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The Dialectics of Liberation by Mr David Cooper
£16.18The now legendary Dialectics of Liberation congress, held in London in 1967, was a unique expression of the politics of dissent. Existential psychiatrists, Marxist intellectuals, anarchists, and political leaders met to discuss key social issues... -
Waymaking: An anthology of women's adventure writing, poetry and art by Melissa Harrison 9781910240755
RRP: £25.00£18.24Winner: Mountain Literature (Non Fiction) The Jon Whyte Award, Banff Mountain Book Competition 2019Waymaking is an anthology of prose, poetry and artwork by women who are inspired by wild places, adventure and landscape.Published in 1961, Gwen Moffat's... -
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£22.78Apologies 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 -
Introduction to Classical Chinese by Kai Vogelsang 9780198834984
RRP: £40.99£39.57This textbook provides a comprehensive scholarly introduction to Classical Chinese and its texts. Classical Chinese is the language of Confucius and Mencius and their contemporaries, who wrote the seminal texts of Chinese philosophy more than 2,000 years... -
I Strongly Believe in Incredible Things by Rob Auton
RRP: £14.99£10.84A selection of the world's most incredible things according to award-winning writer, comedian, artist and podcaster Rob Auton I Strongly Believe In Incredible Things is a book of poetic prose, musings, short stories... -
Byron's Poetry and Prose by Lord George Gordon Byron
£16.58"Criticism" is chronologically keyed to Byron's poetry and reprints both classic and recent examinations of Byron's writing and life, including assessments by Anne Barton, Donald H. Reiman, Jane Stabler, Jerome J. McGann, Susan J. Wolfson, and James... -
The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural by Wendell Berry 9781582434841
£13.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582434841Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 126mm * 20mm -
Yield: The Journal of an Artist by Anne Truitt 9780300276848
RRP: £14.99£13.03Named by the New Yorker as one of the best books of 2022, this posthumously published work serves as the fourth and final volume in Anne Truitt’s remarkable series of journals “Anne Truitt’s Yield has a tone that is rich and spare, considered and... -
Encounters and Destinies: A Farewell to Europe by Stefan Zweig
RRP: £9.99£6.70Stefan Zweig was a born eulogist. In this collection of powerful elegies, homages and personal memories, Zweig forms a richly interconnected portrait of key creative figures in the European cultural diaspora up to 1939. Many of those mourned or... -
Anatomy of a Killing: Life and Death on a Divided Island by Ian Cobain 9781846276422
RRP: £10.99£7.32On the morning of Saturday 22nd April 1978, members of an Active Service Unit of the IRA hijacked a car and crossed the countryside to the town of Lisburn. Within an hour, they had killed an off-duty policeman in front of his young son. In Anatomy of a... -
Mystery and Manners by Flannery O'Connor
RRP: £12.99£8.56'A rich, deep moral view of fiction and life: the lessons from this book were essential to my development as an artist.' Brandon TaylorAt her death in 1964, O'Connor left behind a body of unpublished essays and lectures as well as a number of critical... -
Above Average at Games: The Very Best of P.G. Wodehouse on Sport by P.G. Wodehouse
RRP: £25.00£18.02'Wodehouse would have made an excellent sports writer' Sunday TimesAs Wodehouse's biographer Frances Donaldson observed, it was vitally important to the boy Plum that he was 'above average at games'. Luckily, he was known at school as 'a noted athlete, a... -
In The Dark Room by Brian Dillon
RRP: £12.99£8.56Boldly combining the highly personal with the brilliantly scholarly, In the Dark Room explores the question of how memory works emotionally and culturally. It is narrated through the prism of the author's experience of losing both his parents, his mother... -
The Tent Generations: Palestinian Poems by Mohammed Sawaie
RRP: £10.99£7.64From the Introduction by Mohammed Sawaie:The Palestinian poets included in The Tent Generations, Palestinian Poems represent different age groups and backgrounds, yet they all express a strong sense of "Palestinian-ness". They include Israeli citizens,... -
A Map of Absence: An Anthology of Palestinian Writing on the Nakba by Atef Alshaer 9780863569906
RRP: £16.99£11.54A Map of Absence presents the finest poetry and prose by Palestinian writers over the last seventy years. Featuring writers in the diaspora and those living under occupation, these striking entries pay testament to one of the most pivotal events in... -
The Wheel of Fire by G. Wilson Knight 9780415253956
RRP: £14.99£13.58Originally published in 1930, this classic of modern Shakespeare criticism proves both enlightening and innovative. Standing head and shoulders above all other Shakespearean interpretations, this is the masterwork of the brilliant English scholar, G... -
The Journal of a Disappointed Man by W. N. P. Barbellion
RRP: £9.99£7.11The young naturalist W. N. P. Barbellion described this remarkably candid record of living with multiple sclerosis as 'a study in the nude'. It begins as an ambitious teenager's notes on the natural world, and then, following his diagnosis at the age of... -
Lost Time: Lectures On Proust In A Soviet Prison Camp by Eric Karpeles
RRP: £11.99£8.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681372587Author Eric KarpelesFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,... -
Essays 2 by Lydia Davis
RRP: £20.00£13.10Lydia Davis returns with a timeless collection of essays on literature and language.'Precise, concentrated, lyrical. No one writes like Lydia Davis, and everyone should read her' Hanif Kureishi'A writer as mighty as Kafka, as subtle as Flaubert, and as... -
The Sin of Abbe Mouret by Emile Zola 9780198736639
RRP: £9.99£7.11'I really don't understand how people can blame a priest so much, when he strays from the path.' The Sin of AbbA (c) Mouret tells the compelling story of the young priest Serge Mouret. Striving after spiritual purity and sanctity, he lives a life of... -
Letter To My Younger Self: The Big Issue Presents... 100 Inspiring People on the Moments That Shaped Their Lives by Jane Graham
