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Incidental Inventions by Elena Ferrante
RRP: £15.99£10.9518M copies of Elena Ferrante's books sold worldwide "This is my last column, after a year that has scared and inspired me." With these words, Elena Ferrante, the bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend, bid farewell to her year-long collaboration... -
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023 by Carl Zimmer 9780063293212
RRP: £14.99£9.70Award-winning writer, columnist, and journalists Carl Zimmer selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in 2022.A collection of the best science and nature articles written in 2022, selected by guest... -
What We're Teaching Our Sons by Owen Booth
RRP: £7.99£5.41Wise and funny, touching and true, What We're Teaching Our Sons is for anyone who has ever wondered how to be a grown up. We're teaching our sons about money; about heartbreak, and mountains, and... -
Orwell's England by George Orwell
RRP: £12.99£9.09Including The Road to Wigan Pier'No one wrote better about the English character than Orwell' New York Review of BooksMuch of George Orwell's best writing, brought together in this collection, is concerned with his complex, often contradictory attitude... -
The Sixteen Satires by Juvenal
RRP: £12.99£9.09Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. AD 55-138) captures the splendour, the squalor and the sheer energy of everyday Roman life. In The Sixteen Satires he evokes a fascinating world of whores, fortune-tellers, boozy politicians, slick lawyers,... -
A Tale of a Tub and Other Works by Jonathan Swift
RRP: £8.99£6.45A Tale of a Tub is the masterpiece of Swift's earlier years. It is presented here with The Battle of the Books, The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit, and the Additions. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available... -
Speaking to the Rose: Writings, 1912-1932 by Robert Walser 9780803298330
RRP: £12.99£10.97The Swiss writer of whom Hermann Hesse famously declared, "If he had a hundred thousand readers, the world would be a better place," Robert Walser (1878-1956) is only now finding an audience among English-speaking readers commensurate with his merits-if... -
Green Shades: An Anthology of Plants, Gardens and Gardeners by Elizabeth Jane Howard
RRP: £10.99£7.51From 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 Portable Enlightenment Reader by Isaac Kramnick
RRP: £12.99£9.49The Age of Enlightenment of the 18th century, also called the Age of Reason, was so named for an intellectual movement that shook the foundations of Western civilization. In championing radical ideas such as individual liberty and an empirical appraisal... -
Europe: An Intimate Journey by Jan Morris
RRP: £12.99£8.56Europe 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,... -
Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time by Teju Cole 9780226641355
RRP: £21.00£16.13"Darkness is not empty," writes Teju Cole in Black Paper, a collection of essays that meditate on what it means to keep our humanity-and witness the humanity of others-in a time of darkness. Cole is well-known as a master of the essay form, and in Black... -
The Educated Imagination by Northrop Frye
RRP: £11.99£10.94Addressed to educators and general readers-the "consumers of literature" from all walks of life-this important new book explores the value and uses of literature in our time. Dr. Frye offers, in addition, challenging and stimulating ideas for the... -
The English Heretic Collection: Ritual Histories, Magickal Geography. by Andy Sharp
RRP: £12.99£8.60From its inaugural Black Plaque in honour of Witchfinder General director Michael Reeves, this unique collection follows a veridical trajectory to the frontiers of belief. Reeves' film becomes a conspiratorial cauldron drawing in a host of tragic players... -
The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020 by Rachel Kushner
RRP: £9.99£7.11From the Booker-shortlisted author of The Mars Room, a career-spanning collection of spectacular essays about politics and culture.In The Hard Crowd, Rachel Kushner gathers a selection of her writing from over the course of the last twenty years that... -
White Girls by Hilton Als
RRP: £10.99£7.77'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,... -
How to Read Now by Elaine Castillo 9781838954956
RRP: £10.99£7.32'I cannot say enough about How to Read Now... Check it out' Roxane Gay'A red-hot grenade... One of my favourite books of the year' Jia Tolentino'Energetically brilliant, warmly humane, incisively funny' Andrew Sean Greer'I gasped, shouted, and... -
On the End of the World by Joseph Roth
RRP: £10.99£7.32In January 1933, on the very day Hitler seized power in Germany, Joseph Roth fled to Paris. There, in what he called the 'hour before the end of the world', he wrote a series of articles. The end he foresaw would soon come to pass in the full horror of... -
Impossible Owls: Essays from the Ends of the World by Brian Phillips 9781474607834
RRP: £6.99£4.71NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Hilarious, nimble, and thoroughly illuminating' Colson Whitehead, author of The Underground Railroad'Recalls the work of John Jeremiah Sullivan and the late David Foster Wallace, with a dash of Janet Malcolm' VogueFrom its... -
Both Flesh And Not by David Foster Wallace
RRP: £10.99£7.77Both Flesh and Not combines David Foster Wallace's best-loved essays with work never before published in the UK.Beloved for his brilliantly discerning eye, his verbal elasticity and his uniquely generous imagination, David Foster Wallace was heralded by... -
The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman by Sue Townsend
