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Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Travelling Through the Land of My Ancestors by Louise Erdrich
RRP: £9.99£6.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914198502Author Louise ErdrichFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books -
Love Letters: Intimate Correspondence Between Famous Lovers Andrea Clarke 9780712353519
RRP: £12.99£8.60In an age of emails, tweets and emojis, this beautiful selection of original love letters invites us into a privileged realm and reminds us why the written word is so expressive and revealing. The 30 handwritten notes included in this book span... -
Autumn in Venice: Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse by Andrea di Robilant
RRP: £9.99£5.31National Geographic Traveller's the best books on European cities, 2019In the autumn of 1948 Hemingway was approaching fifty and hadn't published a novel in nearly a decade. He travelled for the first time to Venice and there, at a duck shoot in the... -
Polymath: The Life and Professions of Dr Alex Comfort, Author of The Joy of Sex by Eric Laursen 9781849354967
RRP: £27.00£17.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849354967Author Eric LaursenFormat PaperbackPage Count 648Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press -
Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World by Lyndall Gordon
RRP: £10.99£7.40OUTSIDERS 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,... -
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir by Natasha Trethewey 9781408840207
RRP: £9.99£8.11'A meditation on race, and class, and grief ... Uplifting, but just wrenching' BARACK OBAMA ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2020 AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARD ... -
Truman Capote by George Plimpton 9780385491730
RRP: £20.00£15.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385491730Author George PlimptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 498Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing... -
Charlotte Mew: and Her Friends by Penelope Fitzgerald
RRP: £10.99£7.77Penelope Fitzgerald's fascinating portrait of the tragic poet and her life at the heart of the Bloomsbury set. Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) cut one of the most distinctive figures of the twentieth century - beloved of Siegfried Sassoon and Walter... -
Have You Been Good?: A Memoir by Vanessa Nicolson 9781783780785
RRP: £9.99£6.70Vanessa Nicolson is the granddaughter of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson. She was born to an illustrious name and an unhappy marriage. Her father, the art historian Ben Nicolson, was homosexual and his marriage to Vanessa's Italian mother fell... -
Translating Myself and Others by Jhumpa Lahiri
RRP: £17.99£14.38Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by an award-winning writer and literary translatorTranslating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on... -
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion 9781400043149
RRP: £28.00£18.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Awards. Nominated for National Book Critics Circle Awards.Book InformationISBN 9781400043149Author Joan DidionFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint... -
Anne Bronte Reimagined: A View from the Twenty-first Century Adelle Hay 9781912235643
RRP: £9.99£6.80Anne Bronte: for so long underestimated, from her own day to modern times. But why exactly has this remarkably talented and pioneering author been so overlooked? Anne's writing has often been compared harshly with that of Charlotte and Emily - as if... -
Me. You. Not a Diary: The No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller by Dawn French 9780241373705 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£1.87'A mellow, gentle read with a lot of words of wisdom' IndependentLet Dawn French guide you through the year with her witty and wise seasonal insights. __________Me You: Not A Diary is a pocket diary without the diary part. Or the pocket. It includes... -
Me. You. Not a Diary: The No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller by Dawn French
RRP: £8.99£7.07'A mellow, gentle read with a lot of words of wisdom' IndependentLet Dawn French guide you through the year with her witty and wise seasonal insights. __________Me You: Not A Diary is a pocket diary without the diary part. Or the pocket. It includes... -
Jane Austen: A Brief Life by Fiona Stafford
RRP: £11.99£10.15An elegant and accessible introduction to the life and works of one of England's greatest and most popular novelists"I want to salute Fiona Stafford's brilliant [book]. . . . It tells one all one needs to know about Jane Austen, and, best of all, leaves... -
The Snows of Yesteryear: Portraits for an Autobiography by Gregor von Rezzori
RRP: £12.99£9.09The Snows of Yesteryear (1989) is Gregor von Rezzori's haunting evocation of his childhood in Czernowitz, in present-day Ukraine. Growing up after the First World War, Rezzori portrays a twilit world suspended between the dying ways of an imperial past... -
The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn by Margaret Willes
RRP: £11.99£10.15An intimate portrait of two pivotal Restoration figures during one of the most dramatic periods of English history Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn are two of the most celebrated English diarists. They were also extraordinary men and close friends. This... -
India: A Million Mutinies Now by V. S. Naipaul
RRP: £16.99£12.47The third book in V. S. Naipaul's acclaimed Indian trilogy, with a preface by the author. India: A Million Mutinies Now is a truly perceptive work whose insights continue to inform travellers of all generations to India. Much has changed since V. S... -
Faber & Faber: The Untold Story by Toby Faber
RRP: £10.99£7.32First published to celebrate Faber's 90th anniversary, this is the story of one of the world's greatest publishing houses - a delight for all readers who are curious about the business of writing.'A striking drama.'SUNDAY TIMES'Never less than... -
Young Emma by W. H. Davies
RRP: £8.99£6.45At the age of fifty, towards the end of the First World War, W. H. Davies decided that he must marry. Spurning London society and the literary circles where he had been lionised since the publication of his Autobiography of a Super-Tramp, he set about... -
