Essays

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...

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...

Joe Gould was a Harvard graduate who spent 40 years living as an outcast Bohemian hero in New York. He claimed he lived as he did so he could wander around the city writing down what people said, to make a book called "An Oral History of Our...

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...

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

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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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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...

What makes a violinist become a policeman, or a monk fall in love? How does someone lose eighteen stone in as many months? Or a follower of radical Islam turn his back on holy war? When can simply taking a new name usher in a new life? And how does a...

Winter takes us on an intimate tour of the artists, poets, composers, writers, explorers, scientists and thinkers who helped shape a new and modern idea of winter. We learn how literature heralds the arrival of the middle class; how snow science leads to...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957661134Author Kathryn HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Egg Box PublishingPublisher UEA Publishing Project

Updated edition including two extra stories. Jon Ronson has been on patrol with America's real-life superheroes and to a UFO convention in the Nevada desert with Robbie Williams. He's met a man who tried to split the atom in his kitchen and asked a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644452943Author Laura MarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087979694Author Sharon CassanolochmanFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 989gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988908168Author Susan DoddFormat HardbackPage Count 386Imprint Underhill BooksPublisher Underhill BooksWeight(grams) 544g

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