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Congratulations, by the way by George Saunders
RRP: £9.99£7.32'We're lucky to have him' Jonathan Franzen 'A morally passionate, serious writer' Zadie Smith 'Here's something I know to be true, although it's a little corny, and I don't quite know what to do with it: What I regret most in my life are failures of... -
New Daughters of Africa: AN INTERNATIONAL ANTHOLOGY OF WRITING BY WOMEN OF AFRICAN DESCENT by Margaret Busby 9781912408009
RRP: £30.00£20.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912408009Author Margaret BusbyFormat HardbackPage Count 840Imprint Myriad EditionsPublisher Myriad Editions -
A Notable Woman: The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt by Jean Lucey Pratt
RRP: £12.99£8.80'Timeless, funny and utterly absorbing' HILARY MANTELIn April 1925 at the age of fifteen, Jean Lucey Pratt started a journal that she kept until just a few days before her death in 1986, producing over a million words in 45 exercise books. What emerges... -
Selected Writings by Gerard de Nerval
RRP: £14.99£10.95Poet, visionary, short-story writer and autobiographer, Gerard de Nerval (1808-1855) explored the uncertain borderlines between dream and reality, irony and madness, autobiography and fiction with his groundbreaking writings. This comprehensive selection... -
Essays In Love by Alain de Botton 9781035038589
RRP: £10.99£7.73'De Botton is a national treasure.' - Susan Hill, author of The Woman in BlackA unique love story and a classic work of philosophy, rooted in the mysterious workings of the human heart and mind.Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there... -
Timaeus Critias Cleitophon Menexenus Epistles: v. 9 by Plato
RRP: £24.95£23.76On the creation of the world, and the destruction of Atlantis.Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BC. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else... -
Laches by Plato
RRP: £24.95£23.76On virtue in education and argumentation.Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BC. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is... -
Collected Poems by Jack Gilbert
RRP: £25.00£18.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Pulitzer Prize 2013.Book InformationISBN 9780375711763Author Jack GilbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA... -
De Inventione; De Optimo Genere Oratorum; Topica by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95£23.76Three rhetorical treatises.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, ... -
Volpone and Other Plays by Ben Jonson
RRP: £12.99£9.34The three plays collected in this volume depict the faults, errors and foibles of ordinary people with exuberant humour, savage satire and acute observations. Volpone portrays a rich Venetian who pretends to be dying so that his despised acquaintances... -
Casting the Runes: The Letters of M. R. James by Dr Jane Mainley-Piddock
RRP: £30.00£20.24The much-loved author Montague Rhodes James is best known today for his ghost stories. Their popularity has kept them in print since the first collection was issued in 1931, and they've earned a cult following. But for all this literary success, his... -
Speeches That Changed the World Quercus 9781529416053
RRP: £20.00£13.35From calls to arms to demands for peace, and from cries of freedom to words of inspiration, this stirring anthology captures the voices of prophets and politicians, rebels and tyrants, soldiers and statesman, placing them in historical context.With over... -
A Handbook to Eddic Poetry: Myths and Legends of Early Scandinavia by Carolyne Larrington 9781316501290
RRP: £25.99£22.39This is the first comprehensive and accessible survey in English of Old Norse eddic poetry: a remarkable body of literature rooted in the Viking Age, which is a critical source for the study of early Scandinavian myths, poetics, culture and society... -
The Island of the Colour-blind by Oliver Sacks
RRP: £10.99£8.15'Sacks is rightly renowned for his empathy . . . anyone with a taste for the exotic will find this beautifully written book highly engaging' - Sunday Times Always fascinated by islands, Oliver Sacks is drawn to the Pacific by reports of the tiny atoll of... -
As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Diaries 1964-1980 by Susan Sontag
RRP: £12.99£9.34'The only transformation that interests me is a total transformation- however minute. I want the encounter with a person or a work of art to change everything.'Brazen, brilliant and deeply searing, Sontag's diaries wrestle with the profound - exploring... -
97,196 Words: Essays by Emmanuel Carrère
RRP: £9.99£7.32Read the definitive essay collection from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Adversary, dubbed 'France's greatest writer of non-fiction' (New York Times)'The most exciting living writer' Karl Ove KnausgaardOver the course of his career, Emmanuel... -
Catullus: A Selection of Poems Dr John Godwin (Independent Scholar, UK) 9781350060227
RRP: £16.99£15.46This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 3) prescription of Catullus' poems 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 17, 40, 70, 76, 85, 88, 89, 91 and 107, and the A-Level (Group 4) prescription of poems 1, 34, 62 and 64 lines... -
Japanese Folktales: Classic Stories from Japan's Enchanted Past by Yei Theodora Ozaki
RRP: £8.99£6.39Be transported to a realm of magical kingdoms, mysterious beings and mythical lands.Japanese Folktales is the most complete collection of Japanese stories in English. It introduces readers to the enchanting world of ghouls, goblins, ogres, sea kings,... -
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare 9781316628201
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... -
Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac
RRP: £9.99£7.32An experimental novel which remained unpublished for years, Visions of Cody is Kerouac's fascinating examination of his own New York life, in a collection of colourful stream-of-consciousness essays. Transcribing taped conversations between members of... -
Markings by Dag Hammarskjold
