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Frank Exchanges: Letters between Frank Whitbourn, theatre enthusiast, and David Wood, children’s dramatist by David Wood 9781915603876
RRP: £12.99£9.09Between 1959 and 2005, David Wood ('the national children's dramatist') corresponded with his mentor, Frank Whitbourn, teacher, writer and theatre practitioner. Frank Exchanges opens with a letter from Whitbourn, praising a young Wood following a... -
Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema by Lindy West
RRP: £27.00£16.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316449823Author West LindyPage Count 272Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & Company -
Walden with On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Reader's Library Classics) by Henry David Thoreau 9781954839182
£11.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954839182Author Henry David ThoreauFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Reader's Library ClassicsPublisher Reader's Library ClassicsWeight(grams)... -
Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They Do by Meredith Maran
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452298156Author Meredith MaranFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 196g -
Preoccupations: Selected Prose 1968-1978 by Seamus Heaney 9780374516505
RRP: £20.00£12.99Apologies 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)... -
Latin Literature: An Anthology by Michael Grant
RRP: £12.99£9.09A 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,... -
Abundance: Journeys into Restoration in the Natural World by Karen Lloyd
RRP: £16.99£13.16LONGLISTED 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... -
Performing Flea by Everyman's Library (UK)
RRP: £10.99£7.77In this series of letters to William Townend, a fellow-writer and friend since their schooldays at Dulwich College, Wodehouse discusses in some detail his literary outlook, writing methods and constant hunt for new plots. Characteristically modest and... -
The Oxford Book of Scottish Short Stories by Douglas Dunn 9780199556540
RRP: £14.99£10.95From tales of the supernatural to pungent social realism, and from the humorous to the disturbing, whether rural or urban, this anthology shows the vitality of the Scottish short story. Douglas Dunn's eclectic selection displays the marvellous range... -
On Four Fronts with the Royal Naval Division During the First World War 1914-1918 by Geoffrey Sparrow 9780857067166
£10.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857067166Author Geoffrey SparrowFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 227g -
Letters Written in France by Helen Maria Williams
£27.37Helen 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... -
Valmiki's Ramayana by Arshia Sattar
RRP: £35.00£31.57One of India's greatest epics, the Ramayana pervades the country's moral and cultural consciousness. For generations it has served as a bedtime story for Indian children, while at the same time engaging the interest of philosophers and theologians... -
The Virago Book of Women and the Great War by Joyce Marlow
RRP: £12.99£8.60Joyce 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... -
The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 3: 1926-1927 by T. S. Eliot
RRP: £40.00£27.68In the period covered by this richly detailed collection, which brings the poet to the age of forty, T.S. Eliot was to set a new course for his life and work. Forsaking the Unitarianism of his American forebears, he was received into the Church of... -
Cicero and Rome by David Taylor 9781853995064
RRP: £19.99£19.04In "Cicero and Rome", David Taylor takes Cicero as the focal point for examination of the last years of the Roman Republic. He traces the often dramatic and violent events from the harsh dictatorship of Sulla (82 BC) to Cicero's own death in the... -
Antigone and other Tragedies: Antigone, Deianeira, Electra by Sophocles 9780192806864
RRP: £4.99£3.80Sophocles stands as one of the greatest dramatists of all time, and one of the most influential on artists and thinkers over the centuries. His plays are deeply disturbing and unpredictable, unrelenting and open-ended, refusing to present firm answers to... -
Out on a Limb: Selected Writing, 1989-2021 by Andrew Sullivan 9781501155895
RRP: £35.00£23.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501155895Author Andrew SullivanFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint Avid Reader Press / Simon & SchusterPublisher Avid Reader Press / Simon &... -
Aristophanes: Lysistrata by James Robson
RRP: £17.99£15.94Lysistrata is the most notorious of Aristophanes' comedies. First staged in 411 BCE, its action famously revolves around a sex strike launched by the women of Greece in an attempt to force their husbands to end the war. With its risque humour, vibrant... -
Ezra Pound: Poet: I: The Young Genius 1885-1920 by A. David Moody
RRP: £16.99£12.68This first volume of what will be a full-scale portrait presents Ezra Pound as a very determined and energetic young genius setting out to make his way both as a poet and as a force for civilization in England and America in the years before, during and... -
Poems And Prose by Gerard Manley Hopkins 9781857157215
