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The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith 9780140437324
RRP: £8.99£6.65Channelling a razor-sharp satire through the everyday mishaps of the immortal comic character Mr Pooter, George and Weedon Grossmith's The Diary of a Nobody is edited with an introduction and notes by Ed Glinert in Penguin Classics.Mr Pooter is a man of... -
The Art of the Glimpse: 100 Irish short stories by Sinead Gleeson 9781800249691
RRP: £18.00£14.16The #1 Irish Times bestseller A special reissue from Head of Zeus's bestselling anthology collection of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinead Gleeson, author of Constellations, winner of the Irish Book Award Non Fiction Book of the Year... -
Huon of Bordeaux by Catherine M Jones 9781599104010
RRP: £20.00£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599104010Author Catherine M JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Italica PressPublisher Italica PressWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm... -
This Is Not a Border: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: £16.99£12.47________________ 'This anthology will help turn your intellectual understanding of oppression into an emotional one' - New Statesman 'Thanks for being who you are and for giving us such exposure to wonderful people. Palestine is proud of you' -... -
Romantic Poetry and Prose by Prof. Harold Bloom 9780195016154
£51.68This volume devotes over 100 pages to William Blake, including The Book of Thel and the entire "Night the Ninth" from The Four Zoas, as well as excerpts from Milton and Jerusalem. It also includes poems and prose by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats,... -
Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar by Colm Toibin 9780330491389
RRP: £9.99£7.48In Love in a Dark Time, Colm Toibin looks at the life and work of some of the greatest and most influential artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His subjects range from figures such as Oscar Wilde, born in the 1850s, to Pedro Almodovar,... -
Poetics Aristotle Aristotle 9780486295770
RRP: £3.49£2.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486295770Author Aristotle AristotleFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Diamond Smugglers Ian Fleming 9781906772895
RRP: £9.99£7.00The Diamond Smugglers is the true story of an operation responsible for smuggling millions of pounds worth of precious gems out of Africa. Ian Fleming drew on interviews with the reluctant hero of the diamond companies' counter-attack to explore the... -
Riddle, Mystery, and Enigma: Two Hundred Years of British-Russian Relations by David Owen 9781913368678
RRP: £14.99£10.96Britain's relationship with Russia is surprisingly under-explored. When the two formed a pragmatic alliance and fought together at Navarino in 1827, it was overwhelmingly the work of the British prime minister, George Canning. His death brought about a... -
The Memory Chalet by Tony Judt
RRP: £10.99£7.99It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must shortly die. But there is more than one sort of luck.In... -
No Place Like Home: An anthology about the places we come back to by Michele Mendelssohn
RRP: £10.99£7.73What makes a home, and when do we really feel at home? Is it a physical place, or something we all carry inside us wherever we go?Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, pocket-sized classics with ribbon markers. These beautiful... -
Diaries, 1984-1997 James Lees-Milne 9780719568398
RRP: £14.99£10.05Despite advancing years, James Lees-Milne's descriptions of the people he meets, the houses he visits and country life on the Duke of Beaufort's Badminton estate are sharper than ever.He continues to enjoy a wide variety of experiences, and vividly... -
In Loving Memory by Sally Emerson
RRP: £14.99£10.05It's an impossibly difficult and painful time; someone you love has just died and you have very quickly to choose an appropriate and moving reading for the funeral. In an increasingly secular age, people often look for a poem or piece of prose which will... -
The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader by Brown Clarence
RRP: £20.42£15.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142437575Author VariousFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 493gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 129mm *... -
My Mother Laughs by Chantal Akerman
RRP: £14.99£10.93In 2013, the filmmaker Chantal Akerman's mother was dying. She flew back from New York to care for her, and between dressing her, feeding her and putting her to bed, she wrote. She wrote about her childhood, the escape her mother made from Auschwitz but... -
Russian Thinkers by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: £10.99£7.99Few, if any, English-language critics have written as perceptively as Isaiah Berlin about Russian thought and culture. Russian Thinkers is his unique meditation on the impact that Russia's outstanding writers and philosophers had on its culture. In... -
Melt with Me: Coming of Age and Other '80s Perils by Paul Crenshaw 9780814258828
RRP: £23.95£18.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258828Author Paul CrenshawFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press -
Scents and Flavors: A Syrian Cookbook by Charles Perry 9781479800810
RRP: £12.99£11.70Delectable recipes from the medieval Middle East This popular thirteenth-century Syrian cookbook is an ode to what its anonymous author calls the "greater part of the pleasure of this life," namely the consumption of food and drink, as well as the... -
Bulfinch'S Mythology: The Classic Introduction to Myth and Legend-Complete and Unabridged by Thomas Bulfinch
RRP: £15.99£15.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399169229Author Thomas BulfinchFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint Tarcher/Putnam,USPublisher Tarcher/Putnam,USWeight(grams) 1g -
Nearest Earthly Place to Paradise: The Literary Landscape of Shropshire Margaret Wilson 9781906122522
RRP: £20.00£14.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906122522Author Margaret WilsonFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Merlin Unwin BooksPublisher Merlin Unwin BooksWeight(grams) 821g -
