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Selected Letters by John Keats 9780199555734
RRP: £10.99£7.99'Do you not see how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and make it a soul?' Keats's letters have long been regarded as an extraordinary record of poetic development and sout-making. They represent one of the most... -
Wandering Jew: The Search for Joseph Roth by Dennis Marks
RRP: £12.00£9.97In this revealing 'psycho-geography', Dennis Marks makes a journey through the eastern borderlands of Europe to learn about the elusive writer Joseph Roth and the world in which he lived. The result is a riveting and involving documentary that reunites... -
Japanese Legends and Folklore: Samurai Tales, Ghost Stories, Legends, Fairy Tales and Historical Accounts A. B. Mitford 9784805315019
RRP: £12.99£8.83Japanese Legends and Folklore invites English speakers into the intriguing world of Japanese folktales, ghost stories and historical eyewitness accounts. With a fascinating selection of stories about Japanese culture and history, A.B. Mitford-who lived... -
Figures in a Landscape: People and Places by Paul Theroux
RRP: £10.99£7.99A rich feast of travel writing, literary essays and fascinating interviews from Sunday Times bestselling travel author Paul Theroux'Wonderful... Evidence of both the breadth of Theroux's interests and his skill in bringing them to life' Sunday Times... -
Blind Goddess Anne Holt 9780857892256
RRP: £9.99£6.90THE FIRST INSTALMENT IN THE HANNE WILHELMSEN SERIES.A superbly chilling story of corruption in the corridors of power.A drug dealer is battered to death in the outskirts of Oslo. A young Dutch student, covered in blood, walks aimlessly through the... -
Dancing Ledge: Journals vol. 1 by Derek Jarman
RRP: £10.99£8.61'What started as a book on the frustration of funding led to the writing of an autobiography at forty... I had so little to do in the daylight hours, I stayed up late unbuttoning Levis in back rooms.'In 1984 at the age of 40, the polymath film-maker... -
Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives by Albert Einstein 9780691160238
RRP: £16.99£13.86Modesty, humor, compassion, and wisdom are the traits most evident in this illuminating selection of personal papers from the Albert Einstein Archives. The illustrious physicist wrote as thoughtfully to an Ohio fifth-grader, distressed by her discovery... -
This Medical Life by James Owen Drife 9781854570970
RRP: £12.99£8.41"Unparalleled in British medical history James Owen Drife charted his reactions to the medical world in which he worked and published them, initially in World Medicine and then the British Medical Journal (BMJ). This book is sometimes painfully frank, at... -
The Performance Claire Thomas 9781474616980
RRP: £14.99£8.77'Quietly transformational'The Times 'A tour de force... I can't recommend this too highly'Patrick Gale'Innovative... an original, at-a-sitting read'Daily Mail'A potent meditation on the intensity of women's lives'Charlotte Wood, author of The Weekend'A... -
Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature by L. D. Reynolds
RRP: £41.99£39.48One of the remarkable facts about the history of Western culture is that we are still in a position to read large amounts of the literature produced in classical Greece and Rome despite the fact that for at least a millennium and a half all copies had to... -
Michael Frayn Collected Columns by Michael Frayn 9780413776488
RRP: £9.99£8.40One of the funniest writers of his generation, Michael Frayn has been writing humorous newspaper columns since 1959, principally for the "Guardian" and "Observer", and originally came to prominence as the thrice weekly purveyor of these short, surreal,... -
Fragmentary Republican Latin, Volume I: Ennius, Testimonia. Epic Fragments by Quintus 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... -
Letters of Note: War by Shaun Usher
RRP: £6.99£5.02In Letters of Note: War, Shaun Usher brings together some of the most remarkable letters that encapsulate the human experience of war, from unimaginable feats of courage and compassion, to unthinkable episodes of violence and horror.Includes letters... -
Greek Tragedies 1: Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound; Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Antigone; Euripides: Hippolytus by David Grene
