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The Art of Poetry: Forward Poems, revised selection by Michael Meally 9780995467149
RRP: $27.28$24.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995467149Author Michael MeallyFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Art of PoetryPublisher Art of PoetryWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *... -
Seduction and Betrayal by Elizabeth Hardwick 9780571347001
RRP: $23.08$15.37ONE 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.'... -
Professor Borges: A Course On English Literature by Luis Borges 9780811222747
RRP: $31.48$27.36Borges takes us on a startling, idiosyncratic, fresh, and highly opinionated tour of English literature, weaving together countless cultural traditions of the last three thousand years. Borges's lectures - delivered extempore by a man of extraordinary... -
How To Travel With A Salmon: and Other Essays by Umberto Eco 9780099428633 [USED COPY]
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How To Travel With A Salmon: and Other Essays by Umberto Eco
RRP: $23.08$16.32'Between a bottle of Epsom salts or one of twenty-year-old cognac, which would you choose? Would you rather spend your vacation with an eighty-year old leper or with Demi Moore? Do you prefer being sprinkled with ferocious red ants or sharing a... -
Major Works by Jonathan Swift
RRP: $27.28$19.09This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique selection from the full range of Swift's fifty-year career - prose, poetry, and letters... -
black girl, no magic: essays and reflections on living whilst black by Kimberly McIntosh
RRP: $35.68$23.67'This book is a glowing achievement by one of the best essayists of her generation' Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff 'Witty, fresh and full of life' Liv Little 'I can't... -
The Essential Goethe by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 9780691181042
RRP: $58.80$44.12The 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... -
Early Work: 1970-1979 by Patti Smith
RRP: $27.28$24.07Collected here are selections from Patti Smith's writings over the decade in which she made a lasting impact on America's underground literary and rock scene. Smith's work evokes the experimentation and the desire to break boundaries of those pre-punk... -
Seduction and Betrayal by Elizabeth Hardwick 9780571347001 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08$11.07Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Notes to Self: Essays by Emilie Pine 9781999700843 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$4.73Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Records of Shelley, Byron and the Author by Edward John Trelawny
RRP: $27.28$19.09In 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... -
The Women Writers' Handbook: 30th Anniversary edition: 2020 by Ann Sandham
RRP: $27.28$23.12Apologies 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 -
Reliable Essays: The Best of Clive James by Clive James 9781447241041
RRP: $31.48$23.84Hilarious 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... -
The Best Minds of My Generation: A Literary History of the Beats by Allen Ginsberg
RRP: $25.18$17.70A unique history of the Beats, in the words of the movement's most central member, Allen Ginsberg, based on a seminal series of his lecturesIn 1977, twenty years after the publication of his landmark poem 'Howl', Allen Ginsberg decided it was time to... -
He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art by Christian Wiman
RRP: $33.60$20.52What is it we want when we can't stop wanting? And how do we make that hunger productive and vital rather than corrosive and destructive? These are the questions that animate Christian Wiman as he explores the relationships between art and faith, death... -
Of Me and Others: 1952-2019 by Alasdair Gray
RRP: $37.78$25.62In 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... -
The Essays by Francis Bacon
RRP: $27.28$19.09One of the major political figures of his time, Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) served in the court of Elizabeth I and ultimately became Lord Chancellor under James I in 1617. A scholar, wit, lawyer and statesman, he wrote widely on politics, philosophy... -
Sanatorium by Abi Palmer 9781908058713
RRP: $20.98$14.68A 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... -
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth and Power by Deirdre Mask
RRP: $23.08$16.32Longlisted 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 ... -
The Book About Everything: Eighteen Artists, Writers and Thinkers on James Joyce's Ulysses by Declan Kiberd
RRP: $23.08$14.95To celebrate the centenary of the publication of Ulysses, the most important literary work of the twentieth century, eighteen artists, writers and thinkers respond to an episode each of the great modernist text. Each essayist is an expert in one of... -
A Bit on the Side by William Trevor
RRP: $33.58$24.38A Bit on the Side - Twelve remarkable stories by the master storyteller William Trevor'Compassionate, poignant, even heart-rending. Almost perfect works of art by perhaps the greatest short story writer now working in English' Sunday IndependentWilliam... -
Tiny Feet: A Treasury for Parents: An Anthology by Notting Hill Editions Editors
RRP: $33.58$27.99'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 Vandana Shiva Reader by Vandana Shiva
$60.69"Her great virtue as an advocate is that she is not a reductionist. Her awareness of the complex connections among economy and nature and culture preserves her from oversimplification. So does her understanding of the importance of diversity." -- Wendell... -
History of the Wars: v. 1: Bks.I & II by Procopius
RRP: $52.40$49.12Late antique military operations.Procopius, born at Caesarea in Palestine late in the fifth century, became a lawyer. In AD 527 he was made legal adviser and secretary of Belisarius, commander against the Persians, and went with Belisarius again in 533... -
The Boy Behind the Curtain: Notes From an Australian Life by Tim Winton
RRP: $18.88$13.86Eclectic 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: $20.98$14.93Read 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... -
Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach 9780140443615
RRP: $27.28$19.09Composed 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: $27.28$18.23Apologies 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
$25.37Apologies 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 -
Culture and Anarchy and Other Selected Prose by Matthew Arnold
RRP: $27.28$19.09'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: $27.28$17.98Who 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: $35.68$24.23Apologies 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)... -
King Harald's Saga by Snorri Sturluson
RRP: $23.08$16.32This compelling Icelandic history describes the life of King Harald Hardradi, from his battles across Europe and Russia to his final assault on England in 1066, less than three weeks before the invasion of William the Conqueror. It was a battle that led... -
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions: Together with Death's Duel by Alex Struik 9781481186988
RRP: $20.98$19.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781481186988Author Alex StruikFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Things Are Against Us by Lucy Ellmann 9781913111137
RRP: $20.98$14.41Apologies 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: $27.28$21.19In 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... -
On the Nature of the Gods by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $52.40$49.12The 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,... -
She I Dare Not Name: A Spinster's Meditations on Life by Donna Ward
RRP: $31.48$23.00Astonishing. 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: $58.78$50.97Book 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...