Essays

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Michael Holroyd opens with a startling attack on biography, which is answered by two essays on the ethics and values of non-fiction writing. The book then examines the work of several contemporary biographers, the place of biography in fiction and of...

Travel, associated as it is with strangeness, marvels, and excitement, has always proved an irresistible subject for writers. The Oxford Book of Travel Stories brings together some of the best short fiction on this most exhilarating of subjects from...

Real ladies do not travel - or so it was once said. This collection of women's travel writing dispels the notion by showing how there are few corners of the world that have not been visited by female travellers. There are also few difficulties, physical...

'Our virtues are, most often, only vices in disguise.' Deceptively brief and insidiously easy to read, La Rochefoucauld's shrewd, unflattering analyses of human behaviour have influenced writers, thinkers, and public figures as various as Voltaire,...

'...dreaming of bears, or fire, or water...' The greatest of Elizabethan pamphleteers, Nashe had a magical ability with words, never more so than in The Terrors of the Night, where he mulls over ghosts, demons, nightmares and the supernatural...

Containing 74 essays written over the last ten years, this book covers a range of subjects including the literature of the perceived masters and of Rushdie's contemporaries, the politics of colonialism and the ironies of culture, film, politicians, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594482823Author Valerie SteikerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910898680Author Gail PirkisFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Slightly Foxed: The Real Reader's QuarterlyPublisher Slightly Foxed: The Real Reader's...

From Orhan Pamuk, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature, and author of My Name is Red and Istanbul, comes a collection of immediate relevance and timeless value. His original pieces have been sympathetically revisited by the author, and the result...

In his monthly accounts of what he's read - along with what he may one day read - Nick Hornby brilliantly explores everything from the classic to the graphic novel, as well as poems, plays, sports books and other kinds of non-fiction. If he occasionally...

'A mine of treasures, a source of visions, a microcosm of human experience and suffering, the philosopher's stone: Migraine is a remarkable achievement' Sunday Telegraph Migraine is an age-old - the first recorded instances date back over two thousand...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780712646994Author John SilverlightFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Barrie & JenkinsPublisher VintageWeight(grams) 208g

In any 24 hours there might be sleeping, eating, kids, parents, friends, lovers, work, school, travel, deadlines, emails, phone calls, Facebook, Twitter, the news, the TV, Playstation, music, movies, sport, responsibilities, passions, desires, dreams...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859949085Author Gareth Lloyd JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Cyhoeddiadau'r GairPublisher Cyhoeddiadau'r GairDimensions(mm) 209mm * 147mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478799467Author Linda Klein MeansFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 145g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478758617Author Robert DenkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 82g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909077812Author Gail AshtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Cinnamon PressPublisher Cinnamon Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954154653Author Howard SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint The Garret PressPublisher The Garret PressWeight(grams) 245g

In his first work of non-fiction for over a decade, the author of "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" draws on more than 50 years of research to offer an anecdotal portrait of the joys, wonders, war and hardships of the frontier American West. He...

London is special. For centuries, it has been amongst the greatest cities of the world. But a city is nothing without its people. This sparkling new history of London, told through a relay-race of great Londoners shows in one, personality-packed book...

A tribute to the finest writers on the game of cricket and an acknowledgement that the great days of cricket literature are behind us. There was a time when major English writers - P. G. Wodehouse, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alec Waugh - took time off to write...

From the author of "Give War a Chance" and "Parliament of Whores", this book offers P.J. O'Rourke's view of all the trouble in the world - but with the goal of answering some tough questions.Book InformationISBN 9780330331777Author P...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906998028Author Gareth WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 100Imprint Parthian BooksPublisher Parthian Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954627157Author Linda DobbsFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint INKLEMAKERPublisher INKLEMAKER

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A collection of questions and their various answers from the readers of The Guardian, such as: is it true that goldfish have a memory span of five seconds? When were elastic bands invented? Did Napoleon ever say Not tonight Josephine?Book InformationISBN...

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In this remarkable collection of essays, James Kelman deals with a wide range of issues literary, artistic, political and philosophical - Russian writers who influenced him, the lives of the Impressionists, Chomsky's key role in 20th-century thinking,...

Booker Prize-winning novelist and one of Britain's foremost poets, Ben Okri is a passionate advocate of the written word. In A Time for New Dreams he breaks new ground in an unusual collection of linked essays, which address such diverse themes as...

Modern life is full of choices. We're told that happiness lies within and we can be whoever we want to be. But with endless possibility comes a feeling of restlessness; like we're somehow failing to live our best life. What does doing it right even look...