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The Athens Dialogues: Interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist / Photographs by Ari Marcopoulos by Dakis Joannou 9783960983897
£20.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783960983897Author Dakis JoannouFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther... -
Edward Marsh: A Life of Poets, Painters and Players by Sharon Mather 9781911397786
RRP: £25.00£17.57Sir Edward 'Eddie' Marsh was an ornament of early twentieth-century society; a respected civil servant, polymath and scholar who led a remarkable life. Always at the heart of the establishment, he was Winston Churchill's longest serving Private Secretary... -
What are We Doing Here? by Marilynne Robinson 9780349010465
RRP: £18.99£16.78New essays by the Orange and Pulitzer Prize winning author of Gilead, Home and Lila. In this collection, Marilynne Robinson, one of today's most important thinkers - admired by President Obama, and so many others - impels us to action and offers us hope... -
The Selected Essays of John Berger by John Berger 9780747554196
RRP: £20.00£15.72Booker wining novelist, playwright, essayist, poet and critic - even admirers rarely know John Berger in all his literary incarnations. This collection of essays will, for the first time, take a definitive look at his extraordinary career. Far from... -
Politics and the English Language by George Orwell 9781851246021
RRP: £10.00£7.97George Orwell's essay examines the power of language to shape political ideas. It is about the importance of writing concisely, clearly and precisely and the dangers to our ability to think when language, especially political language, is obscured by... -
Don Quijote by Miguel de Cervantes 9780393617474
£17.53This Norton Critical Edition includes: Burton Raffel's masterful translation ("Indeed, Raffel seems to have created a Cervantine English" - Javier Herrero, University of Virginia), lightly revised by Diana de Armas Wilson and including the translator's... -
A Life in Letters by John Steinbeck
RRP: £30.00£21.35Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck was a prolific correspondent. Opening with letters written during Steinbeck's early years in California, and closing with an unfinished, 1968 note written in Sag Harbor, New York, this collection of around 850 letters... -
Edward Thomas: A Miscellany by Edward Thomas
RRP: £9.99£7.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912916085Author Edward ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo Publishers -
Kristin Lavransdatter, I: The Wreath by Sigrid Undset 9780141180410
£8.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780141180410Author Sigrid UndsetFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 197mm *... -
United States: Essays 1952-1992 by Gore Vidal
RRP: £16.99£12.54Gore Vidal's reputation as America's finest essayist is an enduring one. This collection, chosen by the author from 40 years of work, contains about two-thirds of what he published in various magazines and journals. He has divided the essays into three... -
Cicero's Catilinarians by D. H. Berry
RRP: £23.49£19.16The Catilinarians are a set of four speeches that Cicero, while consul in 63 BC, delivered before the senate and the Roman people against the conspirator Catiline and his followers. Or are they? Cicero did not publish the speeches until three years... -
Postcard Stories by Jan Carson 9781910139684
RRP: £8.99£6.54Each day of 2015 Jan Carson wrote a short story on the back of a postcard and mailed it to a friend. Each of these tiny stories was inspired by an event, an overheard conversation, a piece of art or just a fleeting glance of something worth thinking... -
The Long Lost Log Michael Chapman Pincher 9781843518273
RRP: £14.00£11.79In 1974, 22-year-old virgin sailor Mick escapes unemployment, family and 3-day-week London to become a deckhand on a small sailboat, Gay Gander, setting out to sail the Atlantic from England's West Country, via the Canaries, to Antigua in the Caribbean. ... -
I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood by Jessi Klein 9780062981608
RRP: £12.99£8.71An instant New York Times bestseller, I'll Show Myself Out is the eagerly anticipated second essay collection from Jessi Klein, author of the acclaimed debut You'll Grow Out of It.Longlisted for the PEN Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the... -
What's Left of Me is Yours by Stephanie Scott
RRP: £8.99£6.39A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE DAILY MAIL AND WOMAN AND HOMEA New York Times 'Editor's Pick'One of the Observer's Ten Best Debut Novelists of 2020Shortlisted for the Author's Club First Novel AwardLonglisted for the Jhalak PrizeLonglisted for the CWA John... -
Future Girl by Asphyxia - 9781911679004
RRP: £10.99£8.39Piper's mum wants her to be 'normal', to pass as hearing and get a good job. But when peak oil hits and Melbourne lurches towards environmental catastrophe, Piper has more important things to worry about, such as how to get food. When she meets... -
Ukraine 22: Ukrainian Writers Respond to War by Mark Andryczyk 9781802062915
RRP: £12.99£9.34'The extraordinary writers in this volume articulate the taste, the terror, and the dialect of war; they command their powers of description to face a shameless empire intent on annihilating them' Ellena SavageA selection of Ukraine's leading writers... -
The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them by Antonia Fraser
RRP: £14.99£11.11The inspiration for the annual Pleasure of Reading Prize A charming and revealing collection of essays from some of our best-loved writers about the pleasures of reading, with royalties donated to the Give a Book charity In this delightful... -
Of Me and Others: 1952-2019 Alasdair Gray 9781786895202
RRP: £17.99£12.38In this frank, playful and typically unorthodox collection of essays, Alasdair Gray tells how his early life experiences influenced his writing, including the creation of those landmarks of literature, Lanark and 1982, Janine. He details the inspirations... -
Who Loses, Who Wins: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume Two 1979-2014 Kenneth Rose 9781474610582
RRP: £30.00£20.10Kenneth 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... -
Peak Beyond Peak: The Unpublished Scottish Journeys of Isobel Wylie Hutchison by Hazel Buchan Cameron 9781838080075
