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Point Of Departure by James Cameron
RRP: £9.99£6.90A classic memoir by one of the great British journalists of the twentieth century, a man who earned universal respect not only for his courage in reporting from dangerous places, but for his candour and independence. Point of Departure features Cameron's... -
Life on Muskrat Creek: A Homestead Family in Wyoming by Ethel Waxham Love 9781611462661
RRP: £14.99£11.53Written by Ethel Waxham Love, a Wellesley College graduate who went to Wyoming in 1905 as a teacher in a one-room schoolhouse, and her son, J. David Love, who later became an eminent geologist, Life on Muskrat Creek tells the fascinating story of a... -
The Complete and Original Norwegian Folktales of Asbjornsen and Moe by Peter Christen Asbjornsen
RRP: £27.99£25.64A new, definitive English translation of the celebrated story collection regarded as a landmark of Norwegian literature and culture The extraordinary folktales collected by Peter Christen Asbjornsen and Jorgen Moe began appearing in Norway in 1841... -
The Lives of Eminent Philosophers: v.1 by Diogenes Laertius
RRP: £24.95£23.76Examined lives.Diogenes Laertius, author of a work on Greek philosophy, lived probably in the earlier half of the third century, his ancestry and birthplace being unknown. He was an Epicurean philosopher, but his work is not philosophical. The title is... -
Reading Hegel Slavoj Zizek 9781509545902
RRP: £17.99£16.29A spirit is haunting contemporary thought - the spirit of Hegel. All the powers of academia have entered into a holy alliance to exorcize this spirit: Vitalists and Eschatologists, Transcendental Pragmatists and Speculative Realists, Historical... -
The Cambridge Companion to Plutarch by Frances B. Titchener 9780521176569
RRP: £29.99£26.34Plutarch is one of the most prolific and important writers from antiquity. His Parallel Lives continue to be an invaluable historical source, and the numerous essays in his Moralia, covering everything from marriage to the Delphic Oracle, are crucial... -
These Bones Will Rise Again by Panashe Chigumadzi
RRP: £7.99£5.78What are the right questions to ask when seeking out the true spirit of a nation? In November 2017 the people of Zimbabwe took to the streets in an unprecedented alliance with the military. Their goal, to restore the legacy of Chimurenga, the... -
Abandoned Ireland by Dominic Connolly 9781838863159
RRP: £19.99£15.46An ancient island with a romantic history and lush green landscape, Ireland's culture stretches back to the time of St Patrick and the first Christian monks and includes the Norman invasion, clan wars, mass emigration and partition in the early 20th... -
Where Europe Begins: Stories by Yoko Tawada
RRP: £12.99£10.12Chosen as a 2005 Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, Where Europe Begins has been described by the Russian literary phenomenon Victor Pelevin as "a spectacular journey through a world of colliding languages and multiplying cities." In these... -
Share a Cuppa Tea with Jane Quinn: The Interviews by Jane Quinn 9781912587742
RRP: £17.99£15.54For over ten years Jane Quinn has been sharing a cup of tea with some of the biggest names in the music and entertainment world as she has engaged them in a long running series of intimate interviews that go beyond the public image to reveal the person... -
Exemplary Stories by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
RRP: £12.99£8.41Even more popular in their day than Don Quixote, Cervantes's Exemplary Stories (1613) surprise, challenge and delight. Ranging from the picaresque to the satirical, Cervantes's Exemplary Stories defy the conventions of heroic chivalric literature... -
Hopkins Poems And Prose Gerard Manley Hopkins 9781857157215
RRP: £12.00£8.68The 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... -
And Then Soseki Natsume 9784805311417
RRP: £13.99£9.44A stirring and insightful novel from an author Japan Quarterly calls "a Japanese writer of genius."From beloved author Soseki Natsume,And Then tells the story of Daisuke, a man in his twenties who is struggling with his personal purpose and identity as... -
Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace by Anne Lamott
RRP: £22.95£18.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsNominated for Books for a Better Life Book Award 2014.Book InformationISBN 9781594486296Author Anne LamottFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher... -
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African descent by Various Authors
RRP: £20.00£15.29Three decades after her pioneering anthology, Daughters of Africa, Margaret Busby curates an extraordinary collection of contemporary writing by 200 women writers of African descent, including Zadie Smith, Bernardine Evaristo and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie... -
Discourses: v. 2: Bks.III-IV by Epictetus
RRP: £24.95£23.76From slave to sage.Epictetus was a crippled Greek slave of Phrygia during Nero's reign (AD 54-68) who heard lectures by the Stoic Musonius before he was freed. Expelled with other philosophers by the emperor Domitian in 89 or 92, he settled ... -
The Letters of Cole Porter by Cole Porter
RRP: £27.50£23.89The first comprehensive collection of the letters of one of the most successful American songwriters of the twentieth century From Anything Goes to Kiss Me, Kate, Cole Porter left a lasting legacy of iconic songs including "You're the Top," "Love For... -
The United Nations of Cookies by Jess Murphy 9781999379926
RRP: £13.00£9.14Cultures and cuisines have many differences, but one thing they all have in common is cookies. But there's more to this book than just a sweet treat. The authors worked with refugees and immigrants who have made Ireland their home to collect and share... -
London Peculiar and Other Nonfiction by Michael Moorcock 9781854251060
RRP: £10.00£8.47Drawn from over 50 years of writing, this anthology includes Michael Moorcock's most recent work and writings from sources now unobtainable, including: 'London Peculiar', an impassioned statement of Moorcock's memories of wartime London and the... -
Joan Didion: The 1960s & 70s (loa #325): Run, River / Slouching Towards Bethlehem / Play It As It Lay A Book of Common Prayer / The White Album by Joan Didion
