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Kafka's Other Trial by Elias Canetti
RRP: £9.99£7.11In July 1914, Franz Kafka's fiancee Felice broke off their engagement in a humiliating public tribunal, surrounded by her friends and family, and the other woman with whom Kafka had recently fallen in love. Broken and bereft, Kafka - at the height of his... -
Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader by Cassandra Clare
RRP: £9.99£7.16Explore the world of the Mortal Instruments with Cassandra Clare and more Join Cassandra Clare and a Circle of more than a dozen top YA writers, including New York Times bestsellers Holly Black, Rachel Caine, and Kami Garcia, as they write about the... -
Head Above Water: Reflections on Illness by Shahd Alshammari 9781911107408
RRP: £10.99£7.64Head Above Water is a professor's moving account of being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis at just eighteen in a conservative Kuwaiti society, drawing from her diary entries and fading memories as the disease advances. "Shahd Alshammari's sensuous... -
Wild Grass and Morning Blossoms Gathered at Dusk by Xun Lu
RRP: £29.95£23.66A brilliant new translation of the short improvisational fiction and memoirs of Lu Xun, the father of modern Chinese literature.This captivating translation assembles two volumes by Lu Xun, the founder of modern Chinese literature and one of East Asia's... -
The Floure and the Leafe, The Assembly of Ladies, The Isle of Ladies by Derek Pearsall
RRP: £12.00£9.72An asset to any study of gender in medieval England, this volume contains three poems that complement each other in their treatments of relations between the sexes. The Floure and the Leafe explores the courtly imagery of the flower and leaf, wherein the... -
At the Same Time by Susan Sontag
RRP: £12.99£9.09'These sixteen pieces brim over with vitality . . . every one of them opening up fresh lines of thought' John Gray, New StatesmanAt the Same Time contains sixteen illuminating essays by Susan Sontag with a preface by David Rieff.The sixteen essays... -
Openhearted: Eighty Years of Love, Loss, Laughter and Letting Go by Ann Ingle 9780241993521
RRP: £9.99£7.11SHORTLISTED FOR TWO IRISH BOOK AWARDS'Something they don't tell you about getting older is that you fall. Oh, you hear about it in passing, of course, "She had a fall, poor thing". Falling is not something you ever think about as a younger woman. You... -
There Once Was A Man With Six Wives: Our Kings and Queens in Limericks by Mick Twister 9781911042235
RRP: £12.99£8.48A hugely entertaining collection of clever and fun limericks, one for each monarch in British history - and more! Royal history as you've never seen it before - in limericks! ... -
1980's LONDON: Making the Best of It by Alec Forshaw
RRP: £15.00£14.69Alec 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... -
Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping by Shane McCrae 9781838854195
RRP: £16.99£11.58VULTURE'S BEST MEMOIR OF THE YEAR 2023A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023When Shane McCrae was eighteen months old, he was removed from his parents and taken to suburban Texas. His mother was white and his dad was Black, and to hide his Blackness... -
Franz Kafka: The Office Writings by Franz Kafka
RRP: £28.00£22.20Franz Kafka: The Office Writings brings together, for the first time in English, Kafka's most interesting professional writings, composed during his years as a high-ranking lawyer with the largest Workmen's Accident Insurance Institute in the Czech Lands... -
The Oxford Book of the Sea by Jonathan Raban 9780192801944
RRP: £12.99£9.09It is no surprise that one of the earliest works in English literature should be a poem about the sea: the sea has been a source of fascination from the earliest times, and the Anglo-Saxon poem 'The Seafarer' is only the first in a long series of... -
A Bite of the Apple: A Life with Books, Writers and Virago by Lennie Goodings 9780198828747
RRP: £10.49£7.44'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... -
The Complete Euripides Volume II Electra and Other Plays by Peter Burian 9780195388695
RRP: £12.49£9.00Based 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... -
Works: v. 3 by Julian
RRP: £24.95£23.39The emperor who renounced Christianity.Julian (Flavius Claudius Iulianus) "the Apostate," Roman Emperor, lived AD 331 or 332 to 363. Born and educated in Constantinople as a Christian, after a precarious childhood he devoted himself to literature and ... -
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke 9781603864800
£5.21Apologies 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 Mysterious Correspondent: New Stories by Marcel Proust
RRP: £16.99£11.27'Startlingly audacious.' Literary Review New writing from the literary master Throughout Proust's life, nine of his short stories remained unseen - the writer never even spoke of them. Perhaps he was not ready to share the early themes he was... -
Christmas Truce by the Men Who Took Part: Letters from the 1914 Ceasefire on the Western Front by Mike Hill 9781781558126
RRP: £25.00£17.62The 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... -
