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Things that Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science by Lorraine J. Daston
RRP: £22.00£17.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951443Author Lorraine J. DastonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Tennis Whites and Teacakes by John Betjeman 9780719569043
RRP: £10.99£7.40Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Geography: v. 5 by Strabo
RRP: £24.95£23.39The ecumene in prose.Strabo (ca. 64 BC to ca. AD 25), an Asiatic Greek of Amasia in Pontus, studied at Nysa and after 44 BC at Rome. He became a keen traveler who saw a large part of Italy, various near eastern regions including the Black Sea, ... -
We Have Only This Life To Live by Jean-Paul Sartre
RRP: £23.00£15.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590174937Author Jean-Paul SartreFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Who Loses, Who Wins: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume Two 1979-2014 by Kenneth Rose 9781474610582
RRP: £30.00£19.80Kenneth Rose was one of the most astute observers of the post-war Establishment. The wry and amusing journals of the royal biographer and historian made objective observation a sculpted craft. His impeccable social placement located him within the... -
Rome: The Passenger by Various
RRP: £18.99£12.83The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, and reportage from around the world. Its aim, to break down barriers and introduce the essence of the place. Packed with essays and investigative journalism; original photography and... -
How Should One Read a Book? by Virginia Woolf
RRP: £7.99£5.60'Where are we to begin? How are we to bring order into this multitudinous chaos and so get the deepest and widest pleasure from what we read?'Published for the first time as a standalone volume, Virginia Woolf's short, impassioned essay, How Should One... -
Montaigne: A Very Short Introduction by William M. Hamlin
RRP: £8.99£6.45The French author Michel de Montaigne is widely regarded as the founder and greatest practitioner of the personal essay. A member of the minor aristocracy, he worked as a judicial investigator, served as mayor of Bordeaux, and sought to bring stability... -
Seduction and Betrayal by Elizabeth Hardwick 9780571347001
RRP: £10.99£7.32ONE OF THE WHITE REVIEW'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019Elizabeth Hardwick's iconic essay collection Seduction and Betrayal is a radical portrait of women and literature, reissued with a new introduction by Deborah Levy.'Hardwick's sentences are burned in my brain.'... -
Who's In, Who's Out: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume One 1944-1979 by Kenneth Rose 9781474601542
RRP: £30.00£20.40'The most detailed, amusing and accurate account ever of the post-war world of the English Establishment' William Shawcross, Daily Telegraph'Extremely entertaining' Jane Ridley, Literary ReviewKenneth Rose was one of the most astute observers of the... -
Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy by George Gilder
RRP: £12.99£8.18A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTH FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: "Nothing Mr. Gilder says or writes is ever delivered at anything less than the fullest philosophical decibel... Mr. Gilder sounds less like a tech guru than a poet, and his words tumble... -
The Harlem Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction by Cheryl A. Wall 9780199335558
RRP: £8.99£6.45The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural awakening among African Americans between the two world wars. It was the cultural phase of the "New Negro" movement, a social and political phenomenon that promoted a proud racial identity, economic independence, and... -
Not to Read by Alejandro Zambra
RRP: £12.99£8.56In Not to Read, Alejandro Zambra outlines his own particular theory of reading that also offers a kind of blurry self-portrait, or literary autobiography. Whether writing about Natalia Ginzburg, typewriters and computers, Paul Leautaud, or how to be... -
Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H. W. Bush by Geoff Dyer
RRP: £10.99£7.32In November 2011, Geoff Dyer fulfilled a childhood dream of spending time on an aircraft carrier. Dyer's stay on the USS George Bush, on active service in the Arabian Gulf, proved even more intense, memorable, and frequently hilarious, than he could ever... -
Chronicles of a Liquid Society by Umberto Eco
RRP: £12.99£9.09Discover the final book from one of Europe's cultural giants.In this entertaining collection of essays about the modern world the celebrated author of The Name of the Rose explores everything from unbridled individualism to mobile phones.'He brilliantly... -
The Athenian Empire by Robin Osborne 9781009383646
RRP: £15.99£14.28This volume in the LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History series offers a generous selection of primary texts on the Athenian Empire in new English translations, with accompanying maps, tables and figures, a glossary and short contextualising introductory... -
Frantumaglia by Elena Ferrante
RRP: £11.99£7.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609454326Author Elena FerranteFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint Europa EditionsPublisher Europa Editions -
Endurance: 100 Tales of Survival, Adventure and Exploration by Levison Wood 9781801102575
RRP: £20.00£14.29100 of the most astonishing stories of human survival, adventure and exploration, chosen by Levison Wood. We are always captivated by tales of courage and bravery, of world-firsts and death-defying experiences. In this anthology, explorer and... -
Bacchae and Other Plays by Euripides
RRP: £9.99£7.43Iphigenia among the Taurians Bacchae Iphigenia at Aulis Rhesus The four plays newly translated in this volume are among Euripides' most exciting works. Iphigenia among the Taurians is a story of escape and contrasting Greek and barbarian... -
Long Players: Writers on the Albums That Shaped Them by Tom Gatti
