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The Fly Trap by Fredrik Sjoberg
RRP: £10.99£7.77Fredrik Sjoeberg's Swedish bestseller about summer, islands, freedom and boundaries.'The light, the warmth, the smells, the mist, the birdsong - the moths. Who can sleep? Who wants to?'Fredrik Sjoeberg finds happiness in the little things. Millions of... -
The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present by Shumon Basar
RRP: £14.99£10.95Planet Earth needs a self-help book, and this is itThe future is happening to us far faster than we thought it would and this book explains whyFifty years after Marshall McLuhan's ground breaking book on the influence of technology on culture The Medium... -
Odyssey by Homer
RRP: £16.99£14.13Lombardo's Odyssey offers the distinctive speed, clarity, and boldness that so distinguished his 1997 Iliad. "[Lombardo] has brought his laconic wit and love of the ribald . . . to his version of the Odyssey. His carefully honed syntax gives the... -
This Wide Terraqueous World by Laird Hunt 9781566896672
RRP: £12.99£11.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566896672Author Laird HuntFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Coffee House PressPublisher Coffee House Press -
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift 9780141398181 [USED COPY]
RRP: £3.00£2.30Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift 9780141398181
RRP: £3.00£2.49'... a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food...'Swift's devastating short satire on how to solve a famineIntroducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of... -
Letters to Atticus: v. 3 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95£23.39The 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... -
Rome: The Passenger by Various
RRP: £18.99£12.83The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, and reportage from around the world. Its aim, to break down barriers and introduce the essence of the place. Packed with essays and investigative journalism; original photography and... -
Un-Discovered Islands: An Archipelago of Myths and Mysteries, Phantoms and Fates by Malachy Tallack
RRP: £14.99£10.20Journey through the imagined islands of history. Gathered in this book are over twenty islands that have decidedly human origins, whether they are the products of imagination, deception or simply human error. They are phantoms, fakes and legends: an... -
The Declared Enemy: Texts and Interviews by Jean Genet
RRP: £34.00£29.91This posthumous work brings together articles, interviews, statements, prefaces, manifestos, and speeches dating from 1964 to 1985 (just before Genet's death in 1986). These texts bear witness to the many political causes and groups with which Genet felt... -
The Complete Essays of Montaigne by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne 9780804704861
RRP: £40.00£35.97This new translation of Montaigne's immortal Essays received great acclaim when it was first published in The Complete Works of Montaigne in the 1957 edition. The New York Times said, "It is a matter for rejoicing that we now have available a new... -
The Great Movies II by Robert Ebert
RRP: £19.99£15.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767919869Author Roger EbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher... -
The Inky Digit of Defiance: Tony Harrison: Selected Prose 1966-2016 by Tony Harrison
RRP: £25.00£16.99In this richly varied selection of Tony Harrison's provocative prose of the last fifty years, the great poet of page, stage and screen presents a lifetime's thinking about art and politics, creativity and mortality. In so doing, he takes us on an... -
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 9780393958287
£24.52The editor has made necessary typographical corrections and carefully introduced and annotated the text for the student reader. Dickens' number plans for David Copperfield, which reveal his practice both as a serial writer and as a craftsman, are also... -
Vintage Mencken by H. L. Mencken
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679728955Author H.L. MenckenFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Winter Solstice: An Essay by Nina MacLaughlin
RRP: £10.99£7.38A celebration and meditation on the season for drinking hot chocolate, spotting a wreath on a neighbor’s door, experiencing the change in light of shorter days. All aspects of Winter, from the meteorological to the mythological, are captured in this... -
The Civil War by Lucan
RRP: £24.95£23.39Epic 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... -
On Literature by Umberto Eco
RRP: £12.99£9.09Remarkably accessible and unfailingly stimulating, this collection of essays exhibits the diversity of interests and the depth of knowledge that made Umberto Eco one of the world's leading writers. From musings on Ptolemy and reflections on the... -
Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning by Sarah Weinman 9780063233928
RRP: £19.99£11.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063233928Author Sarah WeinmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 295g -
Food for Thought: Selected Writings by Annie Gray
RRP: £10.99£7.12A delicious anthology of classic food writing to satisfy every palate, this gorgeous book will delight food lovers everywhere.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning pocket size classics. These beautiful books make perfect gifts... -
Self-Consciousness by Professor John Updike 9780812982961
RRP: £19.00£13.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812982961Author John UpdikeFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
The Treasure of the City of Ladies: Or the Book of the Three Virtues by Christine
RRP: £12.99£9.09Written by Europe's first professional woman writer, The Treasure of the City of Ladies offers advice and guidance to women of all ages and from all levels of medieval society, from royal courtiers to prostitutes. It paints an intricate picture of daily... -
Safe: On Black British Men Reclaiming Space by Derek Owusu
RRP: £9.99£6.80'It's brave and honest, and not a moment too soon.' Afua Hirsch, Brit(ish)'[An] outstanding myth-busting book. Everyone should read it.' Bernardine EvaristoWhat is the experience of Black men in Britain today? Never has the conversation about racism and... -
Styles of Radical Will by Susan Sontag
RRP: £14.00£9.76This collection of essays contains some of the most important pieces of criticism of the twentieth century, including the classics 'The Aesthetics of Silence', a brilliant account of language, thought and consciousness, and 'Trip to Hanoi', written... -
Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace by Anne Lamott
RRP: £22.95£18.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsNominated for Books for a Better Life Book Award 2014.Book InformationISBN 9781594486296Author Anne LamottFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher... -
The Double Flame: Essays on Love & Eroticism by Octavio Paz
RRP: £15.99£11.61A discourse on the connection between sex, eroticism and love in literature by the Nobel Prize-winning poet and essayist.About the AuthorThe celebrated poet and essayist, Octavio Paz was born in 1914 in Mexico City. Paz began to write at an early age,... -
The Essential Ernest Holmes: Collected Writings by the Author of the Science of Mind by Jesse Jennings
RRP: £14.99£14.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585421817Author Ernest HolmesFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Jeremy P TarcherPublisher Penguin Putnam IncDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 18mm -
Refugee Wales: Syrian Voices by Angham Abdullah 9781914595301
RRP: £20.00£14.29This book focuses on the stories of Syrians who have found refuge in Wales, based on their own oral testimonies. They were recorded as part of a research project undertaken by Cardiff University and Amgueddfa Cymru- National Museum Wales. Moving away... -
Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader by Harry Crews 9780671865276
£19.85Includes two of Crews' full-length novels, The Gypsy's Curse and Car, his autobiography, and three of his essays.Book InformationISBN 9780671865276Author Harry CrewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon &... -
A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars by Erin Sharkey
RRP: £14.99£9.88A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2023A Library Journal Recommended Read for 2023A Ms. Magazine Most Anticipated Book of 2023A vibrant collection of personal and lyric essays in conversation with archival objects of Black history and memory.What... -
The Best American Food Writing 2023 by Mark Bittman 9780063322523
RRP: £14.99£9.70A collection of the year’s top food writing, selected by prolific food writer and author of How to Cook Everything Mark Bittman.Food writer Mark Bittman selects the best twenty articles published in 2022 that celebrate the many innovative, comforting,... -
The Future of War Crimes Justice by Chris Stephen 9781911545651
RRP: £8.99£6.26As the world grows increasingly turbulent, war crimes justice is needed more than ever. But it is failing. The International Criminal Court in the Netherlands, the world's first permanent war crimes court, opened in 2002 but it has jailed just five war... -
Works: v. 7 by Demosthenes
RRP: £24.95£23.39The preeminent orator of ancient Athens.Demosthenes (384-322 BC), orator at Athens, was a pleader in law courts who later became also a statesman, champion of the past greatness of his city and the present resistance of Greece to Philip of Macedon's... -
What Time Is It? by John Berger
RRP: £14.99£13.72"Patience, patience, because the great movements of history have always begun in those small parenthesis that we call 'in the meantime.'" --John Berger The last book that John Berger wrote was this precious little volume about time titled What Time Is... -
Love Drones by Noam Dorr 9781946448385
RRP: £12.99£8.63In Love Drones, Noam Dorr explores the troubling relationship between our desire for intimacy and the world of military action, state violence, and intelligence surveillance. Born and raised on a kibbutz in Israel, Dorr served a compulsory military term... -
Suetonius: Vol 1 by Suetonius
RRP: £24.95£23.39Antiquity's imperial biographer par excellence.Suetonius (C. Suetonius Tranquillus, born ca. AD 70), son of a military tribune, was at first an advocate and a teacher of rhetoric, but later became the emperor Hadrian's private secretary, 119-121. He... -
The Passion of Harry Bingo: Further Dispatches from Unreported Scotland by Peter Ross
RRP: £8.99£6.84SHORTLISTED FOR SALTIRE SOCIETY NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR Quirky, hilarious, always engaging and often moving, The Passion of Harry Bingo enters the lives of some of Britain's least known but most amazing characters. From Orkney to the Sussex coast... -
In Search Of Lost Time Volume 2 by Terence Kilmartin
RRP: £20.00£14.69In this second volume of In Search of Lost Time, the narrator turns from the childhood reminiscences of Swann's Way to memories of his adolescence. Having gradually become indifferent to Swann's daughter Gilberte, the narrator visits the seaside resort... -
Death by Landscape by Elvia Wilk
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593767150Author Elvia WilkFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher Soft Skull Press -
Art of Love by Ovid
RRP: £24.95£23.23Seductive verse.Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BC-AD 17), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the emperor...