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Au Revoir Now Darlint: The Letters of Edith Thompson by Laura Thompson
RRP: £18.99£13.22As seen on Woman's Hour, BBC Newsnight and in the Daily TelegraphA hundred years ago, on the night of 3 October 1922, a thirty-two-year-old clerk named Percy Thompson was stabbed to death as he walked home to his suburban villa in Ilford. With him was... -
Dead Zone: Where the Wild Things Were Philip Lymbery 9781408868287
RRP: £12.99£9.34'An honest, compelling and important account, and a critical plea for a fusion of farming, food and nature to provide global ecological security' CHRIS PACKHAM Why are so many animals facing extinction? Climate change and poaching are not the only... -
Thirteen Cents: A Novel by K. Sello Duiker
RRP: £15.99£14.46Every city has an unspoken side. Cape Town, between the picture postcard mountain and sea, has its own shadow: a place of dislocation and uncertainty, dependence and desperation, destruction and survival, gangsters, pimps, pedophiles, hunger, hope, and... -
Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir by Marina Warner 9780008347628
RRP: £10.99£7.46A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. 'Wonderful - a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination' JENNY UGLOW Inventory of a Life... -
Letters To Sartre by Simone de Beauvoir
RRP: £14.99£11.11In 1983 de Beauvoir published Sartre's letters, maintaining that her own to him had been lost. They were found by de Beauvoir's adopted daughter, and published to a storm of controversy in France. Tracing the emotional and triangular complications of her... -
Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature by Iris Murdoch 9780140264920
£17.12Best known as the author of 26 novels, Iris Murdoch was also an accomplished essayist and critic who taught philosophy for many years at Oxford University. This work gathers for the first time in one volume her most influential essays and shorter pieces... -
The Abundance Annie Dillard 9781782117735
RRP: £10.99£7.54Annie Dillard has spent a lifetime examining the world around her with eyes wide open, drinking in all things intensely and relentlessly. Whether observing a sublime lunar eclipse or a moth consumed in a candle flame, the trembling of lily pads on a pond... -
Metamorphoses: Bk. 3 by Ovid 9780906515020
RRP: £22.99£22.85This simple, utilitarian edition offers sixth-form and undergraduate students an introduction to the enchanted, sometimes violent, often sad, often funny world of the "Metamorphoses." Book III is ideal in this respect, for it possesses a... -
The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951 by Lord John Julius Norwich
RRP: £16.99£9.82The long awaited and highly revealing diaries of the politician, diplomat, and socialite (married to Lady Diana Cooper)'This is a fabulous, jaw-dropping read' SUNDAY TIMES'Duff Cooper was as close to the action as anyone during the dramatic events of the... -
George Orwell: English Rebel by Robert Colls
RRP: £14.99£11.35An intellectual who did not like intellectuals, a socialist who did not trust the state, a writer of the left who found it easier to forgive writers of the right, a liberal who was against free markets, a Protestant who believed in religion but not in... -
Your Ad Could Go Here: Stories by Oksana Zabuzhko
£9.59Oksana Zabuzhko, author of "the most influential Ukrainian book in the fifteen years since independence," Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex, returns with a gripping short story collection. Oksana Zabuzhko, Ukraine's leading public intellectual, is called... -
My Moment: 106 Women on Fighting for Themselves by Various
RRP: £20.00£14.06A collection of essays accompanied by beautiful black-and-white photography from a diverse group of women on the moment they realized they were ready to fight for themselves-including Gloria Steinem, Lena Waithe, Joanna Gaines, Brandi Carlile, Beanie... -
Keep Scrolling Till You Feel Something: 21 Years of Humor from McSweeney's Internet Tendency by Chris Monks 9781944211721
£31.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944211721Author Chris MonksFormat HardbackPage Count 679Imprint McSweeney's PublishingPublisher McSweeney's Publishing -
Bernard Kops' East End by Bernard Kops 9781905512119
RRP: £9.99£8.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905512119Author Bernard KopsFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications -
The Windsor Diaries: A childhood with the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Alathea Fitzalan Howard 9781529328103
RRP: £12.99£8.83**SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020****TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020****SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020**'A new perspective on "Lilibet" as she fell for her future husband' Sunday Express, Books of the Year'For a glimpse into the lives of the young... -
E. J. Rudsdale's Journals of Wartime Colchester by Catherine Pearson
RRP: £14.99£11.72E.J. Rudsdale's role as a museum curator and air-raid shelter superintendent at Colchester Castle during the Second World War gave him the perfect opportunity to record life on the Home Front in his journals. Seventy years later, the selected extracts... -
Immanuel by Matthew McNaught
RRP: £12.99£8.80At what point does faith turn into tyranny? In Immanuel, winner of the inaugural Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize, Matthew McNaught explores his upbringing in an evangelical Christian community in Winchester. As he moved away from the faith of his... -
Lives of Houses by Hermione Lee 9780691193663
RRP: £20.00£16.53A group of notable writers-including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow-celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists, composers, and politicians of the past What can a... -
Great Short Stories of the Masters by Charles Neider 9780815412533
RRP: £14.99£12.10Forty-nine short stories, selected for their richness of detail, accurate depictions of human passion, and international scope, fill this collection. The authors include Americans such as Hemingway, Faulkner, Saul Bellow, and Flannery O'Connor, 19th and... -
One World: A global anthology of short stories by Chris Brazier 9781906523138
