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Red Dust Road: Picador Classic by Jackie Kay
RRP: £9.99£7.06Journeying from Glasgow to Lagos and beyond, Red Dust Road is a heart-stopping memoir, a story of parents and siblings, friends and strangers, belonging and beliefs, biology and destiny.With an introduction by the First Minister of Scotland, Nicola... -
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist: Understanding What Happens When We Write and Read Novels by Orhan Pamuk
RRP: £12.99£8.56Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature'Engaging, brilliant' Guardian'A talkative, tender meditation' Financial Times'Every novelist will want to read this' Daily TelegraphWhat happens within us when we read a novel? And how does a writer create its... -
Rebus's Scotland: A Personal Journey by Ian Rankin
RRP: £14.99£9.32Ian Rankin's guide to the places in Scotland that have provided inspiration for his bestselling Inspector Rebus novels.'A must-have for all Rebus fans' DAILY EXPRESS'His novels are playing a significant part in redefining Scotland's image of itself in... -
A Little Learning: The First Volume of an Autobiography by Evelyn Waugh
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.' Waugh begins his story with heredity, writing of the energetic, literary and sometimes eccentric men and women who, unknown to themselves,... -
Autumn Journal by Louis MacNeice
RRP: £12.99£8.56Written between August and December 1938, Autumn Journal is still considered one of the most valuable and moving testaments of living through the thirties by a young writer. It is a record of the author's emotional and intellectual experience during... -
A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-1918 by Joseph Loconte
RRP: £13.99£9.75Had there been no Great War, there would have been no Hobbit, no Lord of the Rings, no Narnia, and perhaps no conversion to Christianity by C. S. Lewis.The First World War laid waste to a continent and brought about the end of innocence-and the end of... -
Love Letters: Intimate Correspondence Between Famous Lovers by Andrea Clarke 9780712353519
RRP: £12.99£8.35In an age of emails, tweets and emojis, this beautiful selection of original love letters invites us into a privileged realm and reminds us why the written word is so expressive and revealing. The 30 handwritten notes included in this book span... -
C. S. Lewis: A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet by Alister McGrath
RRP: £12.99£8.18The recent Narnia films have inspired a resurgence of interest in C. S. Lewis, the Oxford academic, popular theologian and, most famously, creator of the magical world of Narnia - and this authoritative new biography, published to mark the 50th... -
A Song Flung Up to Heaven by Maya Angelou
RRP: £8.99£5.91A memoir of politics and activism, from the bestselling and beloved author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMAIt is 1964 and Maya Angelou is on her way back home, leaving... -
An Area of Darkness: His Discovery of India by V. S. Naipaul
RRP: £10.99£7.77The first book in V. S. Naipaul's acclaimed Indian trilogy - with a preface by the author. An Area of Darkness is V. S. Naipaul's semi-autobiographical account - at once painful and hilarious, but always thoughtful and considered - of his first visit to... -
The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910-1923 by Franz Kafka
£13.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805209068Author Franz KafkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 414gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 131mm *... -
Literary Places by Sarah Baxter
RRP: £14.99£9.50Inspired Traveller's Guides: Literary Places takes you on an enlightening journey through the key locations of literature's best and brightest authors, movements and moments - brought to life through comprehensively researched text and stunning... -
Writers in Paris: Literary Lives in the City of Light by David Burke 9780984004386
RRP: £19.95£17.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984004386Author David BurkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Paris Writers PressPublisher Paris Writers PressWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm) 235mm *... -
Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages by Carmela Ciuraru 9780062356925
RRP: £14.99£9.70A Washington Post Most Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year"Delicious and infuriating . . . unputdownable."-Sadie Stein, The New York Times"A tour de force. . . . The stories are gripping, horrific and sometimes funny, but most important of all they are... -
Awakened Cosmos: The Mind of Classical Chinese Poetry by David Hinton
RRP: £16.99£10.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611807424Author David HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Joseph Conrad by Robert Hampson
RRP: £12.99£9.09Born in Poland in 1857, Joseph Conrad is one of the great writers of the twentieth century. This book traces Conrad's life from his childhood in a Russian penal colony, through his early manhood in Marseille and his years in the British Merchant Navy, to... -
The Basketball Diaries: The Classic About Growing Up Hip on New York's Mean Streets by Jim Carroll
RRP: £17.00£9.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140100181Author Jim CarrollFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 170gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 127mm *... -
The Seven Good Years by Etgar Keret 9781783780471
RRP: £8.99£6.08Over the last seven years Etgar Keret has had plenty of reasons to worry. His son, Lev, was born in the middle of a terrorist attack in Tel Aviv. His father became ill. And he has been constantly tormented by nightmarish visions of the Iranian president... -
The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym by Paula Byrne 9780008322205
RRP: £25.00£17.43'Captures both Barbara and her writing so miraculously' JILLY COOPER Picked as a Book to Look Forward to in 2021 by the Guardian, The Times and the Observer A Radio 4 Book of the Week, April... -
Hemingway's Cats: Revised Cuba Edition by Carlene Brennen 9781561649624
RRP: £11.99£8.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561649624Author Carlene BrennenFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)... -
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Illustrated by Gertrude Stein 9781594204609
