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The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 4, spanning April 1929 through 1931, featuring many previously unpublished letters, records the establishment of Ernest Hemingway as an author of international renown following the publication of A Farewell to Arms...

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 9780994316530Author Alistair McGuinnessFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Bongo BooksPublisher Bongo BooksWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

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...

*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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780895554369Author Raphael BrownFormat PaperbackImprint Tan Books & Publishers Inc.Publisher Tan Books & Publishers Inc.Weight(grams) 386g

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...

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

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

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...

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...

The ideal gift for rugby fans Pairing epic sports photography with articles from The Times and The Sunday Times archive, this volume brings together 100 of the most iconic moments from World Cup history. With striking, full-colour...

Erudite, witty and often controversial, The London Review of Books informs and entertains its readers with a fortnightly dose of the best and liveliest of all things cultural.This anthology brings together some of the most memorable pieces from recent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598537680Author Jimmy BreslinFormat HardbackPage Count 650Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America

Malthus' life's work on human population and its dependency on food production and the environment was highly controversial on publication in 1798. He predicted what is known as the Malthusian catastrophe, in which humans would disregard the limits of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739473457Author Alan MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books

With contributions from seven of Mexico's finest journalists, this is reportage at its bravest and most necessary - it has the power to change the world's view of their country, and by the force of its truth, to start to heal the country's many sorrows...

In 1959, Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, was commissioned by the Sunday Times to explore fourteen of the world's most exotic cities. Fleming saw it all with a thriller writer's eye. An unforgettable and uniquely personal journey through the...

Since lockdown began, people have woken up to Janey Godley's comedy by the hundreds of thousands... [She] has provided much-needed relief throughout the coronavirus pandemic with her gallus Glesga interpretations which have been shared around the country...

'I, who would wish to feel close over me the protective waves of the ordinary, catch with the tail of my eye some far horizon.' Intensely visionary yet absorbed with the everyday; experimental, daring and challenging, The Waves is regarded by many as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955296369Author Isabella DucrotFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Sylph EditionsPublisher Sylph Editions

It's 1979 in Communist Czechoslovakia, ten years into the crushing period known as normalization, and Ludvik Vaculik has writer's block. It has been nearly a decade since he wrote his powerful novel, The Guinea Pigs, and it was in 1968 that he wrote his...

Japanese Legends and Folklore invites English speakers into the intriguing world of Japanese folktales, ghost stories and historical eyewitness accounts. With a fascinating selection of stories about Japanese culture and history, A.B. Mitford-who lived...

Relationships with our siblings stretch, as an old saying has it, all the way from the cradle to the grave. Few bonds in life are as significant, as formative, as lasting, and as frequently overlooked as those we share with our brothers and sisters. In...

This tiny tome featuring a faux leather binding with embossed type and illustration is filled with Winston Churchill's biography, his most inspirational quotes, and excerpts from some of his most famous speeches.About the AuthorMiniature Editions are...

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...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Alas that mortalsShould blame the gods! From us, they say,All evils come. Yet they themselvesIt is who through defiant deedsBring sorrow on them-far more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583220726Author Moyra DaveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 345Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 518g

Mexico, April 2009. The bodies of pair of undercover military intelligence agents, disguised as campesinos (farmers), are dumped by the side of the road. Beside the corpses is a message on a scrap of paper: "You'll never get El Chapo."Authorities did -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486290737Author Benjamin FranklinFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...