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The Little Virtues: Essays by Natalia Ginzburg
RRP: $23.08$20.96With 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... -
Micrograms by Nicole Walker 9781934832547
RRP: $18.90$16.53Apologies 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 French Riviera: A Literary Guide for Travellers by Ted Jones
RRP: $31.48$24.68A 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: $44.10$27.20Apologies 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 -
The Ruin of Kasch by Roberto Calasso 9780141397016
RRP: $23.08$16.32A sparkling new translation of the classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and artThe Ruin of Kasch takes up two subjects: "the first is Talleyrand, and the second is everything else," wrote Italo Calvino when the book first... -
Gabriel Harvey and the History of Reading: Essays by Lisa Jardine and Others by Anthony Grafton 9781800081666
RRP: $73.50$65.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800081666Author Anthony GraftonFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 830gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 30mm -
Skywriting By Word of Mouth by John Lennon
RRP: $23.08$16.32WITH 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... -
What Would Lynne Tillman Do? by Lynne Tillman 9781935869214
RRP: $27.28$18.12Here 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... -
Library of History: v. 8 by Siculus Diodorus
RRP: $52.40$49.12Remains 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;... -
Government of the Tongue by Seamus Heaney 9780571141517
RRP: $27.28$17.98The title, The Government of the Tongue, carries suggestions of both monastic discipline and untrammelled romanticism, and is meant to raise an old question about the rights and status of poetic utterance itself. Should it be governed? Should it be the... -
Because You Died: Poetry and Prose of the First World War and After by Vera Brittain
RRP: $23.08$13.59This 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... -
Stranger Faces by Namwali Serpell
RRP: $25.18$16.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945492433Author Namwali SerpellFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Transit BooksPublisher Transit Books -
Plant Dreaming Deep: A Novel by May Sarton 9780393315516
RRP: $34.65$27.24May Sarton describes living at her eighteenth-century house in Nelson, New Hampshire-how she acquired it, how it and the garden became part of her.About the AuthorMay Sarton (1912-1995) was an acclaimed poet, novelist, and memoirist.Reviews"A drama of... -
Dead as Doornails: A Memoir by Anthony Cronin
RRP: $21.00$18.75Dead as Doornails, first published in 1976, brings back into print a true classic of Irish memoir. Anthony Cronin's account of life in post-war literary Dublin is as funny and colourful as one would expect from an intimate of Brendan Behan, Patrick... -
Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read by Virginia Woolf
RRP: $18.88$12.64FOREWORD BY ALI SMITH WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADE Who better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf? ... -
Beneath My Feet: Writers on Walking: 2018 by Duncan Minshull 9781910749982
RRP: $31.48$26.36"Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness." -Soren Kierkegaard Duncan Minshull has always walked and in the last twenty years has made use of it by writing and... -
Children of Heracles: Hippolytus, Andromache, Hecuba by Euripides
RRP: $52.40$49.12Four 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 plays... -
The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction: Advice and Essential Exercises from Respected Writers, Editors, and Teachers by Dinty W Moore
RRP: $33.50$26.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984616664Author Dinty W MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 179Imprint Rose Metal PressPublisher Rose Metal PressWeight(grams) 318g -
Writing Home by Polly Devlin
RRP: $23.08$14.70In the pieces brought together in Writing Home, Polly Devlin OBE, most bewitching of writers, covers subjects that range over her whole life and thought. She writes about places: about her childhood deep in the countryside of Northern Ireland (where, in... -
Moral Essays: v. 1: De Providentia De Constantiade Ira De Cementia by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: $52.40$49.12Topics in Stoicism.Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BC, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt's care. He became famous in rhetoric, philosophy, money-making, and imperial service... -
Fisher's Face by Jan Morris
RRP: $27.28$17.98Admiral of the Fleet Lord 'Jacky' Fisher (1841-1920) was one of the greatest naval reformers in history. He was also a colossal figure to contemporaries, both loved and loathed, a man of exceptional charm, presence and charisma. Since the late 1940s, Jan... -
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, Volume VI: Prose: 1969-1973 by W. H. Auden 9780691164588
RRP: $130.20$103.36This sixth and final volume of W. H. Auden's prose displays a great writer's mind in its full maturity of wisdom, learning, and emotional and moral intelligence. It contains the full text of the only book that he regarded as an autobiography, A Certain... -
