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Wilkie Collins by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £9.99£7.11Short and oddly built, with a head too big for his body, extremely short-sighted, unable to stay still, dressed in colourful clothes, Wilkie Collins looked distinctly strange. But he was none the less a charmer, befriended by the great, loved by... -
The Boy He Left Behind: A Man's Search for His Lost Father by Mark Matousek 9781958972045
RRP: £14.99£9.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781958972045Author Mark MatousekFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Monkfish Book Publishing CompanyPublisher Monkfish Book Publishing... -
Freedom from Violence and Lies: Anton Chekhov's Life and Writings by Michael C. Finke
RRP: £30.00£20.95An enlightening, nuanced, and accessible introduction to the life and work of one of the greatest writers of short fiction in history. Anton Chekhov's stories and plays endure, far beyond the Russian context, as outstanding modern literary models... -
Sybille Bedford: An Appetite for Life by Selina Hastings 9781784704377
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Hastings is one of our greatest living biographers' Simon Heffer, Daily TelegraphSybille Bedford's life contained all the grand feeling and seismic events of the twentieth century: war and peace, love and trauma, friendship and death. Her father died... -
The Force of Things: A Marriage in War and Peace by Alexander Stille 9781250043580
RRP: £28.00£18.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250043580Author Alexander StilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 219mm * 144mm *... -
Mother of the Bront s: When Maria Met Patrick - 200th Anniversary Edition by Wright, Sharon 9781399018814
RRP: £14.99£10.95The groundbreaking biography of Maria Branwell reveals a remarkable woman who has been lost in the shadows of her gifted children, Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bront . The witty, clever and intrepid Cornish lady of letters, lover of Patrick and mother of... -
I Can Give You Anything But Love by Gary Indiana 9780847846863
RRP: £17.95£13.32The long-awaited memoir from one of the most acclaimed radical writers in American literature. Described by the London Review of Books as one of the most brilliant critics writing in America today, Gary Indiana is a true radical whose caustic voice has... -
How It Feels to Be Colored Me by Zora Hurston 9781429096171
RRP: £9.95£6.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781429096171Author Zora HurstonFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint American RootsPublisher American RootsWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 170mm * 107mm * 10mm -
Alistair MacLean's War: How the Royal Navy Shaped his Bestsellers by Simmons, Mark 9781399019385
RRP: £20.00£14.29It is no coincidence that many of Alistair MacLean's most successful novels were sea stories. In 1941, he was called up after volunteering for the Royal Navy and served as Ordinary Seaman, Able Seaman, and Leading Torpedo Operator. For the majority... -
Dickens and Christmas by Lucinda Hawksley
RRP: £12.99£9.09Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Freak Kingdom: Hunter S. Thompson's Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism by Timothy Denevi
RRP: £14.99£9.80Hunter S. Thompson is best remembered today as a caricature: drug-addled, sharp-witted, and passionate; played with bowlegged aplomb by Johnny Depp; memorialized as a Doonesbury character. In all this entertainment, the true figure of Thompson has... -
Caradoc Evans: The Devil in Eden by John Harris 9781781724354
RRP: £19.99£14.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781724354Author John HarrisFormat HardbackPage Count 456Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press -
Origins of The Wheel of Time: The Legends and Mythologies that Inspired Robert Jordan by Michael Livingston 9781035004188
RRP: £12.99£9.62NOW WITH EXCLUSIVE BONUS MATERIALFrom author and scholar Michael Livingston, Origins of The Wheel of Time is an authorised exploration of the inspirations behind the acclaimed series, including the first biography of its creator, Robert Jordan. With an... -
Dante: The Story of His Life by Marco Santagata
RRP: £17.95£14.68A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year A Marginal Revolution Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year A Seminary Co-op Notable Book of the Year A Times Higher Education Book of the WeekA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearMarco Santagata's... -
J.d. Salinger: The Last Interview by David Streitfeld
RRP: £12.99£8.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612195896Author David StreitfeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
The Price of Water in Finistere by Bodil Malmsten
RRP: £15.99£11.61'In the same way as there's a partner for every person, there's a place. All you have to do is find the one that's yours among the billions that belong to someone else, you have to be awake, you have to choose.' With this conviction in mind, acclaimed... -
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 -
My Father's Fortune: A Life by Michael Frayn
RRP: £11.99£7.93'An unknown place.' This was what Michael Frayn's children called the shadowy landscape of the past from which their family had emerged. Shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards, My Father's Fortune sets out to rediscover that lost land before all trace of... -
Drink Time! by Dolores Payas 9781909657625
RRP: £8.99£6.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909657625Author Dolores PayasFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Bene Factum Publishing LtdPublisher Bene Factum Publishing Ltd -
The Russian Soul: Selections from a Writer's Diary: 2017 by Fyodor Dostoevsky
RRP: £14.99£12.55A new anthology of Dostoevsky's remarkable work 'A Writer's Diary'. A voluminous and variegated miscellany in which the celebrated author spoke to his readers about issues concerning Russia, it is a work as eerily prescient of global preoccupations in... -
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard 9780060919887
