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Why Read: Selected Writings 2001 - 2021 by Will Self
RRP: £16.99£12.28'Will Self may not be the last modernist at work but at the moment he's the most fascinating of the tradition's torch bearers.' New YorkFrom one of the most unusual and distinctive writers working today, dubbed 'the most daring and delightful novelist of... -
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... -
Selected Letters by John Keats
RRP: £18.99£13.61'I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination' - Keats, in a letter to his friend Benjamin Bailey in November 1817.In a period of great letter-writing, Keats's letters are outstanding. They begin in... -
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... -
Self-Help by Samuel Smiles
RRP: £9.99£7.11'The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the true source of national vigour and strength.' A bestseller immediately after its publication in 1859, Self-Help... -
Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald by Jonathan Bate
RRP: £25.00£22.19A 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,... -
An Autobiography: and Other Writings by Anthony Trollope 9780199675296
RRP: £10.99£7.77'I hated the office. I hated my work...the only career in life within my reach was that of an author.' The only autobiography by a major Victorian novelist, Trollope's account offers a fascinating insight into his literary life and opinions. After a... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
The Very Salt Of Life: Welsh Women's Political Writings from Chartism to Sufferage by Jane Aaron
RRP: £8.99£6.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870206907Author Jane AaronFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Honno LtdPublisher Honno LtdWeight(grams) 352g -
Alan Titchmarsh's Fill My Stocking Alan Titchmarsh 9781785947568
RRP: £12.99£8.32A great raconteur and entertainer, Alan Titchmarsh gets together every Christmas with family and friends to celebrate the season and performs much-loved anecdotes, stories, poems and sketches - old and new. Fill My Stocking combines these well-known... -
London: An Illustrated Literary Companion by Rosemary Gray 9781035031689
RRP: £9.99£6.87With diary entries, quotations, poems, essays and extracts, this is an exquisite time capsule of literary London which takes you on a captivating journey through the city.London: An Illustrated Literary Companion, compiled by Rosemary Gray, captures the... -
Town and Country: New Irish Short Stories by Kevin Barry
RRP: £12.99£8.56Edited by award winning novelist and short story writer Kevin Barry, this volume will once again mix established names with previously unpublished authors, and will seek to offer fresh renditions to the Irish story - new angles, new approaches, new... -
The Humorous Magistrate (Osborne) Jacqueline Jenkins 9780719087011
RRP: £50.00£35.83The Humorous Magistrate is a seventeenth-century satiric comedy extant in two highly distinctive manuscripts. The earliest and clearly working draft of the play is bound with three other plays (including The Emperor's Favourite, published by the Malone... -
Black Voices on Britain by Hakim Adi
RRP: £10.99£7.51A compelling anthology of Black voices from England, America, Africa and the Caribbean, from people who lived, worked, campaigned and travelled in Britain from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a... -
Michael Frayn Collected Columns by Michael Frayn 9780413776488
RRP: £9.99£8.17One of the funniest writers of his generation, Michael Frayn has been writing humorous newspaper columns since 1959, principally for the "Guardian" and "Observer", and originally came to prominence as the thrice weekly purveyor of these short, surreal,... -
Island Stories: Britain and Its History in the Age of Brexit by David Reynolds 9780008282356
RRP: £9.99£6.64'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? In... -
William Blake: Selected Poems by William Blake
RRP: £10.99£7.77'To see a World in a Grain of Sand 'And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour' William Blake wrote some of the most moving and memorable verse in the English language. Deeply committed to visionary... -
An Elegant Madness: High Society in Regency England by Venetia Murray 9780140282962
RRP: £24.00£16.20The Regency period was one of the most turbulent ages in British history, one that spanned the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, that witnessed unprecedented industrial progress, artistic accomplishment, and violent social unrest... -
Brideshead Abbreviated: The Digested Read of the Twentieth Century by John Crace
RRP: £10.99£7.77John Crace's 'Digested Read' column in the Guardian has rightly acquired a cult following. Each week fans avidly devour his latest razor-sharp literary assassination, while authors turn tremblingly to the appropriate page of the review section, fearful... -
