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In Search of Our Mother's Gardens by Alice Walker
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... -
Selfish, Shallow and Self-Absorbed by Meghan Daum
£12.38One of the most provocative and talked-about books of the year, Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed is the stunning collection exploring one of society's most vexing taboos. One of the main topics of cultural conversation during the last decade was the... -
Things I Don't Want to Know: A Response to George Orwell's Why I Write by Deborah Levy 9781907903632
RRP: £12.99£11.01Things I Don't Want to Know is a unique response to George Orwell from one of our most vital contemporary writers. Taking Orwell's famous list of motives for writing as the jumping-off point for a sequence of thrilling reflections on the writing life,... -
A Load of Shit by John Berger 9781912475414
RRP: £4.99£4.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912475414Author John BergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 12Imprint ERISPublisher ERIS -
Serious Noticing: Selected Essays by James Wood
RRP: £12.99£9.09The selected essays of James Wood - our greatest living literary critic and author of How Fiction Works'James Wood is a close reader of genius... By turns luscious and muscular, committed and disdaining, passionate and minutely considered' John... -
Heroides by Ovid 9780674990456
RRP: £24.95£23.74Two early works by the consummate Latin love poet.Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BC-AD 17), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at... -
Selected Essays by George Orwell
RRP: £8.99£6.45It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it. George Orwell was one of the most celebrated essayists in the English language, and there are quite a few of his essays which are probably... -
Homer: Odyssey Books VI-VIII by Homer
RRP: £27.99£25.45This is the first self-contained edition of Odyssey Books VI-VIII which together form a popular introduction to Homer for students of Greek, containing as they do the account of Odysseus' visit to the Phaeacians and including such famous episodes as... -
Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction by Charles Baxter 9781555975081
RRP: £18.00£11.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555975081Author Charles BaxterFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 161mm... -
The Plague by Jacqueline Rose
RRP: £12.99£8.56What do you do with death and dying when they can no longer be pushed to the outer limits of your lived experience or dismissed from your conscious mind? How do you live with death or rather how do you ‘live death’ when death comes too close, seeming to... -
Essays and Letters by Friedrich Holderlin
RRP: £14.99£10.95One of Germany's greatest poets, Johann Christian Friedrich Hoelderlin (1770-1843) was also a prose writer of intense feeling, intelligence and perception. This new translation of selected letters and essays traces the life and thoughts of this... -
Visions and Ecstasies: Selected Essays by H. D.
RRP: £8.95£6.18H.D.'s poetry continues to inspire generations of readers. Bringing together a number of never-before-published essays, this new collection of writings introduces H.D.'s compelling perspectives on art, myth, and the creative process.While H.D. is best... -
Anarchist Communism by Peter Kropotkin
RRP: £7.99£5.79'Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor'Fuelled by anger at injustice and optimism about humankind's ability to make a better, truly communal society, the anarchist writings of Peter Kropotkin have... -
Compl Poetry Blake Rev Ed by William Blake
RRP: £25.00£17.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385152136Author William BlakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 1024Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1032gDimensions(mm)... -
And Yet...: Essays by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: £10.99£7.32A Sunday Times bestsellerChristopher Hitchens was an unparalleled, prolific writer, who raised the polemical essay to a new art form, over a lifetime of thinking and debating the defining issues of our times. As an essayist he contributed to the New... -
Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews and Letters to the Editor by Vladimir Nabokov
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Masterly, hilarious, truly insightful' - Philip Hensher, The Spectator A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2019 The last major collection of Nabokov's published material, Think, Write, Speak brings together a treasure trove of previously... -
handiwork by Sara Baume
RRP: £9.99£6.80'Every devotee of literature and art should read this rare, bright-lit, hard-won book, and every student of life - that is to say, everyone.' - Sebastian Barry In this contemplative short narrative, artist and acclaimed writer Sara Baume charts... -
History: Bks. V-VIII by Herodian
RRP: £24.95£22.92A chronicle of Rome in crisis.The History of Herodian (born ca. AD 178-179) covers a period of the Roman empire from the death of the emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD 180) to the accession of Gordian III (238), half a century of turbulence, in which we can... -
Things That Bother Me by Galen Strawson
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681372204Author Galen StrawsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,... -
The Liberal Imagination by Lionel Trilling
RRP: £17.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590172834Author Lionel TrillingFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
On Dogs: An Anthology by Tracey Ullman
