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Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations by Georgina Howell 9780374531355
RRP: £25.00£13.29Apologies 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)... -
James Patterson: The Stories of My Life by James Patterson 9781529136876
RRP: £20.00£14.29'The master storyteller of our times' Hillary Rodham Clinton'The whole story of his truly astonishing life' Bob Woodward'The book was damn near addictive. I loved it' Ron Howard'At times his poignant narrative will bring you to tears' Patricia Cornwell'A... -
The Prelude: The Four Texts (1798, 1799, 1805, 1850) by William Wordsworth
RRP: £16.99£12.28First published in July 1850, shortly after Wordsworth's death, The Prelude was the culmination of over fifty years of creative work. The great Romantic poem of human consciousness, it takes as its theme 'the growth of a poet's mind': leading the reader... -
My Left Foot by Christy Brown
RRP: £9.99£7.11Christy Brown was born a victim of cerebral palsy. But the hapless, lolling baby concealed the brilliantly imaginative and sensitive mind of a writer who would take his place among the giants of Irish literature. This is Christy Brown's own story. He... -
Georgette Heyer's Regency World by Jennifer Kloester 9780099478720
RRP: £12.99£9.09If you love Georgette Heyer, 'the queen of Regency romance', this is a must-read: the definitive guide to the sparkling world of Georgette Heyer's celebrated novels, which are currently being reissued.A bestselling novelist since 1921, Georgette Heyer is... -
Literary London by Eloise Millar 9781789295931
RRP: £9.99£6.52Discover one of the best cities in the world through the lens of some of the most iconic writers who have ever lived. London has long inspired and celebrated books and writing, and some of the most well-known and beloved names in English Literature have... -
Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas by Matthew Hollis
RRP: £12.99£8.56Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with Robert Frost and Thomas's fatal decision to fight in... -
Over the Hills and Far Away: The Life of Beatrix Potter by Matthew Dennison
RRP: £9.99£7.11Beatrix Potter is one of the world's bestselling, most cherished authors, whose books have enchanted generations of children for over a hundred years. Yet how she achieved this legendary status is just one of several stories of Beatrix Potter's... -
Last Steps: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy by Jay Parini 9780141191195
RRP: £12.99£9.091910. Anna Karenina and War and Peace have made Leo Tolstoy the world's most famous author. But fame comes at a price. In the tumultuous final year of his life, Tolstoy is desperate to find respite, so leaves his large family and the hounding press... -
Nietzsche in Italy by Guy de Pourtales 9781782277286
RRP: £9.99£6.70For fifteen years, after his first visit to the country in1876, Nietzsche was repeatedly and irresistibly drawn back to Italy's climate and lifestyle. It was there that he composed his most famous works, including Thus Spake Zarathustra and Ecce Homo. ... -
Heart Lost in Wonder: The Life and Faith of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Catharine Randall 9780802877703
RRP: £17.99£11.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802877703Author Catharine RandallFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing Co -
The South Country by Edward Thomas 9780956254511
RRP: £15.00£10.96Edward Thomas's death in the Second World War robbed the world of a great poet, a fine writer, and a pioneering environmentalist. Published in 1909, The South Country is the happiest of all his books. Lyrical, passionate, acutely sensitive to life in the... -
Sussex Writers in their Landscape: Self-fulfilment in the Age of the Machine by Peter Brandon 9781803993645
RRP: £22.00£16.09'Theirs was a pre-urban world in the glow of its last sunset, without a care or doubt, in which it seemed as if nothing could ever come to harm. Here was their version of that ideal world that has haunted the dreamer, rebel and pastoral poet for... -
Memoirs by Allean Hale
RRP: £12.99£9.09When Memoirs was first published in 1975, it created quite a bit of turbulence in the media--though long self-identified as a gay man, Williams' candour about his love life, sexual encounters, and drug use was found shocking in and of itself, and such... -
Over Hill and Dale by Gervase Phinn
RRP: £10.99£7.77Over Hill and Dale is the second volume in Gervase Phinn's bestselling Dales series.'Miss, who's that funny man at the back of the classroom?So begins school-inspector Gervase Phinn's second year among the frankly spoken pupils and teachers of North... -
Palimpsest: A Memoir by Gore Vidal
RRP: £12.99£8.60This is a memoir of the first 40 years of Gore Vidal's life, ranging back and forth across a rich history. He spent his childhood in Washington DC, in the household of his grandfather, the blind senator from Oklahoma, T.P. Gore, and in the various... -
The Maverick: George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing by Thomas Harding 9781474621090
RRP: £25.00£16.78Born into a Jewish family in Vienna in 1919, George Weidenfeld fled to England in 1938 to escape the Nazi regime. There he began a career in publishing that would make him one of the most influential figures in the industry. Over the course of his long... -
Origins of The Wheel of Time: The Legends and Mythologies that Inspired Robert Jordan by Michael Livingston
RRP: £18.99£13.76With an introduction by Harriet McDougal, Origins of The Wheel of Time by Michael Livingston explores the inspirations behind the acclaimed series The Wheel of Time, including a biography of Robert Jordan for the first time.'Jordan has come to dominate... -
Green Hills Of Africa by Ernest Hemingway
RRP: £8.99£7.00'I remember seeing the lion looking yellow and heavy-headed and enormous against a scrubby-looking tree in a patch of orchard bush and P. O. M. kneeling to shoot him. Then there was the short-barrelled explosion of the Mannlicher and the lion was going... -
Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World by Jonathan Bate 9780008167455
RRP: £10.99£7.25A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020 'Radical Wordsworth deserves to take its place as the finest modern introduction to his work, life and impact' Financial Times ... -