RRP: £9.99£7.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906523138Author Chris BrazierFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint New Internationalist Publications LtdPublisher New Internationalist Publications... -
Conversational Japanese Dialogues: Over 100 Japanese Conversations and Short Stories by Lingo Mastery 9781951949280
RRP: £14.90£14.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951949280Author Lingo MasteryFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Lingo MasteryPublisher Lingo MasteryWeight(grams) 662gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm *... -
Read Real Japanese Fiction: Short Stories by Contemporary Writers by Michael Emmerich
RRP: £24.00£15.776 contemporary short stories by the best writers present ed in vertical format with translation on facing page and a series of notes that elucidate nuance, grammar, culture. At the back is a Japanese-English dictionary tailor-made to cover all the words... -
Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees by Aimee Nezhukumatathil 9780063282261
RRP: £18.99£12.71From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays about food, offering a banquet of tastes, smells, memories, associations, and marvelous curiosities from natureIn Bite by Bite, poet and essayist Aimee... -
The Complete Works of Zhuangzi by Burton Watson
RRP: £62.00£48.62Only by inhabiting Dao (the Way of Nature) and dwelling in its unity can humankind achieve true happiness and freedom, in both life and death. This is Daoist philosophy's central tenet, espoused by the person-or group of people-known as Zhuangzi... -
Is It Hot in Here (Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth)? by Zach Zimmerman
RRP: £12.99£9.14In this debut collection of essays, lists, musings, and quips, Zimmerman delicately walks the fine line between tear-jerking and knee-slapping, and does so with aplomb. Through this memoir-esque exploration of selfhood, Zach unveils the pros and cons of... -
Mysterious Marie Laveau, Voodoo Queen, And Folk Tales Along The Mississippi by Raymond J Martinez
RRP: £15.99£13.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615758657Author Raymond J MartinezFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Quaint PressPublisher Quaint PressWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm... -
Guilt by Descent: Moral Inheritance and Decision Making in Greek Tragedy by N.J. Sewell-Rutter 9780199227334
RRP: £140.00£109.81Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Black Earth: A Journey through Ukraine by Jens Muhling 9781914982002
RRP: £11.99£8.58'Will someone pay for the spilled blood? No. Nobody.' Mikhail Bulgakov wrote these words in Kiev during the turmoil of the Russian Civil War. Since then Ukrainian borders have shifted constantly and its people have suffered numerous military foreign... -
Untitled by John Stapleton 9780007415588
RRP: £9.99£6.84'The bombshell book everyone is talking about' DAILY MAIL 'A radio genius ... the maestro of the show' EVENING STANDARD As presenter of Radio 4's Today, the nation's most popular... -
Peace Work by Spike Milligan
RRP: £10.99£8.61Peace Work is volume seven of Spike Milligan's outrageous, hilarious, legendary War Memoirs.'I had not informed my parents of my return, I wanted it to be a lovely surprise; it was, for me, they were away ...'The seventh and last volume of Spike... -
Still Life with a Bridle by Zbigniew Herbert 9781907903496
RRP: £12.00£9.97A gathering of artful essays by one of Poland's most translated post-war writers is here brought to a new audience. Poet and essayist Zbigniew Herbert takes an intriguing look at the cultural, artistic, and aesthetic legacy of 17th-century Holland. These... -
Beauty and the Inferno by Oonagh Stransky 9780857050106
RRP: £10.99£7.61Roberto Saviano is best known for his work on the Italian mafia, but Beauty and the Inferno, winner of the European Book Award 2010, also tackles universal themes with great insight and humanity, with urgency, and often with anger. This important... -
Great Short Works Of Fyodor Dostoevsky by F. M. Dostoevsky 9780060726461
£14.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060726461Author F. M. DostoevskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 610g -
Tom Daley by Guy Adams 9780702316531
RRP: £5.99£4.21Tom Daley: diver, sporting legend, Olympian. Dive into the world of sports with of one of the greatest athletes of all time, Tom Daley. A Life Story: this exciting series throws the reader directly into the lives of... -
King Richard III by William Shakespeare 9780521735568
RRP: £9.99£8.40The 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... -
When the Sick Rule the World by Dodie Bellamy
RRP: £16.99£11.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584351689Author Dodie BellamyFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 19mm -
Shakespeare's Bawdy by Eric Partridge 9780415254007
RRP: £14.99£13.58This classic of Shakespeare scholarship begins with a masterly introductory essay analysing and exemplifying the various categories of sexual and non-sexual bawdy expressions and allusions in Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. The main body of the work... -
The Love That Dares by Rachel Smith
RRP: £16.99£11.71"What this charming, moving and fascinating collection proves is that the [letter] form itself - a scribbled note, a declaration of love, an outpouring of passion, a bitter word - has always been with us." - Mark GatissA good love letter can speak across... -
Shodasha Varga: The 16 Divisional Charts of Vedic Astrology by Komilla Sutton 9781910531402
RRP: £28.00£19.62Shodasa means sixteen and varga means a part or division. The shodasa vargas or sixteen divisional charts are a powerful technique used in Vedic astrology to understand the true nature of an individual. Each varga focuses on a different area of life and... -
The Book of Travels by Ḥannā Diyāb 9781479820016
RRP: £13.99£11.28The adventures of the man who created Aladdin The Book of Travels is Hanna Diyab's remarkable first-person account of his travels as a young man from his hometown of Aleppo to the court of Versailles and back again, which forever linked him to one of...