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Albert Bonnier: His Life and Times by Per T. Ohlsson 9781786581969
RRP: £25.00£17.62'I took you because you were the most fearless.' AUGUST STRINDBERG TO ALBERT BONNIER, 1884.In 1835, a fifteen-year-old boy, the son of a Jewish bookseller, arrived in Stockholm from Copenhagen. Two years later, he published his first book. During... -
C. S. Lewis: A Very Short Introduction by James Como
RRP: £8.99£6.45Beloved by children and adults worldwide, the writings of C.S. Lewis have a broad and enduring appeal. Although he is best known for the iconic Chronicles of Narnia series, C. S. Lewis was actually a man of many literary parts. Already well-known as a... -
Raymond Williams: A Critical Reader by Terry Eagleton
RRP: £17.99£16.04Raymond Williams is widely acknowledged to be one of the most original and influential thinkers of the post-war era. He wrote extensively across a wide range of subjects: from drama and the novel to politics, popular culture and mass communications. He... -
Dream-Child: A Life of Charles Lamb by Eric G. Wilson
RRP: £25.00£21.32An in-depth look into the life of Romantic essayist Charles Lamb and the legacy of his work "[An] electrifying portrait of Charles Lamb."-New Yorker A pioneer of urban Romanticism, essayist Charles Lamb (1775-1834) found inspiration in London's... -
Jane Austen, the Secret Radical by Helena Kelly 9781524732103
£7.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524732103Author Helena KellyFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Knopf Publishing GroupPublisher Knopf Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm)... -
Albert Bonnier: His Life and Times by Per T. Ohlsson 9781786581969 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00£6.60Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Jane Austen, Early and Late by Freya Johnston 9780691198002
RRP: £35.00£27.74A reexamination of Austen's unpublished writings that uncovers their continuity with her celebrated novels-and that challenges distinctions between her "early" and "late" workJane Austen's six novels, published toward the end of her short life, represent... -
David Jones in the Great War by Thomas Dilworth
RRP: £15.00£11.36David Jones's In Parenthesis is the greatest poem to emerge from the First World War, and indeed one of the greatest to emerge from any war. It could have been written only by someone who had not only experienced the war in all its horror, but who was... -
Late Romance: Anthony Hecht—A Poet's Life by David Yezzi 9781250016584
RRP: £33.99£21.82Anthony Hecht (1923-2004) was one of America's greatest poets, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and widely recognised as a master of formal verse that drew on wide-ranging cultural and literary sources, as well as Hecht's experiences as a soldier during... -
Before Leonard: The Early Suitors of Virginia Woolf by Sarah M. Hall 9780720612226 [USED COPY]
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Before Leonard: The Early Suitors of Virginia Woolf by Sarah M. Hall 9780720612226
RRP: £22.50£5.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780720612226Author Sarah M. HallFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Peter Owen PublishersPublisher Peter Owen Publishers -
Collected Autobio/Maya Angelou by Maya Angelou
£26.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679643258Author Maya AngelouFormat HardbackPage Count 1184Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1168gDimensions(mm) 211mm *... -
Chekhov Becomes Chekhov: The Emergence of a Literary Genius by Bob Blaisdell
RRP: £22.00£14.45A revelatory portrait of Chekhov during the most extraordinary artistic surge of his life.In 1886, a twenty-six-year-old Anton Chekhov was publishing short stories, humor pieces, and articles at an astonishing rate, and was still a practicing physician. ... -
Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew by John Felstiner 9780300089226
£31.81Paul Celan, Europe's most compelling postwar poet, was a German-speaking, East European Jew. His writing exposes and illumines the wounds that Nazi destructiveness left on language. John Felstiner's sensitive and accessible book is the first critical... -
Edward Thomas: from Adlestrop to Arras: A Biography by Dr Jean Moorcroft Wilson
RRP: £25.00£20.70This is the extraordinary life of a poetic genius. Along with Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, Edward Thomas is by any reckoning a major first world war poet. A war poet is not one who chooses to commemorate or celebrate a war, but one who reacts against... -
A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Mark Dawidziak
RRP: £24.99£18.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250792495Author Mark DawidziakFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm) 245mm *... -
Brutalities: A Love Story by Margo Steines 9781324050872
RRP: £14.99£11.99Quarantined in a southwestern desert city in the midst of her high-risk pregnancy, Margo Steines felt her life narrow around her growing body, compelling her to reckon with the violence entangled in its history. She was a professional dominatrix in New... -
Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen by Larry McMurtry
RRP: £18.99£11.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684870199Author McmurtryPage Count 208Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
Charles Dickens: His Life and Times: A Pictorial Biography of the World's Greatest Storyteller by Phil Carradice 9781781552780
RRP: £14.99£11.55Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, but most of all a great novelist - the creator of characters who live immortally in... -
Mourning Diary: October 26, 1977 - September 15, 1979 by Professor Roland Barthes 9780374533113
