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The Beatest State in the Union: An Anthology of Beat Texas Writing by Christopher Carmona 9781942956082
RRP: £29.95£18.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942956082Author Christopher CarmonaFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Lamar University PressPublisher Lamar University PressWeight(grams)... -
The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism by Sarah Chihaya 9780231194570
RRP: £20.00£15.89Like few other works of contemporary literature, Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels found an audience of passionate and engaged readers around the world. Inspired by Ferrante's intense depiction of female friendship and women's intellectual lives, four... -
Selected Essays of Wilson Harris by Wilson Harris
RRP: £43.99£38.44Wilson Harris is one of the outstanding literary innovators of the century. His novels date from The Palace of the Peacock to Jonestown . This long-awaited volume matches Harris's career with his critical writings, from 1961 to the present day. ... -
The Barbara Johnson Reader: The Surprise of Otherness by Barbara Johnson
£33.62This Reader collects in a single volume some of the most influential essays written by Barbara Johnson over the course of her thirty-year career as a pioneering literary theorist and cultural critic. Johnson achieved renown early in her career, both as a... -
On the Natural Faculties by Galen
RRP: £24.95£23.39Antiquity'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... -
Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers by John Gierach
RRP: £9.99£9.93Witty, shrewd, and always a joy to read, John Gierach, "America's best fishing writer" (Houston Chronicle) and favorite streamside philosopher, has earned the following of "legions of readers who may not even fish but are drawn to his musings on... -
Think Like a Champion: An Informal Education In Business and Life by Donald Trump 9781593155711
RRP: £12.99£9.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593155711Author Donald TrumpFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Vanguard Press IncPublisher Vanguard Press IncWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
Ten Novels And Their Authors by W. Somerset Maugham
RRP: £12.99£9.09Maugham'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... -
Representations of the Intellectual: The 1993 Reith Lectures by Edward W. Said 9780679761273
RRP: £19.00£11.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679761273Author Edward W. SaidFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 164gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Early Work: 1970-1979 by Patti Smith
RRP: £12.99£11.12Collected here are selections from Patti Smith's writings over the decade in which she made a lasting impact on America's underground literary and rock scene. Smith's work evokes the experimentation and the desire to break boundaries of those pre-punk... -
Collection of Sand: Essays by Italo Calvino 9780141193748 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£4.38Italo 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: £9.99£7.11Italo 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... -
Dirty Truths by Michael Parenti 9780872863170
RRP: £19.99£15.23Essays are enjoying renewed popularity, from the personal essays of Lewis Thomas, to the intellectual treats of Marguerite Yourcenar, to the political and social commentary of Michael Parenti in this superb collection. Parenti covers the myth of the... -
Stage Invasion: Poetry & the Spoken Word Renaissance: 2019 by Pete Bearder
RRP: £10.00£7.00Award-winning poet Pete "the Temp" Bearder presents the unwritten history, science and skill of spoken word. Stage Invasion answers some strangely unaddressed questions: How was the live art of spoken verse kicked out of the Kingdom of Poetry? What is... -
The Four Voyages of Christopher Columbus by Christopher Columbus 9780140442175
£11.67No gamble in history has been more momentous than the landfall of Columbus's ship the Santa Maria in the Americas in 1492 - an event that paved the way for the conquest of a 'New World'. The accounts collected here provide a vivid narrative of his... -
Experiments on Reality by Tim Robinson
RRP: £13.99£9.75Long recognized as perhaps the greatest non-fiction writer at work in Ireland, for his vast, polymathic accounts of nature and culture in the Aran Islands and Connemara, Tim Robinson is also an essayist of genius whose fascinations range across the globe... -
Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985 by Adrienne Rich 9780393311624
RRP: £18.50£13.07Examining the connections between history and the imagination, ethics and action, she explores the possible meanings of being white, female, lesbian, Jewish, and a United States citizen, both at this particular time and through the lens of the past.About... -
Walden by Henry Thoreau
RRP: £16.99£12.28In this classic of American literature, Thoreau gives an account of his two years experience of the 'simple life' in the woods, telling how he sought and found material and spiritual sustenance in the solitude of the cabin which he built for himself on... -
Touch the Future: A Manifesto in Essays by John Lee Clark 9781324035367
RRP: £19.99£15.73Born 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... -
Curious Pursuits: Occasional Writing by Margaret Atwood
RRP: £12.99£8.60By 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... -
Encounter by Milan Kundera
RRP: £12.99£8.56With the same dazzling mix of emotion and idea that characterizes his novels he illuminates the art and artists who remain important to him and whose work helps us better understand the world. An astute and brilliant reader of fiction, Kundera applies... -
Modern Love, Revised and Updated: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption by Daniel Jones
RRP: £12.99£11.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593137048Author Daniel JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher... -
Mind of an Outlaw: Selected Essays by Norman Mailer
RRP: £16.99£12.28The definitive Norman Mailer collection, as he writes on Marilyn Monroe, culture, ideology, boxing, Hemingway, politics, sex, celebrity and - of course - Norman MailerFrom his early 'A Credo for the Living', published in 1948, when the author was... -
Thrown Under the Omnibus by P. J. O'Rourke
RRP: £20.00£14.46'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... -
Finding Beauty in a Broken World by Terry Tempest Williams 9780375725197
RRP: £18.95£14.62Apologies 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... -
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle 9781515096122
RRP: £5.99£5.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781515096122Author Thomas CarlyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
The Dying Gaul and Other Writings by David Jones
RRP: £17.99£12.20'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: £15.95£9.15Apologies 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 -
De Oratore: v. 1 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95£23.23The philosopher-statesman on ethics and rhetoric.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,... -
Ground Work: Writings on People and Places by Tim Dee
RRP: £9.99£7.11The 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... -
Freedom And Its Betrayal by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: £18.99£13.61Isaiah Berlin's celebrated radio lectures on six formative anti-liberal thinkers were delivered on the BBC's Third Programme in 1952. They are published here for the first time, fifty years on. Freedom and its Betrayal is one of Isaiah Berlin's earliest... -
Echo's Fugue by Desirae Matherly 9780814255414
RRP: £20.95£15.92Apologies 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)... -
Short Takes: Brief Encounters with Contemporary Nonfiction by Judith Kitchen 9780393326000
£11.31In 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... -
Had I Known: Collected Essays by Barbara Ehrenreich 9781783786886
RRP: £10.99£7.32A 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... -
Orwell on Freedom by George Orwell
RRP: £9.99£7.11With 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: £9.99£6.70The 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... -
In Praise of the Bicycle by Marc Auge 9781789141382
RRP: £11.99£8.43This 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... -
If the War Goes On . . .: Reflections on War and Politics by Hermann Hesse
RRP: £9.99£6.70Herman Hesse remained clear-sighted and consistent in his political views and his passionate espousal of pacifism and the bloody absurdity of war from the start of the First World War to the end of his life. He wrote the earliest essay in this book in... -
My Unwritten Books by George Steiner
RRP: £9.99£6.80George Steiner, the eminent professor of English at Cambridge and Geneva universities, has outlined seven books he has never written, but has always wanted to write, in seven sections.In this fiercely original and audacious work, George Steiner tells of... -
Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell 9781913724665
RRP: £5.00£4.35George 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...