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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... -
Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System by Sonya Huber
RRP: £13.99£12.59Rate your pain on a scale of one to ten. What about on a scale of spicy to citrus? Is it more like a lava lamp or a mosaic? Pain, though a universal element of human experience, is dimly understood and sometimes barely managed. Pain Woman Takes Your... -
We Have Only This Life To Live Jean-Paul Sartre 9781590174937
RRP: £23.00£15.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590174937Author Jean-Paul SartreFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
MFA vs NYC: The Two Cultures of American Fiction by Chad Harbach 9780865478138
RRP: £24.00£14.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865478138Author Chad HarbachFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)... -
How Should One Read a Book? Virginia Woolf 9781786277527
RRP: £7.99£5.60'Where are we to begin? How are we to bring order into this multitudinous chaos and so get the deepest and widest pleasure from what we read?'Published for the first time as a standalone volume, Virginia Woolf's short, impassioned essay, How Should One... -
Seduction and Betrayal by Elizabeth Hardwick 9780571347001
RRP: £10.99£7.32ONE OF THE WHITE REVIEW'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019Elizabeth Hardwick's iconic essay collection Seduction and Betrayal is a radical portrait of women and literature, reissued with a new introduction by Deborah Levy.'Hardwick's sentences are burned in my brain.'... -
Walk in My Combat Boots: True Stories from the Battlefront by James Patterson 9781529135305
RRP: £16.99£11.27'This book will take your breath away, break your heart, and leave you in awe' President Bill Clinton_______Soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines speak in their own words about real life in today's armed forces. These are the brutally honest stories... -
Not to Read by Alejandro Zambra
RRP: £12.99£8.56In Not to Read, Alejandro Zambra outlines his own particular theory of reading that also offers a kind of blurry self-portrait, or literary autobiography. Whether writing about Natalia Ginzburg, typewriters and computers, Paul Leautaud, or how to be... -
For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: £12.99£8.56The global turmoil of the late 1980s and early 1990s severely tested every analyst and commentator. Few wrote with such insight as Christopher Hitchens about the large events - or with such discernment and wit about the small tell-tale signs of a... -
Chronicles of a Liquid Society by Umberto Eco
RRP: £12.99£9.09Discover the final book from one of Europe's cultural giants.In this entertaining collection of essays about the modern world the celebrated author of The Name of the Rose explores everything from unbridled individualism to mobile phones.'He brilliantly... -
Frantumaglia by Elena Ferrante
RRP: £11.99£7.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609454326Author Elena FerranteFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint Europa EditionsPublisher Europa Editions -
Granta 165: Deutschland by Thomas Meaney 9781909889590
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909889590Author Thomas MeaneyFormat PaperbackImprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 145mm * 20mm -
100 Days by Gabriel Josipovici 9781800172036
RRP: £19.99£14.04When in March 2020 the Covid pandemic led the Government to impose a total lockdown Gabriel Josipovici decided that he would respond to a unique situation by writing an essay a day for a hundred days, prefacing each with a diary entry, keeping track of... -
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror by Joe Vallese
RRP: £18.99£16.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952177798Author Joe ValleseFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The City... -
Alchemy: Writers on Truth, Lies and Fiction by Joanna Kavenna 9781910749166
RRP: £14.99£13.64Reality versus fiction is at the heart of the current literary debate. We live in a world of docu-drama, the 'real life' story. Works of art, novels, films, are frequently bolstered by reference to the autobiography of the creator, or to underlying 'fact... -
The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake by William Blake 9780520256378
£31.90Since its first publication in 1965, this collection has been widely hailed as the best available text of William Blake's poetry and prose. It is now expanded to include a new foreword by Harold Bloom, his definitive statement on Blake's greatness.About... -
Why I Write by George Orwell 9781913724290
RRP: £5.00£4.42George Orwell set out 'to make political writing into an art', and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature - his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding... -
Kurt Vonnegut: Letters by Kurt Vonnegut
RRP: £14.99£10.95This collection of Vonnegut's letters is the autobiography he never wrote - from the letter he posted home upon being freed from a German POW camp, to notes of advice to his children: 'Don't let anybody tell you that smoking and boozing are bad for you... -
Black is the Body: Stories From My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine by Emily Bernard
RRP: £14.99£9.53A New Statesman essential non-fiction read of 2021'Everybody should read [this]' Stylist"Blackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays, but its... -
I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz by Eve Babitz
RRP: £17.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681373799Author Eve BabitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Still Life with a Bridle by Zbigniew Herbert 9781907903496
