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Women Hold Up Half the Sky: Selected Speeches of Nicola Sturgeon Robert Davidson 9781913207601
RRP: £15.99£11.79The first woman to be elected First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon's impact on the future of Scotland and the United Kingdom makes her words essential reading. Independently selected by editor Robert Davidson, this collection of speeches... -
The Atlantic Ocean: Essays on Britain and America by Andrew O'Hagan
RRP: £16.99£11.98A stunning collection of reportage from an acclaimed journalist and novelist hailed by the New York Times as 'the best essayist of his generation'.As he grew up, Andrew O'Hagan witnessed the decline of Britain and the rise of America, the end of British... -
Nilling: Prose by Lisa Robertson 9781897388891
RRP: £18.99£11.50"I have tried to make a sketch or a model in several dimensions of the potency of Arendt's idea of invisibility, the necessary inconspicuousness of thinking and reading, and the ambivalently joyous and knotted agency to be found there. Just beneath the... -
The Journals of George Eliot by George Eliot 9780521794572
RRP: £37.99£29.75The Journals of George Eliot publishes for the first time the entire text of the surviving journals of the great Victorian novelist, and constitutes a new text by her - the closest she came to autobiography. The journals span her life from 1854, when she... -
The Location of Culture by Homi K. Bhabha 9780415336390
RRP: £19.99£18.30Rethinking questions of identity, social agency and national affiliation, Bhabha provides a working, if controversial, theory of cultural hybridity - one that goes far beyond previous attempts by others. In The Location of Culture, he uses concepts such... -
Too Much of Life: The Complete Cronicas by Clarice Lispector
RRP: £23.99£23.88The things I've learned from taxi drivers would be enough to fill a book. They know a lot: they really do get around. I may know a lot about Antonioni that they don't know. Or maybe they do even when they don't. There are various ways of knowing by... -
To Fight Alongside Friends: The First World War Diary of Charlie May by Gerry Harrison 9780007558551
RRP: £10.99£8.52The First World War Diaries of Manchester Pals Captain Charlie May - written and kept in secret and published now for the first time. A born storyteller, Charlie May's vivid eye for detail and warm good humour brings his experience in the trenches (and... -
Ab Urbe Condita: Bk.21 by Livy 9780862921781
£25.45Book XXI of Livy's history of Rome is one of the most frequently read either in its entirety or in extracts, for it includes Carthaginian campaigns in Spain and Hannibal's momentous crossing of the Alps to invade Italy. P.G. Walsh's edition is designed... -
"London Review of Books": An Anthology: No. 3 by London Review of Books 9781859841211
£24.48Erudite, witty and often controversial, The London Review of Books informs and entertains its readers with a fortnightly dose of the best and liveliest of all things cultural.This anthology brings together some of the most memorable pieces from recent... -
Preoccupations: Selected Prose 1968-1978 by Seamus Heaney 9780374516505
RRP: £20.00£13.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374516505Author Seamus HeaneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 2Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)... -
Sherlock Holmes Volume 1 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
RRP: £6.95£5.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553212419Author Sir Arthur Conan DoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 1088Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Theory Of The Great Game: Writings from 'Le Grand Jeu' Dennis Duncan 9781900565677
RRP: £16.99£15.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900565677Author Dennis DuncanFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Atlas PressPublisher Atlas PressWeight(grams) 428g -
Latin Literature: An Anthology by Michael Grant
RRP: £12.99£9.34A classic introduction to Latin literature, with translations of the best passages from Virgil, Livy, Ovid, Seneca and many others.This classic anthology traces the development of Latin literature from the early Republican works of Cicero and Catullus,... -
Greek Tragedy: Themes and Contexts Laura Swift (The Open University, UK) 9781474236836
RRP: £16.99£15.46The latest volume in the Classical World series, this book offers a much-needed up-to-date introduction to Greek tragedy, and covers the most important thematic topics studied at school or university level. After a brief analysis of the genre and main... -
One Hundred Miracles: Music, Auschwitz, Survival and Love by Zuzana Ruzickova
RRP: £10.99£7.99The remarkable memoir of Zuzana Ruzickova, Holocaust survivor and world-famous harpsichordist. 'Extraordinary' Sunday Times 'Compelling' Daily Telegraph Zuzana Ruzickova grew up in 1930s Czechoslovakia dreaming of two things: Johann Sebastian... -
Essays by Plutarch
RRP: £14.99£11.38One of the greatest essayists of the Graeco-Roman world, Plutarch (c. AD 46 -120) used an encyclopedic knowledge of the Roman Empire to produce a compelling and individual voice. In this superb selection from his writings, he offers personal insights... -
Home and Away: Writing the Beautiful Game by Karl Ove Knausgaard
RRP: £10.99£7.99Karl Ove Knausgaard and fellow writer Fredrik Ekelund kick around thoughts and ideas on football, life, art and politics.Karl Ove Knausgaard is sitting at home in Skane with his wife, four small children and a dog. He is watching football on TV and falls... -
Songs Of Kabir Kabir 9781590173794
RRP: £15.99£11.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590173794Author KabirFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 200mm... -
Letters Written in France by Helen Maria Williams
RRP: £23.95£22.01Helen Maria Williams was a poet, novelist, and radical thinker deeply immersed in the political struggles of the 1790s. Her Letters Written in France is the first and most important of eight volumes chronicling the French Revolution to an England fearful... -
The Granta Book Of The American Short Story: Volume Two by Richard Ford 9781847080400
