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Waking The Dragons: Norse Myth, Folklore, Runes and Magic by Andreas Kornevall 9781739973384
RRP: £12.99£9.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739973384Author Andreas KornevallFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Green Magic PublishingPublisher Green Magic Publishing -
In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination by Margaret Atwood
RRP: £10.99£7.61From her days as a child reader in the 1940s, through her time at Harvard, where she studied the Victorian ancestors of the form, and later as a writer and reviewer, Margaret Atwood has always been fascinated with science fiction. Here she brings... -
Diary by Witold Gombrowicz
£20.39A single-volume edition of Diary, Gombrowicz's acclaimed masterpiece, now with previously unpublished pages restored Just before the outbreak of World War II, young Witold Gombrowicz left his home in Poland and set sail for South America. In 1953,... -
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... -
As Good as a Marriage: The Anne Lister Diaries 1836–38 by Jill Liddington
RRP: £25.00£18.60The BBC and HBO series Gentleman Jack brought Anne Lister to international attention, awakening tremendous interest in her diaries, which run to nearly five million words and are partly written in her secret code. They record in intimate detail Anne's... -
Meditations: with selected correspondence by Marcus Aurelius
RRP: £8.99£6.70'Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to live ... while you have life in you, while you still can, make yourself good.' The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) is a private notebook of philosophical reflections, written by a Roman... -
Killer Moms: 16 Bizarre True Crime Stories of Murderous Moms by Jack Rosewood 9781648450631
RRP: £9.95£7.42Apologies 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 *... -
Love Letters of Great Men by Ursula Doyle
RRP: £16.99£12.28From the private papers of Mark Twain and Mozart to those of Robert Browning and Nelson, Love Letters of Great Men collects together some of the most romantic letters in history. For some of these great men, love is a 'delicious poison' (William... -
My Brother's Keeper: James Joyce's Early Years by Stanislaus Joyce
RRP: £13.99£10.01Stanislaus Joyce was more than his brother's keeper: he was at various times his brother's co-dependent, touchstone, conscience, and biggest fan. The two shared the same genius, the same childhood influences, and had the same literary instinct, but in... -
Self Mastery and Fate with the Cycles of Life: How Cosmic Energy Affects Cyclical Change in Human Life and Health by H Spencer Lewis 9780359045228
RRP: £8.97£8.15In this work, H. Spencer Lewis leads an investigation and discussion on the cyclical hidden forces which work to alter and affect our lives each day. Notable within the occult movement for his research and accounts of forces unknown, Lewis pioneered a... -
Black is the Body: Stories From My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine by Emily Bernard
RRP: £14.99£9.78A New Statesman essential non-fiction read of 2021'Everybody should read [this]' Stylist"Blackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays, but its... -
Remarkable Minds: A Celebration of the Reith Lectures BBC Radio 4 9781472262295
RRP: £12.99£8.83IDEAS THAT HAVE THE POWER TO CHANGE THE WORLDThe best of an extraordinary 70 year archive, gathered in one volume for the first time. The prestigious BBC Reith Lectures have been enriching the world with new ideas since 1948. Every year, a world-leading... -
The Poems by Sextus Propertius
RRP: £8.99£6.65Of all the great classical love poets, Propertius (c. 50-10 BC) is surely one of those with most immediate appeal for readers today. His helpless infatuation for the sinister figure of his mistress Cynthia forms the main subject of his poetry and is... -
Orwell on Truth by George Orwell
RRP: £14.99£11.11A selection of George Orwell's prescient, clear-eyed and stimulating writing on the subjects of truth and lies. With an introduction by Alan Johnson.'Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two equals four. If that is granted, all else follows.'This... -
I Choose Elena by Lucia Osborne-Crowley
RRP: £8.99£6.39Aged 15 and on track to be an Olympic gymnast, Lucia Osborne-Crowley was violently raped on a night out. The injuries she sustained that evening ended her gymnastics career, and eventually manifested in life-long chronic illnesses, which medical... -
Louder & Funnier by P. G. Wodehouse
RRP: £12.99£9.34In these articles first produced for magazines and substantially rewritten for book publication, Wodehouse reveals his enduring brilliance as a comic writer of non-fiction. But the move out of fiction does not mean a move into unfamiliar territory: any... -
Rhuddin by Laura Karadog 9781911584513
£10.16An original and unique volume in the Welsh language presenting essays and brand new poems on themes relating to yoga and mindfulness.ReviewsGeiriau o Lyfr Du Caerfyrddin sydd yn yr isdeitl, ac adlais o gerdd gan Waldo ac o lythyr Paul at y Rhufeinaid yn... -
The Meeting: An Auschwitz Survivor Confronts an SS Physician by David G. Roskies 9780815606048
RRP: £16.95£13.89Fifty years after the war Dagmar Ostermann, a former prisoner at Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Hans Wilhelm Muinch, former Nazi and SS physician, talk face to face.In this rare interview Muinch-the only SS member acquitted during the 1947 Cracow war crimes... -
Eirik the Red and other Icelandic Sagas by Gwyn Jones
RRP: £7.99£6.03The remote and inhospitable landscape of Iceland made it a perfect breeding-ground for heroes. The first Norsemen to colonize it in 860 found that the fight for survival demanded high courage and tough self reliance; it also nurtured a stern sense of... -
An Elegant Madness: High Society in Regency England by Venetia Murray 9780140282962
RRP: £24.00£16.80The Regency period was one of the most turbulent ages in British history, one that spanned the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, that witnessed unprecedented industrial progress, artistic accomplishment, and violent social unrest... -
