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Mind of an Outlaw: Selected Essays by Norman Mailer
RRP: £16.99£12.28The definitive Norman Mailer collection, as he writes on Marilyn Monroe, culture, ideology, boxing, Hemingway, politics, sex, celebrity and - of course - Norman MailerFrom his early 'A Credo for the Living', published in 1948, when the author was... -
Thrown Under the Omnibus by P. J. O'Rourke
RRP: £20.00£14.46'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... -
Great TED Talks: Innovation: An unofficial guide with words of wisdom from 100 TED speakers by Neil C. Hughes
RRP: £9.99£6.64This unofficial compilation reviews the 100 best TED talks about innovation from great minds worldwide. With quirky graphics and memorable quotes, Great TED Talks: Innovation will challenge your thinking, open your mind to new perspectives,... -
Finding Beauty in a Broken World by Terry Tempest Williams 9780375725197
RRP: £18.95£14.62Apologies 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... -
Ulysses by James Joyce
RRP: £18.00£12.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679722762Author James JoyceFormat PaperbackPage Count 816Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 539gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
Mortal Beauty, God's Grace: Major Poems and Spiritual Writings of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Gerard Manley Hopkins 9780375725661
RRP: £17.50£12.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375725661Author Gerard Manley HopkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm)... -
Seneca: Selected Letters by Seneca 9780521465830
RRP: £27.99£24.27The letters of Seneca are uniquely engaging among the works that have survived from antiquity. They offer an urgent guide to Stoic self-improvement but also cast light on Roman attitudes towards slavery, gladiatorial combat and suicide. This selection of... -
Weltschmerz: Pessimism in German Philosophy, 1860-1900 by Frederick C. Beiser
RRP: £29.49£27.15Weltschmerz is a study of the pessimism that dominated German philosophy in the second half of the nineteenth century. Pessimism was essentially the theory that life is not worth living. This theory was introduced into German philosophy by Schopenhauer,... -
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury: Greatest Closing Arguments in Modern Law by Bycel 9780684859484
£13.59A collection of the closing arguments of some of the most high-profile cases in legal history. Includes: the Nuremberg War Trials, the Charles Manson trial, the John Delorean defence and the prosecution of William Calley for his part in the Mai Lai... -
Milner: Last of the Empire Builders by Richard Steyn
RRP: £25.00£16.99'Engagingly written, as unputdownable as a biography gets' Financial Mail'A rich and beautifully nuanced portrait of Milner ... a great feat, given all the paradoxical complexities of the man's life and character.' Duncan Campbell-Smith, former Financial... -
The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories by William Trevor 9780199583140
RRP: £11.99£8.43Ireland has long been a nation of story-tellers. What began as a lively form of entertainment has grown into an unrivalled literary genre. Although Ireland may mourn the loss of the seanchai, the old hearthside story-teller, the Irish art of... -
Narratology and Classics: A Practical Guide by Irene J. F. de Jong 9780199688708
£34.90Narrative is an important element in our daily life and the novel is arguably the most popular genre of our times. The theory of narrative or narratology, which was developed in the 1960s, has helped us towards a better understanding of the how and why... -
Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka
RRP: £14.99£14.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805208511Author Franz KafkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 170mm *... -
Generation Lockdown Writes by Amy Langdown
RRP: £5.50£5.42April 2020: the country is deep in the first lockdown as a result of coronavirus. Young people are left rootless, without school or friends and isolated at home. In this enforced alienation a creative writing competition, 'Generation Lockdown Writes',... -
Christopher Isherwood Diaries Volume 1 by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: £40.00£29.39In 1939 Christopher Isherwood and W. H. Auden emigrated together to the United States. In spare, luminous prose these diaries describe Isherwood's search for a new life in California; his work as a screenwriter in Hollywood, his pacifism during World War... -
Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare 9780521673822
RRP: £9.99£8.17The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with... -
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... -
Silent Cries: Experiencing God's Love After Losing a Baby by Joanna Ivey
RRP: £10.99£7.77When Edith was stillborn without warning, the authors were both stunned and confused. Where should they turn for help? Who would answer their burning questions? One in in four pregnancies ends in miscarriage; one in 200 in stillbirth. And yet, while... -
Essays After Eighty by Donald Hall
RRP: £15.95£9.15Apologies 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 -
Crab's Odyssey: Malta to Istanbul in an Open Boat by Penny Minney 9780995469921
£10.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995469921Author Penny MinneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Taniwha Press UKPublisher Taniwha Press UK -