£13.33Richard Ford, one of the finest American novelists and short-story writers, introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story, which Granta Books published in 1992. It became the definitive anthology of American short fiction written in the... -
The Virago Book of Women and the Great War Joyce Marlow 9781860495595
RRP: £12.99£8.83Joyce Marlow presents a fascinating and varied collection of women's writing on the Great War drawn from diaries, newspapers, letters and memoirs from across Europe and the States. Starting with material from 1914, she outlines the pre-war campaigns for... -
How to Read Now by Elaine Castillo
RRP: £14.99£10.95'I cannot say enough about How to Read Now... Check it out' Roxane Gay'A red-hot grenade... One of my favourite books of the year' Jia Tolentino'Energetically brilliant, warmly humane, incisively funny' Andrew Sean Greer'I gasped, shouted, and... -
Beneath My Feet: Writers on Walking: 2018 by Duncan Minshull 9781910749982
RRP: £14.99£12.75"Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness." -Soren Kierkegaard Duncan Minshull has always walked and in the last twenty years has made use of it by writing and... -
At Our Age James A. Simpson 9781904246343
RRP: £5.95£4.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904246343Author James A. SimpsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Steve Savage Publishers LimitedPublisher Steve Savage Publishers Limited -
Sophie Calle: True Stories: 66 Short Stories: New Edition by Sophie Calle 9782330182465
RRP: £19.00£12.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782330182465Author Sophie CalleFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Actes SudPublisher Actes Sud -
Communist Manifesto by Bob Blaisdell 9780486424651
RRP: £8.49£6.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486424651Author Bob BlaisdellFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Faber Book of Utopias by John Carey
RRP: £20.00£13.86Every age has its utopias, from Plato's Republic to contemporary sci-fi visions. In this spellbinding anthology John Carey charts the course of every conceivable dream world - whether communist, fascist, anarchist, green, golden age, techno-fantastic or... -
High Tide in Tucson by Barbara Kingsolver
RRP: £10.99£7.54**NOW INCLUDING THE FIRST CHAPTER OF DEMON COPPERHEAD**TWICE WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION FROM THE WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONTHE MULTI-MILLION COPY SELLING AUTHORWith the eyes of a scientist and the vision of a poet, Barbara... -
Street Haunting: A London Adventure & Bulwell by Virginia Woolf
RRP: £4.00£3.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910170427Author Virginia WoolfImprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications -
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston
RRP: £9.99£6.01From 'one of the greatest writers of our time' (Toni Morrison) - the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God and Barracoon - a collection of remarkable short stories from the Harlem Renaissance With a foreword by Tayari Jones, author of An... -
The Principles of Sufism by A'Ishah Al-Ba'Uniyyah 9781479829248
RRP: £12.99£11.95'A'ishah al-Ba'uniyyah of Damascus was one of the great women scholars in Islamic history. Born into a prominent family of pious scholars and Sufi devotees, 'A'ishah received a thorough religious education and memorized the Quran at age eight. A mystic... -
Politics and Literature by Jean-Paul Sartre
RRP: £8.99£7.42First published in French magazines in the 1960s, the essays and interviews collected in this volume tackle two of Sartre's most enduring concerns as a philosopher: politics and literature. With regard to the former, they develop the notion of the... -
A Point of View by Clive James
RRP: £10.99£8.15From the fierce and funny Clive James, this is Britain in the twenty-first century - from wheelie bins to plastic surgery, and from Britain's Got Talent to contemporary art.Between 2007 and 2009, Clive James wrote and presented A Point of View for BBC... -
The End of the End of the Earth by Jonathan Franzen 9780008299262
RRP: £9.99£6.84A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections In The End of the End of the Earth, which gathers essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years,... -
Writing Home Polly Devlin 9781910258330
RRP: £10.99£7.61In the pieces brought together in Writing Home, Polly Devlin OBE, most bewitching of writers, covers subjects that range over her whole life and thought. She writes about places: about her childhood deep in the countryside of Northern Ireland (where, in... -
Poetic Intention by Edouard Glissant 9780982264539
RRP: £16.99£11.67This marks the publication of the first English-language translation of Poetic Intention, Glissant's classic meditation on poetry and art. In this wide-ranging book, Glissant discusses poets, including Stephane Mallarme and Saint-John Perse, and visual... -
Letters from the Mary Rose by David Loades
RRP: £14.99£11.72'The authors are to be congratulated on a book which merits usage in the national curriculum.' - International Journal of Nautical ArchaeologyThe raising of the Tudor warship Mary Rose in 1982 has made her one of the most famous ships in history, though... -
Lives: v. 7 by Plutarch
RRP: £24.95£23.76Comparative biographies of distinguished Greeks and Romans.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given consular... -
DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi 9781940696959
RRP: £16.99£11.67WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY "Don Mee Choi's urgent DMZ Colony captures the migratory latticework of those transformed by war and colonization. Homelands present and past share one sky where birds fly, but 'during the Korean War... -
Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy by George Gilder
RRP: £12.99£8.41A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTH FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: "Nothing Mr. Gilder says or writes is ever delivered at anything less than the fullest philosophical decibel... Mr. Gilder sounds less like a tech guru than a poet, and his words tumble...