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The Metamorphoses by Ovid 9780140422306
RRP: £16.99£12.28Bringing together a series of ingeniously linked myths and legends, Ovid's deliciously witty and poignant Metamorphoses describes a magical world in which men and women are transformed - often by love - into flowers, trees, animals, stones and stars... -
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan 9781853264689
RRP: £4.99£3.46With an Introduction by Professor Stuart Sim. John Bunyan was variously a tinker, soldier, Baptist minister, prisoner and writer of outstanding narrative genius which reached its apotheosis in this, his greatest work. It is an allegory of the Christian... -
After Rain by William Trevor
RRP: £9.99£7.11After Rain - Twelve remarkable stories by the master storyteller William Trevor 'There is no better short story writer in the English-speaking world' Wall Street JournalIn this collection of twelve dazzling, acutely rendered tales, William Trevor plumbs... -
Reasons to be Hopeful: what remains consoling, inspiring and beautiful by The School of Life
RRP: £19.99£13.89An honest and accessible guide to finding light in the darkest of times. In a world that isn't short of darkness, there could be few more urgent priorities than to spend time rehearsing for ourselves why life - despite all its challenges - still has so... -
A Room of One's Own: The Feminist Classic by Virginia Woolf
RRP: £9.99£7.20A Room of One's Own, is one of Virginia Woolf's most influential works and is widely recognized for its extraordinary contribution to the women's movement. Based on a lecture given at Girton College, Cambridge, it is one of the great feminist polemics,... -
Immanuel by Matthew McNaught
RRP: £12.99£8.56At what point does faith turn into tyranny? In Immanuel, winner of the inaugural Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize, Matthew McNaught explores his upbringing in an evangelical Christian community in Winchester. As he moved away from the faith of his... -
Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism by Camille Paglia
RRP: £10.99£7.32From the fiery intellectual provocateur - and one of our most fearless advocates of gender equality - a brilliant, urgent essay collection that both celebrates modern feminism and affirms the power of men and women and what we can accomplish together... -
Of the Abuse of Words by John Locke
RRP: £7.99£5.79John Locke was one of the greatest figures of the Enlightenment, whose assertion that reason is the key to knowledge changed the face of philosophy. These writings on thought, ideas, perception, truth and language are some of the most influential in the... -
A User's Guide to the Millennium by J. G. Ballard
RRP: £12.99£9.07J.G.Ballard is the author of the novels "Crash", "Empire of the Sun" and "Rushing to Paradise". Throughout his career he has also been a regular contributor to magazines and newspapers. This book collects together pieces of his journalism, grouped under... -
Winter: (Seasons Quartet 2) by Karl Ove Knausgaard
RRP: £10.99£7.77From global literary superstar Karl Ove Knausgaard, an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and love letters addressed directly to Knausgaard's unborn daughterIn Winter, we rejoin the great Karl Ove Knausgaard as the birth of his daughter... -
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf 9780141395920
RRP: £12.99£9.09A Room of One's Own is Virginia Woolf's most powerful feminist essay, justifying the need for women to possess intellectual freedom and financial independence. Based on a lecture given at Girton College, Cambridge, the essay is one of the great feminist... -
The Collected Works of Jo Ann Beard by Jo Ann Beard 9781800817883
RRP: £17.99£11.87'Too good... You should read her and not look away' Anne Enright, Guardian 'The stories are essays, the essays are stories. Even when they are not literally true, they contain the kind of truth that great fiction thrives on' The Times 'Literature's... -
The Sexual Life of Catherine M. by Catherine Millet
RRP: £9.99£7.11A window into a life of insatiable desire and uninhibited sex - this is Parisian art critic Catherine M.'s account of her sexual awakening and her unrestrained pursuit of pleasure. From the glamorous singles clubs of Paris to the Bois de Boulogne, she... -
The Queer Bible by Jack Guinness
RRP: £20.00£13.74'We stand on the shoulders of giants. Now we learn their names.' THE QUEER BIBLE is a collection of essays written by queer icons, about the queer trailblazers throughout history who inspired them. From Elton John on Divine to... -
The Seven Good Years by Etgar Keret 9781783780471
RRP: £8.99£6.08Over the last seven years Etgar Keret has had plenty of reasons to worry. His son, Lev, was born in the middle of a terrorist attack in Tel Aviv. His father became ill. And he has been constantly tormented by nightmarish visions of the Iranian president... -
Essays in Idleness: and Hojoki by Meredith McKinney
RRP: £9.99£7.11These two works on life's fleeting pleasures are by Buddhist monks from medieval Japan, but each shows a different world-view. In the short memoir Hojoki, Chomei recounts his decision to withdraw from worldly affairs and live as a hermit in a tiny hut in... -
The Face Of War by Martha Gellhorn 9781862071506
RRP: £10.99£7.32Martha Gellhorn was one of the twentieth century's greatest war correspondents. The Face of War is a selection of her reports, on the conflicts in Spain, Finland, China and World War II, with later reports on Vietnam, Israel and Central America.Reports... -
Life is Real Only Then, When 'I Am': All and Everything Third Series by George Gurdjieff
RRP: £10.99£7.77This is one of the few records published by Gurdjieff in which he offers guidance to his 'community of seekers', the pupils from many countries who joined him in Paris and New York.The first section is mainly autobiographical, relating material crucial... -
Blueberries: essays concerning understanding by Ellena Savage 9781912854677
RRP: £10.99£7.32'I mean who cares about opinions, gossip, whatever, when bodies are so vulnerable, in search only of love and breath.' Brilliant young writer Ellena Savage explores Portuguese police stations and Portland college campuses, suburban Melbourne libraries... -
The Educated Imagination by Northrop Frye
