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Virginia Woolf: Inspiring Quotes from an Original Feminist Icon Virginia Woolf 9781913947132
RRP: £9.99£7.00The first and collection of Virginia Woolf's most inspirational quotes. 'No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.' Over 100 words of wisdom from the inimitable Virginia Woolf on love, literature, feminism, food, work,... -
Selected Poems and Songs by Robert Burns
RRP: £8.99£6.65'The Poetic Genius of my Country...bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my natal Soil, in my native tongue.' Many of the poems and songs of Robert Burns (1759-96) are familiar to readers the world over: lyrical,... -
The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia by Aeschylus 9780199753635
RRP: £12.49£9.24Based 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... -
Letters to Wilfred B. Talman and Helen V. and Genevieve Sully by H P Lovecraft 9781614982562
RRP: £30.00£27.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614982562Author H P LovecraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 578Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 762gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies by Dan Hicks 9780198822554
£42.67The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies introduces and reviews current thinking in the interdisciplinary field of material culture studies. Drawing together approaches from archaeology, anthropology, geography, and Science and Technology Studies,... -
The Guardians of Art by Dani Levinas 9788418934643
RRP: £29.00£19.25* An indispensible publication to understand the keys to art collecting. * Conversations with the great art collectors, men and women from around the world that despite their different circumstances and nationalities, they are strongly united by a... -
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... -
The Great Irish Famine: A History in Four Lives by Enda Delaney
RRP: £16.99£12.47The Great Irish Famine of 1845-52 was the defining event in the history of modern Ireland. At least one million people died, and double that number fled the country within a decade. The Great Irish Famine surveys the history of this great tragedy... -
Charmides by Plato
RRP: £24.95£23.76Mostly doubtful dialogues.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 recorded of his life is uncertain; ... -
Further Requirements by Philip Larkin
RRP: £14.99£10.06Philip Larkin's Required Writing, a selection from his miscellaneous prose from 1953-82, was highly praised and enjoyed when it appeared in 1983. Further Requirements gathers together many other interviews, broadcasts, statements and reviews. Some of... -
In Defence of the Republic by Cicero
RRP: £10.99£7.99Cicero (106-43BC) was the most brilliant orator in Classical history. Even one of the men who authorized his assassination, the Emperor Octavian, admitted to his grandson that Cicero was: 'an eloquent man, my boy, eloquent and a lover of his country'... -
Palestine as Metaphor by Mahmoud Darwish
RRP: £18.99£12.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623719425Author Mahmoud DarwishFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Olive Branch PressPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc -
Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1939-1947 by Anais Nin
RRP: £17.99£16.55Mirages opens at the dawn of World War II, when Anais Nin fled Paris, where she lived for fifteen years with her husband, banker Hugh Guiler, and ends in 1947 when she meets the man who would be "the One," the lover who would satisfy her insatiable... -
All for the Union: The Civil War Diary & Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes by Elisha Hunt Rhodes 9780679738282
RRP: £16.99£12.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679738282Author Elisha Hunt RhodesFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Macchi C.202 Folgore: Italy's Best Fighter of the Second World War by Davide F. Jabes 9781781558300
RRP: £30.00£22.78The Macchi C.202 was probably the most successful Italian fighter during the Second World War. It is generally agreed that the performance of the Macchi was superior to both the Hawker Hurricane and the Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk and on a par with the... -
Kiss Me, Chudleigh: The World according to Auberon Waugh William Cook 9781444711509
RRP: £10.99£7.61Auberon Waugh was a philosopher - savage, eccentric, but a philosopher nonetheless. More than any writer of his era, Auberon Waugh had a genius for dividing his readers, into the delighted and the infuriated, and he retains the ability to start a... -
Seepersad Naipaul, Amazing Scenes: Selected Journalism 1928-1953 by Seepersad Naipaul 9781845235635
RRP: £29.99£20.92An unrivalled and very entertaining picture of the various and sometimes bizarre strands of Indian lives in colonial Trinidad. Seepersad Naipaul is a pioneer, combining insight with high style, however strange or mundane his subject.With contextualising... -
Melford Memories (50th Anniversary Edition) by Ernest Ambrose 9781785633683
RRP: £9.99£7.32Born a stone's throw from the church and educated at the village school, Ernest Ambrose was brought up to respect God, his parents, Long Melford's two local squires and the rector. That didn't mean rural Suffolk life in the nineteenth century was... -
The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems By Ono No Komachi And Izumi Shikibu by Jane Hishfield
£14.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679729587Author Ono no KomachiFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
One Life at a Time, Please by Edward Abbey 9780805006032
RRP: £20.00£12.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805006032Author Edward AbbeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 225Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams) 272g -