The Norton Anthology of English Literature by Stephen Greenblatt 9780393603071
£38.96The most trusted anthology for complete works and helpful editorial apparatus. The Tenth Edition supports survey and period courses with NEW complete major works, NEW contemporary writers, and dynamic and easy-to-access digital resources. NEW video... -
The Essays by Francis Bacon
RRP: £12.99£9.09One of the major political figures of his time, Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) served in the court of Elizabeth I and ultimately became Lord Chancellor under James I in 1617. A scholar, wit, lawyer and statesman, he wrote widely on politics, philosophy... -
Betjeman's England by John Betjeman
RRP: £10.99£7.40For more than half a century, Betjeman's writings have awakened readers to the intimacy of English places - from the smell of gaslight in suburban churches, to the hissing of backwash on a shingle beach. Betjeman is England's greatest topologist: whether... -
Louder & Funnier by P. G. Wodehouse
RRP: £12.99£9.09In these articles first produced for magazines and substantially rewritten for book publication, Wodehouse reveals his enduring brilliance as a comic writer of non-fiction. But the move out of fiction does not mean a move into unfamiliar territory: any... -
Selected Poems by John Dryden 9780140439144
RRP: £18.99£17.20A new and comprehensive selection of Dryden's poetry, revealing him as a master of theatricality, ventriloquism, and unmistakable originality. Brought together here are many of the poems from his time as Poet Laureate and loyal servant of the crown,... -
Three Little Truths by Eithne Shortall
RRP: £8.99£5.92**AN IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER**___________________________'Funny, endearing, mysterious and outrageous, this book is wildly entertaining and hugely enjoyable.' Liz NugentOn this street, no secret is safe.___________________________The Pine Road WhatsApp... -
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... -
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... -
Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012 by Geoffrey Hill
£33.20Broken Hierarchies collects twenty books of poems by Geoffrey Hill, written over sixty years, and presents them in their definitive form. Four of these books (Ludo, Expostulations on the Volcano, Liber Illustrium Virorum, and Al Tempo de' Tremuoti) have... -
The Passion of Harry Bingo: Further Dispatches from Unreported Scotland by Peter Ross
RRP: £8.99£6.84SHORTLISTED FOR SALTIRE SOCIETY NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR Quirky, hilarious, always engaging and often moving, The Passion of Harry Bingo enters the lives of some of Britain's least known but most amazing characters. From Orkney to the Sussex coast... -
Paradoxes and Problems by John Donne 9780198127536
£69.56A scholarly edition of works by John Donne. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatusBook InformationISBN 9780198127536Author John DonneFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint... -
Plays Unpleasant by George Bernard Shaw
RRP: £12.99£9.93With Plays Unpleasant, Shaw issued a radical challenge to his audiences' complacency and exposed social evils through his dramatization of the moral conflicts between youthful idealism and economic reality, promiscuity and marriage, and the duties of... -
George Orwell: English Rebel by Robert Colls
RRP: £14.99£11.35An intellectual who did not like intellectuals, a socialist who did not trust the state, a writer of the left who found it easier to forgive writers of the right, a liberal who was against free markets, a Protestant who believed in religion but not in... -
Where My Feet Fall: Going for a Walk in Twenty Stories by Duncan Minshull 9780008414115
RRP: £18.99£13.61The Independent Best Book for Walkers 2022 Where can a walk take you? It goes without saying, walking can connect us to our surroundings and free us from our worries. It can raise our heart rate and relax our minds. It can lead us... -
All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays by George Orwell
RRP: £10.99£7.25Orwell demonstrates in piece after piece how intent analysis of a work or body of work gives rise to trenchant aesthetic and philosophical commentary. As a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at home discussing Charles Dickens and Charlie... -
The Nation's Favourite Shakespeare: Famous Speaches And Sonnets by William Shakespeare 9780563551423 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99£1.87The most quoted writer in English literary history, Shakespeares work continues to grip audiences and delight readers. His plays fill our theatres and have inspired countless films, most recently the immensely popular Romeo & Juliet starring Leondardo...