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Children of Heracles: Hippolytus, Andromache, Hecuba by Euripides
RRP: £24.95£23.76Four 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 plays... -
In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor by Patrick Leigh Fermor 9780719568572
RRP: £12.99£8.83In spring 1956, Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire - youngest of the six legendary Mitford sisters - invited the writer and war hero Patrick Leigh Fermor to visit Lismore Castle, the Devonshires' house in Ireland. This halcyon visit sparked off a deep... -
The Fragile Earth: Writing from the New Yorker on Climate Change by David Remnick
RRP: £12.99£8.71A classic collection of the New Yorker's most urgent and groundbreaking reporting from the front lines of the climate emergency In 1989, just one year after climatologist James Hansen first came before a Senate... -
Poems by Gaius Valerius Catullus 9781853994975
£30.33Catullus, who lived from about 84 to 54 BC, was one of ancient Rome's most gifted, versatile and passionate poets. Living at a time of radical social change at the end of the Roman Republic, he belonged to a group of young poets who embraced Hellenistic... -
Invitation To The Dance by Hilary Spurling
RRP: £12.99£9.34A unique reference book for all fans of Anthony Powell's 12-volume novel, A Dance to the Music of Time, which has become a literary landmark of twentieth-century writing. More than a simple glossary, Invitation to the Dance contains extensive Character,... -
Italian Hours by Henry James
RRP: £10.99£7.99'The charm of certain vacant grassy spaces, in Italy, overfrowned by masses of brickwork that are honeycombed by the suns of centuries, is something that I hereby renounce once for all the attempt to express; but you may be sure that whenever I mention... -
A Leg to Stand On by Oliver Sacks 9781529087420
RRP: £10.99£8.15'Oliver Sacks is a perfect antidote to the anaesthetic of familiarity. His writing turns brains and minds transparent' - ObserverWhen Oliver Sacks, a physician by profession, injured his leg while climbing a mountain, he found himself in an unusual... -
A Sinister Assassin - Last Writings, Ivry-Sur-Seine, September 1947 to March 1948 Antonin Artaud 9783035803563
RRP: £12.00£10.42A 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... -
The Histories by Cornelius Tacitus
RRP: £12.99£9.34In AD68 Nero's suicide marked the end of the first dynasty of imperial Rome. The following year was one of drama and danger, though not of chaos.In the surviving books of his Histories the barrister-historian Tacitus, writing some thirty years after the... -
Pulphead by John Jeremiah Sullivan
RRP: £20.00£12.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction) 2011 and Saroyan Writing Prize (Nonfiction) 2012.Book InformationISBN 9780374532901Author John Jeremiah... -
Female Fortune: The Anne Lister Diaries, 1833-36, New Edition by Jill Liddington
RRP: £20.00£14.53'A unique and thrilling insight into the brilliant mind of Anne Lister' Sally Wainwright, creator of Gentleman JackFemale Fortune is the book which inspired Sally Wainwright to write Gentleman Jack, now a major drama series for the BBC and HBO.Lesbian... -
The John Lennon Letters: Edited and with an Introduction by Hunter Davies by John Lennon
RRP: £12.99£8.83A lifetime of letters, collected for the first time, from the legendary The Beatles musician and songwriter John LennonJohn Lennon is one of the world's greatest-ever song writers, creator of 'Help!', 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds', 'Imagine' and dozens... -
The Communicating Vessels: Two Portraits of Grief by Friederike Mayroecker by Mayrocker Friederike
RRP: £12.99£8.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998267586Author Mayrocker FriederikeFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint A Public SpacePublisher A Public Space -
The People Look Like Flowers At Last: New Poems by Charles Bukowski
RRP: £9.99£6.84the gas line is leaking, the bird is gone from the cage, the skyline is dotted with vultures; Benny finally got off the stuff and Betty now has a job as a waitress; and the chimney sweep was quite delicate as he giggled up through the soot. I walked... -
The Age of Alexander by Plutarch
RRP: £16.99£12.89The Parallel Lives of Plutarch are cornerstones of Western literature, and have exerted a profound influence on writers and statesmen since the Renaissance, most notably Shakespeare. This selection of ten biographies spans the period from the start of... -
DO NOT DETONATE Without Presidential Approval: A Portfolio on the Subjects of Mid-century Cinema, the Broadway Stage and the American West by Various Authors 9781805330516
RRP: £10.99£7.54Writings on people and places, theater and film, in a portfolio of essays and photographs informing Wes Anderson's film Asteroid City. Featuring 8 newly commissioned pieces alongside more than 20 classic essays from the likes of Francois Truffaut and... -
Aurochs and Auks: Essays on mortality and extinction John Burnside 9781908213891
RRP: £14.00£10.02Aurochs and Auks is a deeply moving and intelligent meditation on the natural processes of death and extinction, renewal and continuity. Prompted by his own near-death in a time of pandemic, John Burnside explores the history of the auroch (Bos... -
The Dreyfus Affair: Jaccuse and Other Writings by Emile Zola 9780300073676
£22.38In September 1894 the French authorities intercepted a letter which they claimed emanated from a Jewish army captain, Alfred Dreyfus, which they claimed to be proof of espionage on behalf of Germany. Dreyfus was subsequently court-martialed and... -
The Likes of Us: Stories of Five Decades by Stan Barstow 9781908069672
RRP: £15.99£12.19A classic selection of the best of Stan Barstow's stories covering the last five decades of British life. A group of young tearaways on a night out that begins with horse-play and ends in tragedy; the loneliness of a drunken miner's wife; a war-shocked... -
Things that Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science by Lorraine J. Daston
