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The Heart Of A Woman by Maya Angelou
RRP: $20.98$14.28From 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... -
Mariner: A Voyage with Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Malcolm Guite
RRP: $31.48$20.58'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: $27.28$18.94Slipstream 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... -
Shakespeare by DK
RRP: $16.78$11.76Explore 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... -
Counterfeit Worlds: The Cinematic Universes of Philip K. Dick by Brian J. Robb 9781915359032
RRP: $31.48$22.64Philip K. Dick, the visionary author behind Blade Runner, is the most adapted science fiction writer in cinema history. Though he struggled to make a living during his lifetime, his work has since served as a deep seam of ideas to be mined by filmmakers... -
My History: A Memoir of Growing Up by Lady Antonia Fraser
RRP: $23.08$15.54The 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... -
The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie: A biographical companion to the works of Agatha Christie by Charles Osborne
RRP: $27.28$17.81A 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... -
Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
RRP: $20.98$14.83Even when I was funny, I wasn't this funny'Augusten Burroughs, author of Running With Scissors Have you ever embarrassed yourself so badly you thought you'd never get over it? Have you ever wished your family could be just like everyone else's? Have you... -
The Tongue Set Free: Remembrance of a European Childhood by Elias Canetti 9781847083562
RRP: $27.28$17.98'The Tongue Set Free is so beautifully written. It begins wtih an extraordinary image, Canetti's earliest memory. He comes out of a room. A man makes him stick out his tongue; if he talks he will cut it off. Years later Canetti realises that this was his... -
George Orwell: A Life by Bernard Crick
RRP: $37.78$27.20The authoritative biography of George Orwell, written with the cooperation of Orwell's widow.'In its thoroughness, and its mastery of a considerable volume of material, this is the definitive biography of Orwell.' Sunday Times'It is hardly worth using up... -
The Quotable Hitchens: From Alcohol to Zionism--The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens by Windsor Mann
RRP: $31.48$20.58Over 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... -
Wilfred Owen by Guy Cuthbertson 9780300216158
RRP: $41.98$40.72One of Britain's best-known and most loved poets, Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) was killed at age 25 on one of the last days of the First World War, having acted heroically as soldier and officer despite his famous misgivings about the war's rationale and... -
Experience by Martin Amis
RRP: $27.28$19.09'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... -
A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes by Rodrigo Garcia 9780008487898
RRP: $27.28$17.81The son of one of the greatest writers of our time-Nobel Prize winner and internationally best-selling icon Gabriel Garcia Marquez-remembers his beloved father and mother in this tender memoir about love and loss. 'It enthralled and moved me.'... -
Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Margaret Forster
RRP: $35.68$25.79This biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, written with reference to Browning correspondence only recently available, argues that the poet was a strong and determined woman largely responsible for her own incarceration in Wimpole Street. The author... -
Monica Jones, Philip Larkin and Me: Her Life and Long Loves by John Sutherland
RRP: $23.08$15.54'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,... -
A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor's Story by Polly Morland
RRP: $35.68$25.79THE TOP TEN BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZEA The Times Book of the Year 2022'Morland writes about nature and the changing landscape with such lyrical precision that her prose sometimes seems close to poetry' - Christina... -
J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter
RRP: $27.28$17.81The original authorised biography, and the only one written by an author who actually met J.R.R. Tolkien, reissued to mark Tolkien's 125th Anniversary. In more than 40 years since Tolkien's death in September 1973, millions have read The... -
A Very Easy Death by Simone de Beauvoir
RRP: $29.40$17.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394728995Author Simone De BeauvoirFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Edith Sitwell: Avant garde poet, English genius by Richard Greene
RRP: $27.28$15.77For the better part of forty years, Edith Sitwell's poetry has been neglected by critics. But born into a family of privileged eccentrics, Edith Sitwell was highly regarded by her contemporaries: the great writers and artists of the day who attended her... -
A Prairie Faith: The Religious Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder by John J Fry 9780802876287
RRP: $41.98$27.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802876287Author John J FryFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing CoWeight(grams)... -
Returning to Reims by Didier Eribon
RRP: $23.08$16.32'A deeply intelligent and searching book, one that makes you re-consider the narrative of your own life and reframe the story you tell yourself' Hilary MantelA Guardian reader's Best Book of 2018 "There was a question that had come to trouble me a bit... -
Ghost Image by Herve Guibert
RRP: $28.35$27.36Ghost Image is made up of sixty-three short essays - meditations, memories, fantasies, and stories bordering on prose poems - and not a single image. Herve Guibert's brief, literary rumination on photography was written in response to Roland Barthes'... -
