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Notes on Sontag by Phillip Lopate
RRP: £16.99£13.65Notes on Sontag is a frank, witty, and entertaining reflection on the work, influence, and personality of one of the "foremost interpreters of ...our recent contemporary moment." Adopting Sontag's favorite form, a set of brief essays or notes that circle... -
The Bill Mckibben Reader: Pieces from and Active Life by Bill McKibben 9780805076271
RRP: £19.99£15.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805076271Author Bill McKibbenFormat PaperbackPage Count 453Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams) 378g -
That Mighty Sculptor, Time by Marguerite Yourcenar 9780374523756
£13.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374523756Author Marguerite YourcenarFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc -
Veils by Helene Cixous 9780804737951
RRP: £19.99£17.54Something of a historical event, this book combines loosely "autobiographical" texts by two of the most influential French intellectuals of our time. "Savoir," by Helene Cixous, is a brief but densely layered account of her experience of recovered sight... -
Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of the Exorcist by Marlena Williams 9780814258767
RRP: £18.95£13.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258767Author Marlena WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)... -
Russian Science Fiction Literature and Cinema: A Critical Reader by Anindita Banerjee 9781618117236
RRP: £28.99£28.15Since the dawn of the Space Age, when the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite and sent the first human into the cosmos, science fiction literature and cinema from Russia has fascinated fans, critics, and scholars from around the world... -
The Life of Images: Selected Prose by Charles Simic 9780062364739
RRP: £9.99£9.64"Decades after immigrating to the States in 1954, [Simic] retains an outsider's perspective: inquisitive, incredulous, amazed by the apparently ordinary-all excellent qualities for an essayist. There's ample warmth and charm here." -New York Times Book... -
The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Volume 5: 1929-1932 by Virginia Woolf
RRP: £35.95£26.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547385341Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 742Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams)... -
In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas by Larry McMurtry 9781631493539
RRP: £12.99£10.15Before embarking on what would become one of the most prominent writing careers in American literature, spanning decades and indelibly shaping the nation's perception of the West, Larry McMurtry knew what it meant to come from Texas. Originally published... -
Armageddon in Retrospect: And Other New and Unpublished Writings on War and Peace by Kurt Vonnegut 9780425226896
RRP: £18.00£12.09The New York Times bestseller from the author of Slaughterhouse-Five-a "gripping" posthumous collection of Kurt Vonnegut's previously unpublished work on the subject of war and peace. A fitting tribute to a literary legend and a profoundly humane... -
The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome K Jerome 9781905005048 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905005048Author Jerome K JeromeFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Snowbooks LtdPublisher Snowbooks LtdDimensions(mm) 150mm * 150mm * 22mm -
Somebody with a Little Hammer: Essays by Mary Gaitskill
RRP: £22.00£16.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307472335Author Mary GaitskillFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 265gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
DIVIDED BY PARTITION: United by RESILIENCE: 21 Inspirational Stories from 1947 by Mallika Ahluwalia
RRP: £7.00£5.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353041427Author Mallika AhluwaliaFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. -
Slouching Towards Los Angeles: Living and Writing by Joan Didion's Light by Steffie Nelson 9781644280676
RRP: £19.99£13.56In The White Album, Joan Didion famously wrote that "a place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively...loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image." Cruising in her Daytona yellow Corvette Stingray, taking it... -
Postcolonial Borges: Argument and Artistry by Robin W. Fiddian 9780198794714
RRP: £43.49£43.21Postcolonial Borges is the first systematic account of geo-political and postcolonial themes in a range of writings by Borges, from the poetry and essays of the 1920s, through the prose and poetry of the middle years (the 40s, 50s, and 60s), to the... -
Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008 by John Leonard 9780143122906
RRP: £24.00£17.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143122906Author John LeonardFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 346gDimensions(mm) 212mm *... -
'No Mentor but Myself': Jack London on Writing and Writers, Second Edition by Dale L. Walker 9780804736350
RRP: £87.00£75.53Jack London, one of the most read and recognized figures in American literature, produced an immense body of work, including 22 novels, 200 short stories, memoirs, newspaper articles, book reviews, essays, and poems. A significant and revealing feature... -
The Company They Kept by Robert B. Silvers
RRP: £23.00£16.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590173343Author Robert B SilversFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
New Directions in Law and Literature by Elizabeth S. Anker
RRP: £36.49£33.74After its heyday in the 1970s and 1980s, many wondered whether the law and literature movement would retain vitality. This collection of essays, featuring twenty-two prominent scholars from literature departments as well as law schools, showcases the... -
Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021 by Margaret Atwood
