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Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982 by Philip Larkin 9780571131204 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$5.02The 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... -
Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982 by Philip Larkin 9780571131204
RRP: $27.28$17.98The 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... -
Love and the Novel: Life After Reading by Christina Lupton
RRP: $35.68$25.79'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... -
Outlines of Pyrrhonism: v. 1 by Empiricus Sextus
RRP: $52.40$49.12A 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... -
Letters to Atticus: v. 4 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $52.40$49.12The 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... -
Portraits And Observations: The Essays Of Truman Capote by Truman Capote 9780812978919 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.48$15.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812978919Author Truman CapoteFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 425gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Portraits And Observations: The Essays Of Truman Capote by Truman Capote
RRP: $31.48$20.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812978919Author Truman CapoteFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 425gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Walk in My Combat Boots: True Stories from the Battlefront by James Patterson
RRP: $16.78$12.16'This book will take your breath away, break your heart, and leave you in awe' President Bill Clinton_______Soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines speak in their own words about real life in today's armed forces. These are the brutally honest stories... -
Socrates in the Apology: An Essay on Plato's Apology of Socrates by C. D. C. Reeve 9780872200883
RRP: $39.88$32.91"Reeve's book is an excellent companion to Plato's Apology and a valuable discussion of many of the main issues that arise in the early dialogues. Reeve is an extremely careful reader of texts, and his familiarity with the legal and cultural background... -
Plainwater: Essays And Poetry by Anne Carson
RRP: $33.58$23.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375708428Author Anne CarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne
RRP: $16.78$12.16A furiously witty response to Tobias Smollett's curmudgeonly 'Travels through France and Italy', Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy became a hugely influential work of travel writing in its own right. This Penguin Classics... -
Approaching Eye Level by Vivian Gornick 9781911547648 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98$13.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911547648Author Vivian GornickFormat PaperbackImprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books -
Approaching Eye Level by Vivian Gornick 9781911547648
RRP: $20.98$14.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911547648Author Vivian GornickFormat PaperbackImprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books -
An Image of Africa/ The Trouble with Nigeria by Chinua Achebe
RRP: $14.68$10.77Beautifully written yet highly controversial, An Image of Africa asserts Achebe's belief in Joseph Conrad as a 'bloody racist' and his conviction that Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness only serves to perpetuate damaging stereotypes of black people. Also... -
On Reading by Marcel Proust 9781843916161
RRP: $27.20$18.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843916161Author Marcel ProustFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Hesperus Press LtdPublisher Hesperus Press LtdWeight(grams) 160gDimensions(mm) 195mm *... -
Philosophical Dictionary by Francois Voltaire 9780140442571
RRP: $31.48$23.00Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary, first published in 1764, is a series of short, radical essays - alphabetically arranged - that form a brilliant and bitter analysis of the social and religious conventions that then dominated eighteenth-century French... -
Maybe The People Would Be The Times by Lucy Sante
RRP: $46.18$30.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781891241574Author Lucy SanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Verse Chorus Press,U.S.Publisher Puncture Publications -
Self-Help by Samuel Smiles
RRP: $20.98$14.93'The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the true source of national vigour and strength.' A bestseller immediately after its publication in 1859, Self-Help... -
The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present by Shumon Basar
RRP: $31.48$23.00Planet 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: $35.68$29.67Lombardo'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: $27.28$21.67Apologies 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: $6.30$4.39'... 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... -
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift 9780141398181
RRP: $6.30$5.23'... 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... -
Suspiria de Profundis by Thomas de Quincey 9780486837123
RRP: $10.48$5.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486837123Author Thomas De QuinceyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Fly Trap by Fredrik Sjoberg
RRP: $23.08$16.32Fredrik 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... -
Letters to Atticus: v. 3 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $52.40$49.12The 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... -
The Complete Essays of Montaigne by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne 9780804704861
RRP: $84.00$75.54This 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... -
Rome: The Passenger by Various
RRP: $39.88$26.94The 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: $31.48$21.42Journey 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... -
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 9780393958287
$49.62The 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: $31.48$20.58Apologies 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 *... -
The Civil War by Lucan
RRP: $52.40$49.12Epic 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... -
Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning by Sarah Weinman 9780063233928
RRP: $41.98$24.51Apologies 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 -
The Inky Digit of Defiance: Tony Harrison: Selected Prose 1966-2016 by Tony Harrison
RRP: $52.50$35.68In 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... -
Safe: On Black British Men Reclaiming Space by Derek Owusu
RRP: $20.98$14.28'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... -
On Literature by Umberto Eco
RRP: $27.28$19.09Remarkably 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... -
Letters between Nin and Henry Miller by Anais Nin 9780156527910
$36.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156527910Author Anais NinFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books Classics -
Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace by Anne Lamott
RRP: $48.20$38.20Apologies 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... -
Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors by Ian Penman
RRP: $27.28$19.40Melodrama, 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... -
Styles of Radical Will by Susan Sontag
RRP: $29.40$20.50This 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...