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Yet Being Someone Other by Sir Laurens Van Der Post 9780099429852
RRP: $31.18$22.64"Yet Being Someone Other" is the most revealing book that Laurens van der Post wrote about his extraordinary and eventful life, and the most far-reaching; it is a distillation of the experiences that have moved him at the deepest level of the imagination... -
Such a Sweet Singing: Poetry to Empower Every Woman by Kirsty Gunn
RRP: $25.33$18.15A beautiful collection of poems to nourish, inspire and change the women who read them.This transformative collection of poems by female poets through the ages sing to us across the centuries. These poems span the worlds of desire, love and friendship,... -
Poet Warrior: A Memoir by Joy Harjo 9781324022015
RRP: $25.33$22.35Joy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as US poet laureate, invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realisations of her "poet-warrior" road. A musical, kaleidoscopic and wise follow-up to Crazy Brave (ISBN 978 0 393 34543 8),... -
The Kargil Girl: An autobiography by Flight Lieutenant Gunjan Saxena (Retd.)
RRP: $17.45$15.23In 1994, twenty-year-old Gunjan Saxena boards a train to Mysore to appear for the selection process of the fourth Short Service Commission (for women) pilot course. Seventy-four weeks of back-breaking training later, she passes out of the Air Force... -
A Life of Emily Bronte by Edward Chitham 9781848684065
RRP: $42.88$31.22Biographical material on Emily Bronte is scarce. In the past, biographers have taken this as an excuse to portray intuition as fact, creating a confused and inaccurate image of the author of Wuthering Heights. In A Life of Emily Bronte, Edward Chitham... -
Where My Feet Fall: Going for a Walk in Twenty Stories by Duncan Minshull 9780008414115
RRP: $37.03$26.54The Independent Best Book for Walkers 2022 Where can a walk take you? It goes without saying, walking can connect us to our surroundings and free us from our worries. It can raise our heart rate and relax our minds. It can lead us... -
Autobibliography by Rob Doyle
RRP: $25.33$16.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800750524Author Rob DoyleFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Swift PressPublisher Swift Press -
Girl With Dove: A Life Built By Books by Sally Bayley
RRP: $21.43$14.14'The word "mesmerising" is frequently applied to memoirs, but seldom as deservedly as in the case of Girl With Dove' Financial Times 'Reading is a form of escape and an avid reader is an escape artist...' ... -
Ernest Hemingway: A Biography by Mary Dearborn
RRP: $42.90$31.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525563617Author Mary DearbornFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 794gDimensions(mm) 233mm *... -
The Abundance by Annie Dillard
RRP: $21.43$14.27Annie Dillard has spent a lifetime examining the world around her with eyes wide open, drinking in all things intensely and relentlessly. Whether observing a sublime lunar eclipse or a moth consumed in a candle flame, the trembling of lily pads on a pond... -
James Baldwin: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations by James Baldwin
RRP: $25.33$16.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612194004Author James BaldwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House PublishingWeight(grams) 134g -
Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life by Hermione Lee
RRP: $29.23$21.35Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Biography 2014Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best BiographyNew York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the YearPenelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) was a great English writer, who would never have described herself... -
Charles Dickens by Simon Callow 9780007445318
RRP: $23.38$15.33An 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... -
Hesse: The Wanderer and His Shadow by Gunnar Decker
RRP: $66.20$55.40A deftly crafted biography of the author of Siddhartha, whose critique of consumer culture continues to inspire millions of readers.Against the horrors of Nazi dictatorship and widespread disillusionment with the forces of mass culture and consumerism,... -
Crazy Brave: A Memoir by Joy Harjo 9780393345438
RRP: $25.33$21.27In this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo details her journey to becoming a poet. Born in Oklahoma, the end place of the Trail of Tears, Harjo grew up learning to dodge an abusive stepfather by finding... -
The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams by William Carlos Williams 9780811202268
RRP: $33.13$28.49William Carlos Williams's medical practice and his literary career formed an undivided life. For forty years he was a busy doctor in the town of Rutherford, New Jersey, and yet he was able to write more than thirty books. One of the finest chapters in... -
Praeterita by John Ruskin 9780192802415
RRP: $23.38$16.44'For as I look deeper into the mirror, I find myself a more curious person than I had thought.' John Ruskin (1819-1900) was a towering figure of the nineteenth century: an art critic who spoke up for J. M. W. Turner and for the art of the Italian... -
Pentimento: a Book of Portraits by Lillian Hellman 9780316352888
RRP: $42.88$29.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316352888Author Lillian HellmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Little, Brown and CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 295g -
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer 9780679428503
RRP: $58.50$36.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of YALSA Best Books for Young Adults.Book InformationISBN 9780679428503Author Jon KrakauerFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random... -
Charlotte Mew: and Her Friends by Penelope Fitzgerald
RRP: $21.43$15.15Penelope 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... -
Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays by Chelsea Hodson
RRP: $37.03$21.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250170194Author Chelsea HodsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Holt McDougalPublisher Holt McDougalWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm *... -
