Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Dreaming of Rose: A Biographer's Journal by Sarah LeFanu
RRP: $27.28$18.06In 2003 the former Women's Press editor and critic Sarah LeFanu published her acclaimed biography of Rose Macaulay with Virago Press. 'A magnificent job ... imaginative and thoughtful, dense with distilled information ... LeFanu offers a skilled,... -
Charles Dickens and his Circle by Lucinda Hawksley
$11.97'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
$18.76This 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... -
All What Jazz: A Record Diary 1961 - 1971 by Philip Larkin 9780571134762
RRP: $29.23$19.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.All What Jazz: A Record Diary 1961 - 1971 gathers Philip Larkin's elegant, witty and penetrating reviews and responses to an enormous range of jazz and other records.About the... -
Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All That (1895-1929) by Jean Moorcroft Wilson
RRP: $48.75$35.14Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All That casts new light on the life, prose and poetry of Graves, without which the story of Great War poetry is incomplete. The writer and poet Robert Graves suppressed virtually all of the poems he... -
September 1, 1939: A Biography of a Poem by Ian Sansom 9780007557233
RRP: $21.43$15.15This is a book about a poet, about a poem, about a city, and about a world at a point of change. More than a work of literary criticism or literary biography, it is a record of why and how we create and respond to great poetry. This is a book... -
William S. Burroughs: A Life by Barry Miles
RRP: $33.13$23.28Authoritative biography of cult writer and author of NAKED LUNCH, William Burroughs (1914-1997).It has been 50 years since Norman Mailer asserted, 'I think that William Burroughs is the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed... -
Bird Cloud: A Memoir of Place by Annie Proulx 9780743288811
RRP: $33.15$22.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743288811Author Annie ProulxFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 213mm *... -
September 1, 1939: A Biography of a Poem by Ian Sansom
RRP: $33.13$18.27This is a book about a poet, about a poem, about a city, and about a world at a point of change. More than a work of literary criticism or literary biography, it is a record of why and how we create and respond to great poetry. This is a book... -
Will by Will Self 9780141046402
RRP: $19.48$13.86'Darkly angelic prose... a joy to read, with the final part in particular recalling David Foster Wallace at his best' Alex Preston, Observer ________________________________ Will's mother's hokey homily, Waste not, want not... hisses in his ears as he... -
The Book of Emma Reyes: A Memoir in Correspondence by Emma Reyes
RRP: $21.43$14.43In 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... -
black girl, no magic: essays and reflections on living whilst black by Kimberly McIntosh
RRP: $33.13$21.98'This book is a glowing achievement by one of the best essayists of her generation' Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff 'Witty, fresh and full of life' Liv Little 'I can't... -
The Polymath: A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag by Peter Burke
RRP: $23.38$19.79From Leonardo Da Vinci to Oliver Sacks: the first history of the western polymath, from the Renaissance to the present"An absorbing group portrait and intellectual history."-Kirkus Reviews"An admirable mixture of industry and erudition."-Robert Wilson,... -
Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
RRP: $39.00$26.81This 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... -
Traces of Enayat by Iman Mersal 9781913505721
RRP: $25.33$17.43When Iman Mersal stumbles upon a great - yet forgotten - novel written by Enayat al-Zayyat, a young woman who killed herself in 1963, four years before her book was published, Mersal begins to research the writer. She tracks down Enayat's best friend,... -
Records of Shelley, Byron and the Author by Edward John Trelawny
RRP: $25.33$17.73In 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... -
The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War by Michael Gorra
RRP: $36.95$24.24Michael Gorra asks provocative questions in this historic portrait of William Faulkner and his world. He explores whether William Faulkner should still be read in this new century and asks what his works tell us about the legacy of slavery and the... -
Radio Congo: Signals of Hope from Africa's Deadliest War by Ben Rawlence
$16.09In 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: $25.33$17.73Although 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... -
Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World by Lyndall Gordon 9780349006338
RRP: $39.00$23.50Outsiders 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,... -
Voltaire in Love by Nancy Mitford
