Literary Collections

The collection gathers together the questions and answers that have come out of the author's lifelong fascination with Africa. These essays and articles, written between 1953 and 1993, explore the development of an African historiography and, in that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911710042Author Ivan De La NuezFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Seven Stories Press UKPublisher Seven Stories Press UK

The Austrian playwright, novelist, and poet Thomas Bernhard (1931-89) is acknowledged as among the major writers of our times. At once pessimistic and exhilarating, Bernhard's work depicts the corruption of the modern world, the dynamics of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988553699Author Peter H GilmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Underworld AmusementsPublisher Underworld AmusementsWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm)...

History 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...

Since the early 1970s, Marina Warner has been one of the most challenging, subtle and profound commentators on the culture of past and present, unravelling our webs of images, ideas and beliefs, and making new and provocative connections. This resonant...

An unsung classic of nineteenth-century Russian literature, Karolina Pavlova's A Double Life alternates prose and poetry to offer a wry picture of Russian aristocratic society and vivid dreams of escaping its strictures. Pavlova combines rich narrative...

George Orwell set out 'to make political writing into an art', and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature - his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645638295Author Adrian HarteFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint In Case of Emergency PressPublisher In Case of Emergency PressWeight(grams) 213g

This first volume of what will be a full-scale portrait presents Ezra Pound as a very determined and energetic young genius setting out to make his way both as a poet and as a force for civilization in England and America in the years before, during and...

Adventure Time and Philosophy is a monster-beating, wild ride of philosophical mayhem. One of the deepest and most thoughtful television shows ever to assault human brain waves, Adventure Time shows us what the world could be like, challenging everything...

A delicious anthology of classic food writing to satisfy every palate, this gorgeous book will delight food lovers everywhere.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning pocket size classics. These beautiful books make perfect gifts...

A SUNDAY TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Winner of the Rubery Book Award 2020 (Non Fiction) Edith Nesbit is considered the inventor of the children's adventure story and her brilliant children's books influenced bestselling authors including C.S...

When Rebecca Perry was growing up, she competed nationally and internationally as a trampolinist. This immersive and compelling book deftly blends memoir and lyrical nonfiction to explore a time she 'chose air over earth' and intensive schedules of...

Richard Bruce Nugent (1906-1987) was a writer, painter, illustrator, and popular bohemian personality who lived at the center of the Harlem Renaissance. Protege of Alain Locke, roommate of Wallace Thurman, and friend of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale...

The career of Mikhail Bulgakov, the author of Master and Margarita - now regarded as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century literature - was characterized by a constant and largely unsuccessful struggle against state censorship. This suppression...

Volume Ten in Methuen's highly successful series of Plays by Women provides the second selection of international plays by theatre director Annie Castledine. It encompasses Diana Quick's adaptation of Simone de Beauvoir's The Woman Destroyed, Tinch...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927354254Author Maria FuscoFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Projectile Publishing SocietyPublisher Projectile Publishing SocietyWeight(grams)...

Selected essays from the rich and complex collection of Edouard Glissant, one of the most prominent writers and intellectuals of the Caribbean, examine the psychological, sociological, and philosophical implications of cultural dependency. Edouard...

A fascinating journey through literary America over the last forty years, guided by one of the "most gifted chroniclers in the Western World" (The Times [London])A Penguin Classic"Sentence by sentence, page by page, Bellow is simply the best writer we...

#1 New Release in Inclusive Education and LGBT Studies A celebration of the LGBT communityReaders of The ABCs of LGBT by Ashley Mardell and Queer: A Graphic History by Dr. Meg-John Barker will love We Make It Better, a quintessential LGBT book. LGBT...

A collection of the New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in America, including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more From the pages of the New Yorker comes a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374528591Author Czeslaw MiloszFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

A fascinating collection of essays on literary subjects ranging from Daniel Defoe to Samuel Beckett by a Nobel and Booker Prize-winning writerLate Essays gathers together J.M. Coetzee's literary essays from 2006 to 2017. The subjects covered in this...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the Romantic Age's most enigmatic figures, a genius of astonishing diversity; author of some of the most famous poems in the English language, and co-author, with Wordsworth, of Lyrical Ballads; one of England's...

Notable writers-including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow-celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists, composers, and politicians of the pastWhat can a house tell us...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909732582Author Books by BoxerFormat HardbackImprint Bee Three BooksPublisher Books By Boxer

This bumper collection of Irish humour covers topics such as Absenteeism and Zoos and everything in between. It would be disappointing should such a large collection not include the best of famous Irish wits such as Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw,...

The sixteenth century has long been acknowledged the 'Golden Age' of English verse - with such names as Shakespeare, Donne, and Spenser to its credit it could hardly be otherwise. Yet this anthology, which includes both undisputed masterpieces and...

New York Times bestselling author, comedian, actress, and producer Phoebe Robinson is back with a new essay collection that is equal parts thoughtful, hilarious, and sharp about human connection, race, hair, travel, dating, Black excellence, and more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802121950Author William S BurroughsFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly...

Bringing Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" to the screen was a labor of love for writer/actress Emma Thompson. Featuring the complete award-winning script, "Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay and Diaries" also showcases Thompson's unreserved,...

A gift that will bring cries of delighted recognition from anyone who has ever owned a dog and, dare one say it, charm the pants off even those who strongly prefer cats.Hello. My name is Plum and I'm a whoosell - that's whippet mixed with Jack Russell...

`The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation' In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his home town of Concord, Massachusetts to begin a new life alone, in a rough hut he built himself a mile and a half away on the north-west shore of Walden Pond...

The heartbreaking and heartwarming true story of a mother dying of a cancer and the special gift she left for her husband and two young sons - it'll have you crying and laughing equally. Now a major film starring Rafe Spall and Emilia Fox, which the...

"Healy revelled in wine, wine in its proper place with good company and good food. Read this book and revel with him." -Sommelier India Stay Me With Flagons was Healy's love letter to wine, and to the wines he enjoyed with friends during his long study...

Cassandra, the daughter of King Priam of Troy, is cursed with the gift of true prophecies that are not believed by anyone. She foretells the city’s fall should Paris bring Helen as his wife, as well as the death of several of Troy’s heroes and her family...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915530059Author Nan ShepherdFormat HardbackPage Count 222Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo Publishers

A voice the world needs the award-winning, groundbreaking, poet Wanda Coleman. Editor Terrance Hayes has selected more than 130 poems, spanning four decades, for this powerful gathering of Coleman's work that bestselling author Mary Karr has called,...

The 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...