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The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them by Antonia Fraser 9781408859629 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.71$6.04Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Best American Essays 2023 by Vivian Gornick 9780063288843
RRP: $25.71$16.64A 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: $32.57$23.35Here, 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... -
History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil by Jean De Lery
RRP: $46.31$36.12When 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 Virago Book Of Women Travellers by Mary Morris
RRP: $22.28$14.75Some 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: $13.71$9.93In 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... -
Pleasure of Thinking by Wang Xiaobo 9780241648520
RRP: $25.71$19.97'Pleasure of Thinking is a very captivating book. Wang Xiaobo's unique blend of rationality, serenity, candor, and sense of humour serves as an embodiment of the liberalism he ardently believes in' Ai WeiweiThe dazzling essays of the beloved, subversive... -
My Invented Country: A Memoir by Isabel Allende 9780007163106
RRP: $18.85$12.44The 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: $22.28$15.59William 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... -
Antlers of Water: Writing on the Nature and Environment of Scotland by Kathleen Jamie 9781786899811
RRP: $18.85$12.56'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
$22.06Apologies 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 -
Letters: v. 1: Bks.I-VII by Pliny the Younger
RRP: $42.80$40.12Correspondence 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... -
A Year and a Day: An Experiment in Essays by Phillip Lopate 9781681377780
RRP: $29.14$19.79Apologies 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: $29.14$21.06A 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... -
OK, Let's Do Your Stupid Idea by Patrick Freyne
RRP: $15.42$11.06LONGLISTED 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... -
Living Rooms by Sam Johnson-Schlee 9781913512194
RRP: $18.85$12.80"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... -
Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin by Clive James 9781529028850
RRP: $17.14$12.47Erudite 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... -
Medea by Euripides 9780486275482
RRP: $6.84$5.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486275482Author Euripides EuripidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism and Minding Other People's Business by Roxane Gay 9781472158635
RRP: $42.88$28.10'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: $37.74$27.07Apologies 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: $18.85$13.33The 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... -
Wilfred Owen by Wilfred Owen 9780571315284
RRP: $22.28$14.68No poetry has touched readers' hearts more deeply than the soldier poets of the First World War. Published to commemorate the centenary of 1914, this stunning set of books, with specially commissioned covers by leading print makers, is an essential... -
Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Icelandic Stories by Hermann Palsson
RRP: $22.28$15.59Written 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... -
Peacock and Vine: Fortuny and Morris in Life and at Work by A. S. Byatt
RRP: $29.14$21.06This 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;... -
Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris 9780316392457
RRP: $49.74$32.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316392457Author David SedarisFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Rome Stories by Jonathan Keates 9781841596228
RRP: $18.85$13.33During 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... -
What If We Stopped Pretending? by Jonathan Franzen
RRP: $13.71$9.28The 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... -
The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman by Sue Townsend
RRP: $18.85$13.33Glimpse 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... -
The Joy of Walking: Selected Writings by Suzy Cripps
RRP: $18.85$12.21Just like the best walks, The Joy of Walking takes you on a journey with lots to surprise and enjoy along the way. Through the best of classic writing, this inspiring anthology shows how the simple act of walking goes to the heart of life itself.Part of... -
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx 9780099540748
RRP: $10.27$7.65WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID AARONOVITCHThe Communist Manifesto was first published in London, by two young men in their late twenties, in 1848. Its impact reverberated across the globe and throughout the next century, and it has come to be recognised... -
A Modest Proposal and Other Writings by Jonathan Swift 9780140436426 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.85$13.17Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Explorers: Stories of Discovery and Adventure from the Australian Frontier by Tim Flannery
$23.31Apologies 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 -
Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, 5-Volume Set by Gavin Van Horn
RRP: $145.80$94.43*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... -
A Little Order: Selected Journalism by Evelyn Waugh
RRP: $17.14$12.20Whether celebrating Hogarth or savaging Hollywood, mocking modern manners or defending traditional English architecture, inviting readers to 'come inside' the Catholic Church or expressing his contempt for modish Marxism and American-style religion,... -
An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings by Thomas Malthus
RRP: $17.14$12.20Malthus' life's work on human population and its dependency on food production and the environment was highly controversial on publication in 1798. He predicted what is known as the Malthusian catastrophe, in which humans would disregard the limits of... -
George MacDonald by C. S. Lewis
RRP: $17.14$12.33An 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... -
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020 by Salman Rushdie 9781787331938 [USED COPY]
RRP: $34.31$20.36Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures by Mary Ruefle
RRP: $30.86$21.10This is one of the wisest books I've read in years...--New York Times Book Review No writer I know of comes close to even trying to articulate the weird magic of poetry as Ruefle does. She acknowledges and celebrates in the odd mystery and mysticism of... -
Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour by Gustave Flaubert
RRP: $15.42$11.06At once a classic of travel literature and a penetrating portrait of a "sensibility on tour," Flaubert in Egypt wonderfully captures the young writer's impressions during his 1849 voyages. Using diaries, letters, travel notes, and the evidence of... -
Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine
RRP: $22.28$14.27A TLS, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, GUARDIAN, OBSERVER AND WHITE REVIEW BOOK OF THE YEARFINALIST FOR THE 2021 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION From award-winning writer Claudia Rankine, the stunning follow-up to Citizen and Don't...