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Sanatorium by Abi Palmer 9781908058713
RRP: £9.99£7.20A young woman spends a month taking the waters at a thermal water-based rehabilitation facility in Budapest. On her return to London, she attempts to continue her recovery using an 80 pound inflatable blue bathtub. The tub becomes a metaphor for the... -
Mademoiselle Fifi and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant 9780198884958
RRP: £6.99£4.81'It was raining as it only rains in Normandy, as though great gouts of water were being sprayed by some angry, giant hand.' Maupassant believed that we delude ourselves into believing that we are not animals acting upon instinct but rational creatures... -
This Old Man: All in Pieces by Roger Angell 9781101971390
RRP: £16.95£11.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101971390Author Roger AngellFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Anchor BooksWeight(grams) 295g -
Comic Verse by Peter Washington
RRP: £10.99£7.99This anthology of comic verse is drawn from sources which range from the Greek Anthology to the present day. Divided into thematic sections (to be determined) for case of use, it covers a wide range of forms including limericks, clerihews, ballads,... -
Ward No. 6 and Other Stories (riverrun editions): a unique selection of Chekhov's novellas Anton Chekhov 9781787475946
RRP: £12.99£8.83A young woman struggles to assert herself within a regrettable marriage.A boy learns about life on an epic summer's journey to a new school.A doctor attempts to befriend his most interesting patient.A young man tries to figure out the best way to live... -
Diaries Volume Three: Power and Responsibility by Alastair Campbell
RRP: £16.99£12.28POWER AND RESPONSIBILITY is the third volume of Alastair Campbell's unique daily account of life at the centre of the Blair government. It begins amid conflict in Kosovo, and ends on September 11, 2001, a day which immediately wrote itself into the... -
Wassily Kandinsky: A Life in Letters 1889-1944 by Jelena Hahl-Fontaine 9783777440361
RRP: £29.95£19.68"Even if they don't speak of art very skilfully, what artists say is generally alive." Wassily Kandinsky was not only the inventor of abstract painting, but also its gifted propagandist. His letters reveal an artist who thought deeply and communicated... -
Anabasis of Alexander: v.1 by Arrian
RRP: £24.95£24.16On the march to greatness.Arrian (Flavius Arrianus), of the period ca. AD 95-175, was a Greek historian and philosopher of Nicomedia in Bithynia. Both a Roman and an Athenian citizen, he was governor of the Roman province of Cappadocia 132-137, and... -
Grumbling at Large J. B. Priestley 9781910749180
RRP: £14.99£12.75Priestley defined the essay as a 'prose masterpiece in miniature' and understood that to perfect the form, the essayist had to stand 'naked and shivering' in the very first sentence. A prodigious essayist, Priestley expressed his unique thoughts on a... -
The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction by Neil Gaiman 9781472282309
RRP: £30.00£20.70'This collection is [like] the Beatles' "White Album": massive in size and scope, with individually brilliant pieces presented together because the only context they need is how good they are' MARLON JAMESA captivating collection of fiction from one of... -
Moments of Being by Virginia Woolf 9780156619189
£14.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156619189Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books Classics -
Letters to the Lady Upstairs by Marcel Proust 9780008340063
RRP: £9.99£7.80A charming, funny, poignant collection of twenty-three letters from Marcel Proust to his upstairs neighbour 102 Boulevard Haussmann, an elegant address in Paris's eighth arrondissement. Upstairs lives Madame Williams, with her second husband and her harp... -
Hidden Wyndham: Life, Love, Letters by Amy Binns
£9.16Until now, little was known of John Wyndham. Despite his popularity, his obsessive need for privacy led to him being known as "the invisible man of science fiction". He redefined the genre with dystopian classics The Day of the Triffids and The Midwich... -
The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry: From Ancient to Contemporary, The Full 3000-Year Tradition by Tony Barnstone 9780385721981
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385721981Author Tony BarnstoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 414gDimensions(mm)... -
Little Bit O'nonsense About Sheep by Henry Brewis
RRP: £4.99£3.96Born near Alnwick, Northumberland in 1932, Henry Brewis was one of a clan of farmers in the area. He spent much of his life running a mixed arable and livestock farm at Hartburn, near Morpeth, Northumberland. In the 1970s he began drawing cartoons and... -
The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 2: 1923-1925 by T. S. Eliot
RRP: £35.00£24.43Volume Two covers the early years of his editorship of The Criterion (the periodical that Eliot launched with Lady Rothermere's backing in 1922), publication of The Hollow Men and the course of Eliot's thinking about poetry and poetics after The Waste... -
Christmas Stories by Diana Secker Tesdell
RRP: £15.00£11.13As a literary subject, Christmas has inspired everything from intimate domestic dramas, to fanciful flights of the imagination, and the full range of its expression is represented in this wonderfully engaging collection. Goblins frolic in the graveyard... -
Psychedelics: Vintage Minis by Aldous Huxley
RRP: £5.99£4.63Could drugs offer a new way of seeing the world? In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes everything, from the flowers in a... -
Love Speaks Its Name: Gay and Lesbian Love Poems J D McClatchy 9781841597454
RRP: £12.00£8.68From Sappho to Shakespeare to Cole Porter - a marvellous and wide-ranging collection of classic gay and lesbian love poetry. The poets represented here include Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, Gertrude Stein, Federico Garcia Lorca, Djuna Barnes, Constantine... -
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020 by Salman Rushdie 9781529111996
RRP: £12.99£9.34From 'Best of the Booker' winner Salman Rushdie, an incisive and inspiring collection of non-fiction essays, criticism and speeches that takes readers on a thrilling journey through the evolution of language and culture.'One of the greatest writers of... -
