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Father & Son: A Study of Two Temperaments by Edmund Gosse 9781502508973
RRP: $13.63$12.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781502508973Author Edmund Gosse, 1849-1928Format PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
The Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind by Ramachandra Guha
RRP: $19.48$12.95From 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, Ram Guha has spent a life with cricket. In this book, Guha... -
Written Lives by Javier Marias
RRP: $25.33$17.73In these short, capricious and irreverent portraits of twenty-six great writers, from Joyce to Nabokov, Sterne to Wilde, Javier Marias, winner of the Dublin IMPAC prize and author of the bestselling A Heart So White, throws unexpected, and very human,... -
Hidden Wyndham: Life, Love, Letters by Amy Binns
$17.37Until 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... -
Red Dust Road by Jackie Kay
RRP: $21.43$15.46Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador BooksYou think adoption is a story which has an end. But the point about it is that it has no end. It keeps changing its ending.From the moment when, as a little girl, she realizes that her skin is a different colour... -
The Dark Child by Ernest Jones
RRP: $35.10$20.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809015481Author Ernest JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)... -
This Rare Spirit: A Life of Charlotte Mew by Julia Copus
RRP: $21.43$14.27The first comprehensive biography of this undervalued writer, who was considered 'far and away the best living woman poet' in her day.Andrew Motion's Spectator Book of the Year.'One of the many achievements of This Rare Spirit is its rejection of that... -
Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal by Yuval Taylor 9780393243918
RRP: $42.88$36.17Zora Neale Hurston (Their Eyes Were Watching God) and Langston Hughes ("The Negro Speaks of Rivers", "Let America Be America Again") were collaborators, literary gadflies and close companions. They travelled together in Hurston's dilapidated car through... -
John Donne: The Reformed Soul by John Stubbs 9780141017174 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.08$4.56John Stubbs's Donne: the Reformed Soul brings one of Britain's most famous poets - and famous periods in history - to life.John Donne's life story is inextricably tied up with the fabric of a society in the throes of religious persecution. His family had... -
How to Think Like Sherlock: Improve Your Powers of Observation, Memory and Deduction by Daniel Smith
RRP: $15.58$11.29'You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.'Such were the words of the master detective Sherlock Holmes to Dr Watson, as he noted how his friend failed to implement Holmes's techniques. In How to Think Like Sherlock you will learn how to... -
The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn by Margaret Willes
RRP: $23.38$19.79An 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... -
Love from Boy: Roald Dahl's Letters to his Mother by Donald Sturrock 9781444786286 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43$4.70'Dear Mama, I am having a lovely time here. We play football every day here. The beds have no springs . . .'So begins the first letter that a nine-year-old Roald Dahl penned to his mother, Sofie Magdalene, under the watchful eye of his boarding-school... -
Love from Boy: Roald Dahl's Letters to his Mother by Donald Sturrock
RRP: $21.43$14.43'Dear Mama, I am having a lovely time here. We play football every day here. The beds have no springs . . .'So begins the first letter that a nine-year-old Roald Dahl penned to his mother, Sofie Magdalene, under the watchful eye of his boarding-school... -
Selected Letters by Horace Walpole
RRP: $33.13$24.73Author of the first gothic novel and son of the first prime minister of Great Britain, Horace Walpole had wide-ranging interests that included literature, politics, world affairs, collecting, antiquities, and architecture, and to his numerous... -
Diaries and Selected Letters by Mikhail Bulgakov
RRP: $19.48$13.86The career of Mikhail Bulgakov, the author of Master and Margarita - now regarded as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century literature - was characterized by a constant and largely unsuccessful struggle against state censorship. This suppression... -
Shakespeare’s House: A Window onto his Life and Legacy by Professor Richard Schoch 9781350409354
RRP: $48.75$36.82In the wide realm of Shakespeare worship, the house in Stratford-upon-Avon where William Shakespeare was born in 1564 - known colloquially as the 'Birthplace' - remains the chief shrine. It's not as romantic as Anne Hathaway's thatched cottage, it's not... -
Astrid Lindgren: The Woman Behind Pippi Longstocking by Jens Andersen
RRP: $53.63$45.42A powerful biography of the internationally renowned writer who created one of the most enduring characters in children's literature, Pippi Longstocking"[An] Insightful, elegantly written biography of the beloved author of the Pippi Longstocking tales, a... -
John Donne: In the Shadow of Religion by Andrew Hadfield
RRP: $35.00$25.19John Donne: In the Shadow of Religion explores the life of one of the most significant figures of the English Renaissance. The book not only provides an overview of Donne's life and work, but connects his writing and thinking to the ideas, institutions... -
Letters To Sartre by Simone de Beauvoir
RRP: $29.23$21.35In 1983 de Beauvoir published Sartre's letters, maintaining that her own to him had been lost. They were found by de Beauvoir's adopted daughter, and published to a storm of controversy in France. Tracing the emotional and triangular complications of her... -
The Road to Middlemarch: My Life with George Eliot by Rebecca Mead 9781847085160
RRP: $19.48$13.07At the age of seventeen, Rebecca Mead read Middlemarch for the first time, and has read it again every five years since, each time interpreting and discovering it anew. In The Road to Middlemarch she writes passionately about her relationship to this... -
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell 9781529032703
