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The Nerves and Their Endings: essays on crisis and response by Jessica Gaitan Johannesson
RRP: €11.89€7.97The body as a measuring tool for planetary harm. A nervous system under increasing stress. In this urgent collection that moves from the personal to the political and back again, writer, activist, and migrant Jessica Gaitan Johannesson explores how we... -
The Complete Fairy Tales by George MacDonald
RRP: €10.70€8.41George 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... -
Unsuitable for Ladies: An Anthology of Women Travellers by Jane Robinson
RRP: €23.79€16.99Real ladies do not travel - or so it was once said. This collection of women's travel writing dispels the notion by showing how there are few corners of the world that have not been visited by women travellers. There are also few difficulties, physical... -
The Art of Voice: Poetic Principles and Practice by Tony Hoagland 9780393357912
RRP: €15.46€11.60In this accessible and distilled craft guide, acclaimed poet Tony Hoagland approaches poetry through the frame of poetic voice, that mysterious connective element that binds the speaker and reader together. A poem strong in the dimension of voice is an... -
Wandering Jew: The Search for Joseph Roth by Dennis Marks
RRP: €14.28€11.57In 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... -
Histories: Bk. VIII-IX by Herodotus
RRP: €29.69€27.83The "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... -
A Jessie Kesson Companion by Jessie Kesson 9781903265017
RRP: €7.13€5.69This 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: €19.03€16.34Louisa 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: €21.42€17.71`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: €17.84€11.66Philip 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... -
De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: €29.69€27.83The ethics of a statesman.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 a... -
The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art by Eileen Myles
RRP: €20.22€13.73Apologies 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 -
The Great Movies II by Robert Ebert
RRP: €23.79€18.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767919869Author Roger EbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher... -
The Road to Wigan Pier (Collins Classics) by George Orwell 9780008442682
RRP: €8.32€6.10HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. If there is one man to whom I do feel myself inferior, it is a coalminer. In the mid-1930s, George Orwell was given an assignment from his... -
Satires by Horace
RRP: €29.69€27.83Artful 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... -
One Life at a Time, Please by Edward Abbey 9780805006032
RRP: €23.80€15.20Apologies 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 -
Beginning Postcolonialism by Peter J. Barry
RRP: €13.08€9.40Postcolonialism has become one of the most exciting, popular and stimulating fields of literary and cultural studies in recent years. Yet the variety of approaches, the range of debate and the critical vocabularies often used may make it challenging for... -
Rabindranath Tagore: An Interpretation by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya 9780143440307
€22.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143440307Author Sabyasachi BhattacharyaFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House India -
All a Novelist Needs: Colm Toibin on Henry James by Colm Toibin 9780801897795
RRP: €30.35€26.70This 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... -
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: €17.84€13.88Apologies 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 -
Letters to a Writer of Colour by Deepa Anappara
RRP: €17.84€13.03Filled 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... -
Museum Visits by Eric Chevillard 9780300254112
RRP: €15.46€13.89The daring, mischievous micro-essays of award-winning French humorist Eric Chevillard, published in English for the first time Eric Chevillard is one of France's leading stylists and thinkers, an endlessly inventive observer of the everyday whose... -
The Common Reader: Volume 2 by Virginia Woolf
RRP: €13.08€9.25'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... -
I Want to Keep Smashing Myself Until I Am Whole: An Elias Canetti Reader by Elias Canetti
RRP: €19.03€13.73A career-spanning collection of writings by the Nobel laureate Elias Canetti, edited and introduced by Pulitzer Prize winner Joshua Cohen. He embarked on no adventures, he was in no war. He was never in prison, he never killed anyone. He neither won... -
The Perpetual Race of Achilles and the Tortoise by Jorge Luis Borges
RRP: €9.51€6.89In this collection of wise, witty and fascinating essays, Borges discusses the existence (or non-existence) of Hell, the flaws in English literary detectives, the philosophy of contradictions, and the many translators of 1001 Nights. Varied and... -
A Hanging: And An Appeal for Publishing the Truth about Burma by George Orwell 9781804470886
RRP: €5.95€5.26George 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... -
Categories by Aristotle
RRP: €29.69€27.83The philosopher's toolkit.Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-347); subsequently he spent three years ... -
Give Up Art: Collected Writings (2005-15) by Maria Fusco 9781927354254
RRP: €29.75€28.30Apologies 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: €26.18€21.38A 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... -
Greek Anthology: v. 3 by W. R. Paton
RRP: €29.69€27.83A gathering of poetic blossoms.The Greek Anthology (literally, "Gathering of Flowers") is the name given to a collection of about 4500 short Greek poems (called epigrams but usually not epigrammatic) by about 300 composers. To the collection (called... -
The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker by Jelani Cobb 9780008498740
RRP: €17.84€11.54A 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: €26.18€17.41Apologies 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)... -
Five Moral Pieces by Umberto Eco
RRP: €11.89€8.46Embracing the web of multi-culturalism that has become a fact of contemporary life from New York to New Delhi, Eco argues that we are more connected to people of other traditions and customs than ever before, making tolerance the ultimate value in... -
The Adding Machine by William S Burroughs 9780802121950
RRP: €15.46€14.18Apologies 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... -
Raising Raffi: A Book about Fatherhood (For People Who Would Never Read Such a Book) by Keith Gessen 9781837730223
RRP: €13.08€8.71'A wise, mild and enviably lucid book about a chaotic scene' - Dwight Garner, New York Times 'Memoirs of fatherhood are rarely so honest or so blunt' - Daniel Engber, Atlantic'Tender and generous' - New York magazineKeith Gessen had always assumed that... -
Shaking A Leg: Collected Journalism and Writings by Angela Carter 9780099583073
RRP: €22.60€16.67WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY RACHEL COOKEReading Shaking a Leg is like spending time with the funniest, wisest friend you've ever had; a person whose breadth of interest ranges from food to feminism to science fiction, and everything in between; a person... -
True Stories: And Other Essays by Francis Spufford
RRP: €20.22€14.72An irresistible collection of favorite writings from an author celebrated for his bravura style and sheer unpredictability Francis Spufford's welcome first volume of collected essays gathers an array of his compelling writings from the 1990s to the... -
A Fly Girl's Guide To University: Being a Woman of Colour at Cambridge and Other Institutions of Elitism and Power by Odelia Younge
RRP: €19.03€13.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912565146Author Odelia YoungeFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Verve Poetry PressPublisher Verve Poetry PressDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 18mm -
The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing by Mary Webb 9780994430663
RRP: €11.84€9.70Apologies 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 -
From the Body by Charley Barnes 9781915606099
RRP: €13.08€9.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915606099Author Charley BarnesFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley Press