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George Mackay Brown by Maggie Fergusson 9780719566059 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.33$4.93George Mackay Brown was one of Scotland's greatest twentieth-century writers, but in person a bundle of paradoxes. He had a wide international reputation, but hardly left his native Orkney. A prolific poet, admired by such fellow poets as Seamus... -
George Mackay Brown by Maggie Fergusson
RRP: $25.33$16.77George Mackay Brown was one of Scotland's greatest twentieth-century writers, but in person a bundle of paradoxes. He had a wide international reputation, but hardly left his native Orkney. A prolific poet, admired by such fellow poets as Seamus... -
Writing Home by Polly Devlin
RRP: $21.43$13.65In the pieces brought together in Writing Home, Polly Devlin OBE, most bewitching of writers, covers subjects that range over her whole life and thought. She writes about places: about her childhood deep in the countryside of Northern Ireland (where, in... -
The Quest for Corvo: An Experiment in Biography by A. J. A. Symons
RRP: $25.33$17.73'What had happened to the lost manuscripts, what train of chances took Rolfe to his death in Venice? The Quest continued'One summer afternoon A.J.A. Symons is handed a peculiar, eccentric novel that he cannot forget and, captivated by this unknown... -
Memoirs Of An Anti-Semite by Gregor von Rezzori
RRP: $25.33$16.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590172469Author Gregor Von RezzoriFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Chapters of Accidents: A Writer's Memoir by Alexander Baron 9781803710297
RRP: $33.05$32.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803710297Author Alexander BaronFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd -
Enemies of Promise by Cyril Connolly 9780226115047
RRP: $37.05$32.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226115047Author Cyril ConnollyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher University of Chicago PressWeight(grams)... -
Becoming Kerouac: A Writer in His Time by Paul Maher, Jr. 9781589796874
RRP: $58.50$41.63Jack Kerouac was one of America's great writers of the latter half of the 20th century, yet he endured a life characterized by persistent hardship and disillusion. Leading Kerouac scholar Paul Maher Jr. targets the writer's embattled insight of self as... -
Sun King's Counsellor, Cecil Harwood: A Documentary Biography by Simon Blaxland-de Lange 9781912230716 [USED COPY]
RRP: $39.00$23.22'He [Harwood] is the sole Horatio known to me in this age of Hamlets...' - C. S. Lewis, from Surprised by Joy --- Cecil Harwood (1898-1975) - lecturer, Waldorf teacher, writer, editor and anthroposophist - pioneered and developed the first Rudolf... -
Ezra Pound: Poet: I: The Young Genius 1885-1920 by A. David Moody
RRP: $33.13$24.73This first volume of what will be a full-scale portrait presents Ezra Pound as a very determined and energetic young genius setting out to make his way both as a poet and as a force for civilization in England and America in the years before, during and... -
At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others by Sarah Bakewell 9781590518892
RRP: $38.90$32.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Kirkus Prize (Nonfiction) 2016.Book InformationISBN 9781590518892Author Sarah BakewellFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other... -
Ian Fleming's War: The Inspiration for 007 by Mark Simmons
RRP: $39.00$30.11In 1953, Ian Fleming's literary sensation James Bond emerged onto the world's stage. Nearly seven decades later, he has become a multi-billion-pound film franchise, now equipped with all the gizmos of the modern world. Yet Fleming's creation, who battled... -
The Boy With No Shoes: A Memoir by William Horwood
RRP: $21.43$14.43Five-year-old Jimmy Rova is the unwanted child of a mother who rejects him, and whose other children bully him. The one thing he can call his own is a pair of shoes, a present from the only person he feels has ever loved him. When they are cruelly taken... -
Curriculum Vitae: A Volume of Autobiography by Muriel Spark 9781847771025
RRP: $25.33$17.43Muriel Spark in the autobiography traces how one of the great modern writers in English emerged. Beginning with luminous evocations of a 1920s childhood in Edinburgh and memories of school, taught by the original Miss Jean Brodie, Spark recalls her... -
The Mistress's Daughter: A Memoir by A. M. Homes 9781847080110
RRP: $21.43$14.27On the day that A. M. Homes was born in 1961, she was given up for adoption. Her birth parents were a twenty-two year old woman and an older married man with whom she was having an affair. Thirty years later, out of the blue, Homes was contacted by a... -
The Sea View Has Me Again: Uwe Johnson in Sheerness by Patrick Wright 9781913462581
RRP: $39.00$27.98Towards the end of 1974, a stranger arrived in the small town of Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. He could often be found sitting at the bar in the Napier Tavern, drinking lager and smoking Gauloises while flicking through the pages of the Kent... -
American Places by Page Stegner 9780143039747
RRP: $36.95$23.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143039747Author Wallace StegnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 221gDimensions(mm) 196mm *... -
The Gastronomical ME by M. F. K. Fisher 9780865473928
RRP: $37.05$22.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865473928Author M. F. K. FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint North Point PressPublisher North Point Press -
A Stinging Delight: A Memoir by David Storey 9780571360321
RRP: $25.33$16.69The third son of a coalminer, David Storey takes us from his tough upbringing in Wakefield, to being 'sold' to Leeds Rugby League Club, to his escape to the Slade School of Art and his life in post-war London. He describes shocking scenes in the... -
Shakespeare Without a Life by Margreta de Grazia
RRP: $48.75$41.32A fascinating account of how Shakespeare's works were understood and valued by readers and writers from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, before Shakespeare's biography came to dominate readings of his plays and poetry. For almost two... -
From Corsets to Communism: The Life and Times of Zophia Nalkowska by Jenny Robertson
RRP: $25.33$17.43'I had only one eye, I was hungry and cold, yet I wanted to live... so that I could tell it all just as I've told you.' - From Zofia Nalkowska's Medallions (1947). Witness to two world wars and Poland's struggle for independence, Zofia Nalkowska's... -
Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret
RRP: $40.95$29.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590170595Author Celeste AlbaretFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Margery Kempe: A Mixed Life by Anthony Bale 9781789144703
RRP: $33.05$23.91This is a new account of the late-fourteenth-century mystic and pilgrim Margery Kempe. Kempe, who had 14 children, travelled all over Europe and recorded a series of unusual events and religious visions in her work The Book of Margery Kempe, which is... -
Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Neil Gaiman
RRP: $25.33$11.74Upon publication, "Don't Panic" quickly established itself as the definitive companion to "Adams" and "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". This edition comes up-to-date, covering the movie, "And Another Thing" by Eoin Colfer and the build up to the... -
Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck by William Souder 9780393292268
RRP: $48.73$41.54This first full-length biography of the Nobel Laureate to appear in a quarter century explores John Steinbeck's long apprenticeship as a writer struggling through the depths of the Great Depression, and his rise to greatness with masterpieces such as The... -
James Lees-Milne by Michael Bloch 9780719565502 [USED COPY]
RRP: $29.23$4.47James Lees-Milne (1908-97) - known to friends as Jim - is remembered for his work for the National Trust, rescuing some of England's greatest architectural treasures, and for the vivid and entertaining diaries which have earned him a reputation as 'the... -
James Lees-Milne by Michael Bloch
RRP: $29.23$19.11James Lees-Milne (1908-97) - known to friends as Jim - is remembered for his work for the National Trust, rescuing some of England's greatest architectural treasures, and for the vivid and entertaining diaries which have earned him a reputation as 'the... -
Chernobyl Strawberries: A Memoir by Vesna Goldsworthy
RRP: $17.53$12.09How would you make sense of your life if you thought it might end tomorrow? In this captivating and best-selling memoir Vesna Goldsworthy tells the story of herself, her family and her early life in her lost country. There follows marriage, a move to... -
The Tree by John Fowles 9780099282839
RRP: $25.33$17.73In this series of moving recollections involving both his childhood and his work as a mature artist, John Fowles explains the impact of nature on his life and the dangers inherent in our traditional urge to categorise, to tame and ultimately to possess... -
The Snows of Yesteryear by Gregor von Rezzori 9781590172810
$36.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590172810Author Gregor Von RezzoriFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
The Horror of Love: Nancy Mitford and Gaston Palewski in Paris and London by Lisa Hilton
RRP: $19.48$13.26The compelling love story of two extraordinary individuals - Nancy Mitford and Free French commander Gaston Palewski - living in extraordinary times - immortalised in THE PURSUIT OF LOVE'A delicious mix of drama, melancholy and enchantment' DAILY... -
The Immortal Evening: A Legendary Dinner with Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb by Stanley Plumly
RRP: $25.33$22.35On 28 December 1817, Benjamin Robert Haydon hosted what he refers to in his diaries and autobiography as the "immortal dinner". He wanted to introduce his young friend John Keats to the great William Wordsworth and to celebrate his progress on his most... -
The Girl from Lamaha Street: A Guyanese girl at a 1950s English boarding school and her search for belonging by Sharon Maas
RRP: $17.53$12.09'An incredibly moving, truly inspiring story of the power of determination. An absolutely stunning read.' Katharine Birbalsingh'Fascinating and poignant... an astoundingly honest and intimate memoir.' Angela PetchPerhaps it's true that absence makes the... -
Follies Of God by James Grissom
RRP: $31.18$21.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101972779Author James GrissomFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Singapore Dream and Other Adventures: Travel Writings from an Asian Journey by Herman Hesse
RRP: $35.08$25.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611805895Author Hermann HesseFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary by Peter Gilliver 9780199568369
RRP: $29.23$21.35The Ring of Words describes the powerful and unique relationship between Tolkien's creative use of the English language in his fictional works and his professional work on the Oxford English Dictionary. Tolkien's earliest employment was as an assistant... -
In the Shade of Spring Leaves: The Life of Higuchi Ichiyo, with Nine of Her Best Stories by Robert Lyons Danly 9780393309133
RRP: $41.93$37.58Higuchi Ichiyo, Japan's first woman writer of stature in modern times, was born in 1872 and died at the age of twenty-four. In her brief life she wrote poems, essays, short stories and a great, multivolume diary. This book is made up of a critical... -
The World of Jane Austen by Brenda Williams
RRP: $11.70$8.66Through the novels of England's foremost woman writer, we explore the Regency world at the time of the Napoleonic wars, its manners, fashion and style, pastimes and entertainments. Jane Austen - loved now by a huge audience, thanks partly to modern-day... -
Guilty Thing by Frances Wilson
RRP: $33.13$25.66'Life for De Quincey was either angels ascending on vaults of cloud or vagrants shivering on the city streets.' Thomas De Quincey - opium-eater, celebrity journalist, and professional doppelganger - is embedded in our culture. Modelling his... -
Joan Didion:The Last Interview: and Other Conversations by MELVILLE HOUSE
RRP: $25.33$16.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685890117Author Joan DidionFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing