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White by Bret Easton Ellis
RRP: $33.05$13.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525566373Author Bret Easton EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 269gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Lafcadio Hearn's Kwaidan: Terrifying Japanese Tales of Yokai, Ghosts, and Demons by Lafcadio Hearn
RRP: $25.33$24.47"Even as she screamed, her voice became thin, like a crying of wind; then she melted into a bright white mist that spired to the roof beams. Never again was she seen."Lafcadio Hearn's Kwaidan (which means "ghost story" in Japanese) is the first and most... -
Essential Bukowski: Poetry by Charles Bukowski 9780062565327
RRP: $35.08$22.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062565327Author Charles BukowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 272g -
Meditations (Collins Classics) by Marcus Aurelius 9780008425029
RRP: $5.83$3.43HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Our life is what our thoughts make it The extraordinary writings of Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180), the only Roman emperor to have also been a... -
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
RRP: $42.90$27.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385720250Author Sylvia PlathFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Bantam Doubleday DellPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)... -
Cairn Kathleen Jamie 9781914502002
RRP: $19.48$14.43'This marvel of a book is a profound meditation on the precariousness of the planet ... these pieces kept bringing tears to my eyes, catching me offguard ... it is what art or, in this case, wonderful writing can do' Kate Kellaway, Observer Cairn: A... -
Free Loaves on Fridays: The Care System As Told By People Who Actually Get It by Rebekah Pierre 9781800183001
RRP: $25.33$16.48This book is all about the care system, and it's written by people who have experienced it first-hand.Free Loaves on Fridays is an anthology of stories, poems, reflections and letters by more than 100 care-experienced people, which aims to challenge... -
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion 9780008284640
RRP: $17.53$11.74Joan Didion's savage masterpiece, which, since first publication in 1968, has been acknowledged as an unparalleled report on the state of America during the upheaval of the Sixties Revolution. We forget... -
A History of the World in 47 Borders: The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps by Jonn Elledge 9781472298515
RRP: $33.13$24.94'Fascinating and hugely entertaining' MARINA HYDE'By turns surprising, funny, bleak, ridiculous, or all four of those at once' GIDEON DEFOEPeople have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical... -
The Years by Annie Ernaux
RRP: $19.48$13.07Considered 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,... -
Long Life: Essays and Other Writings by Mary Oliver
RRP: $25.33$16.77Poets must read and study, but also they must learn to tilt and whisper, shout, or dance, each in his or her own way, or we might just as well copy the old books. But, no, that would never do, for always the new self swimming around in the old world... -
Oranges by John McPhee
RRP: $19.48$13.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907970863Author John McPheeFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt BooksWeight(grams) 194g -
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 9780486298238
RRP: $7.78$5.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486298238Author John Gough NicholsFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Golden Key by Emmet Fox
RRP: $9.73$6.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607966418Author Emmet FoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 18Imprint www.bnpublishing.comPublisher www.bnpublishing.comWeight(grams) 23gDimensions(mm) 178mm *... -
Letters from a Stoic (Collins Classics) by Lucius Seneca
RRP: $5.83$4.56HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. No man can live a happy life, or even a supportable life, without the study of wisdom Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC-AD 65) is one of the most... -
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
RRP: $21.43$13.88THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER PICKED BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT, IRISH TIMES, SPECTATOR, TLS, NEW STATESMAN, MAIL ON SUNDAY, I PAPER, PROSPECT, REVEW31 AND EVENING STANDARD AS A BOOK OF 2021 'A masterclass from a warm and engagingly... -
Secret Voices: A Year of Women’s Diaries by Sarah Gristwood 9781849948159
RRP: $48.75$34.57'Totally addictive.'- Alice Loxton, The Daily Telegraph'An intriguing, highly snackable guide to women's experiences.' - Independent'A modern classic.' - Alison Weir, author and historian'The sort of book you return to again and again.' - Tracy Borman,... -
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks 9780330523622
RRP: $19.48$6.84In his most extraordinary book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. These are case studies of people who have lost their... -
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison
RRP: $37.05$15.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525562795Author Toni MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Great Depression: A Diary by James Ledbetter
RRP: $29.23$17.39When the stock market crashed in 1929, Benjamin Roth was a young lawyer in Youngstown, Ohio. After he began to grasp the magnitude of what had happened to American economic life, he decided to set down his impressions in his diary. This collection of... -
