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The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays by Guy Davenport 9781567927771
RRP: £16.99£11.67Forty essays on history, art, and literature from one of the most incisive, and most exhilarating, critical minds of the twentieth century. Guy Davenport was perhaps the last great American polymath. He provided links between art and literature, music... -
Troy Book: Selections by John Lydgate
RRP: £35.00£29.22To introduce John Lydgate's landmark poem the Troy Book to students and non-specialist readers, the editor has selected the essential passages from the poem and bridges any gaps with textual summaries. Also included are an introduction, gloss, notes, and... -
Love Letters of Great Men and Women by Ursula Doyle
RRP: £9.99£7.48From 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... -
Rub Out the Words: Letters 1959-1974 by William S. Burroughs
RRP: £12.99£9.34These letters cover the activities of Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac in the years that gave birth to the Beat Generation. Written mostly to Ginsberg or Kerouac, the letters provide a rare glimpse into Burroughs's psyche, revealing his... -
The Humorous Magistrate (Osborne) Jacqueline Jenkins 9780719087011
RRP: £50.00£35.83The Humorous Magistrate is a seventeenth-century satiric comedy extant in two highly distinctive manuscripts. The earliest and clearly working draft of the play is bound with three other plays (including The Emperor's Favourite, published by the Malone... -
Whose Story Is This?: Old Conflicts, New Chapters by Rebecca Solnit 9781783785438
RRP: £12.99£8.80Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle over that foundational power. Women, people of colour and non-straight people are telling other versions, and white men in particular are fighting to preserve their own... -
Selected Poems by John Dryden 9780140439144
RRP: £18.99£17.84A new and comprehensive selection of Dryden's poetry, revealing him as a master of theatricality, ventriloquism, and unmistakable originality. Brought together here are many of the poems from his time as Poet Laureate and loyal servant of the crown,... -
Maybe This Will Help: How to Feel Better When Things Stay the Same by Michelle Rial
RRP: £10.99£7.85A visual pep talk of charts and essays on feeling better about not feeling better.Maybe This Will Help is one part the funny and relatable graphs that fans of Am I Overthinking This? and of Michelle Rial know and love, and one part the honest stories... -
The Garden Diary of Doctor Darwin by Susan Campbell 9781913491789
RRP: £30.00£21.88In 1986, Susan Campbell made the chance discovery of a hitherto unknown garden diary. She spent the next 35 years researching its background before writing this book. The diary was written between 1838 and 1865 by the father of Charles Darwin, Doctor... -
The Arts of Beauty, Or, Secrets of a Lady's Toilet: With Hints to Gentlemen on the Art of Fascinating by Lola Montez 9780359021987
RRP: £7.86£7.21Lola Montez, one of the most opulent actresses and dancers of the 19th century, offers her advice on beauty oneself through cultivating physical charm, a debonair personality, and a sharp sense of style and dress. Chapters focus on different aspects of... -
Italianissimo: Italian Cooking at Its Best by Pellegrino Artusi 9780871401892
RRP: £27.00£24.70Unless you aspire to perfection-to be, in short, a Cordon Bleu-you do not have to be born with a chef's hat on your head to become a good cook. All you need is to love to cook, pay close attention to details, form the habit of being precise, and choose... -
The Wedding Party by Liu Xinwu
RRP: £8.99£6.32In this sprawling, award-winning novel, celebrated Chinese writer Liu Xinwu cordially invites you to an epic, riotous, and moving neighborhood feast. On a December morning in 1982, the courtyard of a Beijing siheyuan-a lively quadrangle of... -
J.d. Salinger: The Last Interview by David Streitfeld
RRP: £12.99£8.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612195896Author David StreitfeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
A New View of Society and Other Writings by Robert Owen
RRP: £12.99£10.34In his early works Owen argues that, since individuals are wholly formed by their environment, education is the crucial factor in transforming them. Later he came to adopt far more radical positions, proposing nothing less than 'the emancipation... -
The Letters of Thom Gunn by Thom Gunn
RRP: £40.00£27.68'I write about love, I write about friendship,' remarked Thom Gunn: 'I find that they are absolutely intertwined.' These core values permeate his correspondence with friends, family, lovers, and fellow poets, and shed new light on 'one of the most... -
Breaking: Trauma in the Newsroom by Chris Lindsay 9781908518699
RRP: £14.99£10.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908518699Author Chris LindsayFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Maverick HousePublisher Maverick House -
On the Nature of the Gods by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95£23.76The philosopher-statesman on theology and epistemology.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship,... -
Japanese Proverbs: Wit and Wisdom: 200 Classic Japanese Sayings and Expressions in English and Japanese text David Galef 9784805312001
RRP: £14.99£10.05"Destroy a nation, but its mountains and rivers remain."-Japanese proverbThis is a collection of 200 Japanese proverbs with illustrations and explanations for each saying.Japanese Proverbs: Wit and Wisdom is a delightfully illustrated compilation of... -
Exceeding My Brief by Barbara Hosking 9781785904622
RRP: £9.99£7.48From the tragic massacre at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, to signing the Treaty of Rome when Britain entered the Common Market, Barbara Hosking was there. This is the story of a Cornish scholarship girl with no contacts who ended up in the corridors... -
How to Apologise for Killing a Cat: Rhetoric and the Art of Persuasion by Guy Doza
RRP: £16.99£11.08'Most books on persuasion teach the few how to sway the many. With wit and vim, Guy has given us something else: an X-ray into the tactics of those trying to change our minds and behaviour.' - Stephen Krupin, former speechwriter for Barack Obama When... -