RRP: £12.99£11.49Addressed to educators and general readers-the "consumers of literature" from all walks of life-this important new book explores the value and uses of literature in our time. Dr. Frye offers, in addition, challenging and stimulating ideas for the... -
Letter from America: 1946-2004 by Alistair Cooke
RRP: £12.99£9.09A defining collection from Alistair Cooke's legendary BBC Radio broadcasts, guiding us through nearly sixty years of changing life in the United States'No one else succeeded in explaining to the English-speaking world ... the idiosyncrasies of a country... -
The Matter of Black Lives: Writings from the New Yorker by Jelani Cobb 9780008498702
RRP: £20.00£15.29A collection of the New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in America, including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more From the pages of the New Yorker comes a... -
A Guest at the Feast by Colm Toibin
RRP: £16.99£12.28A Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it.From the melancholy and amusement within the work of the writer John McGahern to an... -
Maybe The People Would Be The Times by Lucy Sante
RRP: £21.99£14.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781891241574Author Lucy SanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Verse Chorus Press,U.S.Publisher Puncture Publications -
The Oxford Book of Essays by John Gross
RRP: £13.99£10.15The essay is one of the richest of literary forms. Its most obvious characteristics are freedom, informality, and the personal touch - though it can also find room for poetry, satire, fantasy, and sustained argument. All these qualities, and many... -
Fisher's Face by Jan Morris
RRP: £12.99£8.56Admiral of the Fleet Lord 'Jacky' Fisher (1841-1920) was one of the greatest naval reformers in history. He was also a colossal figure to contemporaries, both loved and loathed, a man of exceptional charm, presence and charisma. Since the late 1940s, Jan... -
My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
RRP: £15.00£10.96Containing drafts of stories later rewritten for other collections (including Carry On, Jeeves), My Man Jeeves offers a fascinating insight into the genesis of comic literature's most celebrated double-act. All the stories are set in New York, four of... -
Medea by Euripides 9780486275482
RRP: £3.99£3.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486275482Author Euripides EuripidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Selected Writings by John Ruskin
RRP: £9.99£7.29'To be taught to write or to speak - but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think - nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at... -
Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors by Ian Penman
RRP: £12.99£9.15Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, mystery – Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors is cult critic Ian Penman’s long awaited first original book, a kaleidoscopic study of the late West German filmmaker Rainer Werner... -
Visiting Mrs Nabokov And Other Excursions by Martin Amis
RRP: £10.99£7.77Fuelled by innumerable cigarettes, Martin Amis provides dazzling portraits of contemporaries and mentors alike: Larkin and Rushdie; Greene and Pritchett; Ballard and Burgess and Nicholson Baker; John Updike - warts and all. Vigorously zipping across to... -
The Politics and Poetics of Everyday Life by Kristin Ross
RRP: £19.99£16.29The texts in this volume represent Kristin Ross's attempt to think the question of the everyday across a range of discourses, practices and knowledges, from philosophy to history, from the visual arts to popular fiction, all the way to the forms taken by... -
Selected Writings by Saint Hildegard
RRP: £12.99£9.09Benedictine nun, poet and musician, Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was one of the most remarkable figures of the Middle Ages. She undertook preaching tours throughout the German empire at the age of sixty, and was consulted not only by her religious... -
Walden and Civil Disobedience by Henry Thoreau 9780140390445
RRP: £9.99£7.11Disdainful of America's booming commercialism and industrialism, Henry David Thoreau left Concord, Massachusetts, in 1845 to live in solitude in the woods near Walden Pond. Walden, the account of his stay, conveys at once a naturalist's wonder at the... -
How to be Alone by Jonathan Franzen
RRP: £10.99£7.25Passionate, independent-minded nonfiction from the international bestselling author of 'The Corrections'. Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom' was the literary sensation of 2010, whilst 'The Corrections' was the best-loved and most written-about novel... -
My Life in Sea Creatures: A young queer science writer’s reflections on identity and the ocean by Sabrina Imbler
RRP: £16.99£12.28***AMAZON BEST BOOK OF DECEMBER******A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF THE YEAR******LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER***A young queer science writer on some of the ocean's strangest creatures and what they can teach us about human empathy and survival'A miraculous,... -
Le Morte D'Arthur Volume 1 by Sir Thomas Malory
RRP: £12.99£8.91Le Morte D'Arthur is Sir Thomas Malory's richly evocative and enthralling version of the Arthurian legend. Recounting Arthur's birth, his ascendancy to the throne after claiming Excalibur, his ill-fated marriage to Guenever, the treachery of Morgan le... -
A Dragon Apparent: Travels in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam by Norman Lewis
RRP: £12.99£8.60a poignant description of Cambodia, Laos & Vietnam in 1950, with all their beauty, gentleness, grandeur and intricate political balance intact - Restores this lost world, like a phoenix, from the ashes of the Vietnam war and its aftermath - shows the... -
Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through by T Fleischmann
RRP: £12.99£8.63How do the bodies we inhabit affect our relationship with art? How does art affect our relationship to our bodies? T Fleischmann uses Felix Gonzales-Torres's artworks-piles of candy, stacks of paper, puzzles-as a path through questions of love and loss,... -
Nairn's Towns by Ian Nairn 9781907903816
RRP: £14.99£13.33A new edition of Britain's Changing Towns (1967), introduced, edited and updated by Owen Hatherley: "These essays show him writing about cities and towns as wholes rather than as collections of individual buildings. In each of them, there are several...