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Love That Story: Observations from a Gorgeously Queer Life by Jonathan Van Ness 9781398500501
RRP: £9.99£6.61Queer Eye star Jonathan Van Ness dives into his favourite subjects in Love That Story, a collection of heartfelt and entertaining essays. From experiencing heartbreaking grief to uncovering the hidden LGBTQ history of his hometown, Quincy, from... -
The Berlin Diaries 1940-45 Marie Vassiltchikov 9780712665803
RRP: £18.99£13.82Marie `Missie' Vassiltchikov as a White Russian emigree caught with her family in Hitler`s Germany at the outbreak of the war. She was a Bright Young Thing, part of the cosmopolitan set who managed to maintain a trance-like normality until as late as... -
On Film by Wim Wenders
RRP: £25.00£16.59Wim Wenders' body of work is among the most formidable in modern cinema: Paris Texas, Wings of Desire, The Buena Vista Social Club, The Million Dollar Hotel. And Wenders writes about cinema as passionately as he produces it. This volume collects three... -
Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces by Michael Chabon
RRP: £8.99£6.11Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Manhood for Amateurs and Moonglow, returns with a collection of heartfelt, humorous and insightful essays on the meaning of fatherhood. ... -
Hesiod Theogonia, Opera et Dies, Scutum, Fragmenta Selecta by F. Solmsen 9780198140719
RRP: £22.99£22.85In this new and third edition, the additional fragments contained in the appendix of the second edition have been incorporated in the main text. Some further discoveries have been included, and reference has been made to the results of recent research on... -
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift 9780141398181
RRP: £3.00£2.63'... a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food...'Swift's devastating short satire on how to solve a famineIntroducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of... -
The Comedies by Terence 9780140443240
RRP: £14.99£11.11The Roman dramatist Terence (c. 186-159 BC) adapted many of his comedies from Greek sources, rendering them suitable for audiences of his own time by introducing subtler characterization and more complex plots. In his romantic play, The Girl from Andros,... -
Jane Austen's England by Anne-Marie Edwards 9781788310024
RRP: £9.99£7.89This is an engaging account of Austen's life and work, arranged as a series of walking tours through the towns and countryside she knew and loved - the settings for her novels. The 15 circular walks in the book describe the country houses, churches,... -
These Wonderful Rumours!: A Young Schoolteacher's Wartime Diaries 1939-1945 May Smith 9781844088119
RRP: £12.99£8.83May Smith is twenty-four at the outbreak of World War Two; at night, the sirens wail, and the young men of the village leave to fight. But still, ordinary life goes on: May goes shopping, plays tennis, takes holidays and even falls in love - while... -
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Stars Gervase Phinn 9780141036434
RRP: £8.99£6.65Twinkle, Twinkle Little Stars is the second delightful collection of stories and poems from Gervase Phinn.Following on from the terrific success of A Wayne in a Manger, Gervase Phinn has collected together from his bestselling Dales books his favourite... -
Merchant of Venice by Faye Yong
RRP: £9.99£7.46One of Shakespeare's greatest and, in recent years, most controversial plays. After borrowing a large sum of money from the Jewish money-lender Shylock, the merchant Antonio faces a devastating credit crunch when his fleet of ships is sunk in a storm... -
General History of Africa volume 2 (pbk abridged - Ancient Civilizations of Africa by G. Mokhtar
RRP: £24.99£24.70SPECIAL COMMENDATION in Africa's 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century. The series is illustrated throughout with maps and black and white photographs. Volume 2 covers the period beginning at the close of the Neolithic era, from around the eighth... -
The Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind by Ramachandra Guha 9780008422509
RRP: £20.00£13.34From one of India's finest writers, thinkers and commentators, a memoir of a love affair with cricket. As a fan, player, writer, scholar, controversialist and administrator, Ramachandra Guha has spent a life with cricket. In this... -
How To Travel With A Salmon: and Other Essays by Umberto Eco
RRP: £10.99£7.87'Between a bottle of Epsom salts or one of twenty-year-old cognac, which would you choose? Would you rather spend your vacation with an eighty-year old leper or with Demi Moore? Do you prefer being sprinkled with ferocious red ants or sharing a... -
Portraits And Observations: The Essays Of Truman Capote by Truman Capote 9780812994391
RRP: £22.00£18.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812994391Author Truman CapoteFormat HardbackPage Count 672Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 646gDimensions(mm) 210mm... -
Oxford Reading Tree Word Sparks: Level 1+: Stop, Tim! by Liz Miles 9780198495215
RRP: £4.60£3.52Anna and Dad take their dog, Tim, to the beach. Will Tim stay out of trouble? Using the world's largest known database of writing for and by children, our experts have defined 300 ambitious words to help children succeed at school. We've combined... -
The Odyssey of Star Wars: An Epic Poem: An Epic Poem by Jack Mitchell
RRP: £13.99£10.52A thrilling retelling of the Star Wars saga in the style of classic epic poetry "I look not to myself but to the Force, In which all things arise and fall away." Journey to a galaxy far, far away like never before-through lyrical verse and meter... -
Letters on Cezanne by Rainer Rilke
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865476394Author Rainer RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint North Point PressPublisher North Point PressWeight(grams) 68gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Tolstoy Together: Reading War and Peace with Yiyun Li by Yiyun Li
RRP: £15.99£11.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Windham-Campbell Prize 2020 (United States) and PEN/Jean Stein Book Award 2020 (United States) and Whiting Literary Magazine Prize 2018 and Whiting Award 2006... -
The Very Salt Of Life: Welsh Women's Political Writings from Chartism to Sufferage by Jane Aaron
