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Paris: The Passenger by Various
RRP: $37.03$25.02The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, and reportage from around the world. Its aim, to break down barriers and introduce the essence of the place. Packed with essays and investigative journalism; original photography and... -
White Girls by Hilton Als
RRP: $21.43$15.15'I defy you to read this book and come away with a mind unchanged' John Jeremiah Sullivan'Als has a serious claim to be regarded as the next James Baldwin' Observer'I see how we are all the same, that none of us are white women or black men; rather,... -
Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life by Yiyun Li
RRP: $21.43$15.15'Profoundly engaging in depth, with remarkable subtlety and rare, limpid beauty. A must-read' - Mary GaitskillA luminous memoir about reading, writing and how to find meaning in a lifeWritten over two years while the author battled depression, Dear... -
Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes by Anthony Veasna So
RRP: $37.03$24.78By the New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning AFTERPARTIES comes a collection like none other: sharply funny, emotionally expansive essays and linked short fiction exploring family, queer desire, pop culture, and race The late Anthony... -
An Inventory of Losses: LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2021 by Judith Schalansky
RRP: $19.48$13.26"A fine example of everyone's favourite genre: the genre-defying book, inspired by history, filtered through imagination and finished with a jeweller's eye for detail" JOHN SELF, Guardian"As we deal with the consequences, emotional and material, of a... -
To Obama by Jeanne Marie Laskas
RRP: $19.48$13.86One of the most important politics books of the year, To Obama is a record of a time when politics intersected with empathy. 'The real story of Obama's America' Sunday Times Every day, President Obama received ten thousand letters from ordinary... -
Psychedelics: Vintage Minis by Aldous Huxley
RRP: $11.68$8.70Could drugs offer a new way of seeing the world? In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes everything, from the flowers in a... -
Figures in a Landscape: People and Places by Paul Theroux
RRP: $21.43$15.15A rich feast of travel writing, literary essays and fascinating interviews from Sunday Times bestselling travel author Paul Theroux'Wonderful... Evidence of both the breadth of Theroux's interests and his skill in bringing them to life' Sunday Times... -
Notes Towards the Definition of Culture by T. S. Eliot
RRP: $21.43$14.27'The term culture ... includes all the characteristic activities and interests of a people; Derby Day, Henley Regatta, Cowes, the twelfth of August, a cup final, the dog races, the pin table, the dart board, Wensleydale cheese, boiled cabbage cut into... -
Mystery and Manners by Flannery O'Connor
RRP: $25.33$16.69'A rich, deep moral view of fiction and life: the lessons from this book were essential to my development as an artist.' Brandon TaylorAt her death in 1964, O'Connor left behind a body of unpublished essays and lectures as well as a number of critical... -
Travel Writing 1700-1830: An Anthology by Elizabeth A. Bohls
RRP: $25.33$17.73'How is the mind agitated and bewildered, at being thus, as it were, placed on the borders of a new world!' - William Bartram 'Thus you see, dear sister, the manners of mankind do not differ so widely as our voyage writers would have us believe.' -... -
Petrarch: The Canzoniere, or Rerum vulgarium fragmenta by Mark Musa
RRP: $87.75$76.97"Mark Musa, in editing and translating Petrarch's Canzoniere, has performed a wonderful service to the English-speaking reader. Here, in one volume, are included the poet's own selection of the best lyric verse he wrote throughout his life, accompanied... -
Less Than One: Selected Essays by Joseph Brodsky
RRP: $29.23$21.35'Genius ... bringing ardent intelligence to bear upon poetry, politics and autobiography' Seamus HeaneyEssayist and poet Joseph Brodsky was one of the most penetrating voices of the twentieth century. This prize-winning collection of his diverse essays... -
On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts by Thomas De Quincey 9780141397887
RRP: $3.90$3.57'People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill and be killed - a knife - a purse - and a dark lane...'In this provocative and blackly funny essay, Thomas de Quincey considers murder in a... -
Anabasis of Alexander: v.1 by Arrian
RRP: $48.65$45.47On the march to greatness.Arrian (Flavius Arrianus), of the period ca. AD 95-175, was a Greek historian and philosopher of Nicomedia in Bithynia. Both a Roman and an Athenian citizen, he was governor of the Roman province of Cappadocia 132-137, and... -
Rural Rides by William Cobbett
RRP: $25.33$17.73Travelling on horseback through southern England in the early 19th century, William Cobbett provides evocative and accurate descriptions of the countryside, colourful accounts of his encounters with labourers, and indignant outbursts at the encroaching... -
Russian Thinkers by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: $21.43$15.15Few, if any, English-language critics have written as perceptively as Isaiah Berlin about Russian thought and culture. Russian Thinkers is his unique meditation on the impact that Russia's outstanding writers and philosophers had on its culture. In... -
Passions by Giacomo Leopardi
RRP: $85.80$82.43Selections from Leopardi's prose masterwork, Zibaldone, one of the great intellectual diaries in European literature, expertly translated by Tim ParksRevenge-Revenge is so sweet one often wishes to be insulted so as to be able to take revenge, and I... -
Elegies by Sextus Propertius
RRP: $48.65$46.29Learned love poems from the early Augustan age.The passionate and dramatic elegies of Propertius gained him a reputation as one of Rome's finest love poets. Here he portrays the exciting, uneven course of his love affair with Cynthia and tells us much... -
Selected Prose by John Donne
RRP: $25.33$17.73This selection of John Donne's most powerful prose shows that the man remembered predominantly for his poetry was also a preacher, and a prose writer of extraordinary power. In it, he explores the metaphysical collision between poetry and religion,... -
