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The Wonderful Adventure of Nils Holgersson by Selma Lagerlof
RRP: £9.99£7.11'The book is grand, beautiful, exciting and poignant ... It is full of poetical phrasing ... yet allows for the naughty spirit of childhood to remain true' Guardian'Never before had Nils travelled around at such good speed, and he had always liked... -
Breathturn Into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry: A Bilingual Edition by Paul Celan 9780374608033
RRP: £24.99£19.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374608033Author Paul CelanFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 1066g -
The Solitary Summer by Elizabeth Von Arnim 9781603863261
£5.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603863261Author Elizabeth Von ArnimFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Watchmaker PublishingPublisher Watchmaker PublishingWeight(grams)... -
The Complete Fairy Tales by Charles Perrault
RRP: £16.99£12.28'Oh grandmama, what great big teeth you have!' Charles Perrault's versions gave classic status to the humble fairy tale, and it is in his telling that the stories of Little Red Riding-Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and the rest have been passed... -
John Ruskin: Selected Prose by Richard Lansdown 9780192868022
RRP: £18.99£18.31This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of John Ruskin (1819-1900). The edition represents Ruskin's extraordinary literary output, ranging from lectures, essays, and... -
Plays Pleasant by George Bernard Shaw
RRP: £14.99£10.95One of Bernard Shaw's most glittering comedies, Arms and the Man is a burlesque of Victorian attitudes to heroism, war and empire. In the contrast between Bluntschli, the mercenary soldier, and the brave leader, Sergius, the true nature of valour is... -
Dead Joker by Anne Holt
RRP: £7.99£5.46THE FIFTH INSTALMENT IN THE HANNE WILHELMSEN SERIES.The edgy detective investigates a brutal series of murders while dealing with tragedy closer to home.Chief Prosecutor Sigurd Halvorsrud's wife is found dead in front of the fireplace in the family... -
Island Stories: Britain and Its History in the Age of Brexit by David Reynolds
RRP: £16.99£11.27'Concise, elegant and lucid ... A very useful primer on the delusions of an English mentality' Guardian What do we get wrong about Britain's history and its place in the world? ... -
Proverbs in Irish by Garry Bannister
RRP: £12.99£10.37Proverbs are, however, much more than that. They are windows into our past, and a friendly nod from our ancestors. Sometimes they can remind us of our parents or grandparents as we once again hear their kindly voices speak to us in words of folk wisdom... -
How to Start Writing (and When to Stop): Advice for Writers by Wislawa Szymborska 9780811229715
RRP: £13.99£12.25In this witty "how-to" guide, Wislawa Szymborska has nothing but sympathy for the labors of would-be writers generally: "I myself started out with rotten poetry and stories," she confesses in this collection of pieces culled from the advice she... -
Born Digital: The Story of a Distracted Generation by Robert Wigley 9781915036421
RRP: £9.99£8.05Addiction, anxiety, depression, loneliness, low self-esteem, empathy development, troubled relationships, fake news, propaganda and even threats to democracy are just some of the challenges new technology presents. Antitrust law has failed to prevent the... -
Eighteenth-Century Women Dramatists by Mary Pix
RRP: £11.99£8.43Mary Pix: The Innocent Mistress (1697) Susanna Centlivre: The Busy-Body (1709) Elizabeth Griffith: The Times (1779) Hannah Cowley: The Belle's Stratagem (1780) Oxford English Drama offers plays from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries in... -
Preoccupations: Selected Prose 1968-1978 by Seamus Heaney 9780374516505
RRP: £20.00£12.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374516505Author Seamus HeaneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 2Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)... -
Hopkins Poems And Prose Gerard Manley Hopkins 9781857157215
RRP: £12.00£8.44The greatest English religious poet of the nineteenth century, Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) was a Jesuit priest and literary scholar whose life ended prematurely after his exhausting pastoral work among the slums of Liverpool and Dublin. His poems are... -
Your Essential Guide to Sustainable Investing: How to live your values and achieve your financial goals with ESG, SRI, and Impact Investing by Larry E. Swedroe 9780857199041
RRP: £19.99£13.65Sustainable investing is booming. The investment industry is fast approaching a point where one-third of global assets under management are invested with a sustainable objective. But do sustainable investment products do what investors expect them to... -
Praeterita by John Ruskin 9780192802415
RRP: £11.99£8.43'For as I look deeper into the mirror, I find myself a more curious person than I had thought.' John Ruskin (1819-1900) was a towering figure of the nineteenth century: an art critic who spoke up for J. M. W. Turner and for the art of the Italian... -
Franz Kafka: The Office Writings by Franz Kafka
RRP: £28.00£22.20Franz Kafka: The Office Writings brings together, for the first time in English, Kafka's most interesting professional writings, composed during his years as a high-ranking lawyer with the largest Workmen's Accident Insurance Institute in the Czech Lands... -
Anabasis by St John Perse 9780156074063
RRP: £15.00£10.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156074063Author St John PerseFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 129mm * 7mm -
Last Loosening: A Handbook for the Con Artist & Those Aspiring to Become One by Walter Serner 9788086264455
RRP: £15.00£12.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788086264455Author Walter SernerFormat HardbackPage Count 189Imprint Twisted Spoon PressPublisher Twisted Spoon PressWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm) 190mm... -
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 9780199538263
