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The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other by Walker Percy 9780312254018
RRP: $19.34$15.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312254018Author Walker PercyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 318g -
The End of the End of the Earth by Jonathan Franzen 9780008299224 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.92$2.92A 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: $12.89$7.22A 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... -
Letters to a Writer of Colour by Deepa Anappara
RRP: $19.34$14.13Filled with empathy and wisdom, personal experiences and creative inspiration, this is a vital collection of essays on the power of literature and the craft of writing from an international array of writers of colour.'Electric essays that speak to the... -
Sidewalks by Valeria Luiselli 9781847085191
RRP: $16.76$11.04Evocative, erudite and consistently surprising, these narrative essays explore the places - real and imagined - that shape our lives. Whether wandering the familiar streets of her neighbourhood, revisiting the landmarks of her past, or getting lost in a... -
The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing by Mary Webb 9780994430663
RRP: $12.84$12.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994430663Author Mary WebbFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Michael WalmerPublisher Michael WalmerWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 9mm -
Simone De Beauvoir's the Second Sex by Ruth Evans 9780719043031
RRP: $25.79$22.99Acknowledged by many feminists as the single most important theoretical work of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex (1949) nevertheless occupies an anomalous place in the feminist 'canon'. Yet it has had an undeniable impact, not... -
A Hanging: And An Appeal for Publishing the Truth about Burma by George Orwell 9781804470886
RRP: $6.45$5.70George Orwell set out 'to make political writing into an art', and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature - his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding... -
The Good Immigrant USA: 26 Writers Reflect on America by Nikesh Shukla
RRP: $12.89$8.77GUARDIAN 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... -
Food for Thought: Selected Writings by Annie Gray
RRP: $14.18$9.18A 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... -
All a Novelist Needs: Colm Toibin on Henry James by Colm Toibin 9780801897795
RRP: $32.90$28.95This book collects, for the first time, Colm Toibin's critical essays on Henry James. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his novel about James's life, The Master, Toibin brilliantly analyzes James from a novelist's point of view. Known for his acuity... -
Give Up Art: Collected Writings (2005-15) by Maria Fusco 9781927354254
RRP: $32.25$30.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927354254Author Maria FuscoFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Projectile Publishing SocietyPublisher Projectile Publishing SocietyWeight(grams)... -
It All Adds Up by Saul Bellow 9780143106685
RRP: $28.38$22.65A fascinating journey through literary America over the last forty years, guided by one of the "most gifted chroniclers in the Western World" (The Times [London])A Penguin Classic"Sentence by sentence, page by page, Bellow is simply the best writer we... -
The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker by Jelani Cobb 9780008498740
RRP: $19.34$12.51A collection of the New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in America, including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more From the pages of the New Yorker comes a... -
To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays by Czesaw Miosz 9780374528591
RRP: $28.38$18.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374528591Author Czeslaw MiloszFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)... -
The Complete Essays of Montaigne by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne 9780804704861
RRP: $45.15$40.94This new translation of Montaigne's immortal Essays received great acclaim when it was first published in The Complete Works of Montaigne in the 1957 edition. The New York Times said, "It is a matter for rejoicing that we now have available a new... -
On the Natural Faculties by Galen
RRP: $32.19$30.17Antiquity's most prolific and influential medical writer and practitioner.If the work of Hippocrates is taken as representing the foundation upon which the edifice of historical Greek medicine was raised, then the work of Galen, who lived some six... -
The Adding Machine by William S Burroughs 9780802121950
RRP: $16.76$15.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802121950Author William S BurroughsFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly... -
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 9780393958287
$29.72The editor has made necessary typographical corrections and carefully introduced and annotated the text for the student reader. Dickens' number plans for David Copperfield, which reveal his practice both as a serial writer and as a craftsman, are also... -
Fables: Fables by Phaedrus
RRP: $32.19$31.66Fabulous verse.Babrius is the reputed author of a collection (discovered in the 19th century) of more than 125 fables based on those called Aesop's, in Greek verse. He may have been a Hellenized Roman living in Asia Minor during the late first century of... -
Living, Thinking, Looking Siri Hustvedt 9781444732658
