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Letters to Eugene: Correspondence 1977-1987 by Herve Guibert
RRP: $29.23$18.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635901726Author Herve GuibertFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher Semiotext (E) -
A Sort Of Life by Graham Greene
RRP: $19.48$13.86Graham Greene's 'long journey through time' began in 1904, when he was born into a tribe of Greenes based in Berkhamstead at the public school where his father was headmaster. In A Sort of Life Greene recalls schooldays and Oxford, adolescent encounters... -
Three-a-Penny: Radio 4 Book of the Week by Lucy Malleson
RRP: $19.48$13.26A rediscovered classic memoir - a fascinating insight into the life of a crime writer during and after the First World War - a woman ahead of her time.With a new introduction by Sophie HannahTHREE-A-PENNY describes what it is like to be a woman in a... -
Slide Rule by Nevil Shute Norway
RRP: $19.48$13.86Nevil Shute was a power and a pioneer in the world of flying long before he began to write the stories that made him a bestselling novelist. This autobiography charts Shute's path from childhood to his career as a gifted aeronautical engineer working at... -
The World of Christopher Marlowe by David Riggs
RRP: $25.33$16.69David Riggs evokes the atmosphere and texture of Marlowe's life, from the stench and poverty of a childhood spent near Canterbury's abattoirs to the fanatical pursuit of classical learning at school. Marlowe won a place at Cambridge University, where... -
Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past by Richard Cohen
RRP: $48.75$36.31MAKING HISTORY is an epic exploration of who writes about the past and how the biases of certain storytellers - whether Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare or Simon Schama - continue to influence our ideas about history (and about who we are) today. In... -
Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey by Mark Dery
RRP: $19.48$12.95The definitive biography of Edward Gorey, the eccentric master of macabre nonsense. 'A genius book about a bookish genius' Daniel Handler, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events ... -
Germaine: the life of Germaine Greer by Elizabeth Kleinhenz 9781911617914
RRP: $39.00$26.25Intellectual. Feminist. Polemicist. Provocateur. This riveting biography of Germaine Greer traces the personal and political history of one of the most important, radical, and controversial women of twentieth and twenty-first century feminism. It... -
The Lonely Stories: 22 Celebrated Writers on the Joys & Struggles of Being Alone by Natalie Eve Garrett
RRP: $31.18$21.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948226608Author Natalie Eve GarrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint CatapultPublisher Catapult -
Burning Man: The Ascent of DH Lawrence by Frances Wilson
RRP: $25.33$17.73**LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2021** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2021** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE** **FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PLUTARCH AWARD** D. H. Lawrence is no longer censored, but he... -
Deceived With Kindness by Angelica Garnett
RRP: $19.48$13.86Angelica Garnett may truly be called a child of Bloomsbury. Her Aunt was Virginia Woolf, her mother Vanessa Bell, and her father Duncan Grant, though for many years Angelica believed herself, naturally enough, the daughter of Vanessa's husband Clive. Her... -
Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road by Kate Harris
RRP: $21.43$14.14"Lands of Lost Borders carried me up into a state of openness and excitement I haven't felt for years. It's a modern classic."-Pico Iyer A brilliant, fierce writer, and winner of the 2019 RBC Taylor Prize, makes her debut with this enthralling... -
Specimen Days by Walt Whitman 9780198861386
RRP: $17.53$12.58'I obey my happy hour's command, which seems curiously imperative. May-be, if I don't do anything else, I shall send out the most wayward, spontaneous, fragmentary book ever printed.' One of the best kept secrets of modern autobiographical literature,... -
Mansi A Rare Man in His Own Way by Tayeb Salih
RRP: $19.48$13.63Tayeb Salih is internationally known for his classic novel Season of Migration to the North. With humour, wit and erudite poetic insights, Salih shows another side in this affectionate memoir of his exuberant and irrepressible friend Mansi Yousif... -
The Book of Forgotten Authors by Christopher Fowler
RRP: $25.33$16.77'JOYOUS . . . READERS WILL LOVE THIS FASCINATING BOOK' CATHY RENTZENBRINK'A GODSEND WITH THE PRESENT SEASON APPROACHING' IRISH INDEPENDENT'THE PERFECT GIFT FOR A BOOK-OBSESSED FRIEND' STYLIST, 50 UNMISSABLE BOOKS FOR AUTUMN 2017'EXCELLENT . . . SHOULD BE... -
When A Crocodile Eats the Sun by Peter Godwin
RRP: $21.43$15.03Peter 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,... -
The Hurley Maker's Son by Patrick Deeley
RRP: $17.53$12.58Patrick Deeley's train journey home to rural East Galway in autumn 1978 was a pilgrimage of grief: his giant of a father had been felled, the hurley-making workshop silenced. From this moment, Patrick unfolds his childhood as a series of evocative... -
After Nature by W. G. Sebald 9780141003368
RRP: $19.48$13.86After Nature is the very first literary work by W. G. Sebald, author of Austerlitz'The greatest writer of our time' Peter CareyAfter Nature by W.G. Sebald, author of Austerlitz, is his first literary work and the start of his highly personal and... -
Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life by Claire Tomalin
RRP: $21.43$15.15Katherine Mansfield is the celebrated biography be bestselling author Claire Tomalin'One of the best biographies I have ever read: a perfect match of author and subject. It should become a classic' Alison LuriePursuing art and adventure across Europe,... -
Eliot: After The Waste Land by Robert Crawford
RRP: $48.75$35.14The second volume of Robert Crawford's magisterial biography of the revolutionary modernist, visionary poet and troubled man, drawing on extensive new sources.In this compelling and meticulous portrait of the twentieth century's most important poet,... -
The Little Book of Oscar Wilde: Wit and Wisdom to Live By by Orange Hippo!
