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Museum Without Walls by Jonathan Meades
RRP: £12.99£8.73Jonathan Meades has an obsessive preoccupation with places. He has spent thirty years constructing sixty films, two novels and hundreds of pieces of journalism that explore an extraordinary range of them, from natural landscapes to man-made buildings and... -
Galateo: Or, the Rules of Polite Behavior by Giovanni Della Casa
RRP: £12.00£10.16Galateo is a treatise on polite behavior written by Giovanni Della Casa (1503-56) for the benefit of his nephew, a young Florentine destined for greatness. In the voice of a cranky yet genial old uncle, Della Casa offers the distillation of what he has... -
Cheating at Canasta by William Trevor
RRP: £15.99£11.61Cheating at Canasta - an outstanding collection of stories by the master storyteller William Trevor'There is no better short story writer in the English-speaking world' Wall Street Journal''No matter what,' Julia had said, aware then of what was coming,... -
The Odyssey by Homer
RRP: £10.99£8.23Homer's great epic, The Odyssey, is perhaps Western literature's first adventure story, and certainly remains one of its finest. It describes King Odysseus of Ithaca's epic, ten-year quest to return home after the Trojan War. He encounters giants,... -
Flush by Virginia Woolf 9781784875138
RRP: £9.99£7.11Flush was an English cocker spaniel who belonged to the nineteenth-century poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Virginia Woolf learned of him from the love letters Elizabeth wrote to her future husband, fellow poet Robert Browning, and found 'the figure of... -
Self-Help by Samuel Smiles
RRP: £9.99£7.29'The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the true source of national vigour and strength.' A bestseller immediately after its publication in 1859, Self-Help... -
The World's Greatest Book of Useless Information by Noel Botham 9781844541669
£12.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorThe Useless Information Society is a group of journalists, TV personalities and other assorted oddbods who meet twice a year to get enormously drunk and swap -... -
The Gloria Anzaldua Reader by Gloria Anzaldua
RRP: £23.99£19.38Born in the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas, independent scholar and creative writer Gloria Anzaldua was an internationally acclaimed cultural theorist. As the author of Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Anzaldua played a major role in shaping... -
Undelivered: The Never-Heard Speeches That Would Have Rewritten History by Jeff Nussbaum 9781250245670
RRP: £19.99£12.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250245670Author Jeff NussbaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Flatiron BooksPublisher Flatiron BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 142mm *... -
Earthly Signs by Jamey Gambrell
RRP: £16.99£12.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681371627Author Jamey GambrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,... -
The Journals by John Cheever
RRP: £12.99£9.09John Cheever's journals reveal the inner life of this remarkable writer and the contradictions that drove him. He loved his wife and their children, but was acutely lonely; he loved women, but he also loved men; he hated himself for his drinking, but for... -
Black Voices on Britain by Hakim Adi
RRP: £10.99£7.51A compelling anthology of Black voices from England, America, Africa and the Caribbean, from people who lived, worked, campaigned and travelled in Britain from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a... -
On Murder by Thomas De Quincey
RRP: £7.99£5.79'For if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination' Thomas De Quincey's three essays 'On Murder... -
Coriolanus by Lee Bliss
RRP: £9.99£8.17The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with... -
Island Stories: Britain and Its History in the Age of Brexit by David Reynolds 9780008282356
RRP: £9.99£6.64'Concise, elegant and lucid ... A very useful primer on the delusions of an English mentality' Guardian What do we get wrong about Britain's history and its place in the world? In... -
Words of Fire: Selected Essays of Ahad Ha'am by Ahad Ha'am 9781910749029
RRP: £14.99£14.04Ahad Ha'am (the pen name of Asher Ginsberg) is mainly remembered as the 'father of cultural Zionism'. But there was much more to the man and his thought. These essays show him to have been a brilliant exponent of the art of the essayist. Moreover, as the... -
Life, Letters, and Poetry by Michelangelo 9780199537365
RRP: £10.99£7.77The poems have been rendered into vigorous contemporary English. A selection of Michelangelo's letters, many of the to important contemporaries such as Vasari and Duke Cosimo, is accompanied by the `Life' of the great artist written by his pupil Ascanio... -
Love and Longing in Bombay by Vikram Chandra
RRP: £9.99£6.70Set in contemporary India, Love and Longing in Bombay confirms Vikram Chandra as one of today's most exciting young writers. In five haunting tales he paints a remarkable picture of Bombay - its ghosts, its passions, its feuds, its mysteries - while... -
The Selected Essays of John Berger by John Berger 9780747554196
RRP: £20.00£14.69Booker 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... -
The Backstreets: A Novel from Xinjiang by Perhat Tursun 9780231202916
RRP: £16.99£13.65The Backstreets is an astonishing novel by a preeminent contemporary Uyghur author who was disappeared by the Chinese state. It follows an unnamed Uyghur man who comes to the impenetrable Chinese capital of Xinjiang after finding a temporary job in a... -
The Palaeography of Gothic Manuscript Books: From the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century by Albert Derolez
RRP: £30.99£27.17This book, first published in 2003, presents a detailed survey of all book scripts in use in western and central Europe from c.1100 to c.1530 (with the exception of Humanistic script). This period has been poorly served in almost all other... -
Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from the New York Times by John Darnton 9780805070859
RRP: £13.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805070859Author John DarntonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 249g -
Grumbling at Large by J. B. Priestley 9781910749180
RRP: £14.99£12.55Priestley defined the essay as a 'prose masterpiece in miniature' and understood that to perfect the form, the essayist had to stand 'naked and shivering' in the very first sentence. A prodigious essayist, Priestley expressed his unique thoughts on a... -
God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin by Hilton Als 9781954947092
RRP: £32.99£21.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954947092Author Hilton AlsFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Dancing Foxes PressPublisher Dancing Foxes Press -
On Writing by Jorge Luis Borges
RRP: £16.00£9.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143105725Author Jorge Luis BorgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 153gDimensions(mm) 196mm *... -
Pataphysical Essays by Rene Daumal 9780984115563
RRP: £12.50£8.34Essays reflecting on the science of imaginary solutions, from an influential figure in pataphysical thought Pataphysics: the science of imaginary solutions, of laws governing exceptions and of the laws describing the universe supplementary to this one... -
The Game: A Lifetime Inside and Outside the White Lines by Tadhg Coakley
RRP: £14.99£12.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Sports Book of the Year 2022 (Ireland).Book InformationISBN 9781785372971Author Tadhg CoakleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Merrion PressPublisher... -
From Churchill's War Rooms: Letters of a Secretary 1943-45 by Joanna Moody
RRP: £10.99£8.25Published for the first time, this illuminating and poignant correspondence offers a rare insight into the workings of the Cabinet War Rooms towards the end of the Second World War, and documents the rich wartime experiences of a woman with exclusive... -
The Key To The Science Of Theology by Parley P Pratt 9781494128258
RRP: £40.95£34.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781494128258Author Parley P PrattFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams)... -
A Thing of Beauty: Travels in Mythical and Modern Greece by Peter Fiennes
RRP: £18.99£13.61A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE ANGLO-HELLENIC LEAGUE RUNCIMAN AWARD 2022 'Peter Fiennes's road trip around Greece [is] engagingly described' Mary Beard, TLS 'Fiennes is a brilliant and generous guide through Greece' Observer ... -
The Correspondence Between Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia and Rene Descartes by Princess Elisabeth
RRP: £32.00£31.11Between the years 1643 and 1649, Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia (1618-80) and Rene Descartes (1596-1650) exchanged fifty-eight letters - thirty-two from Descartes and twenty-six from Elisabeth. Their correspondence contains the only known extant... -
How to Land an A330 Airbus: And Other Vital Skills for the Modern Man by James May
RRP: £10.99£7.40Being given yet another pointless 'man manual' that told him fifty ways to tie a bow tie in under 30 seconds made James May, co-presenter of The Grand Tour, certain there was a need for another kind of book. This book, in fact. He reckons there are nine... -
Love and the Novel: Life After Reading by Christina Lupton
RRP: £16.99£12.28'It is a clever, well-written book, and I often found myself underlining whole paragraphs as I read. ... wonderfully insightful. ... I've never read accounts of any of these texts that manage to be at once so searching and so wondrously concise, and... -
The Book by Mary Ruefle 9781950268849
RRP: £17.99£12.30Following the acclaimed Dunce, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes Mary Ruefle's latest prose publication The Book.True to its bold title, The Book affirms Mary Ruefle's legacy as (dubbed by Publishers Weekly) "the patron saint of... -
Outlines of Pyrrhonism: v. 1 by Empiricus Sextus
RRP: £24.95£23.39A suspicious mind.Sextus Empiricus (ca. AD 160-210), exponent of scepticism and critic of the Dogmatists, was a Greek physician and philosopher, pupil and successor of the medical sceptic Herodotus (not the historian) of Tarsus. He probably lived for... -
Blithe Spirit, Hay Fever, Private Lives: Three Plays by Noël Coward 9780679781790
RRP: £11.99£10.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679781790Author Noel CowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Winter: A Collection of Poems, Songs and Stories for Young Children by Jennifer Aulie 9780946206490
£10.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946206490Author Jennifer AulieFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Wynstones PressPublisher Wynstones Press -
Earth Prayers: 365 Prayers, Poems, and Invocations from Around the World by Elizabeth Roberts
RRP: £9.99£6.64In forest clearings, beneath star-filled skies, in cathedrals, and before the hearth...women and men have always given voice to the impulse to celebrate the world that surrounds and sustains them. Now, as we face a diminished present and an uncertain... -
Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald by Jonathan Bate
RRP: £25.00£22.19A dazzling biography of two interwoven, tragic lives: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald. 'Highly engaging ... Go now, read this book' THE TIMES 'For awhile after you quit Keats,' Fitzgerald once wrote,... -
The Quotable Winston Churchill: A Collection of Wit and Wisdom by Sir Winston S. Churchill
RRP: £5.99£4.92This tiny tome featuring a faux leather binding with embossed type and illustration is filled with Winston Churchill's biography, his most inspirational quotes, and excerpts from some of his most famous speeches.About the AuthorMiniature Editions are...