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The Exegesis of Philip K Dick by Philip K. Dick
RRP: $48.75$33.89Based on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, journal entries, letters, and story sketches, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick is the magnificent and imaginative final work of an author who dedicated his life to questioning the nature of... -
South and West: From A Notebook by Joan Didion
RRP: $17.53$11.74From one of the most important chroniclers of our time, come two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks - writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. ... -
Philip Roth: The Biography by Blake Bailey
$60.63'Superlative... definitive and genuinely gripping' SUNDAY TIMES'Utterly engrossing' EVENING STANDARD'Compulsively readable... Beautifully written... Definitive' OBSERVER Appointed by Philip Roth and granted complete access and independence, Blake Bailey... -
Jeoffry: The Poet's Cat by Oliver Soden 9780750995672
RRP: $33.13$25.43Jeoffry was a real cat who lived 250 years ago, confined to an asylum with Christopher Smart, one of the most visionary poets of the age. In exchange for love and companionship, Smart rewarded Jeoffry with the greatest tribute to a feline ever written... -
Unruly Times: Wordsworth and Coleridge in Their Time by A. S. Byatt
RRP: $21.43$15.15Unruly Times is a superlative portrait of the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge, and a fascinating exploration of the Romantic Movement and the dramatic events that shaped it. With a novelist's insight and eye for detail, A. S. Byatt brings... -
Ammonites and Leaping Fish: A Life in Time by Penelope Lively
RRP: $21.43$15.15'Sharp, unsentimental and ruefully funny. A fascinating portrait not only of Lively but of the times through which she has lived' Daily Telegraph'Clever and poignant . . . there is much to enjoy. This is Lively at her best' Sunday ExpressIn this... -
The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Volume 5: 1936-1941 by Virginia Woolf 9781783788781
RRP: $58.50$38.42With 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:... -
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles by Rosecrans Baldwin
RRP: $27.28$22.58America is obsessed with Los Angeles. And America has been thinking about Los Angeles all wrong, for decades, on repeat. Los Angeles is not just the place where the American dream hits the Pacific. Not just the end of the line anymore. Not just the... -
To Have and Have Another: A Hemmingway Cocktail Companion by Philip Greene
RRP: $44.85$36.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399174902Author Philip GreeneFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 1g -
Long Life: Essays and Other Writings by Mary Oliver
RRP: $25.33$16.77Poets must read and study, but also they must learn to tilt and whisper, shout, or dance, each in his or her own way, or we might just as well copy the old books. But, no, that would never do, for always the new self swimming around in the old world... -
Hanging with the Elephant: A Story of Love, Loss and Meditation by Michael Harding
RRP: $19.48$13.26'A compelling memoir. Absorbing and graced with a deceptive lightness of touch, [Hanging with the Elephant] is clever and brilliantly pieced together. Harding writes like an angel' Sunday TimesFrom the No.1 bestselling author of Staring at Lakes, Talking... -
Yevtushenko: Selected Poems by Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
RRP: $17.53$13.86This volume contains a selection of early works by Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko who blazed a trail for a generation of Soviet poets with a confident poetic voice that moves effortlessly between social and personal themes. 'Zima Junction' vividly... -
Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph by Lucasta Miller
RRP: $39.00$28.65*A BOOK TO LOOK FORWARD TO IN 2021 IN THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY MAIL, SUNDAY TIMES AND GUARDIAN*The epitaph John Keats composed for his own gravestone - 'Here lies one whose name was writ in water' - seemingly damned him to oblivion. When he died... -
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: $15.58$11.29Mary 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. ... -
Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World by Lyndall Gordon
RRP: $21.43$14.43OUTSIDERS tells the stories of five novelists - Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner, Virginia Woolf - and their famous novels.We have long known their individual greatness but in linking their creativity to their lives as outsiders,... -
Charles Dickens by Michael Slater 9780300170931
RRP: $37.03$32.33A 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... -
Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert by Brian Herbert 9781399621939
RRP: $48.75$34.50Everyone knows Frank Herbert's Dune. This science fiction epic combines politics human evolution and ecology and has captured the imagination of generations of readers. It is one of the most popular science fiction novels ever written, has won awards,... -
Becoming Superman: My Journey From Poverty to Hollywood by J. Michael Straczynski
RRP: $25.33$16.54Featuring an introduction by Neil Gaiman! "J. Michael Straczynski is, without question, one of the greatest science fiction minds of our time." -- Max Brooks (World War Z) For four decades, J. Michael Straczynski has been one of the most... -
Mrs Woolf and the Servants by Alison Light
RRP: $31.18$22.64Virginia Woolf was a feminist and a bohemian but without her servants - cooking, cleaning and keeping house - she might never have managed to write.Mrs Woolf and The Servants explores the hidden history of service. Through Virginia Woolf's extensive... -
A. A. Milne: His Life by Ann Thwaite
