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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,... -
Pensees by Blaise Pascal
RRP: £12.99£9.09A passionate defence of religious faith by the great seventeenth-century philosopher, mathematician and physicistBlaise Pascal was the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon... -
Migraine by Oliver Sacks 9781529087413
RRP: £10.99£7.71'A mine of treasures, a source of visions, a microcosm of human experience and suffering, the philosopher's stone: Migraine is a remarkable achievement' - Sunday Telegraph. Migraine is an age-old - the first recorded instances date back over two thousand... -
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison
RRP: £19.00£7.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525562795Author Toni MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Tales of Belkin and Other Prose Writings by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
RRP: £12.99£9.09Alexander Pushkin was Russia's first true literary genius. Best known for his poetry, he also wrote sparkling prose that revealed his national culture with elegance and understated humour. Here, his gift for portraying the Russian people is fully... -
In Writing by Adam Phillips
RRP: £10.99£7.77Acclaimed 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... -
The River of Consciousness by Oliver Sacks
RRP: £18.99£13.61Two weeks before his death, Oliver Sacks outlined the contents of The River of Consciousness, the last book he would oversee. The bestselling author of On the Move, Musicophilia, and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Sacks is known for his... -
Poetry and Photography by Yves Bonnefoy
RRP: £12.99£11.46The international community of letters mourns the recent death of Yves Bonnefoy, universally acclaimed as one of France's greatest poets of the last half-century. A prolific author, he was often considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize and published a... -
On Being Blue by William H. Gass
RRP: £8.99£6.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590177181Author William H. GassFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
One Way and Another: New and Selected Essays by Adam Phillips
RRP: £12.99£9.09A selection of the most popular and relevant essays from Adam Phillips, the man New Yorker called 'Britain's foremost psychoanalytic writer' 'Phillips's prose is poetic in the best sense: it is muscular, resonant, and thrums with a dark music that is... -
Whatever It Is, I Don't Like It by Howard Jacobson
RRP: £12.99£9.09_______________ '[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... -
Voyager: Constellations of Memory by Nona Fernandez
RRP: £9.99£6.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914198441Author Nona FernandezFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books -
The Paris Review Interviews: Vol. 3 by Philip Gourevitch
RRP: £14.99£9.80Since The Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest writers of our age, vivid self-portraits that are themselves works of finely-crafted literature. The magazine has spoken with most of the world's... -
Moranifesto by Caitlin Moran
RRP: £14.99£10.95'I've lived through ten iOS upgrades on my Mac - and that's just something I use to muck about on Twitter. Surely capitalism is due an upgrade or two?'When Caitlin Moran sat down to choose her favourite pieces for her new book she realised that they all... -
I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood by Jessi Klein 9780062981608
RRP: £12.99£8.48An instant New York Times bestseller, I'll Show Myself Out is the eagerly anticipated second essay collection from Jessi Klein, author of the acclaimed debut You'll Grow Out of It.Longlisted for the PEN Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the... -
History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil by Jean De Lery
RRP: £27.00£20.63When the famous anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss arrived in Rio de Janeiro, he had one book in his pocket: "Jean de Lery's History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil". Lery had undertaken his fascinating and arduous voyage in 1556, as a youthful member... -
The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them by Antonia Fraser
RRP: £14.99£10.95The inspiration for the annual Pleasure of Reading Prize A charming and revealing collection of essays from some of our best-loved writers about the pleasures of reading, with royalties donated to the Give a Book charity In this delightful... -
Letters: v. 1: Bks.I-VII by Pliny the Younger
RRP: £24.95£22.92Correspondence from a distinguished and eventful life.The Younger Pliny was born in AD 61 or 62, the son of Lucius Caecilius of Comum (Como) and the Elder Pliny's sister. He was educated at home and then in Rome under Quintilian. He was at Misenum at the... -
Prisoners of Time: Prussians, Germans and Other Humans by Christopher Clark
RRP: £10.99£7.77An intellectual tour de force: the major essays of the esteemed author of international bestseller The Sleepwalkers Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers has become one of the most influential history books of our century: a remarkable rethinking of the... -
Aurochs and Auks: Essays on life, loss and renewal by John Burnside 9781908213891
RRP: £14.00£9.76Aurochs and Auks is a deeply moving and intelligent meditation on the natural processes of death and extinction, renewal and continuity. Prompted by his own near-death in a time of pandemic, John Burnside explores the history of the auroch (Bos... -
The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick by Darryl Pinckney
RRP: £23.00£15.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681371542Author Darryl PinckneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,... -