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£15.03Apologies 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)... -
A Room Of One's Own by Virginia Woolf 9789353420710
RRP: £8.00£7.12Apologies 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 -
Can We All Be Feminists?: Seventeen writers on intersectionality, identity and finding the right way forward for feminism by June Eric-Udorie
RRP: £11.99£8.00'A map for how feminism can move forward inclusively' (GRAZIA), featuring essays by writers including Brit Bennett, bestselling author of The Vanishing Half, and Afua Hirsch, bestselling author of Brit(ish)Black Lives Matter * Trans Rights * Sex Workers'... -
Rein Gold by Elfriede Jelinek
RRP: £12.99£8.56Originally written as a libretto for the Berlin State Opera, Elfriede Jelinek's rein GOLD reconstructs the events of Wagner's epic Ring cycle and extends them into the present day. Brunnhilde diagnoses Wotan, father of the gods, to be a victim of... -
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... -
The Broadview Anthology of Romantic Drama by Jeffrey Cox
£61.85The London theatres arguably were the central cultural institutions in England during the Romantic period, and certainly were arenas in which key issues of the time were contested. While existing anthologies of Romantic drama have focused almost... -
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 Water Margin: Outlaws of the Marsh: The Epic Tale of Brotherhood, Bravery and Rebellion in Imperial China by Shi Naian 9784805317877
RRP: £24.99£16.78"[The Water Margin] is a great pageant of China. I think it is one of the most magnificent pageants ever made of any people." -Pearl S. BuckThe Water Margin is an epic tale set in 12th century Imperial China, and is one of the earliest and greatest... -
The Irish Diaries (1994-2003): Alastair Campbell by Kathy Gilfillan
£17.79The four volumes of spokesman and strategist Alastair Campbell's diaries were a publishing sensation.As British Prime Minister Tony Blair's right-hand man, former journalist and political analyst Campbell played a critical role in every aspect of New... -
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... -
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 *... -
The Puncher and Wattmann Anthology of Australian Poetry by John Leornard 9781925780666
RRP: £29.99£23.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925780666Author John LeonardFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Puncher and WattmannPublisher Puncher and WattmannWeight(grams) 720g -
Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw 9780140437904
RRP: £8.99£6.45Andrew Undershaft, a millionaire armaments manufacturer, loves money and despises poverty. His estranged daughter Barbara, on the other hand, shows her love for the poor by throwing her energies into her work as a Major in the Salvation Army, and sees... -
The Oxford Book of Parodies by John Gross 9780199639373
RRP: £11.99£8.92Parodies 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... -
100 Years: Wisdom From Famous Writers on Every Year of Your Life by Joshua Prager
RRP: £13.99£12.65An extraordinary literary journey, 100 Years traces the passages of life from age one to one hundred through quotations from the world's greatest writers. Moving year by year, with surprising and illuminating juxtapositions of quotations from figures as... -
In Catilinam: Bks. I-IV: Pro Murena: Pro Sulla: Pro Flacco by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95£23.39The statesman at the height of his powers.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,... -
The Nerves and Their Endings: essays on crisis and response by Jessica Gaitan Johannesson
RRP: £9.99£6.70The body as a measuring tool for planetary harm. A nervous system under increasing stress. In this urgent collection that moves from the personal to the political and back again, writer, activist, and migrant Jessica Gaitan Johannesson explores how we... -
Stuff I've Been Reading by Nick Hornby
RRP: £15.99£11.61Stuff I've Been Reading by Nick Hornby - the bestselling novelist's rich, witty and inspiring reading diary'Read what you enjoy, not what bores you,' Nick Hornby tells us. And in this new collection of his columns from the Believer magazine he shows us... -
The Complete Fairy Tales by George MacDonald
RRP: £8.99£7.07George MacDonald occupied a major position in the intellectual life of his Victorian contemporaries. This volume brings together all eleven of his shorter fairy stories as well as his essay "The Fantastic Imagination". The subjects are those of... -
Unsuitable for Ladies: An Anthology of Women Travellers by Jane Robinson
RRP: £19.99£14.28Real ladies do not travel - or so it was once said. This collection of women's travel writing dispels the notion by showing how there are few corners of the world that have not been visited by women travellers. There are also few difficulties, physical... -
The Art of Voice: Poetic Principles and Practice by Tony Hoagland 9780393357912
RRP: £12.99£9.75In this accessible and distilled craft guide, acclaimed poet Tony Hoagland approaches poetry through the frame of poetic voice, that mysterious connective element that binds the speaker and reader together. A poem strong in the dimension of voice is an...