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The End of the End of the Earth by Jonathan Franzen
RRP: £9.99£5.78A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Purity, Freedom and The Corrections In The End of the End of the Earth, which gathers essays and speeches written mostly in the past five... -
On the Wilder Shores of Love: A Bohemian Life Lesley Blanch 9780349005461
RRP: £10.99£7.61Most famous for The Wilder Shores of Love, her book about four women travellers, Lesley Blanch was a scholarly romantic and a bold writer. Her lifelong passion was for Russia, the Balkans and the Middle East. At heart a nomad, she spent the greater part... -
Conquer the Day: A Book of Affirmations by Josh Mecouch
RRP: £9.99£7.26From the irreverent mind of Josh Mecouch, the artist behind the wildly popular Instagram (@pantspants) and Twitter account, @Pants, a collection of affirmations perfect for anyone ready to pass through the portal of self-improvement. Conquer the Day is... -
All a Novelist Needs: Colm Toibin on Henry James by Colm Toibin 9780801897795
RRP: £25.50£22.79This book collects, for the first time, Colm Toibin's critical essays on Henry James. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his novel about James's life, The Master, Toibin brilliantly analyzes James from a novelist's point of view. Known for his acuity... -
Help, I'm Trapped in the Duvet! Howard Lester 9781472102553
RRP: £9.99£6.15Most people understand that what an emergency is and only call out the police, fire brigade or ambulance when they really need to. However, there is a weird minority who will dial 911 if they lose their keys, if their phone isn't working, if they need a... -
The Fall of a Sparrow: Vivien Eliot's Life and Writings by Ann Pasternak Slater
RRP: £35.00£23.83The Vivien Eliot Papers is a groundbreaking new biography of Vivien Eliot, comprising two sections: her Life and her Papers. Based on a rich repository of primary evidence, much only recently uncovered, it corrects the accidental inaccuracies and... -
Let's Tell This Story Properly: An Anthology of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize by Ellah Wakatama Allfrey
RRP: £17.99£12.30Honouring strong new voices from around the world, the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize is a global award, open to unpublished as well as published writers, with a truly international judging panel.This global anthology presents the winner of the 2014... -
The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture by Juliet John 9780198848776
RRP: £40.99£40.49The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture is a major contribution to the dynamic field of Victorian studies. This collection of 37 original chapters by leading international Victorian scholars offers new approaches to familiar themes including... -
Human Action (4-Volume Set): A Treatise on Economics by Ludwig von Mises 9780865976313
RRP: £29.95£28.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865976313Author Ludwig von MisesFormat PaperbackPage Count 1037Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 2084g -
Shakespeare: The Bard's Guide to Abuses and Affronts by Running Press
RRP: £5.99£5.28Baffle your friends with your erudite knowledge of Shakespearean English, all while casually insulting them. This deluxe collection of Shakespeare's most dazzling insults is neatly separated into sections for quick retrieval when a stinging retort is... -
Front Lines: Trans Journalism 2007-2020 by Juliet Jacques 9781838390082
RRP: £11.99£8.22Juliet Jacques was one of the first trans writers in the UK to contribute broadly to both British and foreign media, writing widely about the trans experience. Spanning over a decade, Jacques' ground-breaking journalism about selfhood, society, art,... -
Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God by Will Durant
RRP: £17.99£11.29Praised as a "revelatory" book by The Wall Street Journal, this is the last and most personal work of Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Will Durant, discovered thirty-two years after his death.The culmination of Will Durant's sixty-plus years... -
God's Silence by Franz Wright 9780375710810
RRP: £16.99£12.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375710810Author Franz WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm)... -
Letters to Atticus: v. 1 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95£23.76The private correspondence of Rome's most prolific public figure. To his dear friend Atticus, Cicero reveals himself as to no other of his correspondents except perhaps his brother. In Cicero's Letters to Atticus we get an intimate look at his... -
The Tent Generations: Palestinian Poems by Mohammed Sawaie
RRP: £10.99£7.86From the Introduction by Mohammed Sawaie:The Palestinian poets included in The Tent Generations, Palestinian Poems represent different age groups and backgrounds, yet they all express a strong sense of "Palestinian-ness". They include Israeli citizens,... -
Impact: Women Writing After Concussion by E. D. Morin
RRP: £20.99£17.21In Impact, 21 women writers consider the effects of concussion on their personal and professional lives. The anthology bears witness to the painstaking work that goes into redefining identity and regaining creative practice after a traumatic event. By... -
Oedipus Tyrranos by Sophocles
£13.33This Norton Critical Edition includes: Emily Wilson's superb translation of Sophocles' best-known play, accompanied by her engaging introduction, translator's note and explanatory footnotes.Comparative ancient sources that provide insight into the many... -
Writing Black Britain, 1948-98: An Interdisciplinary Anthology by James Procter
RRP: £19.99£17.82The first anthology of its kind, this timely collection brings together a diverse range of black British literatures, essays and documents from across the post-war period within a single volume.. Spanning half a century, this rich archive of... -
Oberon Book of Modern Monologues for Women Volume Two by Catherine Weate 9781849434522
RRP: £12.99£12.86Monologues are an essential part of every actor's toolkit. Actors are required to perform monologues regularly throughout their career: preparing for drama school entry, showcasing skills for agents or auditioning for a role. Following on from the... -
The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria by Janine Di Giovanni
RRP: £10.99£7.99Winner of the Hay Festival Award for Prose Winner of the 2016 IWMF Courage in Journalism Award Shortlisted for the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Excellence in Journalism Award Shortlisted for the 2017 Moore Prize for Non-Fiction Literature... -
