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The Book of Emma Reyes: A Memoir in Correspondence by Emma Reyes
RRP: £10.99£7.40In this startlingly original memoir, composed of twenty-three letters written over the course of thirty years, Emma Reyes describes in vivid, painterly detail the remarkable courage and limitless imagination of a young girl growing up with nothing... -
Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of B. S. Johnson by Jonathan Coe 9780330350495
RRP: £12.99£9.26In his heyday, during the 1960s and early 1970s, B. S. Johnson was one of the best-known young novelists in Britain. A passionate advocate for the avant-garde in both literature and film, he became famous -- not to say notorious -- both for his... -
Testament of Youth Vera Brittain 9781780226590
RRP: £20.00£13.75This classic memoir of the First World War is now a major motion picture starring Alicia Vikander and Kit Harington. Includes an afterword by Kate Mosse OBE.In 1914 Vera Brittain was 20, and as war was declared she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four... -
Dead Now Of Course by Phyllida Law
RRP: £12.99£8.48'My future mother-in-law burst into tears when she heard her son was to marry an actress. There's still something disturbing, I grant you, about the word "actress". If an MP or some other outstanding person plays fast and loose with an... -
Alexandria: A History and Guide by E.M. Forster
RRP: £14.99£11.17With a novelist's pen, Forster brings to life the fabled, romantic city of Alexander the Great, capital of Graeco-Roman Egypt, beacon of light and culture symbolised by the Pharos, where the doomed love affair of Antony and Cleopatra was played out and... -
Dweller in Shadows: A Life of Ivor Gurney by Kate Kennedy 9780691218557
RRP: £20.00£16.29The 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... -
Radio Congo: Signals of Hope from Africa's Deadliest War by Ben Rawlence
RRP: £10.99£8.25In this extraordinary debut - called 'gripping' by The Times of London - Ben Rawlence sets out to gather the news from a forgotten town deep in Congo's 'silent quarter' where peace is finally being built after two decades of civil war and devastation... -
The Real Roald Dahl by Nadia Cohen 9781526751768
RRP: £12.99£9.09Although his hilariously entertaining stories have touched the hearts of generations of children, there was much more to beloved author Roald Dahl than met the eye. His fascinating life began in Norway in 1916, and he became a highly rebellious teenager... -
The Durrell Log: A chronology of the life and times of Lawrence Durrell by Brewster Chamberlin
RRP: £15.50£14.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912788040Author Brewster ChamberlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Colenso BooksPublisher Colenso BooksWeight(grams) 149g -
Frances Partridge: The Biography by Anne Chisholm 9780753826997
RRP: £12.99£8.60Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Constance Villiers Stuart and the Pursuit of Paradise by Mary Ann Prior
RRP: £30.00£20.55In 1903, after a fire completely destroyed her family home in Norfolk, UK, the 27- year-old Constance helped her mother redesign their house and recreate the garden. It was an experience from which she never looked back, going on to become an... -
Hidden Wyndham: Life, Love, Letters by Amy Binns
£8.91Until now, little was known of John Wyndham. Despite his popularity, his obsessive need for privacy led to him being known as "the invisible man of science fiction". He redefined the genre with dystopian classics The Day of the Triffids and The Midwich... -
The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War by Peter Stansky 9781503635494
RRP: £10.99£8.54An incisive demonstration of how Orwell's body of work was defined by the four major conflicts that punctuated his life: World War I, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the Cold War. Few English writers wielded a pen so sharply as George Orwell,... -
The Incest Diary by Anonymous
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Raw, relentless ... Feverish' New Yorker 'This is a devastating book about harm. It's about the harm that is unleashed when one person swaps their humanity for what you can really only call evil' Sunday Times 'A controlled, exquisitely written... -
Records of Shelley, Byron and the Author by Edward John Trelawny
RRP: £12.99£9.09In February 1822 the writer and adventurer Edward John Trelawny arrived in Pisa to make the acquaintance of his heroes Shelley and Byron, leaving a broken marriage and an exotic seafaring career behind him. He became a close companion to them and their... -
Rudyard Kipling Andrew Lycett 9781474602983
RRP: £16.99£11.94Paragon of English virtues or racist imperialist? Andrew Lycett (acclaimed biographer of Ian Fleming) has returned to primary sources to tell the intricate story of a misunderstood genius who became Britain's most famous and highest earning author. Among... -
James Joyce by Edna O'Brien
RRP: £9.99£6.80One of Ireland's greatest contemporary writers turns her attention to one of the country's greatest novelists: James Joyce - in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the iconic classic ULYSSES.'As skilful, stylish and pacy as one would expect from so... -
Jane Austen: Writing, Society, Politics by Tom Keymer 9780198861904
RRP: £12.99£9.09It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. So runs one of the most famous opening lines in English literature. Setting the scene in Pride and Prejudice, it deftly introduces the... -
The Last Leopard David Gilmour 9780955010514
RRP: £13.99£9.20David Gilmour's biography of Giuseppe di Lampedusa unearths the life story of the creator of "The Leopard", one of the great novels of the twentieth century. A book whose imagery, once tasted, haunts the reader forever. "The Leopard" describes the golden... -
Release the Bats: A Pocket Guide to Writing Your Way Out Of It by DBC Pierre
RRP: £12.99£8.56A guide to writing fiction by the Booker Prize-winning author of Vernon God Little.Part biography, part reflection and part practical guide, Release the Bats explores the mysteries of why and how we tell stories, and the craft of writing fiction. DBC... -