Making It Up As I Go Along by Marian Keyes
RRP: $21.43$15.15AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4'S BETWEEN OURSELVES, IN CONVERSATION WITH TARA FLYNNLaugh your socks off with this hilarious collection of tales, observations and flights of fancy from the No. 1 bestselling author of Grown Ups'Will make you laugh, cry and feel... -
Lovebug by Daisy Lafarge 9781913512378
RRP: $21.43$14.55In Lovebug, Daisy Lafarge explores metaphors of love and disease as she seeks to understand human vulnerability and our intimacy with microbial life. Turning to microbiology, mysticism, and psychoanalysis - as well as the raw materials of love and... -
Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Jottings by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
RRP: $5.85$4.86'I can promise to be candid, not, however, to be impartial.'A selection of the most insightful maxims and reflections from one of Germany's greatest ever thinkers.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black... -
All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays by George Orwell
RRP: $21.43$14.14Orwell demonstrates in piece after piece how intent analysis of a work or body of work gives rise to trenchant aesthetic and philosophical commentary. As a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at home discussing Charles Dickens and Charlie... -
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction by Joan Didion
RRP: $78.00$50.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307264879Author Joan DidionFormat HardbackPage Count 1160Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 987gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
Unto This Last and Other Writings by John Ruskin
RRP: $27.28$19.01First and foremost an outcry against injustice and inhumanity, Unto this Last is also a closely argued assault on the science of political economy, which dominated the Victorian period. Ruskin was a profoundly conservative man who looked back to the... -
Maeve's Times by Maeve Binchy
RRP: $19.48$6.84'Maeve's Times is funny and clever and kind, which are excellent qualities in both books and people' Irish Times'As someone who fell off a chair not long ago trying to hear what they were saying at the next table in a restaurant, I suppose I am... -
Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read by Virginia Woolf
RRP: $17.53$11.74FOREWORD BY ALI SMITH WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADE Who better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf? ... -
Works: v. 5 by Philo
RRP: $48.65$44.69Syncretistic exegesis.The philosopher Philo was born about 20 BC to a prominent Jewish family in Alexandria, the chief home of the Jewish Diaspora as well as the chief center of Hellenistic culture; he was trained in Greek as well as Jewish ... -
A Room of One's Own (Vintage Feminism Short Edition) by Virginia Woolf
RRP: $11.68$8.70Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short formWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JEANETTE WINTERSON'What conditions are necessary for the creation of works of art?' Security, confidence, independence, a degree of prosperity - a room of one's own. All things... -
On Argentina by Jorge Luis Borges
RRP: $27.94$21.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143105732Author Jorge Luis BorgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 153gDimensions(mm) 197mm... -
The Best American Magazine Writing 2023 by Sid Holt 9780231208932
RRP: $33.13$26.01The Best American Magazine Writing 2023 offers a selection of outstanding journalism on timely topics, including inequalities and injustices pressuring families, especially mothers. Rozina Ali tells the story of a U.S. marine who unlawfully adopted an... -
Days of Reading by Marcel Proust
RRP: $15.58$11.29In these inspiring essays about why we read, Proust explores all the pleasures and trials that we take from books, as well as explaining the beauty of Ruskin and his work, and the joys of losing yourself in literature as a child. Throughout history, some... -
Chauvo-Feminism: On Sex, Power and #MeToo by Sam Mills
RRP: $15.58$10.92Everybody knows a Chauvo-Feminist... The 2017 #MeToo movement was a flagship moment, a time which empowered women to share their stories of sexual harassment and abuse in a spirit of solidarity and in demand of change. But have some men simply changed... -
Metamorphoses: Bks. 9-15 by Ovid
RRP: $48.65$46.29The poetry of change.Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BC-AD 17), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the... -
Daemon Voices: Essays on Storytelling by Philip Pullman
RRP: $48.75$33.13In over 30 essays, written over 20 years, one of the world's great story-tellers meditates on story-telling. Warm, funny, generous, entertaining and, above all, deeply considered, they offer thoughts on a wide variety of topics, including the origin... -
For the Time Being by Annie Dillard
RRP: $29.23$17.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Literary Award (Art of the Essay) 2000.Book InformationISBN 9780375703478Author Annie DillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random... -
Le Morte D'Arthur Volume 2 by Sir Thomas Malory
RRP: $25.33$17.55Volume two of Le Morte D'Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory's powerful and elegaic version of the Arthurian legend, recounts the adventures of Sir Tristram de Liones and the treachery of Sir Mordred, and follows Sir Launcelot's quest for The Holy Grail, his... -
Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, 4: 1938-1940 by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $52.55$41.67"Every line we succeed in publishing today...is a victory wrested from the powers of darkness." So wrote Walter Benjamin in January 1940. Not long afterward, he himself would fall prey to those powers, a victim of suicide following a failed attempt to... -
Signal Failure: London to Birmingham, HS2 on Foot by Tom Jeffreys 9781910312148
RRP: $19.48$13.38One November morning, Tom Jeffreys set off from Euston Station with a gnarled old walking stick in his hand and an overloaded rucksack. His aim was to walk the 119 miles from London to Birmingham along the proposed route of HS2. Needless to say, he...