RRP: £8.99£6.45In Long Players, fifty of our finest authors write about the albums that changed their lives, from Deborah Levy on Bowie to Daisy Johnson on Lizzo, Ben Okri on Miles Davis to David Mitchell on Joni Mitchell, Sarah Perry on Rachmaninov to Bernardine... -
Killer Moms: 16 Bizarre True Crime Stories of Murderous Moms by Jack Rosewood 9781648450631
RRP: £9.95£7.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648450631Author Jack RosewoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Lak PublishingPublisher Lak PublishingWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Complete Poems and Translations by Christopher Marlowe
RRP: £11.99£8.43This unique anthology offers a more comprehensive look at the poems of Christopher Marlowe, England's first great poet and playwright.About the AuthorChristopher Marlowe (1564-1593) was born in Canterbury the year of Shakespeare's birth. He wrote seven... -
The Nightfisherman: Selected Letters of W.S. Graham by W. S. Graham 9781857544459
RRP: £18.95£13.36William Sydney Graham (1918-1986) was born in Greenock, Scotland, `beside the sugar house quays' - a setting open to the sea. He remained a Celt, moving from Scotland to Cornwall where he found seascapes without urban clutter, just an occasional ruined... -
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror by Joe Vallese
RRP: £18.99£16.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952177798Author Joe ValleseFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The City... -
The David Foster Wallace Reader by David Foster Wallace
RRP: £16.99£12.68'One of the most dazzling luminaries of contemporary American fiction' Sunday Times 'The most commanding and exciting and inventive rhetorical virtuosity of any writer alive... [He] nailed it like nobody else ever had' Jonathan Franzen'[He was] first... -
The People Look Like Flowers At Last: New Poems by Charles Bukowski
RRP: £9.99£6.64the gas line is leaking, the bird is gone from the cage, the skyline is dotted with vultures; Benny finally got off the stuff and Betty now has a job as a waitress; and the chimney sweep was quite delicate as he giggled up through the soot. I walked... -
The Waves by Virginia Woolf 9780199642922
RRP: £7.99£5.79'I, who would wish to feel close over me the protective waves of the ordinary, catch with the tail of my eye some far horizon.' Intensely visionary yet absorbed with the everyday; experimental, daring and challenging, The Waves is regarded by many as... -
Alchemy: Writers on Truth, Lies and Fiction by Joanna Kavenna 9781910749166
RRP: £14.99£13.64Reality versus fiction is at the heart of the current literary debate. We live in a world of docu-drama, the 'real life' story. Works of art, novels, films, are frequently bolstered by reference to the autobiography of the creator, or to underlying 'fact... -
Why I Write by George Orwell 9781913724290
RRP: £5.00£4.42George 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... -
By-Line by Ernest Hemingway
RRP: £10.99£7.77Ernest Hemingway's literary apprenticeship was served in journalism, a career that he pursued for over four decades. From his early work as a correspondent for the Toronto Star in Europe during the 1920s, through his inimitable articles for Esquire and... -
Dead Zone: Where the Wild Things Were by Philip Lymbery
RRP: £12.99£9.09'An honest, compelling and important account, and a critical plea for a fusion of farming, food and nature to provide global ecological security' CHRIS PACKHAM Why are so many animals facing extinction? Climate change and poaching are not the only... -
Obvious Adams: The Story of a Successful Businessman by Robert R Updegraff 9780990790914
RRP: £8.95£7.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990790914Author Robert R UpdegraffFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Fun Way Learning Company, Inc.Publisher Fun Way Learning Company, Inc... -
Samuel Johnson: The Yale Anthology of His Prose and Poetry by Samuel Johnson
RRP: £32.50£29.15An anthology of the essential and enduring works of Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson was eighteenth-century Britain's preeminent man of letters-moral and literary critic, biographer, lexicographer, and poet-and his influence endures to this day. This... -
The Communicating Vessels: Two Portraits of Grief by Friederike Mayroecker by Mayrocker Friederike
RRP: £12.99£8.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998267586Author Mayrocker FriederikeFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint A Public SpacePublisher A Public Space -
Dear Mr. You by Mary-Louise Parker 9781501107849
RRP: £16.00£10.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501107849Author Mary -Louise ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams)... -
The Complete Poems of C.P. Cavafy by Daniel Mendelsohn
RRP: £25.00£18.62The complete Cavafy poems - including the unfinished works - in a stunning new translation. From the acclaimed author of 'The Lost', a translation that scales new heights in modern poetic rendering. With a masterful eye for irony and an ear... -
The Bloodied Nightgown: And Other Essays by Joan Acocella 9780374608095
RRP: £24.99£16.78Joan Acocella, "one of our finest cultural critics" (Edward Hirsch), has the rare ability to examine literature and unearth the lives contained within it - its authors, its subjects, and the communities from which it sprung. In her hands, arts criticism... -
Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza by John Daido Loori 9780861713943
RRP: £12.99£8.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861713943Author John Daido LooriFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S. -
Kilometer 101 by Maxim Osipov
RRP: £16.99£10.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376868Author Maxim OsipovFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Still Life with a Bridle by Zbigniew Herbert 9781907903496
RRP: £12.00£9.72A gathering of artful essays by one of Poland's most translated post-war writers is here brought to a new audience. Poet and essayist Zbigniew Herbert takes an intriguing look at the cultural, artistic, and aesthetic legacy of 17th-century Holland. These...