£12.14Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers. They succeeded. Under the expert management of eminent... -
Professor Borges: A Course On English Literature Jorge Luis Borges 9780811222747
RRP: £14.99£13.23Borges takes us on a startling, idiosyncratic, fresh, and highly opinionated tour of English literature, weaving together countless cultural traditions of the last three thousand years. Borges's lectures - delivered extempore by a man of extraordinary... -
Love of the World: Essays by John McGahern
RRP: £12.99£8.80An enlightening collection of essays, reviews and speeches by 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel) and 'the Irish novelist everyone should read' (Colm Toibin).'Wise and compelling ... Elegiac and graceful.' David Mitchell'I have... -
Ovid, Heroides: A Selection Dr Christina Tsaknaki (Teacher of Classics, Brentwood School, UK, Brentwood School, UK) 9781350060265
RRP: £12.99£12.05This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Ovid's Heroides, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary for Heroides I lines 1-68, and Heroides VII lines 1-140, with a detailed introduction... -
I'm Very into You: Correspondence 1995-1996 by Kathy Acker
RRP: £13.99£9.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584351641Author Kathy AckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 11mm -
Obedience, Struggle and Revolt by David Hare
RRP: £9.99£6.90What is a political playwright? Does theatre have any direct effect on society? Why choose to work in a medium which speaks to so few? Is theatre itself facing oblivion? All frequent questions addressed to David Hare over the last thirty-five years, as... -
The Letters of Margaret of Anjou Helen E Maurer (Royalty Account) 9781783276820
£27.05New study and edition of the remarkable letter collection of Margaret of Anjou, bringing all her correspondence together in one volume for the first time. 2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award Winner Margaret of Anjou remains a figure of... -
Faith in Fakes Umberto Eco 9780749396282
RRP: £10.99£7.99Holography, wax museums, the secret meaning of spectator sports, Superman and the intellectual effects of over-tight jeans are just a few of the subjects covered in this collection of witty, entertaining and thought-provoking delights from Umberto Eco,... -
Venantius Fortunatus: A Latin Poet in Merovingian Gaul by Judith W. George 9780198148982
£109.81Venantius Fortunatus, writing in the latter half of the sixth century, was not only a major Latin poet, but also an important historical figure. Educated in Ravenna, he travelled to Gaul and wrote substantially in a range of genres for Merovingian... -
Technicians of the Sacred, Third Edition: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania by Jerome Rothenberg 9780520290723
£31.51Hailed by Robert Creeley as "both a deeply useful book and an unequivocal delight" and by the LA Times Book Review as one of the hundred most recommended American books of the late 20th century, Jerome Rothenberg's landmark anthology Technicians of the... -
What Would Lynne Tillman Do? by Lynne Tillman 9781935869214
RRP: £12.99£12.46Here is an American mind contemplating contemporary society and culture with wit, imagination, and a brave intelligence. Tillman upends expectations, shifts tone, introduces characters, breaches limits of genre and category, reconfiguring the world with... -
Peter Hujar's Day by Linda Rosenkrantz 9781639442676
RRP: £14.00£9.52On December 18, 1974, Linda Rosenkrantz asked her friend Peter Hujar to write down everything he did one day. Hujar met Rosenkrantz at her apartment on 94th street the following day where she asked him about it in detail. She tape-recorded their... -
Darling Pol: Letters of Mary Wesley and Eric Siepmann 1944-1967 by Patrick Marnham
RRP: £10.99£7.99Before her death in 2002, Mary Wesley told her biographer Patrick Marnham: 'after I met Eric I never looked at anyone else again. We lived our ups and downs but life was never boring'. Eric Siepmann was her second husband and their correspondence charted... -
Algerian Chronicles by Albert Camus 9780674416758
RRP: £17.95£14.82More than fifty years after Algerian independence, Albert Camus' Algerian Chronicles appears here in English for the first time. Published in France in 1958, the same year the Algerian War brought about the collapse of the Fourth French Republic, it is... -
