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Little Weirds: 'Funny, positive, completely original and inspiring' George Saunders by Jenny Slate
RRP: $17.14$11.66'Magical' MINDY KALING'Funny and poignant and beautiful' JOHN MULANEY 'It made me remember I was alive' GEORGE SAUNDERS To see the world through Jenny Slate's eyes is to see it as though for the first time, shimmering with strangeness and possibility. As... -
Theaetetus by Plato 9780674991378
RRP: $42.80$39.31An epistemological diptych.Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BC. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is uncertain; that... -
Oscar Wilde - The Major Works by Oscar Wilde
RRP: $20.57$14.46This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Wilde's poetry and prose short stories, plays, critical dialogues and his... -
How Do We Know We're Doing It Right?: The Sunday Times bestselling essay collection by Pandora Sykes 9781786091000
RRP: $18.85$13.33__________________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERStop searching for the answers - and start delighting in the questions with Pandora Sykes, co-host of The High Low podcast.'Deliciously fascinating' MARIAN KEYES'Refreshing ... thoughtful, considered'... -
Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London by Lauren Elkin
RRP: $18.85$13.33*Shortlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay*Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 by the Financial Times, Guardian, New Statesman, Observer, The Millions and Emerald Street'Flaneuse [flanne-euhze], noun, from the French... -
The Redress of Poetry by Seamus Heaney 9780571175376
RRP: $29.14$19.86These lectures were delivered by Seamus Heaney while he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. In the first of them, Heaney discusses and celebrates poetry's special ability to redress spiritual balance and to function as a counterweight to... -
The Notebook by Jose Saramago
RRP: $34.29$28.17Thought-provoking and lyrical, The Notebook records the last year in the life of Jose Saramago. In these pages, beginning on the eve of the 2008 US presidential election, he evokes life in his beloved city of Lisbon, revisits conversations with friends,... -
Selected Prose by Charles Lamb
RRP: $22.28$15.59This selection brings together the best prose writings of the great early nineteenth-century essayist Charles Lamb, whose shrewd wit and convivial style have endeared him to generations of readers. These pieces include early discussions of Hogarth and... -
What Writers Read: 35 Writers on their Favourite Book by Pandora Sykes
RRP: $22.28$15.59A WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH In this love letter to reading, curated by Pandora Sykes in aid of the National Literacy Trust, bestselling and beloved writers share their favourite books: the ones they hold most dearly, that they return... -
The Young Man – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE by Annie Ernaux 9781804270677
RRP: $11.99$8.30In her latest work, Annie Ernaux recounts a relationship with a student thirty years her junior - an experience that transforms her, briefly, back into the 'scandalous girl' of her youth. When she is with him, she replays scenes she has already lived... -
The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction by Neil Gaiman
RRP: $25.71$16.81'Gaiman is god in the universe of story' Stephen Fry 'A perfect antidote to cynicism and a paean to the power of reading' Observer--- 'Literature does not occur in a vacuum. It cannot be a monologue. It has to be a conversation' This collection will draw... -
Essayism by Brian Dillon
RRP: $18.85$13.33Imagine a type of writing so hard to define its very name means a trial, effort or attempt. An ancient form with an eye on the future, a genre poised between tradition and experiment. The essay wants above all to wander, but also to arrive at symmetry... -
In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri 9781408866139
RRP: $18.85$13.33_______________ 'A passionate love letter to language and to Italy ... a bold and quirkily engaging self-portrait' - Lee Langley, Spectator 'A writer of uncommon elegance and poise' - New York Times 'A fascinating account of her linguistic... -
Moments of Being by Virginia Woolf 9780156619189
RRP: $32.57$19.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156619189Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books Classics -
How to Use Your Enemies by Baltasar Gracian
RRP: $5.15$4.27'Better mad with the crowd than sane all alone'In these witty, Machiavellian aphorisms, unlikely Spanish priest Baltasar Gracian shows us how to exploit friends and enemies alike to thrive in a world of deception and illusion.Introducing Little Black... -
Twenty Years A-Growing by Maurice O'Sullivan
RRP: $15.42$11.06Maurice O'Sullivan was born on the Great Blasket in 1904, and 'Twenty Years A-Growing' tells the story of his youth and of a way of life which belonged to the Middle Ages. He wrote for his own pleasure and for the entertainment of his friends, without... -
Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread by Michiko Kakutani
RRP: $29.14$20.36**SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020** From renowned, Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic, Michiko Kakutani, comes an inspiring and gorgeously illustrated selection of the life-changing... -
From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction by Robert Olen Butler
RRP: $22.28$20.19This comprehensive guide to writing creative fiction collects the lectures of the Pulitzer Prize winning author, Robert Olen Butler, transcribed and edited by Janet Burroway, the author of the classic text on creative writing, "Writing Fiction". "From... -
Welcome Home: A Memoir with Selected Photographs and Letters by Lucia Berlin
RRP: $17.14$12.11'Evocative . . . poignant . . . acute and funny' Observer'The Revival of the Great Lucia Berlin Continues Apace' New York TimesBest known for her short fiction, it was upon publication of A Manual for Cleaning Women in 2015 that Lucia Berlin's status as... -
