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Love Drones Noam Dorr 9781946448385
RRP: £12.99£8.87In 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... -
Youngman: Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan Lou Sullivan 9781784877347
RRP: £9.99£7.32A unique first-hand account of a historical gay trans man's whole life, which reads like a celebratory coming-of-age novel. Lou kept candid diaries from the age of 10. Through these extracts, we hear Lou's life in his own words: from 'playing boys' in... -
Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It: Life Journeys Inspired by the Bestselling Memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert
RRP: £10.99£7.99In the ten years since its electrifying debut, Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat Pray Love has become a worldwide phenomenon, empowering millions of readers to set out on paths they never thought possible. In this candid and captivating collection, nearly fifty of... -
Phaedra and Other Plays by Seneca
RRP: £12.99£9.34Living in Rome under Caligula and later a tutor to Nero, Seneca witnessed the extremes of human behaviour. His shocking and bloodthirsty plays not only reflect a brutal period of history but also show how guilt, sorrow, anger and desire lead individuals... -
The Book of Legendary Lands Umberto Eco 9780857052964
RRP: £30.00£20.10In the tradition of his books On Beauty and On Ugliness and The Infinity of Lists, Umberto Eco presents an enthralling illustrated tour of the fabled places that have awed and eluded us through the ages."Eco is one of the most influential thinkers of our... -
The Essential Ernest Holmes: Collected Writings by the Author of the Science of Mind by Jesse Jennings
RRP: £14.99£14.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585421817Author Ernest HolmesFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Jeremy P TarcherPublisher Penguin Putnam IncDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 18mm -
Letters of a Dead Man by Hermann Von Puckler-Mus
RRP: £62.95£53.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884024118Author Prince Hermann von Puckler-MuskauFormat HardbackPage Count 800Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton... -
Storm for the Living and the Dead: Uncollected and Unpublished Poems by Charles Bukowski
RRP: £9.99£6.84A timeless selection of some of Charles Bukowski's best unpublished and uncollected poems Charles Bukowski was a prolific writer who produced countless short stories, novels, and poems that have reached beyond their time and place to speak to generations... -
The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh by Vincent Van Gogh 9781420939279
RRP: £10.99£9.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420939279Author Vincent Van GoghFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Turning the Boat for Home: A life writing about nature Richard Mabey 9780701181086
RRP: £18.99£13.82'One of our greatest nature writers' GuardianFor over fifty years, Richard Mabey has been a pioneering voice in modern nature writing. This book collects pieces across his rich career, tracing his continually evolving ideas as much as the profound... -
Julian Bream: A Life on the Road by Tony Palmer 9781839014499
RRP: £12.99£11.66Julian Bream is recognised as one of the world's leading guitarists, some would say the greatest. He was certainly for many years Britain's senior ambassador as a guitarist and lutenist, touring more widely and more frequently than almost any other... -
Lives for Sale: Biographers' Tales by Mark Bostridge 9780826475732
RRP: £36.95£28.15Biography is well recognised as a peculiarly British vice. Lives for Sale is an anthology of essays by some of the best biographers now writing in Britain. They tell of the ups and downs of life writing: of problems with families and friends of their... -
Restoration Literature: An Anthology by Paul Hammond 9780199555192
RRP: £11.99£8.66When our great monarch into exile went, Wit and religion suffered banishment... At length the Muses stand restored again To that great charge which Nature did ordain. In these lines Dryden represents the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 as the... -
I Have No Regrets – Diaries, 1955–1963 by Brigitte Reimann 9781803091808
RRP: £19.99£16.97Frank and refreshing, Brigitte Reimann's collected diaries provide a candid account of life in socialist Germany. With an upbeat tempo and amusing tone, I Have No Regrets contains detailed accounts of the author's love affairs, daily life, writing, and... -
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: Centenary Edition by Ludwig Wittgenstein 9781839982095
RRP: £25.00£24.15This new edition of Wittgenstein's book, strictly following the author's recommendations, allows a more immediate comprehension of the text and dissolves several false problems that had deceived readers and scholars for a century. The faithful... -
Selected Letters by Horace Walpole
RRP: £16.99£12.87Author of the first gothic novel and son of the first prime minister of Great Britain, Horace Walpole had wide-ranging interests that included literature, politics, world affairs, collecting, antiquities, and architecture, and to his numerous... -
The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present by Phillip Lopate 9780385423397
RRP: £25.00£17.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385423397Author Phillip LopateFormat PaperbackPage Count 832Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)... -
NB by J.C.: A walk through the Times Literary Supplement by James Campbell
RRP: £25.00£17.32A The Spectator and Observer Book of the Year. The NB column in the Times Literary Supplement, signed at the foot by J.C., occupied the back page of the paper for thirteen years. For a decade before that, it was in the middle pages. That's roughly... -
Blue Octavo Notebooks by Frantz Kafka 9781878972040
RRP: £12.50£8.57Originally omitted from Kafka's famous diaries, these notebooks contain some of Kafka's most famous aphorisms From late 1917 until June 1919, Franz Kafka ceased to keep a diary, for which he had used quarto-size notebooks, instead writing in a series... -
Days of Reading by Marcel Proust
RRP: £7.99£5.98In these inspiring essays about why we read, Proust explores all the pleasures and trials that we take from books, as well as explaining the beauty of Ruskin and his work, and the joys of losing yourself in literature as a child. Throughout history, some... -