RRP: £10.99£7.77Glimpse into the life of one of Britain's best-loved comic writers - Sue Townsend - with this hilarious collection of her anecdotes and musings. ___________Enter the world of Susan Lilian Townsend - all our welcome! This sparkling collection of Sue... -
Useful Work v. Useless Toil by William Morris
RRP: £7.99£5.79Visionary English Socialist and pioneer of the Arts and Crafts movement, William Morris argued that all work should be a source of pride and satisfaction, and that everyone should be entitled to beautiful surroundings - no matter what their class... -
The Best American Food Writing 2023 by Mark Bittman 9780063322523
RRP: £14.99£9.70A collection of the year’s top food writing, selected by prolific food writer and author of How to Cook Everything Mark Bittman.Food writer Mark Bittman selects the best twenty articles published in 2022 that celebrate the many innovative, comforting,... -
The London Scene by Hermione Lee
RRP: £10.99£7.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907970429Author Hermione LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 100Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt BooksWeight(grams) 192g -
Works: WITH Works AND Pervigilium Veneris by Albius Tibullus
RRP: £24.95£23.39Polymetric gems, wistful elegies, and a lover's prayer.Catullus (Gaius Valerius, 84-54 BC), of Verona, went early to Rome, where he associated not only with other literary men from Cisalpine Gaul but also with Cicero and Hortensius. His surviving poems... -
The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine
RRP: £16.00£11.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140446890Author Christine de PizanFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)... -
The Sacred Conspiracy: The Internal Papers of the Secret Society of Acephale and Lecturers to the College of Sociology by Georges Bataille
RRP: £24.99£22.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900565950Author Georges BatailleFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Atlas PressPublisher Atlas PressDimensions(mm) 228mm * 170mm * 30mm -
I Strongly Believe in Incredible Things by Rob Auton
RRP: £14.99£10.84A selection of the world's most incredible things according to award-winning writer, comedian, artist and podcaster Rob Auton I Strongly Believe In Incredible Things is a book of poetic prose, musings, short stories... -
Inventing the Enemy by Umberto Eco
RRP: £12.99£9.09The final collection of essays from the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of The Name of the Rose and The Prague Cemetery, on the subjects of art and culture.In this collection of essays we find Umberto Eco's perennial areas of interest... -
Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig
RRP: £11.99£7.86A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most.Growing up as... -
The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural by Wendell Berry 9781582434841
£13.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582434841Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 126mm * 20mm -
Encounters and Destinies: A Farewell to Europe by Stefan Zweig
RRP: £9.99£6.70Stefan Zweig was a born eulogist. In this collection of powerful elegies, homages and personal memories, Zweig forms a richly interconnected portrait of key creative figures in the European cultural diaspora up to 1939. Many of those mourned or... -
Mystery and Manners by Flannery O'Connor
RRP: £12.99£8.56'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... -
Lives: v. 7 by Plutarch
RRP: £24.95£23.39Comparative biographies of distinguished Greeks and Romans.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given consular... -
In The Dark Room by Brian Dillon
RRP: £12.99£8.56Boldly combining the highly personal with the brilliantly scholarly, In the Dark Room explores the question of how memory works emotionally and culturally. It is narrated through the prism of the author's experience of losing both his parents, his mother... -
The Face of the Buddha by William Empson 9780199659678
RRP: £49.49£42.52Taking up a teaching appointment in Tokyo in 1931, the English poet and literary critic William Empson found himself captivated by the Buddhist sculptures of ancient Japan, and spent the years that followed in search of similar examples all over Korea,... -
Essays 2 by Lydia Davis
RRP: £20.00£13.10Lydia Davis returns with a timeless collection of essays on literature and language.'Precise, concentrated, lyrical. No one writes like Lydia Davis, and everyone should read her' Hanif Kureishi'A writer as mighty as Kafka, as subtle as Flaubert, and as... -
In Search of Our Mother's Gardens Alice Walker 9780753819609
RRP: £10.99£7.40The first collection of Alice Walker's non-fiction spanning fifteen years in the career of this remarkable writer.This collection of essays is a celebration of the legacy of creativity - especially the rich vein of women's stories and spirituality... -
Theory Of The Great Game: Writings from 'Le Grand Jeu' Dennis Duncan 9781900565677
RRP: £16.99£15.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900565677Author Dennis DuncanFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Atlas PressPublisher Atlas PressWeight(grams) 428g -
Thoughts From the Ice-Drinker's Studio: Essays on China and the World by Liang Qichao 9780241568781
RRP: £12.99£9.09'China's first iconic modern intellectual. His lucid and prolific writings, touching on all major concerns in his own time and anticipating many in the future, inspired several generations of thinkers' Pankaj Mishra'A country does not become corrupt and... -
Besieged: Life Under Fire on a Sarajevo Street by Barbara Demick 9781847084118
RRP: £12.99£7.11For four centuries, Logavina Street was a quiet residential road in a city known for its ethnic tolerance and cosmopolitan charm. Muslims, Christians, Serbs and Croats lived easily together, sharing an identity as Bosnians. Then the war tore their lives...