$37.91A.A. Milne is one of the most successful English writers ever. His heart-warming creations-Winnie-the-Pooh, Christopher Robin, Eeyore, Tigger and Piglet-have become some of the best-loved children's characters of all time, and readers the world over are... -
Fifty Forgotten Books by R. B. Russell
RRP: $25.33$17.43Fifty Forgotten Books is a very special sort of book about books, by a great bookman and for book-people of all ages and levels of experience. Not quite literary criticism, not quite an autobiography, it is at once a guided tour through the dusty... -
Owen Barfield, Romanticism Come of Age: A Biography by Simon Blaxland-de Lange
RRP: $43.88$35.82'Barfield towers above us all... the wisest and best of my unofficial teachers.' - C.S. Lewis --- 'We are well supplied with interesting writers, but Owen Barfield is not content to be merely interesting. His ambition is to set us free from the prison... -
Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves 9780241951415
RRP: $31.18$6.84'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... -
John Keats: A New Life by Nicholas Roe
RRP: $31.18$26.95An 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... -
Franz Kafka by Max Brod
RRP: $33.13$30.11Max Brod, a successful novelist, was a boyhood companion of Kafka's and remained closely tied to him until Kafka's death in 1924. He was undoubtedly the one man whom Kafka trusted more than any other, and it is to Brod, as his literary executor and... -
On Seamus Heaney by Roy Foster
RRP: $35.08$27.42A vivid and original account of one of Ireland's greatest poets by an acclaimed Irish historian and literary biographerThe most important Irish poet of the postwar era, Seamus Heaney rose to prominence as his native Northern Ireland descended into... -
The Terrible by Yrsa Daley-Ward
RRP: $19.48$13.86**WINNER of the 2019 PEN Ackerley Prize**'A major literary talent . . . speaks about the power and powerlessness that young women are subject to in a wholly fresh, clear-eyed way . . . you'll find it hard to come away from The Terrible without a stab of... -
The Little Book of Shakespeare: Timeless Wit and Wisdom by Orange Hippo
RRP: $11.68$8.58'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... -
Behind the Mask: The Life of Vita Sackville-West by Matthew Dennison 9780007486984
RRP: $25.33$17.73Aristocrat, literary celebrity, 'Rose Queen', devoted wife, lesbian, recluse, iconoclast - Vita Sackville-West was many things, but she was never straightforward. Her life is re-told here in a dazzling new biography. Vita Sackville-West was a... -
Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process by John McPhee
RRP: $23.38$18.92Draft No. 4 is a master class on the writer's craft. In a series of playful, expertly wrought essays, John McPhee shares insights he has gathered over his career and has refined while teaching at Princeton University, where he has nurtured some of the... -
My Life as a Prayer: A Multifaith Memoir by Elizabeth Cunningham 9781958972106
RRP: $27.28$18.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781958972106Author Elizabeth CunninghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Monkfish Book Publishing CompanyPublisher Monkfish Book Publishing Company -
Dreiser's Russian Diary by Theodore Dreiser
$123.53Theodore Dreiser's Russian Diary is an extended record of the American writer's travels throughout the Soviet Union in 1927-28. Dreiser was initially invited to Moscow for a week-long observance of the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution. He... -
So Long, Marianne: A Love Story by Kari Hesthamar 9781770414204
RRP: $37.03$25.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770414204Author Kari HesthamarFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada -
Russian Roulette: The Life and Times of Graham Greene by Richard Greene
RRP: $48.75$36.31Probably the greatest British novelist of his generation, Graham Greene's own story was as strange and compelling as those he told of Pinkie the Mobster, Harry Lime, or the Whisky Priest. A restless traveller, he was a witness to many of the key events... -
George Eliot by Jenny Uglow
RRP: $25.33$16.77One of the most brilliant writers of her day, George Eliot (1819-1880) was also one of the most talked about. Intellectual and independent, she had the strength to defy polite society with her highly unorthodox private life, so why did she deny her... -
Being Shelley: The Poet's Search for Himself by Ann Wroe
RRP: $33.13$23.95Four questions consumed Shelley and coloured everything he wrote. Who, or what, was he? What was his purpose? Where had he come from? And where was he going? He sought the answers in order to free and empower not only himself, but the whole human race... -
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far On Foot by John Callahan
RRP: $15.58$11.68The memoir of legendary cartoonist John Callahan, now a major motion picture directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, and Rooney Mara.Featuring more than 60 of Callahan's original cartoonsIn 1972, at the age of twenty-one, John... -
The Invention of Solitude by Paul Auster
RRP: $21.43$14.27'One day there is life . . . And then, suddenly, it happens there is death.'So begins Paul Auster's moving and personal meditation on fatherhood, The Invention of Solitude. The first section, 'Portrait of an Invisible Man', reveals Auster's memories and... -
Rimbaud by Graham Robb
RRP: $39.00$27.61Graham Robb's brilliant biography moves Rimbaud on from his perpetual adolescence where our imaginations have held him to show the extent of his transformations. From phenomenally precocious schoolboy he became Europe's most shocking and exhilarating... -
Dweller in Shadows: A Life of Ivor Gurney by Kate Kennedy
RRP: $68.25$51.38The first comprehensive biography of an extraordinary English poet and composer whose life was haunted by fighting in the First World War and, later, confinement in a mental asylumIvor Gurney (1890-1937) wrote some of the most anthologized poems of the...