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The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick by Darryl Pinckney
RRP: $29.67$20.09Apologies 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,... -
Beauty and the Inferno by Oonagh Stransky 9780857050106
RRP: $14.18$9.55Roberto Saviano is best known for his work on the Italian mafia, but Beauty and the Inferno, winner of the European Book Award 2010, also tackles universal themes with great insight and humanity, with urgency, and often with anger. This important... -
Three Complete Novels: Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings by Marquis de Sade
RRP: $24.50$17.56Here, 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... -
The Virago Book Of Women Travellers. Mary Morris 9781860492129
RRP: $16.76$11.09Some 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... -
The Nicomachean Ethics: Vol 19 by Aristotle
RRP: $32.19$30.17Antiquity's most influential account of life's Supreme Good.Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-347);... -
A Year and a Day: An Experiment in Essays Phillip Lopate 9781681377780
RRP: $21.92$14.89Apologies 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 -
Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin by Clive James 9781529028850
RRP: $12.89$9.38Erudite 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... -
Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism and Minding Other People's Business Roxane Gay 9781472158635
RRP: $32.25$21.13'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... -
Nothing Good Can Come from This: Essays by Kristi Coulter 9780374286200
RRP: $15.47$9.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374286200Author Kristi CoulterFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)... -
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke 9780872202160
RRP: $18.05$15.26Includes generous selections from the Essay, topically arranged passages from the replies to Stillingfleet, a chronology, a bibliography, a glossary, and an index based on the entries that Locke himself devised.About the AuthorJohn Locke (1632-1704) was... -
Peacock and Vine: Fortuny and Morris in Life and at Work A S Byatt 9781784740801
RRP: $21.92$15.84This 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;... -
An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
RRP: $28.32$24.34During the past twenty years, the world's most renowned critical theorist-the scholar who defined the field of postcolonial studies-has experienced a radical reorientation in her thinking. Finding the neat polarities of tradition and modernity, colonial... -
Living Rooms by Sam Johnson-Schlee 9781913512194
RRP: $14.18$9.55"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... -
What If We Stopped Pretending? by Jonathan Franzen
RRP: $10.31$6.98The climate crisis is here. Our chance to stop it has come and gone, but this doesn't have to mean the world is ending. 'If you care about the planet, and about the people and animals who live on it, there are two... -
A View from the Stars by Cixin Liu 9781035908585
RRP: $25.80$18.43'We’re mysterious aliens in the crowd. We jump like fleas from future to past and back again, and float like clouds of gas between nebulae; in a flash, we can reach the edge of the universe, or tunnel into a quark, or swim within a star-core... We’re as... -
Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Icelandic Stories by Hermann Palsson
RRP: $16.76$11.73Written around the thirteenth century AD by Icelandic monks, the seven tales collected here offer a combination of pagan elements tightly woven into the pattern of Christian ethics. They take as their subjects figures who are heroic, but do not fit into... -
The Explorers: Stories of Discovery and Adventure from the Australian Frontier by Tim Flannery
RRP: $16.76$16.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802137197Author Tim FlanneryFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
Voyager: Constellations of Memory by Nona Fernandez
RRP: $12.89$8.41Apologies 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 -
Reveries of the Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
RRP: $12.89$9.17After a period of forced exile and solitary wandering brought about by his radical views on religion and politics, Jean-Jacques Rousseau returned to Paris in 1770. Here, in the last two years of his life, he wrote his final work, the Reveries. In this... -
Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, 5-Volume Set by Gavin Van Horn
RRP: $109.65$71.01*2022 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal Winner: Ecology & Environment *2022 Nautilus Book Award Special Honors as Best of Anthology For readers of Braiding Sweetgrass and The Overstory From The Center for Humans and Nature, a collection in five... -
The Essential Goethe by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 9780691181042
RRP: $36.12$25.62The most comprehensive one-volume collection of Goethe's writings ever published in EnglishThe Essential Goethe is the most comprehensive and representative one-volume collection of Goethe's writings ever published in English. It provides... -
