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Fisher's Face by Jan Morris
RRP: £12.99£8.80Admiral 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... -
From the Corner of the Oval Office: A searing summer 2019 holiday read Beck Dorey-Stein 9781784164126
RRP: £8.99£6.65_____________________________'If you've ever felt like you were out of your element, in over your head or working without a net, you will love this book. Funny, fast-paced, and so emotionally true it hurts.' Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New... -
On Being Different: What It Means to Be a Homosexual by Merle Miller
RRP: £8.99£6.65Originally published in 1971, Merle Miller's On Being Different is a pioneering and thought-provoking book about being homosexual in the United States. Just two years after the Stonewall riots, Miller wrote a poignant essay for the New York Times... -
A Bouquet for the Gardener: Martin Gardner Remembered by Mark Burstein 9780930326173
£15.24Martin Gardner, the "Mathematical Games" columnist for Scientific American from 1956 to 1981, was also a philosopher, polymath, magician, religious thinker, and the author of more than 70 books, including The Annotated Alice, The Ambidextrous... -
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.'... -
A Book of Voyages by Patrick O'Brian
RRP: £9.99£6.72An anthology of 17th and 18th century travel writing that inspired the hugely popular Aubrey/Maturin series, collected and introduced by Patrick O'Brian, beautifully repackaged to mark the centenary of his birth. Patrick O'Brian has unearthed... -
What Do I Know?: Essential Essays by Michel de Montaigne 9781782278818
RRP: £14.99£10.06A selection of Michel de Montaigne's most profound, searching essays, in a new translation and stunning hardback edition featuring an introduction by Yiyun Li 'I myself am the subject of my book'. So wrote Montaigne in the introductory note to his... -
Famous Last Words by Ray Robinson 9780761126096
RRP: £7.99£6.36"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."-Pancho Villa "Drink to me!"-Pablo Picasso A collection of notable last recorded words of the dying, Famous Last Words is bursting with life, hope, wisdom, and often laughter. Here are writers,... -
The Lewis Land Struggle: Na Gaisgich by Joni Buchanan 9780861521661
RRP: £12.99£11.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861521661Author Joni BuchananFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint AcairPublisher AcairDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 8mm -
Gustav Mahler: Letters to his Wife Gustav Mahler 9780571212095
RRP: £12.99£8.80Gustav Mahler: Letters to his Wife is undoubtedly the best way to understand Mahler as a man and as a composer: in his own words, intimately detailing his inner world to his wife, Alma. 'Are Collected Letters a superior form of biography? When as... -
Aristophanes: Lysistrata Alan H. Sommerstein (Department of Classics, University of Nottingham (United Kingdom)) 9780856684586
£27.51Lysistrata is the third and last of Aristophanes' peace plays. It is a dream of peace, of how the women could help to achieve an honourable settlement, conceived when Athens was going through its blackest, most desperate crisis since the Persian War... -
The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar: Essays on Poets and Poetry by Helen Vendler
RRP: £20.95£17.14A Times Higher Education Book of the WeekOne of our foremost commentators on poetry examines the work of a broad range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century English, Irish, and American poets. The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar gathers two decades'... -
A Bite of the Apple: A Life with Books, Writers and Virago by Lennie Goodings 9780198828747
RRP: £10.49£7.66'The moment I got my job at Virago in 1978 I knew it would be a long time before I would leave. I certainly wouldn't have had the brazen hope then-only twenty-five and very recently new to Britain-that I would ever become the Publisher, but I did know... -
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke 9780393310399
RRP: £9.99£8.02Born in 1875, the great German lyric poet Rainer Maria Rilke published his first collection of poems in 1898 and went on to become renowned for his delicate depiction of the workings of the human heart. Drawn by some sympathetic note in his poems, young... -
The Ancient Near East: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures by James B. Pritchard
RRP: £50.00£40.42James Pritchard's classic anthologies of the ancient Near East have introduced generations of readers to texts essential for understanding the peoples and cultures of this important region. Now these two enduring works have been combined and integrated... -
August in Kabul: America's Last Days in Afghanistan by Mr Andrew Quilty
RRP: £20.00£15.56Told through the eyes of witnesses to the fall of Kabul, Walkley award-winning journalist Andrew Quilty's debut book offers a remarkable record of this historic moment. As night fell on 15 August 2021, the Taliban entered Kabul, capital of Afghanistan... -
William Wilberforce: His Unpublished Spiritual Journals by Michael D. McMullen
RRP: £22.99£16.93These spiritual journals will give readers insight into the heart and mind of one of Britain's leading abolitionists. William Wilberforce (1759-1833) is best remembered as a leading figure in the movement to have the slave trade abolished... -
Last Steps: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy by Jay Parini 9780141191195
RRP: £12.99£9.341910. Anna Karenina and War and Peace have made Leo Tolstoy the world's most famous author. But fame comes at a price. In the tumultuous final year of his life, Tolstoy is desperate to find respite, so leaves his large family and the hounding press... -
The BBC National Short Story Award 2018 by Mel Giedroyc 9781910974414
RRP: £7.99£5.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910974414Author Stig AbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Comma PressPublisher Comma Press -
Mothers, Fathers, and Others: New Essays Siri Hustvedt 9781529376647
RRP: £20.00£13.55'It is Hustvedt's gift to write with exemplary clarity of what is by necessity unclear.' Hilary Mantel, GuardianFeminist philosophy meets family memoir in a fresh essay collection by the award-winning essayist and novelist Siri Hustvedt, author of the... -