RRP: $19.48$13.86The meeting of Voltaire, successful financier, famous poet and troublemaker, and the enchanting amateur physicist and countess Emilie du Chatelet, was a meeting of both hearts and minds. In the Chateau de Cirey, the two brilliant intellects scandalised... -
You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin by Rachel Corbett 9780393354928
RRP: $27.28$23.89In Paris in 1902, Auguste Rodin had just completed The Thinker; visiting from Prague was Rainer Maria Rilke, broke and with writer's block. When Rilke was commissioned to write a book about Rodin, everything changed. You Must Change Your Life tells one... -
Constance Villiers Stuart and the Pursuit of Paradise by Mary Ann Prior
$40.07In 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... -
The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War by Peter Stansky 9781503635494
RRP: $23.38$17.10An 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,... -
Rudyard Kipling by Andrew Lycett
RRP: $33.13$23.28Paragon 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: $19.48$13.26One 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... -
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway 9780099285045
RRP: $19.48$13.86Hemingway's captivating memoir of living in Paris during the twenties.'If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast'Hemingway's memories of... -
The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography by Edmund Gordon
RRP: $25.33$17.73WINNER OF THE SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD NBCC AWARD FINALIST WINNER OF THE 2017 SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in The Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Financial Times, Spectator and ObserverAngela... -
The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 1: 1898-1922 by T. S. Eliot
RRP: $68.25$47.64Volume One of the Letters of T. S. Eliot, edited by Valerie Eliot in 1988, covered the period from Eliot's childhood in St Louis, Missouri, to the end of 1922, by which time he had settled in England, married and published The Waste Land. Since 1988,... -
Jan Morris: life from both sides by Paul Clements 9781914484773
RRP: $25.33$16.69'A marvel of clarity, fluency, and (Morris's favourite word in her final days) kindness.' The Sunday Times The first full account of the remarkable life of Jan Morris: writer, soldier, traveller, and trans pioneer. Jan Morris is widely considered one... -
This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing by Jacqueline Winspear 9781641292948
RRP: $25.33$16.93Apologies 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 -
Journey Through a Small Planet by Emanuel Litvinoff
RRP: $19.48$13.86In Journey Through a Small Planet (1972), the writer Emanuel Litvinoff recalls his working-class Jewish childhood in the East End of London: a small cluster of streets right next to the city, but worlds apart in culture and spirit. With vivid intensity... -
What's Not to Love?: The Adventures of a Mildly Perverted Young Writer by Jonathan Ames 9780375726491
RRP: $37.05$26.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375726491Author Jonathan AmesFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
The Boy Behind the Curtain: Notes From an Australian Life by Tim Winton
$12.87Eclectic 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... -
Roald Dahl: Teller of the Unexpected by Matthew Dennison
RRP: $39.00$27.87Book 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... -
Emily Dickinson's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Iconic Poet by Marta McDowell 9781604698220
RRP: $37.03$25.64"A visual treat as well as a literary one...for gardeners and garden lovers, connoisseurs of botanical illustration, and those who seek a deeper understanding of the life and work of Emily Dickinson." -The Wall Street Journal Emily Dickinson was a keen... -
Black Boy by Richard Wright
RRP: $21.43$15.15Richard 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... -
A Life in Letters by Anton Chekhov
RRP: $37.03$26.54From the teenager in provincial Russia in 1875 to his premature death in Germany in 1904, Chekhov wrote over 4,500 letters to a range of correspondents, including family and friends, his publisher and fellow writers - not to mention actresses. These... -
Vita Nuova: A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text by Dante Alighieri
RRP: $19.48$15.27A totally unique poetic treatise, La Vita Nuova is an elaborately and symbolically patterned selection of Dante's early poems, interspersed with his own incisive prose commentary.The poems themselves tell the story of his undying love for Beatrice, from... -
The Real Kenneth Grahame: The Tragedy Behind The Wind in the Willows by Galvin, Elisabeth 9781526748805
RRP: $39.00$27.87He wrote one of the most quintessentially English books, yet Kenneth Grahame (1859 -1932) was a Scot. He was four years old when his mother died and his father became an alcoholic, so Kenneth grew up with his grandmother who lived on the banks of the...