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In Search Of Lost Time Volume 2 Marcel Proust 9781841598970
RRP: £20.00£14.91In this second volume of In Search of Lost Time, the narrator turns from the childhood reminiscences of Swann's Way to memories of his adolescence. Having gradually become indifferent to Swann's daughter Gilberte, the narrator visits the seaside resort... -
Plant Dreaming Deep: A Novel by May Sarton 9780393315516
RRP: £16.50£13.93May Sarton describes living at her eighteenth-century house in Nelson, New Hampshire-how she acquired it, how it and the garden became part of her.About the AuthorMay Sarton (1912-1995) was an acclaimed poet, novelist, and memoirist.Reviews"A drama of... -
Great Speeches by Franklin Delano Roosevelt 9780486408941
RRP: £2.99£2.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486408941Author Roosevelt, Franklin DelanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Selected Letters of Wilfred Owen by Potter
RRP: £25.00£21.19This new, select edition of Wilfred Owen's letters provides a fresh understanding of the poet's life in his own words. Wilfred Owen's fame as one of the great war poets of the twentieth century is unsurpassed, with Dulce et Decorum est possibly the... -
Volume the Second by Jane Austen: In Her Own Hand Jane Austen 9780789212009
RRP: £17.99£12.72Forever immortalised as the author of Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen actually produced her first 'books' as a teenager. Taking their names from the inscriptions on their covers - Volume the First, Volume the Second, and Volume the Third - these... -
The Portable Machiavelli by Niccolo Machiavelli
RRP: £12.99£9.34Edited and translated by Peter Bondanella and Mark Musa, "The Portable Machiavelli" not only gives the casual reader a chance to read different personal and professional works of Machiavelli, but also strives to do away with many of the myths that have... -
Breathturn Into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry: A Bilingual Edition by Paul Celan 9780374608033
RRP: £24.99£19.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374608033Author Paul CelanFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 1066g -
The Solitary Summer by Elizabeth Von Arnim 9781603863261
£6.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603863261Author Elizabeth Von ArnimFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Watchmaker PublishingPublisher Watchmaker PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Attention!: A (short) History Joshua Cohen 9781907903618
RRP: £14.99£12.75A 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... -
Four Greek Plays by Kenneth McLeish 9781853995835
£26.63These translations of "Oedipus the King", "Antigone", "Acharnians" and "Peace", are here reissued in paperback. They are written to be accessible for use in schools and for performance, and contain no Greek text.Author's works include "Roman Comedy"Book... -
A Book Lover's Guide to New York by Cleo Le-Tan
£23.36A Book Lover s Guide to New York is a love letter to everything literary in New York City. It is a book all about books. The book is an object in itself, designed as the ultimate little tome any book collector would love to acquire, layered with witty... -
Rome's Mediterranean Empire: Books 41-45 and the Periochae by Livy
RRP: £13.99£10.41'I will do as the Senate decrees.' These words from one of Rome's opponents encapsulate the authority Rome achieved by its subjugation of the Mediterranean. The Third Macedonian War, recounted in this volume, ended the kingdom created by Philip II and... -
The Complete Euripides: Volume III: Hippolytos and Other Plays by Peter Burian 9780195388770
RRP: £12.49£9.24Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations offers new translations that go beyond... -
General History of Africa volume 1 (pbk abridged - Methodology and African Prehistory by J. Ki-Zerbo
RRP: £24.99£24.30SPECIAL COMMENDATION in Africa's 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century. The series is illustrated throughout with maps and black and white photographs. Assesses the importance attached by African societies to their past and the growth and... -
Visions Of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939 by Georges Bataille
RRP: £19.99£17.81Since the publication of Visions of Excess in 1985, there has been an explosion of interest in the work of Georges Bataille. The French surrealist continues to be important for his groundbreaking focus on the visceral, the erotic, and the relation of... -
Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation by Michael Chabon
RRP: £13.99£10.41Published to coincide the with 50th anniversary of the Israel occupation of the West Bank, an anthology that explores the human cost of the conflict there as witnessed by such notable writers as Colum McCann, Colm Toibin, Dave Eggers, Madeleine Thien,... -
The Mother of the Bront s: When Maria Met Patrick by Sharon Wright 9781526757609
RRP: £12.99£9.34At long last, the untold story of the mysterious Mrs Bront . They were from different lands, different classes, different worlds almost. The chances of Cornish gentlewoman Maria Branwell even meeting the poor Irish curate Patrick Bront in Regency... -
John Ruskin: Selected Prose by Richard Lansdown 9780192868022
RRP: £18.99£18.31This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of John Ruskin (1819-1900). The edition represents Ruskin's extraordinary literary output, ranging from lectures, essays, and... -
The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction: Advice and Essential Exercises from Respected Writers, Editors, and Teachers by Dinty W Moore
RRP: £15.95£12.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984616664Author Dinty W MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 179Imprint Rose Metal PressPublisher Rose Metal PressWeight(grams) 318g -
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, Volume VI: Prose: 1969-1973 by W. H. Auden 9780691164588
RRP: £62.00£49.22This sixth and final volume of W. H. Auden's prose displays a great writer's mind in its full maturity of wisdom, learning, and emotional and moral intelligence. It contains the full text of the only book that he regarded as an autobiography, A Certain... -
The World's Greatest Book of Useless Information by Noel Botham 9781844541669
