'Do I wish to keep up with the times? No. My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can'The great American poet, novelist and environmental activist argues for a life lived slowly.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of... -
A German Officer in Occupied Paris: The War Journals, 1941-1945 by Ernst Junger 9780231127417
RRP: £22.00£17.76Ernst Junger was one of twentieth-century Germany's most important-and most controversial-writers. Decorated for bravery in World War I and the author of the acclaimed western front memoir Storm of Steel, he frankly depicted war's horrors even as he... -
The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White 9780192847447
RRP: £14.99£10.95'I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.' Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne (1789) reveals a world of wonders in nature. Over a period of twenty years White describes in minute... -
Jane Austen's Letters by Deirdre Le Faye 9780198704492
RRP: £22.49£19.56Jane Austen's letters afford a unique insight into the daily life of the novelist: intimate and gossipy, observant and informative, they bring alive her family and friends, her surroundings and contemporary events with a freshness unparalleled in... -
The Moth - All These Wonders: 49 new true stories by The Moth
RRP: £12.99£9.34From storytelling phenomenon The Moth: a collection about risk, courage, and facing the unknown, drawn from the best stories ever told on their stages. All These Wonders features The Moth's customary variety of voices. Storytellers range from Suzi... -
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 1: Inferno by Robert M. Durling
RRP: £15.99£15.36This is the first volume of a new prose translation of Dante's epic - the first in twenty-five years. Robert Durling's translation brings a new power and accuracy to the rendering of Dante's extraordinary vision of Hell, with its terror, pathos, and... -
The Rose Garden: Short Stories by Maeve Brennan
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582431192Author Maeve BrennanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
Here Is New York by E. B. White
RRP: £11.99£8.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781892145024Author E.B. WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Little Bookroom,U.S.Publisher Little Bookroom,U.S.Weight(grams) 170gDimensions(mm) 184mm *... -
Islands: Searching for truth on the shoreline by Mark Easton 9781785907760
RRP: £20.00£14.70No man is an island, wrote John Donne. BBC Home Editor Mark Easton argues the opposite: that we are all islands, and it is upon the contradictory shoreline where isolation meets connectedness, where 'us' meets 'them', that we find out who we truly are. ... -
Thick And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
RRP: £12.99£8.87In eight highly praised treatises on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom - award-winning professor and acclaimed author of Lower Ed - is unapologetically 'thick': deemed 'thick where I should have been thin, more where I should have... -
Too Late To Stop Now: More Rock’n’Roll War Stories by Allan Jones
RRP: £16.99£13.36More than 40 stories from the glory days of rock'n'roll, featuring Lou Reed, Elton John, Sting and The Clash. Allan Jones brings stories - many previously unpublished - from the golden days of music reporting. Long nights of booze, drugs and unguarded... -
Autumn: (Seasons Quartet 1) by Karl Ove Knausgaard
RRP: £10.99£7.99The Sunday Times bestseller from literary phenomenon Karl Ove Knausgaard, a love letter about the world written by a father to his unborn daughter.'Inspiring, surprising... Autumn will warm and enlighten anyone who opens their eyes to it' The TimesAutumn... -
Affinities by Brian Dillon
RRP: £13.99£9.42What do we mean when we claim affinity with an object or picture, or say affinities exist between such things? Affinities is a critical and personal study of a sensation that is not exactly taste, desire, or allyship, but has aspects of all. Approaching... -
The Obedience of a Christian Man by William Tyndale
RRP: £12.99£9.34One of the key foundation books of the English Reformation, The Obedience of a Christian Man (1528) makes a radical challenge to the established order of the all-powerful Church of its time. Himself a priest, Tyndale boldly claims that there is just one... -
Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War by Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
RRP: £12.99£9.34'Powerful and poetic ... For anyone interested in the myth of Che Guevara ... this book is essential reading' Colm Toibin, Observer'We were an army of shadows, of ghosts, walking as if to the beat of some dark psychic mechanism...'The Cuban Revolution... -
What We're Teaching Our Sons by Owen Booth
RRP: £7.99£5.59Wise and funny, touching and true, What We're Teaching Our Sons is for anyone who has ever wondered how to be a grown up. We're teaching our sons about money; about heartbreak, and mountains, and... -
What's in a Name?: Friendship, Identity and History in Modern Multicultural Britain Sheela Banerjee 9781529367607
RRP: £12.99£8.83'A brilliantly enlightening book . . . at times moving, at others ironic, full of insights and detail'Michael Rosen'A kaleidoscopic portrait of the UK'Irish TimesOur names are so mundane that we barely notice them. Yet each contains countless stories of... -
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... -
Orwell's England by George Orwell
RRP: £12.99£9.34Including The Road to Wigan Pier'No one wrote better about the English character than Orwell' New York Review of BooksMuch of George Orwell's best writing, brought together in this collection, is concerned with his complex, often contradictory attitude... -
Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume II: 1956 - 1963 by Sylvia Plath
RRP: £20.00£14.46Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers who defined the course of twentieth-century poetry. In the Letters, we discover the art of Plath's correspondence. Most has never before been published, and it is here presented unabridged, without... -
Tell Me No Lies: Investigative Journalism and its Triumphs by John Pilger
RRP: £14.99£11.35Tell Me No Lies is a celebration of the very best investigative journalism, and includes writing by some of the greatest practitioners of the craft: Seymour Hersh on the My Lai massacre; Paul Foot on the Lockerbie cover-up; Wilfred Burchett, the first... -
Ghetto Diary by Janusz Korczak 9780300097429
RRP: £15.99£13.82Janusz Korczak (1879-1942) is one of the legendary figures to emerge from the Holocaust. A successful pediatrician and well-known author in his native Warsaw, he gave up a brilliant medical career to devote himself to the care of orphans. Like so many... -
Speaking to the Rose: Writings, 1912-1932 by Robert Walser 9780803298330
RRP: £12.99£11.20The Swiss writer of whom Hermann Hesse famously declared, "If he had a hundred thousand readers, the world would be a better place," Robert Walser (1878-1956) is only now finding an audience among English-speaking readers commensurate with his merits-if... -
How Hard Can It Be?: The World According to Clarkson Volume 4 by Jeremy Clarkson
RRP: £10.99£7.99Volume 4 in the bestselling World According to Clarkson seriesJeremy Clarkson had a dream. A world where the nonsensical made sense, the idiotic was abolished and the sheer bloody brilliant was embraced. In How Hard Can It Be? our hero embarks on a quest... -
All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono by John Lennon
RRP: £9.99£7.48The last major interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, conducted by New York Times bestselling author David Sheff, featuring a new introduction that reflects on the fortieth anniversary of Lennon's death.Originally published in Playboy in 1981 just... -
What Are People For?: Essays by Wendell Berry
RRP: £15.99£9.17Apologies 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 -
Sleepless by Marie Darrieussecq 9781804270653
RRP: £12.99£8.80Plagued by insomnia for twenty years, Marie Darrieussecq turns her attention to the causes, implications and consequences of sleeplessness: a nocturnal suffering that culminates at 4 a.m. and then defines the next day. In Sleepless, she recounts her own... -
Bram Stoker And The Man Who Was Dracula by Barbara Belford 9780306810985
£20.49"What a splendid subject to sink one's teeth into," raved the Washington Post . Here was a six-foot-two Irishman with a red beard,a Victorian family man, a spirited debater, and the author of novels and short stories largely forgotten today. All, of... -
Latin Sentence and Idiom: A Composition Course by R. Colebourn 9780862922658
£26.43Colebourn's Latin Sentence and Idiom: A Composition Course is a classic textbook for the intermediate and advanced student of Latin. Unfolding the logical, rational basis of the language, the structure of the book is planned to help the student learn to...