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My Ideal Bookshelf by Thessaly La Force
RRP: $39.00$33.11The books that we choose to keep--let alone read--can say a lot about who we are and how we see ourselves. In MY IDEAL BOOKSHELF, dozens of leading cultural figures share the books that matter to them most-books that define their dreams and ambitions and... -
Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature by M. H. Abrams 9780393006094
RRP: $52.65$43.47In this remarkable new book, M. H. Abrams definitively studies the Romantic Age (1789-1835)-the age in which Shelley claimed that "the literature of England has arisen as it were from a new birth." Abrams shows that the major poets of the age had in... -
Tunnel Vision by Kevin Breathnach
RRP: $25.33$16.69A lethal cocktail of memoir and criticism.A documentary through the speaker's post-adolescent relationships.An arrangement of time in Chemnitz, Bergen, Dublin, Paris, Gwangju, Munich and Madrid.An intimate portrayal of unstable masculinity and sexual... -
Discourses: v. 2: Bks.III-IV by Epictetus
RRP: $48.65$45.61From slave to sage.Epictetus was a crippled Greek slave of Phrygia during Nero's reign (AD 54-68) who heard lectures by the Stoic Musonius before he was freed. Expelled with other philosophers by the emperor Domitian in 89 or 92, he settled ... -
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Professor Audre Lorde
RRP: $25.33$21.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580911863Author Audre LordeFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Working the Room: Essays and Reviews: 1999-2010 by Geoff Dyer
RRP: $25.33$16.69Alive with insight, wit and Dyer's characteristic irreverence, this collection of essays offers a guide around the cultural maze, mapping a route through the worlds of literature, art, photography and music. Besides exploring what it is that makes great... -
The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade by Thomas Lynch
RRP: $31.18$22.64Like 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... -
Nay Rather: The Cahier Series 21 by Anne Carson 9781909631038
RRP: $27.30$17.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909631038Author Anne CarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Sylph EditionsPublisher Sylph Editions -
The Prince Of Minor Writers by Max Beerbohm
RRP: $33.13$23.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590178287Author Max BeerbohmFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Selected Writings of Paul Valery by Paul Valery 9780811202138
RRP: $29.23$25.41It begins with the poetry (French and English en face), including such masterpieces as "Le Cimetiere Marin" and portions of "La Jeune Parque"; then ranges through Valery's work in fields as various as architecture, logic, the dance, literature,... -
Philosophy, Pussycats, & Porn by Stoya
RRP: $21.43$14.39Philosophy, Pussycats, & Porn is a series of essays, blog posts, and stories surveying more than a decade of poignant journalistic accounts from internationally recognized writer, actor, and pornographer Stoya.Stoya provides crucial examinations of... -
The Art of Poetry: Forward Poems, revised selection by Michael Meally 9780995467149
RRP: $25.33$22.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995467149Author Michael MeallyFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Art of PoetryPublisher Art of PoetryWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *... -
Just Enough Liebling by A Liebling 9780865477278
RRP: $46.80$30.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865477278Author A LieblingFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)... -
The Red Notebook by Paul Auster
RRP: $21.43$14.27In this acrobatic and virtuosic collection, Paul Auster traces the compulsion to make literature. In a selection of interviews, as well as in the essay 'The Red Notebook' itself, Auster reflects upon his own work, on the need to break down the boundary... -
Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read by Virginia Woolf
RRP: $17.53$11.74FOREWORD 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? ... -
Congratulations, by the way by George Saunders
RRP: $19.48$13.86'We're lucky to have him' Jonathan Franzen 'A morally passionate, serious writer' Zadie Smith 'Here's something I know to be true, although it's a little corny, and I don't quite know what to do with it: What I regret most in my life are failures of... -
Roots Home: Essays and a Journal by Gillian Clarke
RRP: $29.23$21.00Shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year 2022. Wales's best-loved contemporary poet, one of the major poets of our endangered environment, returns to prose in Roots Home. As in At the Source (2008), she does something unusual with form. She... -
Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays by Chelsea Hodson
RRP: $37.03$21.43Apologies 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 *... -
Ymbapuroli by Angharad Price 9781845277802 [USED COPY]
RRP: $15.60$5.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845277802Author Angharad PriceFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Gwasg Carreg GwalchPublisher Gwasg Carreg Gwalch -
Hemingway on War by Ernest Hemingway 9780099583189
RRP: $25.33$17.73'The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one.' - Ernest HemingwayA unique and captivating collection of Hemingway's writings on war, including extracts from his unparalleled war novels, some classic short stories, an extract from his only... -
Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood by Frederick Joseph
RRP: $35.08$19.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063138322Author JosephFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Angels & Saints by Eliot Weinberger
