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The Necessary Aptitude: A Memoir by Pam Ayres
RRP: $16.76$11.73'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... -
Franz Kafka by Max Brod
RRP: $21.92$19.43Max Brod, a successful novelist, was a boyhood companion of Kafka's and remained closely tied to him until Kafka's death in 1924. He was undoubtedly the one man whom Kafka trusted more than any other, and it is to Brod, as his literary executor and... -
The Life and Lies of Charles Dickens by Helena Kelly 9781837731046
RRP: $32.25$21.40Think you already know the story of Charles Dickens' life? Think again.Almost everything you're familiar with was first mentioned in an authorised biography written by Dickens' close friend John Forster 150 years ago. It's the version of events that... -
At the Loch of the Green Corrie by Andrew Greig
RRP: $14.18$9.55A homage to a remarkable poet and his world.'At The Loch of Green Corrie is more than merely elegant, more than a collection of albeit fascinating insights, laugh-out-loud observations and impressively broad erudition' - Sunday Herald'You could easily... -
The Mirror and the Road: Conversations with William Boyd by Alistair Owen 9780241987339
RRP: $14.18$10.02'One of Britain's most celebrated contemporary novelists' Sunday TimesIn this probing series of exclusive interviews, Alistair Owen talks to William Boyd about his works and the life which has inspired them. The conversations which emerge are a deep-dive... -
Where I Was From Joan Didion 9780007178872
RRP: $12.89$8.57A 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... -
Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages by Phyllis Rose
RRP: $15.47$10.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911547525Author Phyllis RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books -
The Bookseller of Florence: Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Manuscripts that Illuminated the Renaissance Dr Ross King 9781784709372
RRP: $16.76$11.73'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: $32.25$18.91A 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... -
A Writer's Notebook by W. Somerset Maugham
RRP: $14.18$10.02From 1892, when he was eighteen, until 1949, when this book was first published, Somerset Maugham kept a notebook. It is without doubt one of his most important works. Part autobiographical, part confessional, packed with observations, confidences,... -
Howdunit: A Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the Detection Club by Martin Edwards
RRP: $19.34$12.51Winner of the H.R.F. Keating Award for best biographical/critical book related to crime fiction, and nominated for the Edgar Allen Poe and Macavity Awards for Best Critical/Biographical book. Ninety crime writers from the world's... -
My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs by Kazuo Ishiguro
RRP: $6.44$4.64Delivered in Stockholm on 7 December 2017, My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs is the lecture of the Nobel Laureate in Literature, Kazuo Ishiguro. A generous and hugely insightful biographical sketch, it explores his relationship... -
Love's Work by Gillian Rose
$13.09Apologies 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)... -
Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth by John Garth
RRP: $14.18$9.35* TOLKIEN * Now a major motion picture Acclaimed as 'the best book about Tolkien', this award-winning biography explores J.R.R. Tolkien's wartime experiences and their impact on his life and his writing of The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings... -
Back in the Day: Melvyn Bragg's deeply affecting, first ever memoir Melvyn Bragg 9781529394450
RRP: $32.25$21.65'The best thing he's ever written . . . I loved it' ObserverMelvyn Bragg's first ever memoir - an elegiac, intimate account of growing up in post-war Cumbria, which lyrically evokes a vanished world.In this captivating memoir, Melvyn Bragg recalls... -
Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life by Marta McDowell
RRP: $28.38$21.50A 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: $16.76$11.73Elizabeth 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,... -
The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Volume 3: 1925-30 by Virginia Woolf 9781783788729
RRP: $38.70$25.41With 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: $16.76$11.04Isaiah 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... -
A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson Camille Peri 9780670786190
RRP: $41.27$27.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670786190Author Camille PeriFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Viking Press IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Albert Camus and the Human Crisis: A Discovery and Exploration by Robert E. Meagher
RRP: $25.80$16.59A renowned scholar investigates the "human crisis" that Albert Camus confronted in his world and in ours, producing a brilliant study of Camus's life and influence for those readers who, in Camus's words, "cannot live without dialogue and friendship."As... -
For Bread Alone by Mohamed Choukri 9781846590108
