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Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief by Victoria Chang
RRP: £17.99£12.70A Kirkus Best Book of October 2021 From poet Victoria Chang, a collection of literary letters and mementos on the art of remembering across generations. For Victoria Chang, memory "isn't something that blooms, but something that bleeds internally."... -
Philip Larkin by James Booth
RRP: £16.99£12.28_______________ 'Superb ... Booth's psychology is subtler than Motion's and more convincing' - Peter J. Conradi, Spectator 'Booth's diligence is unquestionable and even readers who think they know the poems will see nuances they had previously... -
The Diaries of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka
RRP: £38.00£24.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805243550Author Franz KafkaFormat HardbackPage Count 704Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 1009gDimensions(mm) 243mm * 163mm *... -
Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney by Dennis O'Driscoll 9780571242535
RRP: £16.99£11.58Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies; but no book-length portrait has appeared until now. Through his own lively and eloquent reminiscences, Stepping Stones retraces the poet's... -
Talking about Detective Fiction by P. D. James
RRP: £10.99£7.32From the birth of crime writing with Wilkie Collins and Dostoevsky, through Conan Doyle to the golden age of crime, with the rise of Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh and Margery Allingham, P. D. James brings a lifetime of reading and writing crime fiction to... -
Notes from an Island by Tove Jansson
RRP: £12.99£9.20In the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Tove Jansson, helped by Brunstroem, a maverick fisherman, raced to build a cabin on a treeless skerry in the Gulf of Finland. The island was Klovharun, and for thirty summers Tove and her beloved partner, the graphic... -
Radical: A Life of My Own by Xiaolu Guo
RRP: £18.99£13.61**An Observer Book of the Year**The new memoir from prize-winning writer and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo - playful, provocative and original, it's her deeply personal take on striving for a life of her own'When it comes to spinning light and shadow on the... -
Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread by Michiko Kakutani
RRP: £16.99£11.87**SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020** From renowned, Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic, Michiko Kakutani, comes an inspiring and gorgeously illustrated selection of the life-changing... -
Kafka: The Early Years by Reiner Stach 9780691178189
RRP: £22.00£17.99How did Kafka become Kafka? This eagerly anticipated third and final volume of Reiner Stach's definitive biography of the writer answers that question with more facts and insight than ever before, describing the complex personal, political, and cultural... -
The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by John Carr 9780786712342
RRP: £21.99£15.15This vivid biography, written by John Dickson Carr, a giant in the field of mystery fiction, benefits from his full access to the archives of the eminent Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,to his notebooks, diaries, press clippings, and voluminous correspondence... -
Welcome Home: A Memoir with Selected Photographs and Letters by Lucia Berlin
RRP: £9.99£7.06'Evocative . . . poignant . . . acute and funny' Observer'The Revival of the Great Lucia Berlin Continues Apace' New York TimesBest known for her short fiction, it was upon publication of A Manual for Cleaning Women in 2015 that Lucia Berlin's status as... -
The Golden Age of Murder by Martin Edwards
RRP: £10.99£7.25Winner of the 2016 EDGAR, AGATHA, MACAVITY and H.R.F.KEATING crime writing awards, this real-life detective story investigates how Agatha Christie and colleagues in a mysterious literary club transformed crime fiction. Detective stories of the... -
Truth and Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett
RRP: £10.99£7.25From the bestselling author of The Dutch House, Commonwealth and Bel Canto, Winner of The Women's Prize for Fiction and the Pen/Faulkner Award. When Ann Patchett and Lucy Grealy met in college they began a friendship that would define their... -
Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative and Fate by Daniel Mendelsohn
RRP: £8.99£6.02Winner of the 2020 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, France's best foreign book of the year. 'Astounding' Sebastian Barry 'A masterpiece' Ayad Akhtar 'This little book is ruminative, humane, and... -
Singin' & Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas by Maya Angelou
RRP: £9.99£7.59Maya Angelou's five volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy,... -
Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography by Claire Harman 9780241964439
RRP: £15.99£11.61Winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 'One of the most shamefully under-read great British authors of the past 100 years' Sarah Waters The poet Sylvia Townsend Warner rose to sudden fame with the publication of her classic feminist novel Lolly... -
Jane Austen's Letters by Deirdre Le Faye
RRP: £27.49£20.28Jane Austen's letters afford a unique insight into the daily life of the novelist: intimate and gossipy, observant and informative, they bring alive her family and friends, her surroundings and contemporary events with a freshness unparalleled in... -
Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F.Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald by F. Scott Fitzgerald
RRP: £14.99£10.95____________________ 'A superbly edited and evocatively illustrated collection that brings together everything that Scott wrote to his wife' - Sunday Telegraph 'Heartbreaking ... Love has seldom seemed more poignant' - Sunday Times 'Excellent ..... -
Artist of Wonderland: The Life, Political Cartoons, and Illustrations of Tenniel by Frankie Morris
RRP: £44.25£32.36Best known today as the illustrator of Lewis Carroll's Alice books, John Tenniel was one of the Victorian era's chief political cartoonists. This extensively illustrated book is the first to draw almost exclusively on primary sources in family... -
The Seven Lives Of Alejandro Jodorowsky by Vincent Berniere 9781643375946