RRP: £8.99£6.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870206907Author Jane AaronFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Honno LtdPublisher Honno LtdWeight(grams) 352g -
Chicanes by Clara Schulmann 9781739778323
RRP: £12.99£8.83As she tries to collect them for an essay she is planning to write, other women's words begin interfering in Clara Schulmann's life - heard on the radio, in podcasts, songs, and films; words of novelists, feminist intellectuals, friends or strangers... -
In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction by Lee Gutkind 9780393326659
RRP: £14.99£14.83Creative nonfiction, also known as narrative nonfiction, liberated journalism by inviting writers to dramatize, interpret, speculate, and even re-create their subjects. Lee Gutkind collects twenty-five essays that flourished in this new turf, all... -
What are We Doing Here? by Marilynne Robinson
RRP: £10.99£6.67New essays by the Women's Prize and Pulitzer Prize winning author of Gilead, Home and Lila. In this collection, Marilynne Robinson impels us to action and offers us hope.'Grace and intelligence ...[her work] defines universal truths about what it means... -
Letters to the Earth: Writing to a Planet in Crisis by Emma Thompson
RRP: £9.99£6.84A profound, powerful and moving collection of 100 letters from around the world responding to the climate crisis, introduced by Emma Thompson and lovingly illustrated by CILIP award winner Jackie Morris. 'All power to this amazing project.'... -
Breakup: A Reporter's Marriage amid a Central African War by Anjan Sundaram
RRP: £18.99£16.98An award-winning journalist courageously reveals the personal cost of war reporting, vividly recalling his dangerous assignment and confronting its devastating impact on his family. After ten years reporting from central Africa, Anjan Sundaram is... -
Under Our Skin by Jethro Soutar 9781951213527
RRP: £14.00£9.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951213527Author Jethro SoutarFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Unnamed PressPublisher Unnamed Press -
Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
RRP: £8.99£6.65Edmund Burke was the dominant political thinker of the last quarter of the eighteenth century in England. His reputation depends less on his role as a practising politician than on his ability to set contemporary problems within a wider context of... -
The Life of Olaudah Equiano: Or Gustavus Vassa, the African by Olaudah Equiano 9780486406619
RRP: £5.99£4.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486406619Author Olaudah EquianoFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
On Drinking by Charles Bukowski
RRP: £12.99£8.71The definitive collection of works on a subject that inspired and haunted Charles Bukowski for his entire life: alcohol Charles Bukowski turns to the bottle in this revelatory collection of poetry and prose that includes some of the writer's best and... -
Emyr Humphreys: Conversations and Reflections by Emyr Humphreys 9780708317358
RRP: £9.99£7.80This volume offers a section of the most important essays published by Emyr Humphreys over a 30-year period. The essays are prefaced by a series of discusssions which explore some of the intellectual concerns and motifs that have recurred throughout... -
Dying to Live: The Story of Grant McIntyre, Covid's Sickest Patient by Grant McIntyre 9781913836092
RRP: £9.99£8.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913836092Author Grant McIntyreFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Tippermuir Books LimitedPublisher Tippermuir Books Limited -
George Orwell: A Life in Letters by George Orwell
RRP: £16.99£12.28With such varied correspondents as T. S. Eliot, Stephen Spender and Anthony Powell, for nearly forty years George Orwell wrote and received the letters that are now collected together in A Life in Letters, edited with an introduction by Peter Davison in... -
Histories: Bk.I-II by Herodotus
RRP: £24.95£23.76The "Father of History."Herodotus the great Greek historian was born about 484 BC, at Halicarnassus in Caria, Asia Minor, when it was subject to the Persians. He traveled widely in most of Asia Minor, Egypt (as far as Aswan), North Africa, Syria, the... -
The Critic as Artist by Oscar Wilde
RRP: £12.00£8.22In The Critic as Artist, arguably the most complete exploration of his aesthetic thinking, and certainly the most entertaining, Oscar Wilde harnesses his famous wit to demolish the supposed boundary between art and criticism. Subtitled Upon the... -
Bruce Chatwin by Nicholas Shakespeare
RRP: £16.99£12.28Bruce Chatwin's death in 1989 brought a meteoric career to an abrupt end, since he burst onto the literary scene in 1977 with his first book, In Patagonia.Chatwin himself was different things to different people: a journalist, a photographer, an art... -
The Essays by Francis Bacon
RRP: £12.99£9.34One of the major political figures of his time, Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) served in the court of Elizabeth I and ultimately became Lord Chancellor under James I in 1617. A scholar, wit, lawyer and statesman, he wrote widely on politics, philosophy... -
The Lopsided World by Barbara Ward 9780393098051
RRP: £16.00£14.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393098051Author Barbara WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 152gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *... -
Crazy for Vincent by Bruce Hainley
RRP: £13.99£9.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584351993Author Herve GuibertFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 6mm -
The Speed of Dreams: Selected Writings 2001-2007 by Subcomandante Marcos
RRP: £12.99£12.97Since the publication of Our Word Is Our Weapon-which Publishers Weekly described as "strong as dignity and as subtle as love"-Mexico's enigmatic Zapatista leader has written some of his most brilliant and complex works. From a retelling of indigenous... -
The Real Beatrix Potter by Nadia Cohen 9781526752758
RRP: £14.99£11.11The Real Beatrix Potter is a fascinating and revealing biography of one of the world's most cherished children's authors. Beatrix Potter's famous little white books have enchanted generations of young readers who adored the characters she created and of...