Selected Essays by Virginia Woolf
RRP: $17.14$12.20'A good essay must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in, not out.' According to Virginia Woolf, the goal of the essay 'is simply that it should give pleasure...It should lay us under a spell with its first word, and we... -
Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith
RRP: $18.85$13.33WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR CRITICISM 2019From the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Changing My Mind and Swing Time - discover a second unmissable collection of essays from Zadie Smith'Generous,... -
Girlhood by Melissa Febos
RRP: $32.57$23.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635572520Author Melissa FebosFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 488g -
Welsh (Plural): Essays on the Future of Wales by Darren Chetty 9781913462666
RRP: $22.28$13.95What does it mean to imagine Wales and 'The Welsh' as something both distinct and inclusive? In Welsh (Plural), some of the foremost Welsh writers consider the future of Wales and their place in it. For many people, Wales brings to mind the same old... -
The Island of the Colour-blind by Oliver Sacks
RRP: $18.85$13.22'Sacks is rightly renowned for his empathy . . . anyone with a taste for the exotic will find this beautifully written book highly engaging' - Sunday Times Always fascinated by islands, Oliver Sacks is drawn to the Pacific by reports of the tiny atoll of... -
This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers by Elias Jahshan 9780863564789
RRP: $25.71$18.47This ground-breaking anthology features the compelling and courageous memoirs of eighteen queer Arab writers - some internationally bestselling, others using pseudonyms. heart-warming connections and moments of celebration sit alongside essays exploring... -
The Mabinogion by Sioned Davies
RRP: $29.14$21.06Then they took the flowers of the oak, and the flowers of the broom, and the flowers of the meadowsweet, and from those they conjured up the fairest and most beautiful maiden that anyone had ever seen. Celtic mythology, Arthurian romance, and an... -
On the Good Life by Cicero
RRP: $22.28$15.59For the great Roman orator and statesman Cicero, 'the good life' was at once a life of contentment and one of moral virtue - and the two were inescapably intertwined. This volume brings together a wide range of his reflections upon the importance of... -
Where I Was From by Joan Didion
RRP: $17.14$12.20A memoir of land, family and perseverance from one of the most influential writers in America. In this moving and surprising book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history - and America's. Where I Was From, in Didion's... -
A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain by Daniel Defoe
RRP: $25.71$19.47Britain in the early eighteenth century: an introduction that is both informative and imaginative, reliable and entertaining. To the tradition of travel writing Daniel Defoe brings a lifetime's experience as a businessman, soldier, economic journalist... -
The Mother of All Questions: Further Feminisms by Rebecca Solnit 9781783783557
RRP: $22.28$14.68Following on from the success of Men Explain Things to Me comes a new collection of essays in which Rebecca Solnit opens up a feminism for all of us: one that doesn't stigmatize women's lives, whether they include spouses and children or not; that brings... -
Thomas De Quincey: Selected Writings by Robert Morrison 9780192868046
RRP: $37.72$35.32This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859). The edition presents De Quincey's work in all of its rich variety, and offers the most thorough... -
Selected Writings Of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson 9780451531865
RRP: $13.71$9.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451531865Author Ralph Waldo EmersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Signet ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 267g -
Anything We Love Can Be Saved by Alice Walker
RRP: $15.42$10.63From the author of THE COLOR PURPLE, a unique collection of essays about her life and her activism'The passion of lyricism that Alice Walker put to such good use in her novel The Color Purple is here in this collection of essays' Fay Weldon, Mail on... -
Misfits: A Personal Manifesto - by the creator of 'I May Destroy You' by Michaela Coel
RRP: $13.71$9.93THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - A SUNDAY TIMES FILM & TV BOOK OF THE YEAR'Razor-sharp and as funny as I May Destroy You ... A gifted writer' Sunday Times | 'A remarkable talent' Guardian | 'A perfect truth-teller of our time' ELLE | 'Leaps off the... -
One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter: Essays by Scaachi Koul 9781250121028
RRP: $29.16$17.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250121028Author Scaachi KoulFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 20mm -
Consider the Oyster by M. F. K. Fisher 9781911547273
RRP: $17.14$11.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911547273Author M. F. K. FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books -
Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer
RRP: $18.85$13.33One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and irrational desire for physical existence. This selection of his writings on... -
Love by Stendhal
RRP: $18.85$13.33A timeless treatise on the unique power of human emotion, Stendhal's Love is translated by Gilbert and Suzanne Sale with an introduction by Jean Stewart and B.C.J.G. Knight in Penguin Classics.In 1818, when he was in his mid-thirties, Stendhal met and... -
Oppositions: Selected Essays by Mary Gaitskill
RRP: $29.14$21.06'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,... -
Once There Was a War by John Steinbeck
RRP: $22.28$15.59'Do you know it, do you remember it, the drives, the attitudes, the terrors and, yes, the joys?' Thus Steinbeck introduces his collection of poignant and hard-hitting dispatches for the New York Herald Tribune when the Second World War was at its height...