Dear Strong Black Woman: Letters of Nourishment and Reflection from One Strong Black Woman to Another by Jennifer Sterling 9781944134211
RRP: £15.95£9.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944134211Author Jennifer SterlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint One Idea PressPublisher One Idea PressWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm... -
Three Little Truths by Eithne Shortall
RRP: £8.99£6.11**AN IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER**___________________________'Funny, endearing, mysterious and outrageous, this book is wildly entertaining and hugely enjoyable.' Liz NugentOn this street, no secret is safe.___________________________The Pine Road WhatsApp... -
Paris Stories by Shaun Whiteside
RRP: £15.00£10.96In the eighteenth century, Laurence Sterne explores the temptations of the French capital in a teasing study of foreign mores and Restif de la Bretonne provides an eye-witness account of the Revolution. From the 1800s, Hugo, Balzac, Flaubert, and Zola... -
Kurt Vonnegut: Letters by Kurt Vonnegut
RRP: £14.99£10.95This collection of Vonnegut's letters is the autobiography he never wrote - from the letter he posted home upon being freed from a German POW camp, to notes of advice to his children: 'Don't let anybody tell you that smoking and boozing are bad for you... -
Kafka's Other Trial by Elias Canetti
RRP: £9.99£7.32In July 1914, Franz Kafka's fiancee Felice broke off their engagement in a humiliating public tribunal, surrounded by her friends and family, and the other woman with whom Kafka had recently fallen in love. Broken and bereft, Kafka - at the height of his... -
Wild Ducks Flying Backward by Tom Robbins 9781842431719
RRP: £9.99£3.66From beloved and best-selling novelist Tom Robbins comes a collection of non-fiction essays and short fiction, many in print for the first time ever! From tributes such as an ode to redheads, kissing, Diane Keaton, Leonard Cohen, tomato sandwiches and... -
Peterhead Porridge: Tales from the Funny Side of Scotland's Most Notorious Prison by James Crosbie
RRP: £9.99£7.32James Crosbie was Britain's most wanted man in 1974. With a successful business and an enviable lifestyle, he seemed to have everything going for him - until he got bored with his life and turned to armed robbery. He ended up in Peterhead Prison, doing... -
Paradoxes and Problems by John Donne 9780198127536
£69.56A scholarly edition of works by John Donne. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatusBook InformationISBN 9780198127536Author John DonneFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint... -
Art, Wealth and Riches by William Morris
RRP: £5.00£4.59William Morris is perhaps best known today for the beautiful textile designs he created under the banner of Morris & Co, which continue to decorate homes around the globe. As one of the leading lights of British socialism, however, he is less well known,... -
The Red Notebook by Paul Auster
RRP: £10.99£7.54In this acrobatic and virtuosic collection, Paul Auster traces the compulsion to make literature. In a selection of interviews, as well as in the essay 'The Red Notebook' itself, Auster reflects upon his own work, on the need to break down the boundary... -
Dhows and the Colonial Economy of Zanzibar 1860-1970 by Erik Gilbert
RRP: £19.99£19.69Conventional history assumes that the rise of the steamship trade killed off the Indian ocean dhow trade in the twentieth century. This study argues that the dhow economy played a major role in shaping the economic and social life of colonial Zanzibar. ... -
The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe 9780393972856
£12.77In this Norton Critical Edition, G. R. Thompson has fully introduced, annotated, and edited each text. "Backgrounds and Contexts" includes fifty-seven carefully chosen documents that illuminate Poe's prolific but short career, among them reviews,... -
Winter Pollen: Occasional Prose by Ted Hughes 9780571174263
RRP: £20.00£13.46Ted Hughes has written a series of pieces on writers as diverse as Emily Dickinson, Isaac Bashevis Singer, T. S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath; and on his deep-rooted concern over education, the environment and the arts.About the AuthorTed Hughes (1930-1998)... -
Glimpses of Eden: Field notes from the edge of eternity by Jonathan Tulloch
RRP: £14.99£14.25Glimpses of Eden is a seasonally-arranged collection of the very best of novelist Jonathan Tulloch's acclaimed nature column, which has run in The Tablet for more than ten years. In ninety-six evocative daily records of his explorations of the land,... -
The Paris Review Interviews: Vol. 2 Philip Gourevitch 9781847670335
RRP: £14.99£10.06A second volume of fascinating interviews from one of the world's best loved literary magazinesSince The Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest writers of our age, vivid self-portraits that are... -
The Nicomachean Ethics: Vol 19 by Aristotle
RRP: £24.95£23.76Antiquity's most influential account of life's Supreme Good.Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-347);... -
Latin Prose Composition by M. A. North 9780715613221
£26.43This classic Latin composition book has been in use throughout the world for over 100 years. It features brief lesson overviews followed by English to Latin composition exercises. All common words and constructions are included.Special vocabularies are... -
Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: £12.99£8.56Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays showcases the Hitchens' rejection of consensus and cliche, whether he's reporting from abroad in Indonesia, Kurdistan, Iraq, North Korea, or Cuba, or when his pen is targeted mercilessly at the likes of... -
Remember Who You Used to Be by Peter Thornthwaite 9781913166700
£13.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913166700Author Peter ThornthwaiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 470Imprint Heddon PublishingPublisher Heddon PublishingWeight(grams) 508gDimensions(mm)... -
Death of the Demon by Anne Holt
RRP: £8.99£6.28THE THIRD INSTALMENT IN THE HANNE WILHELMSEN SERIES.The manager of a children's home is dead and a twelve-year-old tearaway is on the run.In an orphanage outside Oslo, a twelve-year-old boy is causing havoc. The institution's ageing director, Agnes...