Parts of Animals by Aristotle
RRP: $52.40$49.12Inductive zoology.Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-347); subsequently he spent three years at the... -
Eyrbyggja Saga by Hermann Palsson
RRP: $27.28$20.58An Icelandic saga which mixes realism with wild gothic imagination and history with eerie tales of hauntings. It dramatizes a 13th century view of the past, from the pagan anarchy of the Viking age to the settlement of Iceland, the coming of Christianity... -
Elegies by Sextus Propertius
RRP: $52.40$51.53Learned love poems from the early Augustan age.The passionate and dramatic elegies of Propertius gained him a reputation as one of Rome's finest love poets. Here he portrays the exciting, uneven course of his love affair with Cynthia and tells us much... -
ATTENTION: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction by Joshua Cohen
RRP: $31.48$21.59With Attention, Joshua Cohen returns with his first collection of nonfiction, the culmination of two decades of writing and thought about life in the digital age. In essays, memoir, criticism, diary entries, and letters-many appearing here for the first... -
H-Pop: The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars by Kunal Purohit 9789356995826
RRP: $36.75$30.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356995826Author Kunal PurohitFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaDimensions(mm) 220mm * 140mm * 20mm -
Algerian Chronicles by Albert Camus 9780674416758
RRP: $37.70$30.66More than fifty years after Algerian independence, Albert Camus' Algerian Chronicles appears here in English for the first time. Published in France in 1958, the same year the Algerian War brought about the collapse of the Fourth French Republic, it is... -
Journey with Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet by Eavan Boland 9781857545418
RRP: $35.60$25.31A Journey with Two Maps begins with an anecdote: one afternoon, Eavan Boland saw one of her mother's paintings for sale in a gallery, signed by her famous teacher. It is the starting point for an exploration of concepts of art and womanhood, of what it... -
A Capote Reader by Truman Capote
RRP: $31.48$23.00'The only four things that interested me were: reading books, going to the movies, tap-dancing and drawing pictures. Then one day I started writing . . .' Truman Capote began writing at the age of eight, and never looked back. A Capote Reader contains... -
Darn Bach o'r Haul by Rhiannon Williams 9781913996741
$18.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913996741Author Gwasg y BwthynFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Gwasg y Bwthyn CyfPublisher Gwasg y Bwthyn CyfDimensions(mm) 165mm * 140mm * 12mm -
Wild Ducks Flying Backward by Tom Robbins 9781842431719
RRP: $20.98$7.37From beloved and best-selling novelist Tom Robbins comes a collection of non-fiction essays and short fiction, many in print for the first time ever! From tributes such as an ode to redheads, kissing, Diane Keaton, Leonard Cohen, tomato sandwiches and... -
Moral Essays: v. 2 by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: $52.40$49.12Topics in Stoicism.Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BC, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt's care. He became famous in rhetoric, philosophy, money-making, and imperial ... -
Selected Writings by Thomas Aquinas
RRP: $35.68$27.43In his reflections on Christianity, Saint Thomas Aquinas forged a unique synthesis of ancient philosophy and medieval theology. Preoccupied with the relationship between faith and reason, he was influenced both by Aristotle's rational world view and by... -
One Hundred Years of James Joyce's "Ulysses" by Colm Toibin
RRP: $79.70$71.78Ulysses is widely regarded as the greatest novel of the twentieth century. Commemorating the 1922 publication of this modernist masterwork, One Hundred Years of James Joyce's "Ulysses" tells the story of the writing, revising, printing, and censorship of... -
Untitled 2 by Rosita Boland
RRP: $31.48$28.25'I was fascinated, moved and entertained by every page. This is the kind of book the world needs right now' DONAL RYAN_______________'My dictionary's first two definitions of 'comrade' are:A close companion.An intimate associate or friend.The third one... -
By the Book by Pamela Paul
$27.99Every Sunday, readers of The New York Times Book Review turn with anticipation to see which novelist, historian, short story writer, or artist will be the subject of the popular By the Book feature. These wide-ranging interviews are conducted by Pamela... -
Escape Into Meaning: Essays on Superman, Public Benches, and Other Obsessions by Evan Puschak
RRP: $56.70$34.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982163952Author Evan PuschakFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria Books -
Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent by Jason Wilson
RRP: $31.48$23.00One of the greatest nineteenth-century scientist-explorers, Alexander von Humboldt traversed the tropical Spanish Americas between 1799 and 1804. By the time of his death in 1859, he had won international fame for his scientific discoveries, his... -
Metamorphoses: Bks. 9-15 by Ovid
RRP: $52.40$51.53The poetry of change.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...