Boyhood: Scenes from provincial life by J. M. Coetzee 9780099268277 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£6.90In Boyhood, J. M. Coetzee revisits the South Africa of half a century ago, to write about his childhood and interior life. Boyhood's young narrator grew up in a small country town. With a father he imitated but could not respect, and a mother he both... -
Boyhood: Scenes from provincial life by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: £10.99£7.77In Boyhood, J. M. Coetzee revisits the South Africa of half a century ago, to write about his childhood and interior life. Boyhood's young narrator grew up in a small country town. With a father he imitated but could not respect, and a mother he both... -
Hanging with the Elephant: A Story of Love, Loss and Meditation Michael Harding 9781444783148
RRP: £9.99£6.80'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... -
Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book by Emma Smith
RRP: £20.00£12.86Celebrating the 400th Anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare's First Folio This is the biography of a book: the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays printed in 1623 and known as the First Folio. It begins with the story of its first... -
This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing Jacqueline Winspear 9781641292948
RRP: £12.99£8.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Edgar Award Nominee 2021.Book InformationISBN 9781641292948Author Jacqueline WinspearFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Soho PressPublisher Soho Press -
Balzac by Graham Robb 9780330320153
£20.00Graham Robb has produced a masterpiece literary biography in which Balzac bursts into life on every page. The living manifestation of the colourful and varied world he described, yet at the same time its most astonishing exception, Balzac is the perfect... -
Dante: A Life in Works by Robert Hollander 9780300212594
£18.10The Divine Comedy, completed around 1320, is a supreme work of the imagination None of Dante's other works, nor even all of his other works taken together, can rival the Comedy. How did the Florentine exile come to create this masterpiece? What steps in... -
Anna of all the Russias: The Life of a Poet under Stalin Elaine Feinstein 9780753820643
RRP: £12.99£8.60Life of the Russian poet who withstood Stalinism and became an inspiration to millionsAnna Akhmatova is recognised as one of the greatest poets of Russian literature, an iconic figure who gave voice to the suffering of the Russian people during the... -
Tolstoy: A Biography by A. N. Wilson 9780393321227
RRP: £29.00£24.47In this landmark biography of Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, A. N. Wilson narrates the complex drama of the writer's life: his childhood of aristocratic privilege but emotional deprivation, his discovery of his literary genius after aimless years of... -
Georgette Heyer Biography by Jennifer Kloester
RRP: £12.99£9.09_________________________The perfect accompaniment to the definitive new editions of Georgette Heyer's celebrated novels that are currently being reissued.A remarkable biography of one of Britain's best-loved and best-selling novelists, 'the queen of... -
The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality by William Egginton
RRP: £27.00£19.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593316306Author William EggintonFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Savage Journey: Hunter S. Thompson and the Weird Road to Gonzo by Peter Richardson
RRP: £24.00£18.83A superbly crafted study of Hunter S. Thompson's literary formation, achievement, and continuing relevance. Savage Journey is a "supremely crafted" study of Hunter S. Thompson's literary formation and achievement. Focusing on Thompson's... -
The Boy Behind the Curtain: Notes From an Australian Life by Tim Winton
RRP: £8.99£6.60Eclectic and impassioned, a collection that affirms the power of the written word.' - ObserverThe Boy Behind the Curtain is a portrait of a life, a place and a man. In this deeply personal collection of true stories and essays Tim Winton shows how... -
Byron In Love by Edna O'Brien
RRP: £9.99£6.80Byron, more than any other poet, has come to personify the poet as rebel; imaginative and lawless, reaching beyond race, creed or frontier, his notorious flaws redeemed by a magnetism and ultimately a heroism that by ending in tragedy raised it and him... -
Black Boy by Richard Wright
RRP: £10.99£7.77Richard Wright's memoir of his childhood as a young black boy in the American south of the 1920s and 30s is a stark depiction of African-American life and a powerful exploration of racial tension.'A compelling indictment of life in the Deep South between... -
Ammonites and Leaping Fish: A Life in Time by Penelope Lively
RRP: £10.99£7.77'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 Berlin Shadow by Jonathan Lichtenstein
RRP: £9.99£6.41A formally audacious and deeply moving memoir in three timeframes that confronts the defining trauma of the twentieth century, and its effects on a father and son. In 1939, Jonathan Lichtenstein's father Hans escaped Nazi-occupied Berlin as a child... -
Dust Tracks On A Road by Zora Neale Hurston
RRP: £10.99£7.40With a new introduction by JESMYN WARD'Warm, witty, imaginative . . . A rich and winning book' NEW YORKER 'Devilishly funny and academically solid: delicious mixture' MAYA ANGELOU'One of the greatest writers of our time' TONI MORRISONFirst published in... -
Roald Dahl: Teller of the Unexpected by Matthew Dennison
RRP: £20.00£14.29Book of the Week on Radio 4, and in the Observer, Sunday Times, Daily Mail and The Week 'Riveting, and immaculately written' Sunday Telegraph 'A superb psychological study of a literary genius' Business Post 'A rounded picture... and gets to... -
Between Friends: Letters of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby by Elaine Showalter 9780349012285
RRP: £12.99£8.60The letters between Vera Brittain, author of Testament of Youth, and Winifred Holtby, author of South Riding, tell the story of an extraordinary friendship'Touching and inspiring' RACHEL COOKE, Observer'Lively, perceptive' MIRANDA SEYMOUR, Literary...