RRP: $12.89$8.77Driven by famine from their home in the Rif, Mohamed's family walks to Tangiers in search of a better life. But things are no better there. Eight of Mohamed's siblings die of malnutrition and neglect, and one is killed by Mohamed's father in a fit of... -
When A Crocodile Eats the Sun by Peter Godwin
RRP: $14.18$10.23Peter Godwin, an award-winning writer, is on assignment in Zululand when he is summoned by his mother to Zimbabwe, his birthplace. His father is seriously ill; she fears he is dying. Godwin finds his country, once a post-colonial success story,... -
Two Lives by Vikram Seth
RRP: $19.34$12.64TWO LIVES tells the remarkable story of Seth's great uncle and aunt. His great uncle Shanti left India for medical school in Berlin in the 1930s and lodged with a German Jewish family. In the household was a daughter, Henny, who urged her mother 'not to... -
The Heart Of A Woman by Maya Angelou
RRP: $12.89$11.30From 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... -
Dr Johnson's Dictionary: The Book that Defined the World Henry Hitchings 9780719566325
RRP: $14.18$9.55By 1700, France and Italy already had dictionaries of their own, and it became a matter of national pride that England should rival them. Dr Johnson rose to the challenge, turning over the garret of his London home to the creation of his Dictionary. He... -
Shakespeare by DK
RRP: $10.31$7.47Explore the life and times of Shakespeare and trace his journey from a little boy reluctant to go to school to becoming the famous bard.Travel back to his birthplace in the small town of Stratford-upon-Avon before accompanying the legendary storyteller... -
Turning: A Swimming Memoir by Jessica J. Lee
RRP: $14.18$9.55'The water slips over me like cool silk. The intimacy of touch uninhibited, rising around my legs, over my waist, up to my collarbone. When I throw back my head and relax, the lake runs into my ears. The sound of it is a muffled roar, the vibration of... -
My History: A Memoir of Growing Up by Lady Antonia Fraser 9781780227948 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18$2.92The childhood and early life memoir of Antonia Fraser, one of our finest narrative historians.Antonia Fraser's magical memoir describes growing up in the 1930s and '40s, but its real concern is with her growing love of history. A fascination that began... -
My History: A Memoir of Growing Up by Lady Antonia Fraser
RRP: $14.18$8.35The childhood and early life memoir of Antonia Fraser, one of our finest narrative historians.Antonia Fraser's magical memoir describes growing up in the 1930s and '40s, but its real concern is with her growing love of history. A fascination that began... -
Experience by Martin Amis 9780099285823 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76$2.95'Martin Amis is a seriously good writer, and never on better form than now. Experience, the book of his life, may be the book of his life' Daily Telegraph **ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY** In this remarkable work of... -
Experience by Martin Amis
RRP: $16.76$11.73'Martin Amis is a seriously good writer, and never on better form than now. Experience, the book of his life, may be the book of his life' Daily Telegraph **ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY** In this remarkable work of... -
Lucky by Alice Sebold
RRP: $12.89$9.38**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... -
My Father And Myself by J. R. Ackerley
RRP: $21.92$14.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940322127Author J.R. AckerleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Slipstream: A Memoir by Elizabeth Jane Howard 9780330484053 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76$2.95Slipstream 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... -
Slipstream: A Memoir by Elizabeth Jane Howard
RRP: $16.76$11.95Slipstream 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... -
Village Christmas: And Other Notes on the English Year by Laurie Lee
RRP: $12.89$9.17'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 Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie: A biographical companion to the works of Agatha Christie by Charles Osborne
RRP: $16.76$10.94A comprehensive and authorised biographical companion to the works of Agatha Christie covering books, films, TV and plays - revised and updated edition. Agatha Christie was the author of over 100 plays, short story collections and novels which... -
Monica Jones, Philip Larkin and Me: Her Life and Long Loves by John Sutherland 9781474620208 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18$4.41'A brilliant biography - John Sutherland has brought Monica Jones to life as she deserves.' Claire Tomalin'Eye-opening... in this account [Monica Jones] comes alive.' The Sunday TimesMonica Jones was Philip Larkin's partner for more than four decades,... -
Monica Jones, Philip Larkin and Me: Her Life and Long Loves by John Sutherland
RRP: $14.18$8.35'A brilliant biography - John Sutherland has brought Monica Jones to life as she deserves.' Claire Tomalin'Eye-opening... in this account [Monica Jones] comes alive.' The Sunday TimesMonica Jones was Philip Larkin's partner for more than four decades,...