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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420965438Author AnonymousFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 6mm

From the eighth century onwards, the Muslim townsfolk of North Africa were well aware that fifty stages away across the desert to the south lay a land inhabited by black people which was the source of gold, ivory and slaves. It was no mere rumour...

In these seventeen essays (and one short story) the 2011 Man Booker Prize winner examines British, French and American writers who have meant most to him, as well as the cross-currents and overlappings of their different cultures. From the deceptiveness...

The 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...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.Believed to have been first published more than two thousand years ago, The Art of War is the classic Chinese book of military strategy. It has not only influenced many of the world's most powerful military leaders but...

These four stories or 'nouvelles' date from 1945, though all were published much later, in French and subsequently in English. All make use of a first-person narrator, and relish its vagaries - the inability to remember facts, the uncertainty as to why...

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 4, spanning April 1929 through 1931, featuring many previously unpublished letters, records the establishment of Ernest Hemingway as an author of international renown following the publication of A Farewell to Arms...

As a literary subject, Christmas has inspired everything from intimate domestic dramas, to fanciful flights of the imagination, and the full range of its expression is represented in this wonderfully engaging collection. Goblins frolic in the graveyard...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250228130Author Liz ClimoFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Flatiron BooksPublisher Flatiron BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 132mm * 15mm

Read all about superstar tennis champion, Emma Raducanu! The incredible winner of the 2021 US Open has shot to fame and straight into the hearts of the world. Emerging as one of the most influential young sports stars ...

"I must die as I lived, beyond my means." Arguably the most quoted man in history, and certainly in his day, this enormous miniature collection is filled with Oscar Wildes' most notorious and witty sayings. Organized into five neat sections useful for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951949006Author Lingo MasteryFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Lingo MasteryPublisher Lingo Mastery

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994316530Author Alistair McGuinnessFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Bongo BooksPublisher Bongo BooksWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Martin Amis first wrote about September 11 a week later in a piece for The Guardian beginning, 'It was the advent of the second plane, sharking in low over the Statue of Liberty: that was the defining moment.' He has kept returning to September 11, in...

With its explorations of sexual ambivalence, As You Like It speaks directly to the twenty-first century. Juliet Dusinberredemonstrates that Rosalind's authority in the play grows from new ideas about women and reveals that Shakespeare's heroine reinvents...

What is literature made from? During the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries, this question preoccupied the English court poets, who often claimed that their poems were not original creations, but adaptations of pre-existing materials. Their...

Iphigenia among the Taurians Bacchae Iphigenia at Aulis Rhesus The four plays newly translated in this volume are among Euripides' most exciting works. Iphigenia among the Taurians is a story of escape and contrasting Greek and barbarian...

*WINNER of the BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION****AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER***'Astounding on every page. John Vaillant is one of the great poetic chroniclers of the natural world' David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth'No book...

Gold rush towns abandoned when new boomtowns emerge elsewhere or the gold has run out, towns deserted when caught in war zones, settlements evacuated due to natural disasters or chemical spills – seeing a town with devoid of people is an uncanny feeling...

THE SICK BAG SONG chronicles Cave's journey with his band the Bad Seeds on a twenty-two-day, North American tour. It is a highly personal account that blends memories, musings, poetry, lyrics, flights of fancy and road journal.Drawing inspiration from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143131809Author James RallisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with...

'Study me reader, if you find delight in me...Come, O men, to see the miracles that such studies will disclose in nature.' Most of what we know about Leonardo da Vinci, we know because of his notebooks. Some 6,000 sheets of notes and drawings survive,...

Churchill in Quotes celebrates the life and wit of this iconic figure – combining archive photography with the inspiring speeches, wry remarks and cutting comments he was known for. Sir Winston Churchill, statesman, orator and former Prime Minister was...

'Our virtues are, most often, only vices in disguise.' Deceptively brief and insidiously easy to read, La Rochefoucauld's shrewd, unflattering analyses of human behaviour have influenced writers, thinkers, and public figures as various as Voltaire,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142003909Author Jessica HagedornFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911187158Author David AndersonFormat PaperbackImprint Connell GuidesPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD

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Journalist, maverick, rebel and author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson offers another novel of American counterculture in Hell's Angels, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.'A phalanx of motorcycles came...

Includes 'The Freedom of the Press', intended as the preface to 'Animal Farm' but undiscovered until 1972. Considered by Noam Chomsky to be Orwell's most important essay. These essays demonstrate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739999445Author Nicholas KollerstromFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint New Alchemy PressPublisher New Alchemy PressWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865976313Author Ludwig von MisesFormat PaperbackPage Count 1037Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 2084g

Here, at last, is the astonishing sequel to Alan Bennett's classic Writing Home, updated for paperback. Untold Stories contains significant previously unpublished work, including a poignant memoir of his family and of growing up in Leeds, together with...

Selected and introduced by Richard Dawkins, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing is a celebration of the finest writing by scientists for a wider audience - revealing that many of the best scientists have displayed as much imagination and skill with...

In 2013, the filmmaker Chantal Akerman's mother was dying. She flew back from New York to care for her, and between dressing her, feeding her and putting her to bed, she wrote. She wrote about her childhood, the escape her mother made from Auschwitz but...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780664266356Author Reinhold NiebuhrFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Westminster/John Knox Press,U.S.Publisher Westminster/John Knox Press,U.S...

'Cold War Steve - our modern-day Hogarth - shining his acerbic light on the corruption and ineptitude of those in power. Enjoy the art' CAROL VORDERMAN'I love this book! Funny, bleak, stirring. Like wrestling history in a pub carpark' HARRY HILL'A...

'Quite simply the best and most powerful book I've read this year' David Peace'A magnificent book . . . beautifully written and passionately argued' Dominic Sandbrook'A remarkable eye-witness account of Russia's descent into authoritarianism and war'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648002062Author Julia KaylockFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Black Quill PressPublisher Black Quill PressWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Quite simply, this book is a work of genius - Matthew Parris, The SpectatorAn essential study of post-war gay London life... one of the best anthologies I have ever read - John Self, The ObserverWith it's wide-ranging selection, generous biographical...