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The Granta Book Of The American Short Story: V. 1 by Richard Ford 9781862079045
RRP: £12.99£9.34Richard Ford, who is among the finest of American novelists and short-story writers, edits and introduces this volume. First published by Granta Books in 1992, it became the definitive anthology of American short fiction written in the last half of the... -
My Private Property by Mary Ruefle 9781940696515
RRP: £12.99£8.87Unlike many Wave titles, this paperback edition follows the hardcover by one year and will arrive in the market enjoying a year's worth of very strong publicity and word-of-mouth, attracting new readers with the new format and lower price. All of... -
Zapatista Stories for Dreaming An-Other World by Subcomandante Marcos
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629639703Author Subcomandante Insurgente MarcosFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
Epigrams from the Greek Anthology by Gideon Nisbet
RRP: £11.99£8.66Lush Diodorus sets the lads on fire, But now another has him in his net - Timarion, the boy with wanton eyes . . . Meleager, AP 12.109 Encompassing four thousand short poems and more, the ramshackle classic we call the Greek Anthology gathers up... -
Dashing for the Post: The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor by Patrick Leigh Fermor
RRP: £12.99£8.83A revelatory collection of letters written by the author of The Broken Road.Handsome, spirited and erudite, Patrick Leigh Fermor was a war hero and one of the greatest travel writers of his generation. He was also a spectacularly gifted friend. The... -
Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir by Marina Warner
RRP: £16.99£11.47A 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... -
Vietnamese Stories for Language Learners: Traditional Folktales in Vietnamese and English (Free Online Audio) Tri C. Tran 9780804855297
RRP: £15.99£11.09A great story can lead a reader on a cultural and linguistic journey-especially if it's in two languages!Vietnamese Stories for Language Learners introduces 40 traditional Vietnamese folktales with bilingual Vietnamese and English versions presented on... -
C. S. Lewis: A Very Short Introduction by James Como
RRP: £8.99£6.65Beloved by children and adults worldwide, the writings of C.S. Lewis have a broad and enduring appeal. Although he is best known for the iconic Chronicles of Narnia series, C. S. Lewis was actually a man of many literary parts. Already well-known as a... -
At Home with the Brontes: The History of Haworth Parsonage & Its Occupants by Ann Dinsdale
RRP: £15.99£11.85Haworth Parsonage is the world-famous home of the Brontes. Crowds of tourists are drawn to Haworth every year to discover what inspired Anne, Charlotte and Emily. Ann Dinsdale explores their lives there, the impact of the sisters' home on their writing,... -
The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela
RRP: £27.99£24.62Arrested in 1962 as South Africa's apartheid regime intensified its brutal campaign against political opponents, forty-four-year-old lawyer and African National Congress activist Nelson Mandela had no idea that he would spend the next twenty-seven years... -
Public Enemies by Bernard Henri-Levy
RRP: £20.00£14.51'Everything separates us from one another, with the exception of one fundamental point: we're both utterly despicable individuals.' (Houellebecq to BHL)In 2008, two of the most celebrated of French intellectuals Michel Houellebecq and Bernard-Henri Levy... -
The Spirit of Controversy: and Other Essays by William Hazlitt
RRP: £10.99£7.99William Hazlitt (1778-1830) is among the most brilliant critics and essayists to have ever written in the English language. Combative and insightful, he was close to two generations of romantic poets. His early friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and... -
The Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson by James Weldon Johnson 9780812975321
RRP: £18.99£14.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812975321Author James Weldon JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
If Not Critical by Eric Griffiths
RRP: £37.49£37.40Eric Griffiths delivered hundreds of lectures at the Faculty of English in Cambridge, yet his lectures were never turned into books. If Not Critical brings together ten lectures, published here for the first time, that offer a representative selection of... -
Seven Famous Greek Plays by W. & O'Neill Oates 9780394701257
RRP: £15.00£11.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394701257Author Whitney J. OatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 184mm *... -
The Colour Of My Heart: A True Story of Hope, Perseverance and Love by David OEnac 9781838283858
RRP: £14.99£8.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838283858Author Ltyv PublishingFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Listening To Your Voice PublishingPublisher Listening To Your Voice... -
Journal, 1955-1962: Reflections on the French-Algerian War by Mouloud Feraoun 9780803269033
RRP: £19.99£17.04"This honest man, this good man, this man who never did wrong to anyone, who devoted his life to the public good, and who was one of the greatest writers in Algeria, has been murdered. . . . Not by accident, not by mistake, but called by his name and... -
The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy by Christer Brunn
RRP: £44.49£42.18Epigraphy, or the study of inscriptions, is critical for anyone seeking to understand the Roman world, whether they regard themselves as literary scholars, historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, religious scholars or work in a field that touches on... -
Men's Comedic Monologues That Are Actually Funny by Alisha Gaddis 9781480396814
RRP: £11.99£9.02Never before has a monologue book been written completely by people who are actually funny for a living!THThis incredibly hysterical cutting-edge collection of monologues will give an actor the extra bang he needs to land the perfect comedic role... -
Letters from Oxford: Hugh Trevor-Roper to Bernard Berenson by Richard Davenport-Hines 9780753822050
£17.02Superbly readable and revealing letters, full of malice and gossip, from a master historian When they met in 1947 Trevor-Roper, a young historian at Christ Church, Oxford, was 33. Berenson, the world-famous art critic, was 82, frail but still intensely... -
The Leonard Bernstein Letters by Leonard Bernstein