RRP: £12.99£9.34Isobel Wylie Hutchison was many things: a botanist, traveller, poet and artist. She travelled solo throughout the arctic collecting plant samples, wrote and published extensive volumes of essays and poetry, and was - in short - one of the most remarkable... -
Street Haunting and Other Essays by Virginia Woolf
RRP: £12.99£9.34Virginia Woolf began writing reviews for the Guardian 'to make a few pence' from her father's death in 1904, and continued until the last decade of her life. The result is a phenomenal collection of articles, of which this selection offers a fascinating... -
Letters concerning the English Nation by Voltaire 9780199555321
RRP: £9.99£6.61Inspired by Voltaire's two-year stay in England (1726-8), this is one of the key works of the Enlightment. Exactly contemporary with Gulliver's Travels and The Beggar's Opera, Voltaire's controversial pronouncements on politics, philosophy, religion, and... -
The Voyage of Argo by Apollonius Rhodes 9780140440850
RRP: £12.99£9.80Written in the third century BC in Alexandria, this is the only full surviving account of Jason's legendary quest for the Golden Fleece. It describes the thrilling adventures of the Argonauts on their voyage to Colchis to plead with king Aeetes for the... -
The Art of Poetry: AQA Love & Relationships by Kathrine Mortimore 9780995467132
RRP: £17.99£14.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995467132Author Kathrine MortimoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Art of PoetryPublisher Art of PoetryWeight(grams) 231g -
Things That Bother Me by Galen Strawson
RRP: £13.99£8.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681372204Author Galen StrawsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,... -
Writing from Ukraine: Fiction, Poetry and Essays since 1965 by Mark Andryczyk
RRP: £10.99£7.99A selection of fifteen of Ukraine's most important, dynamic and entertaining contemporary writersUnder USSR rule, the subject matter and style of literary expression in Ukraine was strictly controlled and censored. But once Ukraine gained independence... -
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare 9781316506646
RRP: £9.99£8.40For this updated edition of one of Shakespeare's most problematic plays, Tom Lockwood has added a new introductory section on the latest scholarly trends, performance and adaptation practices which have occurred over the last two decades. Investigating... -
Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, 5-Volume Set by Gavin Van Horn
RRP: £85.00£55.48*2022 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal Winner: Ecology & Environment *2022 Nautilus Book Award Special Honors as Best of Anthology For readers of Braiding Sweetgrass and The Overstory From The Center for Humans and Nature, a collection in five... -
Double-Tracking: Studies in Duplicity by Rosanna McLaughlin 9780995705227
RRP: £10.99£7.86To double-track is to be both: counter-cultural and establishment, rich and poor, a bum with the keys to a country retreat, an exotic addition to the dinner table who still knows how to find their way around the silverware. In the 1970s Tom Wolfe... -
"I Am a Phenomenon Quite Out of the Ordinary": The Notebooks, Diaries, and Letters of Daniil Kharms by Daniil Kharms
RRP: £24.99£24.54In addition to his numerous works in prose and poetry for both children and adults, Daniil Kharms (1905-1942), one of the founders of Russia's "lost literature of the absurd," wrote notebooks and a diary for most of his adult life. Published for the... -
The Last Days of Socrates by Plato 9780140455496
RRP: £9.99£7.32'Consider just this, and give your minds to this alone: whether or not what I say is just' Plato's account of Socrates' trial and death (399 BC) is a significant moment in Classical literature and the life of Classical Athens. In these four dialogues,... -
Selected Political Speeches by Cicero
RRP: £10.99£7.99Amid the corruption and power struggles of the collapse of the Roman Republic, Cicero (106-43BC) produced some of the most stirring and eloquent speeches in history. A statesman and lawyer, he was one of the only outsiders to penetrate the aristocratic... -
All This Thinking: The Correspondence of Bernadette Mayer and Clark Coolidge by Stephanie Anderson 9780826366276
RRP: £25.95£19.41All This Thinking explores the deep friendship and the critical and creative thinking between Bernadette Mayer and Clark Coolidge, focusing on an intense three-year period in their three decades of correspondence. These fiercely independent American... -
You did WHAT?: Secrets, Confessions and Outrageous Stories from Real Life Tova Leigh 9781786785503
RRP: £12.99£8.83"I was living with a nasty boyfriend who complained I didn't put enough pepper in his egg sandwich. So I dried out some hamster poop and chopped it into tiny pieces. He said it was delicious. Revenge is sweet!" Have you ever wondered what other... -
Incurable: The Haunted Writings of Lionel Johnson, the Decadent Era's Dark Angel by Lionel Johnson
£18.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907222627Author Lionel JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Strange Attractor PressPublisher Strange Attractor Press -
Walk in My Combat Boots: True Stories from the Battlefront James Patterson 9781787465916
RRP: £7.99£5.98'This book will take your breath away, break your heart, and leave you in awe' President Bill Clinton_______Soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines speak in their own words about real life in today's armed forces. These are the brutally honest stories... -
Records of Shelley, Byron and the Author by Edward John Trelawny
RRP: £12.99£9.34In February 1822 the writer and adventurer Edward John Trelawny arrived in Pisa to make the acquaintance of his heroes Shelley and Byron, leaving a broken marriage and an exotic seafaring career behind him. He became a close companion to them and their... -
Midnight Again: The Wartime Letters of Helen Ramsey Turtle Helen Ramsey Turtle 9781527294110
RRP: £19.99£18.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781527294110Author Helen Ramsey TurtleFormat PaperbackPage Count 514Imprint Mahee IslandPublisher Mahee IslandWeight(grams) 866gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 156mm... -
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition by Anne Frank 9780241952443
RRP: £9.99£7.32A Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women SelectionOne of the most famous accounts of living under the Nazi regime of World War II comes from the diary of a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl, Anne Frank. Today, The Diary of a Young Girl has sold...