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Hippolytus by Euripides 9780862920746
£25.45This useful edition includes Ferguson's introduction to the history of Greek theatre along with full notes and vocabulary.Book InformationISBN 9780862920746Author EuripidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury... -
A Load of Shit by John Berger 9781912475414
RRP: £4.99£4.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912475414Author John BergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 12Imprint ERISPublisher ERIS -
The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives by Viet Thanh Nguyen
RRP: £10.99£7.85Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen called on 17 fellow refugee writers from across the globe to shed light on their experiences, and the result is The Displaced, a powerful dispatch from the individual lives behind current... -
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... -
The Complete Euripides Volume II Electra and Other Plays by Peter Burian 9780195388695
RRP: £12.49£9.24Based 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 series offers new translations that go... -
The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade by Thomas Lynch
RRP: £15.99£11.61Like all poets, inspired by death, Lynch is, unlike others, also hired to bury the dead or cremate them and to tend to their families in a small Michigan town where he serves as the funeral director. In the conduct of these duties he has kept his eyes... -
The Complete Short Stories of Natalia Ginzburg by Natalia Ginzburg
RRP: £19.99£17.81Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991) is today recognized as one of the foremost woman writers to emerge from twentieth-century Italy. The Complete Short Stories of Natalia Ginzburg brings together in English translation for the first time the eight short stories... -
Colour Cornwall by Brian Marriott 9781912060511
RRP: £3.99£3.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912060511Author Brian MarriottFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Bradwell BooksPublisher Bradwell Books -
Nay Rather: The Cahier Series 21 by Anne Carson 9781909631038
RRP: £14.00£9.44Apologies 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 -
So Vast The Prison by Assia Djebar
RRP: £11.99£8.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583220672Author Assia DjebarFormat PaperbackPage Count 363Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 531g -
The Good Immigrant USA: 26 Writers Reflect on America by Nikesh Shukla 9780349700366
RRP: £9.99£7.12GUARDIAN MUST READ BOOKS OF 2019 'The you-gotta-read-this anthology' Stylist'This collection showcases the joy, empathy and fierceness needed to adopt the country as one's own' Publishers Weekly An urgent collection of essays by first- and... -
Letters of Note: New York by Shaun Usher
RRP: £7.99£5.64In Letters of Note: New York, Shaun Usher curates a collection of extraordinary written exchanges about the Big Apple, from the marvelling of wide-eyed newcomers and the devoted outpourings of native citizens, to the frustrated outcries of the... -
The Curious History of Dating: From Jane Austen to Tinder Nichi Hodgson 9781472138064
RRP: £12.99£8.83AN EMPHATICALLY FEMINIST HISTORY OF DATING'A new approach to romance... The heroines of Regency novels could teach today's young women a trick or two' Sunday TimesWhat if Mr Darcy had simply been able to swipe right?'This book was a real education for me... -
Juvenal: Satires Book I by Juvenal
RRP: £27.99£24.27Satire was a genre of poetry invented and developed by the Romans. When it came into Juvenal's hands, he stamped his mark upon it: indignation. His angry voice had an overwhelming influence upon later European satirists and persists in modern forms of... -
Mexico: The Passenger by Various 9781787704695
RRP: £18.99£12.83Brimming with intricate research and enduring wonder, The Passenger is a love-letter to global travel The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, and reportage from around the world. Its aim, to break down barriers and introduce the... -
Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood by Frederick Joseph
RRP: £17.99£10.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063138322Author JosephFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Lost Tramways of England: Leeds East by Peter Waller 9781914079580
RRP: £8.99£6.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914079580Author Peter WallerFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg Limited -
The Werewolf in the Ancient World by Daniel Ogden
RRP: £28.99£24.82In a moonlit graveyard somewhere in southern Italy, a soldier removes his clothes in readiness to transform himself into a wolf. He depends upon the clothes to recover his human shape, and so he magically turns them to stone, but his secret is revealed... -
Comrades: A Lifetime of Friendships Rosita Boland 9781781620540
RRP: £14.99£13.66'I was fascinated, moved and entertained by every page. This is the kind of book the world needs right now' DONAL RYAN_______________'My dictionary's first two definitions of 'comrade' are:A close companion.An intimate associate or friend.The third one... -
The Dictionary of Norse Myth & Legend by Andrew Orchard
RRP: £18.99£12.94From Loki to Thor, Ragnarok to BeowulfA gripping and truly mesmerising delve into the Norse legendsFrom bestselling books to blockbusting Hollywood movies, the myths of the Scandinavian gods and heroes are part of the modern day landscape.For over a... -
Septuagenarian Stew by Charles Bukowski 9780876857946
RRP: £9.99£6.84Septuagenarian Stew is a combination of poetry and stories written by Charles Bukowski that delve into the lives of different people on the backstreets of Los Angeles. He writes of the housewife, the bum, the gambler and the celebrity to evoke a portrait... -
Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad: The True Story of an Unlikely Friendship by Bee Rowlatt 9780141038537
RRP: £15.99£11.61A London mum and Iraqi teacher should have nothing in common. Yet now, despite their differences, they're the firmest of friends . . . Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad by Bee Rowlatt and May Witwit is a touching and poignant portrait of an unlikely... -
Common Writing: Essays on Literary Culture and Public Debate by Stefan Collini 9780198813118
£29.10In a series of penetrating and attractively readable essays, Stefan Collini explores aspects of the literary and intellectual culture of Britain from the early twentieth century to the present. Common Writing focuses chiefly on writers, critics,... -
A Bit of a Writer: Brendan Behan's Collected Short Prose by Brendan Behan 9781843519003
RRP: £16.99£14.32Brendan Behan wrote over one hundred articles for Irish newspapers between 1951 and 1956 as he rose to international fame, with most of them written in a weekly column in the Irish Press. The articles reveal a serious writer capable of great comic set... -
Too Famous: The Rich, The Powerful, The Wishful, The Damned, The Notorious - Twenty Years of Columns, Essays and Reporting by Michael Wolff
RRP: £20.00£7.12Barbed, witty, revealing and entertaining, Too Famous could be an instant classic.Bestselling author of Fire and Fury, Siege and Landslide and chronicler of the Trump White House Michael Wolff dissects more of the major monsters, media moguls and... -
How Should One Read a Book? by Virginia Woolf 9781913724474
RRP: £5.00£4.59First delivered as a speech to schoolgirls in Kent in 1926, this enchanting short essay by the towering Modernist writer Virginia Woolf celebrates the importance of the written word. With a measured but ardent tone, Woolf weaves together thought and... -
The Chiropractor: The Philosophy and History of Chiropractic Therapy, Care and Diagnostics by Its Founder by D D Palmer 9780359022199
RRP: £13.80£12.46Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Pharmako-AI by K Allado-McDowell
RRP: £13.99£9.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838003906Author K Allado-McDowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Ignota BooksPublisher Ignota Books -
Spring and Autumn Annals: A Celebration of the Seasons for Freddie by Diane di Prima
RRP: £12.99£8.87Lyrical and unforgettable, part elegy and part memoir, we present a previously unpublished masterpiece from the Beat Generation icon. Simultaneously released with an expanded edition of di Prima's classic Revolutionary Letters on the one-year anniversary... -
The Old English and Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition by Andy Orchard
RRP: £29.95£24.43What offers over seven hundred witty enigmas in several languages? Answer: The Old English and Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition. Riddles, wordplay, and inscrutable utterances have been at the heart of Western literature for many centuries. Often brief and... -
The Fastidious Assassins by Albert Camus
RRP: £7.99£5.98A daring critique of communism and how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain, Camus' essay examines the revolutions in France and Russia, and argues that since they were both guilty of producing tyranny and corruption, hope for the future lies only... -
The New Nihilism by Peter Lamborn Wilson 9781937073725
RRP: £12.00£10.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937073725Author Peter Lamborn WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Bottle of Smoke PressPublisher Bottle of Smoke PressWeight(grams)... -
Life Changing Quotes: Inspirational and motivational quotes, inspiring quotes, quotes to motivate, wisdom to live by by Barry Phillips
RRP: £9.99£7.32"Change comes from one of two sources. First, we may be driven to change out of desperation. The second source that drives us to make changes in our lives is inspiration. I hope that is where you find yourself now - about to become sufficiently inspired... -
The Norton Anthology of English Literature by Stephen Greenblatt
£32.56The most trusted anthology for complete works and helpful editorial apparatus. The Tenth Edition supports survey and period courses with NEW complete major works, NEW contemporary writers, and dynamic and easy-to-access digital resources. NEW video... -
This Won't Help: Modest Proposals for a More Enjoyable Apocalypse Eli Grober 9781615199990
RRP: £20.99£15.18In this laugh-out-loud collection of witty observations from a world that’s falling apart, Eli Grober leads readers into a comical house of horrors. With more than 75 new pieces and many of Grober’s most viral New Yorker and McSweeney’s humour essays,... -
The Art of the Publisher by Roberto Calasso
RRP: £7.99£5.98'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... -
Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays) by Rebecca Solnit 9781783784974
RRP: £12.99£8.71Beginning with the election of Donald Trump ("The Loneliest Man in the World") and expanding back and forth into American history, surveillance, violence against the individual, the denormalizing of misogyny and the rehumanizing of public space. The... -
Lives of the Caesars: v. 2 by Suetonius
RRP: £24.95£23.76Antiquity's imperial biographer par excellence.Suetonius (C. Suetonius Tranquillus, born ca. AD 70), son of a military tribune, was at first an advocate and a teacher of rhetoric, but later became the emperor Hadrian's private secretary, 119-121. He... -
Tennis Whites and Teacakes by John Betjeman 9780719569043
RRP: £10.99£7.61Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The New Fuck You: Adventures in Lesbian Reading Eileen Myles 9781570270574
RRP: £13.99£9.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Lambda Literary Awards (Small Press) 1995.Book InformationISBN 9781570270574Author Eileen MylesFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher...