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Journey with Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet by Eavan Boland 9781857545418
RRP: $21.87$15.54A Journey with Two Maps begins with an anecdote: one afternoon, Eavan Boland saw one of her mother's paintings for sale in a gallery, signed by her famous teacher. It is the starting point for an exploration of concepts of art and womanhood, of what it... -
The Three Dimensions of Freedom by Billy Bragg
RRP: $7.74$5.46At a time when opinion trumps facts and truth is treated as nothing more than another perspective, free speech has become a battleground. While authoritarians and algorithms threaten democracy, we argue over who has the right to speak.To protect... -
I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood by Jessi Klein 9780062981608
RRP: $16.76$10.94An instant New York Times bestseller, I'll Show Myself Out is the eagerly anticipated second essay collection from Jessi Klein, author of the acclaimed debut You'll Grow Out of It.Longlisted for the PEN Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the... -
Ukraine 22: Ukrainian Writers Respond to War by Mark Andryczyk 9781802062915
RRP: $16.76$11.73'The extraordinary writers in this volume articulate the taste, the terror, and the dialect of war; they command their powers of description to face a shameless empire intent on annihilating them' Ellena SavageA selection of Ukraine's leading writers... -
The Last Days of Socrates by Plato 9780140455496
RRP: $12.89$9.17'Consider just this, and give your minds to this alone: whether or not what I say is just' Plato's account of Socrates' trial and death (399 BC) is a significant moment in Classical literature and the life of Classical Athens. In these four dialogues,... -
Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors by Ian Penman
RRP: $16.76$11.92Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, mystery – Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors is cult critic Ian Penman’s long awaited first original book, a kaleidoscopic study of the late West German filmmaker Rainer Werner... -
Double-Tracking: Studies in Duplicity by Rosanna McLaughlin 9780995705227
RRP: $14.18$9.86To double-track is to be both: counter-cultural and establishment, rich and poor, a bum with the keys to a country retreat, an exotic addition to the dinner table who still knows how to find their way around the silverware. In the 1970s Tom Wolfe... -
Days of Reading by Marcel Proust
RRP: $10.31$7.47In these inspiring essays about why we read, Proust explores all the pleasures and trials that we take from books, as well as explaining the beauty of Ruskin and his work, and the joys of losing yourself in literature as a child. Throughout history, some... -
Records of Shelley, Byron and the Author by Edward John Trelawny
RRP: $16.76$11.73In February 1822 the writer and adventurer Edward John Trelawny arrived in Pisa to make the acquaintance of his heroes Shelley and Byron, leaving a broken marriage and an exotic seafaring career behind him. He became a close companion to them and their... -
Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin
RRP: $16.76$11.04How to speak of the searing, unpindownable power that the past - ours, our family's, our culture's - wields in the present? In five long sections, Maria Tumarkin's Axiomatic tells true and intimate stories of a community dealing with the extended... -
The Civil War by Lucan
RRP: $32.19$30.17Epic history.Lucan (M. Annaeus Lucanus, AD 39-65), son of wealthy M. Annaeus Mela and nephew of Seneca, was born at Corduba (Cordova) in Spain and was brought as a baby to Rome. In AD 60 at a festival in Emperor Nero's honor Lucan praised him in a... -
Openhearted: Eighty Years of Love, Loss, Laughter and Letting Go by Ann Ingle 9780241993521
RRP: $12.89$9.17SHORTLISTED FOR TWO IRISH BOOK AWARDS'Something they don't tell you about getting older is that you fall. Oh, you hear about it in passing, of course, "She had a fall, poor thing". Falling is not something you ever think about as a younger woman. You... -
Romantic Poetry and Prose by Prof. Harold Bloom 9780195016154
$66.67This volume devotes over 100 pages to William Blake, including The Book of Thel and the entire "Night the Ninth" from The Four Zoas, as well as excerpts from Milton and Jerusalem. It also includes poems and prose by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats,... -
The Island of the Colour-blind by Oliver Sacks
RRP: $14.18$10.23'Sacks is rightly renowned for his empathy . . . anyone with a taste for the exotic will find this beautifully written book highly engaging' - Sunday Times Always fascinated by islands, Oliver Sacks is drawn to the Pacific by reports of the tiny atoll of... -
The Little Book Of Philosophy by Andre Comte-Sponville
RRP: $16.76$11.73In this remarkable little book, Andre Comte-Sponville introduces the reader to the western philosophical tradition in a series of sparkling chapters on the 'big questions'. In doing so he reveals the essential bones of philosophical thought and shows why... -
Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza John Daido Loori 9780861713943
RRP: $16.76$11.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861713943Author John Daido LooriFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S. -
The Women Writers' Handbook: 30th Anniversary edition: 2020 by Ann Sandham
RRP: $16.76$14.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912430338Author Ann SandhamFormat PaperbackImprint Aurora Metro BooksPublisher Aurora Metro Publications -
Of Me and Others: 1952-2019 Alasdair Gray 9781786895202
RRP: $23.21$15.74In this frank, playful and typically unorthodox collection of essays, Alasdair Gray tells how his early life experiences influenced his writing, including the creation of those landmarks of literature, Lanark and 1982, Janine. He details the inspirations... -
No Place Like Home: An anthology about the places we come back to by Michele Mendelssohn
RRP: $14.18$9.69What makes a home, and when do we really feel at home? Is it a physical place, or something we all carry inside us wherever we go?Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, pocket-sized classics with ribbon markers. These beautiful... -
Immanuel by Matthew McNaught
RRP: $16.76$11.04At what point does faith turn into tyranny? In Immanuel, winner of the inaugural Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize, Matthew McNaught explores his upbringing in an evangelical Christian community in Winchester. As he moved away from the faith of his... -
Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
RRP: $11.60$8.53Edmund Burke was the dominant political thinker of the last quarter of the eighteenth century in England. His reputation depends less on his role as a practising politician than on his ability to set contemporary problems within a wider context of... -
Sanatorium by Abi Palmer 9781908058713
RRP: $12.89$9.02A young woman spends a month taking the waters at a thermal water-based rehabilitation facility in Budapest. On her return to London, she attempts to continue her recovery using an 80 pound inflatable blue bathtub. The tub becomes a metaphor for the... -
Melt with Me: Coming of Age and Other '80s Perils by Paul Crenshaw 9780814258828
RRP: $30.90$23.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258828Author Paul CrenshawFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press -
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth and Power by Deirdre Mask
RRP: $14.18$10.02Longlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2021 A TIME Magazine Must-Read Book of 2020 Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Award 2020 'Deirdre Mask's book was just up my Strasse, alley, avenue and boulevard.' -Simon Garfield, author of Just My Type ... -
Cyclops by Euripides
RRP: $32.19$30.17Three plays by ancient Greece's third great tragedian.One of antiquity's greatest poets, Euripides has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. The new Loeb Classical Library edition of his... -
Granta 166: Generations by Thomas Meaney 9781909889620
RRP: $19.34$12.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909889620Author Thomas MeaneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 179gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 134mm... -
Meaty by Samantha Irby
RRP: $12.89$8.64**QUIETLY HOSTILE - THE HILARIOUS NEW BOOK FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR - IS AVAILABE TO PRE-ORDER NOW**ONE OF STYLIST'S BEST NEW BOOKS FOR 2020'This is an unforgettable book.' Roxane Gay Meditations on the terror of love; tips for... -
The Boy Behind the Curtain: Notes From an Australian Life by Tim Winton
RRP: $11.60$8.51Eclectic and impassioned, a collection that affirms the power of the written word.' - ObserverThe Boy Behind the Curtain is a portrait of a life, a place and a man. In this deeply personal collection of true stories and essays Tim Winton shows how... -
97,196 Words: Essays by Emmanuel Carrère
RRP: $12.89$9.17Read the definitive essay collection from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Adversary, dubbed 'France's greatest writer of non-fiction' (New York Times)'The most exciting living writer' Karl Ove KnausgaardOver the course of his career, Emmanuel... -
Tiny Feet: A Treasury for Parents: An Anthology by Notting Hill Editions Editors
RRP: $20.63$17.20'It was the most liberating thing that ever happened to me, having children. The children's demands on me were things that nobody else ever asked me to do.' -Toni Morrison Children are a miracle, and everyone has an opinion on how we should raise... -
The Selected Essays of John Berger by John Berger 9780747554196
RRP: $25.80$18.95Booker 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... -
Sunday Best: 80 Great Books from a Lifetime of Reviews by John Carey 9780300273021
RRP: $14.18$12.09A collection of John Carey's greatest, wisest, and wittiest reviews-amassed over a lifetime of writing In 1977, newly installed as a professor of English at Oxford, John Carey took the position of chief reviewer for the Sunday Times. In a career... -
Aftermath by Preti Taneja
RRP: $15.47$14.74Apologies 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 -
Reliable Essays: The Best of Clive James by Clive James 9781447241041
RRP: $19.34$14.64Hilarious and trenchant, Reliable Essays collects the most memorable works of criticism and travel writing from well-loved author and broadcaster, Clive James. With an introduction by Julian Barnes.'[An] intellectual as well as a joker, a wise man as... -
Do I Come Here Often? by Henry Rollins
RRP: $16.76$11.73'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... -
Hermit in Paris by Italo Calvino
RRP: $14.18$10.02Italo Calvino once said that he preferred to give false details about his biography since he felt that even the genuine data of a writer's life shed no light on the creative work. But this volume of posthumously collected personal writings is the closest... -
On Murder by Thomas De Quincey
RRP: $10.31$7.47'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... -
Whose Story Is This?: Old Conflicts, New Chapters by Rebecca Solnit 9781783785438
RRP: $16.76$11.04Who 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... -
Children of Heracles: Hippolytus, Andromache, Hecuba by Euripides
RRP: $32.19$30.17Four plays by ancient Greece's third great tragedian.One of antiquity's greatest poets, Euripides has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. The new Loeb Classical Library edition of his plays... -
Things Are Against Us by Lucy Ellmann 9781913111137
RRP: $12.89$8.77Apologies 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