RRP: £15.99£9.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060919887Author Annie DillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 111Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Book Of My Mother by Albert Cohen
RRP: £12.99£8.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935744337Author Albert CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago BooksWeight(grams) 181g -
Wollstonecraft: Philosophy, Passion, and Politics by Sylvana Tomaselli 9780691169033
RRP: £28.00£21.36A compelling portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft that shows the intimate connections between her life and workMary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, first published in 1792, is a work of enduring relevance in women's rights advocacy... -
On the Sultan's Service: Halid Ziya Usakligil's Memoir of the Ottoman Palace, 1909-1912 by Douglas S. Brookes
RRP: £29.99£25.99"When at last we were approaching the Harem, the Sultan, surely quite alarmed, said to me in a low voice (was that so the eunuch walking in front of us wouldn't hear, or because in this lonely and dark passageway he was frightened of his own voice?), Ne... -
Maeve Binchy: The Biography by Piers Dudgeon 9781900064583
£12.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900064583Author Piers DudgeonFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Pilot Productions LtdPublisher Pilot Productions Ltd -
The Fragments of my Father: A memoir of madness, love and being a carer by Sam Mills
RRP: £9.99£6.52A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR In the vein of the Costa-winning Dadland, with the biographical elements of H is for Hawk, The Fragments of my Father is a powerful and poignant memoir about parents and... -
Andre Gorz: A Life by Willy Gianinazzi
RRP: £21.99£18.55The first and exhaustive biography of twentieth-century leftist philosopher Andre Gorz. Recognized as one of the most lucid and innovative critics of contemporary capitalism, Andre Gorz (1923-2007) was known for asking fundamental questions regarding... -
Father and Son by Edmund Gosse
RRP: £11.99£8.43'This book is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two consciences and almost two epochs.' Father and Son stands as one of English literature's seminal autobiographies. In it Edmund Gosse recounts, with humour and pathos, his childhood... -
A Writer of Our Time: The Life and Work of John Berger by Joshua Sperling 9781786637437
RRP: £11.99£7.86John Berger was one of the most influential thinkers and writers of postwar Europe. As a novelist, he won the Booker Prize in 1972, donating half his prize money to the Black Panthers; as a TV presenter he changed the way we looked at art in Ways of... -
Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag by Sigrid Nunez
RRP: £21.99£14.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594633348Author Sigrid NunezFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Hudson Street Press (an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc)Publisher Penguin Putnam... -
The Creator of the Wombles: The First Biography of Elisabeth Beresford by Kate Robertson
RRP: £25.00£15.62This is the extraordinary story of Elisabeth Beresford, creator of The Wombles, the furry, fun-loving recyclers of rubbish which became a children's publishing and television sensation in the 1970s. What drove this imaginative and prolific writer of... -
Writer's Luck: A Memoir: 1976-1991 by David Lodge
RRP: £14.99£10.95'A wonderfully candid and insightful account of a writer's life' William BoydLuck, good or bad, plays an important part in a writer's career. In 1976 Lodge was pursuing a 'twin-track career' as novelist and academic but the balancing act was... -
Dante by Alessandro Barbero
RRP: £10.99£7.77"A vital guide ... It is difficult to imagine anyone seriously interested in Dante who will not want to own this book" AN Wilson, The Times Since Dante Alighieri wrote the Divine Comedy it has defined how people imagine and depict not only heaven and... -
Quite A Good Time to be Born: A Memoir: 1935-1975 by David Lodge
RRP: £14.99£10.95'I drew my first breath on the 28th of January 1935, which was quite a good time for a future writer to be born in England...' The only child in a lower-middle-class London family, David Lodge inherited his artistic genes from his musician father and his... -
Creators: From Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney by Paul Johnson 9780060930462
RRP: £17.99£13.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060930462Author Paul JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
The Selected Letters of John Cage by John Cage 9780819575913
RRP: £29.50£24.79This selection of over five hundred letters gives us the life of John Cage with all the intelligence, wit, and inventiveness that made him such an important and groundbreaking composer and performer. The missives range from lengthy reports of his early... -
Magical Universe of William S Burroughs by Matthew Levi Stevens
RRP: £15.00£9.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906958640Author Matthew Levi StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Mandrake of OxfordPublisher Mandrake of OxfordWeight(grams) 358g -
Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume III: The Tragic Years 1939-1972 by A. David Moody
£21.94This third and final volume of A. David Moody's critical life of Ezra Pound presents Pound's personal tragedy in a tragic time. In this volume, we experience the 1939-1945 World War, and Pound's hubristic involvement in Fascist Italy's part in it; we... -
John Ashbery by Jess Cotton
RRP: £12.99£9.09Mysterious, esoteric, baffling - John Ashbery is notorious for the seeming difficulty of his work. But Ashbery is also entertaining, humorous and charming, and responsive to his shifting social and political contexts. This biography charts his emergence... -
The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 5: 1930-1931 by John Haffenden
RRP: £50.00£34.09'The book amounts to a comprehensive literary history of the time.' David Sexton, Evening StandardVolume 5 of The Letters of T. S. Eliot finds the poet, between the ages of forty-two and forty-four, reckoning with the strict implications of his Christian...