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United States: Essays 1952-1992 by Gore Vidal
RRP: €20.22€14.92Gore Vidal's reputation as America's finest essayist is an enduring one. This collection, chosen by the author from 40 years of work, contains about two-thirds of what he published in various magazines and journals. He has divided the essays into three... -
A Girl's Story by Annie Ernaux 9781913097158
RRP: €14.27€9.44'I too wanted to forget that girl. Really forget her, that is, stop yearning to write about her. Stop thinking that I have to write about this girl and her desire and madness, her idiocy and pride, her hunger and her blood that ceased to flow. I have... -
The Night Parade: a speculative memoir by Jami Nakamura Lin 9781914484070
RRP: €22.60€15.27In the groundbreaking tradition of In the Dream House and The Collected Schizophrenias, a gorgeously illustrated lyrical memoir that draws upon the Japanese myth of the Hyakki Yagyo - the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons - to shift the cultural... -
A Harp in the Stars: An Anthology of Lyric Essays by Randon Billings Noble
RRP: €26.17€19.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496217745Author Randon Billings NobleFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint University of Nebraska PressPublisher University of Nebraska Press -
Wildflower by Drew Barrymore
RRP: €17.84€13.03'We all have stories to tell. These are mine.' Drew BarrymoreBorn into Hollywood royalty, Drew Barrymore is one of the biggest stars of her generation. Despite an unconventional childhood, she has built a life and career of her own that millions of fans... -
The Essays by Michel Montaigne
RRP: €11.89€8.46A survey of one of the giants of Renaissance thought, The Essays: A Selection collects some of Michel de Montaigne's most startling and original works, translated from the French and edited with an introduction and notes by M.A. Screech in Penguin... -
The Moronic Inferno: And Other Visits to America by Martin Amis 9780099461869
RRP: €13.08€9.25At the age of ten, when Martin Amis spent a year in Princeton, New Jersey, he was excited and frightened by America. As an adult he has approached that confusing country from many arresting angles, and interviewed its literati, filmmakers, thinkers,... -
Hippocratic Writings by Hippocrates
RRP: €15.46€10.82This work is a sampling of the Hippocratic Corpus, a collection of ancient Greek medical works. At the beginning, and interspersed throughout, there are discussions on the philosophy of being a physician. There is a large section about how to treat limb... -
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio 9780199540419
RRP: €14.27€10.28The Decameron (c.1351) was written in the wake of the Black Death, a shattering epidemic which had shaken Florence's confident entrepreneurial society to its core. In a country villa outside the city, ten young noble men and women who have escaped the... -
The Gifts of Reading by Robert Macfarlane 9781474624930
RRP: €11.89€8.09With contributions by: William Boyd, Candice Carty-Williams, Imtiaz Dharker, Roddy Doyle, Pico Iyer, Robert Macfarlane, Andy Miller, Jackie Morris, Jan Morris, Sisonke Msimang, Dina Nayeri, Chigozie Obioma, Michael Ondaatje, David Pilling, Max Porter,... -
Selected Essays by T. S. Eliot
RRP: €23.80€16.49In this magisterial volume, first published in 1932, Eliot gathered his choice of the miscellaneous reviews and literary essays he had written since 1917 when he became assistant editor of The Egoist. In his preface to the third edition in 1951 he wrote:... -
Black is the Body: Stories From My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine by Emily Bernard
RRP: €17.84€11.34A New Statesman essential non-fiction read of 2021'Everybody should read [this]' Stylist"Blackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays, but its... -
Byron's Poetry and Prose by Lord George Gordon Byron
€19.73"Criticism" is chronologically keyed to Byron's poetry and reprints both classic and recent examinations of Byron's writing and life, including assessments by Anne Barton, Donald H. Reiman, Jane Stabler, Jerome J. McGann, Susan J. Wolfson, and James... -
Suppose a Sentence by Brian Dillon 9781913097011
RRP: €13.08€8.71In Suppose a Sentence, Brian Dillon turns his attention to the oblique and complex pleasures of the sentence. A series of essays prompted by a single sentence - from Shakespeare to Gertrude Stein, John Ruskin to Joan Didion - the book explores style,... -
We're Doomed. Now What?: Essays on War and Climate Change by Roy Scranton
RRP: €17.84€13.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616959364Author Roy ScrantonFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Soho Press IncPublisher Soho Press Inc -
Angels by Cecil Collins 9780954440909
RRP: €5.94€5.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954440909Author Cecil CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 51Imprint Fools' PressPublisher Fools' Press -
Egil's Saga by Leifur Eiriksson
RRP: €11.89€8.46Egil's Saga tells the story of the long and brutal life of tenth-century warrior-poet and farmer Egil Skallagrimsson: a morally ambiguous character who was at once the composer of intricately beautiful poetry, and a physical grotesque capable of... -
Everybody by Olivia Laing 9781509857111
RRP: €23.80€18.97'Intensely moving, vital and artful' - Guardian'A dizzying ride . . . both timely and beguiling' - Sunday TimesFrom the award-winning author of Crudo, this is an exhilarating and eminently readable study of the long struggle for bodily freedom - from gay... -
Letters by Pliny the Younger
RRP: €29.69€27.27Correspondence from a distinguished and eventful life.The Younger Pliny was born in AD 61 or 62, the son of Lucius Caecilius of Comum (Como) and the Elder Pliny's sister. He was educated at home and then in Rome under Quintilian. He was at Misenum at... -
Histories: Bk.I-II by Herodotus
RRP: €29.69€27.27The "Father of History."Herodotus the great Greek historian was born about 484 BC, at Halicarnassus in Caria, Asia Minor, when it was subject to the Persians. He traveled widely in most of Asia Minor, Egypt (as far as Aswan), North Africa, Syria, the... -
The South Country by Edward Thomas 9780956254511
