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The Civil War by Lucan
RRP: £24.95£23.39Epic history.Lucan (M. Annaeus Lucanus, AD 39-65), son of wealthy M. Annaeus Mela and nephew of Seneca, was born at Corduba (Cordova) in Spain and was brought as a baby to Rome. In AD 60 at a festival in Emperor Nero's honor Lucan praised him in a... -
Real Life Rock: The Complete Top Ten Columns, 1986-2014 by Greil Marcus
RRP: £16.99£15.01From the author of The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs comes his "Basement Tapes": the complete "Real Life Rock Top 10" columns For nearly thirty years, Greil Marcus has written a remarkable column called "Real Life Rock Top Ten." It has been a... -
Laure: The Collected Writings by Laure Colette Peignot
RRP: £20.99£15.94This complete collection of writings published for the first time in English includes "Story of a Little Girl," about the Catholic priest who sexually molested her sister; "The Sacred," a collection of poems and fragments on mysticism and eroticism;... -
The Three Kingdoms Vol. 1: The Sacred Oath by Luo Guanzhung
RRP: £14.99£9.80This exciting new translation of the Chinese classic is designed to delight modern readers.The Three Kingdoms is an epic Chinese novel written over six centuries ago. It recounts in vivid historical detail the turbulent years at the close of the Han... -
The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha: A Complete Translation of the Anguttara Nikaya by Bhikkhu Bodhi 9781614290407
RRP: £65.00£43.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614290407Author Bhikkhu BodhiFormat HardbackPage Count 1936Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S. -
The Transferred Life of George Eliot by Philip Davis
RRP: £28.99£21.20Reading George Eliot's work was described by one Victorian critic as 'the feeling of entering the confessional in which she sees and hears all the secrets of human psychology--that roar which lies on the other side of silence'. This new biography of... -
Seven Famous Greek Plays by W. & O'Neill Oates 9780394701257
RRP: £15.00£11.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394701257Author Whitney J. OatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 184mm *... -
Enwogion o Fri by Jon Gower 9781800991347 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99£3.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800991347Author Jon GowerFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y LolfaDimensions(mm) 250mm * 250mm * 8mm -
Homer's "Iliad": a Commentary on Three Translations by Peter Jones 9781853996573
RRP: £22.99£21.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853996573Author Peter JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams)... -
Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews by Geoff Dyer 9781555975791
RRP: £18.00£12.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Critics Circle Award (Criticism) 2011.Book InformationISBN 9781555975791Author Geoff DyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 421Imprint Graywolf... -
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution by Adrienne Rich
RRP: £12.99£11.25In Of Woman Born, originally published in 1976, influential poet and feminist Adrienne Rich examines the patriarchic systems and political institutions that define motherhood. Exploring her own experience-as a woman, a poet, a feminist and a mother-she... -
Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012 by Geoffrey Hill
£33.20Broken Hierarchies collects twenty books of poems by Geoffrey Hill, written over sixty years, and presents them in their definitive form. Four of these books (Ludo, Expostulations on the Volcano, Liber Illustrium Virorum, and Al Tempo de' Tremuoti) have... -
Consciousness And The Novel by David Lodge
RRP: £12.99£9.09'The professor, the critic and the novelist work in harmony to provide a valuable tutorial on modern fiction' ObserverHow does the novel represent human consciousness on the page?In eleven sparkling essays on some of the great novelists of the last 200... -
Graham Greene: A Life In Letters by Richard Greene 9780349119144
£15.94One of the undisputed masters of English prose in the twentieth century, Graham Greene (1904-91) wrote tens of thousands of personal letters. This substantial volume presents a new and engrossing account of his life constructed out of his own words... -
Kristin Lavransdatter, I: The Wreath by Sigrid Undset 9780141180410
£8.63Apologies 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 *... -
Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent by Jason Wilson
RRP: £14.99£10.95One of the greatest nineteenth-century scientist-explorers, Alexander von Humboldt traversed the tropical Spanish Americas between 1799 and 1804. By the time of his death in 1859, he had won international fame for his scientific discoveries, his... -
Safe: On Black British Men Reclaiming Space by Derek Owusu
RRP: £9.99£6.80'It's brave and honest, and not a moment too soon.' Afua Hirsch, Brit(ish)'[An] outstanding myth-busting book. Everyone should read it.' Bernardine EvaristoWhat is the experience of Black men in Britain today? Never has the conversation about racism and... -
The Pulling by Adele Dumont 9781914484834
RRP: £10.99£7.32When I've been overtaken, I have stood and watched the water in my porridge simmer away into the air, and then the oats turn black and crackle with dryness, and my ears fill with the smoke alarm's shriek. When Adele Dumont is diagnosed with... -
My Life Goals Journal by Andrea Hayes
RRP: £18.99£14.01'These strategies worked for me and I know they can work for you too.' Andrea Hayes Do you dream of creating a change in your life but feel stuck or unsure where to start? Andrea Hayes' inspirational and practical journal will help you clarify what... -
ATTENTION: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction by Joshua Cohen
RRP: £14.99£10.28With Attention, Joshua Cohen returns with his first collection of nonfiction, the culmination of two decades of writing and thought about life in the digital age. In essays, memoir, criticism, diary entries, and letters-many appearing here for the first... -
