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The Lover, Wartime Notebooks, Practicalities Marguerite Duras 9781841593807
RRP: £14.99£11.35Marguerite Duras was one of the leading intellectuals and novelist of post-war France, but her wartime writings were not published in full until after her death. The Wartime Notebooks trace Duras's formative experiences - including her difficult... -
Russian Roulette: The Life and Times of Graham Greene by Richard Greene
RRP: £25.00£18.62Probably the greatest British novelist of his generation, Graham Greene's own story was as strange and compelling as those he told of Pinkie the Mobster, Harry Lime, or the Whisky Priest. A restless traveller, he was a witness to many of the key events... -
Shed No Tears: The stunning new thriller from the author of Richard and Judy pick 'Sweet Little Lies' (DC Cat Kinsella) Caz Frear 9781785765698
RRP: £8.99£6.45THE BRILLIANT NEW THRILLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE RICHARD & JUDY SEARCH FOR A BESTSELLER WINER AND NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER, SWEET LITTLE LIES. 'A crime fiction force to be reckoned with' Erin Kelly'I loved it!' Ann CleevesFour victims.Killer caught.Case... -
Dance To The Music Of Time Volume 4 by Anthony Powell
RRP: £20.00£14.69Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve novel sequence chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters, and is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England. It is unrivalled for its scope, its humour and the enormous pleasure it has given to... -
Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping by Derek Jarman 9781913513320
RRP: £9.99£6.99Published here for the very first time, Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping is Derek Jarman's only piece of narrative fiction. Written in 1971, it is a surreal, fabular, lyrical work - a literary fairytale acid-trip road movie... -
The Beginners by Anne Serre 9780811230315
RRP: £11.99£11.18Anna has been living happily for twenty years with loving, sturdy, outgoing Guillaume when she suddenly (truly at first sight) falls in love with Thomas. Intelligent and handsome, but apparently scarred by a terrible early emotional wound, he reminds... -
Italian Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Hainsworth 9780199231799
RRP: £8.99£6.45In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey consider Italian literature from the Middle Ages to the present day, looking at themes and issues which have recurred throughout its history and continue to be of importance today. ... -
Peer Gynt and Brand by Henrik Ibsen
RRP: £12.99£9.09A new Penguin edition of Ibsen's two great verse plays, in masterful versions by one of our greatest living poets, Geoffrey Hill. These two powerful and contrasting verse dramas by Ibsen made his reputation as a playwright. The fantastical adventures of... -
The Ultimate Christmas Cracker John Julius Norwich 9781529324938
RRP: £9.99£6.80In 1969, John Julius Norwich, the legendary popular historian, gathered together the favourite things he'd come across in the last 365 days into one short charming pamphlet. Initially just a treat for his friends, it rapidly turned into a huge... -
Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald by Jonathan Bate 9780008425005
RRP: £10.99£7.25A dazzling biography of two interwoven, tragic lives: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald. 'Highly engaging ... Go now, read this book' THE TIMES 'For awhile after you quit Keats,' Fitzgerald once wrote,... -
Hamburg: A Cultural and Literary History by Matthew Jefferies 9781904955757
RRP: £15.00£13.65It is a popular misconception that Hamburg is a coastal city. In fact, despite possessing Europe s second-busiest port, this 'amphibious city' lies some 65 miles from the North Sea. Its long-standing image as a 'city without culture' is also something of... -
Montaigne: A Very Short Introduction by William M. Hamlin
RRP: £8.99£6.45The French author Michel de Montaigne is widely regarded as the founder and greatest practitioner of the personal essay. A member of the minor aristocracy, he worked as a judicial investigator, served as mayor of Bordeaux, and sought to bring stability... -
Complete Poems and Translations by Christopher Marlowe
RRP: £11.99£8.43This unique anthology offers a more comprehensive look at the poems of Christopher Marlowe, England's first great poet and playwright.About the AuthorChristopher Marlowe (1564-1593) was born in Canterbury the year of Shakespeare's birth. He wrote seven... -
