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Seeing Things as They Are: Selected Journalism and Other Writings by George Orwell
RRP: £9.99£7.32'This selection is a ceaseless delight ... there is a treat on almost every page' Daily TelegraphGeorge Orwell wrote, in his words, from 'a desire to see things as they are'. This new collection of his journalism and other writings, including articles,... -
The Total Library: Non-Fiction 1922-1986 by Jorge Luis Borges
RRP: £16.99£12.28Though best known in the English speaking world for his short fictions and poems, Borges is revered in Latin America equally as an immensely prolific and beguiling writer of non-fiction prose. In THE TOTAL LIBRARY, more than 150 of Borges' most... -
The Epistle on Legal Theory: A Translation of Al-Shafi'i's Risalah by Muhammad Ibn Idris al-Shafi'i 9781479855445
RRP: £13.99£12.74The Epistle on Legal Theory is the oldest surviving Arabic work on Islamic legal theory and the foundational document of Islamic jurisprudence. Its author, Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i (d. 204/820), was the eponym of the Shafi'i school of legal thought,... -
Cyclops by Euripides
RRP: £24.95£23.76Three plays by ancient Greece's third great tragedian.One of antiquity's greatest poets, Euripides has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. The new Loeb Classical Library edition of his... -
The Not Terribly Good Book of Heroic Failures: An intrepid selection from the original volumes by Stephen Pile
RRP: £9.99£6.90All successful people are the same (you know, drive, will to win, determination) - it's just too dull to contemplate. But everyone who messes up big time does so in a way that is completely individual. Step forward the fifty Mexican convicts who dug an... -
Mary Churchill's War: The Wartime Diaries of Churchill's Youngest Daughter Emma Soames 9781529341508
RRP: £20.00£12.23'A daily love letter from a brave young woman to her adored father . . . immensely evocative of wartime Britain, extremely well edited, and occasionally powerfully moving' ANDREW ROBERTS, TLS'It wasn't easy being a Churchill child - and only Mary managed... -
The Last Drop: Solving the World's Water Crisis by Tim Smedley
RRP: £20.00£13.50The Times Book of the Year pick'Smart, sobering, and scholarly.' - Steve Brusatte, the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of DinosaursA gripping, thought-provoking and ultimately optimistic investigation into the world's next great... -
Nobody Will Shoot You If You Make Them Laugh by Simon Murray 9781913491772
RRP: £25.00£17.97In Nobody Will Shoot You If You Make Them Laugh: One Man's Journey Through The Mountains And Valleys of Life, the businessman and adventurer Simon Murray tells his extraordinary life story. From an orphanage in Leicester through the rigours and brutality... -
Serena Williams by Sarah Shephard 9780702302848
RRP: £5.99£4.21Serena Williams: tennis player, sports icon, champion. Get your head in the game with one of the greatest athletes of all time, Serena Williams. A Life Story: This gripping series throws the reader directly into... -
OCR Anthology for Classical Greek GCSE Judith Affleck (King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK) 9781474265485
RRP: £18.99£17.16This is the OCR endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Greek GCSE set text prescriptions examined from 2018 to 2024. The texts covered are: Homer Odyssey 6:48-159 Iliad 3:1-112 Odyssey 7:184-297 Herodotus Histories 1.30-4, 86-7 and 6.125... -
The Art of the Glimpse: 100 Irish short stories by Sinéad Gleeson
RRP: £25.00£18.90The #1 Irish Times bestseller An anthology of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinead Gleeson, author of Constellations. There have been many anthologies of the short story as it developed in Ireland, but never a collection like this... -
The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories by William Trevor 9780192141804
RRP: £102.50£70.36Ireland has always been a nation of story-tellers - tall stories, simple stories, stories of mystery and wonder, love and violence - and Irish short-story writers are perhaps the most talented in the world. This magnificent anthology chronicles the... -
The Quotable Oscar Wilde: A Collection of Wit and Wisdom Running Press 9780762449828
RRP: £5.99£4.92"I must die as I lived, beyond my means." Arguably the most quoted man in history, and certainly in his day, this enormous miniature collection is filled with Oscar Wildes' most notorious and witty sayings. Organized into five neat sections useful for... -
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 9780198800545
RRP: £18.99£14.61I don't understand it; I don't in the least understand why men can't live without wars. How is it that we women don't want anything of the kind, don't need it? Tolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during... -
The Education of a British-Protected Child by Chinua Achebe
RRP: £9.99£7.32The pieces here span reflections on personal and collective identity, on home and family, on literature, language and politics, and on Achebe's lifelong attempt to reclaim the definition of 'Africa' for its own authorship. For the first thirty years of... -
Dance To The Music Of Time Volume 4 by Anthony Powell
RRP: £20.00£14.69Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve novel sequence chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters, and is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England. It is unrivalled for its scope, its humour and the enormous pleasure it has given to... -
Anatomy of a Killing: Life and Death on a Divided Island by Ian Cobain 9781846276422
RRP: £10.99£7.54On 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... -
Midnight Mass: The Art of Horror by Abbie Bernstein 9781789097771
RRP: £24.99£19.73A small town on an island experiences miraculous events - and frightening omens - after the arrival of a charismatic, mysterious young priest. The cast includes Kate Siegel, Henry Thomas, Zach Gilford, and Hamish Linklater. Midnight Mass: The Art of... -
In Gratitude by Jenny Diski
