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The Colour of Madness: Mental Health and Race in Technicolour by Samara Linton
RRP: $21.92$16.36'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... -
Portraits and Observations: The Essays of Truman Capote Truman Capote 9780812978919
RRP: $19.34$12.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812978919Author Truman CapoteFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 425gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
One Hundred Years of James Joyce's "Ulysses" by Colm Toibin
RRP: $48.96$44.09Ulysses is widely regarded as the greatest novel of the twentieth century. Commemorating the 1922 publication of this modernist masterwork, One Hundred Years of James Joyce's "Ulysses" tells the story of the writing, revising, printing, and censorship of... -
Anabasis of Alexander: v.1 by Arrian
RRP: $32.19$30.69On 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... -
Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They Do by Meredith Maran
RRP: $20.63$14.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452298156Author Meredith MaranFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 196g -
What Are People For?: Essays by Wendell Berry
RRP: $20.63$11.52Apologies 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 -
Seeing Things as They Are: Selected Journalism and Other Writings by George Orwell
RRP: $12.89$9.17'This selection is a ceaseless delight ... there is a treat on almost every page' Daily TelegraphGeorge Orwell wrote, in his words, from 'a desire to see things as they are'. This new collection of his journalism and other writings, including articles,... -
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by Michael Swanton
RRP: $24.50$17.56The 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... -
Pulphead by John Jeremiah Sullivan
RRP: $25.80$18.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction) 2011 and Saroyan Writing Prize (Nonfiction) 2012.Book InformationISBN 9780374532901Author John Jeremiah... -
Wedding Readings: Centuries of Writing and Rituals on Love and Marriage by Various 9780140088793
$20.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140088793Author VariousFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 221gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 130mm *... -
Le Morte D'Arthur Volume 1 by Sir Thomas Malory
RRP: $16.76$11.61Le 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... -
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung by Lester Bangs
RRP: $14.18$9.18Until his death aged thirty-three in 1982, Lester Bangs wrote wired, rock 'n' roll pieces on Iggy Pop, The Clash, John Lennon, Kraftwerk, Lou Reed. As a rock critic, he had an eagle-eye for distinguishing the pre-packaged imitation from the real thing;... -
The Praise of Folly and Other Writings: A Norton Critical Edition by Desiderius Erasmus 9780393957495
$19.65Besides the celebrated Praise of Folly, Robert M. Adams has included the political "Complaint of Peace," the brutal antipapal satire "Julius Excluded from Heaven," two versions of Erasmus's important preface to the Latin translation of the New Testament,... -
Selected Writings by Alan Shelston 9780141396767
RRP: $16.76$11.73The most important writings by the great and controversial Victorian polemicist.Carlyle was one of the great figures of his age: thunderous, passionate, irascible, sceptical and idealistic. This selection is representative of all stages of Carlyle's... -
Selected Writings by Thomas Aquinas
RRP: $21.92$16.60In his reflections on Christianity, Saint Thomas Aquinas forged a unique synthesis of ancient philosophy and medieval theology. Preoccupied with the relationship between faith and reason, he was influenced both by Aristotle's rational world view and by... -
The Obedience of a Christian Man by William Tyndale
RRP: $16.76$11.73One of the key foundation books of the English Reformation, The Obedience of a Christian Man (1528) makes a radical challenge to the established order of the all-powerful Church of its time. Himself a priest, Tyndale boldly claims that there is just one... -
Thomas Paine Reader by Thomas Paine
RRP: $16.76$11.73This major collection demonstrates the extent to which Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was an inspiration to the Americans in their struggle for independence, a passionate supporter of the French Revolution and perhaps the outstanding English radical writer of... -
Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch by Henry Miller
RRP: $19.34$15.82In 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... -
In Gratitude by Jenny Diski
RRP: $14.18$10.02_______________ 'One of the most inventive, original and disturbing writers of her generation' - Daily Telegraph 'Diski does not do linear, or normal, or boring ... In Gratitude amounts to the inner monologue of a highly intelligent, furiously... -
Pedro and Ricky Come Again: Selected Writing 1988-2020 by Jonathan Meades 9781783529506 [USED COPY]
RRP: $38.70$8.57'Ought to become a classic. It is an enshrinement of [Meades's] intense baroque and catholic cleverness' Roger Lewis, The Times'One of the foremost prose stylists of his age in any register . . . Probably we don't deserve Meades, a man who apparently has... -
Pedro and Ricky Come Again: Selected Writing 1988-2020 by Jonathan Meades 9781783529506
RRP: $38.70$26.99'Ought to become a classic. It is an enshrinement of [Meades's] intense baroque and catholic cleverness' Roger Lewis, The Times'One of the foremost prose stylists of his age in any register . . . Probably we don't deserve Meades, a man who apparently has... -
The Empathy Exams: Essays by Leslie Jamison
RRP: $14.18$8.71The subjects of this stylish and audacious collection of essays range from an assault in Nicaragua to a Morgellons meeting; from Frida Kahlo's plaster casts to a gangland tour of LA. Jamison is interested in how we tell stories about injury and pain, and... -
