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Best of Reader's Digest Vol 3 -Celebrating 100 Years: Volume 3 by Reader's Digest
RRP: €29.74€20.41Apologies 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)... -
How to See Nature by Paul Evans
RRP: €10.70€7.57"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: €16.65€14.58In 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: €20.83€15.02Apologies 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 -
Suspiria de Profundis by Thomas de Quincey 9780486837123
RRP: €5.94€2.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486837123Author Thomas De QuinceyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Replace Me by Amber Husain 9781913512064
RRP: €7.14€5.24An 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: €26.12€22.46During 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... -
Some Remarks by Neal Stephenson 9781848878563
RRP: €11.89€7.97'Sometimes when you're reading Neal Stephenson, he doesn't just seem like one of the best novelists writing in English right now; he seems like the only one.' TimeOne of the most talented and creative authors working today, Neal Stephenson is renowned... -
Strange Attractor Journal Five by Mark Pilkington
RRP: €27.37€18.53Apologies 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 -
The Atlantic Ocean: Essays on Britain and America by Andrew O'Hagan
RRP: €20.22€14.26A stunning collection of reportage from an acclaimed journalist and novelist hailed by the New York Times as 'the best essayist of his generation'.As he grew up, Andrew O'Hagan witnessed the decline of Britain and the rise of America, the end of British... -
Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They Do by Meredith Maran
RRP: €19.03€13.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452298156Author Meredith MaranFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 196g -
Preoccupations: Selected Prose 1968-1978 by Seamus Heaney 9780374516505
RRP: €23.80€15.46Apologies 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)... -
Out on a Limb: Selected Writing, 1989-2021 by Andrew Sullivan 9781501155895
RRP: €41.65€27.87Apologies 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 &... -
Poems And Prose by Gerard Manley Hopkins 9781857157215
RRP: €14.28€10.04The 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... -
Testaments Betrayed by Milan Kundera
RRP: €13.08€8.71Kundera's essay has been written like a novel. In the course of nine separate sections, the same characters meet and cross paths with each other. Stravinsky and Kafka with their odd friends Ansermet and Brod; Hemingway with his biographer; Janacek with... -
The End of the End of the Earth by Jonathan Franzen 9780008299262
RRP: €11.89€7.90A 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,... -
Awakenings by Oliver Sacks 9781529087437
RRP: €13.08€9.44'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... -
The Critic as Artist by Oscar Wilde
RRP: €14.28€9.52In 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... -
DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi 9781940696959
RRP: €20.22€13.89WINNER 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... -
The Terrible Unlikelihood of Our Being Here by Susanne Paola Antonetta
RRP: €24.93€18.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814257807Author Susanne Paola AntonettaFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University... -
No Place Like Home: An anthology about the places we come back to by Michele Mendelssohn
RRP: €13.08€9.25What makes a home, and when do we really feel at home? Is it a physical place, or something we all carry inside us wherever we go?Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, pocket-sized classics with ribbon markers. These beautiful... -
Aeneas: Virgil's Epic Retold for Young Readers by Virgil
RRP: €26.17€25.94Two thousand years ago the Roman poet Virgil related the adventures of a hero called Aeneas. He was a man who escaped from the burning ruins of Troy and, 'driven by Fate', led his people to a new home in a distant land. The story of Aeneas and the... -
Aristophanes: Clouds by Aristophanes 9780856682100
RRP: €33.31€29.69Clouds is a partly revised version of a play that failed when it was first produced. It has always fascinated (and usually shocked) students of philosophy because of its portrayal of Socrates as an atheist and a teacher of dishonest rhetoric, justly... -
Love of the World: Essays by John McGahern
RRP: €15.46€10.19An 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: €10.71€10.39The 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... -
Stranger Faces by Namwali Serpell
RRP: €14.27€9.52Apologies 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 -
Stories from South Uist by Angus MacLellan
RRP: €11.89€10.42This is an extraordinary collection of tales from one of the very greatest Gaelic storytellers, Angus MacLellan, and translated by one of Scotland's finest Celtic Scholars, John Lorne Campbell. The stories in the book include every type of tale found on... -
The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade by Thomas Lynch
RRP: €19.03€13.82Like 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... -
Agatha Christie: First Lady of Crime by Agatha Christie
RRP: €11.89€8.09Includes 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,... -
London's Overthrow by China Mieville 9781908906144
RRP: €9.51€6.66London'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... -
Journeying by Claudio Magris
RRP: €22.60€19.25A writer for whom the journey has always mattered reinvents the very form itself in this inviting collection of in-the-moment impressions of his journeys A writer of enormous erudition and wide-ranging travels, Claudio Magris selects for this volume... -
Crystal Clear: The Selected Prose of John Jordan by Hugh McFadden 9781843510666
RRP: €23.79€22.40Writer, 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... -
The Call of the Tribe: Essays by Mario Vargas Llosa
RRP: €22.60€14.85In 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... -
Mothers, Fathers, and Others: New Essays by Siri Hustvedt
RRP: €23.80€15.89'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 Education of a British-Protected Child by Chinua Achebe
RRP: €11.89€8.46The pieces here span reflections on personal and collective identity, on home and family, on literature, language and politics, and on Achebe's lifelong attempt to reclaim the definition of 'Africa' for its own authorship. For the first thirty years of... -
The Common Reader: Volume 1 by Virginia Woolf
RRP: €13.08€9.25Discover Virginia Woolf's informative and erudite critical essays on some of the key novelists and dramatists of the canon - from the ancient Greeks to Jane Austen and beyond.Virginia Woolf read, and wrote, as an outsider, denied the educational... -
The Art of Libromancy: On Selling Books and Reading Books in the Twenty-first Century by Josh Cook 9781771965415
RRP: €16.65€11.02ONE OF LIT HUB'S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2023 * ESQUIRE's August 2023 Book Club Pick"If books are important to you because you're a reader or a writer, then how books are sold should be important to you as well. If it matters to you that your... -
My Crazy Century by Ivan Klima
RRP: €20.22€14.26More 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... -
Tabula Rasa: Volume 1 by John McPhee 9780374603601
RRP: €27.36€18.41A literary legend's engaging review of his career, stressing the work he never completed, and why. Over seven decades, John McPhee has set a standard for literary nonfiction. Assaying mountain ranges, bark canoes, experimental aircraft, the Swiss... -
Street Haunting: A London Adventure & Bulwell by Virginia Woolf
RRP: €4.76€4.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910170427Author Virginia WoolfImprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications