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Advertisements for Myself by Norman Mailer 9780241340455
RRP: £12.99£9.09Advertisements for Myself is a comprehensive collection of the best of Norman Mailer's essays, stories, interviews and journalism from the Forties and Fifties, linked by anarchic and riotous autobiographical commentary. Laying bare the heart of a witty,... -
Unshackling India: Hard Truths and Clear Choices for Economic Revival by Ajay and Soz, Salman Anees Chhibber
RRP: £21.50£17.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354893346Author Ajay ChhibberFormat HardbackPage Count 492Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaWeight(grams) 480gDimensions(mm) 250mm... -
The Best American Essays 2021 by Robert Atwan 9780358381754
RRP: £16.99£9.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358381754Author Robert AtwanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing CompanyPublisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt... -
Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears by Laszlo F. Foldenyi
RRP: £15.99£13.82An 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... -
Socialist Realism by Trisha Low 9781566895514
RRP: £12.99£8.63When Trisha Low moves west, her journey is motivated by the need to arrive "somewhere better"-someplace utopian, like revolution; or safe, like home; or even clarifying, like identity. Instead, she faces the end of her relationships, a family whose... -
Negative Capability: The Intuitive Approach in Keats by Walter Jackson Bate 9780983697237
RRP: £14.00£10.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983697237Author Walter Jackson BateFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Contra Mundum PressPublisher Contra Mundum PressWeight(grams) 135gDimensions(mm)... -
Lives for Sale: Biographers' Tales by Mark Bostridge 9780826487841
£17.13Biography is well recognised as a peculiarly British vice. This new anthology is a collection of essays by some of the best biographers now writing in Britain. They tell of the ups and downs of life writing: of problems with families and friends of their... -
Sacred Wood & Major Early Essays by T S Eliot 9780486299365
RRP: £7.95£7.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486299365Author T S EliotFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 159g -
Traffic by John Ruskin 9780141398143 [USED COPY]
RRP: £2.00£1.86'You shall have thousands of gold pieces; - thousands of thousands - millions - mountains of gold: where will you keep them?'Two of Ruskin's most powerful essays: 'Traffic' and 'The Roots of Honour'Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for... -
Letters To Lily: On how the world works by Alan MacFarlane
RRP: £10.99£8.08In a frank and unpretentious series of letters addressed to a teenage granddaughter, this highly original book teaches us to know and understand the world we live in and its rules, and how to behave in it. In these thirty letters, Alan Macfarlane answers... -
The Black Joy Project by Kleaver Cruz 9780358588757
RRP: £28.00£20.09NAACP Image Award Finalist for Outstanding Literary WorkFeaturing 117 full-color photos and eight breathtaking essays on a force that fuels Black life all around the globe, this is Humans of New York meets The Black Book"A patchwork quilt of visually... -
Curiosity by Alberto Manguel
RRP: £12.99£11.46An eclectic history of human curiosity, a great feast of ideas, and a memoir of a reading life from an internationally celebrated reader and thinker Curiosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward and the... -
The Revolt of the Pendulum: Essays 2005-2008 by Clive James 9780330457392
RRP: £16.99£15.23Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Prose by Yves Bonnefoy
RRP: £30.00£21.00Yves Bonnefoy (1923-2016), a major poet, was equally a seminal essayist and thinker. This companion volume to Yves Bonnefoy: Poems contains what he regarded as his foundational essays, as well as a generous selection from all periods. In his art... -
See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticism, and Commentary by Lorrie Moore
RRP: £9.99£6.70Award-winning author Lorrie Moore has been writing criticism for over thirty years - and her forensically intelligent, witty and engaging essays are collected here for the first time. Whether writing on Titanic, Margaret Atwood or The Wire, her pieces... -
Karmic Traces: Essays by Eliot Weinberger
RRP: £12.99£11.46For the past twenty years, Eliot Weinberger has been taking the essay far beyond the borders of literary criticism or personal journalism and into the realm of poetry and narrative. Full of stories, yet written in a condensed, imagistic language, his... -
Not-knowing: The Essays and Interviews by Donald Barthelme 9781593761738
RRP: £12.99£12.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593761738Author Donald BarthelmeFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 369g -
Essays Virginia Woolf Vol.6 by Virginia Woolf
RRP: £40.00£29.39With this sixth volume The Hogarth Press completes a major literary undertaking - the publication of the complete essays of Virginia Woolf. In this, the last decade of her life, Woolf wrote distinguished literary essays on Turgenev, Goldsmith, Congreve,... -
Difficult Lives - Hitching Rides by James Sallis 9780857302564
RRP: £9.99£6.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857302564Author James SallisFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint No Exit PressPublisher Oldcastle Books Ltd -
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions/Death's Dual by John Donne
RRP: £12.99£9.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375705489Author John DonneFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm... -
In Sensorium: Notes for My People by Tanais
