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In Search Of Lost Time Volume 3 by Terence Kilmartin
RRP: £22.00£16.02In The Guermantes Way Proust's narrator recalls his initiation into the dazzling world of Parisian high society. Looking back over his time in the glamorous salons of the aristocracy, he satirises this shallow world and his own youthful infatuation with... -
The Story Is True, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded: The Art and Meaning of Telling Stories by Bruce Jackson 9781438490366
RRP: £24.05£17.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438490366Author Bruce JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Rebel Rebel: How Mavericks Made Our Modern World by Chris Sullivan
RRP: £10.99£7.47Thirty-four essays and interviews with some of the greatest individuals, malcontents and free thinkers of the last 150 years - including Louise Brooks, Richard Pryor, David Bowie, Liam Gallagher and Daniel Day-Lewis - this is a collection that exonerates... -
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... -
Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver
RRP: £27.00£15.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594206702Author Mary OliverFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
De Finibus by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95£23.39The philosopher-statesman on Epicureanism, Stoicism, and the Old Academy.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... -
Coming & Going by Orlando Gough
RRP: £10.00£9.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910010273Author Orlando GoughFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint UniformbooksPublisher Uniformbooks -
Letters to Atticus: v. 2 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95£23.39The private correspondence of Rome's most prolific public figure.To his dear friend Atticus, Cicero reveals himself as to no other of his correspondents except perhaps his brother. In Cicero's Letters to Atticus we get an intimate look at his motivations... -
The Good Immigrant USA: 26 Writers Reflect on America by Nikesh Shukla
RRP: £9.99£6.80GUARDIAN 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 exploring what it's like to... -
microbursts by Elizabeth Reeder
RRP: £12.00£8.30microbursts is a collection of hybrid, lyric essays about the places between life and death; memoir and poetry; making and letting go. Originally written by Reeder as an intense text-based collection of lyric and experimental essays responding to the... -
Report from Ground Zero by Dennis Smith
RRP: £19.10£14.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452283954Author Dennis SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 150mm * 23mm -
Murder Trials by Cicero
RRP: £14.99£10.95Cicero's speeches "In Defence of Sextus Roscius of Amerina," "In Defence of Aulus Cluentius Habitus," "In Defence of Gaius Rabirius," "Note on the Speeches in Defence of Caelius and Milo," and "In Defence of King Deiotarus" provide insight into Roman... -
Balkan Essays by Chris Agee 9780993553202
RRP: £25.00£21.28Collection of essays by Hubert Butler, edited by Chris Agee and Jacob Agee, published by The Irish Pages PressBook InformationISBN 9780993553202Author Chris AgeeFormat HardbackImprint IRISH PAGESPublisher IRISH PAGES -
Life, Love and The Archers: recollections, reviews and other prose by Wendy Cope
RRP: £9.99£6.80Wendy Cope has long been one of the nation's best-loved poets, with her sharp eye for human foibles and wry sense of humour. For the first time, Life, Love and the Archers brings together the best of her prose - recollections, reviews and essays from the... -
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections by Consultant Statistician Walter Benjamin
RRP: £17.99£8.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328470232Author Consultant Statistician Walter BenjaminFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books... -
The Art of Poetry: For GCSE and Beyond by Michael Meally 9780993077852
RRP: £16.99£14.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993077852Author Michael MeallyFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Peripeteia PressPublisher Peripeteia PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
Epistulae Morales: v. 3: Letters XCIII-CXXIV 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 ... -
The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: 1 by G. K. Chesterton 9780898700794
£16.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898700794Author G. K. ChestertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 395Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius Press -
The End of the End of the Earth by Jonathan Franzen 9780008299224 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.26A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Purity, Freedom and The Corrections In The End of the End of the Earth, which gathers essays and speeches written mostly in the past five... -
The End of the End of the Earth by Jonathan Franzen
RRP: £9.99£5.60A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Purity, Freedom and The Corrections In The End of the End of the Earth, which gathers essays and speeches written mostly in the past five... -
So Sad Today: Personal Essays by Melissa Broder 9781455562725
RRP: £18.99£11.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455562725Author Melissa BroderFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint FaithWordsPublisher Time Warner Trade PublishingWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)... -
Gabriel Harvey and the History of Reading: Essays by Lisa Jardine and Others by Anthony Grafton 9781800081666
RRP: £35.00£31.35Apologies 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 -
ABECEDAIRE by Sharon Kivland 9781913430108
RRP: £12.00£9.72"I wrote five days a week for a year, no more than a page, writing only for the length of the analytic hour, fifty minutes, following Freud's model of train travel for his theory of free association, acting 'as though, for instance, [you were] a... -
Critical Hits: Writers on Gaming and the Alternate Worlds We Inhabit by Carmen Maria Machado 9781800814523
RRP: £14.99£11.54'A loot drop of brilliance' Naomi Alderman, author of The Power Whether you're an avid gamer, a Twitch subscriber, or just an incidental Subway Surfer, video games have changed the way you interact with the world, and have been part of our lives for... -
History: Bks. I-IV by Herodian
RRP: £24.95£23.39A chronicle of Rome in crisis.The History of Herodian (born ca. AD 178-179) covers a period of the Roman empire from the death of the emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD 180) to the accession of Gordian III (238), half a century of turbulence, in which we can... -
Works: v. 1: The Life AND Against Apion by Flavius Josephus
RRP: £24.95£23.39Greco-Roman antiquity's premier Jewish historian.Josephus, soldier, statesman, historian, was a Jew born at Jerusalem about AD 37. A man of high descent, he early became learned in Jewish law and Greek literature and was a Pharisee. After pleading in... -
De Senectute by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95£23.88Three late dialogues.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, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in... -
Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism by Daisy Hernandez
RRP: £15.99£12.37It has been decades since women of color first turned feminism upside down, exposing the feminist movement as exclusive, white, and unaware of the concerns and issues of women of color from around the globe. Since then, key social movements have risen,... -
I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country by Elena Kostyuchenko 9781847927705
RRP: £16.99£13.25To be a journalist is to tell the truth. I Love Russia is Elena Kostyuchenko's fearless attempt to document Russia as experienced by those whom it systematically and brutally erases: village girls recruited into sex work, queer people in the outer... -
Congratulations, by the way by George Saunders
RRP: £9.99£7.11'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... -
In Defense of Tradition: Collected Shorter Writings of Richard M Weaver, 1929-1963 by Richard M. Weaver 9780865972834
RRP: £13.95£12.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865972834Author Richard WeaverFormat PaperbackPage Count 861Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 1034g -
Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System by Sonya Huber
RRP: £14.99£11.56Rate your pain on a scale of one to ten. What about on a scale of spicy to citrus? Is it more like a lava lamp or a mosaic? Pain, though a universal element of human experience, is dimly understood and sometimes barely managed. Pain Woman Takes Your... -
Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning by Sarah Weinman 9780063233928
RRP: £19.99£11.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063233928Author Sarah WeinmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 295g -
Symposium by Plato 9780872200760
RRP: £11.99£10.95A 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... -
Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview by Kurt Vonnegut 9781612190907
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612190907Author Kurt VonnegutFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House PublishingWeight(grams) 175g -
The Complete Works of Francois Rabelais by Francois Rabelais
RRP: £30.00£24.29Rip-roaring and rib-tickling, Francois Rabelais' irreverent story of the giant Gargantua, his giant son Pantagruel, and their companion Panurge is a classic of the written word. This complete translation by Donald Frame, helpfully annotated for the... -
One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko by Mike Royko
RRP: £14.00£12.26Mike Royko wrote a daily column for nearly 35 years - at first for the "Chicago Daily News", then the "Sun-Times", and finally the "Tribune" - and his Pulitzer Prize-winning commentary was syndicated in more than 600 newspapers nationwide. Pretension and... -
Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader by Cassandra Clare
RRP: £9.99£7.16Explore the world of the Mortal Instruments with Cassandra Clare and more Join Cassandra Clare and a Circle of more than a dozen top YA writers, including New York Times bestsellers Holly Black, Rachel Caine, and Kami Garcia, as they write about the... -
At the Same Time by Susan Sontag
RRP: £12.99£9.09'These sixteen pieces brim over with vitality . . . every one of them opening up fresh lines of thought' John Gray, New StatesmanAt the Same Time contains sixteen illuminating essays by Susan Sontag with a preface by David Rieff.The sixteen essays... -
Openhearted: Eighty Years of Love, Loss, Laughter and Letting Go by Ann Ingle 9780241993521
RRP: £9.99£7.11SHORTLISTED FOR TWO IRISH BOOK AWARDS'Something they don't tell you about getting older is that you fall. Oh, you hear about it in passing, of course, "She had a fall, poor thing". Falling is not something you ever think about as a younger woman. You...