RRP: £19.00£11.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374533113Author Professor Roland BarthesFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill & WangWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
Angela Thirkell: A Writer's Life by Anne Hall
RRP: £25.00£17.30Born in London in 1890, Angela Thirkell was Sir Edward Burne-Jones's granddaughter, J.M. Barrie's goddaughter and a cousin of Rudyard Kipling and Stanley Baldwin. John Collier painted her portrait and she was drawn by John Singer Sargent and Thea Proctor... -
The Wit and Wisdom of Jane Austen by Jane Austen 9781604336511
RRP: £8.99£6.02A Treasure Trove of 175 Quips--Both Witty and Wise--from Beloved Writer Jane Austen!"Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side. "--Jane Austen to Fanny Austen, 1814No wiser or wittier words have been spoken... -
Our World by Molly Malone Cook 9780807068809
RRP: £41.00£27.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807068809Author Mary OliverFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 556gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 244mm * 13mm -
My Parents: An Introduction / This Does Not Belong to You by Aleksandar Hemon
RRP: £14.99£10.95Two magnificent memoirs by Aleksandar Hemon, presented together in a glorious single edition: together they make a major work from one of our major writers.In My Parents, Aleksandar Hemon tells the story of his parents' immigration to Canada - of the... -
The Kiss: A Memoir by Kathryn Harrison
RRP: £19.00£13.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812979718Author Kathryn HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 203gDimensions(mm)... -
The Truth Will Out: Unmasking the Real Shakespeare by Brenda James 9781405840866
RRP: £36.99£36.14The question of who wrote Shakespeare's plays has been the subject of furious debate among scholars for over 150 years. Everything known about the facts of William Shakespeare's life seems incompatible with the extraordinary genius of his writing. How... -
Sophia Tolstoy: A Biography by Alexandra Popoff 9781416597605
£16.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416597605Author Alexandra PopoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 540gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Solzhenitsyn: A Biography by Michael Scammell
RRP: £52.99£47.65This book, first published in 1984, was the first full biography of Solzhenitsyn. Starting with his childhood, it covers every period of his life in considerable detail, showing how Solzhenitsyn's development paralleled and mirrored the development of... -
Walter Benjamin by Gershom Gerhard Scholem
RRP: £17.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590170328Author Gershom ScholemFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka 9780805212679
£11.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805212679Author Franz KafkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 130mm *... -
Insomniac Dreams: Experiments with Time by Vladimir Nabokov by Vladimir Nabokov 9780691167947
RRP: £20.00£15.89Nabokov's dream diary, published for the first time--and placed in biographical and literary context On October 14th, 1964, Vladimir Nabokov, a lifelong insomniac, began a curious experiment. Over the next eighty days, immediately upon waking, he wrote... -
Whaddyacall the Wind? by Annie Rachele Lanzillotto 9781599541938
RRP: £20.00£14.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599541938Author Annie Rachele LanzillottoFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 472gDimensions(mm)... -
Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac by Barry Gifford
RRP: £12.99£8.56'Jack Kerouac died in 1969 at the age of forty-seven . . . Most of his friends survived him. Our idea was to seek them out and talk with them about Jack's life and their own lives. The final result, we hoped, would be a big, transcontinental... -
A Man's Place by Annie Ernaux
RRP: £8.99£6.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609804039Author Francine ProseFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 124g -
The Six: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters by Laura Thompson 9781250099549
RRP: £20.00£13.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250099549Author Laura ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Picador/St. Martin's PressPublisher Picador/St. Martin's PressWeight(grams)... -
Kid Gloves: A Voyage Round My Father by Adam Mars-Jones 9781846148774 [USED COPY]
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Kid Gloves: A Voyage Round My Father by Adam Mars-Jones
RRP: £15.99£11.61'Brims with humour ... each sentence is a delight' IndependentShortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize 2016When his widowed father - once a high court judge and always a formidable figure - drifted into vagueness if not dementia, the writer Adam Mars-Jones... -
The Russian Horizon: An Anthology by N. Gangulee 9780367724023
RRP: £28.99£26.93This book, first published in 1943, is a literary anthology purposefully presenting a picture of the Soviet Union to a new audience in the West. It collects together a rich variety of pre-revolutionary Russian literature as well as a host of Soviet... -
Green Hills Of Africa by Ernest Hemingway 9780099460954
RRP: £9.99£7.11This is Hemingway's East African safari journal.'All I wanted to do was get back to Africa'Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he and his wife Pauline journeyed... -
J. D. Salinger: A Life Raised High by Kenneth Slawenski 9781904590231
RRP: £20.00£16.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904590231Author Kenneth SlawenskiFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint PomonaPublisher Pomona