Hitler's Father: Hidden Letters Why the Son Became a Dictator by Sandgruber, Roman 9781399019279
RRP: £25.00£17.62The bundle of 31 letters, the pages of which had long yellowed with age, had lain hidden in the attic where they were found for over a century. Only when the razor-sharp script was examined further did historians discover just who had written them - and... -
Newton's Notebook: The Life, Times and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton by Joel Levy 9781803994819
RRP: £12.99£9.62Newton'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... -
De Oratore: v. 1 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95£23.23The philosopher-statesman on ethics and rhetoric.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise,... -
Ground Work: Writings on People and Places by Tim Dee
RRP: £9.99£7.11The essential and defining new collection of the best British nature writing'Tim Dee has brought together a wonderous array of talent for this life-affirming, often magical anthology' ObserverWe are living in the anthropocene - an epoch where everything... -
Freedom And Its Betrayal by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: £18.99£13.61Isaiah Berlin's celebrated radio lectures on six formative anti-liberal thinkers were delivered on the BBC's Third Programme in 1952. They are published here for the first time, fifty years on. Freedom and its Betrayal is one of Isaiah Berlin's earliest... -
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
£12.63In 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... -
Orations, Volume II by Aelius Aristides
RRP: £24.95£23.39Meticulous eloquence.Publius Aelius Aristides Theodorus was among the most celebrated, versatile, and influential authors of the Second Sophistic era and an important figure in the transmission of Hellenism. Born to wealthy landowners in Mysia in AD 117,... -
Not Good For Maidens by Tori Bovalino 9781789098150
RRP: £8.99£6.43Salem's Lot meets The Darkest Part of the Forest in this gruesome, horror-fantasy retelling of Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market." Louisa doesn't believe in magic, until her teenage aunt Neela is kidnapped to the goblin market. The market is a... -
Apologia. Florida. De Deo Socratis by Apuleius
RRP: £24.95£23.39Oratory and philosophy from a Latin novelist.Apuleius, one of the great stylists of Latin literature, was born ca. AD 125 in Madauros to a politically prominent family and received an elite education in the provincial capital Carthage and at Athens,... -
The Aeneid of Virgil, 35th Anniversary Edition by Virgil 9780520254152
RRP: £25.00£19.99This deluxe edition of Virgil's epic poems, recounting the wanderings of Aeneas and his companions after the fall of Troy, contains an introduction by Allen Mandelbaum and fourteen powerful renderings created by Barry Moser to illustrate this volume... -
Scents and Flavors: A Syrian Cookbook by Charles Perry 9781479800810
RRP: £12.99£11.55Delectable recipes from the medieval Middle East This popular thirteenth-century Syrian cookbook is an ode to what its anonymous author calls the "greater part of the pleasure of this life," namely the consumption of food and drink, as well as the... -
The Norton Anthology of World Literature by Martin Puchner 9780393602852
RRP: £68.25£51.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393602852Author Martin PuchnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 976Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Had I Known: Collected Essays by Barbara Ehrenreich 9781783786886
RRP: £10.99£7.32A 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... -
In Defence of Elitism by Eliane Glaser 9781785906077
RRP: £10.00£7.27Anti-elitism has become a common staple of media commentary and political rhetoric. But we are taking aim at the wrong enemy. The populist right have diverted public anger away from the real corporate and financial elites and onto those who treat us when... -
Letters to a Young Poet: With the Letters to Rilke from the ''Young Poet'' by Rainer Maria Rilke
RRP: £13.99£11.17For more than ninety years, eager writers and young poets, even those simply looking for a purpose in life, have embraced the wisdom of Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, first published in 1929. Most readers and scholars assumed that the... -
The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant: The Complete Annotated Edition by Ulysses S. Grant
RRP: £35.95£29.96"This fine volume leaps straight onto the roster of essential reading for anyone even vaguely interested in Grant and the Civil War. The book is deeply researched, but it introduces its scholarship with a light touch that never interferes with the... -
Errigal: Sacred Mountain by Cathal O'Searcaigh 9781739353711
RRP: £25.00£20.28For a long time the lofty grandeur and imposing presence of Mount Errigal in Co Donegal has charmed painters, photographers and film- makers. This great iconic peak of the North West has also been over half a century the focal point of much of Cathal O... -
Orwell on Freedom by George Orwell
RRP: £9.99£7.11With an introduction by Kamila Shamsie'Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.'GEORGE ORWELL is one of the world's most famous writers and social commentators. Through his writing he exposed the... -
Homo Irrealis by Andre Aciman 9780571366460
RRP: £9.99£6.70The 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...