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Critical Hits: Writers on Gaming and the Alternate Worlds We Inhabit by Carmen Maria Machado 9781800814523
RRP: $19.34$14.89'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... -
13 Ways of Looking at the Novel by Jane Smiley
RRP: $29.67$17.89Apologies 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 -
Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism by Daisy Hernandez
RRP: $20.63$15.96It 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,... -
American Originality: Essays on Poetry by Louise Gluck 9781800171558
RRP: $19.34$13.89The probing essays collected in American Originality scrutinise the terms we use to think about recent American poetry, its antecedents (not just Whitman and Dickinson but Ovid, Rilke, Thomas Mann, Keats) and its future, questioning how we distinguish... -
The Voice Imitator by Thomas Bernhard 9780226044026
RRP: $15.48$12.90The Austrian playwright, novelist, and poet Thomas Bernhard (1931-89) is acknowledged as among the major writers of our times. At once pessimistic and exhilarating, Bernhard's work depicts the corruption of the modern world, the dynamics of... -
Cheating at Canasta by William Trevor
RRP: $20.63$14.98Cheating at Canasta - an outstanding collection of stories by the master storyteller William Trevor'There is no better short story writer in the English-speaking world' Wall Street Journal''No matter what,' Julia had said, aware then of what was coming,... -
Histories: Bk. III-IV by Herodotus
RRP: $32.19$30.17The "Father of History."Herodotus the great Greek historian was born about 484 BC, at Halicarnassus in Caria, Asia Minor, when it was subject to the Persians. He traveled widely in most of Asia Minor, Egypt (as far as Aswan), North Africa, Syria, the... -
Do Not Call the Tortoise by Gareth Howell-Jones 9781399943109
RRP: $12.90$9.18"A little while ago I came by chance upon a slightly different way of looking at the world which I called 'STA'. I had to call it something. The essays collected here were written from that perspective, and so I hope they may serve as a casual... -
Listening in the Dark: Women Reclaiming the Power of Intuition by Amber Tamblyn
RRP: $25.80$17.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780778333333Author Amber TamblynFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Mira BooksPublisher Mira BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 150mm * 25mm -
Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview by Kurt Vonnegut 9781612190907
RRP: $18.05$11.87Apologies 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 -
Traces Remain: Essays and Explorations by Charles Nicholl
RRP: $14.18$10.02History leaves traces of the people - Byron, Shakespeare, Rimbaud, Leonardo - living through it, in portraits, documents and books. In Traces Remain, Charles Nicholl, the acclaimed author of The Reckoning, The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street and... -
The Common Reader: Volume 2 by Virginia Woolf
RRP: $14.18$10.02'He reads for his own pleasure rather than to impart knowledge or correct the opinions of others'.So Virginia Woolf described the 'common reader' for whom she wrote her second series of essays. Here she turns her brilliant eye on novels and poetry from... -
Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader by Cassandra Clare
RRP: $12.89$9.24Explore 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... -
Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Pop Culture by Zeba Blay
RRP: $19.34$12.29'Searing and timely' Tarana Burke, founder of the MeToo movement, and author of You Are Your Best Thing'Carefree Black Girls is the testimony I've been waiting to witness.'Robert Jones, Jr., author of The Prophets; creator of Son of Baldwin'Standout..... -
1980's LONDON: Making the Best of It by Alec Forshaw
RRP: $19.35$18.95Alec Forshaw's latest volume covers the troubled decade of 1980s London, the Thatcher years, a time of political and civil unrest and protest, deregulation and privatisation, a period when London underwent changes that would shape its development through... -
Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry by Kenneth Koch 9780684824383
RRP: $35.48$15.17From one of the most esteemed American poets of the twenty-first century comes a celebration of poetry and an invitation for anyone to experience its beauty and wonder.Full of fresh and exciting insights, Making Your Own Days illuminates the somewhat... -
Lives of the Caesars: v. 2 by Suetonius
RRP: $32.19$30.17Antiquity's imperial biographer par excellence.Suetonius (C. Suetonius Tranquillus, born ca. AD 70), son of a military tribune, was at first an advocate and a teacher of rhetoric, but later became the emperor Hadrian's private secretary, 119-121. He... -
A Room Of One's Own by Virginia Woolf 9789353420710
RRP: $10.32$9.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353420710Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 4mm -
Imagined Selves: Imagined Corners: Mrs Ritchie: Mrs Grundy in Scotland: Women - An Inquiry: 'Women in Scotland' by Willa Muir
RRP: $25.80$17.36This volume gathers together some of the real and the imagined lives of Willa Muir, one of the finest and fiercest intellectuals of her generation.Her writing is rich with paradox - although obsessively Scottish in subject and style, she resented... -
Driving Home: An American Scrapbook by Jonathan Raban 9780330480826
RRP: $25.80$25.79For over thirty years Jonathan Raban has written about people and places in transition or on the margins, of journeys undertaken and destinations never quite reached; of isolation and alienation, but also of what it means to belong, to feel rooted... -
The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America by Nikesh Shukla
RRP: $23.21$14.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316524230Author Nikesh ShuklaFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm *... -
Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs by Gerald Murnane 9781911508663
RRP: $15.47$10.69Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Alexandrian, African and Spanish Wars by Julius Caesar
RRP: $32.19$30.17Arrivals, inspections, victories.In this volume are three works concerning the campaigns engaged in by the great Roman statesman Julius Caesar (100-44 BC), but not written by him. The Alexandrian War, which deals with troubles elsewhere also, may have... -
The Complete Fairy Tales by George MacDonald
RRP: $11.60$9.12George MacDonald occupied a major position in the intellectual life of his Victorian contemporaries. This volume brings together all eleven of his shorter fairy stories as well as his essay "The Fantastic Imagination". The subjects are those of... -
Wandering Jew: The Search for Joseph Roth by Dennis Marks
RRP: $15.48$12.54In this revealing 'psycho-geography', Dennis Marks makes a journey through the eastern borderlands of Europe to learn about the elusive writer Joseph Roth and the world in which he lived. The result is a riveting and involving documentary that reunites... -
A Jessie Kesson Companion by Jessie Kesson 9781903265017
RRP: $7.73$6.17This miscellany of Jessie Kesson's writings brings together a variety of her work in different genres, all focusing on childhood and adolescence.This miscellany of Jessie Kesson's writings brings together a variety of her work in different genres, all... -
A Strange Life: Selected Essays of Louisa May Alcott by Louisa May Alcott 9781912559435
RRP: $20.63$17.71Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) is, of course, best known as the author of Little Women (1868). But she was also a noted essayist who wrote on a wide range of subjects, including her father's failed utopian commune, the benefits of an unmarried life, and... -
Nobody's Business: The Aran Diaries of Ernie O'Malley by Ernie O'Malley
RRP: $23.22$19.20`Nobody's Business': The Aran Diaries of Ernie O'Malley presents new insights into the contradictions and complexities of the mind of Ernie O'Malley, one of mid-twentieth century Ireland's foremost cultural critics. In 1941, 1955 and 1956, the former... -
Further Requirements by Philip Larkin
RRP: $19.34$12.64Philip Larkin's Required Writing, a selection from his miscellaneous prose from 1953-82, was highly praised and enjoyed when it appeared in 1983. Further Requirements gathers together many other interviews, broadcasts, statements and reviews. Some of... -
Life, Love and The Archers: recollections, reviews and other prose Wendy Cope 9781444795387
RRP: $12.89$8.77Wendy 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... -
History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil by Jean De Lery
RRP: $34.83$27.17When the famous anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss arrived in Rio de Janeiro, he had one book in his pocket: "Jean de Lery's History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil". Lery had undertaken his fascinating and arduous voyage in 1556, as a youthful member... -
The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art by Eileen Myles
RRP: $21.92$14.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584350668Author Eileen MylesFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm -
Touch the Future: A Manifesto in Essays by John Lee Clark 9781324035367
RRP: $25.79$19.97Born Deaf into an ASL-speaking family and blind by adolescence, John Lee Clark learned to embrace the possibilities of his tactile world. He is on the frontlines of the Protactile movement, which gave birth to an unprecedented tactile language and a way... -
One Life at a Time, Please by Edward Abbey 9780805006032
RRP: $25.80$16.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805006032Author Edward AbbeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 225Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams) 272g -
Seek: Reports from the Edges of America and Beyond by Denis Johnson 9780413772756
RRP: $14.18$11.53Part political inquiry, part travel journal, part-self exploration, "Seek" is a collection of essays by an award-winning novelist out to explore himself and his life in the company of those who live on the edges of society. Denis Johnson travels between... -
Phaedrus by Plato
RRP: $16.76$14.27"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... -
Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through by T Fleischmann
RRP: $16.76$11.13How do the bodies we inhabit affect our relationship with art? How does art affect our relationship to our bodies? T Fleischmann uses Felix Gonzales-Torres's artworks-piles of candy, stacks of paper, puzzles-as a path through questions of love and loss,... -
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf 9780141018980
RRP: $10.31$7.47Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched... -
The Pulling by Adele Dumont 9781914484834
RRP: $14.18$9.44When I've been overtaken, I have stood and watched the water in my porridge simmer away into the air, and then the oats turn black and crackle with dryness, and my ears fill with the smoke alarm's shriek. When Adele Dumont is diagnosed with... -
Laches by Plato
RRP: $32.19$30.17On virtue in education and argumentation.Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BC. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is...