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What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics by Adrienne Rich
RRP: £21.00£17.64Through journals, letters, dreams, and close readings of the work of many poets, Adrienne Rich reflects on how poetry and politics enter and impinge on American life. This expanded edition includes a new preface by the author as well as her post-9/11... -
Philip Roth: Why Write? Collected Nonfiction 1960-2014 by Philip Roth
RRP: £33.99£22.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598535402Author Philip RothFormat HardbackPage Count 476Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America -
Works: v.1 by Ammianus Marcellinus
RRP: £24.95£23.39A soldier's chronicle of Rome in decline.Ammianus Marcellinus (ca. AD 325-ca. 395), a Greek of Antioch, joined the army when still young and served under the governor Ursicinus and the emperor of the East Constantius II, and later under the emperor... -
Scripta Minora by Xenophon
RRP: £24.95£23.39A miscellany of minor works.Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BC) was a wealthy Athenian and friend of Socrates. He left Athens in 401 and joined an expedition including ten thousand Greeks led by the Persian governor Cyrus against the Persian king... -
The European Tribe by Caryl Phillips 9780375707049
RRP: £16.00£11.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375707049Author Caryl PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 139gDimensions(mm) 204mm *... -
Look Alive Out There: Essays by Sloane Crosley 9781250310415
RRP: £17.00£11.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250310415Author Sloane CrosleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 23mm -
Minor Monuments by Ian Maleney
RRP: £12.99£8.60Set around a small family farm on the edge of a bog, a few miles from the river Shannon, Minor Monuments is a collection of essays unfolding from the landscape of the Irish midlands. Taking in the physical and philosophical power of sound and music, and... -
Telling Times by Nadine Gordimer
RRP: £12.99£9.79Nadine Gordimer's life reflects the true spirit of the writer as moral activist, political visionary and literary icon. Telling Times collects together all her non-fiction for the first time, spanning more than half a century, from the twilight of... -
William Morris: Master of Modern Design by PIE Books
RRP: £29.99£19.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756243362Author PIE BooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint PIE BooksPublisher PIE Books -
I Miss You When I Blink: Dispatches from a Relatively Ordinary Life by Mary Laura Philpott 9781911632283
RRP: £14.99£13.45In this memoir-in-essays full of spot-on observations about home, work, and creative life, Philpott takes on the conflicting pressures of modern womanhood with wit and heart. She offers up her own stories to show that identity crises don't happen just... -
The Collected Essays of A. K. Ramanujan by A. K. Ramanujan 9780195668964
£22.98Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Daemon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling by Philip Pullman 9780525562955
RRP: £18.95£12.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525562955Author Philip PullmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 465gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Dreamverse by Jindrich Styrsky 9788086264387
RRP: £19.50£16.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788086264387Author Jindrich StyrskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 237Imprint Twisted Spoon PressPublisher Twisted Spoon PressWeight(grams) 600gDimensions(mm)... -
Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes by Anthony Veasna So
RRP: £18.99£12.71By the New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning AFTERPARTIES comes a collection like none other: sharply funny, emotionally expansive essays and linked short fiction exploring family, queer desire, pop culture, and race The late Anthony... -
Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005 by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: £15.99£11.61Following on from Stranger Shores, which contained J.M. Coetzee's essays from 1986 to 1999, Inner Workings gathers together his literary essays from 2000 to 2005.Of the writers discussed in the first half of the book, several - Italo Svevo, Joseph Roth,... -
Tomorrow is Now by Eleanor Roosevelt
£14.42As relevant and influential now as it was when first published in 1963, Tomorrow Is Now is Eleanor Roosevelt's manifesto and her final effort to move America toward the community she hoped it would become. In bold, blunt prose, one of the greatest First... -
Works: v. 2 by Demosthenes
RRP: £24.95£23.39The preeminent orator of ancient Athens.Demosthenes (384-322 BC), orator at Athens, was a pleader in law courts who later became also a statesman, champion of the past greatness of his city and the present resistance of Greece to Philip of Macedon's... -
Stand Still Like the Hummingbird by Henry Miller 9780811203227
RRP: £11.99£11.86One of Henry Miller's most luminous statements of his personal philosophy of life, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird, provides a symbolic title for this collection of stories and essays. Many of them have appeared only in foreign magazines while others... -
The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing by Norman Mailer
RRP: £16.99£12.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812971286Author Norman MailerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, Vol. 5 - Practice by Gavin Van Horn