RRP: £9.99£7.11Wives and Daughters, Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel, is regarded by many as her masterpiece. Molly Gibson is the daughter of the doctor in the small provincial town of Hollingford. Her widowed father marries a second time to give Molly the woman's... -
Maxims by Francoi de La Rochefoucauld
RRP: £10.99£7.77The philosophy of La Rochefoucauld, which influenced French intellectuals as diverse as Voltaire and the Jansenists, is captured here in more than 600 penetrating and pithy aphorisms.About the AuthorLa Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) was a French classical... -
The Lord Chandos Letter by Hugo Von Hofmannsthal
RRP: £16.99£12.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590171202Author Hugo Von HofmannsthalFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Beowulf: A Student Edition by George Jack 9780198710448
RRP: £35.99£30.15Beowulf, the major surviving poem in Old English, is composed in a language that is rich but often difficult. This fully annotated edition makes the poem more accessible in its original language, while at the same time providing the materials necessary... -
Tense Future: Modernism, Total War, Encyclopedic Form by Paul K. Saint-Amour 9780190200954
RRP: £40.99£29.05Tense Future falls into two parts. The first develops a critical account of total war discourse and addresses the resistant potential of acts, including acts of writing, before a future that looks barred or predetermined by war. Part two shifts the focus... -
Private Notebooks: 1914-1916 by Ludwig Wittgenstein
RRP: £19.99£15.14During the pandemic, Marjorie Perloff, leading scholar of global literature, found her mind ineluctably drawn to the profound commentary on life and death in the wartime diaries of eminent philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951). Upon learning that... -
Ukraine, War, Love: A Donetsk Diary Olena Stiazhkina 9780674291690
RRP: £33.95£27.41In 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... -
The United Nations of Cookies by Jess Murphy 9781999379926
RRP: £13.00£8.91Cultures and cuisines have many differences, but one thing they all have in common is cookies. But there's more to this book than just a sweet treat. The authors worked with refugees and immigrants who have made Ireland their home to collect and share... -
Timon of Athens: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
RRP: £8.99£6.61The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor: Stanley Wells The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers - A new, modern-spelling text, collated and... -
Troll Magic: Hidden Folk from the Mountains and Forests of Norway by Theodor Kittelsen
RRP: £16.99£15.88A collection of macabre and magical folklore from the "godfather" of the Norwegian troll Across the stillness of the sprawling mountain heath, the shadow of the mighty forest falls, its wildness calling to the child in all of us. Here the Hidden Folk... -
Oxford Student Texts: Wilfred Owen: Selected Poems by Helen Cross
£11.76One of a series designed to provide a new, accessible approach to the works of great poets and playwrights. Each text includes general notes on the text; discussion of themes, issues and context; and suggestions for further reading.One of a series, this... -
Turning the Boat for Home: A life writing about nature Richard Mabey 9780701181086
RRP: £18.99£13.61'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... -
Father and Son by Edmund Gosse
RRP: £11.99£8.43'This book is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two consciences and almost two epochs.' Father and Son stands as one of English literature's seminal autobiographies. In it Edmund Gosse recounts, with humour and pathos, his childhood... -
What Do I Know?: Essential Essays by Michel de Montaigne 9781782278818
RRP: £14.99£9.80A selection of Michel de Montaigne's most profound, searching essays, in a new translation and stunning hardback edition featuring an introduction by Yiyun Li 'I myself am the subject of my book'. So wrote Montaigne in the introductory note to his... -
The Last Days of T.E. Lawrence: A Leaf in the Wind Paul Marriott 9781898595229
£40.98"It is quiet here now, and I feel as though I were fixed in my cottage for good. It is as I thought ... something is finished with my leaving the RAF. ... It gets worse instead of healing over ... At present the feeling is mere bewilderment. I imagine... -
The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell 9780871406736
RRP: £16.95£10.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871406736Author Bertrand RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Liveright Publishing CorporationPublisher Liveright Publishing... -
Vorticism: New Perspectives by Mark Antliff 9780199937660
£99.84The London-based avant-garde movement Vorticism, like its continental counterparts Cubism and Futurism and its English rival Bloomsbury was created by artists, poets, writers, and artist-writers, as a project that defied disciplinary boundaries... -
Otherworlds: Fantasy and History in Medieval Literature by Aisling Byrne
RRP: £34.99£28.51This book offers a new perspective on the otherworlds of medieval literature. These fantastical realms are among the most memorable places in medieval writing, by turns beautiful and monstrous, alluring and terrifying. Passing over a river or sea, or... -
Exiles by James Joyce
RRP: £8.99£6.45'That is my fear. That I stand between her and any moments of life that should be hers...' Set against the backdrop of the Home Rule Crisis of 1912, Exiles is James Joyce's only surviving play. It tells the story of writer Richard Rowan and his... -
Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw 9780140437904
RRP: £8.99£6.45Andrew Undershaft, a millionaire armaments manufacturer, loves money and despises poverty. His estranged daughter Barbara, on the other hand, shows her love for the poor by throwing her energies into her work as a Major in the Salvation Army, and sees... -
Journey to the Orient by Gerard De Nerval 9780988202603
RRP: £19.95£15.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988202603Author Gerard De NervalFormat PaperbackPage Count 482Imprint Antipodes PressPublisher Antipodes PressWeight(grams) 699g