End of Summer by Anders de la Motte
RRP: £9.99£6.85'For fans of the hugely successful CWA Gold Dagger-winning The Dry by Jane Harper' Vaseem Khan'One of Sweden's most talented crime fiction authors' Erik Axl Sund**DON'T MISS DEEDS OF AUTUMN. AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW**You can always go home. But you can... -
Selected Letters by Jane Austen
RRP: £7.99£5.93'Little Matters they are to be sure, but highly important.' Letter-writing was something of an addiction for young women of Jane Austen's time and social position, and Austen's letters have a freedom and familiarity that only intimate writing can... -
Parallel Text: German Short Stories: Deutsche Kurzgeschichten by David Constantine
RRP: £10.99£7.77The eight stories in this volume offer a varied and representative collection of twentieth century German authors from a range of political and cultural backgrounds. Styles include the non-fictional manner of Kluge's montage technique and the contrasting... -
Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania by Adam Mickiewicz
RRP: £13.99£9.60A towering achievement in European literature, Pan Tadeusz is the central work of the Polish literary canon, heralded for its lovingly detailed recreation of a bygone world. The traditions of the Polish gentry and the social and natural landscape of the... -
No Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul Satre
RRP: £16.00£9.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679725169Author Jean-Paul SartreFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Riddle, Mystery, and Enigma: Two Hundred Years of British-Russian Relations by David Owen 9781913368678
RRP: £14.99£10.80Britain's relationship with Russia is surprisingly under-explored. When the two formed a pragmatic alliance and fought together at Navarino in 1827, it was overwhelmingly the work of the British prime minister, George Canning. His death brought about a... -
The Alchemist Tanya Pollard (Brooklyn College, The City University of New York, USA) 9781472532596
RRP: £15.99£14.37A fast-paced whirlwind of fantasy and mockery confined to a single room, The Alchemist offers a witty culmination of Jonson's experiments with city comedy. The play has been widely recognized as one of the most impressive achievements of the period's... -
Texts for Nothing and Other Shorter Prose, 1950-1976 by Samuel Beckett
RRP: £9.99£6.70This is the last of three volumes of collected shorter prose to be published in the Faber edition of the works of Samuel Beckett - which already includes a volume of early stories (The Expelled/The Calmative/The End/First Love) and of late stories... -
Galateo: Or, the Rules of Polite Behavior by Giovanni Della Casa
RRP: £12.00£10.16Galateo is a treatise on polite behavior written by Giovanni Della Casa (1503-56) for the benefit of his nephew, a young Florentine destined for greatness. In the voice of a cranky yet genial old uncle, Della Casa offers the distillation of what he has... -
Starry, Starry Night by Marcia Willett
RRP: £16.99£12.28'We'll always be together, won't we?'Childhood friends and cousins Leo and Alice had imagined their whole lives playing out on their beloved Devon beach. But one night when they are teens, sitting on the sand beneath the stars, Alice tells Leo a secret... -
Pierre Reverdy Pierre Reverdy 9781590176795
RRP: £16.99£12.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590176795Author Pierre ReverdyFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 153gDimensions(mm)... -
The Complete Poems of C.P. Cavafy by Daniel Mendelsohn
RRP: £25.00£18.62The complete Cavafy poems - including the unfinished works - in a stunning new translation. From the acclaimed author of 'The Lost', a translation that scales new heights in modern poetic rendering. With a masterful eye for irony and an ear... -
Orwell on Truth by George Orwell
RRP: £14.99£10.95A selection of George Orwell's prescient, clear-eyed and stimulating writing on the subjects of truth and lies. With an introduction by Alan Johnson.'Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two equals four. If that is granted, all else follows.'This... -
Exceeding My Brief by Barbara Hosking 9781785904622