A Woman's Story – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE by Annie Ernaux 9781804270943
RRP: $19.48$13.07On 7 April 1986, Annie Ernaux’s mother, after years of suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, died in a retirement home in the suburbs of Paris. Shocked by this loss which, despite her mother’s condition, she had refused to fathom, Ernaux embarks on a... -
Pharmacopoeia: A Dungeness Notebook by Derek Jarman
RRP: $25.33$17.73'I planted a dog rose. Then I found a curious piece of driftwood and used this, and one of the necklaces of holey stones on the wall, to stake the rose. The garden had begun. I saw it as a therapy and a pharmacopoeia.' In 1986 artist and filmmaker,... -
The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare 9781316646977
RRP: $19.48$16.71For this updated critical edition of King Lear, Lois Potter has written a completely new introduction, taking account of recent productions and reinterpretations of the play, with particular emphasis on its afterlife in global performance and adaptation... -
The Book of Delights: The life-affirming New York Times bestseller by Ross Gay
RRP: $21.43$14.43A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAs Heard on NPR's This American Life'The delights he extols here (music, laughter, generosity, poetry, lots of nature) are bulwarks against casual cruelties . . . contagious in their joy' New York TimesThe winner of the NBCC... -
The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland by Nan Shepherd
RRP: $19.48$13.07'The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain' GuardianIntroduction by Robert Macfarlane. Afterword by Jeanette WintersonIn this masterpiece of nature writing, Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of... -
Words Are My Matter: Writings on Life and Books by Ursula K Le Guin
RRP: $31.18$21.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358212102Author Ursula K Le GuinFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
Things I Don't Want to Know by Deborah Levy
RRP: $21.43$15.15The first in Deborah Levy's essential three-part 'Living Autobiography' on writing and womanhood. 'Unmissable. Like chancing upon an oasis, you want to drink it slowly . . . Subtle, unpredictable, surprising' Guardian_________________________________... -
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
RRP: $15.58$11.29Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched... -
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke 9780241252055
RRP: $5.85$4.86'What matters is to live everything. Live the questions for now.'A hugely influential collection for writers and artists of all kinds, Rilke's profound and lyrical letters to a young friend advise on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of... -
The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton 9781987434521
RRP: $11.68$10.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781987434521Author Robert BurtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Happening – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE by Annie Ernaux
RRP: $15.58$10.65In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep that child. This is the story, written... -
The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen 9780486280622
RRP: $12.66$9.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486280622Author Robert Bruce LindsayFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
A Russian Journal by John Steinbeck
RRP: $25.33$17.73Just after the iron curtain fell on Eastern Europe John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer, Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune. This rare opportunity took the famous travellers not only to... -
Notes on Camp by Susan Sontag
RRP: $5.85$4.86'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.'These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture, and made Susan Sontag a literary sensation.Penguin Modern: fifty new... -
Lost Woods by Rachel Carson
RRP: $19.48$13.07'Our origins are of the earth. And so there is in us a deeply seated response to the natural universe, which is part of our humanity.'Rachel Carson was one of the most important environmental thinkers and writers of the twentieth century. This collection... -
Wild Geese: A Collection of Nan Shepherd's Writings by Nan Shepherd 9781912916108
RRP: $17.53$12.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912916108Author Nan ShepherdFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo Publishers -
It Came From the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror by Joe Vallese 9781913393823
RRP: $29.23$19.11"Horror opened me up to new possibilities for survival ... I saw power in freakery and transgression and wondered if it could be mine." The relationship between horror films and the LGBTQ+ community? It's complicated. Haunted houses, forbidden desires... -
King Kong Theory by Virginie Despentes 9781913097349
RRP: $21.43$14.27'I write from the realms of the ugly, for the ugly, the frigid, the unfucked and the unfuckables, all those excluded from the great meat market of female flesh, and for all those guys who don't want to be protectors, for those who would like to be but... -
The Glamour Boys: The Secret Story of the Rebels who Fought for Britain to Defeat Hitler by Chris Bryant
RRP: $19.48$13.86A STORY OF UNSUNG BRAVERY AT A DEFINING MOMENT IN BRITAIN'S HISTORY 'Superb' Stephen Fry 'Thrillingly told' Dan Jones 'Fascinating' Neil MacGregor 'Astonishing' Peter Frankopan We like to think we know the story of how Britain went to war with... -
On Being Blue by William H. Gass
RRP: $17.53$12.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590177181Author William H. GassFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...