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An Area of Darkness: His Discovery of India by V. S. Naipaul
RRP: $14.18$10.02The 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... -
Robert Burns in Your Pocket: A Biography, and Selected Poems and Songs, of Scotland's National Poet by Robert Burns
RRP: $12.89$9.17Robert Burns is more than Scotland's national poet. This compact little book contains an illustrated selection of Burns' most acclaimed and best loved poems and songs. The book also contains a biography, a guide to the key landmarks 'in the land of... -
Awakened Cosmos: The Mind of Classical Chinese Poetry by David Hinton
RRP: $21.92$14.89Apologies 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 -
Winter Journal by Paul Auster
RRP: $14.18$9.44'You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person world to whom none of these things will ever happen, and then, one by one, they all begin to happen to you, in the same way they happen to everyone else... -
Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History by Sir Richard J. Evans 9780349141435
RRP: $19.34$12.64At the time of his death at the age of 95, Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) was the most famous historian in the world. His books were translated into more than fifty languages and he was as well known in Brazil and Italy as he was in Britain and the United... -
Literary Places: Volume 2 Sarah Baxter 9781781318102
RRP: $19.34$12.64Inspired 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... -
Miracles of Life by J. G. Ballard
RRP: $14.18$9.35J. G. Ballard was, for over fifty years, one of this country's most significant writers. Beginning with the events that inspired his classic novel, 'Empire of the Sun', this revelatory autobiography charts the course of his astonishing life. ... -
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... -
Hemingway's Cats: Revised Cuba Edition by Carlene Brennen 9781561649624
RRP: $15.47$11.51Apologies 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)... -
Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman Hannah Arendt 9781681375892
RRP: $21.92$14.89Apologies 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 -
The Invisible Writing by Arthur Koestler
RRP: $19.34$14.13The second volume of the remarkable autobiography of Arthur Koestler, author of Darkness at Noon.Taken together, Arthur Koestler's volumes of autobiography constitute an unrivalled study of a twentieth-century life. The Invisible Writing picks up where... -
Correspondence by Paul Celan 9780857426420
RRP: $19.35$14.84Paul 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... -
Joseph Conrad by Robert Hampson
RRP: $16.76$11.73Born 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... -
Letters to the Lady Upstairs by Marcel Proust 9780008340063
RRP: $12.89$9.78A charming, funny, poignant collection of twenty-three letters from Marcel Proust to his upstairs neighbour 102 Boulevard Haussmann, an elegant address in Paris's eighth arrondissement. Upstairs lives Madame Williams, with her second husband and her harp... -
Wild Mary: The Life Of Mary Wesley by Patrick Marnham
RRP: $16.76$11.73Mary Wesley published her first novel at seventy and went on to write a further nine bestsellers, including the legendary The Camomile Lawn, in a style best described as arsenic without the old lace. Many of her stories were inspired by her experiences... -
Going Solo: The Centenary Collection by Roald Dahl
RRP: $12.89$9.17In 1918, the RAF was established as the world's first independent air force. To mark the 100th anniversary of its creation, Penguin are publishing the Centenary Collection, a series of six classic books highlighting the skill, heroism esprit de corps... -
The Seven Good Years by Etgar Keret 9781783780471
RRP: $11.60$7.84Over 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... -
Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief by Victoria Chang
RRP: $23.21$16.38A 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."... -
Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century by Alexandra Popoff
RRP: $23.21$19.85The definitive biography of Soviet Jewish dissident writer Vasily Grossman, called "gripping" and "fascinating" by William Taubman in the New York Times "[Popoff] tells Grossman's story with sensitivity and a keen understanding of his world, drawing on... -
Hitch 22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: $16.76$11.04Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle AwardIn this long-awaited and candid memoir, Hitchens re-traces the footsteps of his life to date, from his childhood in Portsmouth, with his adoring, tragic mother and reserved Naval officer father; to... -
Bleaker House: Chasing My Novel to the End of the World by Nell Stevens
RRP: $11.60$8.51'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... -