RRP: $11.68$8.58Flamboyant and witty, Oscar Wilde was famous for being famous. The toast of late-nineteenth London society, he once boasted he could speak spontaneously on any subject, and his writings were as varied as his captivating conversation. One of the leading... -
Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson by Emily Dickinson 9780963818362
RRP: $42.80$29.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780963818362Author Emily DickinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Paris Press IncorporatedPublisher Paris Press Incorporated -
My Guru and His Disciple by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: $25.33$17.73WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SIMON CALLOWIn 1939, as Europe approaches war, Isherwood, an instinctive pacifist, travels west to California, seeking a new set of beliefs to replace the failed Leftism of the thirties. There he meets Swami Prabhavananda, a... -
A Life in Letters by John Steinbeck
RRP: $58.50$41.63Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck was a prolific correspondent. Opening with letters written during Steinbeck's early years in California, and closing with an unfinished, 1968 note written in Sag Harbor, New York, this collection of around 850 letters... -
Keats by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: $37.03$25.99First published in 1997, Keats was the first major biography of this tragic hero of Romanticism for some thirty years, and it differs from its predecessors in important respects. The outline of the story is well known - has become, in fact, the stuff of... -
Meet the Georgians by Rob Peal
RRP: $37.03$12.97'The way Robert Peal describes Georgian England, you'd be mad not to want to live there yourself' GUARDIAN Anne Bonny and Mary Read, pirate queens of the Caribbean Tipu Sultan, the Indian ruler who kept... -
The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators by Martin Edwards
RRP: $58.50$40.03Winner of four major prizes for the best critical/biographical book related to crime fiction: the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity and H.R.F. Keating Awards; and shortlisted for both the Agatha and Gold Dagger Awards. ... -
Capote: A Biography by Gerald Clarke
RRP: $29.23$21.35The authoritative biography of Truman Capote, a bestseller when originally published on both sides of the Atlantic.* A fascinating exploration of the troubled life of one of America's greatest writers.About the AuthorGerald Clarke has written for many... -
Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker by Alice Walker
RRP: $48.75$35.14'These journals are a revelation, a road map and a gift to us all' TAYARI JONES, author of An American MarriageFrom the acclaimed author Alice Walker - winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize - comes an unprecedented compilation of four... -
The Life of D. H. Lawrence: A Critical Biography by Andrew Harrison 9780470654781
RRP: $134.45$116.81Complete with fresh perspectives, and drawing on the latest scholarship and biographical sources, The Life of D. H. Lawrence spans the full range of his intellectual interests and creative output to offer new insights into Lawrence's life, work, and... -
Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory by Janet Malcolm 9781783788361
RRP: $33.13$21.98For decades, Janet Malcolm's books and dispatches for the New Yorker have poked and prodded at biographical convention, gesturing towards the artifice that underpins both public and private selves. Here, Malcolm turns her gimlet eye on her own life,... -
The Kargil Girl: An autobiography by Flight Lieutenant Gunjan Saxena (Retd.)
RRP: $17.45$12.85In 1994, twenty-year-old Gunjan Saxena boards a train to Mysore to appear for the selection process of the fourth Short Service Commission (for women) pilot course. Seventy-four weeks of back-breaking training later, she passes out of the Air Force... -
The Worlds of John Ruskin by Kevin Jackson 9781843681489
RRP: $38.98$26.03Ruskin is one of the most influential and exhilarating writers in English. Art critic, architectural visionary, social reformer, climate warner and incomparable teacher; Ruskin's words not only transformed Victorian England but speak to us with... -
Wilfred Owen: A New Biography by Dominic Hibberd
RRP: $25.33$14.64The definitive biography of the war poet - 'Dominic Hibberd has probably done more more than any other individual to illuminate Owen's life and work. His new Life is a triumph ... it is difficult to believe it will ever be superseded' Mark Bostridge, The... -
Insurgent Muse: Life and Art at the Woman's Building by Terry Wolverton 9780872864030
RRP: $25.33$24.80In the 1970s, the West Coast feminist art movement coalesced around the Woman's Building in Los Angeles, founded by artist Judy Chicago. Arriving as a young art student in 1976, Terry Wolverton stayed on to become a teacher and co-founder of the Lesbian... -
Agatha Christie at Home by Hilary Macaskill
RRP: $58.50$38.61"I'm so glad that a new edition is coming! A wonderful, inspirational and essential book for Christie-lovers." Lucy Worsley, author of Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman (Hodder & Stoughton, 2022) 'My dear home, my nest, my house': these words from... -
Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Soren Kierkegaard by Clare Carlisle
RRP: $21.43$15.15Selected as a Book of the Year in The Times Literary Supplement'This lucid and riveting new biography at once rescuses Kierkegaard from the scholars and shows why he is such an intriguing and useful figure' ObserverSoren Kierkegaard, one of the most... -
Poet Warrior: A Memoir by Joy Harjo 9781324022015
RRP: $25.33$22.35Joy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as US poet laureate, invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realisations of her "poet-warrior" road. A musical, kaleidoscopic and wise follow-up to Crazy Brave (ISBN 978 0 393 34543 8),... -
Albert Camus: A Very Short Introduction by Oliver Gloag
RRP: $17.53$12.58Few would question that Albert Camus (1913-1960), novelist, playwright, philosopher and journalist, is a major cultural icon. His widely quoted works have led to countless movie adaptions, graphic novels, pop songs, and even t-shirts. In this Very... -
Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations by Georgina Howell 9780374531355
RRP: $48.75$25.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374531355Author Georgina HowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Sarah Crichton BooksPublisher Sarah Crichton BooksWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm)...