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Daphne Du Maurier by Daphne Du Maurier
RRP: £10.99£7.12The definitive biography of Daphne Du Maurier, one of history's greatest psychological thriller novelistsRebecca, published in 1938, brought its author instant international acclaim, capturing the popular imagination with its haunting atmosphere of... -
I Wanna Be Yours by John Cooper Clarke 9781509896103
RRP: £20.00£14.69This is a memoir as wry, funny, moving and vivid as its inimitable subject himself. This book will be a joy for both lifelong fans and for a whole new generation.John Cooper Clarke is a phenomenon: Poet Laureate of Punk, rock star, fashion icon, TV and... -
1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro
RRP: £14.99£9.80Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize and the Baillie Gifford 'Winner of Winners' award in 2023How did Shakespeare go from being a talented poet and playwright to become one of the greatest writers who ever lived? In this one exhilarating year we follow... -
The World of Yesterday: Memoirs of a European by Stefan Zweig
RRP: £12.99£9.09'The time provides the pictures, I merely speak the words to go with them, and it will not be so much my own story I tell as that of an entire generation - our unique generation, carrying a heavier burden of fate than almost any other in the course of... -
Lunch with the FT: 52 Classic Interviews by Lionel Barber
RRP: £14.99£10.95From the very first mouthful, 'Lunch with the FT' was destined to become a permanent fixture in the Financial Times.One thousand lunches later, the FT's weekly interview has become an institution. From film stars to politicians, tycoons to writers,... -
The Real James Herriot: The Authorized Biography by Jim Wight
RRP: £10.99£7.77Take a trip down memory lane and read about the life of Britain's most beloved vet, who charmed us all with his bestselling tales of veterinary life in Yorkshire.'A wonderful, glorious insight into the life of the man behind the books' 5***** Reader... -
The Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath 9780385493918
RRP: £14.99£9.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385493918Author Sylvia PlathFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group... -
Daily Rituals Women at Work: How Great Women Make Time, Find Inspiration, and Get to Work by Mason Currey
RRP: £12.99£8.50'That word, "vacation," makes me sweat.' Coco Chanel on taking a break'You must do it irregardless, or it will eat its way out of you.' Zora Neale Hurston on writing'One has to choose between the Life and the Project.' Susan Sontag on choosing artFrom... -
Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading by Lucy Mangan
RRP: £8.99£6.45A love letter to the joys of childhood reading from Wonderland to Narnia.When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up new worlds and cast light on all the complexities she encountered in this one.She was whisked away to Narnia -... -
Somewhere Towards The End by Diana Athill
RRP: £10.99£7.32'There is a sense throughout Athill's work that you are making a new friend as much as reading a new story... A delight to read' Observer WINNER OF THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY PRIZE, the moving and witty memoir on what it means to grow old. Written in... -
Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography by Rob Wilkins 9781529176902
RRP: £10.99£7.12WINNER OF THE 2023 LOCUS AWARD FOR NON-FICTIONWINNER OF THE BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTIONFINALIST FOR THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST RELATED WORKSHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH FANTASY AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION'Always readable,... -
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen 9780349017907
RRP: £9.99£6.4830TH ANNIVERSARY EDITIONWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR'Girl, Interrupted is a beautiful, complex story that truly led the way on opening up a new, brave, nuanced approach to talking about women's mental health. It is an intense and personal story... -
Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century by Hunter S. Thompson
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Hot damn! Let us rumble, keep going and don't slow down . . . let's have a little fun . . .'In his much-anticipated memoir, Hunter S. Thompson looks back on a long and productive life. It is a story of crazed road trips fuelled by bourbon and black... -
It's Too Late Now: The Autobiography of a Writer by A.A. Milne 9780715655047
RRP: £9.99£6.92In his classic autobiography A. A. Milne, with his characteristic self-deprecating humour, recalls a blissfully happy childhood in the company of his brothers, and writes with touching affection about the father he adored. From Westminster School he... -
Around the World in Eighty Days (Collins Classics) by Jules Verne
RRP: £6.99£5.31HarperCollins 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... -
Giving up the Ghost: A memoir by Hilary Mantel
RRP: £9.99£6.64'Like Lorna Sage's Bad Blood ... A masterpiece.' Rachel Cusk Giving Up the Ghost is the shocking and beautiful memoir, from the author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light ... -
Material Wealth: Mining the Personal Archive of Allen Ginsberg by Pat Thomas 9781648230363
RRP: £54.99£37.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648230363Author Pat ThomasFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S. -
Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars by Francesca Wade
RRP: £10.99£7.77A SUNDAY TIMES LITERARY NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARA GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (AS CHOSEN BY AUTHORS)**LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE****SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE**'Outstanding. I'll be recommending this all year.' SARAH... -
The Lighthouse Stevensons by Bella Bathurst
RRP: £9.99£6.64An exciting new edition of Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds. 'Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am not far from one of the... -
A Confession and Other Religious Writings by Leo Tolstoy 9780140444735
