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Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou 9781400066124
RRP: $50.70$30.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of NAACP Literary Non-Fiction Award 2009.Book InformationISBN 9781400066124Author Maya AngelouFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random... -
Leitrim Observed: A Biography of John McGahern by Aubrey Malone
$39.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899750603Author Aubrey MaloneFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Aureus PublishingPublisher Aureus Publishing -
Daphne du Maurier and her Sisters by Jane Dunn
$7.37 - $13.88Celebrated novelist Daphne Du Maurier and her sisters, eclipsed by her fame, are revealed in all their surprising complexity in this riveting new biography. The middle sister in a famous artistic dynasty, Daphne du Maurier is one of the master... -
Friends and Enemies: A Memoir by Barbara Amiel
$7.37 - $14.64Included in The Times and Daily Telegraph Book of the Year round-ups'Friends and Enemies is an extraordinary read showing unflinching candour from a truly remarkable woman' Elton John'Blistering . . . shockingly candid . . . stiletto-sharp memoir of the... -
Lost Island: Plus three stories and an afterword by Barbara Newhall Follett 9780996243148
RRP: $42.80$32.80Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
So They Call You Pisher!: A Memoir by Michael Rosen 9781786633996
$7.37 - $40.83"If you didn't know whether to risk doing something, what's the worst that could happen? 'So they call you pisher!'"In this humorous and moving memoir, Michael Rosen recalls the first twenty-three years of his life. Born in the North London suburbs, his... -
Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World by Leo Damrosch
RRP: $29.23$26.19From a master biographer and leading scholar of eighteenth-century literature comes an award-winning new portrait of the greatest satirist in the English language Jonathan Swift is best remembered today as the author of Gulliver's Travels, the satiric... -
The Fairy Tale Girl by Susan Branch
RRP: $56.45$40.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996044011Author Susan BranchFormat HardbackImprint Spring Street PublishingPublisher Spring Street PublishingWeight(grams) 839gDimensions(mm) 235mm *... -
Orwell: The Life by D. J. Taylor
$7.37 - $21.35Orwell has become one of the most potent and symbolic figures in western political thought. Even the adjective 'Orwellian' is now a byword for a particular way of thinking about life, literature and language yet, despite this iconic status, the man who... -
The Illustrated letters of Oscar Wilde: A Life in Letters, Writings and Wit by Juliet Gardiner
RRP: $33.13$23.54"I don't regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do anything one does. I lived on honeycomb." Oscar Wilde Although it is over 120 years since his infamous trial for indecency, Oscar Wilde has never held... -
Shute: The engineer who became a prince of storytellers by Richard Thorn
RRP: $21.43$15.15Nevil Shute was a writer whose books were frequently looked down on by literary critics and yet when he died in 1960 he was one of the best selling novelists of his day. Today, books such as A Town Like Alice and On the Beach continue to attract new... -
Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour by Gustave Flaubert
RRP: $17.53$12.58At once a classic of travel literature and a penetrating portrait of a "sensibility on tour," Flaubert in Egypt wonderfully captures the young writer's impressions during his 1849 voyages. Using diaries, letters, travel notes, and the evidence of... -
The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street by Charles Nicholl
$6.61 - $17.73In 1612 Shakespeare gave evidence at the Court of Requests in Westminster - it is the only occasion his spoken words are recorded. The case seems routine - a dispute over an unpaid marriage-dowry - but it opens up an unexpected window into the... -
George MacDonald by C. S. Lewis
RRP: $19.48$14.02An 365-day anthology of readings from one of the most influential writers of all time, George MacDonald, compiled by CS Lewis himself. MacDonald was a major Christian writer of the late nineteenth, early twentieth centuries. He influenced... -
The Disappearance of Emile Zola: Love, Literature and the Dreyfus Case by Michael Rosen 9780571312023
RRP: $25.33$16.69Pronounced guilty of libel and sentenced to a year in prison, novelist Emile Zola went on the run. Zola's crime had been to defend a wrongly convicted man, in what became known as the Dreyfus Affair. Fleeing the French state with just hours to spare he... -
The Museum Makers: From Old Boxes of Dark Family Secrets to a Golden Era of Museums by Rachel Morris 9781912836826
RRP: $19.48$13.38Part memoir, part detective story, part untold history of museums - this is a fascinating and moving family story. Museum expert Rachel Morris had been ignoring the boxes under her bed for decades. When she finally opened them, an entire bohemian family... -
After Kathy Acker: A Biography by Chris Kraus
RRP: $21.43$15.15Rich girl, street punk, lost girl and icon ... scholar, stripper, victim and media-whore: The late Kathy Acker's legend and writings are wrapped in mythologies, created mostly by Acker herself. In this first, fully authorized biography, Kraus approaches... -
Octavia E. Butler by Gerry Canavan
RRP: $37.03$31.90"I began writing about power because I had so little," Octavia E. Butler once said. Butler's life as an African American woman--an alien in American society and among science fiction writers--informed the powerful works that earned her an ardent... -
W. H. Davies - The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp: "Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink" by W H Davies 9781787373877
RRP: $19.97$16.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787373877Author W H DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Word to the WisePublisher Word to the WiseWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Instead of a Letter by Diana Athill
RRP: $19.48$13.07Despite her family's ailing finances, Diana Athill's childhood - spent in a lovely house in Norfolk - was blissful. In 1932, she fell in love with Paul: an undergraduate who tutored her younger brother. Within several years, she had moved to Oxford to... -
Bowen's Court & Seven Winters by Elizabeth Bowen
