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A Leg to Stand On by Oliver Sacks 9781529087420 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£6.87'Oliver Sacks is a perfect antidote to the anaesthetic of familiarity. His writing turns brains and minds transparent' - ObserverWhen Oliver Sacks, a physician by profession, injured his leg while climbing a mountain, he found himself in an unusual... -
A Leg to Stand On by Oliver Sacks 9781529087420
RRP: £10.99£7.93'Oliver Sacks is a perfect antidote to the anaesthetic of familiarity. His writing turns brains and minds transparent' - ObserverWhen Oliver Sacks, a physician by profession, injured his leg while climbing a mountain, he found himself in an unusual... -
How People Change by Allen Wheelis 9780060904470
RRP: £8.99£7.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060904470Author Allen WheelisFormat PaperbackPage Count 117Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Necessary Angel by Wallace Stevens
RRP: £14.00£9.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394702780Author Wallace StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Random House USA PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Ornament and Silence by Kennedy Fraser 9780375701122
RRP: £19.00£13.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375701122Author Kennedy FraserFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 328gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
13 Ways of Looking at the Novel by Jane Smiley
RRP: £23.00£14.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400033188Author Jane SmileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 413g -
Epistulae Morales: v. 1: Letters I-LXV by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: £24.95£23.39Meditative missives.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... -
Always Astonished: Selected Prose by Fernando Pessoa
RRP: £10.99£7.38"After looking for him in the poems, we search for him in the prose. The pursuit of the Other in Pessoa's work is never-ending," writes Edwin Honig. Essential to understanding the great Portuguese poet are the essays written about (and by) his... -
Museum Visits by Eric Chevillard 9780300254112
RRP: £12.99£11.63The daring, mischievous micro-essays of award-winning French humorist Eric Chevillard, published in English for the first time Eric Chevillard is one of France's leading stylists and thinkers, an endlessly inventive observer of the everyday whose... -
Princes at War by Deborah Cadbury
RRP: £16.99£12.28In 1936, the monarchy faced the greatest threats to its survival in the modern era - the crisis of abdication and the menace of Nazism. The fate of the country rested in the hands of George V's sorely unequipped sons: Edward VIII abandoned his throne to... -
Epoch and Artist by David Jones
RRP: £18.99£12.83This collection of occasional writing 'reveals a consistency, a subtlety, a creativeness springing from tradition . . . For David Jones every sentence is wrought with artistry; and as compared with the arid conceptual approach of so much academic... -
Vladimir Mayakovsky: Selected Works by Vladimir Mayakovsky 9781910392164
RRP: £14.99£10.95'This exhibition is not a jubilee, it's an account of my work. I demand help - not the glorification of non-existent virtues. That's what we are talking about, comrades, and not about glorifying private persons.' Mayakovsky was a poet, playwright,... -
Against the Professors by Empiricus Sextus
RRP: £24.95£23.39A suspicious mind.Sextus Empiricus (ca. AD 160-210), exponent of scepticism and critic of the Dogmatists, was a Greek physician and philosopher, pupil and successor of the medical sceptic Herodotus (not the historian) of Tarsus. He probably lived for... -
Phaedrus by Plato
RRP: £12.99£11.06"A superb translation that captures the rhetorical brilliance of the Greek. . . . The translation is faithful in the very best sense: it reflects both the meaning and the beauty of the Greek text. . . . The footnotes are always helpful, never obtrusive... -
The Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson by James Weldon Johnson 9780812975321
RRP: £18.99£13.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812975321Author James Weldon JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Martial: Select Epigrams by Martial
RRP: £27.99£24.27Despite his enduring popularity, Martial has recently suffered from serious critical neglect. The present work is the first edition of selections from Martial to be published for decades, and includes a fully representative selection of the oeuvre of the... -
Best of Reader's Digest Vol 3 -Celebrating 100 Years: Volume 3 by Reader's Digest
RRP: £24.99£17.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621458401Author Reader's DigestFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Trusted Media BrandsPublisher Trusted Media BrandsWeight(grams) 789gDimensions(mm)... -
Pulphead: Notes from the Other Side of America by John Jeremiah Sullivan
RRP: £18.99£13.61John Jeremiah Sullivan takes us on a funhouse hall-of-mirrors ride through the other side of America - to the Ozarks for a Christian rock festival; to Florida to meet the straggling refugees of MTV's Real World; to Indiana to investigate the formative... -
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... -
How to See Nature by Paul Evans
RRP: £8.99£6.36"Pack soup, cheese and a copy of How To See Nature by the Bard of Wenlock Edge and Guardian diarist."John Vidal With a title taken from the 1940 Batsford book, this is nature writing for the modern reader. Evans weaves historical, cultural and literary... -
How to Start Writing (and When to Stop): Advice for Writers by Wislawa Szymborska 9780811229715
RRP: £13.99£12.25In this witty "how-to" guide, Wislawa Szymborska has nothing but sympathy for the labors of would-be writers generally: "I myself started out with rotten poetry and stories," she confesses in this collection of pieces culled from the advice she... -
The First Wash of Spring by George Mackay Brown
RRP: £17.50£12.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904246251Author George Mackay BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Steve Savage Publishers LimitedPublisher Steve Savage Publishers Limited -
Shop Talk by Philip Roth
RRP: £12.99£9.09Philip Roth is the voice of our times.In a sequence of intimate conversations with some of the most influential and insightful writers of the twentieth century, Roth explores the importance of region, politics and history in their work and that of their... -
The End of the End of the Earth by Jonathan Franzen 9780008299262
RRP: £9.99£6.64A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections In The End of the End of the Earth, which gathers essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years,... -
Replace Me by Amber Husain 9781913512064
RRP: £6.00£4.40An essay on work, desire, and fear of being replaced From the workplace to our personal relationships, anxieties about being replaced have come to dominate the late-capitalist psyche. Tech and self-help industries have exploited these fears, selling... -
An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
RRP: £21.95£18.87During the past twenty years, the world's most renowned critical theorist-the scholar who defined the field of postcolonial studies-has experienced a radical reorientation in her thinking. Finding the neat polarities of tradition and modernity, colonial... -
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... -
Food for Thought: Selected Writings by Annie Gray
RRP: £10.99£7.12A delicious anthology of classic food writing to satisfy every palate, this gorgeous book will delight food lovers everywhere.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning pocket size classics. These beautiful books make perfect gifts... -
Strange Attractor Journal Five by Mark Pilkington
RRP: £23.00£15.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907222528Author Mark PilkingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Strange Attractor PressPublisher Strange Attractor Press -
How to Read Now by Elaine Castillo 9781838954956
RRP: £10.99£7.32'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... -
Through the Window: Seventeen Essays (and one short story) by Julian Barnes
RRP: £12.99£9.09In these seventeen essays (and one short story) the 2011 Man Booker Prize winner examines British, French and American writers who have meant most to him, as well as the cross-currents and overlappings of their different cultures. From the deceptiveness... -
Preoccupations: Selected Prose 1968-1978 by Seamus Heaney 9780374516505
RRP: £20.00£12.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374516505Author Seamus HeaneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 2Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)... -
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... -
Selected Essays of Wilson Harris by Wilson Harris
RRP: £43.99£38.44Wilson Harris is one of the outstanding literary innovators of the century. His novels date from The Palace of the Peacock to Jonestown . This long-awaited volume matches Harris's career with his critical writings, from 1961 to the present day. ... -
Forgotten Manuscript by Sergio Chejfec 9781913867713
RRP: £11.99£8.29"Sergio Chejfec is an admirable writer." -Patti Smith"Could anyone possibly believe that writing doesn't exist? It would be like denying the existence of rain."The perfect green notebook forms the basis for Sergio Chejfec's work, collecting writing, and... -
Out on a Limb: Selected Writing, 1989-2021 by Andrew Sullivan 9781501155895
RRP: £35.00£23.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501155895Author Andrew SullivanFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint Avid Reader Press / Simon & SchusterPublisher Avid Reader Press / Simon &... -
The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade by Thomas Lynch
RRP: £15.99£11.61Like all poets, inspired by death, Lynch is, unlike others, also hired to bury the dead or cremate them and to tend to their families in a small Michigan town where he serves as the funeral director. In the conduct of these duties he has kept his eyes... -
Poems And Prose by Gerard Manley Hopkins 9781857157215
RRP: £12.00£8.44The greatest English religious poet of the nineteenth century, Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) was a Jesuit priest and literary scholar whose life ended prematurely after his exhausting pastoral work among the slums of Liverpool and Dublin. His poems are... -
The Call of the Tribe: Essays by Mario Vargas Llosa
RRP: £18.99£12.48In 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... -
Awakenings by Oliver Sacks 9781529087437
RRP: £10.99£7.93'The story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of viscous time, and the drug that catapulted them out of it' - Guardian Hailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays and various TV...