Wales' Unknown Hero: Soldier, Spy, Monk: The life of Henry Coombe-Tennant, MC, of Neath by Bernard Lewis 9781912631339
RRP: £12.99£11.96The 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... -
Memory Theatre by Simon Critchley
RRP: £10.99£7.54A French philosopher dies during a savage summer heat wave. Boxes carrying his unpublished miscellany mysteriously appear in Simon Critchley's office. Rooting through piles of papers, Critchley discovers a brilliant text on the ancient art of memory and... -
Rilke on Love by Rainer Maria Rilke 9781734588125
RRP: £8.00£6.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734588125Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Warbler PressPublisher Warbler PressWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 198mm *... -
Sunday Best: 80 Great Books from a Lifetime of Reviews by John Carey 9780300273021
RRP: £10.99£9.61A collection of John Carey's greatest, wisest, and wittiest reviews-amassed over a lifetime of writing In 1977, newly installed as a professor of English at Oxford, John Carey took the position of chief reviewer for the Sunday Times. In a career... -
Letters from Tove by Tove Jansson 9781908745729
RRP: £20.00£15.40'[The letters] cover war, fame and her first infatuation with another woman ... all related in a voice that is funny, gracious, intimate' The Observer "I find myself talking to you about all the great joys, all the agonies, all my thoughts..."... -
Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach 9780140443615
RRP: £12.99£9.34Composed in the early thirteenth century, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival is the re-creation and completion of the story left unfinished by its initiator Chretien de Troyes. It follows Parzival from his boyhood and career as a knight in the court of... -
Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas: The Two Dylans by K G Miles 9780857162328
RRP: £14.99£11.11There are so many strange and wonderful connections and coincidences; shared passions and associations that tie these two cultural icons - BOB DYLAN and DYLAN THOMAS together. This provides a rich tapestry - from the ancient Welsh folk tales of the... -
The Paris Review Interviews: Vol. 4 Philip Gourevitch 9781847674494
RRP: £14.99£10.06Since The Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest writers of our age. Here is the fourth collection of brilliant interviews to be gathered together, 'a bible both for readers and writers, the insider... -
In Danger: A Pasolini Anthology by Pier Paolo Pasolini
RRP: £15.99£11.21Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) was a major cultural figure in post-WWII Italy, well-known as a poet, novelist, communist intellectual, and filmmaker. In Danger is the first anthology in English devoted to his political and literary essays, with a... -
Fearless: One Woman, One Kayak, One Continent by Joe Glickman
RRP: £12.99£9.86Like the instant classic The Last American Man, Fearless is the story of a remarkable individual who accepts no personal limits-including fear. Freya Hoffmeister, a forty-six-year-old former sky diver, gymnast, marksman, and Miss Germany contestant, left... -
Ukraine, War, Love: A Donetsk Diary Olena Stiazhkina 9780674291706
RRP: £16.95£13.85In Ukraine, War, Love, Olena Stiazhkina depicts day-to-day developments in and around her beloved hometown Donetsk during Russia’s 2014 invasion and occupation of the Ukrainian city. An award-winning fiction writer, Stiazhkina chronicles an increasingly... -
Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination by Adam Shatz
RRP: £25.00£21.04Through a close reading of the lives and works of some of the greatest intellectuals of recent times, Adam Shatz asks: do writers have an ethical imperative to question injustice? How can one remain a dispassionate thinker when involved in the cut and... -
Selected Essays by Samuel Johnson
RRP: £14.99£10.95This volume contains a generous selection from the essays Johnson published twice weekly as 'The Rambler' in the early 1750s. It was here that he first created the literary character and forged the distinctive prose style that established him as a public... -
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics by G. W. F. Hegel
RRP: £10.99£7.99No philosopher has held a higher opinion of art than Hegel, yet nor was any so profoundly pessimistic about its prospects - despite living in the German golden age of Goethe, Mozart and Schiller. For if the artists of classical Greece could find the... -
A Little, Aloud with Love Angela Macmillan 9781784740078
RRP: £22.99£16.53'O tell me the truth about love.' W.H. AudenMany of the most popular works in the English language celebrate love in all its forms: that heady first flush, the agony of heartbreak, joyful reunions, the love of a parent for a child... And what better way... -
Thrill Me: Essays on Fiction by Benjamin Percy 9781555977597
RRP: £14.99£11.07In his first book of nonfiction, Benjamin Percy challenges the notion that literary and genre fiction are mutually exclusive. In fifteen essays on the craft of fiction, Percy looks to disparate sources to discover how contemporary writers engage issues... -
Letters From A Nut: With An Introduction by Jerry Seinfeld by Ted L. Nancy
RRP: £12.99£9.34Spoof letter writing has a long history from Lazlo Toth to Henry Root but nothing can prepare you for the uniquely surreal and endearing world of Ted L Nancy. A kind of Trigger Happy correspondence, his innocent requests, queries, complaints, demands and... -
By the Fire: Sami Folktales and Legends by Emilie Demant Hatt 9781517904579
£16.15The 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... -
Writings from the Sand, Volume 2: Collected Works of Isabelle Eberhardt by Isabelle Eberhardt 9780803217553
£57.51Born in 1877 in Geneva, Switzerland, Isabelle Eberhardt became a rebel at an early age, dressing like a man so she could have access to areas forbidden to women, smoking in public, and otherwise scandalizing Genevan society. Already multilingual, she... -
Criminal Child: Selected Essays by Jean Genet
RRP: £14.99£9.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681373614Author Jean GenetFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc