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My Pinup by Hilton Als
RRP: £7.99£7.02In this brilliant two-part memoir, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Hilton Als distills into one cocktail the deep and potent complexities of love and of loss, of Prince and of power, of desire and of race. It's delicious and it's got the kick of a... -
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Professor Audre Lorde
RRP: £12.99£11.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580911863Author Audre LordeFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Must Try Harder!: The Very Worst Howlers By Schoolchildren by Norman McGreevy
RRP: £6.99£5.00A 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... -
Health, Disease and Society in Europe, 1500-1800: A Source Book by Peter Elmer 9780719067372
RRP: £19.99£18.22Health, disease and society in Europe 1500-1800 considers how the body was viewed by the medical profession from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, and challenges established ideas in the field of medical history. It examines the provision of medical... -
Philostratus: Apollonius of Tyana, III, Letters of Apollonius, Ancient Testimonia, Eusebius's Reply to Hierocles by Philostratus
RRP: £24.95£23.88The life and miracles of a pagan holy man.Philostratus' colorful biography of Apollonius of Tyana, recounting the sayings and miracles of a Pythagorean sage, incidentally provoked a long-lasting debate between pagans and Christians. This volume, which... -
The Art of the Publisher by Roberto Calasso
RRP: £7.99£5.79'All the books published by a certain publisher could be seen as links in a single chain'In this fascinating memoir and manifesto the author and publisher Roberto Calasso meditates on the art of book publishing. With his signature erudition and polemical... -
Working the Room: Essays and Reviews: 1999-2010 by Geoff Dyer
RRP: £12.99£8.56Alive 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
£6.16Apologies 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)... -
Private Notebooks: 1914-1916 by Ludwig Wittgenstein
RRP: £19.99£15.46During the pandemic, Marjorie Perloff, leading scholar of global literature, found her mind ineluctably drawn to the profound commentary on life and death in the wartime diaries of eminent philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951). Upon learning that... -
Canto General by Pablo Neruda 9788437609300
RRP: £33.99£17.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788437609300Author Pablo NerudaFormat PaperbackPage Count 655Imprint Ediciones Catedra S.A.Publisher Ediciones Catedra S.A.Weight(grams) 467g -
Trinity Tales: Trinity College Dublin in the 2000s by 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... -
Nay Rather: The Cahier Series 21 by Anne Carson 9781909631038
RRP: £14.00£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909631038Author Anne CarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Sylph EditionsPublisher Sylph Editions -
She Memes Well: Essays by Quinta Brunson 9781328638984
RRP: £25.00£19.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328638984Author Quinta BrunsonFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Dey Street BooksPublisher Dey Street BooksWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm) 212mm *... -
My Ideal Bookshelf by Thessaly La Force
RRP: £20.00£17.16The books that we choose to keep--let alone read--can say a lot about who we are and how we see ourselves. In MY IDEAL BOOKSHELF, dozens of leading cultural figures share the books that matter to them most-books that define their dreams and ambitions and... -
Food for Thought: Selected Writings by Annie Gray
RRP: £10.99£7.12A delicious anthology of classic food writing to satisfy every palate, this gorgeous book will delight food lovers everywhere.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning pocket size classics. These beautiful books make perfect gifts... -
Love in the Blitz: A Woman in a World Turned Upside Down by Eileen Alexander 9780008311247
RRP: £9.99£6.64'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 .... -
Your Essential Guide to Sustainable Investing: How to live your values and achieve your financial goals with ESG, SRI, and Impact Investing by Larry E. Swedroe 9780857199041
RRP: £19.99£13.65Sustainable investing is booming. The investment industry is fast approaching a point where one-third of global assets under management are invested with a sustainable objective. But do sustainable investment products do what investors expect them to... -
Plato Respublica by S. R. Slings
£27.89This is the first edition of Plato's Republic to be based on an exhaustive examination of all the textual evidence - manuscripts, including papyri; quotations and allusions in ancient authors; translations into Coptic, Arabic and Hebrew. The three... -
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)... -
