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The Book of Reykjavik: A City in Short Fiction by Frida Isberg
RRP: £10.99£7.99Iceland is a land of stories; from the epic sagas of its mythic past, to its claim today of being home to more writers, more published books and more avid readers, per head, than anywhere in the world. As its capital (and indeed only city), Reykjavik has... -
Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion
RRP: £9.99£6.84Twelve early pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of Joan Didion. Mostly drawn from the earliest part of her astonishing five-decade career, the wide-ranging... -
Classics: A Very Short Introduction by John Henderson
RRP: £8.99£6.65This Very Short Introduction to Classics links a haunting temple on a lonely mountainside to the glory of ancient Greece and the grandeur of Rome, and to Classics within modern culture-from Jefferson and Byron to Asterix and Ben-Hur. We are all... -
C.S. Lewis' Little Book of Wisdom: Meditations on Faith, Life, Love and Literature by Andrea Kirk Assaf
RRP: £8.99£6.65C. S. Lewis' Little Book of Wisdom offers more than 300 bite-size nuggets of inspiration and wisdom from the much-loved author, philosopher, and Christian theologist. Novelist, poet, critic, scholar, Christian theologist, and best-selling... -
An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings by Thomas Malthus
RRP: £9.99£7.32Malthus' life's work on human population and its dependency on food production and the environment was highly controversial on publication in 1798. He predicted what is known as the Malthusian catastrophe, in which humans would disregard the limits of... -
Buddhist Scriptures Donald Lopez 9780140447583
RRP: £14.99£11.11While Buddhism has no central text such as the Bible or the Koran, there is a powerful body of scripture from across Asia that encompasses the dharma, or the teachings of Buddha. This rich anthology brings together works from a broad historical and... -
Renegades: Born in the USA Barack Obama 9780241561249
RRP: £35.00£25.89THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - AND THE GIFT THAT WILL BE ON EVERY BRUCE AND BARACK FAN'S WISH LIST THIS CHRISTMAS!Two long-time friends share an intimate and urgent conversation about life, music and their enduring love of America, with all its... -
In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri 9781408866139
RRP: £10.99£7.99_______________ 'A passionate love letter to language and to Italy ... a bold and quirkily engaging self-portrait' - Lee Langley, Spectator 'A writer of uncommon elegance and poise' - New York Times 'A fascinating account of her linguistic... -
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu 9781529083477
RRP: £10.99£7.73Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching is the source of Zen Buddhism, and is probably the most broadly influential spiritual text in human history.Complete & Unabridged. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, cloth-bound, pocket-sized classics... -
Illuminations by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £16.99£12.47Illuminations contains the most celebrated work of Walter Benjamin, one of the most original and influential thinkers of the 20th Century: 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', 'The Task of the Translator' and 'Theses on the Philosophy... -
Honey and Salt: Selected Spiritual Writings of Bernard of Clairvaux by St. Bernard 9780375725654
RRP: £15.99£11.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375725654Author St. BernardFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 366gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Yoga Sutras Of Patanjali by Alistair Shearer
RRP: £12.99£9.34The basic questions of Who Am I? Where Am I Going? What Is the Purpose of Life? are asked by every generation, and Patanjali's answers (given in the third century BC) form one of the oldest spiritual texts in the world. 'That which unites' is called... -
The Anthropocene Reviewed: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller by John Green
RRP: £12.99£9.34A deeply moving and mind-expanding collection of personal essays in the first ever work of non-fiction from #1 internationally bestselling author John GreenThe Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the... -
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference: Illustrated Edition by Greta Thunberg
RRP: £3.99£3.29The history-making, ground-breaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young activist who has become the voice of a generation'Everything needs to change. And it has to start today' In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not... -
The Imitation of Christ by Thomas A. Kempis 9780486431857
RRP: £3.99£2.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486431857Author Thomas a KempisFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Bittersweet: How to Turn Sorrow Into Creativity, Beauty and Love by Susan Cain 9780241300671
RRP: £10.99£7.99AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICKTHE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER -- FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER QUIET: THE POWER OF INTROVERTS IN A WORLD THAT CAN'T STOP TALKING"Amazing and profound . . . every single person should read it" Johann Hari"Moving... -
Time Come: Selected Prose by Linton Kwesi Johnson
RRP: £20.00£14.51A Financial Times Music Book of the Year 2023'Key to understanding black British history' - Sunday Times'Sharp and still relevant' - Zadie SmithRecognized as one of the great poets of modern times, and as a deeply respected and influential political and... -
The Methuen Drama Book of Modern Monologues for Women: Teens to Thirties Dee Cannon (Author) 9781350321847
RRP: £13.99£12.89Monologues are an essential part of every actor's toolkit. Actors need them for drama school entry, training, showcases and when auditioning for roles in the industry. Edited by Dee Cannon, author of the bestselling In-Depth Acting, this book... -
Daily Rituals Women at Work: How Great Women Make Time, Find Inspiration, and Get to Work by Mason Currey
RRP: £12.99£9.50'That word, "vacation," makes me sweat.' Coco Chanel on taking a break'You must do it irregardless, or it will eat its way out of you.' Zora Neale Hurston on writing'One has to choose between the Life and the Project.' Susan Sontag on choosing artFrom... -
If You'd Just Let Me Finish by Jeremy Clarkson
RRP: £10.99£7.99Clarkson is back with a brand new book of hilarious stories and observations about our gone-wrong world.___________In November 2016 we woke up to the news that the forthright presenter of a popular television programme had become the most powerful man on... -
You Are Positively Awesome: Good vibes and self-care prompts for all of life's ups and downs by Stacie Swift
RRP: £12.99£8.71You Are Positively Awesome is a colourful and practical book for an everyday burst of positivity and an extra dose of self-kindness. We all weather some difficult days, sometimes we just wake up needing a bit of a... -
Selected Poems and Fragments by Friedrich Holderlin
RRP: £14.99£10.95Friedrich Hoelderlin (1770-1843) is now recognized as one of Europe's supreme poets. He first found his true voice in the epigrams and odes he wrote when transfigured by his love for the wife of a rich banker. He later embarked on an extraordinarily... -
Elmer Rice: Three Plays: The Adding Machine, Street Scene and Dream Girl by Elmer Rice 9780809007356
RRP: £22.00£14.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809007356Author Elmer RiceFormat PaperbackPage Count 239Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)... -
Feeding the Monster: Why horror has a hold on us Anna Bogutskaya 9780571385768
RRP: £16.99£12.38Zombies want brains. Vampires want blood. Cannibals want human flesh. All monsters need feeding.Horror has been embraced by mainstream pop culture more than ever before, with horror characters and aesthetics infecting TV, music videos and even TikTok... -
Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative by Melissa Febos 9781526165848
RRP: £12.99£9.49In this bold and exhilarating mix of memoir and writing guide, Melissa Febos tackles the emotional, psychological, and physical work of writing intimately while offering an utterly fresh examination of the storyteller's life and the challenges it... -
The Major Works by William Wordsworth
RRP: £12.99£9.74This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Wordsworth's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by... -
Voltaire: A Very Short Introduction by Nicholas Cronk
RRP: £8.99£6.65Voltaire (1694-1778), best remembered as the author of Candide, is one of the central actors -- arguably the defining personality -- of the European Enlightenment. In this Very Short Introduction, Nicholas Cronk explores Voltaire's remarkable career and... -
Personal Writings by Ignatius Of Loyola
RRP: £12.99£9.34One of the key figures in Christian history, St. Ignatius of Loyola (c. 1491-1556) was a passionate and unique spiritual thinker and visionary. The works gathered here provide a first-hand, personal introduction to this remarkable character: a man who... -
The Years by Annie Ernaux 9781910695784
RRP: £13.99£9.42Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work, The Years is a narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present, cultural habits, language, photos, books, songs, radio, television,... -
Irish Writing: An Anthology of Irish Literature in English 1789-1939 by Stephen Regan 9780199549825
RRP: £10.99£7.99'Can we not build up a national tradition, a national literature, which shall be none the less Irish in spirit from being English in language?' W. B. Yeats This anthology traces the history of modern Irish literature from the revolutionary era of the... -
The Very Best of Fesshole: The New Fesstament by Rob Manuel 9781804190425
RRP: £12.99£7.72THE SECOND BOOK FROM THE VIRAL TWITTER (X) @FESSHOLE'A ridiculously reliable source of joy, shock and horror' - James O'Brien'I sometimes read one of those fesses and wonder if I submitted it myself the night before, after a few beers' - James May The... -
Selected Letters by Cicero 9780140444582
RRP: £12.99£9.34The greatest orator in Roman history, Marcus Tullius Cicero remained one of the republic's chief supporters throughout his life, guided by profound political beliefs that illuminated his correspondence with both close friends and powerful aristocrats. A... -
British Literature 1640-1789: An Anthology Robert DeMaria (Vassar College, USA) 9781118952481
RRP: £27.95£26.23Spanning the period from the British Civil War to the French Revolution, the fourth edition of this successful anthology increases its coverage of canonical writings, plays, and of the development of British Literature in the American colonies. A... -
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life by David Foster Wallace
RRP: £14.99£10.34How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion? The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as his grace in... -
The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology by Kevin Crossley-Holland
RRP: £7.99£5.98Beowulf, The Battle of Maldon, The Dream of the Rood, The Wanderer, and The Seafarer are among the greatest surviving Anglo-Saxon poems. They, and many other treasures, are included in The Anglo-Saxon World: chronicles, laws and letters, charters and... -
Poems and Readings for Weddings by Julia Watson
RRP: £9.99£7.21Words of joy, love, devotion and celebrationDeciding how to express your feelings on one of the most important days of your or your loved one's life can be overwhelming.Poems and Readings for Weddings collects the very best readings by world-renowned... -
A Loeb Classical Library Reader by Loeb Classical Library 9780674996168
RRP: £8.95£8.79A paperback anthology of essential Greek and Latin texts with facing English translations.This selection of lapidary nuggets drawn from thirty-three of antiquity's major authors includes poetry, dialogue, philosophical writing, history, descriptive... -
Tales From the Farm by the Yorkshire Shepherdess by Amanda Owen
RRP: £12.99£9.34For everyone who loves watching Amanda Owen and her family on Our Yorkshire Farm, or enjoys reading her bestselling books, comes this delightful and uplifting collection of her monthly Dalesman columns. In Tales From the Farm by the Yorkshire Shepherdess... -
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded edition by J. R. R. Tolkien 9780008628765
RRP: £30.00£19.17The comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life of one of the world's greatest storytellers, now revised and expanded to include more than 150 previously unseen letters, with revealing new insights into The Hobbit, The Lord... -
The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald
RRP: £9.99£7.32'Sebald is the Joyce of the 21st Century' The TimesWhat begins as the record of W. G. Sebald's own journey on foot through coastal East Anglia, from Lowestoft to Bungay, becomes the conductor of evocations of people and cultures past and present. From...