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Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster by Helen Andrews
RRP: $52.48$34.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593086759Author Helen AndrewsFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Bantam PressPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Voice of the Silence by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
RRP: $14.68$12.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781537167909Author Helena Petrova BlavatskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Works: v. 7 by Demosthenes
RRP: $52.40$49.12The 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... -
Love Drones by Noam Dorr 9781946448385
RRP: $27.28$18.12In 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... -
Fables: Fables by Phaedrus
RRP: $52.40$51.53Fabulous verse.Babrius is the reputed author of a collection (discovered in the 19th century) of more than 125 fables based on those called Aesop's, in Greek verse. He may have been a Hellenized Roman living in Asia Minor during the late first century of... -
Refugee Wales: Syrian Voices by Angham Abdullah 9781914595301
RRP: $42.00$30.01This 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... -
Suetonius: Vol 1 by Suetonius
RRP: $52.40$49.12Antiquity'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: $18.88$14.36SHORTLISTED 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... -
The Essential Ernest Holmes: Collected Writings by the Author of the Science of Mind by Jesse Jennings
RRP: $31.48$30.28Apologies 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 -
Le Morte D'Arthur Volume 1 by Sir Thomas Malory
RRP: $27.28$18.90Le Morte D'Arthur is Sir Thomas Malory's richly evocative and enthralling version of the Arthurian legend. Recounting Arthur's birth, his ascendancy to the throne after claiming Excalibur, his ill-fated marriage to Guenever, the treachery of Morgan le... -
The Best American Food Writing 2023 by Mark Bittman 9780063322523
RRP: $31.48$20.37A 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,... -
In Search Of Lost Time Volume 2 by Terence Kilmartin
RRP: $42.00$30.85In 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: $33.58$22.95Apologies 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 -
The Future of War Crimes Justice by Chris Stephen 9781911545651
RRP: $18.88$13.02As 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... -
Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell by Katherine Angel
RRP: $23.08$16.32Unmastered is groundbreaking, incisive and moving. Exploring desire and pleasure, grief and pain, it underlines the importance and difficulties of speaking desire as a woman. How do we explore sexuality on our own terms, and find language for our... -
Art of Love by Ovid
RRP: $52.40$49.12Seductive 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... -
Is It Hot in Here (Or Am I Suffering for All Eternity for the Sins I Committed on Earth)? by Zach Zimmerman
RRP: $27.28$18.71In this debut collection of essays, lists, musings, and quips, Zimmerman delicately walks the fine line between tear-jerking and knee-slapping, and does so with aplomb. Through this memoir-esque exploration of selfhood, Zach unveils the pros and cons of... -
Parmenides of Elea: A text and translation with an introduction by David Gallop
RRP: $60.88$52.42David Gallop provides a Greek text and a new facing-page translation of the extant fragments of Parmenides' philosophical poem. He also includes the first complete translation into English of the contexts in which the fragments have been transmitted to... -
Love of the World: Essays by John McGahern
RRP: $27.28$17.98An enlightening collection of essays, reviews and speeches by 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel) and 'the Irish novelist everyone should read' (Colm Toibin).'Wise and compelling ... Elegiac and graceful.' David Mitchell'I have... -
Politics and the English Language by George Orwell 9781851246021
RRP: $21.00$16.28George Orwell's essay examines the power of language to shape political ideas. It is about the importance of writing concisely, clearly and precisely and the dangers to our ability to think when language, especially political language, is obscured by... -
Paris Stories by Shaun Whiteside
RRP: $31.50$23.02In the eighteenth century, Laurence Sterne explores the temptations of the French capital in a teasing study of foreign mores and Restif de la Bretonne provides an eye-witness account of the Revolution. From the 1800s, Hugo, Balzac, Flaubert, and Zola... -
Faith In Fakes by Umberto Eco
RRP: $23.08$16.32Holography, 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,... -
