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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... -
Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. by Luis J Rodriguez 9780743276917
RRP: £17.99£11.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743276917Author Luis J RodriguezFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm *... -
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
RRP: £12.99£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£11.56Apologies 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: £16.95£13.10Apologies 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£14.96Apologies 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... -
All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf by Katharine Smyth
RRP: £9.99£6.70'Deeply moving... This is a beautiful book.' TLS______________________________Katharine Smyth was a student at Oxford University when she first read Virginia Woolf's modernist masterpiece To the Lighthouse in the comfort of an English sitting room, and... -
The Three Lives of Dylan Thomas by Hilly Janes
RRP: £9.99£7.11One of the outstanding literary figures of the twentieth century, the Welsh poet and playwright Dylan Thomas is as famous for his poetry as he is for his dissolute, Bohemian lifestyle and tempestuous personal life. In The Three Lives of Dylan Thomas,... -
The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries by Jessa Crispin
RRP: £15.00£14.87When Jessa Crispin was thirty, she burned her settled Chicago life to the ground and took off for Berlin with a pair of suitcases and no plan beyond leaving. Half a decade later, she's still on the road, in search not so much of a home as of... -
By Women Possessed: A Life of Eugene O'Neill by Arthur Gelb
RRP: £44.99£30.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399159114Author Arthur GelbFormat HardbackPage Count 896Imprint Putnam Publishing Group,U.S.Publisher Putnam Publishing Group,U.S. -
The Mirador by Elisabeth Gille
RRP: £13.99£9.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590174449Author Elisabeth GilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
The Shadowy Third: Love, Letters, and Elizabeth Bowen by Julia Parry
RRP: £10.99£7.38Uncovering the hidden love triangle between novelist Elizabeth Bowen and the author's grandparents - the critically acclaimed biography with never-before-seen letters detailing the affair. For readers who were swept up in Laura Cumming's On Chapel... -
Beautiful Writers: A Journey of Big Dreams and Messy Manuscripts--with Tricks of the Trade from Bestselling Authors by Linda Sivertsen
RRP: £16.99£10.39When her questions remained unanswered by multiple how-to guides, despite how her writing career was now thriving, Linda decided to go straight to the source: her favourite storytellers across numerous genres. So, Linda co-created the Beautiful Writers... -
The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857, An Abridged Edition by Jean-Paul Sartre
RRP: £21.00£20.31An approachable abridgment of Sartre's important analysis of Flaubert. From 1981 to 1994, the University of Chicago Press published a five-volume translation of Jean-Paul Sartre's The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857, a sprawling masterwork by... -
Private Worlds: Growing Up Gay in Post-War Britain by Jeremy Seabrook
RRP: £14.99£9.80'All profound relationships have the quality of being a folie a deux; an intimate departure from reality, an imaginative creation of a world apart; perhaps this is a way of calling forth meaning - the merging of senseless subjectivities.' In 1950s... -
Patrick O’Brian: A Very Private Life by Nikolai Tolstoy
RRP: £10.99£7.25An intimate portrait of Patrick O'Brian, written by his stepson Nikolai Tolstoy. Patrick O'Brian was one of the greatest British novelists of the twentieth century, securing his place in literary history with the... -
Becoming George Orwell: Life and Letters, Legend and Legacy by John Rodden 9780691182742
RRP: £25.00£19.59The remarkable transformation of Orwell from journeyman writer to towering iconIs George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Yes, according to John Rodden's provocative book about the transformation of a man into a myth. Rodden does not... -
Marriage of Inconvenience by Robert Brownell
RRP: £19.99£13.75"A page turner, even for those familiar with the subject...The surprising truth that emerges is no less human, and no less revealing about the Victorians than the myths; on the contrary it gives a far more compelling insight into what relationships,... -
What I Talk about When I Talk about Running by Haruki Murakami 9780307389831
RRP: £17.00£9.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307389831Author Haruki MurakamiFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 202mm... -
Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas
RRP: £18.00£11.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age.Book InformationISBN 9780679781424Author Piri ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher... -
The Late Lord Byron: A Biography by Doris Langley Moore
RRP: £16.99£11.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935554486Author Doris Langley MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House PublishingWeight(grams) 557g -
Arise And Go: W.B. Yeats and the people and places that inspired him by Kevin Connolly
RRP: £27.00£17.64The idea of place runs like a river through the life and works of the poet and playwright W.B. Yeats. This book focuses on his time in Dublin, London, Sligo and elsewhere in the west of Ireland, embracing the homes, landscapes and people that impacted... -
Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews by Oscar Wilde
RRP: £22.99£20.01Better known in 1882 as a cultural icon than a serious writer, Oscar Wilde was brought to North America for a major lecture tour on Aestheticism and the decorative arts. With characteristic aplomb, he adopted the role as the ambassador of Aestheticism,... -
Neal Cassady Collected Letters, 1944-1967 by Neal Cassady 9780142002179
RRP: £24.00£17.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142002179Author Neal CassadyFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 391gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 130mm *... -
Festival Days by Jo Ann Beard
RRP: £22.00£14.56Since the publication of her groundbreaking collection, The Boys of My Youth, Jo Ann Beard has been heralded as a master of the autobiographical essay, a form that has recently gained popularity with the works of Leslie Jamison, Eula Biss, Esme Weijun... -
Makes Me Wanna Holler by Nathan McCall 9780679740704
RRP: £11.99£11.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679740704Author Nathan McCallFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 311g -
Lord Byron: The Life and Legacy of the Most Famous Romantic Poet by Charles River Editors 9781724502391
RRP: £10.24£8.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781724502391Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
The Iris Trilogy: Memoirs of Iris Murdoch by John Bayley
RRP: £30.00£19.88Dame Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) was one of the greatest British novelists and philosophers of the twentieth century. She read philosophy at Oxford where she met and later married John Bayley, a literary critic and fellow novelist. So began a forty-year,... -
Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion by Michelle Dean 9780349005393
RRP: £20.00£13.75A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week'This is such a great idea for a book, and Michelle Dean carries it off, showing us the complexities of her fascinating, extraordinary subjects, in print and out in the world. Dean writes with vigor, depth, knowledge and... -
These Possible Lives by Fleur Jaeggy
RRP: £9.99£8.59New Directions is proud to present Fleur Jaeggy's strange and mesmerizing essays about the writers Thomas De Quincey, John Keats, and Marcel Schwob. A renowned stylist of hyper-brevity in fiction, Fleur Jaeggy proves herself an even more concise master... -
Stan Lee: The Man behind Marvel by Bob Batchelor 9781538128435
RRP: £12.99£11.83The Amazing Spider-Man. The Incredible Hulk. The Invincible Iron Man. Black Panther. These are just a few of the iconic superheroes to emerge from the mind of Stan Lee. From the mean streets of Depression-era New York City to recipient of the... -
The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading by Edmund White
RRP: £9.99£7.11______________ 'I find it impossible to imagine anyone better read than White ... Wisdom and a certain kind of tenderness are to be found on every page' - Observer 'One of the great prose stylists of our time ... There are few paragraphs that...