RRP: £29.99£20.63A definitive look at the life of legendary filmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky and his many wild creative ventures throughout his 90 years on earth.A journey through Jodo's personal life, his life in the theater, his rebirth as a 70s cinematic cult figure and... -
Kafka: The Years of Insight by Reiner Stach 9780691165844
RRP: £22.00£17.99This volume of Reiner Stach's acclaimed and definitive biography of Franz Kafka tells the story of the final years of the writer's life, from 1916 to 1924--a period during which the world Kafka had known came to an end. Stach's riveting narrative, which... -
Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life by Marta McDowell
RRP: £22.00£13.83A New York Times Bestseller There aren't many books more beloved than The Tale of Peter Rabbit and even fewer authors as iconic as Beatrix Potter. Her characters-Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle Duck, and all the rest-exist in a charmed world filled with... -
Aunt Branwell and the Bront Legacy by ,Nick Holland 9781526722232
RRP: £12.99£9.09Elizabeth Branwell was born in Penzance in 1770, a member of a large and influential Cornish family of merchants and property owners. In 1821 her life changed forever when her sister Maria fell dangerously ill. Leaving her comfortable life behind,... -
Where I Was From by Joan Didion
RRP: £9.99£6.64A memoir of land, family and perseverance from one of the most influential writers in America. In this moving and surprising book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history - and America's. Where I Was From, in Didion's... -
A Year With C. S. Lewis: 365 Daily Readings from his Classic Works by C. S. Lewis
RRP: £10.99£7.89To mark the fiftieth anniversary of C. S. Lewis' death, this attractive book offers daily inspirational readings from this much-loved writer, making this a most thoughtful gift. Few people, whether children or adults, have not been touched by... -
The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Volume 3: 1925-30 by Virginia Woolf 9781783788729
RRP: £30.00£19.70With an introduction by Olivia Laing Monday 20 April 1925. One thing in considering my state of mind now, seems to me beyond dispute, that I have at last, bored down into my oil well, & can't scribble fast enough to bring it all to the surface... I... -
Isaiah Berlin: A Life by Michael Ignatieff
RRP: £12.99£8.56Isaiah Berlin was one of the great public intellectuals of his time. A magnetic speaker and beacon of liberal philosophy, he gained first-hand experience of some of the pivotal events of the twentieth century and crossed paths with luminaries from... -
The Bookseller of Florence: Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Manuscripts that Illuminated the Renaissance by Dr Ross King
RRP: £12.99£9.09'A marvel of storytelling and a masterclass in the history of the book' WALL STREET JOURNALThe Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings - the dazzling handiwork of the city's artists and architects. But equally... -
Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Ambition and Betrayal by Laurence Leamer 9781399721196
RRP: £25.00£16.78A 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... -
Love's Work by Gillian Rose
£11.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590173657Author Gillian RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
The Heart Of A Woman by Maya Angelou
RRP: £9.99£6.48From the beloved and bestselling author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS, this memoir chronicles Maya Angelou's involvement with the civil rights movement. 'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMAMaya Angelou's... -
In Jail with Nazim Hikmet by Orhan Kemal 9780863564116
RRP: £10.99£7.64Bursa prison, mid-winter 1940. Two prisoners meet, both writers, both serving long sentences for allegedly inciting Turkish soldiers to mutiny. One is Turkey's most famous poet and communist, Nazim Hikmet; the other a young, aspiring poet, Orhan Kemal,... -
Lucky by Alice Sebold
RRP: £9.99£7.06**In November 2021, Anthony Broadwater, who was convicted of the 1981 rape of Alice Sebold and spent sixteen years in prison, was fully exonerated. Serious failings emerged in the 1982 prosecution, which was based largely on faulty witness identification... -
Paperboy by Christopher Fowler
RRP: £10.99£7.77Christopher Fowler's memoir captures life in suburban London as it has rarely been seen: through the eyes of a lonely boy who spends his days between the library and the cinema, devouring novels, comics, cereal packets - anything that might reveal a... -
Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald by Jonathan Bate 9780008425005
RRP: £10.99£7.25A 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,... -
William Shakespeare: His Life and Work by Anthony Holden
RRP: £12.99£2.79Who 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... -
Village Christmas: And Other Notes on the English Year by Laurie Lee
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Magical' Daily Mail'I finished it with an ache in my heart and a tear in my eye' SpectatorFrom the author of Cider With Rosie, Village Christmas is a moving, lyrical portrait of England through the changing years and seasons. Laurie Lee left his... -
The Quotable Hitchens: From Alcohol to Zionism--The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens by Windsor Mann
RRP: £14.99£9.32Over the past few decades, the bestselling author of Hitch-22 has crisscrossed the globe debating religious scholars, Catholic clergy, rabbis, and devout Christians on the existence of God- appearances that have attracted thousands of people on both... -
Mariner: A Voyage with Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Malcolm Guite
RRP: £14.99£9.32'The story of Coleridge's life does undoubtedly echo that of his poem; this is a book that provides rewarding rereadings of both' - The Sunday TimesA new biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, shaped and structured around the story he himself tells in his... -
Slipstream: A Memoir by Elizabeth Jane Howard
RRP: £12.99£9.02Slipstream brilliantly illuminates the literary world of the latter half of the 20th century, as well as giving a highly personal insight into the life of Elizabeth Jane Howard, one of our most beloved British writers.'This is a brave, absorbing and...