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White by Bret Easton Ellis
RRP: £16.95£6.99Apologies 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... -
Happening – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE by Annie Ernaux
RRP: £7.99£4.52In 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... -
Things I Don't Want to Know by Deborah Levy
RRP: £10.99£6.56The 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_________________________________... -
Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing by Julie Marie Wade
RRP: £18.95£12.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814255674Author Julie Marie WadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)... -
Critical Hits: Writers Playing Video Games by Carmen Maria Machado 9781644452615
RRP: £18.00£9.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644452615Author Carmen Maria MachadoFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 231mm *... -
Grief is for People: A Memoir by Sloane Crosley 9781805223023
RRP: £10.99£6.56A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND VOGUE BEST BOOK OF 2024 'I am a Crosley fan and, to my mind, this is her best book: subtle, brutal and, amazingly, funny, with twists that made me catch my breath' SUNDAY TIMES 'A stunning investigation into the... -
Consider The Lobster: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace
RRP: £9.99£6.28Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a sick sense of humour? What is John Updike's deal anyway? And who won the Adult Video News' Female Performer of the Year Award the same year Gwyneth Paltrow won her Oscar? David Foster Wallace answers these... -
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: £10.99£7.12THE 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... -
Bluets by Maggie Nelson 9781933517407
RRP: £11.99£9.56Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color ...A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With Bluets, Maggie... -
Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti 9781804270776
RRP: £10.99£7.32Sheila Heti collected hald a millions words from a decade's worth of journals, put them in a spreadsheet, and sorted them alphabetically. She spent the next ten years cutting and refining, and was left with 60,000 words of brilliance and mayhem, joy and... -
A Woman's Story – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE by Annie Ernaux 9781804270943
RRP: £9.99£6.70On 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... -
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
RRP: £7.99£5.79Throughout 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... -
Besieged: Life Under Fire on a Sarajevo Street by Barbara Demick 9781847084118
RRP: £9.99£6.70For four centuries, Logavina Street was a quiet residential road in a city known for its ethnic tolerance and cosmopolitan charm. Muslims, Christians, Serbs and Croats lived easily together, sharing an identity as Bosnians. Then the war tore their lives... -
Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver 9780143130086
RRP: £18.00£10.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143130086Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 127mm *... -
Notes from the Henhouse: Collected Essays by Elspeth Barker 9781399612494
RRP: £18.99£12.75'This book is heaven. Elspeth Barker writes like no one else'OLIVIA LAING'Deserves to be permanently on the bedside table - to cheer, reassure and inspire'OBSERVER'Gothic, poetic and exuberantly funny. What a pleasure it was to read'ESTHER FREUD'Joyous,... -
I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz by Eve Babitz
RRP: £17.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681373799Author Eve BabitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
The Years by Annie Ernaux
RRP: £9.99£6.70Considered 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,... -
The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User's Manual by Ward Farnsworth
RRP: £20.99£14.59"Farnsworth beautifully integrates his own observations with scores of quotations from Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Montaigne and others. This isn't just a book to read-it's a book to return to, a book that will provide perspective and consolation... -
Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry by Terrance Hayes 9780143137733
RRP: £18.99£12.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143137733Author Terrance HayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The Devil Finds Work by James Baldwin
RRP: £15.00£8.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307275950Author James BaldwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 147gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
On Women by Susan Sontag
RRP: £16.00£9.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250876850Author Susan SontagFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 140mm * 23mm -
The Conspiracy Against The Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror by Thomas Ligotti
RRP: £16.99£11.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143133148Author Thomas LigottiFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Sea and Fog by Etel Adnan 9780984459872
RRP: £12.99£11.02These interrelated meditations explore the nature of the individual spirit and the individual spiritedness of the natural world. As skilled a philosopher as she is a poet, in Sea & Fog, Adnan weaves multiple sonic, theoretical, and syntactic pleasures... -
The Doors of Perception: And Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley
RRP: £9.99£5.29Discover this profound account of Huxley's famous experimentation with mescalin that has influenced writers and artists for decades. ... -
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Have little thought of self and as few desires as possible'Whether or not Lao Tzu was a historical figure is uncertain, but the wisdom gathered under his name in the fourth century BC is central to the understanding and practice of Taoism. One of the... -
Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems by Reni Eddo-Lodge
RRP: £13.99£9.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995716223Author Reni Eddo-LodgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Silver PressPublisher Silver Press -
The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves by Stephen Grosz
RRP: £9.99£7.11**SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLER**This book is about learning to live.Echoing Socrates' statement that the unexamined life not worth living, psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz draws on his twenty-five years of work and more than 50,000 hours of conversations to form a... -
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion 9780008284640
RRP: £8.99£6.02Joan 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... -
The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy
RRP: £10.99£7.77A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURYWINNER OF THE PRIX FEMINA ETRANGER 2020Following on from the critically acclaimed Things I Don't Want to Know, discover the powerful second memoir in Deborah Levy's essential three-part 'Living Autobiography'. 'I... -
Politics and the English Language by George Orwell
RRP: £2.99£2.48'Politics and the English Language' is widely considered Orwell's most important essay on style. Style, for Orwell, was never simply a question of aesthetics; it was always inextricably linked to politics and to truth.'All issues are political issues,... -
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House by Audre Lorde
RRP: £3.00£2.49From the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on the power of women, poetry and anger are filled with darkness and light. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic... -
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
RRP: £10.99£7.51Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador BooksIf a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it. In this extraordinary book, Dr. Oliver... -
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
RRP: £8.99£6.45George Orwell's searing account of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over timeOrwell's... -
The Complete Fables by Aesop
RRP: £8.99£7.07A slave who represented his masters in court and negotiations, Aesop relied on allegorical animal stories, collected here in The Complete Fables, to convey his key points. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Greek by Olivia and Robert... -
Intervals by Marianne Brooker 9781804270837
RRP: £10.99£7.32What makes a good death? A good daughter? In 2009, with her forties and a harsh wave of austerity on the horizon, Marianne Brooker's mother was diagnosed with primary progressive multiple sclerosis. She made a workshop of herself and her surroundings,... -
Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 9780008470333
RRP: £6.99£4.80A personal and powerful essay on loss from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun. 'Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full... -
The Most of Nora Ephron: with a new introduction from Candice Carty-Williams by Nora Ephron
RRP: £10.99£7.77A NEW, REVISED EDITION OF THE ULTIMATE NORA EPHRON COLLECTION, PACKED WITH WIT, WISDOM AND COMFORT, WITH AN INTRODUCTION FROM CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS'The perfect introduction to the iconic writer' STYLISTINCLUDING:* Nora's much-loved essays on everything... -
The Years by Annie Ernaux 9781910695784
RRP: £13.99£9.17Considered 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,... -
Second-hand Time by Svetlana Alexievich 9781913097219
RRP: £10.99£7.32Second-hand Time is the latest work from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. Here she brings together the voices of dozens of witnesses to the collapse of the USSR in a formidable attempt to chart the disappearance of a... -
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
RRP: £9.99£7.11The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deepThe revolutionary writings of Audre Lorde gave voice to those 'outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women'. ...