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Thomas De Quincey: Selected Writings by Robert Morrison 9780192868046
£28.87This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859). The edition presents De Quincey's work in all of its rich variety, and offers the most thorough... -
The Vandana Shiva Reader by Vandana Shiva
£27.72"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... -
The Book About Everything: Eighteen Artists, Writers and Thinkers on James Joyce's Ulysses by Declan Kiberd
RRP: £10.99£7.12To 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... -
History of the Wars: v. 1: Bks.I & II by Procopius
RRP: £24.95£23.39Late 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: £8.99£6.60Eclectic 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: £9.99£7.11Read 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: £15.99£13.33'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... -
Aftermath by Preti Taneja
RRP: £11.99£11.68Apologies 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 -
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)... -
King Harald's Saga by Snorri Sturluson
RRP: £10.99£7.77This 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: £9.99£8.92Apologies 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... -
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... -
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... -
Believe in People: The Essential Karel Capek by John Carey
RRP: £16.99£11.58Playful and provocative, irreverent and inspiring, Capek is perhaps the best-loved Czech writer of all time. Novelist and playwright, famed for inventing the word 'robot' in his play RUR, Capek was a vital part of the burgeoning artistic scene of... -
Tales Of Two Planets: Stories of Climate Change and Inequality in a Divided World by John Freeman
RRP: £12.99£8.60Apologies 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 -
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... -
On the Nature of the Gods by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95£23.39The 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,... -
Things Are Against Us by Lucy Ellmann 9781913111137
RRP: £9.99£6.80Apologies 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... -
The Communicating Vessels: Two Portraits of Grief by Friederike Mayroecker by Mayrocker Friederike
RRP: £12.99£8.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998267586Author Mayrocker FriederikeFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint A Public SpacePublisher A Public Space -
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... -
Winter Pollen: Occasional Prose by Ted Hughes 9780571174263
RRP: £20.00£13.46Ted Hughes has written a series of pieces on writers as diverse as Emily Dickinson, Isaac Bashevis Singer, T. S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath; and on his deep-rooted concern over education, the environment and the arts.About the AuthorTed Hughes (1930-1998)... -
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... -
Never Apologise: The Collected Writings of Lindsay Anderson by Lindsay Anderson
RRP: £19.99£6.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859653176Author Lindsay AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 470Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd -
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... -
Museum Without Walls by Jonathan Meades
RRP: £12.99£8.73Jonathan 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... -
Rabindranath Tagore: An Interpretation by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya 9780143440307
£18.62Apologies 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... -
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... -
Earthly Signs by Jamey Gambrell
RRP: £16.99£10.20Apologies 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£7.77A 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... -
Words of Fire: Selected Essays of Ahad Ha'am by Ahad Ha'am 9781910749029
RRP: £14.99£14.04Ahad 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... -
The Selected Essays of John Berger by John Berger 9780747554196
RRP: £20.00£15.72Booker 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... -
Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from the New York Times by John Darnton 9780805070859
RRP: £13.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805070859Author John DarntonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 249g -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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...