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27 Letters to My Daughter by Ella Ward 9781460763827
RRP: £12.99£8.71When death is dancing closer than you'd like, what becomes important? What do you need to tell your child? And how do you want to be remembered? A beautiful, tender, funny and poignant guide on how to really live, from a mother to her daughter. Ella Ward... -
Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Pop Culture by Zeba Blay
RRP: £14.99£9.78'Searing and timely' Tarana Burke, founder of the MeToo movement, and author of You Are Your Best Thing'Carefree Black Girls is the testimony I've been waiting to witness.'Robert Jones, Jr., author of The Prophets; creator of Son of Baldwin'Standout..... -
An Apology for Raymond Sebond by Michel Montaigne 9780140444933
RRP: £14.99£10.95An Apology for Raymond Sebond is widely regarded as the greatest of Montaigne's essays: a supremely eloquent expression of Christian scepticism. An empassioned defence of Sebond's fifteenth-century treatise on natural theology, it was inspired by the... -
Yield: The Journal of an Artist by Anne Truitt
RRP: £25.00£18.55Named by the New Yorker as one of the best books of 2022, this posthumously published work serves as the fourth and final volume in Anne Truitt's remarkable series of journals "Impressive. . . . Truitt lyrically looks back on 80 years of life. . . ... -
Seek: Reports from the Edges of America and Beyond by Denis Johnson 9780413772756
RRP: £10.99£9.18Part political inquiry, part travel journal, part-self exploration, "Seek" is a collection of essays by an award-winning novelist out to explore himself and his life in the company of those who live on the edges of society. Denis Johnson travels between... -
In Search Of Lost Time Volume 3 Marcel Proust 9781841598987
RRP: £22.00£16.27In The Guermantes Way Proust's narrator recalls his initiation into the dazzling world of Parisian high society. Looking back over his time in the glamorous salons of the aristocracy, he satirises this shallow world and his own youthful infatuation with... -
Pro Archia by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95£23.76Defense of a poet, and five speeches from after exile.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise,... -
Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry by Kenneth Koch 9780684824383
RRP: £27.50£11.27From one of the most esteemed American poets of the twenty-first century comes a celebration of poetry and an invitation for anyone to experience its beauty and wonder.Full of fresh and exciting insights, Making Your Own Days illuminates the somewhat... -
Exploring History 1400-1900: An Anthology of Primary Sources by Rachel Gibbons 9780719075889
RRP: £19.99£14.92Exploring history 1400-1900: An anthology of primary sources reaches out to the reader across an expanse of 500 years. It offers a broad sweep of history in the light of three key themes: consumers and producers; beliefs and ideologies; and... -
Adventures in Aquaculture: The Twenty-Sixth Sherman's Lagoon Collection by Jim Toomey
RRP: £9.99£7.03A year's worth of marine-life amusement with the cast and crew of Sherman's Lagoon.The sharks, turtles, and crabs of Sherman's Lagoon enjoy a complex society below the ocean's surface, with a local government, school system, and even their own radio... -
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke 9781603864800
£5.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603864800Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Merchant BooksPublisher Merchant BooksWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
The Smoking Diaries Volume 1 Simon Gray 9781847080547
RRP: £7.99£5.64When 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... -
Praeterita by John Ruskin 9780192802415
RRP: £11.99£8.66'For as I look deeper into the mirror, I find myself a more curious person than I had thought.' John Ruskin (1819-1900) was a towering figure of the nineteenth century: an art critic who spoke up for J. M. W. Turner and for the art of the Italian... -
The Idler 85, Jul/Aug 22: Featuring Jarvis Cocker plus wild swimming, mudlarking and more by Tom Hodgkinson 9781739660802
RRP: £9.00£8.96The Idler is a literary and philosophical lifestyle periodical edited by Tom Hodgkinson. This instalment features an interview with Jarvis Cocker about his memoir Good Pop Bad Pop, a guide to mudlarking, Arthur Smith in praise of teachers, Kate Rew on... -
The Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott by Fiona Robertson
RRP: £23.99£19.83Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) is widely recognised as one of the central and defining figures in Scottish literature and in European and American Romanticism. Fabled in his own lifetime as 'the Wizard of the North' and as the (long-anonymous) 'Author of... -
On Christmas by Gyles Brandreth
RRP: £14.99£12.75A seasonal anthology of Christmas-themed writings to savour during the highs and lows of Christmas Day. This delightful book offers a diverse array of classic and contemporary writers who have expressed their thoughts about Christmas over the centuries -... -
Alchemy: Writers on Truth, Lies and Fiction by Joanna Kavenna 9781910749166
RRP: £14.99£13.84Reality versus fiction is at the heart of the current literary debate. We live in a world of docu-drama, the 'real life' story. Works of art, novels, films, are frequently bolstered by reference to the autobiography of the creator, or to underlying 'fact... -
HARDCOVER GUEST BOOK, Comments Book, Visitors Book, Guest comment book, Vacation Home Guest Book, Beach House Guest Book, House Guest Book,: For Guest Houses, AirBnBs, Beach Homes, holiday homes, cabins by Angelis Publications 9780995651609
