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Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig
RRP: £11.99£8.09A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most.Growing up as... -
Field Work: Faber Modern Classics by Seamus Heaney
RRP: £9.99£6.90Seamus Heaney was 'the greatest poet of our age' (Guardian). From his remarkable debut in 1966, he pioneered the poetry of our times across five decades of cultural and political change, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995.Field Work,... -
The Presidents' Letters: An Unexpected History of the Irish State by Flor MacCarthy
RRP: £22.99£16.93Shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards Irish-Published Book of the Year A TREASURE TROVE OF LETTERS TO AND FROM OUR NINE PRESIDENTS FROM 1938 TO THE PRESENT DAY With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs,... -
Don't Forget To Sing In The Lifeboats (U.S edition) by Kathryn Petras
RRP: £7.99£6.36Uncommon times call for uncommon wisdom. It's inspiring to hear from people who've graduated from the school of hard knocks, yet kept a sense of humor. People like Twain, Voltaire, Oscar Wide. People who've said the thing so well that we all wish we'd... -
RFK: His Words for Our Times by Robert Francis Kennedy 9780062834140
RRP: £11.99£8.09In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Robert Francis Kennedy's death, an inspiring collection of his most famous speeches accompanied by commentary from notable historians and public figures.Twenty-five years after Bobby Kennedy was assassinated, RFK:... -
Letters From A Lost Generation: First World War Letters of Vera Brittain and Four Friends Mark Bostridge 9781844085705
RRP: £12.99£7.72Nothing in the papers, not the most vivid and heart-rending descriptions, have made me realise war like your letters' Vera Brittain to Roland Leighton, 17 April 1915.This selection of letters, written between 1913 & 1918, between Vera Brittain and four... -
Care Package: A Path To Deep Healing by Sylvester McNutt III 9780692111550
£16.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692111550Author Sylvester McNutt IIIFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Success Is a Choice LLC.Publisher Success Is a Choice LLC.Weight(grams) 336g -
Cambridge Primary English Learner's Book 1 Second Edition Sarah Snashall 9781398300200
£16.91This title has been endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education Inspire learners to build, strengthen and extend their skills. Written by experienced authors and primary practitioners, Cambridge Primary English offers full coverage of... -
The Ultimate Guide to Women's Football by Scholastic 9780702302046
RRP: £6.99£4.81The ultimate guide to women's football! This epic guide to the glorious game covers everything from player profiles to top tournaments and super skills - and a million things in between! Take a tour through... -
Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun: An Almanac of Extreme Girlhood by Jackie Wang 9781635901924
RRP: £16.99£11.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635901924Author Jackie WangFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher Semiotext (E) -
The Civil War by Lucan
RRP: £24.95£23.76Epic history.Lucan (M. Annaeus Lucanus, AD 39-65), son of wealthy M. Annaeus Mela and nephew of Seneca, was born at Corduba (Cordova) in Spain and was brought as a baby to Rome. In AD 60 at a festival in Emperor Nero's honor Lucan praised him in a... -
A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain
RRP: £12.99£9.74Twain's account of travelling in Europe, A TRAMP ABROAD (1880), sparkles with the author's shrewd observations and highly opinionated comments on Old World culture, and showcases his unparalleled ability to integrate humorous sketches, autobiographical... -
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli 9780486272740
RRP: £2.99£2.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486272740Author Niccolo MachiavelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Diary Of A Yorkshire Vet by Julian Norton 9781912101801
RRP: £11.99£8.53Consisting only of articles taken from his popular column in The Yorkshire Post, Julian Norton's The Diary of a Yorkshire Vet features anecdotes from his veterinary work in North Yorkshire. From hairy pigs near Helmsley to a bullock with an enormous eye... -
The Lesser Evil: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945-1959 by Victor Klemperer
