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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... -
Tales Of Two Planets: Stories of Climate Change and Inequality in a Divided World by John Freeman
RRP: £12.99£8.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143133926Author John FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Aftermath by Preti Taneja
RRP: £11.99£11.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945492549Author Preti TanejaFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Transit BooksPublisher Transit Books -
On the Nature of the Gods by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95£22.92The philosopher-statesman on theology and epistemology.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,... -
Culture and Anarchy and Other Selected Prose by Matthew Arnold
RRP: £12.99£9.09'One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is really going, as an ordinary young Englishman of our upper class.'Poet, education reformer, social theorist and passionate... -
Whose Story Is This?: Old Conflicts, New Chapters by Rebecca Solnit 9781783785438
RRP: £12.99£8.56Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle over that foundational power. Women, people of colour and non-straight people are telling other versions, and white men in particular are fighting to preserve their own... -
The Waste Books by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940322509Author Georg Christoph LichtenbeFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Do I Come Here Often? by Henry Rollins
RRP: £12.99£9.09'I believe that one defines oneself by re-invention. To not be like yourparents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.'Using his trademark wit, insight and verve, hardcore punk rock icon Henry Rollins interviews Jerry... -
Things Are Against Us by Lucy Ellmann 9781913111137
RRP: £9.99£6.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913111137Author Lucy EllmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Galley Beggar PressPublisher Galley Beggar Press -
A New View of Society and Other Writings by Robert Owen
RRP: £12.99£10.09In his early works Owen argues that, since individuals are wholly formed by their environment, education is the crucial factor in transforming them. Later he came to adopt far more radical positions, proposing nothing less than 'the emancipation... -
She I Dare Not Name: A Spinster's Meditations on Life by Donna Ward
RRP: £14.99£10.95Astonishing. Luminous. A book about being human.She I Dare Not Name is a compelling collection of fiercely intelligent, deeply intimate, lyrical reflections on the life of a woman who stands on the threshold between two millennia. Both manifesto and... -
Livy: Ab urbe condita Book VI by Livy
RRP: £27.99£26.43Book VI of Livy's Ab urbe condita covers the history of Rome from 390 to 367 BC, a period during which the city, while in the process of recovering from being sacked by the Gauls, faced serious civil disturbance, the resolution of which fundamentally... -
Journey to Armenia by Osip Mandelstam
RRP: £14.99£12.55Osip Mandelstam visited Armenia in 1930, and during the eight months of his stay he rediscovered his poetic voice and was inspired to write an experimental meditation on the country and its ancient culture. 'Armenia brought him back to his true self, a... -
Rabindranath Tagore: An Interpretation by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya 9780143440307
£18.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143440307Author Sabyasachi BhattacharyaFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House India -
Led By The Nose: A Garden of Smells by Jenny Joseph 9781800818125
RRP: £9.99£6.52Jenny Joseph was no ordinary poet - and Led by the Nose is no ordinary memoir. Shaped around the smells of the English countryside, it is full of the wilful personality and the sly humour that characterised the purple-clad old woman in her iconic poem... -
Flush by Virginia Woolf 9781784875138
RRP: £9.99£7.11Flush was an English cocker spaniel who belonged to the nineteenth-century poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Virginia Woolf learned of him from the love letters Elizabeth wrote to her future husband, fellow poet Robert Browning, and found 'the figure of... -
Decline of the English Murder by George Orwell
RRP: £7.99£5.79In these timeless and witty essays George Orwell explores the English love of reading about a good murder in the papers (and laments the passing of the heyday of the 'perfect' murder involving class, sex and poisoning), as well as unfolding his... -
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... -
The Horrors and Absurdities of Religion by Arthur Schopenhauer
RRP: £7.99£5.79A fascinating examination of ethics, religion and psychology, this selection of Schopenhauer's works contains scathing attack on the nature and logic of religion, and an essay on ethics that ranges from the American slavery debate to the vices of... -
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... -
Words of Fire: Selected Essays of Ahad Ha'am by Ahad Ha'am 9781910749029
RRP: £14.99£13.73Ahad Ha'am (the pen name of Asher Ginsberg) is mainly remembered as the 'father of cultural Zionism'. But there was much more to the man and his thought. These essays show him to have been a brilliant exponent of the art of the essayist. Moreover, as the... -
Museum Without Walls by Jonathan Meades