RRP: £30.00£24.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385547482Author Margaret AtwoodFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint Doubleday & Co Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 828gDimensions(mm)... -
Hidden Harmonies: Manuscript and print on the North Atlantic fringe, 1500-1900 by Matthew James Driscoll
RRP: £51.99£42.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788763546881Author Matthew James DriscollFormat HardbackPage Count 550Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressDimensions(mm) 25mm *... -
Where I Come from: Stories from the Deep South by Rick Bragg
RRP: £18.00£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593310809Author Rick BraggFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 132mm... -
Walden by Henry David Thoreau 9780300110081
RRP: £11.99£10.15The ultimate gift edition of Walden for bibliophiles, aficionados, and scholars "Replaces all other available editions of Walden as the most attractive and reliable way to approach this great American book."-Joel Porte, author of Consciousness and... -
Notes From a Swing State: Writing from Wales and America by Zoe Brigley 9781912681297
RRP: £8.99£7.46These creative nonfiction essays consider girlhood, motherhood, violence at home and abroad, violence against women, the consolation in writing, trauma, and redemption. The essays celebrate and interrogate popular and literary culture: for example the... -
What Happened? by Hanif Kureishi 9780571352050
RRP: £16.99£11.27'No one else casts such a shrewd and gimlet eye on contemporary life.' - William BoydComic, dark and insightful, What Happened? is Hanif Kureishi's new collection of essays and fiction. No topic is too fringe or too mainstream for this insatiable-and... -
Driving Home Both Ways by Dylan Moore 9781912109999 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£2.13Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Driving Home Both Ways by Dylan Moore 9781912109999
RRP: £8.99£7.46Over more than a decade, Dylan Moore has written with verve, insight and warm humour about places. Life's journey takes the author from winding roads in rural Wales via bull runs in the Basque Country to the mangrove swamps of the Gulf of Guinea; from... -
Walking by Henry David Thoreau 9780884486138
RRP: £16.95£11.47This summation of his life's work, published posthumously in 1862, became a seminal influence in the modern environmental movement and is no less relevant today than 150 years ago. "Above all, we cannot afford not to live in the present," he wrote. He... -
Montaigne in Motion by Jean Starobinski
RRP: £45.00£43.21Educated in the humanities and trained in psychiatry, Jean Starobinski is a central figure in the Geneva School of criticism. His classic work, "Montaigne in Motion", is a subtly conceived and elegantly written study of the "Essais of Montaigne", whose... -
The Music of Ghosts: A Burren Collection by P J Curtis 9780954536503
RRP: £10.00£7.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954536503Author P J CurtisFormat PaperbackPage Count 125Imprint Old Forge BooksPublisher Old Forge Books -
The Edinburgh Companion to Nonsense by Anna Barton
RRP: £130.00£105.26Provides a wide-ranging account of the different disciplinary, critical and theoretical contexts relevant to the study of nonsense.About the AuthorAnna Barton, Lecturer in English, The University of Sheffield. James Williams, Lecturer in English,... -
Big: Stories about Life in Plus-Sized Bodies by Christina Myers
£16.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773860213Author Christina MyersFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 342g -
On Human Slaughter: Evil, Justice, Mercy by Elizabeth Bruenig 9781638931423
RRP: £9.99£8.83Incisive, compassionate, and revelatory reporting from America's death row, named a 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalist for feature writing. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, drawn from contemporary articles or classic... -
Signs and Images – Writings on Art, Cinema and Photography by Roland Barthes 9781803092744
RRP: £13.99£12.25A major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback. Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator-often as a daring smuggler of ideas from... -
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
RRP: £17.99£15.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781571313652Author Aimee NezhukumatathilFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Milkweed EditionsPublisher Milkweed Editions -
Collected Essays 1: Amateur Journalism by H. P. Lovecraft 9780972164429
RRP: £20.00£18.02Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Catholic Writer Today: And Other Essays by Dana Gioia 9781505114379
RRP: £18.00£12.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781505114379Author Dana GioiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Saint Benedict PressPublisher Saint Benedict PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
Getting Personal: Selected Essays by Philip Lopate 9780465041749
£21.30From the man whose name is synonymous with the contemporary personal essay, Getting Personal is a rich and ambitious collection that spans Phillip Lopate's career as an essayist, teacher, film critic, father, son, and husband. Witty, insightful, deeply... -
My Private Lennon: Explorations from a Fan Who Never Screamed by Sibbie O'Sullivan
RRP: £17.95£13.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814255667Author Sibbie O'SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)... -
Carnival, Hysteria, and Writing: Collected Essays and Autobiography by Allon White 9780198122876
£43.25Before his death from leukemia at the age of 36, Allon White had become known as one of the most important literary and cultural critics of his generation. Carnival, Hysteria, and Writing represents a summation of the work which, as Stuart Hall explains...