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Agricola and Germania by Tacitus
RRP: £10.99£7.77The Agricola is both a portrait of Julius Agricola - the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and respected father-in-law - and the first detailed account of Britain that has come down to us. It offers fascinating descriptions of... -
Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life after Which Everything Was Different by Chuck Palahniuk
RRP: £10.99£7.40Renowned, bestselling novelist Chuck Palahniuk takes us behind the scenes of the writing life, with postcards from decades on the road and incredible examination of the power of fiction and the art of storytelling.In this spellbinding blend of memoir and... -
The Complete Poems by John Keats
RRP: £12.99£9.09Covering the entire output of an archetypal - and tragically short-lived - romantic genius, the Penguin Classics edition of The Complete Poems of John Keats is edited with an introduction and notes by John Barnard.Keats's first volume of poems, published... -
War Diary of the Ukrainian Resistance by The Kyiv Independent
RRP: £16.99£12.94'We must reveal the truth - it's our duty. The world must know what is going on here ... We have to carry on reporting. This is what keeps me going: reporting so that the world will never forget.' - Asami Terajima, reporter for The Kyiv IndependentHow... -
The Orwell Diaries by George Orwell
RRP: £14.99£10.95George Orwell was an inveterate keeper of diaries. The Orwell Diaries presents eleven of them, covering the period 1931-1949, and follows Orwell from his early years as a writer to his last literary notebook. An entry from 1931 tells of a communal... -
Notes from the Henhouse: Collected Essays by Elspeth Barker 9781399612494
RRP: £18.99£12.75'This book is heaven. Elspeth Barker writes like no one else'OLIVIA LAING'Deserves to be permanently on the bedside table - to cheer, reassure and inspire'OBSERVER'Gothic, poetic and exuberantly funny. What a pleasure it was to read'ESTHER FREUD'Joyous,... -
Diaries: From Blair to Brown, 2005 - 2007: Volume 6 by Alastair Campbell
RRP: £25.00£18.84After helping Tony Blair to secure a historic third term in office, Alastair Campbell might have hoped to make good his long-planned escape from Downing Street. Blair, and Gordon Brown, had other ideas. Having negotiated Brown's pivotal role in the 2005... -
Football Legends #6: Kylian Mbappe by Scholastic 9780702304002
RRP: £5.99£4.05Be inspired by Football Legend, Kylian Mbappe! Discover more about this incredible player's journey from his early career at AS Bondy, coached by his father, to his success at Paris Saint-Germain FC and fulfilling his dream... -
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue 20th Anniversary Edition by Samuel R. Delany 9781479827770
RRP: £21.99£17.54Twentieth anniversary edition of a landmark book that cataloged a vibrant but disappearing neighborhood in New York City In the two decades that preceded the original publication of Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, Forty-second Street, then the most... -
The Darwin Awards Next Evolution: Chlorinating the Gene Pool by Wendy Northcutt
RRP: £18.90£14.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452295636Author Wendy NorthcuttFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 237gDimensions(mm) 183mm * 132mm *... -
On Love by Charles Bukowski 9781782117308
RRP: £9.99£6.70In On Love, we see Charles Bukowski reckoning with the complications of love and desire. Alternating between the tough and the tender, the romantic and the gritty, Bukowski exposes the myriad faces of love in the poems collected here - its selfishness... -
Letters to a Young Writer by Colum McCann
RRP: £9.99£7.67From the National Book Award-winning, Booker Prize-longlisted author of Let the Great World Spin and Transatlantic comes a passionate and practical book of advice, as essential for budding writers as Stephen King's On Writing 'A warm, open-hearted... -
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
RRP: £11.99£8.60A collection of insightful and uproariously funny non-fiction by the bestselling author of INFINITE JEST - one of the most acclaimed and adventurous writers of our time. A SUPPOSEDLY FUN THING... brings together Wallace's musings on a wide range of... -
Dancing at the Edge of the World by Ursula K. Le Guin 9780802135292
£14.43The celebrated author offers her thoughts on a broad range of subjects, including literary criticism, the state of science fiction writing today, and government and governmental policies.Book InformationISBN 9780802135292Author Ursula K. Le GuinFormat... -
Buzzelli Collected Works Vol. 1: The Labyrinth by Guido Buzzelli 9781942801429
RRP: £24.99£17.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942801429Author Guido BuzzelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Floating World ComicsPublisher Alternative Comics -
Dispatches from the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter by Gary Younge
RRP: £14.99£9.80BY THE WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR JOURNALISM 2023A powerful collection of journalism on race, racism and Black life and death from one of the nation's leading political voices.'An outstanding journalist and chronicler.' BERNARDINE EVARISTO'Fused with... -
Antigone; Oedipus the King; Electra by Sophocles
RRP: £7.99£5.93Love and loyalty, hatred and revenge, fear, deprivation, and political ambition: these are the motives which thrust the characters portrayed in these three Sophoclean masterpieces on to their collision course with catastrophe. Recognized in his own... -
The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois 9780486280417
RRP: £3.99£2.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486280417Author W. E. B. DuFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 135gDimensions(mm)... -
A Very Easy Death by Simone de Beauvoir 9781804270448
RRP: £10.99£7.32Long considered one of Simone de Beauvoir’s masterpieces, A Very Easy Death is a profoundly affecting, day-by-day recounting of her mother’s final days after she is hospitalized following a fall. Though a devout Catholic, her faith is subsumed by her... -
All the Sonnets of Shakespeare by William Shakespeare 9781108490399
RRP: £15.99£13.33How can we look afresh at Shakespeare as a writer of sonnets? What new light might they shed on his career, personality, and sexuality? Shakespeare wrote sonnets for at least thirty years, not only for himself, for professional reasons, and for those he... -