RRP: €17.85€13.04Edward Thomas's death in the Second World War robbed the world of a great poet, a fine writer, and a pioneering environmentalist. Published in 1909, The South Country is the happiest of all his books. Lyrical, passionate, acutely sensitive to life in the... -
The Berlin Diaries 1940-45 by Marie Vassiltchikov
RRP: €22.60€16.20Marie `Missie' Vassiltchikov as a White Russian emigree caught with her family in Hitler`s Germany at the outbreak of the war. She was a Bright Young Thing, part of the cosmopolitan set who managed to maintain a trance-like normality until as late as... -
The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks
RRP: €13.08€9.17How does the brain perceive and interpret information from the eye? And what happens when the process is disrupted? In The Mind's Eye, Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing... -
Modern Love: Now an Amazon Prime series by Daniel Jones
RRP: €17.84€11.66A joyful collection of the most popular, provocative, and unforgettable essays from the New York Times 'Modern Love' column, featuring stories from the upcoming anthology series starring Tina Fey, Andy Garcia, Anne Hathaway, Catherine Keener, Dev Patel,... -
Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told?: Essays by Jenny Diski
RRP: €13.08€9.25Finalist for the NBCC Award for Criticism 'Nothing about Jenny Diski is conventional. Diski does not do linear, or normal, or boring ... highly intelligent, furiously funny' Sunday Times 'Funny, heartbreaking, insightful and wise' Emilia Clarke ... -
Europe: An Intimate Journey by Jan Morris
RRP: €15.46€10.19Europe has been widely acclaimed as among the finest achievements of 'one of our greatest living writers' (The Times). A personal appreciation, fuelled by five decades of journeying, this is Jan Morris at her best - at once magisterial and particular,... -
Words Are My Matter: Writings on Life and Books by Ursula K Le Guin
RRP: €19.03€13.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358212102Author Ursula K Le GuinFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
Artful by Ali Smith
RRP: €13.08€9.25A playful, form-bending novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted, Women's Prize-winning author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet 'Playful and audacious' Independent Narrated by a character who is haunted - literally - by a... -
Old Truths and New Cliches: Essays by Isaac Bashevis Singer by Isaac Bashevis Singer
RRP: €23.80€18.49From the Nobel Prize-winning writer, a new collection of literary and personal essaysOld Truths and New Cliches collects nineteen essays-most of them previously unpublished in English-by Isaac Bashevis Singer on topics that were central to his artistic... -
Condition of Secrecy by Inger Christensen
RRP: €15.46€13.64The Condition of Secrecy is a poignant collection of essays by Inger Christensen, widely regarded as one of the most influential Scandinavian writers of the twentieth century. As The New York Times proclaimed, "Despite the rigorous structure that... -
Confabulations by John Berger
RRP: €13.08€9.25'Language is a body, a living creature ... and this creature's home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate'. John Berger's work has revolutionized the way we understand visual language. In this new book he writes about language itself, and how it... -
Summer: (Seasons Quartet 4) by Karl Ove Knausgaard
RRP: €13.08€9.25Summer is the fourth volume of the Seasons quartet, a collection of short prose and diaries written by a father for his youngest daughter, with stunning artwork by Anselm Kiefer.'Knausgaard unearths the mysteries of the commonplace' Observer In Summer,... -
Laws by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: €29.69€27.75The statesman on statecraft.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius ... -
Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen by Rebecca May Johnson 9781911590484
RRP: €17.84€11.66Cooking is thinking! The spatter of sauce in a pan, a cook's subtle deviation from a recipe, the careful labour of cooking for loved ones: these are not often the subjects of critical enquiry. Cooking, we are told, has nothing to do with serious... -
Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai by Nina Mingya Powles
RRP: €10.70€7.54Tiny Moons is a collection of essays about food and belonging. Nina Mingya Powles journeys between Wellington, Kota Kinabalu and Shanghai, tracing the constants in her life: eating and cooking, and the dishes that have come to define her. Through... -
Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art (Updated Edition) by Julian Barnes
RRP: €23.80€17.48The updated edition of Julian Barnes' best-loved writing on art, with seven new exquisite illustrated essays'Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that great paintings required no words of explanation... -
Abominations: Selected essays from a career of courting self-destruction by Lionel Shriver
RRP: €23.80€20.97The first essay collection from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. 'This trenchant, unrepentant collection reminds you that she's a brilliant writer... Order a copy in case she's cancelled by Christmas' THE TIMES... -
The Disconnect: A Personal Journey Through the Internet by Roisin Kiberd
RRP: €11.89€7.76We all live online now, but what does that mean in IRL? How do strange subcultures on reddit affect our local shopping centres, what do night gyms owe to Twitter, and where can we really go to get some decent sleep? Our every move online is watched, but... -
The Book Of Upside Down Thinking: a magical & unexpected collection by poet Brian Patten by Brian Patten
RRP: €11.89€8.47The Book Of Upside Down Thinking, by the famed Liverpool poet Brian Patten, is a magical collection of verse written in Morocco and inspired by traditional folk-tales and stories from the Near and Middle East, many dating back as far as the eleventh... -
The Secret Agent's Bedside Reader: A Compendium of Spy Writing by Michael Smith 9781785904813
€15.82Espionage fact and fiction collide in this thrilling compendium of spy writing, where some of the greatest spy stories ever told meet the genuine agent records and instructions that altered history. Ian Fleming's genre-defining genius and John le...