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Gratitude by Oliver Sacks
RRP: £12.99£7.52Oliver Sacks died in August 2015 at his home in Greenwich Village, surrounded by his close friends and family. He was 82. He spent his final days doing what he loved: playing the piano, swimming, enjoying smoked salmon - and writing . . . As Dr Sacks... -
Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books by Hilary Mantel
RRP: £9.99£6.64A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the Light In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London... -
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
RRP: £12.99£9.09Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor in 1978, while suffering from breast cancer herself. In her study she reveals that the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of the patients and often inhibit... -
The Saga of the Volsungs: The Norse Epic of Sigurd the Dragon Slayer by Jesse Byock
RRP: £9.99£7.67The epic Viking Age stories that inspired J. R. R. Tolkien and Wagner's Ring cycleWritten in thirteenth-century Iceland but based on ancient Norse poetry cycles, The Saga of the Volsungs combines mythology, legend and sheer human drama. It tells of the... -
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
RRP: £9.99£7.11'The story of the negro in America is the story of America ... it is not a very pretty story'James Baldwin's breakthrough essay collection made him the voice of his generation. Ranging over Harlem in the 1940s, movies, novels, his preacher father and his... -
The Nibelungenlied by A. Hatto
RRP: £12.99£9.09Written by an unknown author in the twelfth century, this powerful tale of murder and revenge reaches back to the earliest epochs of German antiquity, transforming centuries-old legend into a masterpiece of chivalric drama. Siegfried, a great prince of... -
Antigone; Oedipus the King; Electra by Sophocles
RRP: £7.99£5.79Love and loyalty, hatred and revenge, fear, deprivation, and political ambition: these are the motives which thrust the characters portrayed in these three Sophoclean masterpieces on to their collision course with catastrophe. Recognized in his own... -
A Guest at the Feast by Colm Tóibín 9780241970614
RRP: £10.99£7.77A Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it.From the melancholy and amusement within the work of the writer John McGahern to an... -
Orkneyinga Saga: The History of the Earls of Orkney by Hermann Palsson
RRP: £9.99£7.11Written around AD 1200 by an unnamed Icelandic author, the Orkneyinga Saga is an intriguing fusion of myth, legend and history. The only medieval chronicle to have Orkney as the central place of action, it tells of an era when the islands were still part... -
Claudia Jones: Beyond Containment by Carole Boyce Davies 9780956240163
RRP: £16.99£11.62Apologies 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)... -
On Women: A new collection of feminist essays from the influential writer, activist and critic, Susan Sontag by Susan Sontag
RRP: £16.99£12.28'A brilliant, glittering intelligence' Sunday TimesOn Women brings together Susan Sontag's most fearless and incisive writing on women, a crucial aspect of her work that has not until now received the attention it deserves.For the most part written in... -
Poems And Prophecies by William Blake 9781857150346
RRP: £16.99£12.68This is a selection of the poet's work, including all the great lyrics and the more important prophetic books. In her introduction the poet and critic expounds Blake's esoteric theory and shows how it helped to create a poetry which is unlike any other... -
Timaeus Critias Cleitophon Menexenus Epistles: v. 9 by Plato
RRP: £24.95£22.92On the creation of the world, and the destruction of Atlantis.Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BC. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else... -
Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative by Melissa Febos 9781526165848
RRP: £12.99£9.24In this bold and exhilarating mix of memoir and writing guide, Melissa Febos tackles the emotional, psychological, and physical work of writing intimately while offering an utterly fresh examination of the storyteller's life and the challenges it... -
Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing
RRP: £9.99£6.87In this inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbulent political weather of the twenty-first century.'Never has a publication been more timely' - Dazed'A... -
Art Heals by Shaun McNiff
RRP: £26.00£16.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590301661Author Shaun McNiffFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Illuminations by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £16.99£12.28Illuminations contains the most celebrated work of Walter Benjamin, one of the most original and influential thinkers of the 20th Century: 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', 'The Task of the Translator' and 'Theses on the Philosophy... -
What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence by Michele Filgate
RRP: £10.99£7.00In the early 2000's, as an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an essay about being abused by her stepfather. It took many years for her to realize what she was actually trying to write about: the fracture this caused in her relationship... -
The Long-Winded Lady by Maeve Brennan 9781913512446
RRP: £12.99£8.68In these delightful, melancholy prose sketches Maeve Brennan goes in pursuit of the ordinary, taking us on a tour of the cheap hotels, unassuming restaurants, and crowded streets of New York City. Brennan presents herself as the long-winded lady,... -
Space Crone by Ursula K. Le Guin
RRP: £13.99£9.59Ursula K. Le Guin witnessed and contributed to many of the twentieth century's rebellions and upheavals, including women's liberation, the Civil Rights movement and US anti-war and environmental activism. Spanning fifty years of her life and work, Space... -
The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 by Martin Amis 9780099422228
