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The Glamorous World of Television by Jonathan Leffman 9781800743458
RRP: £7.99£5.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800743458Author Jonathan LeffmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 107Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers -
Imagined Selves: Imagined Corners: Mrs Ritchie: Mrs Grundy in Scotland: Women - An Inquiry: 'Women in Scotland' by Willa Muir
RRP: £20.00£13.46This volume gathers together some of the real and the imagined lives of Willa Muir, one of the finest and fiercest intellectuals of her generation.Her writing is rich with paradox - although obsessively Scottish in subject and style, she resented... -
Trojan Women by Euripides 9780674995741
RRP: £24.95£23.39Three plays by ancient Greece's third great tragedian.One of antiquity's greatest poets, Euripides has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. The new Loeb Classical Library edition of his... -
Chattering Courtesans and Other Sardonic Sketches by Lucian
RRP: £16.99£12.28Described by a later Greek historian as "a man seriously committed to raising a laugh", Lucian exulted in the exposure of absurdity and the puncturing of pretension, and was capable of finding a comic angle on almost any subject. In this selection we... -
The Secrets of the Notebook: A royal love affair and a woman's quest to uncover her incredible family secret by Eve Haas
RRP: £9.99£7.11The incredible true story revealed by a family notebook, telling of four daughters across two centuries of turbulent history, of a passionate and ill-fated royal love affair, ending in a tragic and cruel death. 'The beautiful owner of this... -
Troll Magic: Hidden Folk from the Mountains and Forests of Norway by Theodor Kittelsen
RRP: £16.99£15.88A collection of macabre and magical folklore from the "godfather" of the Norwegian troll Across the stillness of the sprawling mountain heath, the shadow of the mighty forest falls, its wildness calling to the child in all of us. Here the Hidden Folk... -
So Vast The Prison by Assia Djebar
RRP: £11.99£8.00Apologies 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£6.92GUARDIAN 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... -
Two Moral Interludes: The Pride of Life and Wisdom by David N. Klausner
RRP: £11.50£9.34With the METS editions of Everyman (2008), Mankind (2010), and The Castle of Perseverance (2010), this volume completes the presentation of the five surviving Middle English morality plays. In addition to the texts of The Pride of Life (the earliest of... -
First Light by Erica Wagner
RRP: £10.99£7.47Described by Philip Pullman as 'the most important British writer of fantasy since Tolkein', Alan Garner has been enrapturing readers with works like The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Owl Service, Red Shift and The Stone Book Quartet for more than half... -
Eyrbyggja Saga by Hermann Palsson
RRP: £12.99£9.80An Icelandic saga which mixes realism with wild gothic imagination and history with eerie tales of hauntings. It dramatizes a 13th century view of the past, from the pagan anarchy of the Viking age to the settlement of Iceland, the coming of Christianity... -
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... -
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Play by August Wilson 9780452261136
RRP: £15.00£10.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of NY Drama Critics Circle Award.Book InformationISBN 9780452261136Author August WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books... -
Aerial Environments on the Early Modern Stage: Theatres of the Air, 1576-1609 by Chloe Kathleen Preedy 9780192843326
RRP: £112.50£101.64During the early days of the professional English theatre, dramatists including Dekker, Greene, Heywood, Jonson, Marlowe, Middleton, and Shakespeare wrote for playhouses that, though enclosed by surrounding walls, remained open to the ambient air and the... -
Dashing for the Post: The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor by Patrick Leigh Fermor
RRP: £12.99£8.60A revelatory collection of letters written by the author of The Broken Road.Handsome, spirited and erudite, Patrick Leigh Fermor was a war hero and one of the greatest travel writers of his generation. He was also a spectacularly gifted friend. The... -
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... -
The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens 9780199686667
RRP: £9.99£7.11'And O, Angelica, what has become of you, this present Sunday morning when I can't attend to the sermon; and, more difficult question than that, what has become of Me as I was when I sat by your side?' At the height of his career, around the time he... -
Traces Remain: Essays and Explorations by Charles Nicholl
RRP: £10.99£7.77History leaves traces of the people - Byron, Shakespeare, Rimbaud, Leonardo - living through it, in portraits, documents and books. In Traces Remain, Charles Nicholl, the acclaimed author of The Reckoning, The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street and... -
The Portable Chekhov by Anton Chekhov 9780140150353
£12.79Anton Chekhov remarked toward the close of his life that people would stop reading him a year after his death. But his literary stature and popularity have grown steadily with the years, and he is accounted the single most important influence on the... -
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,... -
