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Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: £23.00£22.13This is an analysis of censorship from the perspective of one who has lived and worked under its shadow. The essays collected here attempt to understand the passion that plays itself out in acts of silencing and censoring. Coetzee argues that a... -
Migratory Birds by Mariana Oliver
RRP: £11.99£8.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945492525Author Mariana OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Transit BooksPublisher Transit Books -
Thinking in Circles: An Essay on Ring Composition by Professor Mary Douglas
RRP: £21.00£20.31Exploring beyond the usual boundaries of social anthropology, a leader in the field shows why our readings of ancient literary texts may be off the mark Many famous antique texts are misunderstood and many others have been completely dismissed, all... -
Contact!: A Book of Glimpses by Jan Morris
RRP: £10.99£7.32In Contact! Jan turns her brilliantly observant eye to the human contacts she made, across the globe and though the decades. As a series of vignettes, some only a few lines long, she records hundreds of brief glimpses and fleeting encounters, celebrating... -
What Time Is It? by John Berger
RRP: £14.99£13.62"Patience, patience, because the great movements of history have always begun in those small parenthesis that we call 'in the meantime.'" --John Berger The last book that John Berger wrote was this precious little volume about time titled What Time Is... -
Livy: Ab urbe condita Book VI by Livy
RRP: £27.99£24.27Book VI of Livy's Ab urbe condita covers the history of Rome from 390 to 367 BC, a period during which the city, while in the process of recovering from being sacked by the Gauls, faced serious civil disturbance, the resolution of which fundamentally... -
On Women by Susan Sontag
RRP: £16.00£9.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250876850Author Susan SontagFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 140mm * 23mm -
What I Stand On: The Collected Essays of Wendell Berry 1969 - 2017 by Wendell Berry 9781598536102
RRP: £70.99£45.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598536102Author Wendell BerryFormat HardbackPage Count 1702Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America -
Virginia Woolf: Essays on the Self by Virginia Woolf
RRP: £14.99£12.55Woolf's fine character studies of several authors, among them Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who 'seems not a man, but a swarm, a cloud, a buzz of words, darting this way and that, clustering, quivering and hanging suspended'. He is, Woolf adds,so complex, so... -
Untold Microcosms: Latin American Writers in the British Museum by Sophie Hughes
RRP: £9.99£6.99Collection, 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... -
Sleep, Death's Brother by Jesse Ball 9781945711022
RRP: £14.00£13.14Sleep, Death's Brother is an instruction manual on dreaming for children or incarcerated persons, teaching such individuals to lucid dream and thus use their dreams to somewhat escape their situations. While it is often the case that dream life is... -
The Ideal of Culture: Essays by Joseph Epstein 9781604191233
£18.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604191233Author Joseph EpsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 572Imprint Axios PressPublisher Axios Press -
Pulphead by John Jeremiah Sullivan
RRP: £20.00£12.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction) 2011 and Saroyan Writing Prize (Nonfiction) 2012.Book InformationISBN 9780374532901Author John Jeremiah... -
Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals by Joy Williams 9780762796502
RRP: £14.99£11.12Williams tackles a host of controversial subjects in this collection of nineteen impassioned essays dealing mostly with humanity's abuses of the natural world.Reviews"Joy Williams is now the most gifted writer of her generation." -- Harold Brodkey ... -
The Lede: Dispatches from a Life in the Press by Calvin Trillin 9780593596449
RRP: £31.00£20.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593596449Author Calvin TrillinFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)... -
The New Negro Aesthetic: Selected Writings by Alain Locke
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143135210Author Alain LockeFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Smothered Under Journalism: 1946 by George Orwell
RRP: £30.00£21.35Volume 18 of The Complete Works of George OrwellJournalism took a heavy toll on Orwell in the first months of 1946. Despite this unremitting pressure, he produced a major sequence of articles on 'The Intellectual Revolt'. He wrote one of his finest short... -
Where the Stress Falls by Susan Sontag
RRP: £14.00£9.76Where 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',... -
Book of Delights by Ross Gay 9781616207922 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99£9.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616207922Format HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Algonquin BooksPublisher Algonquin Books -
Book of Delights by Ross Gay
RRP: £18.99£14.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616207922Format HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Algonquin BooksPublisher Algonquin Books -
Dumb Luck and the Kindness of Strangers by John Gierach 9781501168581
RRP: £27.00£15.19Witty, shrewd, and, as always, a joy to read, John Gierach, "America's best fishing writer" (Houston Chronicle) and favorite streamside philosopher, extols the frequent joys and occasional tribulations of the fly-fishing life."After five decades, twenty... -
Give My Regards To Eighth Street: Collected Writings of Morton Feldman by Bernard Harper Friedman 9781878972316
RRP: £13.99£10.34Afterword by Frank O'Hara Morton Feldman (1926-1987) is among the most influential American composers of the 20th Century. While his music is known for its exteme quiet and delicate beauty, Feldman himself was famously large and loud. His writings are... -