RRP: £30.00£18.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594204609Author Gertrude SteinFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 970gDimensions(mm) 243mm *... -
Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman by Hannah Arendt
RRP: £16.99£10.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681375892Author Hannah ArendtFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Correspondence by Paul Celan 9780857426420
RRP: £15.00£13.64Paul Celan (1920-70) is one of the best-known German poets of the Holocaust; many of his poems, admired for their spare, precise diction, deal directly with its stark themes. Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-73) is recognized as one of post-World... -
The Blaze of Obscurity: The TV Years by Clive James
RRP: £9.99£7.06In the 1980s, Clive James found his way into full-time television. In The Blaze of Obscurity, his fifth book of memoir, he delivers the inside story. A hilarious, thoughtful, warts and all account of a life in the public eye.'Clive James is an... -
Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel to the End of the World by Nell Stevens
RRP: £8.99£6.40'Perfect' Lena Dunham 'This year's literary sensation' Evening StandardHow far would you travel to become a writer?8000 miles from home1085 calories a day3 months to write the novel that would make her nameAt least that was the plan. But when Nell... -
Lectures on Shakespeare by W. H. Auden 9780691197166
RRP: £16.99£13.34From one of the great modern writers, the acclaimed lectures in which he draws on a lifetime of experience to take the measure of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets "W. H. Auden, poet and critic, will conduct a course on Shakespeare at the New School for... -
Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: £9.99£6.70Thomas Paine is one of the greatest political advocates in history. Declaration of the Rights of Man, first published in 1791, is the key to his reputation. Inspired by his outrage at Edmund Burke's attack on the uprising of the French people, Paine's... -
To Throw Away Unopened by Viv Albertine 9780571326228
RRP: £12.99£8.56What was I fighting for? Even now I'm not sure. Something so old and so deep, it has no words, no shape, no logic.Viv Albertine has always been obsessed with the truth: the truth about family, power, and her identity as a rebel and outsider. But at what... -
Vergil: The Poet's Life by Sarah Ruden 9780300256611
RRP: £18.99£16.94A biography of Vergil, Rome's greatest poet, by the acclaimed translator of the Aeneid "Ms. Ruden has converted the writer of the Aeneid from a noble and stodgy 'ancient' into our contemporary . . . persuasively re-imagined [as] a sympathetic,... -
An Autobiography: and Other Writings by Anthony Trollope 9780199675296
RRP: £10.99£7.77'I hated the office. I hated my work...the only career in life within my reach was that of an author.' The only autobiography by a major Victorian novelist, Trollope's account offers a fascinating insight into his literary life and opinions. After a... -
Hellfire: Evelyn Waugh and the Hypocrites Club by David Fleming
RRP: £20.00£16.83Late one evening in March 1924, a tipsy young nun was seen trying to slip into Balliol, an all-male Oxford college, just as the gates were about to close for the night. The nun - subsequently unmasked as the son of the college bursar - was returning... -
The Perfect Stranger by P. J. Kavanagh 9781910463291
RRP: £8.99£6.26The Perfect Stranger was first published in the '60s and since then has continued to find a select group of passionate admirers. Evocative and engaging, and ultimately deeply emotional, The Perfect Stranger is the story of a soldier, a poet and a husband... -
The Road to Nab End: A Lancashire Childhood by William Woodruff 9781906011260
RRP: £14.99£10.95From his birth in 1916 (in the carding room of a cotton mill) until he ran away to London, William Woodruff lived in the heart of Blackburn's weaving community. But after Lancashire's supremacy in cotton textiles had ended with the crash of 1920, his... -
Robert Burns: A Life by Ian McIntyre
RRP: £12.99£8.18No other poet excites such fanatical, worldwide devotion as Robert Burns (otherwise known as Rabbie Burns, Scotland's Favourite Son, the Ploughman Poet, the Bard of Ayrshire or simply the Bard). Ian McIntyre's biography, first published to mark the... -
All Sorts of Lives: Katherine Mansfield and the art of risking everything by Claire Harman 9781529918342
RRP: £10.99£7.77** The Sunday Times Best Literary Book of 2023**** A Waterstones Best Book of 2023**'All Sorts of Lives is a beautiful, fastidiously researched and fascinating exploration of Mansfield's life and work' A.L. KENNEDYRestless outsider, masher-up of form and... -
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Eddie S. Jr Glaude 9780525575320
RRP: £22.50£18.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of BCALA Literary Award 2021 and Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters - Nonfiction 2020 and Stowe Prize 2021. Short-listed for Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo... -
Heavy Light: A Journey Through Madness, Mania and Healing by Horatio Clare
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Deeply moving, darkly funny and hugely powerful' Robert Macfarlane'A brave, lit-up account of going mad and getting better' Jeanette WintersonAfter a lifetime of ups and downs, Horatio Clare was committed to hospital under Section 2 of the Mental Health... -
Genius and Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947 by Norman Lebrecht
RRP: £11.99£8.43A 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... -
The Genius of Jane Austen: Her Love of Theatre and Why She Is a Hit in Hollywood by Paula Byrne
RRP: £9.99£6.64A radical look at Jane Austen as you've never seen her - as a lover of farce, comic theatre and juvenilia. The Genius of Jane Austen celebrates Britain's favourite novelist 200 years after her death and explores why her books make such... -
Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: That's How the Light Gets In, Volume 3 by Michael Posner
RRP: £25.00£16.24The extraordinary life of one of the world's greatest music and literary icons, in the words of those who knew him best.Poet, novelist, singer-songwriter, artist, prophet, icon-there has never been a figure like Leonard Cohen. He was a true giant in...