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Notes Towards the Definition of Culture by T. S. Eliot
RRP: £10.99£7.54'The term culture ... includes all the characteristic activities and interests of a people; Derby Day, Henley Regatta, Cowes, the twelfth of August, a cup final, the dog races, the pin table, the dart board, Wensleydale cheese, boiled cabbage cut into... -
New Inventions and the Latest Innovations Gaston de Pawlowski 9781939663986
RRP: £13.99£11.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939663986Author Gaston de PawlowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Wakefield PressPublisher Wakefield Press -
Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin
RRP: £12.99£8.80How to speak of the searing, unpindownable power that the past - ours, our family's, our culture's - wields in the present? In five long sections, Maria Tumarkin's Axiomatic tells true and intimate stories of a community dealing with the extended... -
In the Footsteps of the Brontes by George Sheeran
RRP: £15.99£10.85The lives and works of the celebrated Bronte family are so ingrained in our cultural psyche that we think we know them inside out - but walking in the footsteps of the literary greats and their characters offers a new perspective on their work. Our... -
Return of the Primitive: the Anti-Industrial Revolution: The Anti-Industrial Revolution by Peter Schwartz 9780452011847
£14.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452011847Author Ayn RandFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Self-Help by Samuel Smiles
RRP: £9.99£7.32'The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the true source of national vigour and strength.' A bestseller immediately after its publication in 1859, Self-Help... -
Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope
RRP: £12.99£9.34There was a power of endurance about her, and a courage that was almost awful. Did Lady Mason forge a codicil to her husband's will, allowing Orley Farm to pass to her son or not? Orley Farm centres on this case of forgery, and the anguish and guilt... -
The Wisdom of the Native Americans by Kent Nerburn 9781577310792
RRP: £14.99£11.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781577310792Author Kent NerburnFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library -
The Bolivian Diary by Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
RRP: £9.99£7.32'Guevara was a figure of epic proportions. These diaries, stark and moving, will be his most enduring monument' ObserverThe final diaries of Che Guevara begin in 1966, when he travelled to Bolivia to foment a revolution, and end just two days before his... -
What's in a Name?: Friendship, Identity and History in Modern Multicultural Britain by Sheela Banerjee 9781529367591
RRP: £18.99£12.94A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR'A brilliantly enlightening book . . . at times moving, at others ironic, full of insights and detail'Michael Rosen'A kaleidoscopic portrait of the UK . . . with insight and compassion'Irish TimesOur names are so mundane... -
Selected Poems by Robert Burns
RRP: £8.99£6.65This selection gives equal weight to the two aspects of Robert Burns's reputation, as a lyricist and as a much-loved Scottish poet. Placing works in probable order of composition, it includes lyrics to his most well known songs, such as the nostalgic... -
Mouse or Rat?: Translation as Negotiation by Umberto Eco
RRP: £9.99£7.00From the world-famous author of THE NAME OF THE ROSE, an illuminating and humorous study on the pleasures and pitfalls of translation.'Translation is always a shift, not between two languages but between two cultures. A translator must take into account... -
Inside Vogue: My Diary Of Vogue's 100th Year by Alexandra Shulman
RRP: £12.99£9.00The secret diary of Vogue Editor-in-Chief Alexandra Shulman and the real story behind the BBC ABSOLUTELY FASHION documentary.'One of the great social diaries of our time . . . should become a classic.' Sunday Times'Eye-popping, brilliantly candid'... -
This Book Loves You Pewdiepie 9781405924382
RRP: £14.99£11.51This book is cleverer and better looking than you.This book will blow your mind.This book loves you.This Book Loves You is a collection of beautifully illustrated inspirational sayings by which you should live your life. If you follow each and every one,... -
Tell Everyone on This Train I Love Them by Maeve Higgins
RRP: £11.99£8.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143135869Author Maeve HigginsFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Letters of Pliny: A Selection by Carl Hope
RRP: £12.99£12.05This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin A-Level (Group 2) prescription of Pliny, Letters 1.9; 3.16; 4.2; 4.19; 8.8; 8.16; 8.17; 9.6, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary, with a detailed introduction that also covers the... -
Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters by Marilyn Monroe 9780374533786
RRP: £36.00£22.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374533786Author Marilyn MonroeFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)... -
Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald by Jonathan Bate
RRP: £25.00£22.19A 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,... -
Hippocratic Writings by Hippocrates
RRP: £12.99£9.34This work is a sampling of the Hippocratic Corpus, a collection of ancient Greek medical works. At the beginning, and interspersed throughout, there are discussions on the philosophy of being a physician. There is a large section about how to treat limb... -
Useful Work v. Useless Toil by William Morris
RRP: £7.99£5.98Visionary English Socialist and pioneer of the Arts and Crafts movement, William Morris argued that all work should be a source of pride and satisfaction, and that everyone should be entitled to beautiful surroundings - no matter what their class... -
The Lunatics Have Taken Over the Asylum: Political Letters to The Daily Telegraph Iain Hollingshead 9781472121547
