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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... -
Man Alone with Himself by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £7.99£5.79Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary thinkers in Western philosophy. Here he sets out his subversive views in a series of aphorisms on subjects ranging from art to arrogance, boredom to passion, science to vanity, rejecting conventional... -
On Solitude by Michel de Montaigne
RRP: £7.99£5.79Blending intellectual speculation with anecdote and personal reflection, the Renaissance thinker and writer Montaigne pioneered the modern essay. This selection contains his idiosyncratic and timeless writings on subjects as varied as the virtues of... -
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... -
Sidelines: Selected Prose 1962-2015 by Michael Longley 9781911253297
RRP: £30.00£21.35Michael 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... -
Cottongrass Summer: Essays of a naturalist throughout the year by Roy Dennis 9781912235889 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£3.49A 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... -
Cottongrass Summer: Essays of a naturalist throughout the year Roy Dennis 9781912235889
RRP: £9.99£6.80A 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: £14.99£12.55A.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... -
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... -
Histories: Bk.I-II by Herodotus
RRP: £24.95£23.39The "Father of History."Herodotus the great Greek historian was born about 484 BC, at Halicarnassus in Caria, Asia Minor, when it was subject to the Persians. He traveled widely in most of Asia Minor, Egypt (as far as Aswan), North Africa, Syria, the... -
Black and Female by Tsitsi Dangarembga
RRP: £10.99£7.32'A woman's defiant fight to write.' ObserverBeing categorised as black and female does not constrain my writing. Writing assures me that I am more the merely blackness and femaleness. Writing assures me I am.This paradigm shifting essay collection weaves... -
Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce Colm Toibin 9780241354421
RRP: £10.99£7.77An 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... -
Gray's Anatomy: Selected Writings by John Gray
RRP: £14.99£10.95'The most prescient of British public intellectuals' Pankaj Mishra, Financial TimesUpdated with a new foreword and two new chapters of John Gray's writing.Why is progress a pernicious myth? Why do beliefs that humanity can be improved end in farce or... -
Description of Greece: v. 5: Maps, Illustrations & Index by Pausanias
RRP: £24.95£23.39Antiquity'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, ... -
Having and Being Had by Eula Biss 9780571346431
RRP: £10.99£7.12'A major achievement.' CLAUDIA RANKINE'Endlessly absorbing.' SINEAD GLEESON 'A probing tour of capitalism and class.' MAGGIE NELSON'Exhilarating.' JENNY OFFILLA personal reckoning with the intricacies of money, class and capitalism from the New York... -
Street Haunting and Other Essays by Virginia Woolf
RRP: £12.99£9.09Virginia Woolf began writing reviews for the Guardian 'to make a few pence' from her father's death in 1904, and continued until the last decade of her life. The result is a phenomenal collection of articles, of which this selection offers a fascinating... -
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... -
Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut
RRP: £10.99£3.51First published on the anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut's death, Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of twelve new writings - a fitting tribute to the author, and an essential contribution to the discussion of war, peace and humanity's tendency towards... -
The Art of Voice: Poetic Principles and Practice by Tony Hoagland 9780393357912
RRP: £12.99£9.59In this accessible and distilled craft guide, acclaimed poet Tony Hoagland approaches poetry through the frame of poetic voice, that mysterious connective element that binds the speaker and reader together. A poem strong in the dimension of voice is an... -
Recessional: The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of the Free Lunch by David Mamet
RRP: £20.00£13.34NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!"Savagery appeased can only grow. Once you give in to it, it must escalate, like a fire searching for air."The man who won the Pulitzer Prize for GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS, who wrote the classic films THE VERDICT and WAG THE DOG... -
A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain
RRP: £12.99£9.49Twain'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... -
De Finibus by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95£23.39The philosopher-statesman on Epicureanism, Stoicism, and the Old Academy.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... -
Migraine by Oliver Sacks 9781529087413
RRP: £10.99£7.93'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... -
If This Isn't Nice, What Is? by Kurt Vonnegut
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies 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. -
In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction by Lee Gutkind 9780393326659
RRP: £14.99£14.83Creative nonfiction, also known as narrative nonfiction, liberated journalism by inviting writers to dramatize, interpret, speculate, and even re-create their subjects. Lee Gutkind collects twenty-five essays that flourished in this new turf, all... -
The New Nihilism by Peter Lamborn Wilson 9781937073725
RRP: £12.00£10.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937073725Author Peter Lamborn WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Bottle of Smoke PressPublisher Bottle of Smoke PressWeight(grams)... -
A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast Dorthe Nors 9781782277958
RRP: £16.99£12.28There 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... -
United States: Essays 1952-1992 by Gore Vidal 9780349105246 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.29Gore Vidal's reputation as America's finest essayist is an enduring one. This collection, chosen by the author from 40 years of work, contains about two-thirds of what he published in various magazines and journals. He has divided the essays into three... -
United States: Essays 1952-1992 by Gore Vidal
RRP: £16.99£12.54Gore Vidal's reputation as America's finest essayist is an enduring one. This collection, chosen by the author from 40 years of work, contains about two-thirds of what he published in various magazines and journals. He has divided the essays into three... -
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,... -
Selected Essays, Poems and Other Writings by A. S. Byatt
RRP: £14.99£10.95The works collected in this volume provide an illuminating introduction to George Eliot's incisive views on religion, art and science, and the nature and purpose of fiction. Essays such as 'Evangelical Teaching' show her rejecting her earlier religious... -
Russian Thinkers by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: £10.99£7.77Few, if any, English-language critics have written as perceptively as Isaiah Berlin about Russian thought and culture. Russian Thinkers is his unique meditation on the impact that Russia's outstanding writers and philosophers had on its culture. In... -
What are We Doing Here? by Marilynne Robinson
RRP: £10.99£6.47New essays by the Women's Prize and Pulitzer Prize winning author of Gilead, Home and Lila. In this collection, Marilynne Robinson impels us to action and offers us hope.'Grace and intelligence ...[her work] defines universal truths about what it means... -
Return of the Primitive: the Anti-Industrial Revolution: The Anti-Industrial Revolution by Peter Schwartz 9780452011847
£14.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452011847Author Ayn RandFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
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... -
The Book About Everything: Eighteen Artists, Writers and Thinkers on James Joyce's Ulysses by Declan Kiberd
RRP: £10.99£7.12To celebrate the centenary of the publication of Ulysses, the most important literary work of the twentieth century, eighteen artists, writers and thinkers respond to an episode each of the great modernist text. Each essayist is an expert in one of... -
Why Read: Selected Writings 2001 - 2021 by Will Self
RRP: £16.99£12.28'Will Self may not be the last modernist at work but at the moment he's the most fascinating of the tradition's torch bearers.' New YorkFrom one of the most unusual and distinctive writers working today, dubbed 'the most daring and delightful novelist of... -
black girl, no magic: essays and reflections on living whilst black by Kimberly McIntosh
RRP: £16.99£11.27'This book is a glowing achievement by one of the best essayists of her generation' Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff 'Witty, fresh and full of life' Liv Little 'I can't... -
That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
RRP: £18.99£14.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593761950Author Mattilda Bernstein SycamoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher Soft Skull PressWeight(grams) 446g -
Aurochs and Auks: Essays on mortality and extinction John Burnside 9781908213891
RRP: £14.00£13.78Aurochs 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...