The White Cities: Reports From France 1925-1939 by Joseph Roth
RRP: £10.99£7.54Joseph Roth, the greatest European newspaper correspondent of his age, left the splintering Weimar Republic for Paris in 1925 and, as an Austrian Jew, was exiled there for the rest of his life. Collected together here for the first time in English, these... -
The Daily Charles Dickens: A Year of Quotes by Charles Dickens
£15.77A charming memento of the Victorian era's literary colossus, The Daily Charles Dickens is a literary almanac for the ages. Tenderly and irreverently anthologized by Dickens scholar James R. Kincaid, this collection mines the British author's beloved... -
A Moveable Feast by Lonely Planet
RRP: £8.99£6.65Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher*Life-changing food adventures around the world.From bat on the island of Fais to chicken on a Russian train to barbecue in the American heartland, from mutton in Mongolia to couscous in Morocco to... -
Roman Laughter: The Comedy of Plautus by Erich Segal 9780195041668
RRP: £35.99£27.13'We certainly need in English a book devoted to Plautus alone and here we have it.' Phoenix This reissue of virtually the only book in English devoted to the work of the Roman comedy writer Plautus (c. 254-184 BC) includes a new preface and additional... -
The Sound of the Shuttle: Essays on Cultural Belonging & Protestantism in Northern Ireland by Gerald Dawe 9781788551069
RRP: £16.99£16.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788551069Author Gerald DaweFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Irish Academic Press LtdPublisher Irish Academic Press Ltd -
The Little Book of Famous Last Words: Classic Quotes and Quips That Deserve the Last Word by Orange Hippo! 9781800695658
RRP: £6.99£5.17Last words can come in all shapes and sizes. From comic quips to profound deathbed wit, shocking and surprising final revelations, delicious puns and too-good turns of phrase, gravestone gags and premature celebrations... or even just awkward and... -
The Penguin Book of Migration Literature: Departures, Arrivals, Generations, Returns by Dohra Ahmad
RRP: £14.99£10.50Spanning a period of over three hundred years and twenty-five countries, The Penguin Book of Migration Literature is a wide-ranging anthology that brings together well-known authors such as Mohsin Hamid, Zadie Smith and Salman Rushdie alongside emerging... -
Homer by Barbara Graziosi
RRP: £12.99£9.34Homer's mythological tales of war and homecoming, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are considered to be two of the most influential works in the history of Western literature. Yet their author, 'the greatest poet that ever lived' is something of a mystery. By... -
Love in a Blue Time by Hanif Kureishi
RRP: £9.99£6.90This provocative collection of short stories charts the growth of a generation from the liberating irreverence of the late 1970s to the dilemmas of responsibility and fidelity of the 1990s. The stories resonate with Hanif Kureishi's dead-on observations... -
Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time by Teju Cole
RRP: £9.99£8.82A profound book of essays from a celebrated master of the form. "Darkness is not empty," writes Teju Cole in Black Paper, a book that meditates on what it means to sustain our humanity-and witness the humanity of others-in a time of darkness. One of the... -
Same-Sex Love in India: Readings in Indian Literature by Ruth Vanita 9780312293246
RRP: £79.99£75.51Same-Sex Love in India presents a stunning array of writings on same-sex love from over 2000 years of Indian literature. Translated from more than a dozen languages and drawn from Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, and modern fictional traditions, these writings... -
Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster by Helen Andrews
RRP: £24.99£16.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593086759Author Helen AndrewsFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Bantam PressPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Songs about Women by Romanos the Melodist 9780674290938
RRP: £29.95£25.55A collection of ancient Byzantine hymns featuring women as pivotal characters, now in a new translation.At a time when Christianity was becoming the dominant religion in the Byzantine Roman Empire, Romanos the Melodist (ca. 485–565) was a composer of... -
The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Arthur Miller
RRP: £37.00£24.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143107774Author Arthur MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 1312Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 1576gDimensions(mm) 231mm *... -
Karmic Traces: Essays by Eliot Weinberger
RRP: £12.99£11.63For the past twenty years, Eliot Weinberger has been taking the essay far beyond the borders of literary criticism or personal journalism and into the realm of poetry and narrative. Full of stories, yet written in a condensed, imagistic language, his... -
The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir by Ramachandra Guha 9780008670146
RRP: £25.00£16.43It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring. The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious... -
Complete Essays: Aldous Huxley, 1920-1925 by Aldous Huxley 9781566633222
RRP: £30.00£22.43These first two volumes of a projected five, in preparation for several years, begin a major publishing venture, collecting the complete essays of one of the giants of modern English prose and of social commentary in our time. The first two volumes span... -
Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works by Gary Taylor 9780199580538
RRP: £41.99£38.79Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) - 'our other Shakespeare' - is the only other Renaissance playwright who created lasting masterpieces of both comedy and tragedy; he also wrote the greatest box-office hit of early modern London (the unique history play A... -
The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine
RRP: £16.00£11.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140446890Author Christine de PizanFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)... -
Sidewalks by Valeria Luiselli 9781847085191
RRP: £12.99£8.80Evocative, erudite and consistently surprising, these narrative essays explore the places - real and imagined - that shape our lives. Whether wandering the familiar streets of her neighbourhood, revisiting the landmarks of her past, or getting lost in a...