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Kurt Vonnegut: Letters by Kurt Vonnegut
RRP: $19.34$14.13This collection of Vonnegut's letters is the autobiography he never wrote - from the letter he posted home upon being freed from a German POW camp, to notes of advice to his children: 'Don't let anybody tell you that smoking and boozing are bad for you... -
In the Margins. On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing by Elena Ferrante
RRP: $18.05$12.35"Elena Ferrante has established herself as the foremost writer in Italy - and the world." THE SUNDAY TIMES A delightful collection of original essays on reading and writing. From the internationally acclaimed author of My Brilliant Friend, The Lying... -
The Secret Life of Poems: A Poetry Primer by Tom Paulin
RRP: $14.18$9.44The Secret Life of Poems is a primer which offers a poem - or on occasion an excerpt - succeeding with commentary in which rhythm, form, metre and sources are the order of the day, not ethical commentary or descriptive paraphrase. This brief engagement... -
The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works by A. C. Spearing
RRP: $12.89$9.17Contains The Cloud of Unknowing, The Mystical Theology of Saint Denis, The Book of Privy Counselling, and An Epistle on Prayer. Against a tradition of devotional writings which focussed on knowing God through Christ's Passion and his humanity, these... -
Natural History: v. 1: Bks.I-II by Pliny the Elder
RRP: $32.19$29.57An unrivaled compendium of ancient Roman knowledge.Pliny the Elder, Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23-79), a Roman of equestrian rank of Transpadane Gaul (N. Italy), was uncle of Pliny the letter writer. He pursued a career partly military in Germany, partly... -
The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works by Thomas Nashe
RRP: $21.92$15.84Written in the late sixteenth century, at the pinnacle of the English Renaissance, the rich and ingenious works of Thomas Nashe uniquely reveal the ambivant nature of the Elizabethan era. Mingling the devout and the bawdy, scholarship and slang, they... -
Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004–2022 by Margaret Atwood 9781529114980
RRP: $16.76$11.73In Burning Questions Atwood aims her constant curiosity and impish humour at our world and reports back to us on what she finds.In it she seeks answers to Burning Questions such as:Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories?How can we live... -
Njal's Saga by Leifur Eiricksson
RRP: $14.18$10.02Written in the thirteenth century, Njal's Saga is a story that explores perennial human problems-from failed marriages to divided loyalties, from the law's inability to curb human passions to the terrible consequences when decent men and women are swept... -
Wouldn't Take Nothing For My Journey Now by Maya Angelou
RRP: $14.18$9.55Lessons in living from the bestselling and beloved author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGSA brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMAThe woman warrior who is armed with wit and courage will be among the first to... -
Recessional: The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of the Free Lunch by David Mamet
RRP: $25.80$17.21NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!"Savagery appeased can only grow. Once you give in to it, it must escalate, like a fire searching for air."The man who won the Pulitzer Prize for GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS, who wrote the classic films THE VERDICT and WAG THE DOG... -
Affinities by Brian Dillon
RRP: $18.05$11.83What do we mean when we claim affinity with an object or picture, or say affinities exist between such things? Affinities is a critical and personal study of a sensation that is not exactly taste, desire, or allyship, but has aspects of all. Approaching... -
The Quotable Hitchens: From Alcohol to Zionism--The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens by Windsor Mann
RRP: $19.34$12.64Over the past few decades, the bestselling author of Hitch-22 has crisscrossed the globe debating religious scholars, Catholic clergy, rabbis, and devout Christians on the existence of God- appearances that have attracted thousands of people on both... -
The Four Horsemen: The Discussion that Sparked an Atheist Revolution Foreword by Stephen Fry by Richard Dawkins
RRP: $21.92$15.84_________________Includes a foreword by STEPHEN FRY'A classic for our time...And all time.' - Michael Shermer'The words of Hitchens, Dawkins, Harris and Dennett are needed more than ever. These are the heirs to Voltaire.' - Matt RidleyKnown as the 'four... -
Criminal Child: Selected Essays by Jean Genet
RRP: $19.34$12.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681373614Author Jean GenetFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Men Explain Things to Me: And Other Essays by Rebecca Solnit
RRP: $16.76$11.04A landmark, incendiary collection from one of the leading essayists working today. Inspiring everyone from radical activists to Beyonce Knowles, Rebecca Solnit's essay 'Men Explain Things to Me' has become a touchstone of the feminist movement and... -
Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig
RRP: $15.47$10.14A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most.Growing up as... -
The Writing Life: Writers On How They Think And Work by Marie Arana
RRP: $19.34$16.63Featuring a gathering of more than fifty of contemporary literature's finest voices, this volume will enchant, move, and inspire readers with its tales of The Writing Life . In it, authors divulge professional secrets: how they first discovered they... -
Wild Ducks Flying Backward by Tom Robbins 9781842431719
RRP: $12.89$3.60From beloved and best-selling novelist Tom Robbins comes a collection of non-fiction essays and short fiction, many in print for the first time ever! From tributes such as an ode to redheads, kissing, Diane Keaton, Leonard Cohen, tomato sandwiches and... -
Man Alone with Himself by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $10.31$7.47Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary thinkers in Western philosophy. Here he sets out his subversive views in a series of aphorisms on subjects ranging from art to arrogance, boredom to passion, science to vanity, rejecting conventional... -
