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The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time by Will Durant 9780743235532
RRP: $25.71$16.06In this remarkable little book, Will Durant answers the questions that most people would have wanted to ask him - what are the conclusions he drew from the experience of a long lifetime; what eras, individuals, and achievements stand out as being the... -
Ways of Life: On Places, Painters and Poets by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: $32.57$22.01Andrew Motion was appointed Poet Laureate in 1999, but alongside his work as a poet he also had a significant career as a prize-winning biographer and an illuminating critic. Ways of Life celebrates this talent with a selection of his articles about... -
Mother Reader: Essential Writings on Motherhood by Moyra Davey
RRP: $30.86$20.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583220726Author Moyra DaveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 345Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 518g -
Tabula Rasa: Volume 1 by John McPhee 9780374603601
RRP: $39.43$26.74A 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... -
This Little Art by Kate Briggs
RRP: $22.28$14.68An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs's This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading, writing and living with the works of others. Taking... -
Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino
RRP: $17.14$12.20'Words connect the visible track to the invisible thing ... like a fragile makeshift bridge cast across the void'With imagination and wit, Italo Calvino sought to define the virtues of the great literature of the past in order to shape the values of... -
I Choose Elena by Lucia Osborne-Crowley
RRP: $15.42$10.74Aged 15 and on track to be an Olympic gymnast, Lucia Osborne-Crowley was violently raped on a night out. The injuries she sustained that evening ended her gymnastics career, and eventually manifested in life-long chronic illnesses, which medical... -
De Re Rustica: v. 1: Bks.I-IV by Columella
RRP: $42.80$39.31A 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 service... -
Letters concerning the English Nation by Voltaire 9780199555321
RRP: $17.14$12.20Inspired by Voltaire's two-year stay in England (1726-8), this is one of the key works of the Enlightment. Exactly contemporary with Gulliver's Travels and The Beggar's Opera, Voltaire's controversial pronouncements on politics, philosophy, religion, and... -
The Three Dimensions of Freedom by Billy Bragg
RRP: $10.29$7.26At a time when opinion trumps facts and truth is treated as nothing more than another perspective, free speech has become a battleground. While authoritarians and algorithms threaten democracy, we argue over who has the right to speak.To protect... -
Mencken Chrestomathy by H. L. Mencken
RRP: $34.31$26.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394752099Author H.L. MenckenFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 527gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Can't and Won't by Lydia Davis
RRP: $17.14$12.20Can't and Won't is the new collection from Lydia Davis, one of the greatest short story writers alive.WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2013Lydia Davis has been universally acclaimed for the wit, insight and genre-defying formal inventiveness... -
How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart by Florentyna Leow
RRP: $15.42$10.8820-something and uncertain about her future, Florentyna Leow is exhilarated when an old acquaintance offers her an opportunity for work and cohabitation in a little house in the hills of Kyoto. Florentyna begins a new job as a tour guide, taking... -
The Groundings with My Brothers by Walter Rodney 9781788731157
$17.96In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean. In each locale,... -
Inciting Joy: Essays by Ross Gay 9781399716291
RRP: $29.14$19.79A collection of gorgeously written and timely pieces in which prize-winning poet and author Ross Gay considers the joy we incite when we care for each other, especially during life's inevitable hardships.In "We Kin" he thinks about the garden (especially... -
A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain
RRP: $22.28$16.28Twain's account of travelling in Europe, A TRAMP ABROAD (1880), sparkles with the author's shrewd observations and highly opinionated comments on Old World culture, and showcases his unparalleled ability to integrate humorous sketches, autobiographical... -
Mary Shelley by Miranda Seymour 9781471174155
RRP: $25.71$16.74'The most dazzling biography of a female writer to have come my way for a decade...' - Financial Times'To be savoured for its vivid and sympathetic recreation of the tragic life and brilliant times of the gifted Mary Shelley' - Times Literary Supplement... -
P.G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters by P. G. Wodehouse
RRP: $34.31$24.51'Wodehouse said letters make "a wonderful oblique form for an autobiography," and Sophie Ratcliffe's expertly edited collection amply proves the point.'SpectatorOne of the funniest and most admired writers of the twentieth century, P. G. Wodehouse always... -
Essays by Lydia Davis
RRP: $34.31$25.20From the International Man Booker Prize-winning author of Can't and Won't and The End of the Story - a crystalline collection of literary essays for fans of Susan Sontag and Joan Didion'She's a joy. There's no writer quite like her' Ali Smith 'Among my... -
Goodbye, Again: Essays, Reflections, and Illustrations by Jonny Sun
RRP: $22.28$15.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062880857Author Jonny SunFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 454g -
We Must Learn to Sit Down Together and Talk About a Little Culture: Decolonizing Essays, 1967-1984 by Sylvia Wynter
