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Epistulae Morales: v. 3: Letters XCIII-CXXIV by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: £24.95£23.76Meditative missives.Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BC, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt's care. He became famous in rhetoric, philosophy, money-making, and imperial ... -
Q&A Four-Year Journey for Couples by The Little Memories 9780998235172
£10.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998235172Author The Little MemoriesFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Little MemoriesPublisher Little MemoriesWeight(grams) 503g -
Granta 166: Generations by Thomas Meaney 9781909889620
RRP: £14.99£10.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909889620Author Thomas MeaneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 179gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 134mm... -
The Unnamable Present by Roberto Calasso
RRP: £10.99£7.99Tourists, terrorists, secularists, hackers, fundamentalists, transhumanists, algorithmicians: in this book Roberto Calasso considers the tribes that inhabit and inform the world today. A world that feels more elusive than ever before.This book, the ninth... -
Selected Poems and Letters by Arthur Rimbaud
RRP: £14.99£10.95A phenomenonally precicious schoolboy, Rimbaud was still a teenager when he became notorious as Europe's most shocking and exhilarating poet. During his brief 5-year reign as the enfant terrible of French literature he produced an extraordinary body of... -
Dragula Ma'am Stoker 9781409181101
RRP: £7.99£5.78In a land where the wolves howl 'yassss kween' and Bloody Marys are the only cocktail on offer, Jonathan Harker (a most basic b*tch) makes a series of horrifying discoveries at the House of Dragula. A battle between old queens draws fresh blood as the... -
Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History by William Safire 9780393059311
RRP: £39.99£35.18An instant classic when it was first published a decade ago and now enriched by seventeen new speeches, Lend Me Your Ears contains more than two hundred outstanding moments of oratory. It is selected, arranged, and introduced by William Safire, who honed... -
Shakespeare's Sonnets: The Complete Illustrated Edition by William, of Chartres 9781604336153
RRP: £15.99£11.25The First-Ever, Fully Illustrated Collector's Edition of William Shakespeare's Celebrated Sonnets!In celebration of the momentous 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death in April 2016, this enhanced edition of Shakepeare's Sonnets features... -
The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick by Darryl Pinckney
RRP: £23.00£15.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681371542Author Darryl PinckneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,... -
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... -
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... -
Sauntering: Writers Walk Europe by Duncan Minshull
RRP: £14.99£12.75On foot the world comes our way. We get close to the Continent's alpine ranges, arterial rivers, expansive coastlines. Close to its ancient cities and mysterious thoroughfares; and close to the walkers themselves-the Grand Tourers and explorers,... -
1,000 Days on the River Kwai: The Secret Diary of a British Camp Commandant H. C. Owtram 9781473897809
RRP: £19.99£14.50Memoirs by former prisoners of war of the Japanese invariably make for moving reading but Colonel Owtrams account of his years of captivity has a special significance. After being captured in Singapore and transported to the infamous Burma railway he... -
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... -
On Quality: An Inquiry Into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected Writings by Robert M Pirsig
RRP: £20.00£15.23Featuring long-awaited selections from Robert M. Pirsig's unpublished writings, from before and after Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, an original collection illuminating the central theme of Pirsig's thought: "Quality""The ultimate goal in the... -
Atlantis and Lemuria: History and Civilization by Rudolf Steiner 9781609425791
£15.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609425791Author Rudolf SteinerFormat HardbackPage Count 92Imprint Iap - Information Age Pub. Inc.Publisher Iap - Information Age Pub. Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Beginning Postcolonialism by Peter J. Barry
RRP: £10.99£8.12Postcolonialism has become one of the most exciting, popular and stimulating fields of literary and cultural studies in recent years. Yet the variety of approaches, the range of debate and the critical vocabularies often used may make it challenging for... -
Franciscan Footprints: Following Christ in the ways of Francis and Clare by Helen Julian 9780857468116
RRP: £8.99£6.65There are many ways of following Christ - each footprint is unique. One of these, the Franciscan spiritual journey, has been tried and tested over the centuries, and the experiences of St Francis and St Clare and all those who have been inspired by their... -
One Way and Another: New and Selected Essays by Adam Phillips
RRP: £12.99£9.19A selection of the most popular and relevant essays from Adam Phillips, the man New Yorker called 'Britain's foremost psychoanalytic writer' 'Phillips's prose is poetic in the best sense: it is muscular, resonant, and thrums with a dark music that is... -
The Storyteller Essays by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £15.99£11.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681370583Author Walter BenjaminFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
The Art of War: Bilingual Chinese and English Text (The Complete Edition) Sun Tzu 9780804848206