RRP: £10.99£7.77Describing Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, A Confession (1879) is an autobiographical work of exceptional emotional honesty. By the time he was fifty, Tolstoy had already written the novels that would assure him of... -
Vita: The Life of Vita Sackville-West by Victoria Glendinning
RRP: £15.99£12.17The Whitbread Prize-winning biography of Vita Sackville-West. Vita Sackville-West was a vital, gifted and complex woman. A dedicated writer, she made her mark as poet, novelist, biographer, travel writer, journalist and broadcaster. She was also one... -
Agatha Christie's Complete Secret Notebooks: Stories and Secrets of Murder in the Making by John Curran
RRP: £16.99£11.87Agatha Christie's Complete Secret Notebooks brings together for the first time Secret Notebooks and Murder in the Making, two volumes that explore the fascinating contents of her 73 notebooks. This includes illustrations, deleted extracts, unused ideas,... -
Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph by Lucasta Miller 9781529110906
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Outstanding... The best short introduction I have come across' Sunday TimesWhen he died at the age of just twenty-five, few imagined John Keats would one day be considered among the greatest poets of all time.Taking nine of Keats's best-known poems,... -
Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books by Hilary Mantel
RRP: £9.99£6.64A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the Light In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London... -
Thomas Hardy: The Time-torn Man by Claire Tomalin
RRP: £10.99£7.77The seminal biography of a great poet, novelist and sacred figure in English writing, Thomas Hardy, from bestselling author Clare Tomalin. 'An extraordinary story, beautifully told. Tomalin is the most empathetic of biographers' Craig Brown, Mail on... -
Dearest Father by Franz Kafka 9781847497048
RRP: £7.99£5.79Conflict between father and son is one of the oldest themes in literature, and in this open letter to his father - a letter which was never sent - Kafka tries to come to terms with one of the most deeply rooted obsessions of his troubled soul. Written as... -
The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Volume 4: 1931-1935 by Virginia Woolf 9781783788750
RRP: £30.00£19.70With an introduction by Margo Jefferson Thursday 28 May 1931. On Whit Monday the sun blazed, making the grass semi-transparent. And space & leisure seemed to lie all about; & I said, not once in an exstasy, but frequently & soberly, This is happiness... -
Levels of Life by Julian Barnes
RRP: £9.99£7.11You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed... In Levels of Life Julian Barnes gives us Nadar, the pioneer balloonist and aerial photographer; he gives us Colonel Fred Burnaby, reluctant adorer of the... -
Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes
RRP: £10.99£7.77The only autobiography by the great Roland Barthes, philosopher, literary theorist and semiotician.This is the autobiography of one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century. As idiosyncratic as its author, Barthes plays both commentator and subject... -
The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell's 1984 by Dorian Lynskey
RRP: £9.99£7.06Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionLonglisted for the Orwell Prize for Political WritingThe Ministry of Truth charts the life of George Orwell's 1984, one of the most influential books of the twentieth century and a work that is ever... -
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
RRP: £11.99£7.61A collection of insightful and uproariously funny non-fiction by the bestselling author of INFINITE JEST - one of the most acclaimed and adventurous writers of our time. A SUPPOSEDLY FUN THING... brings together Wallace's musings on a wide range of... -
Jeoffry: The Poet's Cat by Oliver Soden
RRP: £12.99£9.37Jeoffry 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... -
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon
RRP: £10.99£8.17***AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4***NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER'A gripping account of the heartbreaks and triumphs of two of history's most formidable female intellectuals, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley. Gordon has reunited mother and... -
Jane Austen: Writing, Society, Politics by Tom Keymer 9780198861904
RRP: £11.99£8.43It 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 Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
RRP: £19.99£14.20Learn about the greatest works of literature, and the lives of those who wrote them in The Literature Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Literature... -
Once Upon a Tome: The misadventures of a rare bookseller by Oliver Darkshire 9781529177121
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Peculiarly hilarious!' - William Gibson'Every page is a pleasure' - Lindsey FItzharris'Utterly charming' - Tom Holland'Laugh-out-loud' - Garth Nix'A must read' - Fergus Butler-Gallie'Brims with self-effacing charm' - Caitlin Doughty'Unfortunately I have... -
Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book by Emma Smith
RRP: £20.00£14.29Celebrating 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... -
The Green Fool by Patrick Kavanagh
RRP: £12.99£9.09My part of Ireland had a poet at one time, a poor ragged fellow whom no respectable person whom no respectable person would be seen talking to, but he left doors open as he passed. A delightful autobiographical novel from one of Ireland's best-loved... -
Back in the Day: A Memoir by Melvyn Bragg
RRP: £25.00£15.95'The best thing he's ever written . . . I loved it' ObserverMelvyn Bragg's first ever memoir - an elegiac, intimate account of growing up in post-war Cumbria, which lyrically evokes a vanished world.In this captivating memoir, Melvyn Bragg recalls... -
In the Footsteps of Du Fu by Michael Wood 9781398515444
RRP: £16.99£11.08'Superb... Beautifully written and thoroughly researched' - Guardian A beautifully illustrated travelogue, chronicling the life and work of one of the world greatest poets. Du Fu (712-70) is one of China's greatest poets. His career coincided with...