Art Heals by Shaun McNiff
RRP: £26.00£16.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590301661Author Shaun McNiffFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Letters for the Ages: The Private and Personal Letters of Sir Winston Churchill by Sir Sir Winston S. Churchill
RRP: £20.00£14.29Here are some of the best of Churchill's letters, many of a more personal nature, written to a wide range of people, including his schoolmaster, his American grandmother and former President Eisenhower. Letters for the Ages concentrates on the more... -
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby
RRP: £10.99£7.32**QUIETLY HOSTILE - THE HILARIOUS NEW BOOK FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR - IS AVAILABE TO PRE-ORDER NOW**'Irby might be our great bard of quarantine.' New York TimesIn this painfully funny collection, Samantha Irby captures powerful... -
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
RRP: £10.99£7.93'A humane discourse on the fragility of our minds, of the bodies that give rise to them, and of the world they create for us. This book is filled with wonders' - Daily Telegraph Oliver Sacks' compassionate tales of people struggling to adapt to different... -
The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James
RRP: £12.99£9.09Standing at the crossroads of psychology and religion, this catalyzing work applied the scientific method to a field abounding in abstract theory. William James believed that individual religious experiences, rather than the precepts of organized... -
Bedtime Stories for Stressed Out Adults by Various
RRP: £16.99£11.54PICKED FOR WORLD BOOK NIGHT 2020THE PERFECT READ TO CALM YOUR MIND IN TIMES OF STRESS**** As recommended by RED magazine ****'Dreamy' STYLIST'Calm and restore an anxious mind before sleep... the most beautiful book that will, without a doubt, put you in... -
Shame – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE by Annie Ernaux 9781804270561
RRP: £9.99£6.75‘My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon.’ Thus begins Shame, the probing story of the twelve-year-old girl who will become the author herself, and the traumatic memory that will echo and resonate throughout her life... -
Dear Friend and Gardener: Letters on Life and Gardening by Beth Chatto
RRP: £9.99£6.80In this engaging and fascinating exchange of personal letters, two of the most influential gardeners of all time compare notes on successes and failures in their two very different gardens. As Christopher Lloyd and Beth Chatto convey their gardening... -
The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Volume 4: 1931-1935 by Virginia Woolf 9781783788750
RRP: £30.00£19.70With an introduction by Margo Jefferson Thursday 28 May 1931. On Whit Monday the sun blazed, making the grass semi-transparent. And space & leisure seemed to lie all about; & I said, not once in an exstasy, but frequently & soberly, This is happiness... -
The Metaphysics by Aristotle 9780140446197
RRP: £12.99£10.69Aristotle's probing inquiry into some of the fundamental problems of philosophy, The Metaphysics is one of the classical Greek foundation-stones of western thought, translated from the with an introduction by Hugh Lawson-Tancred in Penguin Classics.The... -
Moondust by Andrew Smith
RRP: £9.99£7.67A revised and updated edition of the classic work to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the first moon landing 'It left me spellbound ... belongs to the same tradition as Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff' Sunday Times 'Fascinating. A wonderful book'... -
Letters written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark by Mary Wollstonecraft
RRP: £8.99£6.45'If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.' William Godwin, the author's future husband, was not alone in admiring Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and... -
Poems And Prophecies by William Blake 9781857150346
RRP: £16.99£12.68This is a selection of the poet's work, including all the great lyrics and the more important prophetic books. In her introduction the poet and critic expounds Blake's esoteric theory and shows how it helped to create a poetry which is unlike any other... -
On Writing by Charles Bukowski
RRP: £9.99£6.70A collection of previously unpublished letters from America's cult icon on the art of writing.Charles Bukowski was one of our most iconoclastic, raw and riveting writers, one whose stories, poems and novels have left an enduring mark on our culture. On... -
The Art of Happiness by Epicurus
RRP: £12.99£9.09The teachings of Epicurus-about life and death, religion and science, physical sensation, happiness, morality, and friendship-attracted legions of adherents throughout the ancient Mediterranean world and deeply influenced later European thought. Though... -
The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 by Martin Amis 9780099422228
RRP: £14.99£10.95Like John Updike, Martin Amis is the pre-eminent novelist-critic of his generation. The War Against Cliche is a selection of his reviews and essays over the past quarter-century. It contains pieces on Cervantes, Milton, Donne, Coleridge, Jane Austen,... -
Mythologies by Roland Barthes
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Barthes' purpose is to tear away masks and demystify the signs, signals and symbols of the language of mass culture' The TimesIn this magnificent and often surprising collection of essays Barthes explores the myths of mass culture. Taking subjects as... -
Timaeus Critias Cleitophon Menexenus Epistles: v. 9 by Plato
RRP: £24.95£23.39On the creation of the world, and the destruction of Atlantis.Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BC. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else... -
Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion
RRP: £9.99£6.64Twelve early pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of Joan Didion. Mostly drawn from the earliest part of her astonishing five-decade career, the wide-ranging... -
The Great Book of British Useless Information by Hannah Warner
RRP: £9.99£6.85Which king ordered everyone to bed at 8pm? How many Pot Noodles are sold every second in Great Britain? How many streets must a London cabbie memorise in order to pass 'the knowledge'? How much does the hammer of Big Ben's bell weigh? If you want to...