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The Bloodied Nightgown: And Other Essays by Joan Acocella 9780374608095
RRP: £24.99£16.78Joan Acocella, "one of our finest cultural critics" (Edward Hirsch), has the rare ability to examine literature and unearth the lives contained within it - its authors, its subjects, and the communities from which it sprung. In her hands, arts criticism... -
Gathering: Women of Colour on Nature by Durre Shahwar 9781912489749
RRP: £10.99£7.00"The beautiful rolling hills and coastlines are for all of us. Together, we can reimagine the British countryside (and all it represents) and make space so that everyone is welcomed." Gathering brings together essays by women of colour across the UK... -
Best of Myles: A Selection from Cruskeen Lawn: Best of Myles by Flann O'Brien 9780007247189
RRP: £12.99£8.48Under the pseudonym Myles na Gopaleen, Flann O' Brien wrote a daily column in the 'Irish Times' called 'Cruiskeen Lawn' for over twenty years which hilariously satirised the absurdities and solemnities of Dublin life. With shameless irony and... -
McIlvanney On Boxing by Hugh McIlvanney
RRP: £10.99£7.77Hugh McIlvanney is a living legend in sports journalism. A regular winner of the fiercely contested UK Sports Writer of the Year award, he also has the unique distinction of being the only sports writer to have been voted Journalist of the Year. He is... -
Escape Into Meaning: Essays on Superman, Public Benches, and Other Obsessions by Evan Puschak
RRP: £27.00£15.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982163952Author Evan PuschakFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria Books -
The Celestial Realm by Molly Hennigan 9781804184066
RRP: £12.99£8.49"Phil doesn't like physical affection. She doesn't love you because you don't exist. She doesn't care if you have something important coming up. A busy week, a daunting appointment, a divorce, because she believes the world is going to end in the morning... -
The Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
RRP: £12.99£9.09Widely regarded as the first modern autobiography, The Confessions is an astonishing work of acute psychological insight. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) argued passionately against the inequality he believed to be intrinsic to civilized society. In his... -
Visions Of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939 by Georges Bataille
£26.74Since the publication of Visions of Excess in 1985, there has been an explosion of interest in the work of Georges Bataille. The French surrealist continues to be important for his groundbreaking focus on the visceral, the erotic, and the relation of... -
Here Is New York by E. B. White
RRP: £11.99£8.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781892145024Author E.B. WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Little Bookroom,U.S.Publisher Little Bookroom,U.S.Weight(grams) 170gDimensions(mm) 184mm *... -
Mothers, Fathers, and Others: New Essays by Siri Hustvedt 9781529376715
RRP: £10.99£7.40'Dizzyingly flexible, deeply human, often funny, it blasts aside our preconceptions and urges us to see the world as it is' iFeminist philosophy meets family memoir in Siri Hustvedt's most personal essay collection yet, a scintillating and profound... -
Where the Past Begins: Memory and Imagination by Amy Tan 9780007585571
RRP: £9.99£3.51From New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir on her life as a writer, her childhood and the symbiotic relationship between fiction and emotional memory. In Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The... -
'No Mentor but Myself': Jack London on Writing and Writers, Second Edition by Dale L. Walker 9780804736350
£95.28Jack London, one of the most read and recognized figures in American literature, produced an immense body of work, including 22 novels, 200 short stories, memoirs, newspaper articles, book reviews, essays, and poems. A significant and revealing feature... -
Love That Story: Observations from a Gorgeously Queer Life by Jonathan Van Ness 9781398500501
RRP: £9.99£6.41Queer Eye star Jonathan Van Ness dives into his favourite subjects in Love That Story, a collection of heartfelt and entertaining essays. From experiencing heartbreaking grief to uncovering the hidden LGBTQ history of his hometown, Quincy, from... -
The Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson by James Weldon Johnson 9780812975321
RRP: £18.99£12.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812975321Author James Weldon JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino
RRP: £9.99£7.11Why Read the Classics? is an elegant defence of the value of great literature by one of the finest authors of the last century. Beginning with an essay on the attributes that define a classic (number one - classics are those books that people always say... -
Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson 9780486277905
RRP: £3.99£2.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486277905Author Ralph Waldo EmersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future by Saul Bellow
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Sentence by sentence, page by page, Bellow is simply the best writer we have' The New York Times Book ReviewIn It All Adds Up, Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning author Saul Bellow takes readers on a brilliantly insightful journey through literary America... -
The Portable Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson
RRP: £9.99£7.11Philosopher John Dewey called Ralph Waldo Emerson "the one citizen of the New World fit to have his name uttered in the same breath with that of Plato."Through his writing and his own personal philosophy, Emerson unburdened his young country of Europe's... -
The Complete Essays 1973-1991 by Luigi Ghirri 9781910164143
RRP: £18.00£17.15The Complete Essays 1973-1991 is a long-awaited collection of short, allusive texts on the curiosities of photography written by the great Italian artist, Luigi Ghirri. Ghirri's writings spiral outwards from his practice, intuitively exploring the... -
The Art of War by Sun Tzu 9780195014761