RRP: £14.99£10.05Telegraph letter writers, that most astute body of political commentators, are probably not alone in thinking that politics has taken some strange turns in recent years. The first coalition government since 1945 has led the country from the subprime to... -
On Writing by Jorge Luis Borges
RRP: £16.00£10.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143105725Author Jorge Luis BorgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 153gDimensions(mm) 196mm *... -
And Yet...: Essays by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: £10.99£7.54A Sunday Times bestsellerChristopher Hitchens was an unparalleled, prolific writer, who raised the polemical essay to a new art form, over a lifetime of thinking and debating the defining issues of our times. As an essayist he contributed to the New... -
Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape by Jay Griffiths 9780141039459
RRP: £16.99£12.47From Jay Griffiths, the author of the award-winning Wild comes a passionate polemic defence of childhood 'Her work isn't just good -- it's necessary' Philip PullmanIn Kith, Jay Griffiths seeks to discover why we deny our children the freedoms of space,... -
The Portable Thoreau by Henry Thoreau
RRP: £14.99£10.95Self-described as 'a mystic, a transcendentalist, and a natural philosopher to boot', Henry David Thoreau dedicated his life to preserving his freedom as a man and as an artist. Nature was the fountainhead of his inspiration and his refuge from what he... -
Boxwallah by Timothy Wilkinson 9781784566548
£16.38Tim Wilkinson was born in Liverpool in 1951 and was educated at Merchant Taylorsa School, Crosby, then at Robert Gordona s College in Aberdeen. After graduating with an M.A. (Hons) in English at Aberdeen University, he then spent his entire career... -
Discourses: v. 1: Bks.I & II by Epictetus
RRP: £24.95£23.76From slave to sage.Epictetus was a crippled Greek slave of Phrygia during Nero's reign (AD 54-68) who heard lectures by the Stoic Musonius before he was freed. Expelled with other philosophers by the emperor Domitian in 89 or 92, he settled permanently... -
Why Read: Selected Writings 2001 - 2021 by Will Self
RRP: £16.99£12.28'Will Self may not be the last modernist at work but at the moment he's the most fascinating of the tradition's torch bearers.' New YorkFrom one of the most unusual and distinctive writers working today, dubbed 'the most daring and delightful novelist of... -
black girl, no magic: essays and reflections on living whilst black by Kimberly McIntosh
RRP: £16.99£11.27'This book is a glowing achievement by one of the best essayists of her generation' Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff 'Witty, fresh and full of life' Liv Little 'I can't... -
Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays by Susan Sontag
RRP: £12.00£8.68Susan Sontag's third essay collection brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980. In these provocative and hugely influential works she explores some of the most controversial artists and thinkers of our time, including her... -
Reflections On Exile: And Other Literary And Cultural Essays by Edward W. Said
RRP: £16.99£11.98With their powerful blend of political and aesthetic concerns, Edward W. Said's writings have transformed the field of literary studies. As in the title essay, the widely admired "Reflections on Exile," the fact of his own exile and the fate of the... -
The Secrets of the Notebook: A royal love affair and a woman's quest to uncover her incredible family secret by Eve Haas
RRP: £9.99£7.32The incredible true story revealed by a family notebook, telling of four daughters across two centuries of turbulent history, of a passionate and ill-fated royal love affair, ending in a tragic and cruel death. 'The beautiful owner of this... -
John Keats: Major Works by John Keats
RRP: £12.99£9.34This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Keats's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by a... -
The Ultimate Christmas Cracker John Julius Norwich 9781529324938
RRP: £9.99£7.00In 1969, John Julius Norwich, the legendary popular historian, gathered together the favourite things he'd come across in the last 365 days into one short charming pamphlet. Initially just a treat for his friends, it rapidly turned into a huge... -
A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020) by David Sedaris 9780316301183
RRP: £45.00£34.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316301183Author David SedarisFormat HardbackPage Count 848Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Why I Write by George Orwell 9781913724290
RRP: £5.00£4.59George Orwell set out 'to make political writing into an art', and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature - his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding... -
The Final Retreat by Stephen Hough 9781909631281
RRP: £14.00£9.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909631281Author Stephen HoughFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint Sylph EditionsPublisher Sylph Editions -
A Single Swallow by Zhang Ling
RRP: £8.99£6.32The eagerly awaited English translation of award-winning author Zhang Ling's epic and intimate novel about the devastation of war, forgiveness, redemption, and the enduring power of love. On the day of the historic 1945 Jewel Voice Broadcast-in which... -
The Book of Emma Reyes: A Memoir in Correspondence by Emma Reyes
RRP: £10.99£7.61In this startlingly original memoir, composed of twenty-three letters written over the course of thirty years, Emma Reyes describes in vivid, painterly detail the remarkable courage and limitless imagination of a young girl growing up with nothing... -
The Great Fire of London by Samuel Pepys
RRP: £3.00£2.63'With one's face in the wind you were almost burned with a shower of Firedrops'A selection from Pepys' startlingly vivid and candid diary, including his famous account of the Great FireIntroducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th...