For the Love of Books: Stories of Literary Lives, Banned Books, Author Feuds, Extraordinary Characters, and More by Graham Tarrant
RRP: £19.99£11.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510741577Author Graham TarrantFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 211mm... -
Along Heroic Lines by Christopher Ricks 9780192894656
RRP: £22.99£19.56A selection of new and revised essays from eminent scholar and critic Professor Christopher Ricks. Christopher Ricks brings together new as well as substantially augmented critical essays across a wide range. Several derive from his term as the... -
The Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide to World Fiction: Discover Your Next Great Read by Nik Kalinowski 9780713679991 [USED COPY]
RRP: £22.99£2.65Reading, like travelling, takes you on a journey of discovery into new places, cultures and ways of living. This book brings those two worlds together. It is a literary exploration of global proportions, a rich survey of the finest novels set or written... -
The Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide to World Fiction: Discover Your Next Great Read by Nik Kalinowski 9780713679991
RRP: £22.99£17.44Reading, like travelling, takes you on a journey of discovery into new places, cultures and ways of living. This book brings those two worlds together. It is a literary exploration of global proportions, a rich survey of the finest novels set or written... -
The Making of Modern Art: Selected Writings by Michael Peppiatt
RRP: £27.50£22.89Selected writings from a leading critic of modern art, "the best art writer of his generation" (Art Newspaper) Michael Peppiatt, guest curator of the Royal Academy of Arts' 2021 exhibition 'Francis Bacon: Man and Beast', has for more than 50 years... -
Shakespeare on Page and Stage: Selected Essays by Prof Stanley Wells
RRP: £16.99£14.71This volume presents a winning selection of the very best essays from the long and distinguished career of Stanley Wells, one of the most well-known and respected Shakespeare scholars in the world. Wells's accomplishments include editing the entire canon... -
The Small Heart of Things: Being at Home in a Beckoning World by Julian Hoffman 9780820347578
RRP: £18.95£14.45In The Small Heart of Things, Julian Hoffman intimately examines the myriad ways in which connections to the natural world can be deepened through an equality of perception, whether it's a caterpillar carrying its house of leaves, transhumant shepherds... -
The Downward Journey or the Tyrant: Zeus Catechized - Zeus Rants by Lucian
RRP: £24.95£24.54Antiquity's satirist supreme.Lucian (ca. AD 120-190), the satirist from Samosata on the Euphrates, started as an apprentice sculptor, turned to rhetoric and visited Italy and Gaul as a successful traveling lecturer before settling in Athens and ... -
Betwixt-And-Between: Essays on the Writing Life by Jenny Boully
RRP: £12.99£8.63"Jenny is the future of nonfiction in America. What an absurdly arrogant statement to make. I make it anyway. Watch." -John D'Agata"Yes, Aristotle, there can be pleasure without 'complete and unified action with a beginning, middle, and end.' Jenny... -
Selected Non Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
RRP: £29.00£16.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Critics Circle Awards.Book InformationISBN 9780140290110Author Jorge Luis BorgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Penguin Random House... -
Janet Flanner's World: Uncollected Writings 1932-1975 by Janet (Genet) Flanner 9780156459716
RRP: £17.99£14.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156459716Author FlannerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 540gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 139mm *... -
The Road to Apocalypse: The Extraordinary Journey of Lewis Way by Stanley Price 9781907903267
RRP: £14.99£13.64In the winter of 1811 Lewis Way had an epiphany on the road to Exmouth. From that moment the eccentric millionaire devoted himself and his fortune to only one goal - the return of the Jews to the Holy Land. To achieve this mission he undertook... -
Sarah Kane in Context: Essays by Laurens De vos 9780719086458
RRP: £19.99£14.52From the controversy in 1995 that heralded Blasted, to her death in February 1999, Sarah Kane built a reputation as an established playwright of international stature. This is the first volume of collected essays by some of the leading scholars in their... -
The portable paradise by Jonathan Keates 9781907903021
RRP: £14.99£13.64Jonathan Keates's passion for collecting historic guidebooks has resulted in a beguiling work of cultural archaeology, which explores the experience of travel for the British before the First World War. Unlike Lucy Honeychurch in E.M.Forster's A Room... -
The Wisdom of the Heart by Henry Miller
RRP: £12.99£11.46In this selection of stories and essays, Henry Miller elucidates, revels, and soars, showing his command over a wide range of moods, styles, and subject matters. Writing "from the heart," always with a refreshing lack of reticence, Miller involves the... -
Oppositions: Selected Essays by Mary Gaitskill 9781788168168
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Mary Gaitskill is willing to think about the problematic with complexity and humanity, and without taking sides or engaging in all the fashionable moral hectoring that passes for serious thought these days.' Eimear McBride Nuanced, daring and tender,... -
Writing Down the Vision: Essays & Prophecies by Kei Miller
RRP: £9.99£6.99When Kei Miller describes these as essays and prophecies, he shares with the reader a sensibility in which the sacred and the secular, belief and scepticism, and vision and analysis engage in profound and lively debate. Two moments shape the space in... -
The Foreigner by Richard Sennett 9781907903083
RRP: £14.99£12.55Richard Sennett has spent an intellectual lifetime exploring how humans live in cities. In this pair of essays he visits two of the world's greatest cities at crucial moments in their history to meditate on the condition of exile in both geographical and...