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The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal by Gore Vidal
RRP: €20.23€13.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307388681Author Gore VidalFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 391gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm... -
The Art of Poetry: OCR Conflict by Johanna Harrison 9780995467170
RRP: €21.41€17.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995467170Author Johanna HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Peripeteia PressPublisher Peripeteia PressWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
Journeying by Claudio Magris
RRP: €22.60€19.25A writer for whom the journey has always mattered reinvents the very form itself in this inviting collection of in-the-moment impressions of his journeys A writer of enormous erudition and wide-ranging travels, Claudio Magris selects for this volume... -
Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling
RRP: €20.23€11.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804138161Author Mindy KalingFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams)... -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Sources and Analogues by Elisabeth Brewer
RRP: €23.79€20.96This anthology of medieval writing provides a context for a deeper understanding of the Gawain-poet's originality and skill. The intertextuality of this brilliant poem can be more fully understood through Elisabeth Brewer's presentation of modern... -
Looking at Pictures by Robert Walser
RRP: €23.79€20.67A beautiful and elegant collection, with gorgeous full-color art reproductions, Looking at Pictures presents a little-known side of the eccentric Swiss genius: his great writings on art. His essays consider Van Gogh, Cezanne, Rembrandt, Cranach, Watteau,... -
The View From The Ground by Martha Gellhorn 9781862071490
RRP: €11.89€7.97Martha 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... -
Dreams Must Explain Themselves: The Selected Non-Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin by Ursula K. Le Guin
RRP: €22.60€15.17Ursula K. Le Guin has won or been nominated for over 200 awards for her fiction, including the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy and SFWA Grand Master Awards. She is the acclaimed author of the Earthsea sequence and The Left Hand of Darkness - which alone... -
Sunday Best: 80 Great Books from a Lifetime of Reviews by John Carey 9780300273021
RRP: €13.08€11.15A collection of John Carey's greatest, wisest, and wittiest reviews-amassed over a lifetime of writing In 1977, newly installed as a professor of English at Oxford, John Carey took the position of chief reviewer for the Sunday Times. In a career... -
Lives of Houses by Hermione Lee 9780691193663
RRP: €23.80€19.39A group of notable writers-including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow-celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists, composers, and politicians of the past What can a... -
You're Doing It Wrong by Kevin Power 9781843518327
RRP: €15.47€13.11Art honours the world, and criticism honours art, even - perhaps especially - when the critic sets out to destroy. The bad review is hardly ever written out of mere spite. In most cases, the motivation is disappointed idealism. Critics are people who... -
American Transcendentalists: Essential Writings by Lawrence Buell
RRP: €20.22€15.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812975093Author Lawrence BuellFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm)... -
A Point of View by Clive James
RRP: €13.08€9.44From 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... -
Notes on the Death of Culture: Essays on Spectacle and Society by Mario Vargas Llosa
RRP: €17.84€11.66'The most approachable and exhilarating Latin American writer of our times.' Robert McCrum, ObserverIn the past, culture was a kind of vital consciousness that constantly rejuvenated and revivified everyday reality. Now it is largely a mechanism of... -
The Abundance by Annie Dillard
RRP: €13.08€8.71Annie Dillard has spent a lifetime examining the world around her with eyes wide open, drinking in all things intensely and relentlessly. Whether observing a sublime lunar eclipse or a moth consumed in a candle flame, the trembling of lily pads on a pond... -
The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020 by Rachel Kushner 9781787332973
RRP: €22.60€14.85*A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021*From the Booker-shortlisted author of The Mars Room, a career-spanning collection of spectacular essays about politics and culture.Rachel Kushner is a writer celebrated for her 'chops, ambition, and killer instinct'... -
The Psychic Soviet by Ian F Svenonius 9781617757662
RRP: €18.98€12.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617757662Author Ian F SvenoniusFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S. -
Frank Sinatra Has a Cold: And Other Essays by Gay Talese
RRP: €11.89€8.46A 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... -
Sauntering: Writers Walk Europe by Duncan Minshull
RRP: €17.84€14.93On foot the world comes our way. We get close to the Continent's alpine ranges, arterial rivers, expansive coastlines. Close to its ancient cities and mysterious thoroughfares; and close to the walkers themselves-the Grand Tourers and explorers,... -
The American Canon: Literary Genius from Emerson to Pynchon by Prof. Harold Bloom 9781598536409
RRP: €41.65€26.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598536409Author Harold BloomFormat HardbackPage Count 436Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 709gDimensions(mm)... -
The Decay of Lying: And Other Essays by Oscar Wilde
RRP: €9.51€6.89In '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... -
The Atlantic Ocean: Essays on Britain and America by Andrew O'Hagan
RRP: €20.22€14.26A stunning collection of reportage from an acclaimed journalist and novelist hailed by the New York Times as 'the best essayist of his generation'.As he grew up, Andrew O'Hagan witnessed the decline of Britain and the rise of America, the end of British... -
Claudia Jones: Beyond Containment by Carole Boyce Davies 9780956240163
RRP: €20.22€13.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956240163Author Carole Boyce DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Ayebia Clarke Publishing LtdPublisher Ayebia Clarke Publishing LtdWeight(grams)... -
Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays by Chelsea Hodson
RRP: €22.60€13.29Apologies 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 *... -
Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces by Michael Chabon
RRP: €10.70€7.04Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Manhood for Amateurs and Moonglow, returns with a collection of heartfelt, humorous and insightful essays on the meaning of fatherhood. ... -
God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin by Hilton Als 9781954947092
RRP: €39.26€25.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954947092Author Hilton AlsFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Dancing Foxes PressPublisher Dancing Foxes Press -
Incidental Inventions by Elena Ferrante
RRP: €19.03€13.0318M copies of Elena Ferrante's books sold worldwide "This is my last column, after a year that has scared and inspired me." With these words, Elena Ferrante, the bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend, bid farewell to her year-long collaboration... -
The Paris Review Interviews: Vol. 2 by Philip Gourevitch
RRP: €17.84€12.14A 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: €17.84€13.03Before 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... -
How to Read Now by Elaine Castillo
RRP: €17.84€11.66'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... -
Histories: Bk. III-IV by Herodotus
RRP: €29.69€27.83The "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: €13.08€9.25Burnt-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: €20.22€16.78Decades 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: €29.69€27.83Three 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... -
The Secret Agent's Bedside Reader: A Compendium of Spy Writing by Michael Smith 9781785904813
€13.83Espionage 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: €4.75€3.74Packed 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... -
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023 by Carl Zimmer 9780063293212
RRP: €17.84€11.54Award-winning writer, columnist, and journalists Carl Zimmer selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in 2022.A collection of the best science and nature articles written in 2022, selected by guest... -
Too Famous: The Rich, The Powerful, The Wishful, The Damned, The Notorious - Twenty Years of Columns, Essays and Reporting by Michael Wolff
RRP: €23.80€8.23Barbed, witty, revealing and entertaining, Too Famous could be an instant classic.Bestselling author of Fire and Fury, Siege and Landslide and chronicler of the Trump White House Michael Wolff dissects more of the major monsters, media moguls and... -
My Private Property by Mary Ruefle 9781940696515
RRP: €15.46€10.27Unlike 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: €29.69€27.83The 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...