RRP: £18.99£13.15The superb, bestselling diaries of Victor Klemperer, a Jew in Dresden who survived the war - hailed as one of the 20th century's most important chronicles.'Compulsive reading' LITERARY REVIEW 'Deeply engrossing' SPECTATOR'Klemperer's diary deserves to... -
Dialogues and Letters by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: £9.99£7.32A major writer and a leading figure in the public life of Rome, Seneca (c. 4BC-AD 65) ranks among the most eloquent and influential masters of Latin prose. This selection explores his thoughts on philosophy and the trials of life. In the Consolation to... -
Living Rooms by Sam Johnson-Schlee 9781913512194
RRP: £10.99£7.61"Today the ideal home remains a site of illusory ease, a space that can be wiped clean of the residues of living..." In this radical and elegiac essay, Sam Johnson-Schlee invites readers to consider the dreams and fantasies we have about our... -
Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism and Minding Other People's Business Roxane Gay 9781472158635
RRP: £25.00£16.63'Gay has an ability to blend the personal and political in a way that feels simultaneously gentle and brutal . . . you look at a cultural moment through Gay's eyes and, by the end, you see the world differently' Arwa Mahdawi, GuardianSince the... -
At the Same Time by Susan Sontag
RRP: £12.99£9.34'These sixteen pieces brim over with vitality . . . every one of them opening up fresh lines of thought' John Gray, New StatesmanAt the Same Time contains sixteen illuminating essays by Susan Sontag with a preface by David Rieff.The sixteen essays... -
The Rings of Saturn: (Vintage Voyages) by W.G. Sebald
RRP: £10.90£7.93Encountering an eccentric cast of characters along the way, Sebald confronts the frailty of human existence as he voyages along the Suffolk coast on foot. What begins as the record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia becomes the great,... -
Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life by Robert Spaethling
RRP: £14.99£10.95What was Mozart really like? Wild? Sublime? Responsible? Fun-loving? Bright? Foul-mouthed? Reading these sparkling new translations of Mozart's letters, we learn in his own words that he was all of these and much more. Here is the composer at his most... -
Anarchist Communism by Peter Kropotkin
RRP: £7.99£5.98'Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor'Fuelled by anger at injustice and optimism about humankind's ability to make a better, truly communal society, the anarchist writings of Peter Kropotkin have... -
OCR Anthology for Classical Greek AS and A Level: 2021-2023 Simon Allcock (Head of Classics & Humanities, Wellington College, UK) 9781350060425
RRP: £29.99£27.46PLEASE NOTE that due to the previous text options being set for an extra exam year (summer 2021 for AS; summer 2022 for A Level) the dates given in the title, on the cover and inside this book are incorrect. An errata slip has been included. ----- ... -
My Ideal Bookshelf by Thessaly La Force
RRP: £20.00£17.33The books that we choose to keep--let alone read--can say a lot about who we are and how we see ourselves. In MY IDEAL BOOKSHELF, dozens of leading cultural figures share the books that matter to them most-books that define their dreams and ambitions and... -
Cottongrass Summer: Essays of a naturalist throughout the year Roy Dennis 9781912235889
RRP: £9.99£7.00A collection of vibrant essays to inform, stimulate and inspire every nature lover. Through unparallelled expertise as a field naturalist, Roy Dennis is able to write about the natural world in a way that considers both the problems and the progress in... -
Journey with Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet by Eavan Boland 9781857545418
RRP: £16.95£12.05A Journey with Two Maps begins with an anecdote: one afternoon, Eavan Boland saw one of her mother's paintings for sale in a gallery, signed by her famous teacher. It is the starting point for an exploration of concepts of art and womanhood, of what it... -
Scripta Minora by Xenophon
RRP: £24.95£23.76A miscellany of minor works.Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BC) was a wealthy Athenian and friend of Socrates. He left Athens in 401 and joined an expedition including ten thousand Greeks led by the Persian governor Cyrus against the Persian king... -
How to Be Healthy: An Ancient Guide to Wellness by Katherine D. Van Schaik 9780691206271