RRP: £33.99£22.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598536454Author Joan DidionFormat HardbackPage Count 950Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America -
The Art of Literature by Arthur Schopenhauer 9780486434414
RRP: £7.49£6.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486434414Author Arthur SchopenhauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Job Grieved: Devotionals In the Book of Job During A Time of Loss by Scott Douglas 9781629175065
RRP: £6.99£5.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629175065Author Scott DouglasFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint SL EditionsPublisher SL EditionsWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 6mm -
Everything Flows by Vasily Grossman
RRP: £18.95£14.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590173282Author Vasily GrossmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Magnetic Current by Edward Leedskalnin
RRP: £6.44£4.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684119226Author Edward LeedskalninFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint www.bnpublishing.comPublisher www.bnpublishing.comWeight(grams) 54gDimensions(mm)... -
Today in the Taxi by Sean Singer 9781946482693
RRP: £16.00£12.84Sean Singer's radiant and challenging body of work involves, much like Whitman's, nothing less than the ongoing interrogation of what a poem is. In this way his books are startlingly alive... I love in this work the sense that I am the grateful recipient... -
The Decay of Lying: And Other Essays by Oscar Wilde
RRP: £7.99£5.98In 'The Decay of Lying' Oscar Wilde uses his decadent ideology in an attempt to reverse and therefore reject his audiences' 'normal' conceptualizations of nature, art and morality. Wilde's views of life and art are illustrated through the use of Platonic... -
The Best American Short Stories 2022 by Heidi Pitlor
RRP: £12.99£10.90A collection of the year's best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and series editor Heidi Pitlor.Andrew Sean Greer, "an exceptionally lovely writer, capable of mingling humor with sharp poignancy" (Washington Post),... -
The Connell Short Guide To Robert Louis Stevenson's Jekyll And Hyde by David Anderson 9781911187158
RRP: £5.99£5.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911187158Author David AndersonFormat PaperbackImprint Connell GuidesPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Rebel Rebel: How Mavericks Made Our Modern World by Chris Sullivan
RRP: £10.99£7.69Thirty-four essays and interviews with some of the greatest individuals, malcontents and free thinkers of the last 150 years - including Louise Brooks, Richard Pryor, David Bowie, Liam Gallagher and Daniel Day-Lewis - this is a collection that exonerates... -
The Letters of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson 9780674982970
RRP: £39.95£33.97The definitive edition of Emily Dickinson’s correspondence, expanded and revised for the first time in over sixty years.Emily Dickinson was a letter writer before she was a poet. And it was through letters that she shared prose reflections—alternately... -
Strange Attractor Journal Five by Mark Pilkington
RRP: £23.00£15.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907222528Author Mark PilkingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Strange Attractor PressPublisher Strange Attractor Press -
The Old English Boethius: with Verse Prologues and Epilogues Associated with King Alfred by Susan Irvine
RRP: £29.95£24.03The 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... -
Sniper on the Ypres Salient: An Infantryman s War In The Royal Welsh Fusiliers by Boase, Sue 9781399095570
RRP: £22.00£15.87Just after midnight on 22 April 1916 on the Western Front, a sergeant from the 15th (1st London) Royal Welsh Fusiliers came sliding and stumbling along the dark, mud-filled trench towards the four men, huddled together and soaked-through, in the shallow... -
NKJV, Pew Bible, Hardcover, Blue, Red Letter Edition, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, New King James Version by Thomas Nelson 9780785215943
RRP: £13.99£10.41The Thomas Nelson NKJV Pew Bible has long been a trusted and durable Bible for use in churches and various worship settings. This edition is published in large NKJV Comfort Print type, which was designed exclusively for Thomas Nelson to be the most... -
Sir Thomas Malory: Le Morte Darthur: The Definitive Original Text Edition Peter J C Field 9781843844600
£30.46Peter Field's new edition of the Morte Darthur has been hailed as "our standard critical edition of Malory". This paperback of Vol 1 only makes the complete definitive original spelling text edition available, with the same pagination as in Vol 1 of the... -
Horace: Poems by Horace
RRP: £9.99£7.72Horace saw the death of the Republic and the beginning of the Roman Empire, and was personally acquainted with the emperor Augustus and the poet Virgil. He was famous during his lifetime, and continued to be posthumously, for his odes and epodes, his... -
Selected Essays by Gore Vidal 9780349120454
£19.16Vidal has a fierce, uncontaminated sense of what's right and wrong, and he expresses his most intimate opinions fearlessly' John Simpson, Daily Mail This new selection brings together the best of Gore Vidal's essays, comment and criticism from his... -
Seneca: Apocolocyntosis by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: £26.99£23.44The Gourdification of Claudius the God has instant and lasting appeal. It is a uniquely surviving specimen of prose-and-verse satire from the Roman world - and satire, a Roman speciality, is one of the few types of ancient literature to survive, and... -
The Curtain: Essays by Milan Kundera
RRP: £14.99£10.06In this entertaining and stimulating essay, one of world literature's most distinctive thinkers sets out his personal view of the history and value of the novel in Western civilization. Too often, Kundera suggests, a novel is thought about only within... -
All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays by George Orwell
RRP: £10.99£7.46Orwell demonstrates in piece after piece how intent analysis of a work or body of work gives rise to trenchant aesthetic and philosophical commentary. As a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at home discussing Charles Dickens and Charlie...