RRP: £12.00£9.72A gathering of artful essays by one of Poland's most translated post-war writers is here brought to a new audience. Poet and essayist Zbigniew Herbert takes an intriguing look at the cultural, artistic, and aesthetic legacy of 17th-century Holland. These... -
Visions Of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939 by Georges Bataille
RRP: £19.99£17.54Since the publication of Visions of Excess in 1985, there has been an explosion of interest in the work of Georges Bataille. The French surrealist continues to be important for his groundbreaking focus on the visceral, the erotic, and the relation of... -
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... -
Memory Theatre by Simon Critchley
RRP: £10.99£7.32A French philosopher dies during a savage summer heat wave. Boxes carrying his unpublished miscellany mysteriously appear in Simon Critchley's office. Rooting through piles of papers, Critchley discovers a brilliant text on the ancient art of memory and... -
Suetonius: Vol 1 by Suetonius
RRP: £24.95£23.23Antiquity's imperial biographer par excellence.Suetonius (C. Suetonius Tranquillus, born ca. AD 70), son of a military tribune, was at first an advocate and a teacher of rhetoric, but later became the emperor Hadrian's private secretary, 119-121. He... -
The Voyage of Argo by Apollonius Rhodes 9780140440850
RRP: £12.99£9.80Written in the third century BC in Alexandria, this is the only full surviving account of Jason's legendary quest for the Golden Fleece. It describes the thrilling adventures of the Argonauts on their voyage to Colchis to plead with king Aeetes for the... -
Wilderness Essays John Muir 9781423607120
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423607120Author John MuirFormat HardbackPage Count 263Imprint Gibbs M. Smith IncPublisher Gibbs M. Smith IncWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 222mm *... -
Testaments Betrayed by Milan Kundera
RRP: £10.99£7.32Kundera's essay has been written like a novel. In the course of nine separate sections, the same characters meet and cross paths with each other. Stravinsky and Kafka with their odd friends Ansermet and Brod; Hemingway with his biographer; Janacek with... -
Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination by Adam Shatz
RRP: £25.00£20.58Through a close reading of the lives and works of some of the greatest intellectuals of recent times, Adam Shatz asks: do writers have an ethical imperative to question injustice? How can one remain a dispassionate thinker when involved in the cut and... -
Selected Essays by Samuel Johnson
RRP: £14.99£10.95This volume contains a generous selection from the essays Johnson published twice weekly as 'The Rambler' in the early 1750s. It was here that he first created the literary character and forged the distinctive prose style that established him as a public... -
Hands: An Anxious Mind Unpicked by Lauren Brown 9780008465766
RRP: £12.99£11.78'Raw, intense and absorbing.' Matt Haig 'As tender and funny as it is painful.' TLS 'I didn't give my hands much thought before they turned against me. ... They have... -
The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays by Helen Keller
RRP: £5.99£4.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486473673Author Helen KellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions by Alberto Manguel
RRP: £11.99£10.15A best-selling author and world-renowned bibliophile meditates on his vast personal library and champions the vital role of all libraries."The author brings a fresh hopefulness to the enterprise of books and reading. Vintage Manguel-a pleasure for his... -
De Inventione; De Optimo Genere Oratorum; Topica by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95£23.39Three rhetorical treatises.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 rise, dictatorship, ... -
The Storyteller Essays by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681370583Author Walter BenjaminFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Thrill Me: Essays on Fiction by Benjamin Percy 9781555977597
RRP: £14.99£10.32In his first book of nonfiction, Benjamin Percy challenges the notion that literary and genre fiction are mutually exclusive. In fifteen essays on the craft of fiction, Percy looks to disparate sources to discover how contemporary writers engage issues... -
The Education of a British-Protected Child by Chinua Achebe
RRP: £9.99£7.11The pieces here span reflections on personal and collective identity, on home and family, on literature, language and politics, and on Achebe's lifelong attempt to reclaim the definition of 'Africa' for its own authorship. For the first thirty years of... -
Winter: Five Windows on the Season Adam Gopnik 9781780874470
RRP: £12.99£7.51Winter takes us on an intimate tour of the artists, poets, composers, writers, explorers, scientists and thinkers who helped shape a new and modern idea of winter. We learn how literature heralds the arrival of the middle class; how snow science leads to... -
When Einstein Walked with Goedel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought by Jim Holt 9780374538422
RRP: £20.00£12.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374538422Author Jim HoltFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)... -
Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach 9780140443615
RRP: £12.99£9.09Composed in the early thirteenth century, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival is the re-creation and completion of the story left unfinished by its initiator Chretien de Troyes. It follows Parzival from his boyhood and career as a knight in the court of...