RRP: £10.49£7.44Like Machiavelli's The Prince and the Japanese Book of Five Rings, Sun Tzu's The Art of War is as timely for business people today as it was for military strategists in ancient China. Written in China more than 2,000 years ago, Sun Tzu's classic The Art... -
Openhearted: Eighty Years of Love, Loss, Laughter and Letting Go by Ann Ingle
RRP: £14.99£10.95SHORTLISTED FOR TWO IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2021'Something they don't tell you about getting older is that you fall. Oh, you hear about it in passing, of course, "She had a fall, poor thing". Falling is not something you ever think about as a younger woman... -
Questionnaire by Dr. Evan Kindley
RRP: £9.99£7.45Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Questionnaires are everywhere: we fill them out at doctors' offices and at job interviews, to express ourselves and to advance knowledge, to... -
The Colour of Madness: Mental Health and Race in Technicolour by Samara Linton
RRP: £16.99£12.68'An invaluable collection' BBC'A seminal body of work that centres our voices authentically and unapologetically'Melissa Cummings-Quarry, co-author of Grown and co-founder of Black Girls Book ClubThe Colour of Madness is a groundbreaking anthology... -
Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader by Cassandra Clare
RRP: £9.99£7.16Explore the world of the Mortal Instruments with Cassandra Clare and more Join Cassandra Clare and a Circle of more than a dozen top YA writers, including New York Times bestsellers Holly Black, Rachel Caine, and Kami Garcia, as they write about the... -
The Best American Essays of the Century by Professor of Humanities Joyce Carol Oates
RRP: £19.95£12.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618155873Author Joyce Carol OatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 155mm... -
Wodehouse At The Wicket: A Cricketing Anthology by P. G. Wodehouse
RRP: £9.99£7.11'The funniest writer ever to put words to paper' HUGH LAURIE_____________________________________________From his early days Wodehouse adored cricket and references to the game run like a golden thread though his writings. He not only wrote about this... -
Roots Home: Essays and a Journal by Gillian Clarke
RRP: £14.99£10.77Shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year 2022. Wales's best-loved contemporary poet, one of the major poets of our endangered environment, returns to prose in Roots Home. As in At the Source (2008), she does something unusual with form. She... -
The Portable Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £16.99£12.28The works of Friedrich Nietzsche have fascinated readers around the world ever since the publication of his first book more than a hundred years ago. As Walter Kaufmann, one of the world's leading authorities on Nietzsche, notes in his introduction, "Few... -
Lost Cat by Mary Gaitskill 9781911547808
RRP: £8.99£6.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911547808Author Mary GaitskillFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books -
Mouse or Rat?: Translation as Negotiation by Umberto Eco
RRP: £9.99£6.80From the world-famous author of THE NAME OF THE ROSE, an illuminating and humorous study on the pleasures and pitfalls of translation.'Translation is always a shift, not between two languages but between two cultures. A translator must take into account... -
Granta 166: Generations by Thomas Meaney 9781909889620
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909889620Author Thomas MeaneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 179gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 134mm... -
Oroonoko, the Rover and Other Works by Aphra Behn
RRP: £10.99£6.45When Prince Oroonoko's passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, the lovers are cast into slavery and transported from Africa to the colony of Surinam. Oroonoko's noble bearing soon wins the respect of his English captors,... -
Escape Into Meaning: Essays on Superman, Public Benches, and Other Obsessions by Evan Puschak 9781982163969
RRP: £17.99£11.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982163969Author Evan PuschakFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm * 25mm -
De Profundis and Other Prison Writings by Oscar Wilde
RRP: £9.99£7.11De Profundis and Other Prison Writings is a new selection of Oscar Wilde's prison letters and poetry in Penguin Classics, edited and introduced by Colm Toibin.At the start of 1895, Oscar Wilde was the toast of London, widely feted for his most recent... -
MFA vs NYC: The Two Cultures of American Fiction by Chad Harbach 9780865478138
RRP: £24.00£15.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865478138Author Chad HarbachFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)... -
The Atlantic Ocean: Essays on Britain and America by Andrew O'Hagan
RRP: £16.99£11.98A stunning collection of reportage from an acclaimed journalist and novelist hailed by the New York Times as 'the best essayist of his generation'.As he grew up, Andrew O'Hagan witnessed the decline of Britain and the rise of America, the end of British... -
The Complete Fairy Tales by George MacDonald
RRP: £8.99£7.07George MacDonald occupied a major position in the intellectual life of his Victorian contemporaries. This volume brings together all eleven of his shorter fairy stories as well as his essay "The Fantastic Imagination". The subjects are those of... -
De Re Rustica: v. 2: Bks.V-IX by Columella
RRP: £24.95£22.92A Roman farmer on farming.Columella (Lucius Iunius Moderatus) of Gades (Cadiz) lived in the reigns of the first emperors to about AD 70. He moved early in life to Italy where he owned farms and lived near Rome. It is probable that he did military ... -
What Are People For?: Essays by Wendell Berry
RRP: £15.99£9.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582434872Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 205g -
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by Michael Swanton
RRP: £18.99£12.75The most important written work in English before the Norman Conquest, newly translated.Made up of annals written in the monasteries of Winchester, Canterbury, Peterborough, Abingdon, and Worcester, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle marks the beginning of the...