RRP: £26.99£20.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358381709Author TanaisFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 140g -
Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting by Ann Hood
RRP: £12.99£10.37Knitting Yarns explores what is so magical about knitting and how it can inspire joy and help us get through life-changing events. Knitting occupies an important a place in the hearts of a number of writers. Ann Hood has collected twenty-seven original... -
Lonely Planet An Innocent Abroad: Life-Changing Trips from 35 Great Writers by Lonely Planet 9781743603604 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.00£2.65More than 20 well-known writers and celebrities share the travel experiences that shaped their personalities and changed their lives. Contributors include Dave Eggers, Richard Ford, Pico Iyer, John Berendt, Alexander McCall Smith and Jane Smiley.About... -
Step Across This Line by Salman Rushdie 9780099421870 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£3.10The subjects of Salman Rushdie's collection of non-fiction range from The Wizard of Oz, U2, India and Indian writing, the death of Princess Diana, and football, to twentieth-century writers including Angela Carter, Arthur Miller, Edward Said, J. M... -
Step Across This Line by Salman Rushdie
RRP: £12.99£9.09The subjects of Salman Rushdie's collection of non-fiction range from The Wizard of Oz, U2, India and Indian writing, the death of Princess Diana, and football, to twentieth-century writers including Angela Carter, Arthur Miller, Edward Said, J. M... -
What If This Were Enough? by Heather Havrilesky
RRP: £20.00£11.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525434962Author Heather HavrileskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 221gDimensions(mm) 201mm... -
Granite and Rainbow: Essays by Virginia Woolf 9780156364751
RRP: £18.99£13.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156364751Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams)... -
I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood by Jessi Klein
RRP: £20.00£16.10An instant New York Times bestseller, I'll Show Myself Out is the eagerly anticipated second essay collection from Jessi Klein, author of the acclaimed debut You'll Grow Out of It.Longlisted for the PEN Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the... -
The Ghosts of Birds by Eliot Weinberger
RRP: £12.99£11.46The Ghosts of Birds offers thirty-five essays by Eliot Weinberger: the first section of the book continues his linked serial-essay, An Elemental Thing, which pulls the reader into "a vortex for the entire universe" (Boston Review). Here, Weinberger... -
Communal Nude: Collected Essays by Robert Gluck
RRP: £16.99£11.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584351757Author Robert GluckFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 27mm -
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present by Lex Williford
£14.26From memoir to journalism, personal essays to cultural criticism, this indispensable anthology brings together works from all genres of creative nonfiction, with pieces by fifty contemporary writers including Cheryl Strayed, David Sedaris, Barbara... -
A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars by Erin Sharkey
RRP: £14.99£9.88A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2023A Library Journal Recommended Read for 2023A Ms. Magazine Most Anticipated Book of 2023A vibrant collection of personal and lyric essays in conversation with archival objects of Black history and memory.What... -
Unpacking My Library by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £4.99£4.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912475841Author Walter BenjaminPage Count 26Imprint ERISPublisher ERIS -
Complete Essays: Aldous Huxley, 1936-1938 by Aldous Huxley 9781566633949
RRP: £30.00£22.43In this fourth volume of a projected six, Huxley registers his deep misgivings about the course of history in the late 1930s as the world moved toward a second global war. Many of his essays reflect his continuing interest in the conventions of popular... -
The Common Reader by Virginia Woolf 9780156027786
RRP: £19.99£14.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156027786Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams)... -
Goodbye, Again: Essays, Reflections, and Illustrations by Jonny Sun
RRP: £12.99£9.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062880857Author Jonny SunFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 454g -
The Best American Essays 2022 by Robert Atwan
RRP: £12.99£10.02A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning writer Alexander Chee.Alexander Chee, an essayist of "virtuosity and power" (Washington Post), selects twenty essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published... -
Art in the Light of Conscience by Marina Tsvetaeva
RRP: £12.99£8.60Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941) was one of the four great Russian poets of the 20th century, along with Akhmatova, Mandelstam and Pasternak. She also wrote outstanding prose. Endowed with 'phenomenally heightened linguistic sensitivity' (Joseph Brodsky),... -
The Work of Fire by Maurice Blanchot 9780804724937
RRP: £27.99£24.14Since the middle of the twentieth century, Maurice Blanchot has been an extraordinarily influential figure on the French literary and cultural scene. He is arguably the key figure after Sartre in exploring the relation between literature and philosophy. ... -
The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism by Octavio Paz 9780156003650
RRP: £16.99£12.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156003650Author Octavio PazFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm * 23mm