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Selected Letters by John Keats
RRP: £18.99£13.61'I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination' - Keats, in a letter to his friend Benjamin Bailey in November 1817.In a period of great letter-writing, Keats's letters are outstanding. They begin in... -
Eirik the Red and other Icelandic Sagas by Gwyn Jones
RRP: £7.99£5.79The remote and inhospitable landscape of Iceland made it a perfect breeding-ground for heroes. The first Norsemen to colonize it in 860 found that the fight for survival demanded high courage and tough self reliance; it also nurtured a stern sense of... -
Early Socratic Dialogues by Emlyn-Jones Chris
RRP: £12.99£9.09Rich in drama and humour, they include the controversial Ion, a debate on poetic inspiration; Laches, in which Socrates seeks to define bravery; and Euthydemus, which considers the relationship between philosophy and politics. Together, these dialogues... -
Only Too Much Is Enough: Francis Bacon in his own words by Michael Peppiatt
RRP: £14.99£12.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912475568Author Michael PeppiattFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint ERISPublisher ERISDimensions(mm) 230mm * 130mm * 7mm -
Future Girl by Asphyxia - 9781911679004
RRP: £10.99£8.17Piper's mum wants her to be 'normal', to pass as hearing and get a good job. But when peak oil hits and Melbourne lurches towards environmental catastrophe, Piper has more important things to worry about, such as how to get food. When she meets... -
Rumi: Swallowing the Sun by Franklin D. Lewis 9781851689712
RRP: £9.99£7.11Timeless and eternal, the poetry of Jalal al-Din Rumi is loved the world over. The best-selling poet from America to Afghanistan, his words are as relevant today as ever, still resonating with contemporary concerns of both East and West alike. This... -
The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time by Will Durant 9780743235532
RRP: £14.99£9.36In this remarkable little book, Will Durant answers the questions that most people would have wanted to ask him - what are the conclusions he drew from the experience of a long lifetime; what eras, individuals, and achievements stand out as being the... -
Phaedra and Other Plays by Seneca
RRP: £12.99£9.09Living in Rome under Caligula and later a tutor to Nero, Seneca witnessed the extremes of human behaviour. His shocking and bloodthirsty plays not only reflect a brutal period of history but also show how guilt, sorrow, anger and desire lead individuals... -
Men Don't Cry by Faiza Guene
RRP: £11.99£8.00Mourad and his family live in Nice. His retired father spends his days fixing up things in the backyard; his mother, bemoaning the loss of her natal village in North Africa. Dounia, the eldest, is a staunch feminist; Mina, the youngest, blushes when the... -
Buzzworthy: Cocktails Inspired by Female Literary Greats by Jennifer Croll
RRP: £14.99£10.95The author of Free the Tipple is back with another collection of delectable cocktails-this time a literary mix inspired by the world's most iconic women writers. The fifty recipes in this volume are as unconventional, imaginative, and refreshing as... -
How to Read a Latin Poem: If You Can't Read Latin Yet by William Fitzgerald
£19.64Latin is very much alive in the poetry written by the great Latin poets, and this book is about their poetry, their language, and their culture. Fitzgerald shows the reader with little or no knowledge of the Latin language how it works as a unique... -
Plays Unpleasant by George Bernard Shaw
RRP: £12.99£9.09With Plays Unpleasant, Shaw issued a radical challenge to his audiences' complacency and exposed social evils through his dramatization of the moral conflicts between youthful idealism and economic reality, promiscuity and marriage, and the duties of... -
Love is a Radiant Light: The Life & Words of Saint Charbel by Saint Charbel 9781621384328
RRP: £13.50£12.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621384328Author Saint CharbelFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *... -
The Disconnect: A Personal Journey Through the Internet by Roisin Kiberd
RRP: £9.99£6.52We all live online now, but what does that mean in IRL? How do strange subcultures on reddit affect our local shopping centres, what do night gyms owe to Twitter, and where can we really go to get some decent sleep? Our every move online is watched, but... -
This Little Art by Kate Briggs
RRP: £12.99£9.98An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs's This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading, writing and living with the works of others. Taking... -
Peter Pan and Other Plays: The Admirable Crichton; Peter Pan; When Wendy Grew Up; What Every Woman Knows; Mary Rose by Sir J. M. Barrie 9780199537839
RRP: £7.99£5.79For some 20 years at the beginning of the century J M Barrie enjoyed enormous commercial success with a wide variety of plays, but he is best known for Peter Pan. It retains its popularity today, both in the original and in adaptations. As well as being... -
Short Stories In Russian: New Penguin Parallel Text by Brian James Baer
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143118343Author Brian James BaerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic by Simon Winchester
RRP: £25.00£16.83'A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter' New York Times 'An ebullient, irrepressible spirit invests this book. It is erudite and... -
Thirteen Cents: A Novel by K. Sello Duiker
RRP: £15.99£14.24Every city has an unspoken side. Cape Town, between the picture postcard mountain and sea, has its own shadow: a place of dislocation and uncertainty, dependence and desperation, destruction and survival, gangsters, pimps, pedophiles, hunger, hope, and... -
Personal Pleasures: Essays on Enjoying LIfe by Rose Macaulay
RRP: £12.99£8.63In 1935 Rose Macaulay (1881-1958) was a well-established novelist, reviewer, columnist and feminist wit. She was part of the 'intellectual aristocracy' of England, but was also passionately interested in everyday life and its foolishnesses. Personal... -
