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Plato: Symposium by Christopher J. Rowe 9780856686153
RRP: £25.29£23.02The Symposium is a complex piece which is perhaps as widely read as any of Plato's works apart from the Republic. However, the existing standard commentaries in English do not offer much by way of help to any reader except the classicist who knows Greek;... -
Res Gestae Divi Augusti by Emperor of Rome Augustus Caesar
RRP: £24.95£23.76An imperial historian and an emperor's history.Velleius Paterculus, who lived in the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius (30 BC-AD 37), served as a military tribune in Thrace, Macedonia, Greece, and Asia Minor, and later, from AD 4 to 12 or 13, as a cavalry... -
Sleeping Among Sheep Under a Starry Sky: Essays 1985-2021 by Wallace Shawn
RRP: £16.99£11.98"Lovely, hilarious, and seriously thought-provoking." TONI MORRISON "Endlessly curious, playful, and subtle." PANKAJ MISHRA SLEEPING AMONG SHEEP UNDER A STARRY SKY is a collection of essays written over the course of the last thirty-five years. Shawn... -
Working the Room: Essays and Reviews: 1999-2010 by Geoff Dyer
RRP: £12.99£8.80Alive with insight, wit and Dyer's characteristic irreverence, this collection of essays offers a guide around the cultural maze, mapping a route through the worlds of literature, art, photography and music. Besides exploring what it is that makes great... -
The Loss of the S. S. Titanic: Its Story and Its Lessons by Lawrence Beesley 9781781391693
£6.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781391693Author Lawrence BeesleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Benediction ClassicsPublisher Benediction ClassicsWeight(grams) 196gDimensions(mm)... -
The Quotable Anais Nin: 365 Quotations with Citations by Paul Herron 9780988917064
RRP: £14.99£12.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988917064Author Paul HerronFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Sky Blue PressPublisher Sky Blue PressWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Trinity Tales: Trinity College Dublin in the 2000s Katie Dickson 9781843518105
RRP: £18.00£14.88This, the fifth and final volume in the Trinity Tales series, completes a cycle that began with tales from the 1960s. It invites readers to step into the world of Trinity College as it was in the first decade of this century through the reflections of... -
Far from the Land: Contemporary Irish Plays: Black Pig's Dyke; Language Roulette; Disco Pigs; Bat the Father, Rabbit the Son; Frank Pig; Hard to by John Fairleigh 9780413722706
RRP: £23.99£23.80A startling collection of plays by playwrights working in the north and south of Ireland, all of which have been groundbreaking events in contemporary Irish theatre At The Black Pig's Dyke by Vincent Woods depicts a group of mummers in the borderland... -
Breaking into Song: Why You Shouldn't Hate Musicals by Adam Lenson 9781914228025
RRP: £9.99£6.96"This book is a fascinating cri de coeur and made me question everything I think about musicals" Alan Cumming A book for those who can't stand musicals, those who love them, and every theatregoer, academic, practitioner and student in between... -
Last Letter to a Reader by Gerald Murnane
RRP: £11.99£8.52In the first days of spring in his eighty-second year, Gerald Murnane - perhaps the greatest living writer of English prose - began a project that would round off his strange career as a novelist. He would read all of his books in turn and prepare a... -
The Prince Of Minor Writers by Max Beerbohm
RRP: £16.99£12.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590178287Author Max BeerbohmFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Oedipus the King by Sophocles 9780226768687
£8.22Available for the first time as an independent work, David Grene's legendary translation of "Oedipus the King" renders Sophocles' Greek into cogent, vivid, and poetic English for a new generation to savor. Over the years, Grene and Lattimore's "Complete... -
Love in the Blitz: A Woman in a World Turned Upside Down by Eileen Alexander 9780008311247
RRP: £9.99£6.84'Her voice is absolutely, beguilingly conversational ... Intelligent, allusive, iconoclastic, captivatingly intense ... This is the news from the domestic frontline: personal, unique, unexpurgated, without propaganda, as it unfolded and was experienced .... -
Milner: Last of the Empire Builders by Richard Steyn
RRP: £25.00£16.99'Engagingly written, as unputdownable as a biography gets' Financial Mail'A rich and beautifully nuanced portrait of Milner ... a great feat, given all the paradoxical complexities of the man's life and character.' Duncan Campbell-Smith, former Financial... -
The Life of St. Frances of Rome, and Others - Blessed Lucy of Narni, Dominica of Paradiso, Anne De Montmorency by Lady Georgiana Fullerton 9781849023382
RRP: £19.99£13.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849023382Author Lady Georgiana FullertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Benediction ClassicsPublisher Benediction ClassicsWeight(grams)... -
An African Trilogy Peter Matthiessen 9781860467882
RRP: £16.99£12.28During the 1970s and 1980s, Peter Matthiessen took part in a number of expeditions to Africa, witnessing first-hand the continent's many and diverse peoples and wildlife. The fruits of these journeys are three of the most impressive essays on the natural... -
Letters from Helfenberg: A Family Correspondence between Dresden and Cambridge, and beyond, 1909 - 1948 by John Falconer
RRP: £20.00£14.29Letters from Helfenberg tells the story of a family and a house, and between the lines also of two countries, Germany and England, over a span of forty years. Starting in Berlin in 1909, when the shops were full of 'modern hats with big brims and ostrich... -
The Book of Awesome by Neil Pasricha
RRP: £19.00£11.69Based on the award-winning 10-million-plus-hit blog 1000 Awesome Things, The Book of Awesome is an international bestselling high five for humanity and a big celebration of life's little moments.Sometimes it's easy to forget the things that make us smile... -
Captain Tom Moore by Sally Morgan 9780702312328
RRP: £5.99£4.63Captain Tom Moore: fundraiser, World War Two veteran, the nation's hero. Read all about the life of Captain Tom Moore who went above and beyond for his country and the NHS. From his early life in Keighley, to the... -
Greek Anthology: Volume I: book 1: Christian Epigrams by W. R. Paton