OK, Let's Do Your Stupid Idea by Patrick Freyne
RRP: £8.99£6.45LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2021'One of the year's funniest books' i Paper'Funny, smart, soulful and sometimes devastating ... It made me laugh and cry' EMILIE PINE, author of Notes to Self_______________Patrick Freyne has tried a lot of... -
The Best American Essays 2023 by Vivian Gornick 9780063288843
RRP: £14.99£9.70A collection of the year’s best essays, selected by award-winning writer Vivian Gornick.Vivian Gornick, renowned essayist and celebrated feminist writer, selects twenty essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the... -
Three Complete Novels: Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings by Marquis de Sade
RRP: £18.99£13.61Here, in one volume, are three major novels by the Marquis de Sade, including the only authentic and complete British edition of his most famous work JUSTINE: one of his most daring works, PHILOSOPHY IN THE BEDROOM: and the eighteenth-century... -
Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin by Clive James 9781529028850
RRP: £9.99£7.06Erudite and entertaining in equal measure, Somewhere Becoming Rain is a love letter from the much-loved writer Clive James to one of the world's most cherished poets: Philip Larkin.'This is the finest critic of his generation on the best poet of his... -
The Virago Book Of Women Travellers by Mary Morris
RRP: £12.99£8.60Some of the extraordinary women whose writings are including in this collection are observers of the world in which they wander; their prose rich in description, remarkable in detail. Mary McCarthy conveys the vitality of Florence while Willa Cather's... -
Some Thoughts on the Common Toad by George Orwell
RRP: £7.99£5.79In this collection of eight witty and sharply written essays, Orwell looks at, among others, the joys of spring (even in London), the picture of humanity painted by Gulliver and his travels, and the strange benefit of the doubt that the public permit... -
My Invented Country: A Memoir by Isabel Allende 9780007163106
RRP: £10.99£7.25The life story of Isabel Allende - one of the world's favourite writers - is as exotic, passionate and inspiring as one of her novels. Just three when her parents divorced, Isabel Allende was raised in her grandparents' home in Chile. She left... -
The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs by William S. Burroughs
RRP: £12.99£9.09William Burroughs' work was dedicated to an assault upon language, traditional values and all agents of control. Produced at a time when he was at his most extreme and messianic, The Job lays out his abrasive, incisive, paranoiac, maddened and maddening... -
How Far You Have Come: Musings on Beauty and Courage by Morgan Harper Nichols
RRP: £13.99£9.75In the midst of the hurt and the mundane, the questions and the not yets, you can forget just how far you have come. This illustrated collection of poetry and essays invites you to reclaim moments of brokenness, division, and pain and re-envision them as... -
Antlers of Water: Writing on the Nature and Environment of Scotland by Kathleen Jamie 9781786899811
RRP: £10.99£7.32'Luminous' The Times'Beautiful' Caught by the RiverBringing together contemporary Scottish writing on nature and landscape, this inspiring collection takes us from walking to wild swimming, from red deer to pigeons and wasps, from remote islands to back... -
We, the Heartbroken by Gargi Bhattacharyya
£12.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914221163Author Gargi BhattacharyyaFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Hajar PressPublisher Hajar Press -
A Year and a Day: An Experiment in Essays by Phillip Lopate 9781681377780
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681377780Author Phillip LopateFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Selected Journalism 1850-1870 by Charles Dickens
RRP: £16.99£12.28A testament to the energy and creativity of a writer and journalist without equal, Charles Dickens's Selected Journalism 1850-1870 is edited with an introduction and notes by David Pascoe in Penguin Classics.Throughout his writing career Charles Dickens... -
Peacock and Vine: Fortuny and Morris in Life and at Work by A. S. Byatt
RRP: £16.99£12.28This ravishing book opens a window onto the lives, designs, and passions of two charismatic artists. Born a generation apart, they were seeming opposites: Mariano Fortuny, a Spanish aristocrat thrilled by the sun-baked cultures of Crete and Knossos;... -
Living Rooms by Sam Johnson-Schlee 9781913512194
RRP: £10.99£7.46"Today the ideal home remains a site of illusory ease, a space that can be wiped clean of the residues of living..." In this radical and elegiac essay, Sam Johnson-Schlee invites readers to consider the dreams and fantasies we have about our... -
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... -
Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism and Minding Other People's Business by Roxane Gay 9781472158635
RRP: £25.00£16.38'Gay has an ability to blend the personal and political in a way that feels simultaneously gentle and brutal . . . you look at a cultural moment through Gay's eyes and, by the end, you see the world differently' Arwa Mahdawi, GuardianSince the... -
Tropical Classical: Essays from Several Directions by Pico Iyer 9780679776109
RRP: £22.00£15.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679776109Author Pico IyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 134mm... -
A Modest Proposal and Other Writings by Jonathan Swift
RRP: £10.99£7.77The Penguin Classics edition of Jonathan Swift's savagely satirical A Modest Proposal and Other Writings is edited with an introduction and notes by Carol Fabricant.To ease poverty in Ireland by eating the children of the poor was the satirical...