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman
RRP: £10.99£7.77Anne Fadiman is the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, and who once found herself poring over a 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only thing in her apartment that she had not read at least twice. EX... -
The Connell Short Guide To Robert Louis Stevenson's Jekyll And Hyde by David Anderson 9781911187158
RRP: £5.99£5.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911187158Author David AndersonFormat PaperbackImprint Connell GuidesPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
End of Summer by Anders de la Motte
RRP: £9.99£6.85'For fans of the hugely successful CWA Gold Dagger-winning The Dry by Jane Harper' Vaseem Khan'One of Sweden's most talented crime fiction authors' Erik Axl Sund**DON'T MISS DEEDS OF AUTUMN. AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW**You can always go home. But you can... -
Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry by Kenneth Koch 9780684824383
RRP: £27.50£11.24From one of the most esteemed American poets of the twenty-first century comes a celebration of poetry and an invitation for anyone to experience its beauty and wonder.Full of fresh and exciting insights, Making Your Own Days illuminates the somewhat... -
The Middle Length Sayings: Majjhima-Nikaya: New Translation by Bhikkhu Bodhi 9780861710720
RRP: £50.00£33.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861710720Author Bhikkhu BodhiFormat HardbackPage Count 1424Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S. -
Pragmatism and Other Writings by William James
RRP: £10.99£7.77The writings of William James represent one of America's most original contributions to the history of ideas. Ranging from philosophy and psychology to religion and politics, James composed the most engaging formulation of American pragmatism. ... -
The Night Parade: a speculative memoir by Jami Nakamura Lin 9781914484070
RRP: £18.99£13.23In the groundbreaking tradition of In the Dream House and The Collected Schizophrenias, a gorgeously illustrated lyrical memoir that draws upon the Japanese myth of the Hyakki Yagyo - the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons - to shift the cultural... -
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... -
Studies in the Sermon on the Mount by Oswald Chambers 9781943133338
RRP: £6.24£5.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943133338Author Oswald ChambersFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Gideon House BooksPublisher Gideon House BooksWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
Transcendentalism: A Reader by Joel Myerson 9780195122138
RRP: £68.00£52.56The transcendentalist movement is generally recognized to be the first major watershed in American literary and intellectual history. Pioneered by Emerson, Thoreau, Orestes Brownson, Margaret Fuller, and Bronson Alcott (among others), Transcendentalism... -
Coming Out Stories: Personal Experiences of Coming Out from Across the LGBTQ+ Spectrum by Emma Goswell
RRP: £14.99£14.16'Uplifting and triumphant' JUNO DAWSON'This book is vital' RUSSELL T DAVIES'A brilliant resource' LADY PHYLL'A must-read for anyone grappling with coming out' RIYADH KHALAF'Inspirational' PETER TATCHELL"He told me being gay was nothing to be ashamed of."... -
A Good Man is Hard to Find: Faber Modern Classics by Flannery O'Connor
RRP: £9.99£6.70These ten classic stories are masterful depictions of the underside of life, deep in the American South. On receiving an early copy, Evelyn Waugh remarked 'If these stories are in fact the work of a young lady, they are indeed remarkable.'She's... -
Yorkshire: There and Back by Andrew Martin 9781472154873
RRP: £12.99£7.51In Yorkshire: There and Back, Andrew Martin celebrates Britain's most charismatic county, looking back at the Yorkshire of his 1970s childhood and as it is today.Journeying to every historic corner, Martin writes affectionally about its past, present and... -
Wild Woman Swimming: A Journal of West Country Waters by Lynne Roper
RRP: £8.99£7.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781527221987Author Lynne RoperFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint The Selkie PressPublisher The Selkie PressDimensions(mm) 198mm * 128mm * 15mm -
The Sixteen Satires by Juvenal
RRP: £12.99£9.09Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. AD 55-138) captures the splendour, the squalor and the sheer energy of everyday Roman life. In The Sixteen Satires he evokes a fascinating world of whores, fortune-tellers, boozy politicians, slick lawyers,... -
Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Words connect the visible track to the invisible thing ... like a fragile makeshift bridge cast across the void'With imagination and wit, Italo Calvino sought to define the virtues of the great literature of the past in order to shape the values of... -
On Writing and Failure by Stephen Marche 9781914502088
RRP: £7.99£6.05'Good writers offer advice. Great writers offer condolences' If you want to be a writer, then you'd better be ready to hurl yourself at the door. That's the message from Stephen Marche in this irresistibly droll broadside. Perseverance, in the teeth... -
In Writing by Adam Phillips
RRP: £10.99£8.53Acclaimed author of On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored and On KindnessA collection of literary essays like no other - exploring the deep connections between literature and psychoanalysis - from Britain's leading psychoanalyst.For Adam Phillips - as for... -
I Choose Elena by Lucia Osborne-Crowley
RRP: £8.99£6.20Aged 15 and on track to be an Olympic gymnast, Lucia Osborne-Crowley was violently raped on a night out. The injuries she sustained that evening ended her gymnastics career, and eventually manifested in life-long chronic illnesses, which medical... -
The London Scene by Hermione Lee
RRP: £10.99£7.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907970429Author Hermione LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 100Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt BooksWeight(grams) 192g