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Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time by Hilary Spurling
RRP: £9.99£7.11BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 in The Sunday Times, Spectator, Mail on Sunday, Observer and Financial Times'A landmark biography' The Times, Books of the Year'One of our generation's greatest biographers' London Review of Books'Witty, spirited, richly crowded... -
My Left Foot by Christy Brown
RRP: £9.99£8.76Christy 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... -
India: A Wounded Civilization by V. S. Naipaul
RRP: £9.99£7.27The second book in V. S. Naipaul's acclaimed Indian trilogy. In 1964 V. S. Naipaul published An Area of Darkness, his semi-autobiographical account of a year in India. Two visits later, prompted by the Emergency of 1975, he came to write India: A Wounded... -
Walking The Invisible by Michael Stewart
RRP: £9.99£5.82See through the eyes of the Brontes as you immerse yourself in their lives and landscapes, wandering the very same paths they each would have walked in search of the inspiration behind their novels and poetry. An... -
Where Shall We Run To?: A Memoir by Alan Garner
RRP: £9.99£6.64A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR From one of our greatest living writers, comes a remarkable memoir of a forgotten England. 'The war went. We sang in the playground,... -
Encyclopedia Of An Ordinary Life by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400080465Author Amy Rosenthal KrouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Three Rivers PressWeight(grams) 315g -
The Year of the End: A Memoir of Marriage, Truth and Fiction by Anne Theroux 9781785787393
RRP: £12.99£8.32'A moving and absorbing account' Adam Buxton'Scorching ... a brave book' Helen Brown, Telegraph'A wise and vivid memoir of a disintegrating marriage and a study of the role of the spouse in the life of a literary giant' Fiona Sturges, i Paper18TH JANUARY... -
Virginia Woolf by Alexandra Harris 9780500297834
RRP: £12.99£8.60An accessible introduction to a writer whose work is of timeless significance and whose unconventional life is a continuous source of fascination. In 1907, when she was twenty-five and not yet a published novelist, Virginia Stephen had everything still... -
Confessions: A Life of Failed Promises by A. N. Wilson 9781472994820
RRP: £10.99£8.38When you combine the deepest learning and the highest readability with the most plumptious story-telling, the result is A. N. Wilson ... Stephen Fry Known for his journalism, biographies and novels, A. N. Wilson turns a merciless searchlight on his... -
Appointment in Arezzo: A friendship with Muriel Spark by Alan Taylor
RRP: £8.99£6.08This book is an intimate, fond and funny memoir of one of the greatest novelists of the last century. This colourful, personal, anecdotal, indiscreet and admiring memoir charts the course of Muriel Spark's life revealing her as she really was. Once, she... -
The Bronte Myth by Lucasta Miller
RRP: £12.99£9.09A fascinating and wonderfully readable deconstruction of the countless myths that have grown up around the Brontes.Since 1857, hardly a year has gone by without some sort of Bronte 'biography' appearing. These range from pious accounts in Victorian... -
Algerian White by Assia Djebar 9781583225165
RRP: £12.99£8.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583225165Author Assia DjebarFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 326g -
Siegfried Sassoon: A Biography by Max Egremont
RRP: £14.99£11.13The life of Siegfried Sassoon has been recorded and interpreted in literature and film for over half a century. He is one of the great figures of the First World War, and Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man and Memoirs of an Infantry Officer are still widely... -
A Sort Of Life by Graham Greene
RRP: £9.99£7.11Graham 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... -
Point To Point Navigation: A Memoir by Gore Vidal 9780349139104
£12.73POINT TO POINT NAVIGATION refers to a form of navigation Gore Vidal resorted to as a first mate in the navy during World War II. As he says, 'As I was writing this account of my life and times since PALIMPSEST, I felt as if I were again dealing with... -
Jane Austen's Letters by Deirdre Le Faye 9780198704492
RRP: £22.49£19.56Jane Austen's letters afford a unique insight into the daily life of the novelist: intimate and gossipy, observant and informative, they bring alive her family and friends, her surroundings and contemporary events with a freshness unparalleled in... -
Avid Reader: A Life by Robert Gottlieb 9781250141057
RRP: £13.99£13.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250141057Author Robert GottliebFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 23mm -
White Girls by Hilton Als
RRP: £10.99£7.77'I defy you to read this book and come away with a mind unchanged' John Jeremiah Sullivan'Als has a serious claim to be regarded as the next James Baldwin' Observer'I see how we are all the same, that none of us are white women or black men; rather,... -
Creators: From Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney by Paul Johnson 9780060930462
RRP: £17.99£12.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060930462Author Paul JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves 9780241951415
RRP: £15.99£3.51'There has been a lot of fighting hereabouts. The trenches have made themselves rather than been made, and run inconsequently in and out of the big thirty-foot high stacks of bricks; it is most confusing. The parapet of a trench which we don't occupy is... -
The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Volume 5: 1936-1941 by Virginia Woolf 9781783788781
RRP: £30.00£19.70With an introduction by Siri Hustvedt Friday 30 October 1936. I do not wish, for reasons I cannot now develop, to analyse that extraordinary summer. It will be more helpful & healthy for me to write scenes; to take up my pen & describe actual events:... -
