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Poetic Intention by Edouard Glissant 9780982264539
RRP: $21.92$15.05This marks the publication of the first English-language translation of Poetic Intention, Glissant's classic meditation on poetry and art. In this wide-ranging book, Glissant discusses poets, including Stephane Mallarme and Saint-John Perse, and visual... -
The Critic as Artist by Oscar Wilde
RRP: $15.48$10.32In The Critic as Artist, arguably the most complete exploration of his aesthetic thinking, and certainly the most entertaining, Oscar Wilde harnesses his famous wit to demolish the supposed boundary between art and criticism. Subtitled Upon the... -
American Originality: Essays on Poetry by Louise Gluck
RRP: $20.64$12.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374537463Author Louise GluckFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)... -
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx 9780099540748
RRP: $7.73$5.75WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID AARONOVITCHThe Communist Manifesto was first published in London, by two young men in their late twenties, in 1848. Its impact reverberated across the globe and throughout the next century, and it has come to be recognised... -
DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi 9781940696959
RRP: $21.92$15.05WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY "Don Mee Choi's urgent DMZ Colony captures the migratory latticework of those transformed by war and colonization. Homelands present and past share one sky where birds fly, but 'during the Korean War... -
Love of the World: Essays by John McGahern
RRP: $16.76$11.04An 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... -
The Idler 85, Jul/Aug 22: Featuring Jarvis Cocker plus wild swimming, mudlarking and more by Tom Hodgkinson 9781739660802
RRP: $11.61$8.33The Idler is a literary and philosophical lifestyle periodical edited by Tom Hodgkinson. This instalment features an interview with Jarvis Cocker about his memoir Good Pop Bad Pop, a guide to mudlarking, Arthur Smith in praise of teachers, Kate Rew on... -
The Literature of Ancient Egypt: An Anthology of Stories, Instructions, Stelae, Autobiographies, and Poetry by William Kelly Simpson 9780300099201
RRP: $25.80$25.54The latest edition of this highly praised anthology of ancient Egyptian literature offers fresh translations of all the texts as well as some twenty-five new entries, including writings from the late literature of the Demotic period at the end of... -
Agatha Christie: First Lady of Crime Agatha Christie 9781474619448
RRP: $12.89$8.77Includes a new introduction from Sophie Hannah, bestselling author of THE MONOGRAM MURDERS and HAVEN'T THEY GROWNAgatha Christie was not only the biggest selling writer of detective stories the world has ever known, she was also a mystery in herself,... -
Beginning Postcolonialism by Peter J. Barry
RRP: $14.18$10.19Postcolonialism has become one of the most exciting, popular and stimulating fields of literary and cultural studies in recent years. Yet the variety of approaches, the range of debate and the critical vocabularies often used may make it challenging for... -
London's Overthrow by China Mieville 9781908906144
RRP: $10.31$7.22London's Overthrow is a potent polemic describing the capital in a time of austerity at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Award-winning author and essayist China Mieville cuts through the hyperbole of our politicians to present a view from... -
My Crazy Century by Ivan Klima
RRP: $21.92$15.45More than a memoir, My Crazy Century explores the ways in which the epoch and its dominating totalitarian ideologies impacted the lives, character, and morality of Klima's generation. Klima's story begins in the 1930s, in the Terezin concentration camp... -
Symposium by Plato 9780872200760
RRP: $15.47$14.13A model of the kind of text one needs for lecture courses: the translation is extremely readable and made even more accessible by intelligent printing decisions (on dividing the text, spacing for clarification, etc.); the notes are kept to a minimum but... -
The Disconnect: A Personal Journey Through the Internet by Roisin Kiberd
RRP: $12.89$8.41We all live online now, but what does that mean in IRL? How do strange subcultures on reddit affect our local shopping centres, what do night gyms owe to Twitter, and where can we really go to get some decent sleep? Our every move online is watched, but... -
Crystal Clear: The Selected Prose of John Jordan by Hugh McFadden 9781843510666
RRP: $25.79$24.28Writer, poet, lecturer, broadcaster and man-of -letters, John Jordan (1930-88) was a distinguished scholar-critic in the Dublin of his day, teaching English at University College Dublin (1955-66) and at the Memorial University of Newfoundland at St... -
Thro Through the Gate by Kenneth Ballantyne 9780955060199
$13.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955060199Author Kenneth BallantyneFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Laundry Cottage BooksPublisher Laundry Cottage Books -
What I Stand On: The Collected Essays of Wendell Berry 1969 - 2017 by Wendell Berry 9781598536102
RRP: $91.58$59.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598536102Author Wendell BerryFormat HardbackPage Count 1702Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America -
The Call of the Tribe: Essays by Mario Vargas Llosa
RRP: $24.50$16.10In The Call of the Tribe, Mario Vargas Llosa surveys the readings that have shaped the way he thinks and has viewed the world over the past fifty years. The Nobel Laureate maps out the liberal thinkers who helped him develop a new body of ideas after the... -
Natural History: v. 1: Bks.I-II by Pliny the Elder
RRP: $32.19$30.17An unrivaled compendium of ancient Roman knowledge.Pliny the Elder, Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23-79), a Roman of equestrian rank of Transpadane Gaul (N. Italy), was uncle of Pliny the letter writer. He pursued a career partly military in Germany, partly... -