Living, Thinking, Looking Siri Hustvedt 9781444732658
RRP: £9.99£7.00FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED AND A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMEN'Richly intelligent insights on every page' Financial Times'A rare kind of quiet intellectual confidence' Sunday TelegraphIn these fascinating, lively... -
The Middle Length Sayings: Majjhima-Nikaya: New Translation Bhikkhu Bodhi 9780861710720
RRP: £50.00£47.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861710720Author Bhikkhu BodhiFormat HardbackPage Count 1424Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S. -
The Iliad: A New Translation by Peter Green by Homer
RRP: £25.00£22.19One of the oldest extant works of Western literature, the Iliad is a timeless epic poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic pride and the arbitrary, often vicious decisions of fate and the gods. Renowned scholar and acclaimed translator... -
Maria Sabina: Selections by Maria Sabina 9780520239531
RRP: £30.00£23.29A shaman and visionary - not a poet in any ordinary sense - Maria Sabina lived out her life in the Oaxacan mountain village of Huautla de Jimenez, and yet her words, always sung or spoken, have carried far and wide, a principal instance and a powerful... -
The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy by Murray Bookchin
£20.59From Athens to New York, recent mass movements around the world have challenged austerity and authoritarianism with expressions of real democracy. For more than forty years, Murray Bookchin developed these democratic aspirations into a new left... -
Philippics 1-6 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95£23.76Invectives 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... -
The Diary of a Cotswold Parson by Francis E. Witts 9781781554685
RRP: £14.99£11.11The diary of a Cotswold parson, from 1820 to 1852, throws new light on to a fascinating period of English social history. It was just before the railways made travel faster, and we are astonished how well the Reverend F. E. Witts manages to commute from... -
Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through by T Fleischmann
RRP: £12.99£8.87How do the bodies we inhabit affect our relationship with art? How does art affect our relationship to our bodies? T Fleischmann uses Felix Gonzales-Torres's artworks-piles of candy, stacks of paper, puzzles-as a path through questions of love and loss,... -
Against Memoir by Michelle Tea 9781911508625
RRP: £10.00£7.21`I must find my own complicated junkie to have violent sex with. In 1994, nothing seemed like a better idea, save being able to write about it later.' Michelle Tea is our exuberant, witty guide to the hard times and wild creativity of queer life in... -
Little Labours by Rivka Galchen
RRP: £7.99£5.98AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR A droll and dazzling compendium of observations, stories, lists, and brief essays about babies. 'Beguiling ... A wunderkabinett of baby-related curios ... A peculiar book, and... -
Lost Tramways of England: London South West by Peter Waller 9781914079832
RRP: £8.99£6.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914079832Author Peter WallerFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg LimitedDimensions(mm) 150mm * 200mm * 15mm -
The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other by Walker Percy 9780312254018
RRP: £14.99£11.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312254018Author Walker PercyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 318g -
Quicksand by Nella Larsen 9780393932423
RRP: £23.00£17.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393932423Author Nella LarsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)... -
The Disconnect: A Personal Journey Through the Internet by Roisin Kiberd
RRP: £9.99£6.72We all live online now, but what does that mean in IRL? How do strange subcultures on reddit affect our local shopping centres, what do night gyms owe to Twitter, and where can we really go to get some decent sleep? Our every move online is watched, but... -
Money For Nothing P.G. Wodehouse 9781841591490
RRP: £12.99£9.34The action is mostly set at Rudge Hall, home to the obese miser Lester Carmody, and at Healthward Ho, a health farm run by 'Chimp Twist, along with his cohorts 'Soapy' and 'Dolly' Molloy. who were all previously encountered in Sam The Sudden (1925) and... -
Poetic World of Emily Bronte: Poems from the Author of Wuthering Heights by Laura Inman
RRP: £23.95£21.88Emily Bronte is known as a novelist, but she was first and equally a poet. Before during and after writing Wuthering Heights, she wrote poetry. Indeed, she wrote virtually nothing else for us to read -- no other work of fiction or correspondence. Her... -
The Art of Fact: a Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism by Kevin Kerrane
RRP: £20.99£14.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684846309Author Kevin KerraneFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 610gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 155mm *... -
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Nikolai Leskov
RRP: £16.99£11.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681374901Author Nikolai LeskovFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Art of Rhetoric by Aristotle
RRP: £24.95£23.76Persuasion analyzed.Aristotle (384-322 BC), the great Greek thinker, researcher, and educator, ranks among the most important and influential figures in the history of philosophy, theology, and science. He joined Plato's Academy in Athens in 367 and... -
Things Seen by Annie Ernaux 9780803228153
RRP: £13.99£12.59Winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature "Annie Ernaux's work," wrote Richard Bernstein in the New York Times, "represents a severely pared-down Proustianism, a testament to the persistent, haunting and melancholy quality of memory." In the New York...