RRP: £9.99£7.27From the tragic massacre at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, to signing the Treaty of Rome when Britain entered the Common Market, Barbara Hosking was there. This is the story of a Cornish scholarship girl with no contacts who ended up in the corridors... -
By the Fire: Sami Folktales and Legends by Emilie Demant Hatt 9781517904579
£15.90The first English publication of Sami folktales from Scandinavia collected and illustrated in the early twentieth century Although versions of tales about wizards and magical reindeer from northern Scandinavia are found in European folk and fairytale... -
Shakespeare's Sonnets: The Complete Illustrated Edition by William, of Chartres 9781604336153
RRP: £15.99£11.25The First-Ever, Fully Illustrated Collector's Edition of William Shakespeare's Celebrated Sonnets!In celebration of the momentous 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death in April 2016, this enhanced edition of Shakepeare's Sonnets features... -
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe by George Eliot
RRP: £5.99£4.46Gold! - his own gold - brought back to him as mysteriously as it had been taken away! Falsely accused of theft, Silas Marner is cut off from his community but finds refuge in the village of Raveloe, where he is eyed with distant suspicion. Like a... -
Edward Thomas: A Miscellany by Edward Thomas
RRP: £9.99£6.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912916085Author Edward ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo Publishers -
Orwell in Spain by George Orwell
RRP: £12.99£9.09Including Homage to Catalonia'Spain not only defined Orwell as an individual, it also gave him his first glimpse of totalitarianism' D. J. Taylor, GuardianGeorge Orwell's experience of the Spanish Civil War had a transformative effect on his life and... -
The Daily Charles Dickens: A Year of Quotes by Charles Dickens
£13.84A charming memento of the Victorian era's literary colossus, The Daily Charles Dickens is a literary almanac for the ages. Tenderly and irreverently anthologized by Dickens scholar James R. Kincaid, this collection mines the British author's beloved... -
Italian Short Stories by Dimitri Vittorini
RRP: £10.99£7.77This second volume of Italian Short Stories, with its parallel translations aims - as the first volume did - to exemplify the richness and variety of Italian writing of the twentieth century. In this volume, however, some of the language used is a little... -
The Essential Goethe by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 9780691181042
RRP: £28.00£19.97The most comprehensive one-volume collection of Goethe's writings ever published in EnglishThe Essential Goethe is the most comprehensive and representative one-volume collection of Goethe's writings ever published in English. It provides... -
Ukraine, War, Love: A Donetsk Diary Olena Stiazhkina 9780674291706
RRP: £16.95£13.85In Ukraine, War, Love, Olena Stiazhkina depicts day-to-day developments in and around her beloved hometown Donetsk during Russia’s 2014 invasion and occupation of the Ukrainian city. An award-winning fiction writer, Stiazhkina chronicles an increasingly... -
Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas: The Two Dylans by K G Miles 9780857162328
RRP: £14.99£10.95There are so many strange and wonderful connections and coincidences; shared passions and associations that tie these two cultural icons - BOB DYLAN and DYLAN THOMAS together. This provides a rich tapestry - from the ancient Welsh folk tales of the... -
The Art of the Glimpse: 100 Irish short stories by Sinead Gleeson 9781800249691
RRP: £18.00£13.96The #1 Irish Times bestseller A special reissue from Head of Zeus's bestselling anthology collection of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinead Gleeson, author of Constellations, winner of the Irish Book Award Non Fiction Book of the Year... -
Turning the Boat for Home: A life writing about nature Richard Mabey 9781529111958
RRP: £9.99£7.11'One of our greatest nature writers' GuardianFor over fifty years, Richard Mabey has been a pioneering voice in modern nature writing. This book collects pieces across his rich career, tracing his continually evolving ideas as much as the profound... -
Blind Goddess Anne Holt 9780857892256
RRP: £9.99£6.70THE FIRST INSTALMENT IN THE HANNE WILHELMSEN SERIES.A superbly chilling story of corruption in the corridors of power.A drug dealer is battered to death in the outskirts of Oslo. A young Dutch student, covered in blood, walks aimlessly through the...