RRP: $68.59$48.53The beginnings of the anti-colonial struggle in Jamaica coincided with the childhood and early adolescence of Sylvia Wynter, providing the motivation for this, the first phase of her important body of work. The essays and articles collected here go... -
Sidelines: Selected Prose 1962-2015 by Michael Longley 9781911253297
RRP: $51.46$36.62Michael Longley's prose centres on poetry. This is so, even when he is writing autobiographically, or reflecting on war and memory, or enthusing about music and painting. Since Longley writes relatively little criticism, readers of his poetry have lacked... -
De Re Metallica by G. Agricola 9780486600062
RRP: $72.03$50.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486600062Author G. AgricolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Description of Greece: v. 5: Maps, Illustrations & Index by Pausanias
RRP: $42.80$39.31Antiquity's original travel guide.Pausanias, born probably in Lydia in Asia Minor, was a Greek of the second century AD, about 120-180, who traveled widely not only in Asia Minor, Palestine, Egypt, and North Africa, but also in Greece and in Italy, ... -
Image and Imagination: Essays and Reviews by C. S. Lewis 9781107639270
RRP: $29.14$26.64This selection from the writings of C. S. Lewis gathers together forty book reviews, never before reprinted, as well as four major essays which have been unavailable for many decades. A fifth essay, 'Image and Imagination', is published for the first... -
What Happened? by Hanif Kureishi
RRP: $18.85$13.53'No one else casts such a shrewd and gimlet eye on contemporary life.' - William BoydComic, dark and insightful, What Happened? is Hanif Kureishi's new collection of essays and fiction. No topic is too fringe or too mainstream for this insatiable-and... -
Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991 by Salman Rushdie
RRP: $22.28$15.59Drawing from two political and several literary homelands, this collection presents a remarkable series of trenchant essays, demonstrating the full range and force of Salman Rushdie's remarkable imaginative and observational powers. With candour,... -
Pragmatism and Other Writings by William James
RRP: $18.85$13.33The writings of William James represent one of America's most original contributions to the history of ideas. Ranging from philosophy and psychology to religion and politics, James composed the most engaging formulation of American pragmatism. ... -
Pharmako-AI by K Allado-McDowell
RRP: $24.00$16.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838003906Author K Allado-McDowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Ignota BooksPublisher Ignota Books -
Granta 8: Dirty Realism by William Boyd 9780140068696
RRP: $29.14$26.48Dirty Realism is the fiction of a new generation of American authors. They write about the belly-side of contemporary life - a deserted husband, an unwed mother, a car thief, a pickpocket, a drug addict - but they write about it with a disturbing... -
Cheating at Canasta by William Trevor
RRP: $27.43$19.91Cheating at Canasta - an outstanding collection of stories by the master storyteller William Trevor'There is no better short story writer in the English-speaking world' Wall Street Journal''No matter what,' Julia had said, aware then of what was coming,... -
Cottongrass Summer: Essays of a naturalist throughout the year by Roy Dennis
RRP: $17.14$11.66A collection of vibrant essays to inform, stimulate and inspire every nature lover. Through unparallelled expertise as a field naturalist, Roy Dennis is able to write about the natural world in a way that considers both the problems and the progress in... -
Happy Half Hours by A.A. Milne
RRP: $25.71$21.34A.A. Milne, best known as the author of the classic Winnie-the-Pooh stories, was a successful writer long before his children's stories launched him to overnight success. Milne himself disliked being relegated as a children's author. At the age of... -
Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce by Colm Toibin
RRP: $18.85$13.33An intimate study of three of Ireland's greatest writers from one of its best-loved contemporary voices, Colm Toibin__________________In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Toibin takes three of Ireland's greatest writers - Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats and James... -
Last Letter to a Reader by Gerald Murnane
RRP: $20.57$14.22In the first days of spring in his eighty-second year, Gerald Murnane - perhaps the greatest living writer of English prose - began a project that would round off his strange career as a novelist. He would read all of his books in turn and prepare a... -
Tracing Time: A Season with Rock Art on the Colorado Plateau by Craig Childs 9781948814577
RRP: $32.50$18.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards (Regional Book) 2022.Book InformationISBN 9781948814577Author Craig ChildsFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Torrey... -
If This Isn't Nice, What Is? by Kurt Vonnegut
RRP: $25.71$16.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609806101Author Kurt VonnegutFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
The David Foster Wallace Reader by David Foster Wallace
RRP: $29.14$21.75'One of the most dazzling luminaries of contemporary American fiction' Sunday Times 'The most commanding and exciting and inventive rhetorical virtuosity of any writer alive... [He] nailed it like nobody else ever had' Jonathan Franzen'[He was] first... -
The London Scene by Hermione Lee
RRP: $18.85$12.56Apologies 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 -
A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast by Dorthe Nors 9781782277958
RRP: $29.14$19.86There is a line that stretches from the northernmost tip of Denmark to where the Wadden Sea meets Holland in the south-west. Dorthe Nors, one of Denmark's most acclaimed contemporary writers, grew up on this line; a native Jutlander, her childhood was...