RRP: £22.00£18.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951443Author Lorraine J. DastonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Plays, Prose Writings And Poems by Oscar Wilde
RRP: £14.99£11.35Effortlessly achieved, each revealing a different aspect of his brilliance, all of the plays, prose writings, and poems gathered here support Wilde's belief that entertainment provides the best kind of edification. The works include Wilde's... -
Another Literary Tour of Italy by Tim Parks 9781846884726
RRP: £20.00£14.51Following the critical and commercial success of A Literary Tour of Italy, acclaimed novelist Tim Parks presents a new selection of his latest essays on Italian literature, offering a lively, accessible and stimulating diorama of the cultural landscape... -
A Curious Career by Lynn Barber
RRP: £12.99£9.34Lynn Barber, by her own admission, has always suffered from a compelling sense of nosiness. An exceptionally inquisitive child she constantly questioned everyone she knew about imitate details of their lives. This talent for nosiness, coupled with her... -
Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey by Marcus Garvey 9780486437873
RRP: £4.99£3.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486437873Author Marcus GarveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Desolation Peak: Collected Writings by Jack Kerouac
RRP: £21.99£14.83"Something will happen to me on Desolation Peak…I can feel it." In the summer of 1956, Jack Kerouac hitchhiked from Mill Valley, CA, to the North Cascades to spend two months serving as a fire lookout for the US Forest Service. Taking only the Diamond... -
Juvenal Satires: A Selection Dr John Godwin (Independent Scholar, UK) 9781350156524
RRP: £16.99£15.22This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 3) prescription of Juvenal, Satire 6 and the A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Satires 14 and 15, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary, with a detailed introduction... -
What I Wish I’d Known When I Was Young: The Art and Science of Growing Up by Rachel Sylvester
RRP: £10.99£7.46'A superb study ... brilliant stories, hilarious observations and jaw dropping revelations about so many figures in public life we thought we knew - but never understood' EMILY MAITLIS Loss and adversity are part of the human... -
Principles of Philosophy by Rene Descartes 9781604597400
£8.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604597400Author Rene DescartesFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint SMK BooksPublisher SMK BooksWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 4mm -
Football Legends #6: Kylian Mbappe Ed Hawkins 9780702304002
RRP: £5.99£4.21Be inspired by Football Legend, Kylian Mbappe! Discover more about this incredible player's journey from his early career at AS Bondy, coached by his father, to his success at Paris Saint-Germain FC and fulfilling his dream... -
White Girls by Hilton Als
RRP: £10.99£7.99'I defy you to read this book and come away with a mind unchanged' John Jeremiah Sullivan'Als has a serious claim to be regarded as the next James Baldwin' Observer'I see how we are all the same, that none of us are white women or black men; rather,... -
Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald by Jonathan Bate 9780008425005
RRP: £10.99£7.46A dazzling biography of two interwoven, tragic lives: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald. 'Highly engaging ... Go now, read this book' THE TIMES 'For awhile after you quit Keats,' Fitzgerald once wrote,... -
Seneca: Fifty Letters of a Roman Stoic by Lucius Annaeus Seneca 9780226782768
RRP: £83.00£79.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226782768Author Lucius Annaeus SenecaFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher University of Chicago PressWeight(grams)... -
Alan Titchmarsh's Fill My Stocking Alan Titchmarsh 9781785947568
RRP: £12.99£8.56A great raconteur and entertainer, Alan Titchmarsh gets together every Christmas with family and friends to celebrate the season and performs much-loved anecdotes, stories, poems and sketches - old and new. Fill My Stocking combines these well-known... -
My Friend Van Gogh by Émile Bernard 9781644231197
RRP: £10.95£7.59An intimate testament to the power of friendship between two creative forces—available again in English after more than a century. “I exaggerate, I sometimes make changes to the subject, but I still don’t invent the whole of painting; on the contrary, I... -
The City of the Living: A literary chronicle narrating one of the most vicious crimes in recent Roman history by Nicola Lagioia 9781787703995
RRP: £18.99£13.03For fans of Truman Capote and Emmanuel Carrere In March 2016, in an apartment on the outskirts of Rome, two “ordinary” young men brutally tortured and murdered twenty-two-year-old Luca Varani. News of the seemingly inexplicable crime sent shockwaves... -
Latin Panegyric by Roger Rees
£61.38What was Roman political praise for and what could it achieve? Could it have literary merit? What do the surviving examples of Roman political praise-giving reveal about the circumstances and milieu in which they originated? Latin Panegyric brings... -
Wainwright: The Biography Hunter Davies 9780752848525
RRP: £10.99£7.50The classic biography of Alfred Wainwright.Alfred Wainwright's unique hand-drawn and hand-written PICTORIAL GUIDES TO THE LAKELAND FELLS have been an inspiration to walkers for over forty years. Yet despite many bestselling books and three television... -
On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss
RRP: £12.99£8.80In this bold, fascinating book, Eula Biss addresses a chronic condition of fear - fear of the government, the medical establishment, and what may be in your children's air, food, mattresses, medicines, and vaccines. Reflecting on her own experience as a... -
The Dialectics of Liberation by Mr David Cooper
£16.44The 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... -
Cicero, pro Caelio: A Selection by Georgina Longley
RRP: £16.99£15.22This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 1) prescription of Cicero's pro Caelio, 51-58, 61-68, and the A-Level (Group 2) prescription of 33-50, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary, with a detailed...