Whatever It Is, I Don't Like It by Howard Jacobson 9781408822425 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76$3.42_______________ '[An] acutely observed collection of occasional pieces that pick at absurdist life and reveal him to be a quiz, a cultural critic gifted with precise comic timing' - The Times 'Yes, Jacobson is an entertainer ... And he does indeed... -
Whatever It Is, I Don't Like It by Howard Jacobson
RRP: $16.76$11.73_______________ '[An] acutely observed collection of occasional pieces that pick at absurdist life and reveal him to be a quiz, a cultural critic gifted with precise comic timing' - The Times 'Yes, Jacobson is an entertainer ... And he does indeed... -
The Oxford Book of Essays by John Gross
RRP: $19.34$14.64The 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... -
Shakespeare Box Set by William Shakespeare
RRP: $15.47$12.77For fans of the Bard is a deluxe box set of our three classic Shakespeare mini books: William Shakespeare: The Complete Plays in One Sitting, Shakespeare: The Bard's Guide to Abuses and Affronts, and Love Sonnets of Shakespeare. With this collection,... -
Poems and Prose by Gerard Hopkins
RRP: $12.89$9.17Dazzling in its prosodic innovations, such as the 'sprung rhythm' he pioneered, and wide-ranging in its complexity and metaphysical interest. The Penguin Classics edition of Gerard Manley Hopkins's Poems and Prose is selected and edited with an... -
ATTENTION: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction by Joshua Cohen
RRP: $19.34$13.26With Attention, Joshua Cohen returns with his first collection of nonfiction, the culmination of two decades of writing and thought about life in the digital age. In essays, memoir, criticism, diary entries, and letters-many appearing here for the first... -
Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet by Alice Robb
RRP: $21.92$15.84Can ballet ever be reconciled with feminist ideals? 'Beautiful, difficult, and compelling.' VANITY FAIR 'Don't think, dear,' said Balanchine. 'Just do.' For centuries, being a ballerina has been synonymous with being beautiful, thin, obedient... -
From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction by Robert Olen Butler
RRP: $16.76$14.56This comprehensive guide to writing creative fiction collects the lectures of the Pulitzer Prize winning author, Robert Olen Butler, transcribed and edited by Janet Burroway, the author of the classic text on creative writing, "Writing Fiction". "From... -
Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson 9780330510790 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76$3.69I was thinking; my mind was running at top speed, scanning and sorting my options. They ranged all the way from Dumb and Dangerous to Crazy, Evil, and utterly wrong from the start . . . stand back. We are on the brink. Yes. I have an idea.' When Hunter S... -
Poetics: WITH On the Sublime AND On Style by Aristotle
RRP: $32.19$30.17Classic criticism.This volume brings together the three most influential ancient Greek treatises on literature.Aristotle's Poetics contains his treatment of Greek tragedy: its history, nature, and conventions, with details on poetic diction. Stephen... -
A Time for New Dreams by Ben Okri
RRP: $12.89$9.89A collection of exquisitely crafted essays by Ben Okri, one of Britain's foremost poets, and a Booker Prize-winning novelist, that explore such diverse themes as childhood and creativity, beauty, censorship, art and politics. 'A single line,' writes... -
Proofs and Theories by Louise Gluck 9781857543902
RRP: $16.71$11.49A collection of essays in which the author writes of her own upbringing, her human and literary antecedents, and also dwells on lives and poems. The book includes writings on T.S. Eliot, George Oppen, Sylvia Plath, Robinson Jeffers, Wallace Stevens, and... -
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel Alexander Chee 9781526609113
RRP: $16.76$11.73Shortlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay Named a Best Book of 2018 by TIME, Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, Wired, Esquire, Buzzfeed, Paste, Bitch, Bustle, The Chicago Review of Books and iBooks As a... -
The Interesting Narrative by Olaudah Equiano
RRP: $14.18$10.02'I hope the slave trade may be abolished. I pray it may be an event at hand.' Published a few days before the British parliament first debated the abolition of the slave trade in 1789, Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative gives the author's account... -
In Writing by Adam Phillips
RRP: $14.18$10.02Acclaimed author of On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored and On KindnessA collection of literary essays like no other - exploring the deep connections between literature and psychoanalysis - from Britain's leading psychoanalyst.For Adam Phillips - as for... -
Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer by Wendell Berry
RRP: $3.87$3.21'Do I wish to keep up with the times? No. My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can'The great American poet, novelist and environmental activist argues for a life lived slowly.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of... -
The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures by Louis Theroux 9780330435703
RRP: $6.44$4.53For ten years Louis Theroux has been making programmes about off-beat characters on the fringes of US society. Now he revisits America and the people who have most fascinated him to try to discover what motivates them, why they believe the things they... -
Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939 Janet Flanner 9781844080267
RRP: $14.18$9.55'Gave New Yorker readers a witty guide to the minutiae of life abroad' JAMES CAMPBELL, GUARDIAN 'Cafe Society described from the best table in the place, by a writer with rare and vivid gifts' ROBERT LACEY 'Lively and witty . . . fascinating escapist...