RRP: £14.99£12.34Timeless wisdom about how to be healthy in body and mind from one of the greatest physicians of the ancient worldThe second-century Greek physician Galen-the most famous doctor in antiquity after Hippocrates-is a central figure in Western medicine. A... -
Van Gogh's Letters: The Mind of the Artist in Paintings, Drawings, and Words, 1875-1890 by H. Anna Suh
£20.08A beautiful, one-of-a-kind collection of more than 150 of Van Gogh's letters, paired with more than 250 works of art.Vincent Van Gogh wrote hundreds of letters to his brother Theo, as well as to family members and fellow artists including Paul Gauguin... -
The Interesting Narrative by Olaudah Equiano
RRP: £10.99£7.99'I hope the slave trade may be abolished. I pray it may be an event at hand.' Published a few days before the British parliament first debated the abolition of the slave trade in 1789, Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative gives the author's account... -
A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast Dorthe Nors 9781782277958
RRP: £16.99£12.28There is a line that stretches from the northernmost tip of Denmark to where the Wadden Sea meets Holland in the south-west. Dorthe Nors, one of Denmark's most acclaimed contemporary writers, grew up on this line; a native Jutlander, her childhood was... -
Selected Essays, Poems and Other Writings by A. S. Byatt
RRP: £14.99£10.95The works collected in this volume provide an illuminating introduction to George Eliot's incisive views on religion, art and science, and the nature and purpose of fiction. Essays such as 'Evangelical Teaching' show her rejecting her earlier religious... -
On Women: A new collection of feminist essays from the influential writer, activist and critic, Susan Sontag by Susan Sontag
RRP: £16.99£13.08'A brilliant, glittering intelligence' Sunday TimesOn Women brings together Susan Sontag's most fearless and incisive writing on women, a crucial aspect of her work that has not until now received the attention it deserves.For the most part written in... -
Something in the Water: Fictions by Luke O'Neil
RRP: £14.99£10.14A Creature Wanting Form is a bleakly funny work of fiction from a journalist widely celebrated for his wry, mordant take on life. Filtered through the lens of a writer and characters who are horrified by the earth's looming mortality, and their own, but... -
The Speeches by Aeschines
RRP: £24.95£23.76An adversarial advocate.Aeschines, orator and statesman of Athens, 390 or 389-314 BC, became active in politics about 350. In 348 he was a member of a mission sent to the Peloponnese to stir up feeling against the growing power of King Philip of Macedon;... -
The Portable Enlightenment Reader by Isaac Kramnick
RRP: £12.99£9.74The Age of Enlightenment of the 18th century, also called the Age of Reason, was so named for an intellectual movement that shook the foundations of Western civilization. In championing radical ideas such as individual liberty and an empirical appraisal... -
An Apartment in Uranus by Paul B. Preciado
RRP: £12.99£8.80Uranus is the coldest planet in the solar system, a frozen giant named after a Greek deity. It is also the inspiration for Uranism, a concept coined by the writer Karl Heinrich Ulrichs in 1864 to define the 'third sex' and the rights of those who 'love... -
Mouthful of Birds: LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE, 2019 by Samanta Schweblin 9781786076694
RRP: £8.99£6.65A SPELLBINDINGLY CREEPY COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES, FROM AN ARGENTINIAN LITERARY STAR 'The Grimm brothers and Franz Kafka pay a visit to Argentina in Samanta Schweblin's darkly humorous tales.' J.M. Coetzee Spine-tingling and unexpected,... -
The Handbook to Literary Research by W. R. Owens 9780415485005
RRP: £37.99£33.38The Handbook to Literary Research is a practical guide for students embarking on postgraduate work in Literary Studies. It introduces and explains research techniques, methodologies and approaches to information resources, paying careful attention to the... -
Poetics: WITH On the Sublime AND On Style by Aristotle
RRP: £24.95£23.76Classic criticism.This volume brings together the three most influential ancient Greek treatises on literature.Aristotle's Poetics contains his treatment of Greek tragedy: its history, nature, and conventions, with details on poetic diction. Stephen...