RRP: $25.33$17.73Bowen's Court describes the history of one Anglo-Irish family in County Cork from the Cromwellian settlement until 1959, when Elizabeth Bowen was forced to sell the family house she loved. Bowen reviews ten generations of her family, representatives of... -
Tove Jansson Life, Art, Words: The Authorised Biography by Boel Westin
RRP: $33.13$22.39The Finnish-Swedish writer and artist Tove Jansson achieved worldwide fame as the creator of the Moomin stories, written between 1945 and 1970 and still in print in more than twenty languages. However, the Moomins were only a part of her prodigious... -
A Writer's Diary: Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolf by Virginia Woolf
RRP: $33.05$28.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156027915Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams)... -
The Golden Page: Adventures in the Literary Jungle 1978-93 by John Walsh
$8.87 - $28.59Something extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. In the space of eight years, a generation of young British writers took the literary novel into new realms of setting, subject matter and style, challenging - and almost eclipsing -... -
Young Eliot: From St Louis to The Waste Land by Robert Crawford 9780099554950
RRP: $33.13$23.95Published simultaneously in Britain and America to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of T. S. Eliot, this major biography traces the life of the twentieth century's most important poet from his childhood in the ragtime city of St Louis right up... -
The Imperfect Life of T. S. Eliot by Lyndall Gordon
RRP: $29.23$21.35T. S. Eliot once spoke of a lifetime burning in every moment. He had the mind to conceive a perfect life, and he also had the honesty to admit he could not meet it.'He was a man of extremes whose deep flaws and high virtues were interfused,' writes... -
Agatha Christie: A biography by Janet Morgan
$12.40 - $16.54Janet Morgan's definitive and authorised biography of Agatha Christie, with a new retrospective foreword by the author. Agatha Christie (1890-1976), the world's bestselling author, is a public institution. Her creations, Hercule Poirot and... -
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott by Sir Walter Scott
RRP: $39.00$27.03"I have all my life regretted that I did not keep a regular (journal). I have myself lost recollection of much that was interesting and I have deprived my family and the public of some curious information by not carrying this resolution into effect."... -
James Joyce by Richard Ellmann
RRP: $56.53$41.50Richard Ellmann has revised and expanded his definitive work on Joyce's life to include newly discovered primary material, including details of a failed love affair, a limerick about Samuel Beckett, a dream notebook, previously unknown letters, and much... -
Biographical and Autobiographical Writings by Leon Battista Alberti 9780674292680
RRP: $58.40$45.22A fresh English translation of five Alberti works that illuminate new aspects of the literary aims and development of the first "Renaissance man."Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was one of the most famous figures of the Italian Renaissance. His... -
Hope Against Hope by Nadezhda Mandelstam 9781841594125
RRP: $37.03$27.32A harrowing yet uplifting account of Stalin's persecution of the Russian intelligentsia in the 1930s, and of one man - Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938), whose poetry, in spite of the unfolding tragedy of his life, preserved its unique creative gaiety... -
The Landscapes of Anne of Green Gables: The Enchanting Island that Inspired L.M. Montgomery by Catherine Reid
RRP: $37.03$26.81One of Smithsonian magazine's Best Books About Travel of 2018The Landscapes of Anne of Green Gables explores L. M. Montgomery's deep connection to the landscapes of Prince Edward Island that inspired her to write the beloved Anne of Green Gables series... -
True At First Light by Ernest Hemingway 9780099282129
$5.73 - $7.64The book opens on the day Hemingway's close friend Pop, a legendary hunter, leaves him in charge of the camp. Tensions have heightened among the various tribes and news arrives of a potential attack on the hunters, forcing Hemingway not only to take on... -
Permanent Midnight: A Memoir by Jerry Stahl 9781942600053
$35.53Jerry Stahl's seminal memoir of drug addiction and a career in Hollywood, Permanent Midnight is a classic along the lines of Hubert Selby, Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn. Illuminating the self-loathing and self-destruction of an addict's inner life,... -
The Pamphlets of Lewis Carroll: Games, Puzzles, and Related Pieces by Lewis Carroll 9780930326029
RRP: $124.80$101.81Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, ""Lewis Carroll,"" was not only the author of the beloved Alice tales but an inveterate and talented creator of puzzles and games in both the recreational mathematics and wordplay fields. Collected together for the first time in... -
Peel Me a Lotus by Charmian Clift
RRP: $27.28$17.94In 1951 the Australian writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston left grey, post-war London for Greece. Settling first on the tiny island of Kalymnos, then Hydra, their plan was to live simply and focus on their writing The result is Charmian Clift's... -
Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir by Marina Warner
RRP: $33.13$22.37A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. 'Wonderful - a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination' JENNY UGLOW Inventory of a Life... -
Charles Dickens and his Circle by Lucinda Hawksley
$11.60'When I was at primary school, my teacher asked if any of us had heard of Charles Dickens. I was amazed she knew his name, because, until that moment, I had only known him as one of my ancestors.' - Lucinda Hawksley Those who had known Charles Dickens as... -
A Thousand Laurie Lees: The Centenary Celebration of a Man and a Valley by Adam Horovitz
RRP: $25.33$18.27This is not a book about Laurie Lee, still less a biography. It is about the spirit of the man and the spirit of a place. A Thousand Laurie Lees is a poetic reassessment of the Slad Valley, a memoir from a different age rooted in the same idyllic... -
The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age by Leo Damrosch
RRP: $25.33$22.35The story of the group of extraordinary eighteenth-century writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavernNamed one of the 10 Best Books of 2019 by the New York Times Book Review * A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019 * A Kirkus...