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Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays by Chelsea Hodson
RRP: £18.99£11.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250170194Author Chelsea HodsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Holt McDougalPublisher Holt McDougalWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm *... -
Frank Sinatra Has a Cold: And Other Essays by Gay Talese
RRP: £9.99£7.11A 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... -
De Re Metallica by G. Agricola 9780486600062
RRP: £41.99£29.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486600062Author G. AgricolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Skywriting By Word of Mouth by John Lennon
RRP: £10.99£7.77WITH AN AFTERWORD BY YOKO ONO AND ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE AUTHORJohn Lennon wrote the material collected in Skywriting by Word of Mouth during Yoko Ono's pregnancy with Sean Lennon. After John's assassination in 1980, his manuscript was stolen from... -
Walking in My Joy: In These Streets by Jenifer Lewis
RRP: £28.99£20.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063079656Author Jenifer LewisFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 231mm *... -
The View From The Ground by Martha Gellhorn 9781862071490
RRP: £9.99£6.70Martha 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... -
A Point of View by Clive James
RRP: £10.99£7.93From the fierce and funny Clive James, this is Britain in the twenty-first century - from wheelie bins to plastic surgery, and from Britain's Got Talent to contemporary art.Between 2007 and 2009, Clive James wrote and presented A Point of View for BBC... -
The Paris Review Interviews: Vol. 2 by Philip Gourevitch
RRP: £14.99£10.20A second volume of fascinating interviews from one of the world's best loved literary magazinesSince The Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest writers of our age, vivid self-portraits that are... -
Selected Writings on Art and Literature by Charles-Pierre Baudelaire
RRP: £14.99£10.95Before publishing the sensuous and scandalous poems of Les Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) had already earned respect as a forthright and witty critic of art and literature. This stimulating selection of criticism reveals him as a worshipper... -
Histories: Bk. III-IV by Herodotus
RRP: £24.95£23.39The "Father of History."Herodotus the great Greek historian was born about 484 BC, at Halicarnassus in Caria, Asia Minor, when it was subject to the Persians. He traveled widely in most of Asia Minor, Egypt (as far as Aswan), North Africa, Syria, the... -
Arthur Rimbaud Selected Poems by Arthur Rimbaud 9781857157086
RRP: £10.99£7.77Burnt-out at twenty-three, Rimbaud has become a model for the poet as wayward genius. Nevertheless, he wrote a substantial amount of lyric and dramatic verse in his few years of activity. This volume contains all his mature output, together with several... -
Bland Fanatics: Liberals, the West and the Afterlives of Empire by Pankaj Mishra 9781788737333
RRP: £16.99£14.10Decades of violence and chaos have generated a political and intellectual hysteria-ranging from imperial atavism to paranoia about invading or hectically breeding Muslim hordes-that has affected even the most intelligent in Anglo-America. In Bland... -
Cyclops by Euripides
RRP: £24.95£23.39Three plays by ancient Greece's third great tragedian.One of antiquity's greatest poets, Euripides has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. The new Loeb Classical Library edition of his... -
Walk in My Combat Boots: True Stories from the Battlefront by James Patterson 9781529135305
RRP: £16.99£11.27'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... -
The Secret Agent's Bedside Reader: A Compendium of Spy Writing by Michael Smith 9781785904813
£11.62Espionage 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... -
The Mystery Feast: Thoughts on Storytelling by Ben Okri
RRP: £3.99£3.14Packed 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... -
Italian Hours by Henry James
RRP: £10.99£7.77'The charm of certain vacant grassy spaces, in Italy, overfrowned by masses of brickwork that are honeycombed by the suns of centuries, is something that I hereby renounce once for all the attempt to express; but you may be sure that whenever I mention... -
Aristotle De Arte Poetica by Rudolf Kassel 9780198145646
£50.41Aristotle De Arte PoeticaBook InformationISBN 9780198145646Author Rudolf KasselFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressDimensions(mm) 195mm * 128mm * 11mm -
My Private Property by Mary Ruefle 9781940696515
RRP: £12.99£8.63Unlike 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... -