Rumi's World: The Life and Work of the Great Sufi Poet by Annemarie Schimmel 9780877736110
RRP: £24.00£15.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877736110Author Annemarie SchimmelFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams) 353g -
Charles Dickens: A Very Short Introduction by Jenny Hartley 9780198714996
RRP: £8.99£6.45Charles Dickens is credited with creating some of the world's best-known fictional characters, and is widely regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian age. Even before reading the works of Dickens many people have met him already in some form or... -
Nothing to be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes
RRP: £10.99£7.77'I don't believe in God, but I miss Him.' Julian Barnes' new book is, among many things, a family memoir, an exchange with his philosopher brother, a meditation on mortality and the fear of death, a celebration of art, an argument with and about God, and... -
Samuel Johnson: A Life by David Nokes
RRP: £12.99£8.56Johnson, born weak and half-blind, shambolic and poverty-stricken, became the most admired and quoted man in the eighteenth century. Thrown out of Oxford for a lack of funds, he rose to celebrity: author of the Dictionary, a friend to the king, companion... -
The Diary of Anais Nin: Vol 4 by Anais Nin 9780156260282
RRP: £20.99£14.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156260282Author Anais NinFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books Classics -
No Archive Will Restore You by Julietta Singh 9781947447851
RRP: £19.00£14.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947447851Author Julietta SinghFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *... -
Charles Dickens by Michael Slater 9780300170931 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99£2.29A magnificent new biography of the man who gave us David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and Ebenezer Scrooge This long-awaited biography, twenty years after the last major account, uncovers Dickens the man through the profession in which he excelled. Drawing... -
Charles Dickens Michael Slater 9780300170931
RRP: £18.99£16.58A magnificent new biography of the man who gave us David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and Ebenezer Scrooge This long-awaited biography, twenty years after the last major account, uncovers Dickens the man through the profession in which he excelled. Drawing... -
Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative and Fate by Daniel Mendelsohn
RRP: £8.99£6.02Winner of the 2020 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, France's best foreign book of the year. 'Astounding' Sebastian Barry 'A masterpiece' Ayad Akhtar 'This little book is ruminative, humane, and... -
Diary by Witold Gombrowicz
£20.39A single-volume edition of Diary, Gombrowicz's acclaimed masterpiece, now with previously unpublished pages restored Just before the outbreak of World War II, young Witold Gombrowicz left his home in Poland and set sail for South America. In 1953,... -
I Remember by Joe Brainyard 9781887123488
RRP: £12.99£8.83The American artist's much-imitated memoir, described by Paul Auster as "one of the few totally original books I have ever read." Joe Brainard's I Remember is a literary and artistic cult classic, praised and admired by writers from Paul Auster to... -
Votes For Women!: The Pioneers and Heroines of Female Suffrage (from the pages of A History of Britain in 21 Women) by Jenni Murray
RRP: £7.99£5.79Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Millicent Fawcett, Emmeline Pankhurst, Constance Markievicz, Nancy Astor They terrorised the establishment. They fought for the vote. They pushed back boundaries and revolutionised our world. ... -
Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life by Howard Sounes
RRP: £12.99£8.56Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life is the classic biography of Charles Bukowski, the hard-drinking barfly whose semi-autobiographical books about low-life America made him a cult figure across the globe. Extensive original research and unique... -
Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature by Anna Beer 9780861546848
RRP: £10.99£7.38Margery Kempe. Aemilia Lanyer. Aphra Behn. Lady Mary. Jane Austen. Warned not to write - and certainly not to bite - these women put pen to paper anyway and wrote themselves into history. 'Smart, funny and highly readable... a tour de force.' A.L... -
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: £14.99£11.86Had 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... -
John Keats: A New Life by Nicholas Roe
RRP: £15.99£13.82An entirely new portrait of Keats, rich with insights into the torments of his life and the imaginative sources of his works This landmark biography of celebrated Romantic poet John Keats explodes entrenched conceptions of him as a delicate, overly... -
Swimming In A Sea Of Death: A Son's Memoir by David Rieff 9781847080752
RRP: £7.99£5.46In spring 2004, Susan Sontag was diagnosed with the incurable blood cancer. She had a huge appetite for experience, and a wild, extravagant desire to live. Rieff writes movingly about being by her side during that last year and at her death, and about... -
The Little Book of Shakespeare: Timeless Wit and Wisdom Orange Hippo! 9781800691926
RRP: £5.99£4.40'He was "not of an age, but for all time".' (Shakespeare's contemporary Ben Jonson) No writer, before or since, has matched Shakespeare in terms of influence, critical acclaim or popular success. His genius lay in his sheer dramatic skill, his powerful... -
A Year With C. S. Lewis: 365 Daily Readings from his Classic Works by C. S. Lewis 9780007532827
RRP: £10.99£7.89Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.