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Kalilah and Dimnah: Fables of Virtue and Vice by Ibn al-Muqaffa' 9781479825776
RRP: £12.99£9.98Timeless fables of loyalty and betrayal Like Aesop's Fables, Kalilah and Dimnah is a collection designed not only for moral instruction, but also for the entertainment of readers. The stories, which originated in the Sanskrit Panchatantra and... -
Completely Useless Guide to London by Martin Pullen 9781782197713
£9.84Did you know: - that, with more than 17,000 skeletons in its collection, the Museum of London has over three times the amount of dead bodies than a full-capacity audience at the Royal Albert Hall? - that 'Farting Lane' (Carting Lane, off the Strand) was... -
Great Fires: Poems 1982-1992 by Jack Gilbert 9780679747673
RRP: £15.99£11.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679747673Author Jack GilbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 102gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 136mm... -
Amsterdam Tales by Helen Constantine 9780198806493
RRP: £13.99£10.01In this volume Paul Vincent presents a compelling collection of prose fiction, memoirs and anecdotes centring on Amsterdam from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century. His selection offers a rare insight into the history and culture of the city. The... -
St. Thomas Aquinas by G K Chesterton 9781887593960
£7.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781887593960Author G K ChestertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm... -
Letters of Note: Sex by Shaun Usher
RRP: £7.99£5.64In Letters of Note: Sex, Shaun Usher collects together some of the most noteworthy missives ever written on the subject, from euphemism-laden, flirtatious exchanges and desire-driven expressions of passion to sincere and thoughtful meditations on the... -
Collection of Sand: Essays by Italo Calvino
RRP: £9.99£7.32Italo Calvino in Collection of Sand claimed that 'the brain begins in the eye'. The essays collected here display his fascination with the visual universe, in which the things we see tell a truth about the world. With encyclopedic knowledge and engaging... -
I'm Wearing Tunics Now: On Growing Older, Better, and a Hell of a Lot Louder by Wendi Aarons
RRP: £26.99£17.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524873738Author Wendi AaronsFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Andrews McMeel PublishingPublisher Andrews McMeel PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Menander Reliquiae Selectae by F. H. Sandbach 9780198147374
£38.75Menander was the greatest writer of Attic New Comedy. He wrote prolifically in the late fourth century BC, and nearly one hundred titles of his plays are known. Due to the plays' exclusion from the Greek school curriculum in the fifth century AD and... -
Style: The art of writing well (Harriman Classics) by F.L. Lucas
RRP: £14.99£10.23*4th edition with a new foreword by Joseph Epstein (Harriman Classics)* Lost for almost forty years, Style has acquired the status of a legend. Loved by some of the greatest modern authors and acclaimed by critics, this guide to recognising and writing... -
One Last Lunch: A Final Meal with Those Who Meant So Much to Us by Erica Heller
RRP: £18.99£15.46In this heartwarming collection edited by Joseph Heller's daughter, dozens of contributors imagine one last lunch with someone they cherished A few years ago, Erica Heller, daughter of novelist Joseph Heller, realized how universal the longing is for... -
The Letters of John and Abigail Adams by John Adams 9780142437117
RRP: £23.76£17.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142437117Author John AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams) 397g -
The Poetic Edda by Lee Milton Hollander
RRP: £21.99£19.59The Poetic Edda comprises a treasure trove of mythic and spiritual verse holding an important place in Nordic culture, literature, and heritage. Its tales of strife and death form a repository, in poetic form, of Norse mythology and heroic lore,... -
I'm Telling the Truth, But I'm Lying: Essays by Bassey Ikpi
RRP: £16.99£9.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062698346Author Bassey IkpiFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
Eve's War: The diaries of a military wife during the second world war Evelyn Shillington 9780751567021
RRP: £10.99£7.61THE DIARIES OF A MILITARY WIFE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WARIn 1935, Evelyn Shillington started a diary, little knowing the years of turmoil it would cover, and how insightful her experiences as an army wife would be to the following generations.Eve joined... -
Philip Roth: Why Write? Collected Nonfiction 1960-2014 by Philip Roth
RRP: £33.99£22.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598535402Author Philip RothFormat HardbackPage Count 476Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America -
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain by Stanley Chow 9781407198552
RRP: £5.99£4.21Be inspired by Football Legend, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain! Discover the inspirational story of this top player's journey from, his early life in Portsmouth following in the footsteps of his father, Mark Chamberlain, to his sporting... -
Seneca: Phaedra by Lucius Annaeus Seneca 9780521337137
RRP: £28.99£25.82Seneca's Phaedra occupies an important and influential position in the tradition of European drama. This new edition concentrates on the dramatic qualities of Phaedra and examines the Greek and Roman background to the play, particularly Seneca's use of... -
Advanced Course in Yogi Philosophy by Yogi Ramacharaka
RRP: £12.95£8.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997414851Author Yogi RamacharakaFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Bamboo Leaf PressPublisher Bamboo Leaf PressWeight(grams) 140g -
Tales from Herodotus by G.S. Farnell 9780862920913
RRP: £22.99£22.85Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Head Above Water: Reflections on Illness by Shahd Alshammari 9781911107408