Sallust's Bellum Catilinae by J. T. Ramsey
RRP: £32.49£26.85In his Bellum Catilinae, C. Sallustius Crispus or Sallust (86-35/34 B.C.E.) recounts the dramatic events of the year 63 B.C.E. when a disgruntled and impoverished nobleman, L. Sergius Catilina, after two electoral defeats, made himself the leader of a... -
Martial: Select Epigrams by Martial
RRP: £27.99£24.27Despite his enduring popularity, Martial has recently suffered from serious critical neglect. The present work is the first edition of selections from Martial to be published for decades, and includes a fully representative selection of the oeuvre of the... -
Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace by Anne Lamott
RRP: £22.95£13.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsNominated for Books for a Better Life Book Award 2014.Book InformationISBN 9781594486296Author Anne LamottFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher... -
One Hundred Years of James Joyce's "Ulysses" by Colm Toibin
RRP: £37.95£34.18Ulysses is widely regarded as the greatest novel of the twentieth century. Commemorating the 1922 publication of this modernist masterwork, One Hundred Years of James Joyce's "Ulysses" tells the story of the writing, revising, printing, and censorship of... -
Letters of Pliny: A Selection by Carl Hope
RRP: £12.99£11.86This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin A-Level (Group 2) prescription of Pliny, Letters 1.9; 3.16; 4.2; 4.19; 8.8; 8.16; 8.17; 9.6, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary, with a detailed introduction that also covers the... -
ATTENTION!: A (short) History by Joshua Cohen 9781907903618
RRP: £14.99£12.55A dazzling meditation on the philosophical, scientific, and historical roots of attention, an attempt to pin down this elusive state of being. To write a book in which every sentence is a first sentence. To write a book in which every sentence is as... -
The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn by Margaret Willes
RRP: £11.99£10.15An intimate portrait of two pivotal Restoration figures during one of the most dramatic periods of English history Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn are two of the most celebrated English diarists. They were also extraordinary men and close friends. This... -
Selected Writings by Thomas Aquinas
RRP: £16.99£12.22In his reflections on Christianity, Saint Thomas Aquinas forged a unique synthesis of ancient philosophy and medieval theology. Preoccupied with the relationship between faith and reason, he was influenced both by Aristotle's rational world view and by... -
Hidden Wyndham: Life, Love, Letters by Amy Binns
£8.91Until now, little was known of John Wyndham. Despite his popularity, his obsessive need for privacy led to him being known as "the invisible man of science fiction". He redefined the genre with dystopian classics The Day of the Triffids and The Midwich... -
How to Read a Diary: Critical Contexts and Interpretive Strategies for 21st-Century Readers by Desiree Henderson
RRP: £25.99£22.63How to Read a Diary is an expansive and accessible guidebook that introduces readers to the past, present, and future of diary writing. Grounded in examples from around the globe and from across history, this book explores the provocative questions... -
Sunbeams, Revised Edition: A Book of Quotations by Sy Safransky
RRP: £14.99£9.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583943564Author Sy SafranskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
The Maisky Diaries: The Wartime Revelations of Stalin's Ambassador in London by Ivan Maisky
RRP: £14.99£13.43Highlights of the extraordinary wartime diaries of Ivan Maisky, Soviet ambassador to London The terror and purges of Stalin's Russia in the 1930s discouraged Soviet officials from leaving documentary records let alone keeping personal diaries. A... -
The Diamond Smugglers by Ian Fleming
RRP: £9.99£6.86The 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... -
Elizabeth Siddal: Her Story by Jan Marsh 9781843682318
RRP: £17.99£12.14Elizabeth Siddal is remembered as a Pre-Raphaelite supermodel and the muse and wife of Gabriel Rossetti. She is cast as a tragic heroine much like the Ophelia she modelled in the renowned Millais painting. But Elizabeth Siddal: Her Story overturns this... -
Statius: Silvae Book II by P. Papinius Statius
RRP: £71.99£63.30With the exception of a poem on the unscripted death of a lion in the Colosseum, Book II of Statius' Silvae is largely domestic in theme. It reflects the more private side of Roman culture, its pleasures, houses, gardens, friendships, and personal... -
Pulphead: Notes from the Other Side of America by John Jeremiah Sullivan
RRP: £18.99£13.61John Jeremiah Sullivan takes us on a funhouse hall-of-mirrors ride through the other side of America - to the Ozarks for a Christian rock festival; to Florida to meet the straggling refugees of MTV's Real World; to Indiana to investigate the formative... -
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition by Anne Frank 9780241952443
RRP: £9.99£7.11A 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... -
Works: v. 7 by Demosthenes
RRP: £24.95£23.39The preeminent orator of ancient Athens.Demosthenes (384-322 BC), orator at Athens, was a pleader in law courts who later became also a statesman, champion of the past greatness of his city and the present resistance of Greece to Philip of Macedon's... -
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 9780393979176
£13.73Margaret Cohen's careful editorial revision modernizes and renews Flaubert's stylistic masterpiece. In addition, Cohen has added to the Second Edition a new introduction, substantially new annotations, and twenty-one striking images, including... -
Love Drones by Noam Dorr 9781946448385
RRP: £12.99£8.63In Love Drones, Noam Dorr explores the troubling relationship between our desire for intimacy and the world of military action, state violence, and intelligence surveillance. Born and raised on a kibbutz in Israel, Dorr served a compulsory military term...