Philippics 1-6 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95£23.39Invectives against Antony.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman advocate, orator, politician, poet, and philosopher, about whom we know more than we do of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of... -
How Should One Read a Book? by Virginia Woolf 9781913724474
RRP: £5.00£4.42First 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. -
Swimming In A Sea Of Death: A Son's Memoir by David Rieff 9781847080752
RRP: £7.99£5.46In spring 2004, Susan Sontag was diagnosed with the incurable blood cancer. She had a huge appetite for experience, and a wild, extravagant desire to live. Rieff writes movingly about being by her side during that last year and at her death, and about... -
The Smoking Diaries Volume 1 by Simon Gray 9781847080547
RRP: £7.99£5.46When he turned sixty-five, the playwright Simon Gray began to keep a diary: not a careful honing of the day's events with a view to posterity but an account of his thoughts as he had them, honestly, turbulently, digressively expressed. The Smoking... -
Good Citizens Need Not Fear: 'Bright, funny, satirical and relevant' Margaret Atwood (from Twitter) by Maria Reva
RRP: £8.99£6.20'Bright, funny, satirical and relevant. . . . A new talent to watch!' MARGARET ATWOOD (via Twitter)This brilliant and bitingly funny novel-in-stories, set in and around a single crumbling apartment building in Soviet-era Ukraine, heralds the arrival of a... -
Tell Everyone on This Train I Love Them by Maeve Higgins
RRP: £11.99£8.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143135869Author Maeve HigginsFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Poems (1962-1997) by Robert Lax 9781933517766
RRP: £17.99£12.70"One of the great original voices of our times--a pilgrim in search of beautiful innocence."--Jack Kerouac "Robert Lax's poems [prove] yet again that the gift to be simple is the gift to be free, that less is more, and that least may sometimes be most... -
The Fastidious Assassins by Albert Camus
RRP: £7.99£5.79A 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... -
Forgotten Manuscript by Sergio Chejfec 9781913867713
RRP: £11.99£8.29"Sergio Chejfec is an admirable writer." -Patti Smith"Could anyone possibly believe that writing doesn't exist? It would be like denying the existence of rain."The perfect green notebook forms the basis for Sergio Chejfec's work, collecting writing, and... -
Japanese No Dramas by Royall Tyler
RRP: £14.99£10.95Japanese no theatre or the drama of 'perfected art' flourished in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries largely through the genius of the dramatist Zeami. An intricate fusion of music, dance, mask, costume and language, the dramas address many subjects,... -
Works: v. 4 by Demosthenes
RRP: £24.95£23.39The preeminent orator of ancient Athens.Demosthenes (384-322 BC), orator at Athens, was a pleader in law courts who later became also a statesman, champion of the past greatness of his city and the present resistance of Greece to Philip of Macedon's... -
The New Fuck You: Adventures in Lesbian Reading by Eileen Myles
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies 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... -
American Yiddish Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology by Benjamin Harshav
RRP: £39.00£35.72This remarkable volume introduces to the large English-speaking audience what is probably the most coherent segment of twentieth-century American literature not written in English. The range of American Yiddish Poetry runs the gamut from individualistic... -
To Speak a Defiant Word: Sermons and Speeches on Justice and Transformation by Pauli Murray 9780300268065
RRP: £25.00£23.94Twenty-five years of writings by the religious thinker and activist Pauli Murray A Seminary Coop Notable Book of 2023 The religious thought and activism that shaped the late twentieth century is typically described in terms of Black men from the... -
Agricola by Cornelius Tacitus
RRP: £24.95£23.39The paramount historian of the early Roman empire. Tacitus (Cornelius), famous Roman historian, was born in AD 55, 56 or 57 and lived to about 120. He became an orator, married in 77 a daughter of Julius Agricola before Agricola went to Britain, was... -
Fisher's Face by Jan Morris
RRP: £12.99£8.56Admiral of the Fleet Lord 'Jacky' Fisher (1841-1920) was one of the greatest naval reformers in history. He was also a colossal figure to contemporaries, both loved and loathed, a man of exceptional charm, presence and charisma. Since the late 1940s, Jan... -
Jonathan Miller: One Thing and Another by Jonathan Miller
RRP: £21.99£20.99'Do you sometimes think that you might wish that you were a national treasure, like Alan Bennett?' 'I'm rather glad I'm not. I'm quite pleased to be what I think I am, which is a sort of national liability.' Over the course of seven decades,... -
My Love Life & Other Disasters: Poems by Josa Keyes 9780993124853
RRP: £6.99£5.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993124853Author Josa KeyesFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Keyes Content LtdPublisher Keyes Content LtdWeight(grams) 148g -
The Letters of John McGahern by FRANK SHOVLIN
RRP: £30.00£20.70'Magnificent.' Irish Times'Much to savour.' The Times'An event in Irish culture.' TLSThe collected letters of John McGahern, 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel) and 'the most important Irish novelist since Samuel Beckett.'...