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James Warren: Empire Of Monsters: The Man Behind Creepy, Vampirella, and Famous Monsters by Bill Schelly
RRP: £24.99£16.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683964179Author Bill SchellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics -
Three Roads Back: How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives by Robert D. Richardson 9780691224305
RRP: £18.99£13.97From their acclaimed biographer, a final, powerful book about how Emerson, Thoreau, and William James forged resilience from devastating loss, changing the course of American thoughtIn Three Roads Back, Robert Richardson, the author of magisterial... -
John Barleycorn: `Alcoholic Memoirs' by Jack London
RRP: £8.99£6.45Published in 1913, this harrowing, autobiographical 'A to Z' of drinking shattered London's reputation as a clean-living adventurer and massively successful author of such books as White Fang and The Call of the Wild. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100... -
Regions of the Great Heresy: Bruno Schulz, A Biographical Portrait by Jerzy Ficowski 9780393325478
RRP: £18.50£15.91Sixty years after his murder by the Nazis, Bruno Schulz, one of the twentieth century's greatest and most enigmatic writers, is experiencing a renaissance in part occasioned by this biography by the renowned Polish poet Jerzy Ficowski. Widely regarded as... -
Finding Beauty in a Broken World by Terry Tempest Williams 9780375725197
RRP: £18.95£14.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for The Orion Book Award 2009.Book InformationISBN 9780375725197Author Terry Tempest WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House IncPublisher... -
Russian Writers and Society in the Nineteenth Century by Ronald Hingley
RRP: £28.99£26.93This book, first published in 1977, begins with a close look at the lives of nineteenth century Russian writers, and at the problems of their profession. It then examines their environment in its broader aspects, the Russian empire being considered from... -
Difficult Women by David Plante
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681371498Author David PlanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,... -
The Weil Conjectures: On Maths and the Pursuit of the Unknown by Karen Olsson
RRP: £9.99£7.11_______________ 'Beguiling ... I was riveted. Olsson is evocative on curiosity as an appetite of the mind, on the pleasure of glutting oneself on knowledge' - New York Times 'A wonderful book ... Reading it is akin to kicking a can along the road... -
Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka
RRP: £14.99£14.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805208511Author Franz KafkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 170mm *... -
A Plea For Eros by Siri Hustvedt
RRP: £9.99£6.80FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED AND A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMEN'A luminous collection of mind-expanding pieces on literary and philosophical themes . . . A book to renew one's faith in the literary essay' Robert... -
The Life and Loves of E. Nesbit: Author of The Railway Children by Eleanor Fitzsimons 9780715652022
RRP: £12.99£8.63A 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... -
Fighting Theory by Avital Ronell
RRP: £22.99£19.60International interest in the work of Avital Ronell has expressed itself in reviews, articles, essays, and dissertations. For Fighting Theory, psychoanalyst and philosopher Anne Dufourmantelle conducted twelve interviews with Ronell, each focused on a... -
H. G. Adler: A Life in Many Worlds by Peter Filkins
RRP: £25.49£21.98The biography of H.G. Adler (1910-88) is the story of a survivor of Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and two other concentration camps who not only lived through the greatest cataclysm of the 20th century, but someone who also devoted his literary and... -
Poet Warrior: A Memoir by Joy Harjo
RRP: £19.99£16.34In the second memoir from the first Native American to serve as US poet laureate, Joy Harjo invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses and humble realisations of her "poet-warrior" road. A musical, kaleidoscopic meditation, Poet Warrior reveals... -
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition by Mark Twain 9780520267190
RRP: £38.00£31.04Autobiography of Mark Twain READER'S EDITION Now Available! Half the Size, All the Twain! ISBN 978052027255 "I've struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. "And I will give it away--to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have... -
Beatrix Potter's Scotland: Her Perthshire Inspiration by Lynne McGeachie 9781906817435
RRP: £12.99£9.02Beatrix Potter's Scotland gives insight into the life of one of the best-loved writers in Britain. Based around Potter's own journal, the book goes into detail about her upbringing and influences. She was largely brought up by nannies and governesses and... -
An Orderly Man: A Memoir by Dirk Bogarde
£16.58________________ 'Absorbing... his gift for dialogue is exceptional' - The Observer ________________ First published in 1983, An Orderly Man is volume three of Dirk Bogarde's best-selling memoirs. After completing work on Visconti's Death in... -
The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America by Nicholas Buccola 9780691210773
RRP: £15.99£12.61How the legendary debate between a civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism illuminates America's racial divideOn February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Union in Cambridge, England, to witness a historic... -
Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters by Anne Boyd Rioux
RRP: £21.99£18.55Soon after its publication on 30 September 1868, Little Women became an enormous international bestseller. When Anne Boyd Rioux read it in her twenties, it had a powerful effect on her and through teaching it, she has seen its effect on many others. In... -
Thomas Hardy: Half a Londoner by Mark Ford
RRP: £35.95£28.81Because Thomas Hardy is so closely associated with the rural Wessex of his novels, stories, and poems, it is easy to forget that he was, in his own words, half a Londoner. Focusing on the formative five years in his early twenties when Hardy lived in the... -
Orwell's Nose: A Pathological Biography by John Sutherland
RRP: £12.99£9.09Orwell's Nose, now available in paperback, is an original and imaginative account of the life and work of George Orwell, exploring the 'scent narratives' that abound in Orwell's fiction and non-fiction. This illuminating and irreverent book provides a... -
English Hours: A Portrait of a Country by Henry James 9781848854857
£3.38 - £8.15'Spring was already in the air, in the town; there was no rain but there was still less sun - one wondered what had become of it, on this side of the world - and the grey mildness, shading away into black at any pretext, appeared in itself a promise.' ... -
My Unwritten Books by George Steiner
RRP: £9.99£6.80George Steiner, the eminent professor of English at Cambridge and Geneva universities, has outlined seven books he has never written, but has always wanted to write, in seven sections.In this fiercely original and audacious work, George Steiner tells of... -
Mean by Myriam Gurba 9781566894913
RRP: £12.99£8.63True crime, memoir, and ghost story, Mean is the bold and hilarious tale of Myriam Gurba's coming of age as a queer, mixed-race Chicana. Blending radical formal fluidity and caustic humor, Gurba takes on sexual violence, small towns, and race, turning... -
A Stinging Delight: A Memoir by David Storey 9780571360321
RRP: £12.99£8.56The 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... -
Yours, For Probably Always: Martha Gellhorn's Letters of Love and War 1930-1949 by Janet Somerville
RRP: £24.95£15.81"Passionate despatches from the front line, Martha Gellhorn's candid letters to her husband, family and friends underline her courage and fight for recognition. Carrying this big brick of a book on my travels while on assignment, I kept dipping into it... -
The Fragments of my Father: A memoir of madness, love and being a carer by Sam Mills 9780008300586
RRP: £16.99£9.94A 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... -
Notes From A Defeatist by Joe Sacco
RRP: £20.00£15.37Sacco paved the way for Palestine with his powerful triptych on modern war and its innocent victims, originally published in his comic Yahoo and collected here: 'When Good Bombs Happen to Bad People' chronicles the effect of aerial warfare on civilians,... -
Jane Austen: The girl with the golden pen by Gill Hornby
RRP: £7.99£5.60[b]Bicentenary Edition" Celebrating 200 years of Jane Austen[/b]In a country parsonage in the late 18th century, there lived a large family of seven children. They were all bright and clever and noisy, so nobody really noticed when little Jane turned... -
The Invention of Jane Harrison by Mary Beard
RRP: £30.95£23.93Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) is the most famous female Classicist in history, the author of books that revolutionized our understanding of Greek culture and religion. A star in the British academic world, she became the quintessential Cambridge... -
Clive Bell and the Making of Modernism: A Biography by Professor Mark Hussey
RRP: £14.99£10.95'Amusing, charming, stimulating, urbane' - THE TIMES 'Revelatory' - GUARDIAN 'Restores Clive Bell vividly to life' - Lucasta Miller ______________ Clive Bell is perhaps better known today for being a Bloomsbury socialite and the husband of... -
The Imaginary Girlfriend by John Irving
£3.94 - £9.09From a novelist known for the complexity of his novels - they are also long - comes an autobiography of compelling simplicity; it is also short. Dedicated to the memory of two wrestling coaches and two writer friends, The Imaginary Girlfriend is a lucid... -
Natalie and Romaine: The Lives and Loves of Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks by Diana Souhami
RRP: £12.99£8.60Natalie Barney,'the wild girl of Cincinnati', and Romaine Brooks were both rich, American and grandly lesbian. They met in Paris in 1915 and their tempestuous affair lasted more than fifty years. By the end of their lives together, Natalie and Romaine... -
The Gilded Chalet: Travels through Literary Switzerland by Padraig Rooney
RRP: £10.99£7.40In the summer of 1816 paparazzi trained their telescopes on Byron and the Shelleys across Lake Geneva. Mary Shelley babysat and wrote Frankenstein. Byron dieted and penned The Prisoner of Chillon. His doctor, Polidori, was dreaming up The Vampyre... -
The Liars' Club: A Memoir by Mary Karr
RRP: £19.00£11.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of PEN/Martha Albrand Award.Book InformationISBN 9780143035749Author Mary KarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam... -
The Surrender of Silence: A Memoir of Ironfoot Jack, King of the Bohemians by Ironfoot Jack
RRP: £15.99£12.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907222658Author Ironfoot JackFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Strange Attractor PressPublisher Strange Attractor Press -
The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography by Philip Roth
RRP: £10.99£7.77How does a novelist write about the facts of his life after spending years fictionalising those facts with irrepressible daring and originality?What becomes of 'the facts' after they have been smelted down for art's sake? In The Facts - Philip Roth's... -
The Literary Churchill: Author, Reader, Actor by Jonathan Rose 9780300204070
RRP: £25.00£21.92Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Edward Burne-Jones by Penelope Fitzgerald 9780007588220
RRP: £12.99£9.70Penelope Fitzgerald, the Booker Prize-winning author of 'Offshore' and 'The Blue Flower', turns her attention to the remarkable life of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones. 'I mean by a picture a beautiful, romantic dream of something... -
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester 9780060175962
RRP: £23.00£15.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Critics Circle Award (General Nonfiction) 1998.Book InformationISBN 9780060175962Author Simon WinchesterFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint...