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Curious Pursuits: Occasional Writing Margaret Atwood 9781844081509
RRP: $25.33$16.77By the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace Curious Pursuits is a collection of personal essays, book reviews and articles from the fierce, ingenious mind of Margaret Atwood, ranging from 1970 to the present. Atwood remembers moving to London... -
The Perpetual Race of Achilles and the Tortoise by Jorge Luis Borges
RRP: $15.58$11.29In 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... -
Library of History: v. 10 by Siculus Diodorus
RRP: $48.65$45.61Remains of a universal chronicle.Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily (ca. 80-20 BC), wrote forty books of world history, called Library of History, in three parts: mythical history of peoples, non-Greek and Greek, to the Trojan War;... -
The Inky Digit of Defiance: Tony Harrison: Selected Prose 1966-2016 by Tony Harrison
RRP: $48.75$33.13In this richly varied selection of Tony Harrison's provocative prose of the last fifty years, the great poet of page, stage and screen presents a lifetime's thinking about art and politics, creativity and mortality. In so doing, he takes us on an... -
Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches by Mark Twain 9780140434170
$28.35These short fiction and prose pieces display the variety of Twain's imaginative invention, his diverse talents, and his extraordinary emotional range. Twain was a master of virtually every prose genre; in fables and stories, speeches and essays, he... -
The Art of Poetry: Aqa Love Poems Through the Ages, Post 1900 Poems by Neil Bowen 9780995467101
RRP: $23.38$21.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995467101Author Neil BowenFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Peripeteia PressPublisher Peripeteia PressWeight(grams) 254g -
Untold Microcosms: Latin American Writers in the British Museum by Sophie Hughes
RRP: $19.48$13.63Collection, colonialism, translation, and the ephemera that shapes the stories we tell about ourselves.Featuring new original works by: Yasnaya Elena Aguilar, Cristina Rivera Garza, Joseph Zarate, Juan Cardenas, Velia Vidal, Lina Meruane, Gabriela... -
Letters to Atticus: v. 3 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $48.65$45.61The 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... -
Feral Borough by Meryl Pugh
RRP: $25.33$17.43Set in the urban pastoral of an East London postcode, Feral Borough asks what it means to call a place home, and how best to share that home with its non-human inhabitants. Meryl Pugh reimagines the wild as 'feral', recording the fauna and flora of... -
Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears by Laszlo F. Foldenyi
RRP: $31.18$26.95An exemplary collection of work from one of the world's leading scholars of intellectual history "Foeldenyi . . . stage[s] a broad metaphysical melodrama between opposites that he pursues throughout this fierce, provoking collection (expertly translated... -
Categories by Aristotle
RRP: $48.65$45.61The 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 ... -
Finding Beauty in a Broken World by Terry Tempest Williams 9780375725197
RRP: $36.95$28.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for The Orion Book Award 2009.Book InformationISBN 9780375725197Author Terry Tempest WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House IncPublisher... -
The Dying Gaul and Other Writings by David Jones
RRP: $35.08$23.79'To open a book by David Jones is to walk in the ley lines of his dreaming, a dreaming offered to believer and non-believer alike. Like Blake, John Clare and D H Lawrence, he is one of Albion's great secret imaginers, his prophetic work radiant with "the... -
Essays After Eighty by Donald Hall
RRP: $31.10$17.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544570313Author Donald HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin -
Ground Work: Writings on People and Places by Tim Dee
RRP: $19.48$13.86The essential and defining new collection of the best British nature writing'Tim Dee has brought together a wonderous array of talent for this life-affirming, often magical anthology' ObserverWe are living in the anthropocene - an epoch where everything... -
Echo's Fugue by Desirae Matherly 9780814255414
RRP: $40.85$31.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814255414Author Desirae MatherlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)... -
In Catilinam: Bks. I-IV: Pro Murena: Pro Sulla: Pro Flacco by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $48.65$45.61The statesman at the height of his powers.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,... -
Tales Of Two Planets: Stories of Climate Change and Inequality in a Divided World by John Freeman
RRP: $25.33$16.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143133926Author John FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Short Takes: Brief Encounters with Contemporary Nonfiction by Judith Kitchen 9780393326000
$24.73In the years since the perennially popular In Short and In Brief were published, readers have come to delight in the deft focus of the succinct piece we now call The Short. Extending this trend, Short Takes presents over seventy-five writers whose range... -
Collection of Sand: Essays by Italo Calvino 9780141193748 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.48$8.54Italo Calvino in Collection of Sand claimed that 'the brain begins in the eye'. The essays collected here display his fascination with the visual universe, in which the things we see tell a truth about the world. With encyclopedic knowledge and engaging... -
Collection of Sand: Essays by Italo Calvino
RRP: $19.48$13.86Italo Calvino in Collection of Sand claimed that 'the brain begins in the eye'. The essays collected here display his fascination with the visual universe, in which the things we see tell a truth about the world. With encyclopedic knowledge and engaging... -
Had I Known: Collected Essays by Barbara Ehrenreich 9781783786886
RRP: $21.43$14.27A self-proclaimed 'myth buster by trade', over her long-ranging career as a journalist and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich has delved with devastating wit and insight into the social and political fabric of America. Had I Known gathers together... -
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: $31.18$22.27Apologies 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 -
Thrown Under the Omnibus by P. J. O'Rourke
RRP: $39.00$28.20'Whether you agree with him or not, P.J. writes a helluva piece.' Richard Nixon P.J. O'Rourke has had a prolific career as one of America's most celebrated humourists. But that career almost didn't happen. As he tells it, 'I began to write for pay in the... -
More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns by David Calonne
RRP: $27.28$18.06"He loads his head full of coal and diamonds shoot out of his finger tips. What a trick. The mole genius has left us with another digest. It's a full house--read 'em and weep."--Tom Waits After toiling in obscurity for years, Charles Bukowski suddenly... -
The Essential Writings of Jonathan Swift by Jonathan Swift 9780393930658
$34.18"Contexts" features a generous selection of contemporary materials, among them Swift's letters, autobiographical documents, and personal writings. "Criticism" provides readers with a wide chronological and thematic range of scholarly interpretations,... -
Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings by David Womersley 9780198859246
RRP: $50.68$49.06This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Samuel Johnson (1709-1784). Accompanied by full scholarly apparatus, the edition enables students to study Johnson's work in... -
The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar: Essays on Poets and Poetry by Helen Vendler
RRP: $40.85$32.92A Times Higher Education Book of the WeekOne of our foremost commentators on poetry examines the work of a broad range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century English, Irish, and American poets. The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar gathers two decades'... -
Orwell on Freedom by George Orwell
RRP: $19.48$13.86With an introduction by Kamila Shamsie'Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.'GEORGE ORWELL is one of the world's most famous writers and social commentators. Through his writing he exposed the... -
Homo Irrealis by Andre Aciman 9780571366460
RRP: $19.48$13.07The bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with this collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works. The irrealis mood knows no boundaries between what is and what isn't, between... -
Aristophanes: Clouds Alan H. Sommerstein (Department of Classics, University of Nottingham (United Kingdom)) 9780856682100
RRP: $54.58$48.65Clouds 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... -
Where the Stress Falls by Susan Sontag
RRP: $27.30$19.03Where the Stress Falls is divided into three sections: the first, 'Reading', includes ardent pieces on writers from Sontag's own private canon - Machado de Assis, Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Borges, Tsvetaeva and Elizabeth Hardwick. In the second, 'Seeing',... -
In Praise of the Bicycle Marc Auge 9781789141382
RRP: $23.38$16.44This is the French anthropologist as we've never heard him before: Marc Auge coined the term `non-place' to describe uniquitous, global airports, hotels and motorways filled with anonymous individuals. In this new book, he casts his anthropologist's eye... -
Ten Novels And Their Authors by W. Somerset Maugham
RRP: $25.33$17.73Maugham's studies of the lives and masterpieces of ten great novelists are outstanding examples of literary criticism at its finest. Afforded here are some of the formulae of greatness in the genre, as well as the flaws and heresies which enfeeble it... -
De Re Rustica: v. 1: Bks.I-IV by Columella
RRP: $48.65$45.61A Roman farmer on farming.Columella (Lucius Iunius Moderatus) of Gades (Cadiz) lived in the reigns of the first emperors to about AD 70. He moved early in life to Italy where he owned farms and lived near Rome. It is probable that he did military service... -
Menander Reliquiae Selectae by F. H. Sandbach 9780198147374
$75.56Menander was the greatest writer of Attic New Comedy. He wrote prolifically in the late fourth century BC, and nearly one hundred titles of his plays are known. Due to the plays' exclusion from the Greek school curriculum in the fifth century AD and... -
One Last Lunch: A Final Meal with Those Who Meant So Much to Us by Erica Heller
RRP: $37.03$29.04In this heartwarming collection edited by Joseph Heller's daughter, dozens of contributors imagine one last lunch with someone they cherished A few years ago, Erica Heller, daughter of novelist Joseph Heller, realized how universal the longing is for... -
Tales from Herodotus by G.S. Farnell 9780862920913
RRP: $44.83$44.56Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Teller and the Tale by Gabriel Josipovici
RRP: $29.23$21.00'We seem to live, intellectually and emotionally, in sealed-off universes,' writes Gabriel Josipovici in an essay on Hebrew poetry in medieval Spain, just one in a lively multiverse of writings gathered in The Teller and the Tale. The book draws on a... -
The Art of Poetry: AQA Love & Relationships by Kathrine Mortimore 9780995467132
RRP: $35.08$28.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995467132Author Kathrine MortimoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Art of PoetryPublisher Art of PoetryWeight(grams) 231g