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... -
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... -
A Book Of Memories by Peter Nadas
RRP: £14.99£10.95A Book of Memories is made up of three first-person narratives: The first, that of a young Hungarian writer and his fated love for a German poet; we also learn of the narrator's adolescence in Budapest, when he experiences the downfall of his once... -
Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag by Orlando Figes 9780241955901
RRP: £12.99£9.09From Orlando Figes, international bestselling author of A People's Tragedy, Just Send Me Word is the moving true story of two young Russians whose love survived Stalin's Gulag. Lev and Svetlana, kept apart for fourteen years by the Second World War and... -
Plays Pleasant by George Bernard Shaw
RRP: £14.99£10.95One of Bernard Shaw's most glittering comedies, Arms and the Man is a burlesque of Victorian attitudes to heroism, war and empire. In the contrast between Bluntschli, the mercenary soldier, and the brave leader, Sergius, the true nature of valour is... -
Selected Poems: Thomas Chatterton by Thomas Chatterton 9781857546927
RRP: £9.95£6.97Wordsworth's lines on Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770) contributed to a legend that became better known than Chatterton's work itself. His story is moving: a sensitive, unhappy boy, he fell in love with the medieval world and escaped into it from miserable... -
Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read by Virginia Woolf
RRP: £8.99£6.02FOREWORD 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? ... -
Who Loses, Who Wins: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume Two 1979-2014 by Kenneth Rose
RRP: £16.99£11.94Kenneth Rose was one of the most astute observers of the post-war Establishment. The wry and amusing journals of the royal biographer and historian made objective observation a sculpted craft. His impeccable social placement located him within the... -
Angels & Saints by Eliot Weinberger
£21.16Angels 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... -
The United Nations of Cookies by Jess Murphy 9781999379926
RRP: £13.00£8.91Cultures 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... -
Rumi's Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love by Brad Gooch 9780061999154
RRP: £12.99£8.48The 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... -
The Best American Short Stories 2022 by Heidi Pitlor
RRP: £12.99£10.11A 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 Report on Unidentified Flying Objects: Project Blue Book - The Complete 1956 Report on UFOs by an Officer of the U.S. Air Force by Edward J Ruppelt 9781789872330
RRP: £12.98£12.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789872330Author Edward J RuppeltFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Pantianos ClassicsPublisher Pantianos ClassicsWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm)... -
Are Women Human?: Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society by Dorothy L. Sayers
RRP: £7.99£7.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802829962Author Dorothy L. SayersFormat PaperbackPage Count 69Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing... -
Father and Son by Edmund Gosse
RRP: £11.99£8.64'This book is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two consciences and almost two epochs.' Father and Son stands as one of English literature's seminal autobiographies. In it Edmund Gosse recounts, with humour and pathos, his childhood... -
The Odyssey by Homer 9780393417937
£8.52The first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty and power; about marriage, family and identity; and about travellers, hospitality and the changing meanings of home... -
Fortress Conservation - The Preservation of the Mkomazi Game Reserve, Tanzania by Dan Brockington
RRP: £19.99£19.39Challenges the myth of an African wilderness, and the conflict between conservation policies and the livelihoods of rural people. Many conservationists insist that conservation that ignores local costs cannot be sustained. For if conservation is... -
Ian Fleming's Inspiration: The Truth Behind the Books by Edward Abel Smith 9781526791986
RRP: £14.99£10.95Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Euripides III: Heracles, the Trojan Women, Iphigenia Among the Taurians, Ion 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... -
The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures by Paul Muldoon
RRP: £18.99£12.83The End of the Poem contains the fifteen lectures delivered by Paul Muldoon as Oxford Professor of Poetry, from 1999 to 2004. Rather than individual and discrete performances, these lectures form a dazzling set of variations around the sustained theme of... -
Discourses: v. 2: Bks.III-IV by Epictetus
RRP: £24.95£23.39From 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 ...