RRP: $21.43$15.46Down and Out in Paris and London was George Orwell's first published book. It is at once a very personal account, and a vivid expose of hard lives weighed down by poverty in France and England between the wars.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a... -
The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 3: 1926-1927 by T. S. Eliot
RRP: $78.00$53.98In the period covered by this richly detailed collection, which brings the poet to the age of forty, T.S. Eliot was to set a new course for his life and work. Forsaking the Unitarianism of his American forebears, he was received into the Church of... -
The Life and Loves of E. Nesbit: Author of The Railway Children by Eleanor Fitzsimons
RRP: $39.00$27.71A SUNDAY TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Winner of the Rubery Book Award 2020 (Non Fiction) Edith Nesbit is considered the inventor of the children's adventure story and her brilliant children's books influenced bestselling authors including C.S... -
The Journals by John Cheever
RRP: $25.33$17.73John Cheever's journals reveal the inner life of this remarkable writer and the contradictions that drove him. He loved his wife and their children, but was acutely lonely; he loved women, but he also loved men; he hated himself for his drinking, but for... -
Apricots on the Nile: A Memoir with Recipes by Colette Rossant 9780747558163 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.33$4.08In 1937, five-year-old Colette Rossant arrived in Cairo from Paris with her Egyptian Jewish father and beautiful French mother. When her father dies Colette's flighty mother abandons the little girl to her wealthy grandparents. She soon settles into... -
Apricots on the Nile: A Memoir with Recipes by Colette Rossant
RRP: $25.33$17.73In 1937, five-year-old Colette Rossant arrived in Cairo from Paris with her Egyptian Jewish father and beautiful French mother. When her father dies Colette's flighty mother abandons the little girl to her wealthy grandparents. She soon settles into... -
The High Sierra: A Love Story by Kim Stanley Robinson
RRP: $68.25$45.69Kim Stanley Robinson first ventured into the Sierra Nevada mountains during the summer of 1973. He returned from that encounter a changed man, awed by a landscape that made him feel as if he were simultaneously strolling through an art museum and... -
The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe by Colm Toibin 9780330373579
RRP: $21.43$15.46Between 1990 and 1994, Colm Toibin made a series of trips through Catholic Europe. His journey led him into close contact with people from all walks of life, from priests to politicians, from the intellectually open to the spiritually bigoted. He then... -
The Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind by Ramachandra Guha 9780008422509
RRP: $39.00$26.01From 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... -
The Scent of Flowers at Night: a stunning new work of non-fiction from the bestselling author of Lullaby by Leïla Slimani
RRP: $29.23$26.23'A revelation' KATY HESSEL'Brilliant' OBSERVEROver one night, alone in the Punta della Dogana Museum in Venice, Leila Slimani grapples with the self as it is revealed in solitude. In a place of old and new, she confronts her past and her present, through... -
The Sea View Has Me Again: Uwe Johnson in Sheerness by Patrick Wright
RRP: $48.75$33.89The story of Uwe Johnson, one of Germany's greatest and most-influential post-war writers, and how he came to live and work in Sheerness, Kent in the 1970s. In 1974, a strange man called "Charles" arrived in the small town of Sheerness on the Isle of... -
Decadent Women: Yellow Book Lives by Jad Adams 9781789147896
RRP: $39.00$28.65During the 1890s, British women for the first time began to leave their family homes to seek work, accommodation, and financial and sexual freedom. Decadent Women is an account of some of these women who wrote for the innovative art and literary journal... -
Victor Hugo by Bradley Stephens 9781789140842
RRP: $25.33$17.73Victor Hugo (1802-85) is an icon of French culture. He achieved immense success as a poet, dramatist, and novelist, and he was also elected to both houses of the French Parliament. Leading the Romantic campaign against artistic tradition and defying the... -
The Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power by David Shields
RRP: $35.00$25.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814255193Author David ShieldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)... -
Meet Me in Buenos Aires by Marlene Hobsbawm
RRP: $25.33$16.77At the time of his death Eric Hobsbawm was the most famous historian in the world. He not only wrote history was also witness to it, from the Communist uprising in Europe to revolution in Cuba where he was Che Guevara's interpreter. He was instrumental... -
Anais Nin: A Sea of Lies by Leonie Bischoff
RRP: $58.48$38.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683967590Author Leonie BischoffFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics -
Beginning Again: an Autobiography of the Years 1911 to 1918 by Leonard Woolf 9780156116800
RRP: $42.90$31.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156116800Author Leonard Sidney WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 263Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner Books -
Written in Water: Keats's final Journey by Alessandro Gallenzi
RRP: $33.13$22.76On 17th September 1820, accompanied by his friend Joseph Severn, John Keats left London for Italy on board the Maria Crowther in a desperate bid to restore his health. Anguished at the thought of having to part, possibly for ever, from his fiancee and... -
Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History by Benjamin Balint
RRP: $46.78$39.99The twentieth-century artist Bruno Schulz was born an Austrian, lived as a Pole and died a Jew. First a citizen of the Habsburg monarchy, he would, without moving, become the subject of the West Ukrainian People's Republic, the Second Polish Republic,... -
Kafka: The Decisive Years by Reiner Stach
RRP: $42.90$34.63This is the acclaimed central volume of the definitive biography of Franz Kafka. Reiner Stach spent more than a decade working with over four thousand pages of journals, letters, and literary fragments, many never before available, to re-create the...