RRP: £12.99£8.49Jonathan Meades has an obsessive preoccupation with places. He has spent thirty years constructing sixty films, two novels and hundreds of pieces of journalism that explore an extraordinary range of them, from natural landscapes to man-made buildings and... -
An Apology for Idlers by Robert Louis Stevenson
RRP: £7.99£5.79An irresistible invitation to reject the work ethic and enjoy life's simple pleasures (such as laughing, drinking and lying in the open air), Robert Louis Stevenson's witty and seminal essay on the joys of idleness is accompanied here by his writings on,... -
Further Requirements by Philip Larkin
RRP: £14.99£9.80Philip Larkin's Required Writing, a selection from his miscellaneous prose from 1953-82, was highly praised and enjoyed when it appeared in 1983. Further Requirements gathers together many other interviews, broadcasts, statements and reviews. Some of... -
Government of the Tongue by Seamus Heaney 9780571141517
RRP: £12.99£8.56The title, The Government of the Tongue, carries suggestions of both monastic discipline and untrammelled romanticism, and is meant to raise an old question about the rights and status of poetic utterance itself. Should it be governed? Should it be the... -
The Selected Essays of John Berger by John Berger 9780747554196
RRP: £20.00£14.69Booker wining novelist, playwright, essayist, poet and critic - even admirers rarely know John Berger in all his literary incarnations. This collection of essays will, for the first time, take a definitive look at his extraordinary career. Far from... -
Earthly Signs by Jamey Gambrell
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681371627Author Jamey GambrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,... -
Black Voices on Britain by Hakim Adi
RRP: £10.99£7.51A compelling anthology of Black voices from England, America, Africa and the Caribbean, from people who lived, worked, campaigned and travelled in Britain from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a... -
On Murder by Thomas De Quincey
RRP: £7.99£5.79'For if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination' Thomas De Quincey's three essays 'On Murder... -
The Game: A Lifetime Inside and Outside the White Lines by Tadhg Coakley
RRP: £14.99£12.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Sports Book of the Year 2022 (Ireland).Book InformationISBN 9781785372971Author Tadhg CoakleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Merrion PressPublisher... -
In Danger: A Pasolini Anthology by Pier Paolo Pasolini
RRP: £15.99£11.04Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) was a major cultural figure in post-WWII Italy, well-known as a poet, novelist, communist intellectual, and filmmaker. In Danger is the first anthology in English devoted to his political and literary essays, with a... -
Outlines of Pyrrhonism: v. 1 by Empiricus Sextus
RRP: £24.95£22.92A suspicious mind.Sextus Empiricus (ca. AD 160-210), exponent of scepticism and critic of the Dogmatists, was a Greek physician and philosopher, pupil and successor of the medical sceptic Herodotus (not the historian) of Tarsus. He probably lived for... -
Grumbling at Large by J. B. Priestley 9781910749180
RRP: £14.99£12.55Priestley defined the essay as a 'prose masterpiece in miniature' and understood that to perfect the form, the essayist had to stand 'naked and shivering' in the very first sentence. A prodigious essayist, Priestley expressed his unique thoughts on a... -
Love and the Novel: Life After Reading by Christina Lupton
RRP: £16.99£12.28'It is a clever, well-written book, and I often found myself underlining whole paragraphs as I read. ... wonderfully insightful. ... I've never read accounts of any of these texts that manage to be at once so searching and so wondrously concise, and... -
On Writing by Jorge Luis Borges
RRP: £16.00£9.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143105725Author Jorge Luis BorgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 153gDimensions(mm) 196mm *... -
Pataphysical Essays by Rene Daumal 9780984115563
RRP: £12.50£8.34Essays reflecting on the science of imaginary solutions, from an influential figure in pataphysical thought Pataphysics: the science of imaginary solutions, of laws governing exceptions and of the laws describing the universe supplementary to this one... -
Letters to Atticus: v. 4 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95£22.92The private correspondence of Rome's most prolific public figure.To his dear friend Atticus, Cicero reveals himself as to no other of his correspondents except perhaps his brother. In Cicero's Letters to Atticus we get an intimate look at his motivations... -
Montaigne: A Very Short Introduction by William M. Hamlin
RRP: £8.99£6.45The French author Michel de Montaigne is widely regarded as the founder and greatest practitioner of the personal essay. A member of the minor aristocracy, he worked as a judicial investigator, served as mayor of Bordeaux, and sought to bring stability... -
Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982 by Philip Larkin 9780571131204
RRP: £12.99£8.56The appearance of Philip Larkin's second prose collection - reviews and critical assessments of writers and writing; pieces on jazz, mostly uncollected; some long, revealing and often highly entertaining interviews given on various occasions - was a... -
Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster by Helen Andrews
RRP: £24.99£16.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593086759Author Helen AndrewsFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Bantam PressPublisher Random House USA Inc