Around the World in Eighty Days (Collins Classics) by Jules Verne
RRP: £6.99£5.37HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Phileas Fogg was one of those mathematically exact people, who, never hurried and always ready, are economical of their steps and their motions. He... -
This Wide Terraqueous World by Laird Hunt 9781566896672
RRP: £12.99£10.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566896672Author Laird HuntFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Coffee House PressPublisher Coffee House Press -
Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire by Kay Redfield Jamison
RRP: £18.99£10.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Pulitzer Prize (Biography) 2018.Book InformationISBN 9780307744616Author Kay Redfield JamisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher... -
Charles Dickens by Simon Callow 9780007445318
RRP: £11.99£7.86An exuberant and entertaining biography of Charles Dickens that captures the essence of the great novelist. Simon Callow's sparkling biography explores the central importance of the theatre to the life of the greatest storyteller in the... -
Sculptor's Daughter by Tove Jansson 9780062334626
RRP: £19.99£13.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062334626Author Tove JanssonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 218g -
Wandering Through Life: A Memoir by Donna Leon 9781529153422
RRP: £16.99£12.82'As the author reaches her 9th decade [this makes] for a fascinating insight into her life and world, albeit with discretion and leaving tantalising hints at what lies beyond. One for the fans (and friends).' Crime Time'Leon's elegant, witty prose . . ... -
Flame Into Being: The Life and Work of D.H. Lawrence by Anthony Burgess
RRP: £9.99£6.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903385920Author Anthony BurgessFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo PublishersWeight(grams) 212gDimensions(mm) 197mm... -
The Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind by Ramachandra Guha 9780008422509
RRP: £20.00£13.34From one of India's finest writers, thinkers and commentators, a memoir of a love affair with cricket. As a fan, player, writer, scholar, controversialist and administrator, Ramachandra Guha has spent a life with cricket. In this... -
Passage To Juneau by Jonathan Raban 9780330346290
RRP: £12.99£9.26An entrancing travelogue from celebrated writer Jonathan Raban.First published in 1999, Passage to Juneau is an account of Raban's personal journey from Seattle to the Alaskan Capital by boat through the meandering sea route, the Inside Passage, told in... -
Virginia Woolf's Garden: The Story of the Garden at Monk's House Caroline Zoob 9781909342132
RRP: £30.00£20.40Monk's House in Sussex is the former home of Leonard and Virginia Woolf. It was bought by them in 1919 as a country retreat, somewhere they came to read, write and work in the garden. From the overgrown land behind the house they created a brilliant... -
Into the Mountain by Charlotte Peacock
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912916542Author Charlotte PeacockFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo Publishers -
A Drinkable Feast: A Cocktail Companion to 1920s Paris by Philip Greene
RRP: £14.99£11.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143133018Author Philip GreeneFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint J.P.Tarcher,U.S./Perigee Bks.,U.S.Publisher J.P.Tarcher,U.S./Perigee Bks.,U.S... -
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang: The Boom in British Thrillers from Casino Royale to The Eagle Has Landed by Mike Ripley
RRP: £14.99£4.76WINNER OF THE HRF KEATING AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION CRIME BOOK 2018An entertaining history of British thrillers from Casino Royale to The Eagle Has Landed, in which award-winning crime writer Mike Ripley reveals that, though Britain may have lost an... -
Walking Wounded: The Life and Poetry of Vernon Scannell by James Andrew Taylor 9780199603183
RRP: £28.99£21.72This uncompromising biography tells the story of a wounded D-Day veteran, a deserter, a violent drunk, a loving father who abandoned his first child, a boxer and brawler, a wife-beater, a bigamist, and a passionately romantic lover. It is also, most... -
Victor Hugo by Graham Robb 9780330371452 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.65Victor Hugo was the most important writer of the nineteenth century in France: leader of the Romantic movement, Revolutionary playwright, poet, epic novelist, author of the last universally accessible masterpieces in the European tradition, among them... -
Victor Hugo by Graham Robb 9780330371452
RRP: £20.00£14.69Victor Hugo was the most important writer of the nineteenth century in France: leader of the Romantic movement, Revolutionary playwright, poet, epic novelist, author of the last universally accessible masterpieces in the European tradition, among them... -
The Girl From Aleppo: Nujeen's Escape From War to Freedom by Nujeen Mustafa
RRP: £10.99£7.25Previously published as Nujeen The story that is inspiring the world. Read about Nujeen who escaped the hell of war in Aleppo and travelled to Europe in a wheelchair. ... -
Our Man Down in Havana: The Story Behind Graham Greene's Cold War Spy Novel by Christopher Hull
RRP: £20.00£13.26When U.S. immigration authorities deported Graham Greene from Puerto Rico in 1954, the British author made an unplanned visit to Havana and discovered that "every vice was permissible and every trade possible" in a Caribbean fleshpot of mafia-run casinos... -
Cracks in My Foundation: Bags, Trips, Make-Up Tips, Charity, Glory, and the Darker Side of the Story: Essays and Stories by Marian Keyes by Marian Keyes 9780060787035
RRP: £14.99£9.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060787035Author Marian KeyesFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era by Laurence Leamer 9780593328101
RRP: £20.00£8.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593328101Author Laurence LeamerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint G P Putnam's SonsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 211mm...