Reporter: A Memoir by Seymour M. Hersh 9780141989099
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Reporter is just wonderful. Truly a great life, and what shines out of the book, amid the low cunning and tireless legwork, is Hersh's warmth and humanity. Essential reading for every journalist and aspiring journalist the world over' John le CarreIn... -
The Du Mauriers by Daphne Du Maurier
RRP: £10.99£7.40FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA. 'Miss du Maurier creates on the grand scale . . . observation, sympathy, courage, a sense of the romantic, are here' OBSERVER 'It is my pick of the Spring biographical material for sheer entertainment value . . . a... -
Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
RRP: £10.99£7.71In Lunar Park, Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho, rips into his most frightening subject yet: himself.He became a bestselling novelist while still in college, immediately famous and wealthy. He watched his insufferable father reduced to a bag... -
Devotion by Patti Smith 9780300240221
RRP: £8.99£6.46The National Book Award-winning author of Year of the Monkey, Just Kids, and M Train offers a rare, intimate account of her own creative process. A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic-its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring... -
What Am I Doing Here? by Bruce Chatwin
RRP: £12.99£9.09In this collection of profiles, essays and travel stories, Chatwin takes us to Benin, where he is arrested as a mercenary during a coup; to Boston to meet an LSD guru who believes he is Christ; to India with Indira Ghandi when she attempted a political... -
The Invention of Oscar Wilde by Nicholas Frankel
RRP: £20.00£14.29One should either wear a work or art, or be a work of art', Wilde once declared. In The Invention of Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel explores Wilde's self-creation as a 'work of art' and a carefully constructed cultural icon. Frankel takes readers on a... -
Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory by Janet Malcolm 9781783788378
RRP: £10.99£7.32For 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,... -
Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa by Joseph Farrell
RRP: £12.99£8.60Shortlised for the Saltire Society Non Fiction Book of the Year Award Almost every adult and child is familiar with his Treasure Island, but few know that Robert Louis Stevenson lived out his last years on an equally remote island, which was squabbled... -
Introducing Joyce: A Graphic Guide by David Norris
RRP: £8.99£6.63James Joyce is one of the most famous--and controversial--writers of the twentieth century. The myth of his difficulty has discouraged many readers from works such as "Ulysses," but David Norris explores his life and work in this engaging and... -
Abominations: Selected essays from a career of courting self-destruction by Lionel Shriver
RRP: £20.00£17.62The first essay collection from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. 'This trenchant, unrepentant collection reminds you that she's a brilliant writer... Order a copy in case she's cancelled by Christmas' THE TIMES... -
Emily Bronte Reappraised by Claire O'Callaghan
RRP: £9.99£6.80Emily Bronte occupies a special place in the English literary canon. And rightly so: the incomparable Wuthering Heights is a novel that has bewitched us for almost 200 years, and the character of Heathcliff is, perhaps, the ultimate romantic hero - and... -
Just Sayin' by Malorie Blackman
RRP: £16.99£12.28'It's very candid, and movingly so.... Not only in Blackman a grafter- even more, and in the face of more, than we already knew. She's someone with whom you do not mess. Good on her. She's earned it' The Telegraph Malorie Blackman is one of Britain's... -
Stet: An Editor's Life by Diana Athill
RRP: £9.99£6.70Diana Athill helped shape some of the most celebrated books in modern literature. For nearly five decades, she edited (and nursed and coerced and coaxed) writers including Jean Rhys, V. S. Naipaul and Philip Roth. From the pleasures, intrigues and... -
The Last Englishman: The Double Life of Arthur Ransome by Roland Chambers
RRP: £12.99£8.56Arthur Ransome was, from 1930 to the early 1960s, what J.K. Rowling is today: author of a series of children's books which shaped the imagination of a generation. Rooted in the heyday of the British Empire, Swallows and Amazons and its sequels described... -
My Dog Tulip by J. R. Ackerley
RRP: £11.99£8.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590174142Author Elizabeth Marshall ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
On Leopard Rock: A Life of Adventures by Wilbur Smith
RRP: £10.99£7.26Wilbur Smith has lived an incredible life of adventure, and now he shares the extraordinary true stories that have inspired his fiction. I've been writing novels for over fifty years. I was lucky enough to miss the big wars and not get shot, but lucky... -
One Body by Catherine Simpson
RRP: £9.99£6.80Shortlisted in Scotland's National Book Awards By the time she reached her fifties, Catherine had experienced period pain, childbirth, and early menopause, alongside love and laughter, a career in journalism, and raising two daughters. Like many of her... -
Greene On Capri by Shirley Hazzard
RRP: £10.99£7.40When friends die, one's own credentials change: one becomes a survivor. Graham Greene has already had biographers, one of whom has served him mightily. Yet I hope that there is room for the remembrance of a friend who knew him - not wisely, perhaps, but... -
J.R.R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle Earth by Bradley J. Birzer 9781684515356
RRP: £12.99£8.18With a new introduction by the authorPeter Jackson's film version of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy - and the accompanying Rings-related paraphernalia and publicity - has played a unique role in the disemmination of Tolkien's imaginative... -
The Enchanted Places: A Childhood Memoir by Christopher Milne
RRP: £9.99£7.06Now the subject of major Disney film starring Ewan McGregor, this is Christopher Robin in his own words.Millions of readers throughout the world have grown up with the stories and verses of A. A. Milne; have envied Christopher Robin in his enchanted...