RRP: £18.00£9.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307277428Author Dag HammarskjoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm)... -
East into Upper East by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 9781582430348
RRP: £13.99£13.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582430348Author Ruth Prawer JhabvalaFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 369g -
Vladimir Mayakovsky: Selected Works Vladimir Mayakovsky 9781910392164
RRP: £14.99£11.11'This exhibition is not a jubilee, it's an account of my work. I demand help - not the glorification of non-existent virtues. That's what we are talking about, comrades, and not about glorifying private persons.' Mayakovsky was a poet, playwright,... -
Margaret Thatcher's Last Election by David Young 9781785906831
RRP: £20.00£14.70The year is 1987. Having made history by becoming the UK's first female Prime Minister and then driving out the most left-wing manifesto the country has ever seen, Margaret Thatcher faces a climactic third election campaign. Her eight years in power... -
Selected Writings on Art and Literature by Charles-Pierre Baudelaire
RRP: £14.99£10.95Before publishing the sensuous and scandalous poems of Les Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) had already earned respect as a forthright and witty critic of art and literature. This stimulating selection of criticism reveals him as a worshipper... -
City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp by Ben Rawlence 9781846275890
RRP: £9.99£6.90To the charity workers, Dadaab refugee camp is a humanitarian crisis; to the Kenyan government, it is a 'nursery for terrorists'; to the western media, it is a dangerous no-go area; but to its half a million residents, it is their last resort. ... -
Paris 1935 by Jean Follain 9781739421236
RRP: £10.99£7.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739421236Author Jean FollainFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint CB EditionsPublisher CB Editions -
Countless Sleepless Nights: A collection of coming-out stories and experiences by Carina Maggar 9781399605984
RRP: £16.99£10.65'I'm sorry I can't say this to your face, but words fail me every time I try, even though I know you would be fine (and knowing you, you might have already guessed).'A moving, inspiring and thought-provoking collection of coming-out stories from around... -
The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens 9780199686667
RRP: £9.99£7.32'And O, Angelica, what has become of you, this present Sunday morning when I can't attend to the sermon; and, more difficult question than that, what has become of Me as I was when I sat by your side?' At the height of his career, around the time he... -
Abundance: Journeys into Restoration in the Natural World by Karen Lloyd
RRP: £16.99£13.36LONGLISTED FOR THE JAMES CROPPER WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING ON CONSERVATION. How should we restore nature and species, and why does it matter? What is lost when we choose not to engage in restoration of the natural world? And which parts of... -
He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art by Christian Wiman
RRP: £16.00£9.36What is it we want when we can't stop wanting? And how do we make that hunger productive and vital rather than corrosive and destructive? These are the questions that animate Christian Wiman as he explores the relationships between art and faith, death... -
The Poems of Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, and The Shield of Herakles by Hesiod 9780520292864
RRP: £12.99£10.41In this new translation of Hesiod, Barry B. Powell gives an accessible, modern verse rendering of these vibrant texts, essential to an understanding of early Greek myth and society. With stunning color images that help bring to life the contents of the... -
Arthur Rimbaud Selected Poems by Arthur Rimbaud 9781857157086
RRP: £10.99£7.99Burnt-out at twenty-three, Rimbaud has become a model for the poet as wayward genius. Nevertheless, he wrote a substantial amount of lyric and dramatic verse in his few years of activity. This volume contains all his mature output, together with several... -
Dead as Doornails: A Memoir by Anthony Cronin
RRP: £10.00£9.17Dead as Doornails, first published in 1976, brings back into print a true classic of Irish memoir. Anthony Cronin's account of life in post-war literary Dublin is as funny and colourful as one would expect from an intimate of Brendan Behan, Patrick... -
The Trotula: An English Translation of the Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine by Monica H. Green
RRP: £23.99£21.16The Trotula was the most influential compendium of women's medicine in medieval Europe. Scholarly debate has long focused on the traditional attribution of the work to the mysterious Trotula, said to have been the first female professor of medicine in... -
Wisdom of the Buddha: The Unabridged Dhammapada F. Max MuLler 9780486411200
RRP: £3.49£3.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486411200Author F. Max MuLlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 60gDimensions(mm)... -
Harlem Shadows: Poems by Claude McKay
RRP: £12.99£8.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593242681Author Claude McKayFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
La Reine Blanche: Mary Tudor, A Life in Letters by Sarah Bryson
RRP: £20.00£13.95Mary Tudor's childhood was overshadowed by the men in her life: her father, Henry VII, and her brothers Arthur, heir to the Tudor throne, and Henry VIII. These men and the beliefs held about women at the time helped to shape Mary's life. She was trained... -
Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish Tom McCarthy 9781681370866
RRP: £15.99£11.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681370866Author Tom McCarthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,... -
A Year and a Day: An Experiment in Essays Phillip Lopate 9781681377780
RRP: £16.99£11.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681377780Author Phillip LopateFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc