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The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present by Phillip Lopate 9780385423397
RRP: $48.75$33.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385423397Author Phillip LopateFormat PaperbackPage Count 832Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)... -
The Secret Agent's Bedside Reader: A Compendium of Spy Writing by Michael Smith 9781785904813
$22.66Espionage fact and fiction collide in this thrilling compendium of spy writing, where some of the greatest spy stories ever told meet the genuine agent records and instructions that altered history. Ian Fleming's genre-defining genius and John le... -
De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $48.65$45.30The ethics of a statesman.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, and death of Julius Caesar in a... -
The Mystery Feast: Thoughts on Storytelling by Ben Okri
RRP: $7.78$6.96Packed with ideas and inspiration, The Mystery Feast offers numerous pathways into the magical world of storytelling. Beginning with a poem, 'All we do', Booker prize-winning novelist Ben Okri presents his considered thoughts on the purpose and meaning... -
Aristotle De Arte Poetica by Rudolf Kassel 9780198145646
$98.30Aristotle De Arte PoeticaBook InformationISBN 9780198145646Author Rudolf KasselFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressDimensions(mm) 195mm * 128mm * 11mm -
Frank Sinatra Has a Cold: And Other Essays by Gay Talese
RRP: $19.48$13.86A selection of witty and provocative essays from the father of New Journalism, Gay Talese's Frank Sinatra Has a Cold and Other Essays is published in Penguin Modern Classics.Gay Talese is the father of American New Journalism, who transformed traditional... -
My Private Property by Mary Ruefle 9781940696515
RRP: $25.33$16.83Unlike many Wave titles, this paperback edition follows the hardcover by one year and will arrive in the market enjoying a year's worth of very strong publicity and word-of-mouth, attracting new readers with the new format and lower price. All of... -
The Little Virtues: Essays by Natalia Ginzburg
RRP: $21.43$19.40With recent attention from The New Yorker and a big increase in sales, it's clear Ginzburg's work still resonates with readers. A fresh new package and layout will appeal to established fans and attract new readers. Will include a new foreword or... -
Micrograms by Nicole Walker 9781934832547
RRP: $17.55$15.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934832547Author Nicole WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint New Michigan PressPublisher New Michigan PressWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions by Gloria Steinem 9781250204868
RRP: $40.95$24.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250204868Author Gloria SteinemFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm * 23mm -
The Trouble with Testosterone by Robert M. Sapolsky 9780684838915
$22.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684838915Author Robert M. SapolskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 224g -
The Lives of the Saints: The Laureate Lectures by Sebastian Barry
RRP: $29.23$19.11OLD GOD'S TIME (MARCH 2023), SEBASTIAN BARRY'S STUNNING NEW NOVEL, AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOWFrom A Long Long Way, his Booker shortlisted novel about the Irish soldiers who fought for Britain during the First World War to his Donal McCann starring hit... -
Because You Died: Poetry and Prose of the First World War and After Vera Brittain 9781844084142
RRP: $21.43$12.62This collection of Vera Brittain's poetry and prose, some of it never published before, commemorates the men she loved - fiance, brother and two close friends - who served and died in the First World War. It draws on her experiences as a VAD nurse in... -
The Ghosts of Birds by Eliot Weinberger
RRP: $25.33$22.35The Ghosts of Birds offers thirty-five essays by Eliot Weinberger: the first section of the book continues his linked serial-essay, An Elemental Thing, which pulls the reader into "a vortex for the entire universe" (Boston Review). Here, Weinberger... -
Plant Dreaming Deep: A Novel by May Sarton 9780393315516
RRP: $32.18$26.81May Sarton describes living at her eighteenth-century house in Nelson, New Hampshire-how she acquired it, how it and the garden became part of her.About the AuthorMay Sarton (1912-1995) was an acclaimed poet, novelist, and memoirist.Reviews"A drama of... -
Dead as Doornails: A Memoir by Anthony Cronin
RRP: $19.50$17.41Dead as Doornails, first published in 1976, brings back into print a true classic of Irish memoir. Anthony Cronin's account of life in post-war literary Dublin is as funny and colourful as one would expect from an intimate of Brendan Behan, Patrick... -
Beneath My Feet: Writers on Walking: 2018 by Duncan Minshull 9781910749982
RRP: $29.23$24.47"Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness." -Soren Kierkegaard Duncan Minshull has always walked and in the last twenty years has made use of it by writing and... -
Faith in Fakes Umberto Eco 9780749396282
RRP: $21.43$15.15Holography, wax museums, the secret meaning of spectator sports, Superman and the intellectual effects of over-tight jeans are just a few of the subjects covered in this collection of witty, entertaining and thought-provoking delights from Umberto Eco,... -
Shakespeare: The Bard's Guide to Abuses and Affronts by Running Press
RRP: $11.68$9.75Baffle your friends with your erudite knowledge of Shakespearean English, all while casually insulting them. This deluxe collection of Shakespeare's most dazzling insults is neatly separated into sections for quick retrieval when a stinging retort is... -
The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction: Advice and Essential Exercises from Respected Writers, Editors, and Teachers by Dinty W Moore
RRP: $31.10$24.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984616664Author Dinty W MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 179Imprint Rose Metal PressPublisher Rose Metal PressWeight(grams) 318g -
The Tribe: Portraits of Cuba by Carlos Manuel Alvarez
RRP: $25.33$16.69Teeming with life and compulsively readable, the pieces gathered together in The Tribe aggregate into an extraordinary mosaic of Cuba today. Carlos Manuel Alvarez, one of the most exciting young writers in Latin America, employs the cronica form - a... -
The Wonders of Vilayet: Being the Memoir, Originally in Persian, of a Visit to France and Britain in 1765 by Mirza Sheikh I'tesamuddin 9781900715157
RRP: $21.43$14.90In 1765, Mirza Sheikh I'tesamuddin, a Bengali munchi employed by the East India Company, travelled on a mission to Britain to seek protection for the Mogul Emperor Shah Alam II. The mission was aborted by the greed and duplicity of Robert Clive, but it... -
Writing Home Polly Devlin 9781910258330
RRP: $21.43$13.65In the pieces brought together in Writing Home, Polly Devlin OBE, most bewitching of writers, covers subjects that range over her whole life and thought. She writes about places: about her childhood deep in the countryside of Northern Ireland (where, in... -
Annals: Bks. 4-6, 11-12, v. 4 by Cornelius Tacitus
RRP: $48.65$45.61The paramount historian of the early Roman empire.Tacitus (Cornelius), famous Roman historian, was born in AD 55, 56 or 57 and lived to about 120. He became an orator, married in 77 a daughter of Julius Agricola before Agricola went to Britain, was... -
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, Volume VI: Prose: 1969-1973 by W. H. Auden 9780691164588
RRP: $120.90$95.98This sixth and final volume of W. H. Auden's prose displays a great writer's mind in its full maturity of wisdom, learning, and emotional and moral intelligence. It contains the full text of the only book that he regarded as an autobiography, A Certain... -
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare by Henry Miller 9780811201063
RRP: $25.33$22.07In 1939, after ten years as an expatriate, Henry Miller returned to the United States with a keen desire to see what his native land was really like-to get to the roots of the American nature and experience. He set out on a journey that was to last three... -
Breaking into Song: Why You Shouldn't Hate Musicals by Adam Lenson 9781914228025
RRP: $19.48$13.16"This book is a fascinating cri de coeur and made me question everything I think about musicals" Alan Cumming A book for those who can't stand musicals, those who love them, and every theatregoer, academic, practitioner and student in between... -
H-Pop: The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars by Kunal Purohit 9789356995826
RRP: $34.13$28.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356995826Author Kunal PurohitFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaDimensions(mm) 220mm * 140mm * 20mm -
Darn Bach o'r Haul by Rhiannon Williams 9781913996741
$17.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913996741Author Gwasg y BwthynFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Gwasg y Bwthyn CyfPublisher Gwasg y Bwthyn CyfDimensions(mm) 165mm * 140mm * 12mm -
Wild Ducks Flying Backward by Tom Robbins 9781842431719 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.48$4.41From beloved and best-selling novelist Tom Robbins comes a collection of non-fiction essays and short fiction, many in print for the first time ever! From tributes such as an ode to redheads, kissing, Diane Keaton, Leonard Cohen, tomato sandwiches and... -
Wild Ducks Flying Backward by Tom Robbins 9781842431719
RRP: $19.48$6.84From beloved and best-selling novelist Tom Robbins comes a collection of non-fiction essays and short fiction, many in print for the first time ever! From tributes such as an ode to redheads, kissing, Diane Keaton, Leonard Cohen, tomato sandwiches and... -
Comrades: A Lifetime of Friendships Rosita Boland 9781781620540
RRP: $29.23$26.23'I was fascinated, moved and entertained by every page. This is the kind of book the world needs right now' DONAL RYAN_______________'My dictionary's first two definitions of 'comrade' are:A close companion.An intimate associate or friend.The third one... -
Murder Trials by Cicero
RRP: $29.23$21.35Cicero's speeches "In Defence of Sextus Roscius of Amerina," "In Defence of Aulus Cluentius Habitus," "In Defence of Gaius Rabirius," "Note on the Speeches in Defence of Caelius and Milo," and "In Defence of King Deiotarus" provide insight into Roman... -
The View From The Ground by Martha Gellhorn 9781862071490
RRP: $19.48$13.07Martha Gellhorn's peacetime dispatches bear witness to six decades of change: America in the Great Depression, the betrayal of Czechoslovakia, young Poles undaunted by their Communist government, the trial of Adolf Eichmann, Spain in the days after... -
Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour by Gustave Flaubert
RRP: $17.53$12.58At once a classic of travel literature and a penetrating portrait of a "sensibility on tour," Flaubert in Egypt wonderfully captures the young writer's impressions during his 1849 voyages. Using diaries, letters, travel notes, and the evidence of... -
Last Letter to a Reader by Gerald Murnane
RRP: $23.38$16.17In the first days of spring in his eighty-second year, Gerald Murnane - perhaps the greatest living writer of English prose - began a project that would round off his strange career as a novelist. He would read all of his books in turn and prepare a... -
Government of the Tongue by Seamus Heaney 9780571141517
RRP: $25.33$16.69The title, The Government of the Tongue, carries suggestions of both monastic discipline and untrammelled romanticism, and is meant to raise an old question about the rights and status of poetic utterance itself. Should it be governed? Should it be the... -
A Leg to Stand On by Oliver Sacks 9781529087420
RRP: $21.43$15.46'Oliver Sacks is a perfect antidote to the anaesthetic of familiarity. His writing turns brains and minds transparent' - ObserverWhen Oliver Sacks, a physician by profession, injured his leg while climbing a mountain, he found himself in an unusual... -
How People Change by Allen Wheelis 9780060904470
RRP: $17.53$15.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060904470Author Allen WheelisFormat PaperbackPage Count 117Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Granta 8: Dirty Realism by William Boyd 9780140068696
RRP: $33.13$29.17Dirty Realism is the fiction of a new generation of American authors. They write about the belly-side of contemporary life - a deserted husband, an unwed mother, a car thief, a pickpocket, a drug addict - but they write about it with a disturbing...