Mad about Shakespeare: Life Lessons from the Bard by Jonathan Bate
RRP: $23.08$14.95'Enlightening, moving' SIR IAN MCKELLEN From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploration of Shakespeare and how his themes can untangle comedy and tragedy, learning and loving in our modern... -
Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination by J. K. Rowling
RRP: $27.28$18.06In 2008, J.K. Rowling delivered a deeply affecting commencement speech at Harvard University. Now published for the first time in book form, Very Good Lives offers J.K. Rowling's words of wisdom for anyone at a turning point in life, asking the profound... -
The House by the Sea: A Journal by May Sarton 9780393313901
RRP: $39.90$34.29Here she found the peace and aloneness she sought-and partly feared. The journal records the renewing of her life and work in this place.About the AuthorMay Sarton (1912-1995) was an acclaimed poet, novelist, and memoirist.Book InformationISBN... -
No One Left to Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton by Christopher Hitchens 9781838952280
RRP: $20.98$14.07In No One Left to Lie To, Christopher Hitchens portrays President Bill Clinton as one of the most ideologically skewed and morally negligent politicians of recent times. In a blistering polemic which shows that Clinton was at once philanderer and... -
The Child that Books Built by Francis Spufford
RRP: $23.08$15.37'Anyone who reads or ever read children's books - read this. It's a joy.' Irish Times 'Exhilarating.' New York Times Book Review 'Sublime.' Peter Ackroyd, The Times ** An Evening Standard, Daily Telegraph, Independent, Guardian and Irish Times Book of... -
George Orwell: A Life in Letters by George Orwell
RRP: $35.68$25.79With such varied correspondents as T. S. Eliot, Stephen Spender and Anthony Powell, for nearly forty years George Orwell wrote and received the letters that are now collected together in A Life in Letters, edited with an introduction by Peter Davison in... -
Stan Lee: A Life in Comics by Liel Leibovitz
RRP: $39.88$33.98From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a meditation on the deeply Jewish and surprisingly spiritual roots of Stan Lee and Marvel Comics Few artists have had as much of an impact on American popular culture as Stan Lee. The characters he... -
Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense by Jenny Uglow 9780571269549
RRP: $52.50$12.60Acclaimed historian Jenny Uglow brings us a fascinating and beautifully illustrated biography of Edward Lear, full of the colour of the age.Edward Lear lived a vivid, fascinating, energetic life, but confessed, 'I hardly enjoy any one thing on earth... -
Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks 9780715652374
RRP: $52.50$36.77As liberty and truth are increasingly challenged, the figures of Churchill and Orwell loom large. Exemplars of Britishness, they preserved individual freedom and democracy for the world through their far-sighted vision and inspired action, and cast a... -
Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear
RRP: $39.88$28.58Beatrix Potter's books are adored by millions, but they were just one aspect of an extraordinary life. This captivating biography brings us the passionate, unconventional woman behind the beloved stories: a gifted artist and shrewd businesswoman; a... -
Limonov by Emmanuel Carrere
RRP: $20.98$14.93TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR and OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014Limonov is not a fictional character, but he could have been. He's lived a hundred lives. He was a hoodlum in Ukraine, an idol of the Soviet underground, punk-poet and valet to a billionaire... -
The Truth About Lisa Jewell by Will Brooker
RRP: $35.68$25.79*For those aspiring authors who are interested in the path to success*'I read this yesterday in one glorious sitting! What an absolute treat of a book!' Lesley Kara'Illuminating, revealing and absolutely fascinating, Will Brooker offers us the keys to... -
Travels with Myself and Another by Martha Gellhorn 9780907871774
RRP: $27.28$18.06Out of a lifetime of travelling, Martha Gellhorn has selected her "best horror journeys". She bumps through rain-sodden, war-torn China to meet Chiang Kai-Shek, floats listlessly in search of u-boats in the wartime Caribbean and visits a dissident writer... -
A Writer's Notebook by W. Somerset Maugham
RRP: $23.08$16.32From 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,... -
Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens
RRP: $25.18$17.70'When Dickens has described something you see it for the rest of your life' George OrwellIn 1844, Charles Dickens took a break from novel writing to travel through Italy for almost a year, and Pictures from Italy is an illuminating account of his... -
All Sorts of Lives: Katherine Mansfield and the art of risking everything by Claire Harman
RRP: $39.88$28.58** The Sunday Times Best Literary Book of 2023**** A Waterstones Best Book of 2023**** A Financial Times Best Summer Books of 2023 **'All Sorts of Lives is a beautiful, fastidiously researched and fascinating exploration of Mansfield's life and work' A.L... -
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang: The Boom in British Thrillers from Casino Royale to The Eagle Has Landed by Mike Ripley
RRP: $18.88$9.64WINNER OF THE HRF KEATING AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION CRIME BOOK 2018An entertaining history of British thrillers from Casino Royale to The Eagle Has Landed, in which award-winning crime writer Mike Ripley reveals that, though Britain may have lost an...