Mothers, Fathers, and Others: New Essays Siri Hustvedt 9781529376647
RRP: $25.80$17.22'It is Hustvedt's gift to write with exemplary clarity of what is by necessity unclear.' Hilary Mantel, GuardianFeminist philosophy meets family memoir in a fresh essay collection by the award-winning essayist and novelist Siri Hustvedt, author of the... -
The Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power by David Shields
RRP: $23.16$16.51Apologies 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)... -
Rhetorical Treatises: De Oratore: v. 4: Book III, De Fato by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $32.19$30.17The philosopher-statesman on ethics and rhetoric.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,... -
Street Haunting: A London Adventure & Bulwell by Virginia Woolf
RRP: $5.16$4.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910170427Author Virginia WoolfImprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications -
The Art of Literature by Arthur Schopenhauer 9780486434414
RRP: $9.66$7.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486434414Author Arthur SchopenhauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Essays by Plutarch
RRP: $19.34$14.16One of the greatest essayists of the Graeco-Roman world, Plutarch (c. AD 46 -120) used an encyclopedic knowledge of the Roman Empire to produce a compelling and individual voice. In this superb selection from his writings, he offers personal insights... -
The Russian Soul: Selections from a Writer's Diary: 2017 by Fyodor Dostoevsky
RRP: $19.34$16.19A new anthology of Dostoevsky's remarkable work 'A Writer's Diary'. A voluminous and variegated miscellany in which the celebrated author spoke to his readers about issues concerning Russia, it is a work as eerily prescient of global preoccupations in... -
Selected Essays by Gore Vidal 9780349120454
$24.72Vidal has a fierce, uncontaminated sense of what's right and wrong, and he expresses his most intimate opinions fearlessly' John Simpson, Daily Mail This new selection brings together the best of Gore Vidal's essays, comment and criticism from his... -
Scripta Minora by Xenophon
RRP: $32.19$30.17A miscellany of minor works.Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BC) was a wealthy Athenian and friend of Socrates. He left Athens in 401 and joined an expedition including ten thousand Greeks led by the Persian governor Cyrus against the Persian king... -
The Curtain: Essays by Milan Kundera
RRP: $19.34$12.64In this entertaining and stimulating essay, one of world literature's most distinctive thinkers sets out his personal view of the history and value of the novel in Western civilization. Too often, Kundera suggests, a novel is thought about only within... -
Nemesis, My Friend: Journeys Through the Turning Times by Jay Griffiths 9781915068019
RRP: $23.22$16.72This new book of essays from the author of Wild tracks the turning light of the day and seasons, an almanac of the turning times. Beginning in night and winter, it moves to dawn and spring, then noon and summer and finally evening and autumn. Set partly... -
Murder at Larinum: Narrative Parts of "Pro Cluentio" by Marcus Tullius Cicero 9780862920937
RRP: $28.37$28.24This volume contains the explanatory sections of Cicero's speech Pro Cluentio - the defence in a particularly lurid murder case set in the northern Italian provincial town of Larinum. It forms an admirable introduction to the reading of Golden Latin... -
Too Famous: The Rich, The Powerful, The Wishful, The Damned, The Notorious - Twenty Years of Columns, Essays and Reporting by Michael Wolff
RRP: $25.80$8.93Barbed, 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... -
Alice Walker: Living by the Word by Alice Walker
RRP: $12.89$8.77'An extraordinarily diverse collection; pure Walker, fresh-eyed and sassy' NEW YORK TIMESLiving by the Word is a memorable collection of essays, letters and journal extracts from Pulitzer Prize winner, Alice Walker.In her own immaculate prose, Alice... -
The Case of the Vanishing Blonde by Mark Bowden 9781611854572
RRP: $11.60$7.84Six captivating true-crime stories, spanning Mark Bowden's long and illustrious career, cover a variety of crimes complicated by extraordinary circumstances. In The Case of the Vanishing Blonde, the veteran reporter revisits some of his most riveting... -
Odyssey by Homer
RRP: $21.92$18.23Lombardo's Odyssey offers the distinctive speed, clarity, and boldness that so distinguished his 1997 Iliad. "[Lombardo] has brought his laconic wit and love of the ribald . . . to his version of the Odyssey. His carefully honed syntax gives the... -
So Real It Hurts by Lydia Lunch
RRP: $18.05$11.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609809430Author Lydia LunchFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
The Best American Short Stories 2022 by Heidi Pitlor
RRP: $16.76$12.98A collection of the year's best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and series editor Heidi Pitlor.Andrew Sean Greer, "an exceptionally lovely writer, capable of mingling humor with sharp poignancy" (Washington Post),... -
Winter Notes on Summer Impressions F.M. Dostoevsky 9780810115187
$21.90In June 1862 Fyodor Dostoevsky left Petersburg on his first excursion to Western Europe. Ostensibly a trip to consult Western specialists about his epilepsy, Dostoevsky also wished to see firsthand the source of the Western ideas he believed were... -
Reckoning by V (formerly Eve Ensler) 9781635579048
RRP: $21.92$15.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635579048Author V (formerly Eve Ensler)Format HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 454g -
When the Sick Rule the World by Dodie Bellamy
RRP: $21.92$14.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584351689Author Dodie BellamyFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 19mm