RRP: £19.97£14.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995651609Author Angelis PublicationsFormat HardbackPage Count 100Imprint Angelis PublicationsPublisher Angelis PublicationsWeight(grams)... -
1980's LONDON: Making the Best of It by Alec Forshaw
RRP: £15.00£14.92Alec Forshaw's latest volume covers the troubled decade of 1980s London, the Thatcher years, a time of political and civil unrest and protest, deregulation and privatisation, a period when London underwent changes that would shape its development through... -
A Room Of One's Own by Virginia Woolf 9789353420710
RRP: £8.00£7.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353420710Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 4mm -
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... -
The Mammoth Book of Filthy Limericks by Glyn Rees 9781845296827
£17.02The ultimate collection of X-rated and decidedly politically incorrect limericks! This bumper new volume contains over 2,000 dirty verses, from the moderately blue to the absolutely filthy - all illustrated throughout by Gray Jolliffe, creator of the... -
Sucker's Portfolio: A Collection of Previously Unpublished Writing by Kurt Vonnegut 9781611099584
RRP: £6.99£5.05Available for the first time, Sucker's Portfolio showcases a collection of seven never before published works from Kurt Vonnegut, one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. Short, sardonic, and dark, these six brief fiction stories and one... -
I Shudder: And Other Reactions to Life, Death, and New Jersey by Paul Rudnick 9780061780196
RRP: £14.99£11.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061780196Author Paul RudnickFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
The Odyssey by Homer 9780393417937
£8.76The 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... -
The Letters of John McGahern by Frank Shovlin 9780571387410
RRP: £16.99£12.58'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.'... -
Driving Home: An American Scrapbook by Jonathan Raban 9780330480826
RRP: £20.00£19.99For over thirty years Jonathan Raban has written about people and places in transition or on the margins, of journeys undertaken and destinations never quite reached; of isolation and alienation, but also of what it means to belong, to feel rooted... -
Dearest Jane...: My Father's Life and Letters by Jane Torday
RRP: £9.99£7.32As the eldest daughter of a prolific letter writer, Jane Torday received hundreds of letters from her father over the years. From irreverent advice and hilarious family anecdotes to moments of great poignancy, Roger Mortimer's missives are a touching and... -
Ian Fleming's Inspiration: The Truth Behind the Books by Edward Abel Smith 9781526791986
RRP: £14.99£11.11Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America by Nikesh Shukla
RRP: £17.99£13.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316524230Author Nikesh ShuklaFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm *... -
Virgil's "Aeneid" by Robert Deryck Williams 9780862920449
RRP: £19.99£19.04The Aeneid of Virgil is one of the greatest works of Classical antiquity. This study by the Virgilian scholar R. Deryck Williams, first published in 1987 and long unavailable, sets the Aeneid in its historical literary background and shows how Virgil... -
The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing by Mary Webb 9780994430663
RRP: £9.95£9.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994430663Author Mary WebbFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Michael WalmerPublisher Michael WalmerWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 9mm -
The Oxford Book of Parodies by John Gross 9780199639373
RRP: £11.99£9.16Parodies come in all shapes and sizes. There are broad parodies and subtle parodies, ingenious imitations and knockabout spoofs, scornful lampoons and affectionate pastiches. All these varieties, and many others, are represented in this stunning new... -
Where the Stress Falls by Susan Sontag
RRP: £14.00£10.02Where the Stress Falls is divided into three sections: the first, 'Reading', includes ardent pieces on writers from Sontag's own private canon - Machado de Assis, Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Borges, Tsvetaeva and Elizabeth Hardwick. In the second, 'Seeing',... -
What Is It Like to be Alive?: Fourteen Attempts at an Answer by Chris Arthur 9781958094518
RRP: £26.99£16.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781958094518Author Chris ArthurFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Eastover Press LLCPublisher Eastover Press LLCWeight(grams) 354g -
Oscar Wilde: A Biography by Andre Gide 9780806529707
RRP: £10.95£8.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806529707Author Andre GideFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Philosophical LibraryPublisher Philosophical LibraryWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
Approaching Eye Level by Vivian Gornick 9781911547648
RRP: £9.99£6.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911547648Author Vivian GornickFormat PaperbackImprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books -
Selected Poems by Arthu Rimbaud
RRP: £17.99£12.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376509Author Arthu RimbaudFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag by Orlando Figes 9780241955901
RRP: £12.99£9.34From 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... -
Conversations with John Banville by Earl G. Ingersoll 9781496828767
£28.74John Banville (b. 1945) is a distinguished novelist and winner of several prestigious awards, including the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Sea. As a teenager Banville hoped to be a painter, and although he ultimately decided he lacked the talent for...