RRP: £8.99£6.39Sun Tzu's The Art of War is still one of the world's most influential treatises on strategic thought. Applicable everywhere from the boardroom to the bedroom, from the playing field to the battlefield, its wisdom has never been more highly regarded. Now... -
How to Read a Diary: Critical Contexts and Interpretive Strategies for 21st-Century Readers Desiree Henderson 9780415789202
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... -
An Autobiography: and Other Writings by Anthony Trollope 9780199675296
RRP: £10.99£7.99'I hated the office. I hated my work...the only career in life within my reach was that of an author.' The only autobiography by a major Victorian novelist, Trollope's account offers a fascinating insight into his literary life and opinions. After a... -
The Nightfisherman: Selected Letters of W.S. Graham by W. S. Graham 9781857544459
RRP: £18.95£13.57William Sydney Graham (1918-1986) was born in Greenock, Scotland, `beside the sugar house quays' - a setting open to the sea. He remained a Celt, moving from Scotland to Cornwall where he found seascapes without urban clutter, just an occasional ruined... -
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... -
How to See Nature by Paul Evans
RRP: £8.99£6.56"Pack soup, cheese and a copy of How To See Nature by the Bard of Wenlock Edge and Guardian diarist."John Vidal With a title taken from the 1940 Batsford book, this is nature writing for the modern reader. Evans weaves historical, cultural and literary... -
Before the Muses: An Anthology of Akkadian Literature by Benjamin R. Foster
RRP: £49.95£44.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883053765Author Benjamin R. FosterFormat PaperbackPage Count 1044Imprint CDL PressPublisher CDL PressWeight(grams) 1497gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Hampshire: through writers' eyes Alastair Langlands 9781780600987
RRP: £12.99£8.83Those who know the downs and chalk streams of Hampshire are quietly fortunate but rarely boastful. So it is fascinating to rediscover this home county, on the eastern edge of Wessex, as a place of extraordinary richness. Those rounded chalk hills have... -
Good Citizens Need Not Fear: 'Bright, funny, satirical and relevant' Margaret Atwood (from Twitter) by Maria Reva
RRP: £8.99£6.39'Bright, funny, satirical and relevant. . . . A new talent to watch!' MARGARET ATWOOD (via Twitter)This brilliant and bitingly funny novel-in-stories, set in and around a single crumbling apartment building in Soviet-era Ukraine, heralds the arrival of a... -
Through the Window: Seventeen Essays (and one short story) by Julian Barnes
RRP: £12.99£9.34In these seventeen essays (and one short story) the 2011 Man Booker Prize winner examines British, French and American writers who have meant most to him, as well as the cross-currents and overlappings of their different cultures. From the deceptiveness... -
The Great British Speeches Simon Heffer 9780857383273
RRP: £12.99£8.8350 speeches from every period of British history from the medieval era to the present and a fascinating dip-in history title that will both inspire readers and give them a greater understanding of British history. The speechmakers are: King Henry V;... -
Cicero, Pro Cluentio: A Selection Matthew Barr (Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls, UK) 9781350060340
RRP: £16.99£15.46This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 1) prescription of Cicero's Pro Cluentio, sections 1-7 and 10-11, and the A-Level (Group 2) prescription of sections 27-32 and 35-37, giving full Latin text,... -
Holding Patterns by Alasdair Cannon 9780645066470
RRP: £13.99£12.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645066470Author Alasdair CannonFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Bonfire BooksPublisher Bonfire BooksWeight(grams) 168g -
Dreams Must Explain Themselves: The Selected Non-Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin Ursula K. Le Guin 9781473205949
RRP: £18.99£12.94Ursula K. Le Guin has won or been nominated for over 200 awards for her fiction, including the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy and SFWA Grand Master Awards. She is the acclaimed author of the Earthsea sequence and The Left Hand of Darkness - which alone... -
Helena Rubinstein: The Woman Who Invented Beauty by Michele Fitoussi 9781908313461
RRP: £12.99£8.87She understood women. She understood beauty. And she started a revolution. Helena Rubinstein was born into a poor Polish family at the end of the nineteenth century; by the time of her death in 1965 she had built a cosmetics empire that spanned the... -
Brideshead Abbreviated: The Digested Read of the Twentieth Century by John Crace
RRP: £10.99£7.99John Crace's 'Digested Read' column in the Guardian has rightly acquired a cult following. Each week fans avidly devour his latest razor-sharp literary assassination, while authors turn tremblingly to the appropriate page of the review section, fearful... -
Letters of Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
RRP: £25.00£14.69At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter-writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and he was to become a prolific master of this art which combines writing and talking. This selection begins when Hughes was... -
Selected Writings by Alexander von Humboldt
RRP: £15.00£11.53Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His life was packed with adventure and discovery, whether climbing volcanoes in the Andes, swimming with crocodiles, racing through anthrax-infected Siberia, or... -
Performing Flea by Everyman's Library (UK)
RRP: £10.99£7.99In this series of letters to William Townend, a fellow-writer and friend since their schooldays at Dulwich College, Wodehouse discusses in some detail his literary outlook, writing methods and constant hunt for new plots. Characteristically modest and...