RRP: £12.00£8.44The greatest English religious poet of the nineteenth century, Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) was a Jesuit priest and literary scholar whose life ended prematurely after his exhausting pastoral work among the slums of Liverpool and Dublin. His poems are... -
Communist Manifesto by Bob Blaisdell 9780486424651
RRP: £8.49£7.28Apologies 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)... -
Why Did You Leave The Horse Alone by Mahmoud Darwish
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976395010Author Mahmoud DarwishFormat PaperbackPage Count 197Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago BooksWeight(grams) 259g -
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... -
Soseki Natsume's I Am A Cat: The Manga Edition: The tale of a cat with no name but great wisdom! by Soseki Natsume
RRP: £12.99£9.00Japan's beloved literary masterpiece brought to life in manga form!Soseki Natsume's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the foolishness of upper-middle-class Japanese society in early 20th century Tokyo. Written with biting wit and sardonic... -
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston
RRP: £9.99£5.82From '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... -
Testaments Betrayed by Milan Kundera
RRP: £10.99£7.32Kundera's essay has been written like a novel. In the course of nine separate sections, the same characters meet and cross paths with each other. Stravinsky and Kafka with their odd friends Ansermet and Brod; Hemingway with his biographer; Janacek with... -
The Principles of Sufism by A'Ishah Al-Ba'Uniyyah 9781479829248
RRP: £12.99£11.77'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... -
The Granta Book Of The American Short Story: V. 1 by Richard Ford 9781862079045
RRP: £12.99£8.56Richard 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... -
The End of the End of the Earth by Jonathan Franzen 9780008299262
RRP: £9.99£6.64A 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,... -
Awakenings by Oliver Sacks 9781529087437
RRP: £10.99£7.93'The story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of viscous time, and the drug that catapulted them out of it' - Guardian Hailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays and various TV... -
The Critic as Artist by Oscar Wilde
RRP: £12.00£8.00In The Critic as Artist, arguably the most complete exploration of his aesthetic thinking, and certainly the most entertaining, Oscar Wilde harnesses his famous wit to demolish the supposed boundary between art and criticism. Subtitled Upon the... -
The Pilgrimage of Charlemagne and Aucassin and Nicolette by Glyn S. Burgess 9780367183554
RRP: £32.99£29.16Originally compiled and published in 1988, this volume contains the text and translation of 'The Pilgrimmage of Charlemagne' and 'Aucassin and Nicolette,' alongisde textual notes and a bibliography for both.About the AuthorGlyn S. Burgess, Anne Elizabeth... -
The Long Walk with Little Amal by The Good Chance Theatre Company
RRP: £20.00£13.75From July to November 2021, Little Amal, a 3.5m-high puppet created by Handspring Puppet Company ('War Horse') will travel 8,000km from the Syria-Turkey border along the established refugee route through Europe to the UK, ending at the Manchester... -
Timon of Athens: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
RRP: £8.99£6.61The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor: Stanley Wells The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers - A new, modern-spelling text, collated and... -
Edith Wharton: Collected Stories Vol 1. 1891-1910 (LOA #121) by Edith Wharton
RRP: £40.00£24.13Library of America presents the first volume in a landmark two-volume collector's edition of the incomparable stories of an American masterBorn into an upper-class New York family, Edith Wharton broke with convention and became a professional writer,... -
20 Things That Would Make the News Better by Roger Mosey 9781785907548
RRP: £18.99£13.81We are at a defining point in the history of news. Following a surge of fake news, clickbait and conspiracy theories, the 2020s have ushered in a welter of existential threats for public service broadcasting. So, where do we go from here? Former Today... -
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... -
The Terrible Unlikelihood of Our Being Here by Susanne Paola Antonetta
RRP: £20.95£15.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814257807Author Susanne Paola AntonettaFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University... -
The Old English Boethius: with Verse Prologues and Epilogues Associated with King Alfred by Susan Irvine
RRP: £29.95£23.66The Old English Boethius boldly refashions in Anglo-Saxon guise a great literary monument of the late-antique world, The Consolation of Philosophy. Condemned to death for treason around 525 ce, the Roman scholar Boethius turned to philosophy to transform... -
Darkness Visible: A Study of Vergil's Aeneid by W. R. Johnson
RRP: £21.00£20.31One of the best books ever written on one of humanity's greatest epics, W. Ralph Johnson's study of Vergil's Aeneid challenges centuries of received wisdom. Johnson rejects the political and historical reading of the epic as a record of the glorious...