RRP: £16.99£15.01An extraordinary selection of revealing letters to and from one of the titans of 20th-century music Leonard Bernstein was a charismatic and versatile musician-a brilliant conductor who attained international super-star status, and a gifted composer of... -
Joan Didion:The Last Interview: and Other Conversations by MELVILLE HOUSE
RRP: £12.99£8.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685890117Author Joan DidionFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
The Stones of Florence by Mary McCarthy 9781735778914
RRP: £11.95£8.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735778914Author Mary McCarthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Warbler ClassicsPublisher Warbler ClassicsWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke 9780872202160
RRP: £13.99£12.01Includes generous selections from the Essay, topically arranged passages from the replies to Stillingfleet, a chronology, a bibliography, a glossary, and an index based on the entries that Locke himself devised.About the AuthorJohn Locke (1632-1704) was... -
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare 9781107459748
RRP: £9.99£8.40This revised edition preserves the play text as it was edited by Marvin Spevack for the 1988 first edition. Jeremy Lopez's new introduction provides a detailed discussion of Julius Caesar's strange and innovative form by focusing on the interpretive... -
What I Stand On: The Collected Essays of Wendell Berry 1969 - 2017 by Wendell Berry 9781598536102
RRP: £70.99£46.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598536102Author Wendell BerryFormat HardbackPage Count 1702Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America -
Zombie Nation Awakes: Welsh Football's Odyssey to Euro 2016: The Diary of a Reporter Supporter by Bryn Law 9781902719467
RRP: £13.99£11.78This is the book that many Welsh football fans thought they'd never get to read; a tale of outstanding performances at home and away, qualification success and a FIFA Top Ten ranking, and the best thing is...it's all true! Zombie Nation Awakes tells the... -
Less Is More: An Anthology of Ancient & Modern Voices Raised in Praise of Simplicity by Goldian Vandenbroeck
RRP: £17.99£11.67This timely anthology brings together thought-provoking maxims on the art of conscious living, inspired by the ancient tradition of the Golden Mean and the natural laws of economy and conservation. Less Is More draws us into the company of men and women... -
The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens by Jenny Hartley 9780199591411
RRP: £22.99£17.52What was it like to be Charles Dickens? His letters are the nearest we can get to a Dickens autobiography: vivid close-up snapshots of a life lived at maximum intensity. This is the first selection to be made from the magisterial twelve-volume British... -
How to Start Writing (and When to Stop): Advice for Writers by Wislawa Szymborska 9780811229715
RRP: £13.99£12.25In this witty "how-to" guide, Wislawa Szymborska has nothing but sympathy for the labors of would-be writers generally: "I myself started out with rotten poetry and stories," she confesses in this collection of pieces culled from the advice she... -
Princes at War: The British Royal Family's Private Battle in the Second World War Deborah Cadbury 9781408845080
RRP: £16.99£12.47In 1936, the monarchy faced the greatest threats to its survival in the modern era - the crisis of abdication and the menace of Nazism. The fate of the country rested in the hands of George V's sorely unequipped sons: Edward VIII abandoned his throne to... -
The Epistle on Legal Theory: A Translation of Al-Shafi'i's Risalah by Muhammad Ibn Idris al-Shafi'i
£44.15The Epistle on Legal Theory is the oldest surviving Arabic work on Islamic legal theory and the foundational document of Islamic jurisprudence. Its author, Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i (d. 204/820), was the eponym of the Shafi'i school of legal thought,... -
Speaking in Tongues: Curious Expressions from Around the World by Ella Frances Sanders
RRP: £12.99£9.99Ever feel like you are pedalling in the choucroute? Been caught with your beard in the mailbox again? Or maybe you just wish everyone would stop ironing your head?Speaking in Tongues brings the weird, wonderful and surprising nuanced beauty of language... -
The Iberian Apollonius of Tyre by Emily C. Francomano 9780674291034
RRP: £29.95£25.55A new translation of two medieval Spanish versions of the tale of Apollonius, a story central to the premodern literary imagination and a source for Shakespeare’s Pericles.Incest, riddling, piracy, prostitution, shipwreck, Lazarus-like resuscitation, and... -
The View From The Ground by Martha Gellhorn 9781862071490
RRP: £9.99£6.90Martha Gellhorn's peacetime dispatches bear witness to six decades of change: America in the Great Depression, the betrayal of Czechoslovakia, young Poles undaunted by their Communist government, the trial of Adolf Eichmann, Spain in the days after... -
The Common Reader: Volume 1 by Virginia Woolf
RRP: £10.99£7.99Discover Virginia Woolf's informative and erudite critical essays on some of the key novelists and dramatists of the canon - from the ancient Greeks to Jane Austen and beyond.Virginia Woolf read, and wrote, as an outsider, denied the educational... -
A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works by Jonathan Swift 9780486287591
RRP: £3.49£2.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486287591Author Jonathan SwiftFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
100 Portuguese Short Stories for Beginners Learn Portuguese with Stories Including Audiobook: Portuguese Edition Foreign Language Book 1 by World Language Institute Spain 9781732438149
RRP: £14.99£12.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732438149Author World Language Institute SpainFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Christian StahlPublisher Christian StahlWeight(grams)... -
Vintage Mencken by H. L. Mencken
RRP: £14.99£10.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679728955Author H.L. MenckenFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Byron's Poetry and Prose by Lord George Gordon Byron
£16.58"Criticism" is chronologically keyed to Byron's poetry and reprints both classic and recent examinations of Byron's writing and life, including assessments by Anne Barton, Donald H. Reiman, Jane Stabler, Jerome J. McGann, Susan J. Wolfson, and James...