Farewell the Trumpets by Jan Morris
RRP: $19.34$12.64Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat traces the momentous decline and fall of the greatest of empires - from Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee to the death of Winston Churchill in 1965. With characteristic balance, this masterpiece of narrative... -
The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals by Dorothy Wordsworth
RRP: $12.89$9.17'I went & sat with W & walked backwards & forwards in the Orchard till dinner time - he read me his poem. I broiled Beefsteaks.' Dorothy Wordsworth's journals are a unique record of her life with her brother William, at the time when he was at the... -
A Russian Journal by John Steinbeck
RRP: $16.76$11.73Just 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... -
A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast by Dorthe Nors 9781782277972
RRP: $14.18$9.44SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING AND THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY New in paperback: an exhilarating, moving account of life on the wild Danish coast, from one of Denmark's most acclaimed writers 'A beautiful,... -
Why I Write by George Orwell
RRP: $10.31$7.47Whether puncturing the lies of politicians, wittily dissecting the English character or telling unpalatable truths about war, Orwell's timeless, uncompromising essays are more relevant, entertaining and essential than ever in today's era of spin.About... -
Never Apologise: The Collected Writings of Lindsay Anderson by Lindsay Anderson
RRP: $25.79$8.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859653176Author Lindsay AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 470Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd -
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
RRP: $23.22$14.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374531386Author Joan DidionFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)... -
Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change by Maggie Smith
RRP: $21.92$14.89'Keep Moving speaks to you like an encouraging friend reminding you that you can feel and survive deep loss, sink into life's deep beauty and constantly make yourself new' Glennon Doyle, bestselling author of Untamed'Candid, lyrical and full of empathy,... -
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution by Adrienne Rich
RRP: $16.76$14.78In Of Woman Born, originally published in 1976, influential poet and feminist Adrienne Rich examines the patriarchic systems and political institutions that define motherhood. Exploring her own experience-as a woman, a poet, a feminist and a mother-she... -
Having and Being Had by Eula Biss 9780571346431
RRP: $14.18$9.18'A major achievement.' CLAUDIA RANKINE'Endlessly absorbing.' SINEAD GLEESON 'A probing tour of capitalism and class.' MAGGIE NELSON'Exhilarating.' JENNY OFFILLA personal reckoning with the intricacies of money, class and capitalism from the New York... -
Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens
RRP: $15.47$10.87'When Dickens has described something you see it for the rest of your life' George OrwellIn 1844, Charles Dickens took a break from novel writing to travel through Italy for almost a year, and Pictures from Italy is an illuminating account of his... -
Selected Essays (Collins Classics) by George Orwell
RRP: $3.86$3.02HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'When I was about sixteen I suddenly discovered the joy of mere words' Best known for his remarkable novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, George... -
Works by Marcus Aurelius
RRP: $32.19$29.57Stoic musings of a philosopher-emperor at war.Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180), Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher, born at Rome, received training under his guardian and uncle emperor Antoninus Pius (reigned 138-161), who adopted him. He was converted to... -
Sleepless by Marie Darrieussecq 9781804270653
RRP: $16.76$11.04Plagued by insomnia for twenty years, Marie Darrieussecq turns her attention to the causes, implications and consequences of sleeplessness: a nocturnal suffering that culminates at 4 a.m. and then defines the next day. In Sleepless, she recounts her own... -
Seeing Things as They Are: Selected Journalism and Other Writings by George Orwell
RRP: $12.89$9.17'This selection is a ceaseless delight ... there is a treat on almost every page' Daily TelegraphGeorge Orwell wrote, in his words, from 'a desire to see things as they are'. This new collection of his journalism and other writings, including articles,... -
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
RRP: $6.44$4.90The Communist Manifesto is a timeless classic providing intelligent insight into socialism, communism and today's group identity politics. ... -
Shakespeare: The Bard's Guide to Abuses and Affronts by Running Press
RRP: $7.73$5.68Baffle your friends with your erudite knowledge of Shakespearean English, all while casually insulting them. This deluxe collection of Shakespeare's most dazzling insults is neatly separated into sections for quick retrieval when a stinging retort is... -
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
RRP: $14.18$9.55'I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. . . . I was trapped in my... -
An Editor's Burial: Journals and Journalism from the New Yorker and Other Magazines by Various
RRP: $14.18$9.44A glimpse of post-war France through the eyes and words of 14 (mostly) expatriate journalists including Mavis Gallant, James Baldwin, A.J. Liebling, S.N. Behrman, Luc Sante, Joseph Mitchell, and Lillian Ross; plus, portraits of their editors William... -
Burn Collector: Collected Stories from One Through Nine by Al Burian 9781604862201
RRP: $20.63$14.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604862201Author Al BurianFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 362g -
Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold 9780199538744
RRP: $11.60$8.32'The men of culture are the true apostles of equality.' Matthew Arnold's famous series of essays, which were first published in book form under the title Culture and Anarchy in 1869, debate important questions about the nature of culture and society...