Annals: Bks. 4-6, 11-12, v. 4 by Cornelius Tacitus
RRP: £24.95£23.39The 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 Little Virtues: Essays by Natalia Ginzburg
RRP: £10.99£10.00With 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... -
Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin
RRP: £12.99£8.56How to speak of the searing, unpindownable power that the past - ours, our family's, our culture's - wields in the present? In five long sections, Maria Tumarkin's Axiomatic tells true and intimate stories of a community dealing with the extended... -
Micrograms by Nicole Walker 9781934832547
RRP: £9.00£7.87Apologies 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 *... -
The Praise of Folly and Other Writings: A Norton Critical Edition by Desiderius Erasmus 9780393957495
£15.23Besides the celebrated Praise of Folly, Robert M. Adams has included the political "Complaint of Peace," the brutal antipapal satire "Julius Excluded from Heaven," two versions of Erasmus's important preface to the Latin translation of the New Testament,... -
The French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers by Ted Jones
RRP: £14.99£11.75A reader's journey along the French Riviera, from Hyeres and Saint-Tropez to the Italian border, introducing the lives and work of writers who passed this way. The sunlight and calm of the French Riviera have been a magnet for writers since the... -
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions by Gloria Steinem 9781250204868
RRP: £21.00£12.95Apologies 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 -
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... -
The Decay of Lying: And Other Essays by Oscar Wilde
RRP: £7.99£5.79In 'The Decay of Lying' Oscar Wilde uses his decadent ideology in an attempt to reverse and therefore reject his audiences' 'normal' conceptualizations of nature, art and morality. Wilde's views of life and art are illustrated through the use of Platonic... -
Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster by Helen Andrews
RRP: £24.99£16.38Apologies 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 -
What Would Lynne Tillman Do? by Lynne Tillman 9781935869214
RRP: £12.99£8.63Here is an American mind contemplating contemporary society and culture with wit, imagination, and a brave intelligence. Tillman upends expectations, shifts tone, introduces characters, breaches limits of genre and category, reconfiguring the world with... -
Essays by George Orwell 9780141395463
RRP: £9.99£7.11These essays, reviews and articles illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who created a unique literary manner from the process of thinking aloud and who elevated political writing to an art.About... -
Inventing the Enemy by Umberto Eco
RRP: £12.99£9.09The final collection of essays from the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of The Name of the Rose and The Prague Cemetery, on the subjects of art and culture.In this collection of essays we find Umberto Eco's perennial areas of interest... -
Double-Tracking: Studies in Duplicity by Rosanna McLaughlin 9780995705227
RRP: £10.99£7.64To double-track is to be both: counter-cultural and establishment, rich and poor, a bum with the keys to a country retreat, an exotic addition to the dinner table who still knows how to find their way around the silverware. In the 1970s Tom Wolfe... -
How to Read Now by Elaine Castillo
RRP: £14.99£9.80'I cannot say enough about How to Read Now... Check it out' Roxane Gay'A red-hot grenade... One of my favourite books of the year' Jia Tolentino'Energetically brilliant, warmly humane, incisively funny' Andrew Sean Greer'I gasped, shouted, and... -
Library of History: v. 8 by Siculus Diodorus
RRP: £24.95£23.39Remains of a universal chronicle.Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily (ca. 80-20 BC), wrote forty books of world history, called Library of History, in three parts: mythical history of peoples, non-Greek and Greek, to the Trojan War;... -
The Trouble with Testosterone by Robert M. Sapolsky 9780684838915
£11.54Apologies 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: £14.99£9.80OLD 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 by Vera Brittain
RRP: £10.99£6.47This 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... -
On Animals by Susan Orlean 9781838955489
RRP: £9.99£6.52'Every essay in this book is magnificent... Mesmerizing.' New York Times'How we interact with animals has preoccupied philosophers, poets, and naturalists for ages,' writes Susan Orlean. Since the age of six, when Orlean wrote and illustrated a book... -
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