RRP: $12.89$8.77FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED AND A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMEN'Richly intelligent insights on every page' Financial Times'A rare kind of quiet intellectual confidence' Sunday TelegraphIn these fascinating, lively... -
I Wrote This Book Because I Love You: Essays by Tim Kreider 9781476739014
RRP: $14.18$12.76*A People Top 10 Book of 2018* The New York Times essayist and author of We Learn Nothing, Tim Kreider trains his singular power of observation on his (often befuddling) relationships with women.Psychologists have told him he's a psychologist... -
Eat Joy: Stories & Comfort Food from 31 Celebrated Writers by Natalie Eve Garrett 9781936787791
RRP: $27.08$18.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936787791Author Natalie Eve GarrettFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint CatapultPublisher Catapult -
A The Dedalus Book of Absinthe by Phil Baker 9781910213803
RRP: $12.89$10.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910213803Author Phil BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Dedalus LtdPublisher Dedalus Ltd -
Light The Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process by Joe Fassler
RRP: $18.05$11.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143130840Author Joe FasslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Late Essays: 2006 - 2017 J.M. Coetzee 9781784705657
RRP: $14.18$10.02A fascinating collection of essays on literary subjects ranging from Daniel Defoe to Samuel Beckett by a Nobel and Booker Prize-winning writerLate Essays gathers together J.M. Coetzee's literary essays from 2006 to 2017. The subjects covered in this... -
Self-Portrait Abroad by Jean Toussaint 9781564785862
RRP: $12.89$8.71Even on holiday, sex and death are Jean-Philippe Toussaint s constant companions...About the AuthorJean-Philippe Toussaint is the author of nine novels, and the winner of numerous literary prizes, including the Prix Decembre for "The Truth about Marie"... -
Stranger Faces by Namwali Serpell
RRP: $15.47$10.32Apologies 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 -
Outlines of Pyrrhonism: v. 1 by Empiricus Sextus
RRP: $32.19$30.17A 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... -
History: Bks. V-VIII by Herodian
RRP: $32.19$30.17A 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... -
Satires by Horace
RRP: $32.19$30.17Artful hexameters.Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 65-8 BC) was born at Venusia, son of a freedman clerk who had him well educated at Rome and Athens. Horace supported the ill-fated killers of Caesar, lost his property, became a secretary in the... -
On Christmas by Gyles Brandreth
RRP: $19.34$16.19A seasonal anthology of Christmas-themed writings to savour during the highs and lows of Christmas Day. This delightful book offers a diverse array of classic and contemporary writers who have expressed their thoughts about Christmas over the centuries -... -
The Gray Notebook Josep Pla 9781590176719
RRP: $29.67$20.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590176719Author Josep PlaFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 665gDimensions(mm)... -
Complete Essays: Aldous Huxley, 1920-1925 by Aldous Huxley 9781566633222
RRP: $38.70$28.93These first two volumes of a projected five, in preparation for several years, begin a major publishing venture, collecting the complete essays of one of the giants of modern English prose and of social commentary in our time. The first two volumes span... -
The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe 9780393972856
$30.30In this Norton Critical Edition, G. R. Thompson has fully introduced, annotated, and edited each text. "Backgrounds and Contexts" includes fifty-seven carefully chosen documents that illuminate Poe's prolific but short career, among them reviews,... -
Stranger Shores by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: $16.76$11.73J. M. Coetzee is, without question, one of the world's greatest novelists. This volume gathers together for the first time in book form twenty-nine pieces on books, writing, photography and the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa. Stranger Shores opens... -
Bibliophile: Diverse Spines by Jamise Harper
RRP: $18.05$16.15It's time to diversify your reading list. This richly illustrated and vastly inclusive collection uplifts the works of authors who are often underrepresented in the literary world. Using their keen knowledge and deep love for all things literary,... -
The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myths and Our American Narratives by David Mura
RRP: $25.79$22.63Uncovering the pernicious narratives white people create to justify white supremacy and sustain racist oppression The police murders of two Black men, Philando Castile and George Floyd, frame this searing exploration of the historical and fictional... -
Histories: Bks. 4-5 by Cornelius Tacitus
RRP: $32.19$30.17The paramount historian of the early Roman empire. Tacitus (Cornelius), famous Roman historian, was born in AD 55, 56 or 57 and lived to about 120. He became an orator, married in 77 a daughter of Julius Agricola before Agricola went to Britain, was... -
The Art of Solitude: Selected Writings by Zachary Seager
RRP: $14.18$9.69In a world where we're more connected than ever, why is it that we're also more lonely? Dip into this anthology of classic writing to reclaim the pleasure of your own company.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning pocket size...