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The Dying Gaul and Other Writings by David Jones
RRP: £17.99£12.20'To open a book by David Jones is to walk in the ley lines of his dreaming, a dreaming offered to believer and non-believer alike. Like Blake, John Clare and D H Lawrence, he is one of Albion's great secret imaginers, his prophetic work radiant with "the... -
Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf by P. G. Wodehouse
£12.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618009275Author P. G. WodehouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 259Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 272g -
Essays After Eighty by Donald Hall
RRP: £15.95£9.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544570313Author Donald HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin -
Finding Beauty in a Broken World by Terry Tempest Williams 9780375725197
RRP: £18.95£14.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for The Orion Book Award 2009.Book InformationISBN 9780375725197Author Terry Tempest WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House IncPublisher... -
Newton's Notebook: The Life, Times and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton by Joel Levy 9781803994819
RRP: £12.99£9.87Newton's Notebook is a biography with a difference. It provides a full and detailed account of Sir Isaac Newton's life and discoveries, but is written, designed and illustrated to look like a personal notebook.By mining the rich sources of Newton's own... -
The Invention of Africa - Gnosis, Philosophy and the Order of Knowledge by V. Y. Mudimbe
RRP: £24.99£24.30Joint winner of the 1989 Herskovits Award What is the meaning of Africa and of being African? What is and what is not African philosophy? Is philosophy part of Africanism? These are the kind of fundamental questions which this book addresses. ... -
Anglo-English Attitudes by Geoff Dyer
RRP: £10.99£7.99Anglo-English Attitudes brings together Geoff Dyer's best journalism and other writing from 1984-99. There are studied meditations on photographers (Robert Capa, William Gedney, Cartier-Bresson), painters (Bonnard, Gauguin), musicians (Coltrane, Nusrat... -
Picture Perfect: An anthology of poetry and prose Richard Davenport-Hines 9781912945443
RRP: £25.00£16.63Anthology of contemporary and classic poetry and prose compiled by author and academic Richard Davenport-HinesBook InformationISBN 9781912945443Author Richard Davenport-HinesFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Mount Orleans PressPublisher Mount Orleans... -
Bibliophile: Diverse Spines by Jamise Harper
RRP: £13.99£12.80It's time to diversify your reading list. This richly illustrated and vastly inclusive collection uplifts the works of authors who are often underrepresented in the literary world. Using their keen knowledge and deep love for all things literary,... -
Hellenica: Bks. 1-4 by Xenophon
RRP: £24.95£23.76A continuation of Thucydides.Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BC) was a wealthy Athenian and friend of Socrates. He left Athens in 401 and joined an expedition including ten thousand Greeks led by the Persian governor Cyrus against the Persian king. After... -
The Seine Was Red: Paris, October 1961 by Leila Sebbar
RRP: £15.99£14.24Leila Sebbar's novel recounts an event in French history that has been hidden for many years. Toward the end of the Algerian war, the FLN, an Algerian nationalist party, organized a demonstration in Paris to oppose a curfew imposed upon Algerians in... -
Latin Prose Composition: Key by M. A. North 9780715614082
RRP: £21.99£21.89This book provides the key for teachers using North and Hillard's classic text, Latin Prose Composition, which has been in use throughout the world for over 100 years. The book provides the answers to the English to Latin composition exercises given in... -
The Good Bohemian: The Letters of Ida John by Michael Holroyd
RRP: £14.99£11.11'It is right that, after more than one hundred years, she should have her say' John Carey, Sunday Times Twelve days before her twenty-fourth birthday, on the foggy morning of Saturday 12 January 1901, Ida Nettleship married Augustus John in a private... -
Are We Not Also Men? - The Samkange Family and African Politics in Zimbabwe, 1920-64 by Terence Ranger 9780852556184
RRP: £24.99£17.61This work provides a collective biography of Thompson Samkange and of two of his sons, Sketchley and Stanlake. Thompson Samkange was born in 1893 at the time that his land was being overwhelmed from the South. He was one of the founders of the African... -
Short Takes: Brief Encounters with Contemporary Nonfiction by Judith Kitchen 9780393326000
£12.95In the years since the perennially popular In Short and In Brief were published, readers have come to delight in the deft focus of the succinct piece we now call The Short. Extending this trend, Short Takes presents over seventy-five writers whose range... -
Historia Augusta: Volume III by David Magie
RRP: £24.95£23.76March of the emperors.The Historia Augusta is a biographical work roughly following the model of the imperial biographer Suetonius (LCL 31, 38) and covering the lives of the Roman emperors from Hadrian (r. 117-138) to Carinus (r. 283-285), with a ... -
The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm: The Complete First Edition by Jacob Grimm 9780691160597
RRP: £35.00£26.03When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Cinderella" would become the most celebrated in the... -
Had I Known: Collected Essays by Barbara Ehrenreich 9781783786886
RRP: £10.99£7.54A self-proclaimed 'myth buster by trade', over her long-ranging career as a journalist and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich has delved with devastating wit and insight into the social and political fabric of America. Had I Known gathers together... -
Herodotus: Histories, Books 1-4 (Herodoti Historiae: Libri I-IV) by N. G. Wilson
RRP: £46.99£46.95In this new edition of Herodotus' Histories, Nigel Wilson has revised the original Oxford Classical Text by the Danish scholar C. Hude, published in 1906 and last revised in 1927. As well as incorporating much of the valuable work on the text that has... -
Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays by Durga Chew-Bose
RRP: £19.00£11.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374535957Author Chew-Bose, DurgaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)... -
Listen to the Mourners: The Essential Poems of Nazik Al-Mala'ika by Nazik Al-Mala'ika 9780268200947
RRP: £21.99£19.19This is one of the first book-length English translations of Nazik Al-Mala'ika's Arabic poetry. One of the most influential Iraqi poets of the twentieth century, Nazik Al-Mala'ika pioneered the modern Arabic verse movement when she broke away from the... -
Robin Ince's Bad Book Club: One man's quest to uncover the books that taste forgot Robin Ince 9780751542134
RRP: £10.99£7.61Is hideous prose and ghastly poetry more fabulous than great literature? Determined to find out, award-winning comedian Robin Ince has spent most of the 21st century rummaging through charity shops, jumble sales, and even the odd skip to compile the... -
Thrown Under the Omnibus by P. J. O'Rourke
RRP: £20.00£14.67'Whether you agree with him or not, P.J. writes a helluva piece.' Richard Nixon P.J. O'Rourke has had a prolific career as one of America's most celebrated humourists. But that career almost didn't happen. As he tells it, 'I began to write for pay in the... -
A Jessie Kesson Companion by Jessie Kesson 9781903265017
RRP: £5.99£4.95This miscellany of Jessie Kesson's writings brings together a variety of her work in different genres, all focusing on childhood and adolescence.This miscellany of Jessie Kesson's writings brings together a variety of her work in different genres, all... -
Blithe Spirit, Hay Fever, Private Lives: Three Plays by Noël Coward 9780679781790
RRP: £11.99£10.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679781790Author Noel CowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Postcard Stories 2 Jan Carson 9781912915583
£11.59In 2015, suffering from a dreadful case of writer's block, novelist and short story writer Jan Carson set herself the challenge of spending an entire year writing short pieces of microfiction on postcards and mailing these to friends around the world... -
More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns by David Calonne
RRP: £13.99£9.50"He loads his head full of coal and diamonds shoot out of his finger tips. What a trick. The mole genius has left us with another digest. It's a full house--read 'em and weep."--Tom Waits After toiling in obscurity for years, Charles Bukowski suddenly... -
Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings by David Womersley 9780198859246
RRP: £25.99£25.16This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Samuel Johnson (1709-1784). Accompanied by full scholarly apparatus, the edition enables students to study Johnson's work in... -
Critic at Large: Essays and Rreviews 2010-2022 by DJ Taylor 9781915553195
RRP: £10.00£8.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915553195Author DJ TaylorFormat PaperbackImprint Shoestring PressPublisher Shoestring Press -
The 50 Things: Lessons for When You Feel Lost, Love Dad by Peter Dunne
RRP: £8.99£5.62As his 50th birthday dawned, Peter Dunne had a life-changing conversation with a friend and realised that, while he may not have invented the internet or found a cure for cancer, he had nonetheless fathered three remarkable and beautiful children... -
Immersion, Identification, and the Iliad by Prof Jonathan L. Ready 9780192870971
RRP: £83.00£75.74This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Immersion,... -
The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art by Eileen Myles
RRP: £16.99£11.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584350668Author Eileen MylesFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm -
Bicycling for Ladies: The Classic 1896 Guide to Skills, Exercise, Mechanics, and Dress by Maria E. Ward
RRP: £12.99£8.87Bicycling for Ladies is the trailblazing book that introduced women to bicycling and shocked a Victorian culture on its release in 1896. Today it remains comprehensive and useful, but also celebrates women's advancement in the sport and offers an... -
Feral Borough by Meryl Pugh
RRP: £12.99£9.18Set in the urban pastoral of an East London postcode, Feral Borough asks what it means to call a place home, and how best to share that home with its non-human inhabitants. Meryl Pugh reimagines the wild as 'feral', recording the fauna and flora of... -
The Essential Writings of Jonathan Swift by Jonathan Swift 9780393930658
£17.53"Contexts" features a generous selection of contemporary materials, among them Swift's letters, autobiographical documents, and personal writings. "Criticism" provides readers with a wide chronological and thematic range of scholarly interpretations,... -
Homo Irrealis by Andre Aciman 9780571366460
RRP: £9.99£6.90The bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with this collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works. The irrealis mood knows no boundaries between what is and what isn't, between... -
The Selected Works of Samuel Beckett by Samuel Beckett
£60.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802145147Author Samuel BeckettPage Count 2047Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressWeight(grams)... -
The Canterbury Tales in Modern Verse by Geoffrey Chaucer 9780872207547
RRP: £12.99£11.23Readers of this witty and fluent new translation of The Canterbury Tales should find themselves turning page after page: by recasting Chaucer's ten-syllable couplets into eight-syllable lines, Joseph Glaser achieves a lighter, more rapid cadence than... -
Letters To Lily: On how the world works by Alan MacFarlane
RRP: £10.99£8.31In a frank and unpretentious series of letters addressed to a teenage granddaughter, this highly original book teaches us to know and understand the world we live in and its rules, and how to behave in it. In these thirty letters, Alan Macfarlane answers... -
Poems Samuel Taylor Coleridge 9781857150278
RRP: £14.99£11.11Coleridge is the most complex and brilliant, yet the most elusive and intense of the great Romantic writers. This selection of verse and prose displays the extraordinary scope of his mind, the power of his imagination and the virtuosity of his literary...