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Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson 9780241951583
RRP: £9.99£7.11Journalist, maverick, rebel and author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson offers another novel of American counterculture in Hell's Angels, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.'A phalanx of motorcycles came... -
Vita and Harold: The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson 1919-1962 by Nigel Nicolson
RRP: £12.99£8.60The classic story of the relationship between Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, and a unique portrait of the Bloomsbury Group.'Vita and Harold have become part of our literature' OBSERVERThe marriage of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson was... -
Letters: v. 1: Bks.I-VII by Pliny the Younger
RRP: £24.95£23.39Correspondence from a distinguished and eventful life.The Younger Pliny was born in AD 61 or 62, the son of Lucius Caecilius of Comum (Como) and the Elder Pliny's sister. He was educated at home and then in Rome under Quintilian. He was at Misenum at the... -
By the Fire: Sami Folktales and Legends by Emilie Demant Hatt 9781517904579
£15.90The first English publication of Sami folktales from Scandinavia collected and illustrated in the early twentieth century Although versions of tales about wizards and magical reindeer from northern Scandinavia are found in European folk and fairytale... -
Love Letters of Great Men and Women by Ursula Doyle
RRP: £9.99£7.27From the private papers of Jane Austen and Mozart to those of Anne Boleyn and Nelson, Love Letters of Great Men and Women collects together some of the most romantic letters in history. For some of these great men, love is a 'delicious poison' (William... -
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9781009285872
RRP: £21.99£21.89This eighteenth and final volume in the Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald is a variorum edition of The Great Gatsby (1925), the author's masterpiece. The variorum text is based on multiple witnesses including the extant holograph of... -
Humans: An A-Z by Matt Haig
RRP: £7.99£5.46DO YOU A) Know a human? B) Love a human? C) Have trouble dealing with humans?IF YOU'VE ANSWERED YES TO ANY OF THE ABOVE, THIS BOOK IS FOR YOUWhether you are planning a high level of human... -
A Year and a Day: An Experiment in Essays by Phillip Lopate 9781681377780
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681377780Author Phillip LopateFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Indonesian Stories for Language Learners: Traditional Stories in Indonesia and English (Online Audio Included) by Katherine Davidsen
RRP: £15.99£10.93This diverse anthology of traditional tales from across the Indonesian archipelago includes short stories, origin myths, historical legends, poetry, diary entries, news reports and dialogues. Each of the 20 stories is presented in parallel English and... -
The Essential Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
RRP: £12.99£9.09Translated by Peter ConstantineEdited and with a new introduction by Leo Damrosch'Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains' is the dramatic opening line of The Social Contract, published in 1762. Quoted by politicians and philosophers alike, the... -
Poems by Sextus Propertius 9781784106515
£13.33The Poetry Book Society Autumn 2018 Recommended Translation. Asked to name the great Latin love poets, today's reader is likely to offer Catullus, Ovid, Virgil, Horace. Propertius, a successor of the first and influential peer to the others, has not... -
Piers of the Homeless Night by Jack Kerouac
RRP: £3.00£2.49'See my hand up-tipped, learn the secret of my human heart...'Soaring, freewheeling snapshots of life on the road across America, from the Beat writer who inspired a generation.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the... -
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way by Bill Bryson 9780380715435
RRP: £17.99£10.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780380715435Author Bill BrysonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Avon BooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 198mm *... -
Selected Letters by Madame Sevigne
RRP: £12.99£9.09One of the world's greatest correspondents, Madame de Sevigne (1626-96) paints an extraordinarily vivid picture of France at the time of Louis XIV, in eloquent letters written throughout her life to family and friends. A significant figure in French... -
Essence Of T'ai Chi Ch'uan by Benjamin Pang Jeng Lo
RRP: £13.99£9.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913028636Author Benjamin Pang Jeng LoFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Letters of Note: Sex by Shaun Usher
RRP: £7.99£5.46In Letters of Note: Sex, Shaun Usher collects together some of the most noteworthy missives ever written on the subject, from euphemism-laden, flirtatious exchanges and desire-driven expressions of passion to sincere and thoughtful meditations on the... -
Letters of Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
RRP: £25.00£14.69At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter-writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and he was to become a prolific master of this art which combines writing and talking. This selection begins when Hughes was... -
The Diary of John Evelyn by John Eve
RRP: £18.99£14.61Sometimes overshadowed by his friend and contemporary, Samuel Pepys, Evelyn is the other great English diarist. He was a scholar, a scientific amateur, a garden designer and architect, and a founder member of the Royal Society who published a magisterial... -
Iphigenia Among the Taurians by Euripides
RRP: £10.00£8.15I am Iphigenia, daughter of the daughter of Tyndareus My father killed me Few contemporary poets elicit such powerful responses from readers and critics as Anne Carson. The New York Times Book Review calls her work "personal, necessary, and important,"... -
Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin by Clive James 9781529028850
RRP: £9.99£7.27Erudite and entertaining in equal measure, Somewhere Becoming Rain is a love letter from the much-loved writer Clive James to one of the world's most cherished poets: Philip Larkin.'This is the finest critic of his generation on the best poet of his... -
Essays In Love by Alain de Botton 9781035038589
RRP: £10.99£7.51'De Botton is a national treasure.' - Susan Hill, author of The Woman in BlackA unique love story and a classic work of philosophy, rooted in the mysterious workings of the human heart and mind.Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there... -
Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism and Minding Other People's Business by Roxane Gay 9781472158635
RRP: £25.00£16.38'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... -
Walking on Lava: Selected Works for Uncivilised Times by Dougald Hine 9781603587419
RRP: £20.00£13.35The Dark Mountain Project began with a manifesto published in 2009 by two English writers-Dougald Hine and Paul Kingsnorth-who felt that literature was not responding honestly to the crises of our time. In a world in which the climate is being altered... -
On Drinking by Charles Bukowski
RRP: £12.99£8.48The definitive collection of works on a subject that inspired and haunted Charles Bukowski for his entire life: alcohol Charles Bukowski turns to the bottle in this revelatory collection of poetry and prose that includes some of the writer's best and... -
History's Greatest Speeches by James Daley 9780486497396
RRP: £8.49£4.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486497396Author James DaleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 178gDimensions(mm)... -
Nothing Good Can Come from This: Essays by Kristi Coulter 9780374286200
RRP: £11.99£7.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374286200Author Kristi CoulterFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)... -
OK, Let's Do Your Stupid Idea by Patrick Freyne
RRP: £8.99£6.45LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2021'One of the year's funniest books' i Paper'Funny, smart, soulful and sometimes devastating ... It made me laugh and cry' EMILIE PINE, author of Notes to Self_______________Patrick Freyne has tried a lot of... -
Lost Island: Plus three stories and an afterword by Barbara Newhall Follett 9780996243148
RRP: £21.95£16.48Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The John Lennon Letters: Edited and with an Introduction by Hunter Davies by John Lennon
RRP: £12.99£8.60A 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... -
Peacock and Vine: Fortuny and Morris in Life and at Work by A. S. Byatt
RRP: £16.99£12.28This ravishing book opens a window onto the lives, designs, and passions of two charismatic artists. Born a generation apart, they were seeming opposites: Mariano Fortuny, a Spanish aristocrat thrilled by the sun-baked cultures of Crete and Knossos;... -
I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World by Kai Cheng Thom
RRP: £15.99£9.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551527758Author Kai Cheng ThomFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp PressWeight(grams) 222g -
The Essential Tales Of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 9781862073005
RRP: £10.99£7.32In this extraordinary collection of twenty tales, Richard Ford, a master short-story writer in his own right, has selected his personal favourites from among more than two hundred of Chekhov's tales and novellas. Included are the familiar masterpieces... -
Living Rooms by Sam Johnson-Schlee 9781913512194
RRP: £10.99£7.40"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... -
King Henry V by William Shakespeare
RRP: £9.99£8.17The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with... -
What If We Stopped Pretending? by Jonathan Franzen
RRP: £7.99£5.41The climate crisis is here. Our chance to stop it has come and gone, but this doesn't have to mean the world is ending. 'If you care about the planet, and about the people and animals who live on it, there are two... -
The Book of Awesome by Neil Pasricha
RRP: £19.00£11.55Based on the award-winning 10-million-plus-hit blog 1000 Awesome Things, The Book of Awesome is an international bestselling high five for humanity and a big celebration of life's little moments.Sometimes it's easy to forget the things that make us smile... -
Wales' Unknown Hero: Soldier, Spy, Monk: The life of Henry Coombe-Tennant, MC, of Neath by Bernard Lewis 9781912631339
RRP: £12.99£11.78The astonishing story of Henry Coombe-Tennant (1913-89), who served in the British Army in World War II, escaping from a POW camp, joining Special Forces and aiding the French Resistance, before working for the British Secret Service in Baghdad and... -
A Bit on the Side by William Trevor
RRP: £15.99£11.61A Bit on the Side - Twelve remarkable stories by the master storyteller William Trevor'Compassionate, poignant, even heart-rending. Almost perfect works of art by perhaps the greatest short story writer now working in English' Sunday IndependentWilliam... -
The Heart of Things: An Anthology of Memory and Lament by Richard Holloway
RRP: £16.99£11.58Richard Holloway is one of our most beloved public thinkers. As Bishop of Edinburgh and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church he put principle over Church policy to advocate for gay rights and women in the priesthood. He never shied away from... -
Love That Story: Observations from a Gorgeously Queer Life by Jonathan Van Ness 9781398500501
RRP: £9.99£6.41Queer Eye star Jonathan Van Ness dives into his favourite subjects in Love That Story, a collection of heartfelt and entertaining essays. From experiencing heartbreaking grief to uncovering the hidden LGBTQ history of his hometown, Quincy, from...