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Hemingway on War by Ernest Hemingway 9780099583189
RRP: €15.46€10.82'The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one.' - Ernest HemingwayA unique and captivating collection of Hemingway's writings on war, including extracts from his unparalleled war novels, some classic short stories, an extract from his only... -
Wedding Readings: Centuries of Writing and Rituals on Love and Marriage by Various 9780140088793
€19.62Apologies 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 *... -
Plays, Prose Writings And Poems by Oscar Wilde
RRP: €17.84€13.51Effortlessly achieved, each revealing a different aspect of his brilliance, all of the plays, prose writings, and poems gathered here support Wilde's belief that entertainment provides the best kind of edification. The works include Wilde's... -
Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
RRP: €10.70€7.68Edmund Burke was the dominant political thinker of the last quarter of the eighteenth century in England. His reputation depends less on his role as a practising politician than on his ability to set contemporary problems within a wider context of... -
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung by Lester Bangs
RRP: €13.08€8.16Until 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 Book of the City of Ladies by Christine
RRP: €17.85€11.70Apologies 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)... -
Pedro and Ricky Come Again: Selected Writing 1988-2020 by Jonathan Meades 9781783529506
RRP: €35.70€24.41'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... -
An Apartment in Uranus by Paul B. Preciado
RRP: €15.46€10.19Uranus is the coldest planet in the solar system, a frozen giant named after a Greek deity. It is also the inspiration for Uranism, a concept coined by the writer Karl Heinrich Ulrichs in 1864 to define the 'third sex' and the rights of those who 'love... -
Alexander Pushkin: Complete Prose Fiction by Paul Debreczeny 9780804718004
RRP: €40.46€35.38Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) is best known for his great achievments in poetry, but the fixtion he wrote in the last decade of his life was to have a tremendous impact on the subsequent development of Russian prose, influencing such later writers as... -
Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet by Alice Robb
RRP: €20.22€14.61Can 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... -
Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer by Wendell Berry
RRP: €3.57€2.96'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... -
A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
RRP: €20.22€14.13This study of the history of reading goes from the earliest examples of the clay tablets and cuneiform of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt via the invention of printing in the 15th century to the birth of a mass reading public and today's digital revolution... -
Pro Archia by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: €29.69€27.27Defense of a poet, and five speeches from after exile.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,... -
My 1980s & Other Essays by Wayne Koestenbaum 9780374533779
RRP: €29.75€18.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374533779Author Wayne KoestenbaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)... -
Nobody Leaves: Impressions of Poland by Ryszard Kapuscinski
RRP: €10.70€7.68'A masterpiece ... a moving image of post-war Poland, and the first breathing of one of the essential voices of the twentieth century... the master of literary reportage' The Times Literary SupplementWhen the great traveller-reporter Ryszard... -
A Time for New Dreams by Ben Okri
RRP: €10.70€8.87A 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... -
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee
RRP: €15.46€10.82Shortlisted 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 Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake by William Blake 9780520256378
€37.09Since its first publication in 1965, this collection has been widely hailed as the best available text of William Blake's poetry and prose. It is now expanded to include a new foreword by Harold Bloom, his definitive statement on Blake's greatness.About... -
Francis Bacon: The Major Works by Francis Bacon
RRP: €15.46€11.58This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together an extensive collection of Bacon's writing - the major prose in full, together with sixteen other... -
De Inventione; De Optimo Genere Oratorum; Topica by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: €29.69€27.27Three rhetorical treatises.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, ... -
Paris Was Yesterday: 1925-1939 by Janet Flanner
RRP: €13.08€8.81'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... -
Orwell's England by George Orwell
RRP: €15.46€10.82Including 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... -
In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays of G.K. Chesterton by Dale Ahlquist
RRP: €19.64€15.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586174897Author Dale AhlquistFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius PressWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 135mm *... -
South and West: From A Notebook by Joan Didion
RRP: €10.70€7.16From one of the most important chroniclers of our time, come two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks - writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. ... -
A Lady's Life In The Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. Bird 9780860682677
RRP: €13.08€8.81'There never was anybody who had adventures as well as Miss Bird' SPECTATOR'Venture deep into the Colorado wilderness, and you will find her long-lasting legacy in the community of people choosing to live a life without limits' RUBY WAX, GUARDIAN 'This... -
Real Life Rock: The Complete Top Ten Columns, 1986-2014 by Greil Marcus
RRP: €20.22€17.86From the author of The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs comes his "Basement Tapes": the complete "Real Life Rock Top 10" columns For nearly thirty years, Greil Marcus has written a remarkable column called "Real Life Rock Top Ten." It has been a... -
The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain by Mark Twain 9780486489230
RRP: €14.86€10.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486489230Author Mark TwainFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 205gDimensions(mm)... -
On the End of the World by Joseph Roth
RRP: €13.08€8.71In 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... -
The English Heretic Collection: Ritual Histories, Magickal Geography. by Andy Sharp
RRP: €15.46€10.23From 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: €11.89€9.48From 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... -
De Re Rustica: v. 3: Bks.X-XII by Columella
RRP: €29.69€27.27A 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 ... -
A Blink of the Screen: Collected Short Fiction by Terry Pratchett
RRP: €14.27€10.03A must-have collection of shorter fiction from the pen of Sir Terry Pratchett, award-winning and bestselling author of the phenomenally successful Discworld novels. A brilliant collection of short stories and short form fiction from the pen of one of the... -
Simone De Beauvoir's the Second Sex by Ruth Evans 9780719043031
RRP: €23.79€20.75Acknowledged by many feminists as the single most important theoretical work of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex (1949) nevertheless occupies an anomalous place in the feminist 'canon'. Yet it has had an undeniable impact, not... -
The Sacred Conspiracy: The Internal Papers of the Secret Society of Acephale and Lecturers to the College of Sociology by Georges Bataille
RRP: €29.74€27.11Apologies 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 -
Long Life: Essays and Other Writings by Mary Oliver
RRP: €15.46€10.23Poets must read and study, but also they must learn to tilt and whisper, shout, or dance, each in his or her own way, or we might just as well copy the old books. But, no, that would never do, for always the new self swimming around in the old world... -
In The Dark Room by Brian Dillon
RRP: €15.46€10.19Boldly 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... -
Theory Of The Great Game: Writings from 'Le Grand Jeu' by Dennis Duncan 9781900565677
RRP: €20.22€17.98Apologies 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 -
Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery by Jeanette Winterson
RRP: €15.46€10.82These interlocking essays uncover art as an active force in the world - neither elitist or remote, present to those who want it, affecting even those who don't. Winterson's own passionate vision of art is presented here, provocatively and personally, in... -
The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural by Wendell Berry 9781582434841
€15.77Apologies 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: €11.89€7.97Stefan 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...