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I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft, Volume 2 by Author S T Joshi 9781614980520
RRP: £30.00£27.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614980520Author Author S T JoshiFormat PaperbackPage Count 598Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 789gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens by Claire Tomalin 9780241963258
RRP: £12.99£9.34The Invisible Woman by Claire Tomalin is the acclaimed story of Nelly Ternan and Charles DickensWinner of the NCR Book Award, the Hawthornden Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize'This is the story of someone who - almost - wasn't there; who... -
Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
RRP: £10.00£6.90A devastating essay on loss and the people we love from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun. 'Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can... -
Genius and Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947 by Norman Lebrecht
RRP: £11.99£8.68A unique chronicle of the hundred-year period when the Jewish people changed the world - and it changed them Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Bernhardt and Kafka. Between the middle of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a few dozen men and women... -
84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff 9781860498503
RRP: £8.99£6.16A TRUE STORY THAT HAS TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF THOUSANDS'Unmitigated delight from cover to cover' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A real-life love story . . . A timeless period piece. Do read it' WALL STREET JOURNAL 'Beguile an hour of your time and put you in tune with... -
The Necessary Aptitude: A Memoir by Pam Ayres
RRP: £12.99£9.34'Next, I applied to work in the accounts department, a sealed room where women operated clattering machines like enormous typewriters. After I had catastrophically and erroneously applied all the wrong information to several trolley loads of documents... -
I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft, Volume 1 by Author S T Joshi
RRP: £30.00£27.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614980513Author Author S T JoshiFormat PaperbackPage Count 578Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 762gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
The White Album by Joan Didion
RRP: £9.99£6.89Joan Didion's hugely influential collection of essays which defines, for many, the America which rose from the ashes of the Sixties. We tell ourselves stories in order to live. The princess is caged in... -
Not Far From Brideshead by Daisy Dunn
RRP: £20.00£12.69Oxford thought it was at war. And then it was. After the horrors of the First World War, Oxford looked like an Arcadia - a dreamworld - from which pain could be shut out. Soldiers arrived with pictures of the university fully formed in their heads, and... -
Walking The Invisible by Michael Stewart
RRP: £9.99£6.60See through the eyes of the Brontes as you immerse yourself in their lives and landscapes, wandering the very same paths they each would have walked in search of the inspiration behind their novels and poetry. An... -
The World of Yesterday: Memoirs of a European by Stefan Zweig
RRP: £12.99£9.34'The time provides the pictures, I merely speak the words to go with them, and it will not be so much my own story I tell as that of an entire generation - our unique generation, carrying a heavier burden of fate than almost any other in the course of... -
The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume 4: 1931-1935 by Virginia Woolf 9780156260398
RRP: £32.50£22.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156260398Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams)... -
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou 9780345514400
RRP: £8.99£6.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345514400Author Maya AngelouFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 174mm *... -
Carson McCullers: A Life by Mary V. Dearborn 9780525521013
RRP: £40.00£25.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525521013Author Mary V. DearbornFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 828gDimensions(mm) 244mm *... -
William Shakespeare: His Life and Work by Anthony Holden
RRP: £12.99£2.85Who was William Shakespeare? How did the 'rude groom' from Stratford grow up to be the greatest poet the world has known? Not for a generation, since the late Anthony Burgess's SHAKESPEARE (1970), has there been anything approaching a popular, mainstream... -
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
RRP: £22.00£14.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385720250Author Sylvia PlathFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Bantam Doubleday DellPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)... -
You Left Early: A True Story of Love and Alcohol by Louisa Young
RRP: £10.99£7.50'Extraordinarily powerful' Emma Thompson There are a million love stories, and a million stories of addiction. This one is transcendent. Louisa Young met Robert Lockhart when they were both 17. Their... -
Capote's Women: Watch TV's FEUD: CAPOTE VS THE SWANS by Laurence Leamer 9781399721226
RRP: £10.99£7.30A FASCINATING TRUE STORY OF FRIENDSHIP, INTRIGUE AND UNFORGIVABLE BETRAYAL, NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES Readers LOVE Capote's Women 'A genuinely fascinating account of a great writer and his muses.' 'Loved it! Fabulous book about a extremely... -
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne - Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022 by Katherine Rundell
RRP: £10.99£7.57**A Sunday Times top ten bestseller****Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2023****Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize for Non-Fiction 2023****Shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize 2023**'Masterly.'... -
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King 9781444723250
RRP: £10.99£7.30Twentieth Anniversary Edition with Contributions from Joe Hill and Owen King Part memoir, part masterclass by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer's craft, comprising the basic... -
Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
RRP: £10.99£7.50In Lunar Park, Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho, rips into his most frightening subject yet: himself.He became a bestselling novelist while still in college, immediately famous and wealthy. He watched his insufferable father reduced to a bag... -
