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Shakespeare's Montaigne by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
RRP: $44.10$29.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590177228Author Michel De MontaigneFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch by Henry Miller
RRP: $31.48$26.88In his great triptych "The Millennium," Bosch used oranges and other fruits to symbolize the delights of Paradise. Whence Henry Miller's title for this, one of his most appealing books; first published in 1957, it tells the story of Miller's life on the... -
Fables: Fables by Phaedrus
RRP: $52.40$50.34Fabulous verse.Babrius is the reputed author of a collection (discovered in the 19th century) of more than 125 fables based on those called Aesop's, in Greek verse. He may have been a Hellenized Roman living in Asia Minor during the late first century of... -
Green Shades: An Anthology of Plants, Gardens and Gardeners by Elizabeth Jane Howard
RRP: $23.08$14.70From the acclaimed author of the Cazalet Chronicles, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Green Shades: An Anthology of Plants, Gardens and Gardeners brings together a diverse and fascinating selection of garden writing that spans the centuries, the seasons and the... -
The War with Hannibal: The History of Rome from its Foundation Books 21-30 by Titus Livy
RRP: $31.48$23.00In The War with Hannibal, Livy (59 BC-AD 17) chronicles the events of the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage, until the Battle of Zama in 202 BC. He vividly recreates the immense armies of Hannibal, complete with elephants, crossing the Alps; the... -
Inciting Joy: Essays by Ross Gay 9781399716017
RRP: $20.98$14.28'Punchy and compassionate' OBSERVERA collection of gorgeously written and timely pieces in which prize-winning poet and author Ross Gay considers the joy we incite when we care for each other, especially during life's inevitable hardships.In "We Kin" he... -
Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers by Janet Malcolm
RRP: $20.98$14.07Selected essays from America's foremost literary journalist and essayist, featuring ruminations on writers and artists as diverse as Edith Wharton, Diane Arbus and the Bloomsbury Group. This charismatic and penetrating collection includes Malcolm's now... -
An Artificial Revolution: On Power, Politics and AI by Ivana Bartoletti 9781911648116
RRP: $18.88$13.15AI has unparalleled transformative potential to reshape society but without legal scrutiny, international oversight and public debate, we are sleepwalking into a future written by algorithms which encode regressive biases into our daily lives. As... -
Walden by Henry David Thoreau 9781509826704
RRP: $23.08$15.77Henry David Thoreau is considered one of the leading figures in early American literature, and Walden is without doubt his most influential book. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold... -
The Harz Journey and Selected Prose by Heinrich Heine
RRP: $27.28$19.09A poet whose verse inspired music by Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn and Brahms, Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) was in his lifetime equally admired for his elegant prose. This collection charts the development of that prose, beginning with three meditative... -
Delight by J. B. Priestley
RRP: $20.98$13.94'An exquisitely-written, generous, funny, thoughtful book about the everyday joys of being alive. I love it.' Dolly Alderton 'J. B. Priestley is one of our literary icons of the 20th Century and it is... -
Essays In Love by Alain de Botton 9781035038589
RRP: $23.08$15.77'De Botton is a national treasure.' - Susan Hill, author of The Woman in BlackA unique love story and a classic work of philosophy, rooted in the mysterious workings of the human heart and mind.Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there... -
Parallels and Paradoxes: Explorations in Music and Society by Edward W. Said
RRP: $27.28$19.09______________ 'A beautifully poised series of dialogues about literature, music and politics, and they're a testimony to the enormous gifts and courage of both men' - Tom Paulin, Guardian 'A marvellous eavesdrop on the discourse of exchange... -
Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings by Angela Carter
RRP: $23.08$6.11WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MICHAEL MOORCOCKAngela Carter was one of the most important and influential writers of our time: a novelist of extraordinary power and a searching critic and essayist.This selection of her writing, which she made herself, covers... -
The Horizontal Oak: A Life in Nature by Polly Pullar
RRP: $35.68$24.32'Peppered with humour, empathy and kindness' - Sunday Post Ever since her pet sheep Lulu accompanied her to school at the age of seven, animals and nature have been at the heart of Polly Pullar's world. Growing up in a remote corner of the Scottish... -
Disability Visibility by Alice Wong
RRP: $31.48$20.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984899422Author Alice WongFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness by Carlo Rovelli
RRP: $42.00$30.01'A joy of a book - enriching, illuminating, eclectic and far from a conventional science read' Richard Webb, New Scientist Books of the Year'Carlo Rovelli's imaginative rigour, his lively humour and his beautiful writing are inspiring' Erica WagnerOne of... -
A Vindication of the Rights of Men; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution by Mary Wollstonecraft
RRP: $20.98$14.93This volume brings together extracts of the major political writings of Mary Wollstonecraft in the order in which they appeared in the revolutionary 1790s. It traces her passionate and indignant response to the excitement of the early days of the French... -
Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius by Nick Hornby
RRP: $20.98$14.93The essential gift for lovers of Prince, Dickens and everyone in between!In Nick Hornby's completely joyous and original new book two great figures share the stage. Charles Dickens and Prince. Two wildly different artists who caught fire and lit up the... -
The Essential Goethe by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 9780691181042
RRP: $58.80$43.55The most comprehensive one-volume collection of Goethe's writings ever published in EnglishThe Essential Goethe is the most comprehensive and representative one-volume collection of Goethe's writings ever published in English. It provides... -