RRP: £14.99£12.55Dogs throughout history have enjoyed a special relationship with humankind, and our favourite four-legged creatures continue to grow in popularity. The writers and poets collected within this anthology reflect on the joys and pitfalls of dog ownership... -
Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver
RRP: £26.00£14.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594206702Author Mary OliverFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book by James Raven 9780198702986
RRP: £35.00£25.29In 14 original essays, The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book reveals the history of books in all their various forms, from the ancient world to the digital present. Leading international scholars offer an original and richly illustrated narrative... -
Autumn: (Seasons Quartet 1) by Karl Ove Knausgaard
RRP: £10.99£7.77The Sunday Times bestseller from literary phenomenon Karl Ove Knausgaard, a love letter about the world written by a father to his unborn daughter.'Inspiring, surprising... Autumn will warm and enlighten anyone who opens their eyes to it' The TimesAutumn... -
DO NOT DETONATE Without Presidential Approval: A Portfolio on the Subjects of Mid-century Cinema, the Broadway Stage and the American West by Various Authors 9781805330516
RRP: £10.99£7.32Writings on people and places, theater and film, in a portfolio of essays and photographs informing Wes Anderson's film Asteroid City. Featuring 8 newly commissioned pieces alongside more than 20 classic essays from the likes of Francois Truffaut and... -
Selected Writings by Gerard de Nerval
RRP: £14.99£10.95Poet, visionary, short-story writer and autobiographer, Gerard de Nerval (1808-1855) explored the uncertain borderlines between dream and reality, irony and madness, autobiography and fiction with his groundbreaking writings. This comprehensive selection... -
No Time to Spare: Thinking about What Matters by Ursula K Le Guin
RRP: £15.99£8.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Hugo Award (Related Book) 2018.Book InformationISBN 9781328507976Author Ursula K Le GuinFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper... -
Breaking into Song: Why You Shouldn't Hate Musicals by Adam Lenson 9781914228025
RRP: £9.99£6.75"This book is a fascinating cri de coeur and made me question everything I think about musicals" Alan Cumming A book for those who can't stand musicals, those who love them, and every theatregoer, academic, practitioner and student in between... -
Tabula Rasa: Volume 1 by John McPhee 9780374603601
RRP: £22.99£15.93A literary legend's engaging review of his career, stressing the work he never completed, and why. Over seven decades, John McPhee has set a standard for literary nonfiction. Assaying mountain ranges, bark canoes, experimental aircraft, the Swiss... -
Works: v. 5 by Demosthenes
RRP: £24.95£22.92The preeminent orator of ancient Athens.Demosthenes (384-322 BC), orator at Athens, was a pleader in law courts who later became also a statesman, champion of the past greatness of his city and the present resistance of Greece to Philip of Macedon's... -
The Rings of Saturn: (Vintage Voyages) by W.G. Sebald
RRP: £10.90£7.71Encountering an eccentric cast of characters along the way, Sebald confronts the frailty of human existence as he voyages along the Suffolk coast on foot. What begins as the record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia becomes the great,... -
Living and Dying with Proust by Christopher Prendergast
RRP: £16.99£11.58A LIFETIME'S READING OF PROUST'S MASTERPIECE "A work buzzing with appetite and curiosity."-Andrew Marr, author and broadcaster "Living and Dying with Marcel Proust is a feast."-Lydia Davis, winner of the Man Booker International Prize One of the... -
Just Enough Liebling by A Liebling 9780865477278
RRP: £24.00£16.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865477278Author A LieblingFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)... -
Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time by Teju Cole 9780226641355
RRP: £18.00£16.73"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... -
Gigantic Cinema: A Weather Anthology by Alice Oswald
RRP: £14.99£10.95'It is in very truth a sunny, misty, cloudy, dazzling, howling, omniform Day...' - Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Sotheby, 27 September 1802This anthology of poems and prose ranges from literary weather - Homer's winds, Ovid's flood - to scientific... -
Walking, Writing and Performance by Roberta Mock
RRP: £28.95£27.59This collection charts three projects by performance-makers who generate autobiographical writing by taking walks. It includes performance texts and photographs, as well as essays by the artists that discuss processes of development, writing and... -
Black Coffee Blues by Henry Rollins
RRP: £14.99£10.95'If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light, If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you.'Henry Rollins,... -
As If by Blake Morrison
RRP: £12.99£8.56"A remarkable, indispensable book" - Sunday Telegraph In 1993 toddler James Bulger was beaten to death by two ten-year-old-boys. In the wake of this brutal crime, came one of the most public and shocking trials in living memory. Written in... -
Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays by Camille Paglia 9780679741015
£14.81A collection of twenty of Paglia's out-spoken essays on contemporary issues in America's ongoing cultural debate such as Anita Hill, Robert Mapplethorpe, the beauty myth, and the decline of education in America.About the AuthorCamille Paglia is the... -
Essays by Plutarch
RRP: £14.99£11.41One of the greatest essayists of the Graeco-Roman world, Plutarch (c. AD 46 -120) used an encyclopedic knowledge of the Roman Empire to produce a compelling and individual voice. In this superb selection from his writings, he offers personal insights...