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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 9781999679255 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.00£6.26Award-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... -
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£16.37Examining 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... -
My Prizes by Thomas Bernhard 9781907903441 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£10.79Completed in 1980 but published here for the first time, My Prizes is an accounting - prize by prize, blow by blow - of the background and circumstances of reception of nine literary prizes that Thomas Bernhard was awarded between 1963 and 1980, followed... -
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
£12.69In 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... -
Menander Reliquiae Selectae by F. H. Sandbach 9780198147374
£38.75Menander 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... -
More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns by David Calonne
RRP: £13.99£9.26"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... -
One Last Lunch: A Final Meal with Those Who Meant So Much to Us by Erica Heller
RRP: £18.99£15.28In 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... -
Wisdom of Wildly Creative Women: Real Stories from Inspirational, Artistic, and Empowered Women (True Life Stories, Beautiful Photography) by Angela LoMenzo
RRP: £34.99£23.02Real Stories from Wildly Creative Women"If you need an extra boost of bravery, read this book! If you want to simply feel more positive about the world, read this book!" -Sherry Richert Belul, founder of Simply Celebrate and author of Say It Now#1 New... -
The Power Of Ideas by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: £18.99£13.61'Over a hundred years ago, the German poet Heine warned the French not to underestimate the power of ideas: philosophical concepts nurtured in the stillness of a professor's study could destroy a civilisation' - Isaiah Berlin, Two Concepts of Liberty,... -
Points of View by W. Somerset Maugham
RRP: £12.99£9.09Eclectic and illuminating, these essays are the last that Maugham published. Ranging from an appreciation of Goethe's novels, to an encounter with an Indian holy man, with a considered analysis of the form at which Maugham himself excelled - the short... -
Teller and the Tale by Gabriel Josipovici
RRP: £14.99£10.77'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... -
Proud To Be A Mammal by Czeslaw Milosz
RRP: £12.99£9.09Proud to be a Mammal (1942-97) is Czeslaw Milosz's moving and diverse collection of essays. Among them, he covers his passion for poetry, his love of the Polish language that was so nearly wiped out by the violence of the twentieth century, and his happy...