Maxims and Reflections by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 9780140447200
RRP: $23.08$16.32Throughout his long, hectic and astonishingly varied life, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) would jot down his passing thoughts on theatre programmes, visiting cards, draft manuscripts and even bills ... Goethe was probably the last true... -
Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues by George Berkeley 9780199555178
RRP: $18.88$13.55Berkeley's idealism started a revolution in philosophy. As one of the great empiricist thinkers he not only influenced British philosophers from Hume to Russell and the logical positivists in the twentieth century, he also set the scene for the... -
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: and other prose writings by Sylvia Plath 9780571049899
RRP: $20.98$14.07From her mid-teens Sylvia Plath wrote stories, at first easily and successfully, but then with increasing difficulty as the demands of her real vision complicated her growing ambition to make a career as a conventional storywriter.When the first edition... -
Night Walks by Charles Dickens
RRP: $16.78$12.16Charles Dickens describes in Night Walks his time as an insomniac, when he decided to cure himself by walking through London in the small hours, and discovered homelessness, drunkenness and vice on the streets. This collection of essays shows Dickens as... -
Constellations: Reflections From Life by Sinead Gleeson
RRP: $23.08$16.19*Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2020**Winner of non-fiction book of the year at the Irish Book Awards*An extraordinarily intimate book of essays that chart the experiences that have made Sinead Gleeson the woman and the writer she is today,... -
An Apology for Raymond Sebond by Michel Montaigne 9780140444933
RRP: $31.48$23.00An Apology for Raymond Sebond is widely regarded as the greatest of Montaigne's essays: a supremely eloquent expression of Christian scepticism. An empassioned defence of Sebond's fifteenth-century treatise on natural theology, it was inspired by the... -
Dialogues and Letters by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: $20.98$14.93A major writer and a leading figure in the public life of Rome, Seneca (c. 4BC-AD 65) ranks among the most eloquent and influential masters of Latin prose. This selection explores his thoughts on philosophy and the trials of life. In the Consolation to... -
As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Diaries 1964-1980 by Susan Sontag
RRP: $27.28$19.09'The only transformation that interests me is a total transformation- however minute. I want the encounter with a person or a work of art to change everything.'Brazen, brilliant and deeply searing, Sontag's diaries wrestle with the profound - exploring... -
The Paris Review Interviews: Vol. 1 by Philip Gourevitch
RRP: $31.48$20.58From William Faulkner's famous reply, 'The writer's only responsibility is to his art,' to James Salter's confession 'What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish', the Paris Review has elicited many of the most arresting,... -
Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson 9780679603313
RRP: $41.98$28.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679603313Author Hunter S. ThompsonFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm)... -
Street Haunting and Other Essays by Virginia Woolf
RRP: $27.28$19.09Virginia Woolf began writing reviews for the Guardian 'to make a few pence' from her father's death in 1904, and continued until the last decade of her life. The result is a phenomenal collection of articles, of which this selection offers a fascinating... -
De Profundis, The Ballad of Reading Gaol & Others by Oscar Wilde
RRP: $8.38$6.03With an Introduction and Notes by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London. De Profundis is Wilde's eloquent and bitter reproach from prison to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. He contrasts his behaviour with that of his close friend Robert Ross... -
Trains and Buttered Toast by John Betjeman
RRP: $23.08$15.54Eccentric, sentimental and homespun, John Betjeman's passions were mostly self-taught. He saw his country being devastated by war and progress and he waged a private war to save it. His only weapons were words - the poetry for which he is best known and,... -
The Second Body by Daisy Hildyard
RRP: $23.08$15.37Every living thing has two bodies. To be an animal is to be in possession of a physical body, a body which can eat, drink and sleep; it is also to be embedded in a worldwide network of ecosystems. When every human body has an uncanny global presence, how... -
The Common Reader: Second Series (Collins Classics) by Virginia Woolf 9780008658458
RRP: $6.28$4.85HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts,... -
Insomniac City: New York, Oliver Sacks, and Me by Bill Hayes
RRP: $27.28$19.09____________________________ A moving celebration of what Bill Hayes calls 'the evanescent, the eavesdropped, the unexpected' of life in New York City, and an intimate glimpse of his relationship with the late Oliver Sacks. ... -
Alice Walker: Living by the Word by Alice Walker
RRP: $18.88$13.02'An extraordinarily diverse collection; pure Walker, fresh-eyed and sassy' NEW YORK TIMESLiving by the Word is a memorable collection of essays, letters and journal extracts from Pulitzer Prize winner, Alice Walker.In her own immaculate prose, Alice... -
Aftermath by Preti Taneja 9781913505462
RRP: $25.20$17.43Usman Khan was convicted of terrorism-related offences at age 20, and sent to high-security prison. He was released eight years later, and allowed to travel to London for one day, to attend an event marking the fifth anniversary of a prison education... -
Thick And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
RRP: $27.28$18.12In eight highly praised treatises on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom - award-winning professor and acclaimed author of Lower Ed - is unapologetically 'thick': deemed 'thick where I should have been thin, more where I should have... -
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke 9780872202160
RRP: $29.38$24.26Includes generous selections from the Essay, topically arranged passages from the replies to Stillingfleet, a chronology, a bibliography, a glossary, and an index based on the entries that Locke himself devised.About the AuthorJohn Locke (1632-1704) was...