H. H. Asquith Letters to Venetia Stanley by Michael Brock
£40.21H. H. Asquith fell in love with Venetia Stanley in the spring of 1912. Over the next three years he wrote to her whenever he could not see her: sometimes three times a day, sometimes during a debate in the house of Commons, on occasion even during a... -
Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History by Francesca Romana Berno
RRP: £98.00£88.71In classical Latin, luxuria means 'desire for luxury'; it is linked with the ideas of excess and deviation from a standard. It is in most cases labelled as a vice which contrasts with the innate frugal nature of the Romans. Latin authors do not see it as... -
The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake by William Blake 9780520256378
£31.80Since its first publication in 1965, this collection has been widely hailed as the best available text of William Blake's poetry and prose. It is now expanded to include a new foreword by Harold Bloom, his definitive statement on Blake's greatness.About... -
A Message from Ukraine by Volodymyr Zelensky 9781804943878
RRP: £7.99£5.98The words of a man. The message of a people.Bringing together a new introduction by Volodymyr Zelensky with his most powerful war speeches, this book recounts Ukraine's war through the words of its president. It is the story of a people valiantly... -
Korean Folktales for Language Learners: Traditional Stories in Korean and English (Free online Audio Recording) by Sukyeon Cho
RRP: £14.99£9.50Learn about Korean culture while improving your language skills!Korean Folktales for Language Learners presents 36 traditional folktales in parallel Korean and English versions on facing pages, with detailed notes and exercises aimed at beginning to... -
Wilderness Essays John Muir 9781423607120
RRP: £13.99£9.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423607120Author John MuirFormat HardbackPage Count 263Imprint Gibbs M. Smith IncPublisher Gibbs M. Smith IncWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 222mm *... -
Guys and Dolls and Other Writings by Damon Runyon 9780141186726
RRP: £26.00£20.64From Dave the Dude to Al Capone: a defining collection from the world of Damon Runyon Damon Runyon grew up in the West, moved to New York City, and became one of the leading voices of American popular culture. From sports writing to short fiction, this... -
Men Don't Cry by Faiza Guene
RRP: £11.99£8.23Mourad and his family live in Nice. His retired father spends his days fixing up things in the backyard; his mother, bemoaning the loss of her natal village in North Africa. Dounia, the eldest, is a staunch feminist; Mina, the youngest, blushes when the... -
On the Other Side: Letters to My Children from Germany 1940 -46 by Mathilde Wolff-Monckeberg 9781903155653
RRP: £17.00£16.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903155653Author Mathilde Wolff-MonckebergFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books LtdDimensions(mm) 192mm *... -
De Rerum Natura: Bk.1 by Titus Lucretius Carus 9780862920760
£32.28This edition, first published by BCP in 1984, is designed - with its extensive annotation and vocabulary - to provide all the help required by the comparative beginner in Latin who is coming to Lucretius for the first time. At the same time the... -
The Divorce by Cesar Aira 9781913505042
RRP: £8.99£6.54Shortlisted for the 2022 Queen Sofia Spanish Institute Translation Prize Shortlisted for the Premio Valle-Inclan prize for its translation A recently divorced man trying to enjoy himself in one of the trendier districts of Buenos Aires finds himself... -
Plato and A Platypus Walk into A Bar by Thomas Cathcart
RRP: £17.00£10.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143113874Author Thomas CathcartFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 176gDimensions(mm) 178mm *... -
German Autumn by Stig Dagerman
RRP: £13.99£12.78In late 1946, Stig Dagerman was assigned by the Swedish newspaper Expressen to report on life in Germany immediately after the fall of the Third Reich. First published in Sweden in 1947, German Autumn, a collection of the articles written for that... -
Granta 153: Second Nature by Isabella Tree
RRP: £14.99£13.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909889361Author Isabella TreeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 380gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 145mm... -
Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza John Daido Loori 9780861713943
RRP: £12.99£8.83Apologies 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. -
Do Not Pluck the Beard of a Stranger: and other wise Gaelic Proverbs by TD MacDonald 9781804251157
RRP: £5.99£4.78A collection of proverbs in the original Gaelic, and translated into English covering family, work, money, self-Improvement and food and drink amongst other topics. Gaelic proverbs tell it like it is, and provide advice for a myriad of situations. This... -
Letters to a Young Scientist Edward O. Wilson (Harvard University) 9780871403773
RRP: £16.99£14.83Edward O. Wilson has distilled sixty years of teaching into a book for students, young and old. Reflecting on his coming-of-age in the South as a Boy Scout and a lover of ants and butterflies, Wilson threads these twenty-one letters, each richly... -
French Love Poems by New Directions 9780811225595
RRP: £8.99£7.46Filled with devotion and lust, sensuality and eroticism, fevers and overtures, these poems showcase some of the most passionate verses in the French language. From the classic sixteenth-century love sonnets of Louise Labe and Maurice Sceve to the... -
Occasional, Critical, and Political Writing by James Joyce
RRP: £10.99£7.99'I may not be the Jesus Christ I once fondly imagined myself, but I think I must have a talent for journalism' James Joyce's non-fictional writings address diverse issues: aesthetics, the functions of the press, censorship, Irish cultural history,... -
Transparent Body & Other Texts by Max Blecher 9788088628033
RRP: £13.00£11.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788088628033Author Max BlecherFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Twisted Spoon PressPublisher Twisted Spoon Press