RRP: £9.99£6.85NOW INCLUDES BONUS MATERIAL FROM RICHARD OSMAN, DOLLY PARTON, DAVE GROHL AND MANY MORE. Over 10 years ago, The Big Issue began to ask well-known figures to give advice, offer hope and share a few jokes with their younger selves. They opened up in ways... -
Eddie Cochran in Person by Lee Bullman 9781913172961
RRP: £30.00£21.95An astounding illustrated biography of American rock 'n' roll legend Eddie Cochran, made possible through unique access to Cochran's possessions in his room at the time of his untimely death. In the golden era of rock'n'roll, there was one name who... -
The <i>Beowulf</i> Manuscript: Complete Texts and <i>The Fight at Finnsburg</i> by R. D. Fulk
RRP: £29.95£23.66Beowulf is one of the finest works of vernacular literature from the European Middle Ages and as such is a fitting title to head the Old English family of texts published in the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library.But this volume offers something unique. For... -
Theory Of The Great Game: Writings from 'Le Grand Jeu' by Dennis Duncan 9781900565677
RRP: £16.99£15.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900565677Author Dennis DuncanFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Atlas PressPublisher Atlas PressWeight(grams) 428g -
One Fine Day by Ian Marchant
RRP: £20.00£13.75A time-travelling, genealogical adventure, bringing pre-industrial, rural, eighteenth-century England vividly to life on the page. One day Ian Marchant, acclaimed author of books on music, railways and pubs, decided, as all men of a certain age must,... -
The Colour Of My Heart: A True Story of Hope, Perseverance and Love by David OEnac 9781838283858
RRP: £14.99£8.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838283858Author Ltyv PublishingFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Listening To Your Voice PublishingPublisher Listening To Your Voice... -
Selected Speeches by Demosthenes
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Even if everyone else succumbs to slavery, we must still fight for our freedom.' Admired by many in the ancient world as the greatest of the classic Athenian orators, Demosthenes was intimately involved in the political events of his day. As well as... -
Sybil: or The Two Nations by Benjamin Disraeli 9780198759898
RRP: £11.99£8.64Sybil, or The Two Nations is one of the finest novels to depict the social problems of class-ridden Victorian England. The book's publication in 1845 created a sensation, for its immediacy and readability brought the plight of the working classes sharply... -
I Feel to Believe: Collected Columns by Jarvis Deberry
RRP: £20.00£13.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608011858Author Jarvis DeberryFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint University of New Orleans PressPublisher University of New Orleans PressWeight(grams)... -
Can't and Won't by Lydia Davis
RRP: £9.99£7.11Can't and Won't is the new collection from Lydia Davis, one of the greatest short story writers alive.WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2013Lydia Davis has been universally acclaimed for the wit, insight and genre-defying formal inventiveness... -
This Is Not a Border: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: £16.99£12.28________________ 'This anthology will help turn your intellectual understanding of oppression into an emotional one' - New Statesman 'Thanks for being who you are and for giving us such exposure to wonderful people. Palestine is proud of you' -... -
An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings by Thomas Malthus
RRP: £9.99£7.11Malthus' life's work on human population and its dependency on food production and the environment was highly controversial on publication in 1798. He predicted what is known as the Malthusian catastrophe, in which humans would disregard the limits of... -
Three Plays: Six Characters in Search of an Author, Henry IV, The Mountain Giants by Luigi Pirandello
RRP: £9.99£7.11SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR * HENRY IV * THE MOUNTAIN GIANTS Pirandello ranks with Strindberg, Brecht, and Beckett as a seminal figure in modern drama. Innovative and influential, he broke decisively with the conventions of realist theatre... -
You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays by Zora Neale Hurston 9780008523008
RRP: £12.99£7.41'One of the greatest writers of our time.' Toni Morrison 'You Don't Know Us Negroes adds immeasurably to our understanding of Hurston ... her words make it impossible for readers to consider her anything but one of... -
The Oxford Book of Death by D. J. Enright
RRP: £11.99£8.43The inescapable reality of death has given rise to much of literature's most profound and moving work. D. J. Enright's wonderfully eclectic selection presents the words of poet and novelist, scientist and philosopher, mystic and sceptic. And alongside... -
Women on Nature by Katharine Norbury
RRP: £25.00£17.19There has, in recent years, been an explosion of writing about place, landscape and the natural world. But within this, women's voices have remained in the minority. This anthology gathers the voices of women from the fourteenth to the twenty-first... -
In Search of Our Mother's Gardens by Alice Walker
RRP: £10.99£7.40The first collection of Alice Walker's non-fiction spanning fifteen years in the career of this remarkable writer.This collection of essays is a celebration of the legacy of creativity - especially the rich vein of women's stories and spirituality... -
On the Other Side: Letters to My Children from Germany 1940 -46 by Mathilde Wolff-Monckeberg 9781903155653
RRP: £16.00£15.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903155653Author Mathilde Wolff-MonckebergFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books LtdDimensions(mm) 192mm *... -
Winter Solstice: An Essay by Nina MacLaughlin
RRP: £10.99£7.38A celebration and meditation on the season for drinking hot chocolate, spotting a wreath on a neighbor’s door, experiencing the change in light of shorter days. All aspects of Winter, from the meteorological to the mythological, are captured in this... -
Boxwallah by Timothy Wilkinson 9781784566548
£16.14Tim Wilkinson was born in Liverpool in 1951 and was educated at Merchant Taylorsa School, Crosby, then at Robert Gordona s College in Aberdeen. After graduating with an M.A. (Hons) in English at Aberdeen University, he then spent his entire career...