£12.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorThe Useless Information Society is a group of journalists, TV personalities and other assorted oddbods who meet twice a year to get enormously drunk and swap -... -
Proverbs in Irish by Garry Bannister
RRP: £12.99£11.20Proverbs are, however, much more than that. They are windows into our past, and a friendly nod from our ancestors. Sometimes they can remind us of our parents or grandparents as we once again hear their kindly voices speak to us in words of folk wisdom... -
The Cambridge Companion to Cicero by Catherine Steel 9780521729802
RRP: £30.99£25.85Cicero was one of classical antiquity's most prolific, varied and self-revealing authors. His letters, speeches, treatises and poetry chart a political career marked by personal struggle and failure and the collapse of the republican system of government... -
The Wonders of Vilayet: Being the Memoir, Originally in Persian, of a Visit to France and Britain in 1765 by Mirza Sheikh I'tesamuddin 9781900715157
RRP: £10.99£7.86In 1765, Mirza Sheikh I'tesamuddin, a Bengali munchi employed by the East India Company, travelled on a mission to Britain to seek protection for the Mogul Emperor Shah Alam II. The mission was aborted by the greed and duplicity of Robert Clive, but it... -
Greek Fiction: Callirhoe, Daphnis and Chloe, Letters of Chion by Chariton 9780140449259
RRP: £12.99£9.34In this collection of Greek fiction written between the first and fourth centuries AD, 'Callirhoe' is the stirring tale of star-crossed lovers Chaereas and Callirhoe, torn apart when she is kidnapped and sold as a slave, while 'Daphnis and Chloe' tells... -
Gods and Mortals: Ancient Greek Myths for Modern Readers by Sarah Iles Johnston
RRP: £30.00£20.40An entrancing new telling of ancient Greek myths"This book is a triumph! . . . [A] magnificent retelling of the Greek myths."-Alexander McCall Smith, author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series"Move over, Edith Hamilton! Sarah Iles Johnston has... -
The Little Devil and Other Stories by Alexei Remizov 9780231183819
RRP: £13.99£10.51In a dilapidated and isolated old house, something peculiar seems to happen whenever the town's bestial exterminator visits. On a seemingly bucolic country estate, the head of the household is a living corpse obsessed with other corpses. An adolescent... -
Philip Sparrow Tells All: Lost Essays by Samuel Steward, Writer, Professor, Tattoo Artist by Samuel Steward 9780226304687
RRP: £19.00£18.50Samuel Steward (1909-93) was an English professor, a tattoo artist for the Hells Angels, a sexual adventurer who shared his considerable range of experiences with Alfred Kinsey, and a prolific writer of everything from scholarly articles to gay erotica... -
Only Too Much Is Enough: Francis Bacon in his own words by Michael Peppiatt
RRP: £14.99£12.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912475568Author Michael PeppiattFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint ERISPublisher ERISDimensions(mm) 230mm * 130mm * 7mm -
The David Foster Wallace Reader by David Foster Wallace
RRP: £16.99£12.68'One of the most dazzling luminaries of contemporary American fiction' Sunday Times 'The most commanding and exciting and inventive rhetorical virtuosity of any writer alive... [He] nailed it like nobody else ever had' Jonathan Franzen'[He was] first... -
Nothing More To Lose by Najwan Darwish
RRP: £14.99£11.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590177303Author Najwan DarwishFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 111gDimensions(mm)... -
Fragmentary Republican Latin, Volume II: Ennius, Dramatic Fragments. Minor Works by Ennius
RRP: £24.95£23.76The assimilated assimilator.Quintus Ennius (239-169 BC), widely regarded as the father of Roman literature, was instrumental in creating a new Roman literary identity and inspired major developments in Roman religion, social organization, and popular ... -
Journey to the Orient by Gerard De Nerval 9780988202603
RRP: £19.95£15.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988202603Author Gerard De NervalFormat PaperbackPage Count 482Imprint Antipodes PressPublisher Antipodes PressWeight(grams) 699g -
Dead Joker by Anne Holt
RRP: £7.99£5.64THE FIFTH INSTALMENT IN THE HANNE WILHELMSEN SERIES.The edgy detective investigates a brutal series of murders while dealing with tragedy closer to home.Chief Prosecutor Sigurd Halvorsrud's wife is found dead in front of the fireplace in the family... -
Bland Fanatics: Liberals, the West and the Afterlives of Empire by Pankaj Mishra 9781788737333
RRP: £16.99£14.32Decades of violence and chaos have generated a political and intellectual hysteria-ranging from imperial atavism to paranoia about invading or hectically breeding Muslim hordes-that has affected even the most intelligent in Anglo-America. In Bland... -
Laugh or Cry: The British Soldier on the Western Front, 1914-1918 by Peter Hart 9781399068772
RRP: £25.00£17.90Awakened by great shouted oaths below. Peeped over the side of the manger and saw a Belgian lass milking and addressing a cow with a comprehensive luridness that left no doubt in my mind that British soldiers had been billeted here before.' Private... -
Trotsky, The Passionate Revolutionary by Todd, Allan 9781399010764
RRP: £25.00£17.90Although Trotsky was dramatically assassinated just over eighty years ago, he remains a controversial figure. He has had many biographers over the decades - ranging from the overly-sympathetic, to the extremely-hostile. Robert Service, his most recent... -
Some Thoughts on the Common Toad by George Orwell
RRP: £7.99£5.98In this collection of eight witty and sharply written essays, Orwell looks at, among others, the joys of spring (even in London), the picture of humanity painted by Gulliver and his travels, and the strange benefit of the doubt that the public permit... -
Advice to Little Girls by Vladimir Radunsky
RRP: £10.99£7.48You should ever bear in mind that it is to your kind parents that you are indebted for your food, and for the privilege of staying home from school when you let on that you are sick. Therefore you ought to respect their little prejudices, and humor their... -
Letters to Change the World: From Pankhurst to Orwell by Travis Elborough
RRP: £16.99£12.47'We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed' Martin Luther King, Jr.In an era where our liberties are often under threat, Letters to Change the World sends reminders...