Hopkins: A Literary Biography by Norman White 9780198183501 [USED COPY]
RRP: $81.88$5.46`To seem the stranger lies my lot, my life/Among strangers': so begins one of the darkest and most overtly autobiographical of Hopkins's poems, written in Ireland a few years before his death. In this major new biography, more deeply researched, fully... -
Hopkins: A Literary Biography by Norman White 9780198183501
$85.12`To seem the stranger lies my lot, my life/Among strangers': so begins one of the darkest and most overtly autobiographical of Hopkins's poems, written in Ireland a few years before his death. In this major new biography, more deeply researched, fully... -
Hannah Senesh: Her Life and Diary the First Complete Edition by Hannah Senesh 9781580233422
RRP: $29.23$22.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580233422Author Hannah SeneshFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces by Michael Chabon
RRP: $17.53$11.54Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Manhood for Amateurs and Moonglow, returns with a collection of heartfelt, humorous and insightful essays on the meaning of fatherhood. ... -
John Milton: Life, Work, and Thought by Gordon Campbell
RRP: $33.13$26.01This book re-examines scrupulously the writings and the life records of John Milton, in the context of a proper understanding of the recent developments in seventeenth-century historiography. Milton's thought has often been too simply described. The... -
Osip Mandelstam: A Biography by Ralph Dutli
RRP: $48.75$39.59This is the first full-scale biography of Osip Mandelstam to combine an analysis of his poetry with a description of his personal life, from his beginnings as a young intellectual in pre-revolutionary Russia to his final fate as a victim of Stalinism.The... -
God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin by Hilton Als 9781954947092
RRP: $64.33$42.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954947092Author Hilton AlsFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Dancing Foxes PressPublisher Dancing Foxes Press -
The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws by Margaret Drabble
RRP: $21.43$14.27In The Pattern in the Carpet the award-winning and beloved writer Margaret Drabble explores her own family story alongside the history of her favourite childhood pastime - the jigsaw. The result is an original and moving personal history about... -
Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography by Stephen Knight
RRP: $46.78$37.42The only figure in the Dictionary of National Biography who is said never to have existed, Robin Hood has taken on an air of reality few historical figures achieve. His image in various guises has been put to use as a subject of ballads, nationalist... -
C. S. Lewis: A Biography by A. N. Wilson
RRP: $29.23$21.35This acclaimed biography charts the progress of the brilliant, prolific writer, C. S. Lewis. C. S. Lewis was a deeply complex man, capable of inspiring both great devotion and great hostility. This acclaimed biography charts the progress of... -
Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace by D. T. Max 9781847084958
RRP: $19.48$13.07David Foster Wallace is to contemporary literature what Kurt Cobain is to music. He died young enough for his promise and his achievements to solidify into a legend. For many, he became someone worth reading, revering, following. How had a teen tennis... -
Lit: A Memoir by Mary Karr
RRP: $25.33$17.73The long awaited sequel to the beloved and bestselling 'The Liars' Club' and 'Cherry' - a memoir about a self-professed 'blackbelt sinner's' descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness, and her astonishing resurrection. 'If you'd told... -
The Mother Knot: A Memoir by Kathryn Harrison 9780812971507
RRP: $31.20$21.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812971507Author Kathryn HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm)... -
Ernest Hemingway in the Yellowstone High Country by Christopher Miles Warren 9781606391143
RRP: $35.08$27.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606391143Author Christopher Miles WarrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Riverbend PublishingPublisher Riverbend Publishing -
Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century by Alexandra Popoff
RRP: $35.08$30.01The definitive biography of Soviet Jewish dissident writer Vasily Grossman, called "gripping" and "fascinating" by William Taubman in the New York Times "[Popoff] tells Grossman's story with sensitivity and a keen understanding of his world, drawing on... -
Marcel Proust: A Biography by George D. Painter
RRP: $37.03$27.32'No biography has ever before thrown so much light on the making of a masterpiece. ' Raymond Mortimer. 'Mr Painter has done his work so well that it is hard to speak in moderate terms of his skill and unobtrusive wit. ' Anthony Powell. 'Brilliant and... -
Me. You. A Diary: The No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller by Dawn French 9780718187569 [USED COPY]
RRP: $39.00$4.68It's the start of a new year, so why not record your thoughts alongside Dawn's warm and witty observations. It's a brilliant way to pay-attention to and remember the days you're living through . . .'Beautiful, like Dawn, and stuffed full of goodies' JO... -
Me. You. A Diary: The No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller by Dawn French
RRP: $39.00$30.07It's the start of a new year, so why not record your thoughts alongside Dawn's warm and witty observations. It's a brilliant way to pay-attention to and remember the days you're living through . . .'Beautiful, like Dawn, and stuffed full of goodies' JO... -
Wilfred Owen: On a Poet's Trail - On the Trail of the Poets of the Great War by Helen McPhail 9780850526141 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43$5.03This is a guide to the battlefields that inspired the young and sensitive poet, whose poems are probably the twentieth century's best-known literary expressions of experience of war. Detailed maps, military diaries, photographs and modern roads guide the...