Thunderclap: A memoir of art and life & sudden death by Laura Cumming
RRP: £25.00£16.53**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024****SHORTLISTED FOR THE WRITERS' PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024**'A wonderful read (or a great present) for anyone who loves stories and art' Nina Stibbe, author of Love, NinaA beautifully illustrated... -
Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era by Laurence Leamer 9780593328101
RRP: £20.00£9.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593328101Author Laurence LeamerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint G P Putnam's SonsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 211mm... -
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
RRP: £9.99£6.73The bestselling book that inspired the cult classic film, Girl, Interrupted, starring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie."Not since Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar has a personal account of life in a mental hospital achieved as much popularity and acclaim" TIME... -
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
RRP: £9.99£7.36'Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional'A compelling mediation on the power of running and a fascinating insight into the life of this internationally bestselling writer. A perfect reading companion for runners.In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to... -
Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley
RRP: £25.00£15.95** Shortlisted for the @CrimeFest H.R.F. Keating Award **'A smart and highly entertaining portrait of a literary powerhouse'- THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR'A riveting portrait' - GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR***'Christie lovers should read this biography... -
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art by Lauren Elkin 9781784742935
RRP: £25.00£18.02'Destined to become a new classic' Chris KrausA dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and art - and how we think about them.For decades, feminist artists have confronted the problem of how to tell the truth about their experiences... -
Jane Austen's Wardrobe by Hilary Davidson 9780300263602
RRP: £25.00£21.90Hilary Davidson delves into the clothing of one of the world's great authors, providing unique and intimate insight into her everyday life and material world What did Jane Austen wear? Acclaimed dress historian and Austen expert Hilary Davidson... -
Novelist as a Vocation: A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing from the internationally acclaimed author of NORWEGIAN WOOD by Haruki Murakami
RRP: £18.99£13.61A unique look at the craft of writing from a bestselling master of storytelling. The perfect gift for all book lovers.In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author shares with readers what he thinks about being a novelist; his thoughts... -
Back in the Day: Melvyn Bragg's deeply affecting, first ever memoir by Melvyn Bragg
RRP: £10.99£7.30Melvyn Bragg's first ever memoir - an elegiac, intimate account of growing up in post-war Cumbria, which vividly evokes a vanished world.'The best thing he's ever written . . . What a world he captures here. You can almost smell it' Rachel Cooke,... -
Portrait Of A Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson by Nigel Nicolson
RRP: £9.99£6.73The classic story of the relationship between Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, and a unique portrait of the Bloomsbury Group.'A brilliantly structured account of the dramas, infidelities and deep emotional attachments' GUARDIAN'An intimate and... -
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life by Anna Funder
RRP: £20.00£14.69THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE'A marvellous book . . . I just loved it all, and have a permanently marked-up, dog-eared copy on my shelf for the next generation'... -
84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
RRP: £8.99£6.16This book is the very simple story of the love affair between Miss Helene Hanff of New York and Messrs Marks and Co, sellers of rare and secondhand books, at 84 Charing Cross Road, London'. DAILY TELEGRAPHTold in a series of letters in 84 CHARING CROSS... -
Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature by Elizabeth Winkler
RRP: £20.00£13.26A thrillingly provocative investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy...and who the Bard might really be. The theory that Shakespeare may not have... -
Pour Me: A Life by Adrian Gill
RRP: £9.99£6.73SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE'An intense, succulent read that's intermittently dazzling' THE TIMES'Chilling, exquisitely moving' DAILY TELEGRAPH'A superb memoir - and one of the best books on addiction I have ever read' EVENING STANDARDA. A... -
The Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath 9780385493918
RRP: £14.99£9.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385493918Author Sylvia PlathFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group... -
String Theory: David Foster Wallace On Tennis: A Library of America Special Publication by David Foster Wallace
RRP: £18.99£12.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598534801Author David Foster WallaceFormat HardbackPage Count 158Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 364g -
Pam Ayres - The Works: The Classic Collection by Pam Ayres
RRP: £12.99£9.34The Works contains 120 of Pam Ayres' best-known poems, including 'The Battery Hen', 'Please Will You Take Your Children Home Before I Do Them In?', 'Sling Another Chair Leg on the Fire, Mother' and, of course, 'Oh, I Wish I'd Looked After Me Teeth'.This... -
The Swimmer: The Wild Life of Roger Deakin by Patrick Barkham
RRP: £20.00£14.69BEST BOOK OF 2023 ACCORDING TO THE NEWSTATESMAN AND OBSERVERThe definitive biography of beloved author, Roger DeakinRoger Deakin, author of the immortal Waterlog and Wildwood, was a man of unusually many parts. A born writer who nonetheless took decades... -
Orwell: The New Life by D.J. Taylor
RRP: £30.00£18.04Over seventy years since his premature death, George Orwell (1903-50) has become one of the most significant figures in western literature. His two dystopian masterpieces, Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) have together sold over 40...