$41.26Angels have soared through Western culture and consciousness from Biblical to contemporary times. But what do we really know about these celestial beings? Where do they come from, what are they made of, how do they communicate and perceive? The... -
Hippolytus by Euripides 9780862920746
$49.63This useful edition includes Ferguson's introduction to the history of Greek theatre along with full notes and vocabulary.Book InformationISBN 9780862920746Author EuripidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury... -
The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures by Paul Muldoon
RRP: $37.03$25.02The End of the Poem contains the fifteen lectures delivered by Paul Muldoon as Oxford Professor of Poetry, from 1999 to 2004. Rather than individual and discrete performances, these lectures form a dazzling set of variations around the sustained theme of... -
The Art of the Publisher by Roberto Calasso 9780141978482 [USED COPY]
RRP: $15.58$8.01'All the books published by a certain publisher could be seen as links in a single chain'In this fascinating memoir and manifesto the author and publisher Roberto Calasso meditates on the art of book publishing. With his signature erudition and polemical... -
The Art of the Publisher by Roberto Calasso
RRP: $15.58$11.29'All the books published by a certain publisher could be seen as links in a single chain'In this fascinating memoir and manifesto the author and publisher Roberto Calasso meditates on the art of book publishing. With his signature erudition and polemical... -
The Good Immigrant USA: 26 Writers Reflect on America by Nikesh Shukla 9780349700366
RRP: $19.48$13.49GUARDIAN MUST READ BOOKS OF 2019 'The you-gotta-read-this anthology' Stylist'This collection showcases the joy, empathy and fierceness needed to adopt the country as one's own' Publishers Weekly An urgent collection of essays by first- and... -
First Light by Erica Wagner
RRP: $21.43$14.57Described by Philip Pullman as 'the most important British writer of fantasy since Tolkein', Alan Garner has been enrapturing readers with works like The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Owl Service, Red Shift and The Stone Book Quartet for more than half... -
Juvenal: Satires Book I by Juvenal
RRP: $54.58$47.33Satire was a genre of poetry invented and developed by the Romans. When it came into Juvenal's hands, he stamped his mark upon it: indignation. His angry voice had an overwhelming influence upon later European satirists and persists in modern forms of... -
Greek Orators I: Antiphon, Lysias by M. Edwards 9780856682476
$58.68Rational persuasion and appeal to an audience's emotions are elements of most literature, but they are found in their purest form in oratory. The speeches written by the Greek Orators for delivery in law-courts, deliberative councils and assemblies ... -
Common Writing: Essays on Literary Culture and Public Debate by Stefan Collini 9780198813118
$56.75In a series of penetrating and attractively readable essays, Stefan Collini explores aspects of the literary and intellectual culture of Britain from the early twentieth century to the present. Common Writing focuses chiefly on writers, critics,... -
How Should One Read a Book? by Virginia Woolf 9781913724474
RRP: $9.75$8.62First delivered as a speech to schoolgirls in Kent in 1926, this enchanting short essay by the towering Modernist writer Virginia Woolf celebrates the importance of the written word. With a measured but ardent tone, Woolf weaves together thought and... -
In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki 9780918172020
RRP: $21.43$13.81An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and even toilets, combining an acute sense of the use of space in buildings. The book also includes descriptions of laquerware under candlelight and women in... -
The Fastidious Assassins by Albert Camus
RRP: $15.58$11.29A daring critique of communism and how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain, Camus' essay examines the revolutions in France and Russia, and argues that since they were both guilty of producing tyranny and corruption, hope for the future lies only... -
Approaching Eye Level by Vivian Gornick 9781911547648
RRP: $19.48$13.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911547648Author Vivian GornickFormat PaperbackImprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books -
The Destiny Thief by Richard Russo
RRP: $19.48$13.07A master of the novel, short story and memoir, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Everybody's Foolnow gives us his very first collection of personal essays, thoughts on writing, reading and living.In these nine essays, Richard Russo provides insight... -
The New Fuck You: Adventures in Lesbian Reading Eileen Myles 9781570270574
RRP: $27.28$17.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Lambda Literary Awards (Small Press) 1995.Book InformationISBN 9781570270574Author Eileen MylesFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher... -
Fisher's Face by Jan Morris
RRP: $25.33$16.69Admiral 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... -
One Thing and Another: Selected Writings 1954-2016 Jonathan Miller (Celebrity) 9781783197453
RRP: $42.88$40.93'Do you sometimes think that you might wish that you were a national treasure, like Alan Bennett?' 'I'm rather glad I'm not. I'm quite pleased to be what I think I am, which is a sort of national liability.' Over the course of seven decades,... -
A Bouquet for the Gardener: Martin Gardner Remembered by Mark Burstein 9780930326173
$29.72Martin Gardner, the "Mathematical Games" columnist for Scientific American from 1956 to 1981, was also a philosopher, polymath, magician, religious thinker, and the author of more than 70 books, including The Annotated Alice, The Ambidextrous...