RRP: £10.99£7.99_______________ 'One of the most inventive, original and disturbing writers of her generation' - Daily Telegraph 'Diski does not do linear, or normal, or boring ... In Gratitude amounts to the inner monologue of a highly intelligent, furiously... -
The Liberal Imagination by Lionel Trilling
RRP: £17.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590172834Author Lionel TrillingFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Red Odyssey: Liverpool FC 1892-2017 by Jeff Goulding
RRP: £18.99£13.82Red Odyssey: Liverpool FC 1892-2017, is a uniquely affectionate and often deeply moving history of one of the greatest sporting institutions on the planet. Born in the fire of boardroom conflict and launched into the humble surroundings of the Lancashire... -
One Fine Day by Ian Marchant
RRP: £20.00£13.95A 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 Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature: Volume 1: 800-1558 by Rita Copeland 9780198859178
RRP: £47.99£47.07The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature (OHCREL) is designed to offer a comprehensive investigation of the numerous and diverse ways in which literary texts of the classical world have stimulated responses and refashioning by... -
Penbanc - Notes from a Welsh Farmhouse by Gaynor Funnell 9781999952242
£12.58Apologies 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 -
The Soul of the Marionette: A Short Enquiry into Human Freedom by John Gray
RRP: £10.99£7.99TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016'Gray must be one of the best read of contemporary philosophers, trawling insouciantly through high-, middle- and low-brow literature with the sharp-eyed eclecticism of a magpie of genius' John Banville, Guardian'Like Isaiah... -
Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping by Derek Jarman 9781913513320
RRP: £9.99£7.20Published here for the very first time, Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping is Derek Jarman's only piece of narrative fiction. Written in 1971, it is a surreal, fabular, lyrical work - a literary fairytale acid-trip road movie... -
Suetonius: Vol 1 by Suetonius
RRP: £24.95£23.60Antiquity's imperial biographer par excellence.Suetonius (C. Suetonius Tranquillus, born ca. AD 70), son of a military tribune, was at first an advocate and a teacher of rhetoric, but later became the emperor Hadrian's private secretary, 119-121. He... -
Tabula Rasa: Volume 1 John McPhee 9781250335708
RRP: £14.99£10.95Over seven decades, John McPhee has set a standard for literary nonfiction. Assaying mountain ranges, bark canoes, experimental aircraft, the Swiss Army, geophysical hot spots, ocean shipping, shad fishing, dissident art in the Soviet Union, and an even... -
Three Plays: Six Characters in Search of an Author, Henry IV, The Mountain Giants by Luigi Pirandello
RRP: £9.99£7.32SIX 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... -
Rumi: The Big Red Book: The Great Masterpiece Celebrating Mystical Love and Friendship by Coleman Barks
RRP: £11.99£8.49Now in paperback, considered one of the greatest works of Persian literature, "The Big Red Book" is one of the masterpieces of Rumi, the medieval Sufi mystic who also happens to be the most popular poet in America.About the AuthorColeman Barks is a... -
Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby
RRP: £9.99£6.90From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wow, No Thank You'Brilliant, hilarious and perspicacious.' ELIZABETH DAY'One of our culture's greatest humorists is back.' Glamour'SO funny.' SARA PASCOEThis is not an advice book. Samantha Irby doesn't... -
Testaments Betrayed by Milan Kundera
RRP: £10.99£7.54Kundera's essay has been written like a novel. In the course of nine separate sections, the same characters meet and cross paths with each other. Stravinsky and Kafka with their odd friends Ansermet and Brod; Hemingway with his biographer; Janacek with... -
Trains and Buttered Toast John Betjeman 9780719561276
RRP: £10.99£7.61Eccentric, sentimental and homespun, John Betjeman's passions were mostly self-taught. He saw his country being devastated by war and progress and he waged a private war to save it. His only weapons were words - the poetry for which he is best known and,... -
Swann in Love by Marcel Proust 9780198744894
RRP: £8.99£6.01'Swann's love . . . could not have been torn out of him without destroying him almost entirely' Swann in Love is a brilliant, devastating novella that tells of infatuation, love, and jealousy. Set against the backdrop of Paris at the end of the... -
Responses to Love's Work (1995) by Gillian Rose Richard Porter 9781739702953
RRP: £12.00£11.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739702953Author Richard PorterFormat PaperbackImprint Pilot PressPublisher Pilot Press -
Welcome to Our Hillbrow: A Novel of Postapartheid South Africa by Phaswane Mpe 9780821419625
£14.87Welcome to Our Hillbrow is an exhilarating and disturbing ride through the chaotic and hyper-real zone of Hillbrow-microcosm of all that is contradictory, alluring, and painful in the postapartheid South African psyche. Everything is there: the shattered... -
On the End of the World by Joseph Roth
RRP: £10.99£7.54In January 1933, on the very day Hitler seized power in Germany, Joseph Roth fled to Paris. There, in what he called the 'hour before the end of the world', he wrote a series of articles. The end he foresaw would soon come to pass in the full horror of... -
The Odyssey: A New Translation by Homer
RRP: £12.99£8.83The classic tale of Odysseus's return home in a stunning new translation.THE ODYSSEY, which tells of Odysseus's long voyage home after the battle of Troy, is one of the defining masterpieces of Western literature.Populated by one-eyed man-eating giants,... -
The Oxford Book of Essays by John Gross
RRP: £14.99£11.35The essay is one of the richest of literary forms. Its most obvious characteristics are freedom, informality, and the personal touch - though it can also find room for poetry, satire, fantasy, and sustained argument. All these qualities, and many... -
The Portable Beat Reader by Ann Charters
RRP: £12.99£9.34Beginning 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...