The Tribe: Portraits of Cuba by Carlos Manuel Alvarez
RRP: £12.99£8.80Teeming with life and compulsively readable, the pieces gathered together in The Tribe aggregate into an extraordinary mosaic of Cuba today. Carlos Manuel Alvarez, one of the most exciting young writers in Latin America, employs the cronica form - a... -
Maxims by Francoi de La Rochefoucauld
RRP: £10.99£7.99The philosophy of La Rochefoucauld, which influenced French intellectuals as diverse as Voltaire and the Jansenists, is captured here in more than 600 penetrating and pithy aphorisms.About the AuthorLa Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) was a French classical... -
Lucian, True History: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary by Diskin Clay 9780198789659
RRP: £22.49£21.04Lucian of Samosata's True History is a fantastical tale of voyage and imagination. No editor, translator, or reader knows quite how to describe it or fit it comfortably into a familiar genre of Greek literature: 'satires' and 'dialogues' only partially... -
The Weak are a Long Time in Politics: Sketches from the Brexit Neverendum by Patrick Kidd 9781785905339
RRP: £12.99£9.50Politics looked straightforward when Patrick Kidd took over the reins of the daily political sketch in The Times in 2015. David Cameron had just won a general election and would clearly be Prime Minister for as long as he wanted; George Osborne was his... -
Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics 1948-2008 by Harold Pinter
RRP: £14.99£9.90Various Voices is the only collection of Harold Pinter's prose, poems and political writing to span his career. This new edition includes a remarkable interview in which he reflects on his time as an evacuee in Cornwall during the Second World War, as... -
My Crazy Century by Ivan Klima
RRP: £16.99£12.16More than a memoir, My Crazy Century explores the ways in which the epoch and its dominating totalitarian ideologies impacted the lives, character, and morality of Klima's generation. Klima's story begins in the 1930s, in the Terezin concentration camp... -
ABECEDAIRE Sharon Kivland 9781913430108
RRP: £12.00£9.97"I wrote five days a week for a year, no more than a page, writing only for the length of the analytic hour, fifty minutes, following Freud's model of train travel for his theory of free association, acting 'as though, for instance, [you were] a... -
Granta 147: 40th-Birthday Special Sigrid Rausing 9781909889224
RRP: £12.99£8.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909889224Author Sigrid RausingFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 570gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
Cape to Cape: A 1,250-mile backpacking walk from Cornwall to Cape Wrath in Scotland by John Sutcliffe 9781909461550
RRP: £17.95£13.71`I was very grateful for today's near perfect visibility and, despite the late hour, just had to sit down to take it all in.' On a late April morning, lover of landscapes and professional geologist John Sutcliffe, approaching his 70th birthday, sets out... -
The Daily Henry James: A Year of Quotes from the Work of the Master by Henry James
RRP: £16.00£15.77A strange and delightful memento of one of the most lasting literary voices of all time, The Daily Henry James is a little book from a great mind. First published with James's approval in 1911 as the ultimate token of fandom a limited edition... -
Thro Through the Gate by Kenneth Ballantyne 9780955060199
£10.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955060199Author Kenneth BallantyneFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Laundry Cottage BooksPublisher Laundry Cottage Books -
The Call of the Tribe: Essays by Mario Vargas Llosa
RRP: £18.99£12.48In The Call of the Tribe, Mario Vargas Llosa surveys the readings that have shaped the way he thinks and has viewed the world over the past fifty years. The Nobel Laureate maps out the liberal thinkers who helped him develop a new body of ideas after the... -
Gilbert Murray's Euripides: The Trojan Women and Other Plays by Gilbert Murray 9781904675358
RRP: £21.99£20.27In the story of the reception of Greek tragedy throughout the English-speaking world, Murray is a figure of immense importance. He unlocked the gates of commercial theatre to its performance - and its performance in verse - on both sides of the Atlantic,...