Texts for Nothing and Other Shorter Prose, 1950-1976 by Samuel Beckett
RRP: £9.99£6.90This is the last of three volumes of collected shorter prose to be published in the Faber edition of the works of Samuel Beckett - which already includes a volume of early stories (The Expelled/The Calmative/The End/First Love) and of late stories... -
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay
RRP: £10.99£7.54Edited and with an introduction by Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling and deeply beloved author of Bad Feminist and Hunger, this anthology of first-person essays tackles rape, assault, and harassment head-on.Vogue, 10 of the Most Anticipated... -
Black and Female by Tsitsi Dangarembga
RRP: £10.99£7.54'A woman's defiant fight to write.' ObserverBeing categorised as black and female does not constrain my writing. Writing assures me that I am more the merely blackness and femaleness. Writing assures me I am.This paradigm shifting essay collection weaves... -
Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce Colm Toibin 9780241354421
RRP: £10.99£7.99An intimate study of three of Ireland's greatest writers from one of its best-loved contemporary voices, Colm Toibin__________________In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Toibin takes three of Ireland's greatest writers - Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats and James... -
Description of Greece: v. 5: Maps, Illustrations & Index by Pausanias
RRP: £24.95£23.39Antiquity's original travel guide.Pausanias, born probably in Lydia in Asia Minor, was a Greek of the second century AD, about 120-180, who traveled widely not only in Asia Minor, Palestine, Egypt, and North Africa, but also in Greece and in Italy, ... -
Having and Being Had by Eula Biss 9780571346431
RRP: £10.99£7.33'A major achievement.' CLAUDIA RANKINE'Endlessly absorbing.' SINEAD GLEESON 'A probing tour of capitalism and class.' MAGGIE NELSON'Exhilarating.' JENNY OFFILLA personal reckoning with the intricacies of money, class and capitalism from the New York... -
Disquiet Drive Hesse K. 9781739364984
RRP: £14.00£12.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739364984Author Hesse K.Format PaperbackImprint Pilot PressPublisher Pilot Press -
Destiny Grimoire Anthology: Vol.4 by Bungie 9781789099096
RRP: £22.99£18.33The must-have collectible compendium, continuing the extensive lore compilation of the Destiny universe. Destiny Grimoire Anthology, Volume IV: The Royal Will, unravels the making and methods of two of Destiny's most powerful monarchs-Mara Sov, the... -
Scandal at Dolphin Square: A Notorious History by Simon Danczuk
RRP: £20.00£15.67Designed as a city dwelling for the modern age, Dolphin Square opened in London's Pimlico in 1936. Boasting 1,250 hi-tech flats, a swimming pool, restaurant, gardens and shopping arcade, the complex quickly attracted a long list of the affluent and... -
Birds: An Anthology by Jaqueline Mitchell
RRP: £16.99£13.50Thomas Hardy notes the thrush's 'full-hearted evensong of joy illimited', Gilbert White observes how swallows sweep through the air but swifts 'dash round in circles' and Rachel Carson watches sanderlings at the ocean's edge, scurrying 'across the beach... -
Encounter by Milan Kundera
RRP: £12.99£8.80With the same dazzling mix of emotion and idea that characterizes his novels he illuminates the art and artists who remain important to him and whose work helps us better understand the world. An astute and brilliant reader of fiction, Kundera applies... -
I Could Not Believe It: The 1979 Teenage Diaries of Sean DeLear by Sean Delear
RRP: £15.99£10.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635901832Author Sean DelearFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher Semiotext (E) -
Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania by Adam Mickiewicz
RRP: £13.99£11.25A towering achievement in European literature, Pan Tadeusz is the central work of the Polish literary canon, heralded for its lovingly detailed recreation of a bygone world. The traditions of the Polish gentry and the social and natural landscape of the... -
The Essential Goethe by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 9780691181042
RRP: £28.00£22.14The most comprehensive one-volume collection of Goethe's writings ever published in EnglishThe Essential Goethe is the most comprehensive and representative one-volume collection of Goethe's writings ever published in English. It provides... -
The Ultimate Practical Guide to Scrapbooking: Creating Fabulous Lasting Memory Journals to Cherish by Alison Lindsay
RRP: £9.99£8.32This beautifully presented practical book is a complete guide to the art of scrapbooking. Find out how to create inspired album pages with real personal style. All the materials and equipment you need to get started are clearly detailed. There are hints... -
Intervals by Marianne Brooker 9781804270837
RRP: £10.99£7.54What makes a good death? A good daughter? In 2009, with her forties and a harsh wave of austerity on the horizon, Marianne Brooker's mother was diagnosed with primary progressive multiple sclerosis. She made a workshop of herself and her surroundings,... -
Enwogion o Fri by Jon Gower 9781800991347 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99£3.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800991347Author Jon GowerFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y LolfaDimensions(mm) 250mm * 250mm * 8mm -
In The Dark Room by Brian Dillon
RRP: £12.99£8.80Boldly 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... -
Recessional: The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of the Free Lunch by David Mamet
RRP: £20.00£13.34NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!"Savagery appeased can only grow. Once you give in to it, it must escalate, like a fire searching for air."The man who won the Pulitzer Prize for GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS, who wrote the classic films THE VERDICT and WAG THE DOG... -
Memories of Socrates: Memorabilia and Apology by Xenophon 9780198856092
RRP: £9.99£7.32'Who would you say knows himself?' In 399 BCE Socrates was tried in Athens on charges of irreligion and corruption of the young, convicted, and sentenced to death. Like Plato, an almost exact contemporary, in his youth Xenophon (c. 430-c. 354 BCE) was...