RRP: £10.99£7.86Head Above Water is a professor's moving account of being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis at just eighteen in a conservative Kuwaiti society, drawing from her diary entries and fading memories as the disease advances. "Shahd Alshammari's sensuous... -
The Clay Sanskrit Library: Ramayana: 5-volume Set by Clay Sanskrit Library
RRP: £73.00£64.94The Ramayana epic centers around Rama, the crown prince of the city of Ayodhya, providing a profound meditation on the paradox of the hero as both human and divine. After rescuing a sage from persecution by demons. Rama attends a tournament in the... -
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah 9780525509028
RRP: £12.00£8.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525509028Author Trevor NoahFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint One World BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Coming & Going by Orlando Gough
RRP: £10.00£9.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910010273Author Orlando GoughFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint UniformbooksPublisher Uniformbooks -
In Defence of Elitism by Eliane Glaser 9781785906077
RRP: £10.00£7.48Anti-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... -
The First and Second Lady Chatterley Novels by D. H. Lawrence 9780521007153
RRP: £40.99£34.26D. H. Lawrence wrote his last novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover, three times in 1926-7, and it is the third version that has become famous. The three versions are in fact three different novels, varying greatly in length, a significant number of episodes,... -
Encomium of Helen by Gorgias 9780862920531
RRP: £21.99£21.89The Encomium of Helen is thought to have been the demonstration piece of the Ancient Greek sophist, Presocratic philosopher and rhetorician, Gorgias. In this edition Malcolm MacDowell provides a useful introduction, the Greek text, his own English... -
Promises, Promises by Adam Phillips
RRP: £14.99£10.06Has psychoanalysis failed to keep its promise? What are psychoanalysis and literature good for? And what, if anything, have they got to do with each other? Promises, Promises is a delightful new collection of essays which sets out to make and break the... -
Blow, Wind, Blow! by Dom Conlon 9781914079184
RRP: £7.99£5.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914079184Author Dom ConlonFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg Limited -
Tosca by Giacomo Puccini 9781847495389
RRP: £12.00£9.68Tosca, one of Puccini's greatest and most popular operas, is a supreme example of music's power to enthral the audience. In his introductory essay to this guide, Bernard Williams discusses the enduring quality of its appeal. Bernard Keeffe, in his... -
Mutha: Stuff and Things by Vincent D'Onofrio
RRP: £25.00£17.80A collection of irreverent and poetic short works from legendary actor Vincent D'Onofrio This is not a story woven around plot, characters, and contrivance. Rather, it is what acclaimed actor Vincent D'Onofrio's mind produces when on idle, when he is not... -
Histories: Bk. III-IV by Herodotus
RRP: £24.95£23.76The "Father of History."Herodotus the great Greek historian was born about 484 BC, at Halicarnassus in Caria, Asia Minor, when it was subject to the Persians. He traveled widely in most of Asia Minor, Egypt (as far as Aswan), North Africa, Syria, the... -
Sexti Properti Elegi by S. J. Heyworth 9780198146742
RRP: £22.99£22.85Propertius is a poet of the Augustan period, a successor of the great Hellenistic elegiac poets Callimachus and Philitas, and a precursor of Ovid. His account of his fictionalized affair with his beloved alter ego Cynthia is the purest expression of the... -
Smashing It: Working Class Artists on Life, Art and Making It Happen by Sabrina Mahfouz 9781908906403
RRP: £12.99£9.19Smashing It celebrates the exceptional works and words of 31 leading working-class artists in Britain. Featuring writing, lyrics and images by Wiley, Maxine Peake, Malorie Blackman, Riz Ahmed and many more, it also includes reflections from artists on... -
Hindoo Holiday: An Indian Journal J. R. Ackerley 9780141189253
RRP: £9.99£7.32A highly entertaining and moving journal chronicling J. R. Ackerley's time in IndiaIn the 1920s, the young J. R. Ackerley spent several months in India as the Private Secretary to the Maharajah of Chhokrapur. Knowing almost nothing of India, he discovers... -
A Celtic Miscellany: Selected and Translated by Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson by Kenneth Jackson
RRP: £12.99£9.34Including works from Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, Breton and Manx, this Celtic Miscellany offers a rich blend of poetry and prose from the eighth to the nineteenth century, and provides a unique insight into the minds and literature of the... -
The Saga of the Jomsvikings by Lee Milton Hollander
RRP: £16.99£15.07In A.D. 986, Earl Hakon, ruler of most of Norway, won a triumphant victory over an invading fleet of Danes in the great naval battle of Hjorunga Bay. Sailing under his banner were no fewer than five Icelandic skalds, the poet-historians of the Old Norse... -
Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays by Chelsea Hodson
RRP: £18.99£11.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250170194Author Chelsea HodsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Holt McDougalPublisher Holt McDougalWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm *... -
The Norton Anthology of English Literature by Stephen Greenblatt 9780393603071
£59.13The most trusted anthology for complete works and helpful editorial apparatus. The Tenth Edition supports survey and period courses with NEW complete major works, NEW contemporary writers, and dynamic and easy-to-access digital resources. NEW video... -
Heavy Time by Sonia Overall 9781908058836
RRP: £9.99£7.20In Heavy Time psychogeographer Sonia Overall takes to the old pilgrim roads, navigating a route from Canterbury to Walsingham via London and her home town of Ely. Vivid in her evocation of a landscape of ancient chapels, ruined farms and suburban...