After Henry by Joan Didion
RRP: £17.00£10.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679745396Author Joan DidionFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
On Poetry and Poets by Professor T S Eliot 9780374531973
RRP: £12.99£9.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374531973Author Professor T S EliotFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Farrar Straus GirouxPublisher Farrar Straus GirouxWeight(grams) 295g -
Nothing . . . Except My Genius: The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde
RRP: £6.99£5.30'I have nothing to declare,' Wilde once told an American customs official, 'except my genius.' A socialite, a wit, a man who flaunted convention and was unafraid to shock, Oscar Wilde was a great writer and a great man. This new collection of wit and... -
What If This Were Enough? by Heather Havrilesky
RRP: £20.00£11.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525434962Author Heather HavrileskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 221gDimensions(mm) 201mm... -
Little Moments of Love by Catana Chetwynd 9781449492977
RRP: £9.99£7.16Soppy meets Sarah's Scribbles in this sweet collection of comics about the simple, precious, silly, everyday moments that make up a relationship. What began as stray doodles on scraps of paper became an internet sensation when Catana Chetwynd's... -
Greek Unseen Translation Dr John Taylor 9781350336179
RRP: £18.99£17.16This is a useful collection of 130 passages from Greek authors, ideal for students from pre-GCSE to A Level. Part 1 contains ten passages for the new Intermediate Certificate and twenty at GCSE level. Part 2 contains thirty lightly adapted post-GCSE... -
The Oxford Book of Death by D. J. Enright
RRP: £11.99£8.66The inescapable reality of death has given rise to much of literature's most profound and moving work. D. J. Enright's wonderfully eclectic selection presents the words of poet and novelist, scientist and philosopher, mystic and sceptic. And alongside... -
Tiny Feet: A Treasury for Parents: An Anthology by Notting Hill Editions Editors
RRP: £15.99£13.53'It was the most liberating thing that ever happened to me, having children. The children's demands on me were things that nobody else ever asked me to do.' -Toni Morrison Children are a miracle, and everyone has an opinion on how we should raise... -
Magic(al) Realism by Maggie Ann Bowers 9780415268547
RRP: £25.99£22.63Bestselling novels by Angela Carter, Salman Rushdie, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and a multitude of others have enchanted us by blurring the lines between reality and fantasy. Their genre of writing has been variously defined as 'magic', 'magical' or... -
Epoch and Artist by David Jones
RRP: £18.99£12.83This collection of occasional writing 'reveals a consistency, a subtlety, a creativeness springing from tradition . . . For David Jones every sentence is wrought with artistry; and as compared with the arid conceptual approach of so much academic... -
Vorticism: New Perspectives by Mark Antliff 9780199937660
£99.84The London-based avant-garde movement Vorticism, like its continental counterparts Cubism and Futurism and its English rival Bloomsbury was created by artists, poets, writers, and artist-writers, as a project that defied disciplinary boundaries... -
Letters to a Writer of Colour by Deepa Anappara
RRP: £14.99£11.11Filled with empathy and wisdom, personal experiences and creative inspiration, this is a vital collection of essays on the power of literature and the craft of writing from an international array of writers of colour.'Electric essays that speak to the... -
The Uncaged Voice: Stories by Writers in Exile by Keith Ross Leckie 9781770867116
RRP: £12.99£8.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770867116Author Keith Ross LeckieFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Cormorant BooksPublisher Cormorant BooksWeight(grams) 200g -
Soseki Natsume's I Am A Cat: The Manga Edition: The tale of a cat with no name but great wisdom! by Soseki Natsume
RRP: £12.99£9.19Japan's beloved literary masterpiece brought to life in manga form!Soseki Natsume's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the foolishness of upper-middle-class Japanese society in early 20th century Tokyo. Written with biting wit and sardonic... -
Christmas Truce by the Men Who Took Part: Letters from the 1914 Ceasefire on the Western Front by Mike Hill 9781781558126
RRP: £25.00£17.90The Christmas Truce of 1914 remains a moment of enduring fascination more than a century after the day the First World War guns fell silent. Now for the first time hundreds of first person accounts of this most extraordinary period of history have been... -
Great Dialogues Of Plato by Plato 9780451471703
RRP: £7.95£5.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451471703Author PlatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Signet ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The Daily Henry David Thoreau: A Year of Quotes from the Man Who Lived in Season by Henry David Thoreau 9780226624969
RRP: £12.00£9.46"Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of each." Modernity rules our lives by clock and calendar, dividing the stream of time into units and coordinating every... -
The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West 1911-1917 by Rebecca West 9780860683186
£14.87In 1916, when Rebecca West was not yet twenty-five years old, George Bernard Shaw wrote: 'Rebecca can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.' These early writings, collected ehre for the first time, established Rebecca West's... -
Otherworlds: Fantasy and History in Medieval Literature by Aisling Byrne
RRP: £34.99£28.51This book offers a new perspective on the otherworlds of medieval literature. These fantastical realms are among the most memorable places in medieval writing, by turns beautiful and monstrous, alluring and terrifying. Passing over a river or sea, or... -
On the Natural Faculties by Galen
RRP: £24.95£23.76Antiquity's most prolific and influential medical writer and practitioner.If the work of Hippocrates is taken as representing the foundation upon which the edifice of historical Greek medicine was raised, then the work of Galen, who lived some six...