One Hundred Ways for a Cat to Train Its Human by Celia Haddon
RRP: £6.99£3.68At last, the handbook all you cool cats have been waiting for! One hundred easy ways to discover the joys of a purrfectly obedient human.Though humans cannot speak cat, they vocalise repeatedly. Most of their vocalisations are meaningless and can be... -
Shakespeare Box Set by William Shakespeare
RRP: £11.99£10.38For fans of the Bard is a deluxe box set of our three classic Shakespeare mini books: William Shakespeare: The Complete Plays in One Sitting, Shakespeare: The Bard's Guide to Abuses and Affronts, and Love Sonnets of Shakespeare. With this collection,... -
London: An Illustrated Literary Companion by Rosemary Gray 9781035031689
RRP: £9.99£7.08With diary entries, quotations, poems, essays and extracts, this is an exquisite time capsule of literary London which takes you on a captivating journey through the city.London: An Illustrated Literary Companion, compiled by Rosemary Gray, captures the... -
Five Great German Short Stories by Stanley Appelbaum 9780486276199
£13.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486276199Author Stanley AppelbaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc. -
Hyperthick by Steve Aylett
RRP: £11.99£8.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942801139Author Steve AylettFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Floating World ComicsPublisher Alternative Comics -
Heart: A History: Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2019 Sandeep Jauhar 9781786075734
RRP: £9.99£6.61'Jauhar weaves his own personal and family story into his history of the heart...very effectively... This gives a certain dramatic tension to the book, as it tells the fascinating and rather wonderful history of cardiology.' -Henry Marsh, New... -
Myth and Meaning: Conversations on Mythology and Life Joseph Campbell 9781608688517
RRP: £27.00£17.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608688517Author Joseph CampbellFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World LibraryWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 218mm *... -
The Odyssey (Collins Classics) by Homer 9780007420094
RRP: £2.99£2.47HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Alas that mortalsShould blame the gods! From us, they say,All evils come. Yet they themselvesIt is who through defiant deedsBring sorrow on them-far more... -
On Writing and Failure by Stephen Marche 9781914502088
RRP: £7.99£6.24'Good writers offer advice. Great writers offer condolences' If you want to be a writer, then you'd better be ready to hurl yourself at the door. That's the message from Stephen Marche in this irresistibly droll broadside. Perseverance, in the teeth... -
Random Acts Of Kindness: 365 Ways to Make the World a Nicer Place by Danny Wallace
RRP: £12.99£9.34In his bestselling book Join Me, Danny Wallace instructs his legions of followers to perform a 'Random Act of Kindness' every Friday. As a result, his thousands of followers (dubbed the Karma Army), without warning, made people happier the length and... -
The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy: The Revolutionary 1805 Classic by Hannah Glasse 9780486795768
RRP: £14.49£9.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486795768Author Hannah GlasseFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Fly Trap by Fredrik Sjoberg
RRP: £10.99£7.99Fredrik Sjoeberg's Swedish bestseller about summer, islands, freedom and boundaries.'The light, the warmth, the smells, the mist, the birdsong - the moths. Who can sleep? Who wants to?'Fredrik Sjoeberg finds happiness in the little things. Millions of... -
Visions and Ecstasies: Selected Essays H. D. 9781644230237
RRP: £8.95£6.37H.D.'s poetry continues to inspire generations of readers. Bringing together a number of never-before-published essays, this new collection of writings introduces H.D.'s compelling perspectives on art, myth, and the creative process.While H.D. is best... -
Vita and Harold: The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson 1919-1962 by Nigel Nicolson
RRP: £12.99£8.83The 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... -
The Odyssey by Homer 9780199669103
RRP: £16.99£12.28'Tell me, Muse, of the man of many turns, who was driven far and wide after he had sacked the sacred city of Troy' Twenty years after setting out to fight in the Trojan War, Odysseus is yet to return home to Ithaca. His household is in disarray: a... -
Yearbook of Astronomy 2023 by Jones, Brian 9781399018449
RRP: £18.99£14.22Maintaining its appealing style and presentation, the Yearbook of Astronomy 2023 contains comprehensive jargon-free monthly sky notes and an authoritative set of sky charts to enable backyard astronomers and sky gazers everywhere to plan their viewing of... -
The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry by Gerald Moore
RRP: £14.99£10.95'Poetry, always foremost of the arts in traditional Africa, has continued to compete for primacy against the newer forms of prose fiction and theatre drama.' This wonderfully comprehensive anthology of African poetry has been expanded to include... -
An Elegy for Easterly by Petina Gappah
RRP: £9.99£6.90Winner of the Guardian First Book Award, and shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award, this is an unforgettable collection of powerful stories by a stunning young voice from Zimbabwe.A woman in a township is surrounded by dusty children but... -
Town and Country: New Irish Short Stories by Kevin Barry
RRP: £12.99£8.80Edited by award winning novelist and short story writer Kevin Barry, this volume will once again mix established names with previously unpublished authors, and will seek to offer fresh renditions to the Irish story - new angles, new approaches, new... -
More Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops Jen Campbell 9781472106339
RRP: £10.99£7.61Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops was a Sunday Times bestseller, and could be found displayed on bookshop counters up and down the country. The response to the book from booksellers all over the world has been one of heartfelt agreement: it would...