RRP: £24.95£23.76A gathering of poetic blossoms.The Greek Anthology contains some 4,500 short Greek poems in the sparkling and diverse genre of epigram, written by more than a hundred poets and collected over many centuries. To the original collection, called the Garland... -
Ukraine, War, Love: A Donetsk Diary Olena Stiazhkina 9780674291690
RRP: £33.95£27.41In Ukraine, War, Love, Olena Stiazhkina depicts day-to-day developments in and around her beloved hometown Donetsk during Russia’s 2014 invasion and occupation of the Ukrainian city. An award-winning fiction writer, Stiazhkina chronicles an increasingly... -
Reynard the Fox: A New Translation James Simpson 9780871407368
RRP: £19.99£17.23James Simpson's translation of the late-middle-English version restores Reynard as part of a tradition that extends to Animal Farm. With all new illustrations, "Reynard the Fox is the animal fable's version of Homer's Odyssey" (Stephen Greenblatt).About... -
Great Speeches by Native Americans by Bob Blaisdell 9780486411224
RRP: £4.99£4.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486411224Author Bob BlaisdellFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Art of Poetry: Forward Poems, revised selection by Michael Meally 9780995467149
RRP: £12.99£11.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995467149Author Michael MeallyFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Art of PoetryPublisher Art of PoetryWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *... -
Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume III: The Tragic Years 1939-1972 by A. David Moody
RRP: £22.49£20.04This third and final volume of A. David Moody's critical life of Ezra Pound presents Pound's personal tragedy in a tragic time. In this volume, we experience the 1939-1945 World War, and Pound's hubristic involvement in Fascist Italy's part in it; we... -
My 1980s & Other Essays by Wayne Koestenbaum 9780374533779
RRP: £25.00£15.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374533779Author Wayne KoestenbaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)... -
All I Ever Wrote: The Complete Works by Ronnie Barker
RRP: £30.00£21.95Ronnie Barker has long been known as one of Britain's greatest comedy performers. But he was also responsible for writing much of the material he performed, often hiding the fact from the public by using a number of pen names. Showcasing the complete... -
Early Modern Women's Writing: An Anthology 1560-1700 by Dr Paul Salzman
RRP: £12.99£9.34In a famous passage in A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf asked 'why women did not write poetry in the Elizabethan age'. She went on to speculate about an imaginary Judith Shakespeare who might have been destined for a career as illustrious as that of... -
Shaking A Leg: Collected Journalism and Writings by Angela Carter 9780099583073
RRP: £18.99£14.01WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY RACHEL COOKEReading Shaking a Leg is like spending time with the funniest, wisest friend you've ever had; a person whose breadth of interest ranges from food to feminism to science fiction, and everything in between; a person... -
The Complete Sophocles: Volume II: Electra and Other Plays by Peter Burian
RRP: £12.49£10.22Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations offers new translations that go beyond... -
Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read by Virginia Woolf
RRP: £8.99£6.22FOREWORD BY ALI SMITH WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADE Who better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf? ... -
The Book of Venice: A City in Short Fiction by Orsola Casagrande
RRP: £9.99£8.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910974094Author Orsola CasagrandeFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Comma PressPublisher Comma Press -
Granta 8: Dirty Realism by William Boyd 9780140068696
RRP: £16.99£15.54Dirty Realism is the fiction of a new generation of American authors. They write about the belly-side of contemporary life - a deserted husband, an unwed mother, a car thief, a pickpocket, a drug addict - but they write about it with a disturbing... -
Angels & Saints by Eliot Weinberger
£21.49Angels have soared through Western culture and consciousness from Biblical to contemporary times. But what do we really know about these celestial beings? Where do they come from, what are they made of, how do they communicate and perceive? The... -
Rumi's Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love by Brad Gooch 9780061999154
RRP: £12.99£8.71The ecstatic love poems of Rumi, a Persian poet and Sufi mystic born more than eight centuries ago, are beloved by millions of readers in America as well as around the world. Rumi has been compared to Shakespeare for his outpouring of creativity and St... -
Replace Me by Amber Husain 9781913512064
RRP: £6.00£4.56An essay on work, desire, and fear of being replaced From the workplace to our personal relationships, anxieties about being replaced have come to dominate the late-capitalist psyche. Tech and self-help industries have exploited these fears, selling... -
Grief Diaries: Through the Eyes of Men by Lynda Cheldelin Fell 9781944328481
RRP: £15.95£11.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944328481Author Lynda Cheldelin FellFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Alyblue MediaPublisher Alyblue MediaWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Must Try Harder!: The Very Worst Howlers By Schoolchildren Norman McGreevy 9781845296322
RRP: £6.99£5.17A side-splitting collection of the most earnest and mangled attempts at the English language made by generations of schoolchildren. Be they funny, irreverent or just plain silly, Mr McGreevy's Absolute Howlers are guaranteed to have you weeping with... -
A Man Keiichiro Hirano 9781542006873
£10.25A man follows another man's trail of lies in a compelling psychological story about the search for identity, by Japan's award-winning literary sensation Keiichiro Hirano in his first novel to be translated into English. Akira Kido is a divorce... -
Travel Writing 1700-1830: An Anthology by Elizabeth A. Bohls
RRP: £12.99£9.34'How is the mind agitated and bewildered, at being thus, as it were, placed on the borders of a new world!' - William Bartram 'Thus you see, dear sister, the manners of mankind do not differ so widely as our voyage writers would have us believe.' -...