RRP: £17.99£12.14*Part of the 5-Volume Set 2022 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal Winner: Ecology & Environment and Special Honors as Best of Anthology Volume 5 of the Kinship series revolves around the question of practice: What are the practical, everyday, and lifelong... -
Why Friendship Matters: Selected Writings by Michèle Mendelssohn
RRP: £10.99£7.51Some friendships need celebrating, some are hard to navigate, and some need a bit of tender love and care. Delve into this anthology for a tour of all aspects of friendship by your favourite classic authors.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a... -
Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting by Ann Hood 9780393239492
RRP: £19.99£16.97"The impressive collection of writers here have contributed essays that celebrate knitting and knitters. They share their knitting triumphs and disasters as well as their life triumphs and disasters. . . . These essays will break your heart. They will... -
With Dust Still in His Throat: The Writing of B. L. Coombes, the Voice of a Working Miner by B. L. Coombes 9781783161492
RRP: £11.99£9.00The real history of the mines ought to be written by a man still at work underground. The dust should still be in his throat as he was writing-it seemed to me-then it would be authentic. Despite my searching, I knew of no man who answered this... -
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories by Marina Keegan 9781476753614
RRP: £24.00£14.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476753614Author KeeganFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)... -
On Sophistical Refutations: v. 3: On Comin to Be Passing Away - On the Cosmos by Aristotle
RRP: £24.95£23.88Fallacies, contraries, consistencies.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... -
Windy Arbours: Collected Critisism by Aidan Higgins 9781564783912
RRP: £17.99£12.30In addition to his novels and stories, Aidan Higgins--one of Ireland's most respected contemporary writers--has written a large body of criticism. Windy Arbours includes pieces written between 1970-1990 and is the first collection of his reviews to be... -
Listening Below the Noise: The Transformative Power of Silence by Anne D LeClaire 9780061353369
RRP: £15.99£9.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061353369Author Anne D LeClaireFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Writings on the Wall: Palestinian Oral Histories by Thomas Suarez
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623719227Author Thomas SuarezFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Olive Branch PressPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc -
The Gary Snyder Reader: Prose, Poetry, and Translations by Gary Snyder
RRP: £28.99£19.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582430799Author Gary SnyderFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 766g -
The Secret Life of Poems: A Poetry Primer by Tom Paulin
RRP: £10.99£7.32The Secret Life of Poems is a primer which offers a poem - or on occasion an excerpt - succeeding with commentary in which rhythm, form, metre and sources are the order of the day, not ethical commentary or descriptive paraphrase. This brief engagement... -
Essays In Persuasion by John Maynard Keynes 9781441492265
RRP: £9.95£8.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781441492265Author John Maynard KeynesFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpaceWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
The Destiny Thief by Richard Russo
RRP: £9.99£6.70A master of the novel, short story and memoir, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Everybody's Foolnow gives us his very first collection of personal essays, thoughts on writing, reading and living.In these nine essays, Richard Russo provides insight... -
Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose: 1983-2005 by Margaret Atwood 9780786717675
£18.29From one of the world's most passionately engaged and acclaimed literary citizens comes Writing with Intent, the largest collection to date of Margaret Atwood's nonfiction, ranging from 1983 to 2005. Composed of autobiographical essays, cultural... -
The Found Voice: Writers' Beginnings by Denis Sampson 9780198752998
RRP: £37.99£37.88The Found Voice: Writers' Beginnings uses the means of literary biography and criticism to do something rarely attempted--to understand how a key creative period establishes the authoritative voice of a unique artist. The essays which explore this hidden... -
On Mysticism by Jorge Luis Borges
RRP: £12.74£9.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143105695Author Jorge Luis BorgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 196mm... -
The Faith of a Felon and Other Writings by James Fintan Lalor 9781906359263
RRP: £17.00£16.51James Fintan Lalor (1807-1849) was one of the most original thinkers of the Young Ireland movement, and one of the most frequently appropriated by later Irish activists. From Michael Davitt to James Connolly, a host of self-proclaimed disciples... -
Travels in Hyper Reality by Umberto Eco 9780156913218
RRP: £18.95£13.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156913218Author Umberto EcoFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint HarperviaPublisher Harpervia -
Star Thrower by Loren Eiseley 9780156849098
RRP: £17.99£12.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156849098Author Loren EiseleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper Perennial -
The Art of Poetry: AQA Love & Relationships by Kathrine Mortimore 9780995467132
RRP: £17.99£14.82Apologies 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 -
Charmides by Plato
RRP: £24.95£23.39Mostly doubtful dialogues.Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BC. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is uncertain; ...