Humiliation by Wayne Koestenbaum 9781907903465 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.48$16.17The lives of people both famous and obscure are filled with moments when their dirty laundry sees daylight. At such times we witness the reversibility of success, of prominence, but also come to terms viscerally with our own most vulnerable selves. We... -
Humiliation by Wayne Koestenbaum 9781907903465
RRP: $31.48$26.36The lives of people both famous and obscure are filled with moments when their dirty laundry sees daylight. At such times we witness the reversibility of success, of prominence, but also come to terms viscerally with our own most vulnerable selves. We... -
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf 9780141018980
RRP: $16.78$12.16Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched... -
Art, Wealth and Riches by William Morris
RRP: $10.50$9.28William Morris is perhaps best known today for the beautiful textile designs he created under the banner of Morris & Co, which continue to decorate homes around the globe. As one of the leading lights of British socialism, however, he is less well known,... -
The Penguin Book of Migration Literature: Departures, Arrivals, Generations, Returns by Dohra Ahmad
RRP: $31.48$20.87Spanning a period of over three hundred years and twenty-five countries, The Penguin Book of Migration Literature is a wide-ranging anthology that brings together well-known authors such as Mohsin Hamid, Zadie Smith and Salman Rushdie alongside emerging... -
The Shape of a Pocket by John Berger 9780747558101
RRP: $31.48$23.00John Berger writes: 'The pocket in question is a small pocket of resistance. A pocket is formed when two or more people come together in agreement. The resistance is against the inhumanity of the new world economic order. The people coming together are... -
By-Line by Ernest Hemingway
RRP: $23.08$16.32Ernest Hemingway's literary apprenticeship was served in journalism, a career that he pursued for over four decades. From his early work as a correspondent for the Toronto Star in Europe during the 1920s, through his inimitable articles for Esquire and... -
One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko by Mike Royko
RRP: $29.40$24.36Mike Royko wrote a daily column for nearly 35 years - at first for the "Chicago Daily News", then the "Sun-Times", and finally the "Tribune" - and his Pulitzer Prize-winning commentary was syndicated in more than 600 newspapers nationwide. Pretension and... -
Tristia: Vol 6 by Ovid
RRP: $52.40$48.78The poet in exile.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... -
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 *... -
George MacDonald by C. S. Lewis
RRP: $20.98$15.25An 365-day anthology of readings from one of the most influential writers of all time, George MacDonald, compiled by CS Lewis himself. MacDonald was a major Christian writer of the late nineteenth, early twentieth centuries. He influenced... -
In Case of Loss by Lutz Seiler 9781913505783 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.48$4.91In Case of Loss gathers the best of Lutz Seiler's non-fiction from last twenty-five years, revealing his essays to be different to, but on a par with, his fiction and poetry. Seiler's beautifully anecdotal and associative pieces throw fascinating light... -
The Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power by David Shields
RRP: $37.70$26.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814255193Author David ShieldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)... -
In Danger: A Pasolini Anthology by Pier Paolo Pasolini
RRP: $33.58$23.18Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) was a major cultural figure in post-WWII Italy, well-known as a poet, novelist, communist intellectual, and filmmaker. In Danger is the first anthology in English devoted to his political and literary essays, with a... -
The Art of Poetry Volume 3: volume 3 by Neal Bowen 9780993077883
RRP: $16.78$14.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993077883Author Neal BowenFormat PaperbackPage Count 147Imprint Peripeteia PressPublisher Peripeteia Press -
The Elegy of Lady Fiammetta by Giovanni Boccaccio 9780226062761
RRP: $48.30$46.47A milestone in feminist literature, this marvelous European romance, narrated by a woman, is considered the first psychological novel in a modern language and a precursor of stream-of-consciousness fiction. Written by Giovanni Boccaccio between 1343 and... -
The Unnamable Present by Roberto Calasso
RRP: $23.08$16.32Tourists, terrorists, secularists, hackers, fundamentalists, transhumanists, algorithmicians: in this book Roberto Calasso considers the tribes that inhabit and inform the world today. A world that feels more elusive than ever before.This book, the ninth... -
Homo Irrealis by André Aciman
RRP: $27.28$20.96The bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with this collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works. The irrealis mood knows no boundaries between what is and what isn't, between...