Rome Stories by Jonathan Keates 9781841596228
RRP: $14.18$10.02During its three-thousand-year history Rome has been an imperial metropolis, the capital of a nation and the spiritual core of a great world religion. For writers from antiquity to the present, however, the place holds an alternative significance... -
Notes on the Death of Culture: Essays on Spectacle and Society by Mario Vargas Llosa
RRP: $19.34$12.64'The most approachable and exhilarating Latin American writer of our times.' Robert McCrum, ObserverIn the past, culture was a kind of vital consciousness that constantly rejuvenated and revivified everyday reality. Now it is largely a mechanism of... -
The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them by Antonia Fraser 9781408859629 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.34$2.95The 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... -
The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them by Antonia Fraser
RRP: $19.34$14.13The 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... -
George MacDonald by C. S. Lewis
RRP: $12.89$9.37An 365-day anthology of readings from one of the most influential writers of all time, George MacDonald, compiled by CS Lewis himself. MacDonald was a major Christian writer of the late nineteenth, early twentieth centuries. He influenced... -
Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: $16.76$10.73Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays showcases the Hitchens' rejection of consensus and cliche, whether he's reporting from abroad in Indonesia, Kurdistan, Iraq, North Korea, or Cuba, or when his pen is targeted mercilessly at the likes of... -
OK, Let's Do Your Stupid Idea by Patrick Freyne
RRP: $11.60$8.32LONGLISTED 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... -
Histories: Bk. VIII-IX by Herodotus
RRP: $32.19$30.17The "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... -
Demosthenes, Speeches 50-59 by Victor Bers
RRP: $25.79$22.63This is the sixth volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries BC in new translations prepared by classical scholars who are at the forefront of the discipline... -
A Whore's Profession: Notes and Essays by David Mamet
RRP: $25.80$17.36A Whore's Profession brings together, for the first time, David Mamet's acclaimed volumes of notes and essays, including, The Cabin, Writing in Restaurants, Some Freaks and On Directing Film. Poignant, intimate, insightful and witty by turns, these... -
Birdsplaining: A Natural History: 2023 by Jasmine Donahaye
$17.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913830168Author Jasmine DonahayeFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint New Welsh RarebytePublisher New Welsh Review LtdDimensions(mm) 200mm * 135mm * 7mm -
Campo Santo by W. G. Sebald
RRP: $12.89$9.17Campo Santo is a collection of essays by W. G. SebaldWhen W.G. Sebald died tragically in 2001 a unique voice was silenced. Campo Santo is a collection of the pieces he left behind - none of them previously published in book form - which provide a... -
Italian Hours by Henry James
RRP: $14.18$10.02'The charm of certain vacant grassy spaces, in Italy, overfrowned by masses of brickwork that are honeycombed by the suns of centuries, is something that I hereby renounce once for all the attempt to express; but you may be sure that whenever I mention... -
Self-Help by Samuel Smiles
RRP: $12.89$9.17'The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the true source of national vigour and strength.' A bestseller immediately after its publication in 1859, Self-Help... -
The Art of Poetry: AQA Love Poems Through the Ages by James Browning 9780993077890
RRP: $15.47$14.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993077890Author James BrowningFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Peripeteia PressPublisher Peripeteia PressWeight(grams) 231g -
One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter: Essays by Scaachi Koul 9781250121028
RRP: $21.93$12.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250121028Author Scaachi KoulFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 20mm -
London Peculiar and Other Nonfiction by Michael Moorcock 9781854251060
RRP: $12.90$10.64Drawn from over 50 years of writing, this anthology includes Michael Moorcock's most recent work and writings from sources now unobtainable, including: 'London Peculiar', an impassioned statement of Moorcock's memories of wartime London and the... -
Victorian Women Poets by Alison Chapman
RRP: $83.85$79.27Specially commissioned essays offer revisionary readings of canonical poets and bring into focus rediscovered writers. The specially commissioned essays in Victorian Women Poets, written by scholars from Britain and North America, offer revisionary... -
Things that Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science by Lorraine J. Daston
RRP: $28.38$23.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951443Author Lorraine J. DastonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...