RRP: £14.99£10.95Like John Updike, Martin Amis is the pre-eminent novelist-critic of his generation. The War Against Cliche is a selection of his reviews and essays over the past quarter-century. It contains pieces on Cervantes, Milton, Donne, Coleridge, Jane Austen,... -
Republic by Plato 9780872201361
RRP: £13.99£11.55The revised edition of Grube's classic translation follows and furthers Grube's noted success in combining fidelity to Plato's text with natural readability, while reflecting the fruits of new scholarship and insights into Plato's thought since... -
The Jungle: A Personal Journey with the Enfant Terrible of Nigerian Journalism by David Hundeyin 9781739267599
RRP: £15.99£11.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739267599Author David HundeyinFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Abibiman Publishing UKPublisher Abibiman Publishing UK -
Bittersweet: How to Turn Sorrow Into Creativity, Beauty and Love by Susan Cain 9780241300671
RRP: £10.99£7.77AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICKTHE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER -- FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER QUIET: THE POWER OF INTROVERTS IN A WORLD THAT CAN'T STOP TALKING"Amazing and profound . . . every single person should read it" Johann Hari"Moving... -
Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales by Oliver Sacks 9781509821808
RRP: £9.99£7.06From the bestselling author of On Gratitude and On the Move.In this spirited volume, Oliver Sacks examines the many passions of his own life - both as a doctor engaged with the central questions of human existence, and as a polymath conversant in all the... -
The Major Works by Thomas Brown
RRP: £18.99£13.61Sir Thomas Browne (1605-82) was a writer of breathtaking range and learning, whose works demonstrate a warm and humorous view of human nature. Religio Medici is a fascinating, witty and intimate exploration of his views on faith and tolerance, while... -
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
RRP: £11.99£8.00A collection of insightful and uproariously funny non-fiction by the bestselling author of INFINITE JEST - one of the most acclaimed and adventurous writers of our time. A SUPPOSEDLY FUN THING... brings together Wallace's musings on a wide range of... -
Notes to Self by Emilie Pine
RRP: £10.99£7.77'I am afraid of being the disruptive woman. And of not being disruptive enough. I am afraid. But I am doing it anyway.'In this dazzling debut, Emilie Pine speaks powerfully from her painful personal experience - on the emotional labour of caring for her... -
AZADI: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction. by Arundhati Roy
RRP: £10.99£7.77FROM THE BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF MY SEDITIOUS HEART AND THE MINISTRY OF UTMOST HAPPINESS, A NEW AND PRESSING DISPATCH FROM THE HEART OF THE CROWD AND THE SOLITUDE OF A WRITER'S DESKThe chant of 'Azadi!' - Urdu for 'Freedom!' - is the slogan of the freedom... -
The Anthropocene Reviewed: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller by John Green
RRP: £12.99£9.09A deeply moving and mind-expanding collection of personal essays in the first ever work of non-fiction from #1 internationally bestselling author John GreenThe Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the... -
Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion
RRP: £9.99£6.64Twelve early pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of Joan Didion. Mostly drawn from the earliest part of her astonishing five-decade career, the wide-ranging... -
Run With the Hunted: Charles Bukowski Reader, A by Charles Bukowski
RRP: £9.99£6.64The best of Bukowski's novels, stories, and poems, this collection reads like an autobiography, relating the extraordinary story of his life and offering a sometimes harrowing, invariably exhilarating reading experience. A must for this counterculture... -
Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation by Nuar Alsadir
RRP: £12.99£8.56Laughter shakes us out of our deadness. An outburst of spontaneous laughter is an eruption from the unconscious that, like political resistance, poetry, or self-revelation, expresses a provocative, impish drive to burst free from external constraints... -
Real Estate by Deborah Levy
RRP: £10.99£7.77From one of the great thinkers and writers of our time, comes the unmissable final instalment in Deborah Levy's critically acclaimed 'Living Autobiography'.'A beautifully crafted and thought-provoking snapshot of a life' The Evening... -
At the Pond: Swimming at the Hampstead Ladies' Pond by Margaret Drabble
RRP: £9.99£6.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911547396Author Margaret DrabbleFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books -
Happening by Annie Ernaux
RRP: £9.99£7.52In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep that child. This is the story, written... -
Dispatches from the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter by Gary Younge
RRP: £14.99£9.80BY THE WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR JOURNALISM 2023A powerful collection of journalism on race, racism and Black life and death from one of the nation's leading political voices.'An outstanding journalist and chronicler.' BERNARDINE EVARISTO'Fused with... -
The Lesser Declamations: v. 2 by Quintilian
RRP: £24.95£22.92Mock trial-Roman style.The Lesser Declamations, dating perhaps from the second century AD and attributed to Quintilian, might more accurately be described as emanating from "the school of Quintilian." The collection-here made available for the first... -
Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius by Nick Hornby 9780241996478
RRP: £9.99£7.11'A joyful examination of two artists from different centuries and the unlikely parallels in their life and work' Guardian'An ardent fan letter from Hornby that makes you want to reread Great Expectations whilst listening to Sign o'the Times'... -
The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius by George Orwell
RRP: £6.99£5.13George Orwell's moving reflections on the English character and his passionate belief in the need for political change.The Lion and the Unicorn was written in London during the worst period of the blitz. It is vintage Orwell, a dynamic outline of his...