John le Carre: The Biography by Adam Sisman 9781408849460 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.92$2.95The definitive biography of the undisputed giant of English literature, a man whose own true history has long been hidden behind the fictional world of his books 'Compendious and compelling ... it is impossible to imagine this Life being bettered'... -
John le Carre: The Biography by Adam Sisman
RRP: $21.92$15.84The definitive biography of the undisputed giant of English literature, a man whose own true history has long been hidden behind the fictional world of his books 'Compendious and compelling ... it is impossible to imagine this Life being bettered'... -
I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys by Miranda Seymour
RRP: $14.18$9.18'An absolute belter of a biography' MARINA HYDE A Times Literary Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2022 An LA Times Best Book of the Year 2022 An... -
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Illustrated by Gertrude Stein 9781594204609
RRP: $38.70$22.82Apologies 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 *... -
Heavy Light: A Journey Through Madness, Mania and Healing Horatio Clare 9781529112641
RRP: $14.18$10.02'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... -
Ayn Rand: Writing a Gospel of Success Alexandra Popoff 9780300253214
RRP: $24.50$20.87A deeply researched biography of the prominent and divisive writer Ayn Rand, whose pro-capitalist novels and nonfiction have influenced three generations of Americans Biographer Alexandra Popoff traces the life and creative achievement of Ayn Rand... -
Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F.Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald by F. Scott Fitzgerald
RRP: $19.34$14.13____________________ '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 ..... -
Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh
RRP: $19.34$16.22*THE NO.1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*For the first time in seven years, Allie Brosh, the creator of the immensely popular blog 'Hyperbole and a Half' and #1 New York Times bestselling author, returns with her new collection. Solutions and Other Problems... -
On the Date, Sources and Design of Shakespeare's The Tempest by Roger A. Stritmatter 9780786471041
RRP: $28.37$23.18This book challenges a longstanding and deeply ingrained belief in Shakespearean studies that The Tempest - long supposed to be Shakespeare's last play - was not written until 1611. In the course of investigating this proposition, which has rarely been... -
The Perfect Stranger by P. J. Kavanagh 9781910463291
RRP: $11.60$8.00The 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 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... -
Robert Burns: A Life by Ian McIntyre
RRP: $16.76$11.09No 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... -
Vita: The Life of Vita Sackville-West by Victoria Glendinning
RRP: $21.92$16.98The Whitbread Prize-winning biography of Vita Sackville-West. Vita Sackville-West was a vital, gifted and complex woman. A dedicated writer, she made her mark as poet, novelist, biographer, travel writer, journalist and broadcaster. She was also one... -
Dickens: Abridged by Peter Ackroyd 9780099437093 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.92$2.95Dickens was a landmark biography when first published in 1990. This specially edited shorter edition takes the reader into the life of one of the world's greatest writers.Here, Ackroyd attempts to peel away the mask of a man whose life was outwardly a... -
Dickens: Abridged by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: $21.92$15.84Dickens was a landmark biography when first published in 1990. This specially edited shorter edition takes the reader into the life of one of the world's greatest writers.Here, Ackroyd attempts to peel away the mask of a man whose life was outwardly a... -
The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu: Scientist and Feminist Jo Willett 9781526779380
RRP: $32.25$17.74300 years ago, in April 1721, a smallpox epidemic was raging in England. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu knew that she could save her 3-year-old daughter using the process of inoculation. She had witnessed this at first hand in Turkey, while she was living... -
All Sorts of Lives: Katherine Mansfield and the art of risking everything by Claire Harman 9781529918342
RRP: $14.18$10.02** 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... -
Myself When Young: The Shaping of a Writer Daphne Du Maurier 9781844080960
RRP: $14.18$9.55'A delightful book, full of amusing and charming stories' THE TIMES'Daphne du Maurier has no equal' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'An intimate view of a creative personality . . . as richly evocative as any of her novels' LOS ANGELES TIMESIn Myself When Young, based... -
Genius and Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947 by Norman Lebrecht
RRP: $15.47$10.87A 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...