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Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson (NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER) by Robert Polito 9780679733522
RRP: $42.90$32.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Critics Circle Awards 1995.Book InformationISBN 9780679733522Author Robert PolitoFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher... -
Imagining Anne: L. M. Montgomery's Island Scrapbooks by Elizabeth Epperly
$54.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771087704Author Elizabeth Rollins EpperlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Nimbus Publishing (CN)Publisher Nimbus Publishing (CN)Weight(grams)... -
The Countess from Kirribilli: The mysterious and free-spirited literary sensation who beguiled the world by Joyce Morgan
RRP: $33.13$22.58She was 'amused, cynical, ironic, loving, gay, ferocious, cold, ardent but never gentle'. She was a whirlwind. She created around her the atmosphere of a Court at which her friends were either in disgrace or favour, a butt or a blessing.Elizabeth von... -
Elizabeth Jennings: 'The Inward War' by Dana Greene 9780198820840
RRP: $70.18$70.08Elizabeth Jennings was one of the most popular, prolific, and widely anthologized lyric poets in the second half of the twentieth century. This first biography, based on extensive archival research and interviews with Jennings's contemporaries,... -
A Very Queer Family Indeed: Sex, Religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain by Simon Goldhill 9780226527284
RRP: $46.80$44.91We can begin with a kiss, though this will not turn out to be a love story, at least not a love story of anything like the usual kind. So begins A Very Queer Family Indeed, which introduces us to the extraordinary Benson family. Edward White Benson... -
Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith by Valerie Grove 9781845951733
RRP: $31.18$22.64Frank and funny, unorthodox, liberated and quintessentially English, Dodie Smith, playwright and novelist, was the author of those immortal classics, The Hundred and One Dalmations and I Capture the Castle. One of the most successful dramatists of her... -
Barnhill: A Novel by Norman Bissell 9781912147878 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.33$5.17George Orwell left post-war London for Barnhill, a remote farmhouse on the Isle of Jura, to write what became Nineteen Eighty-Four. He was driven by a passionate desire to undermine the enemies of democracy and make plain the dangers of dictatorship,... -
Barnhill: A Novel by Norman Bissell 9781912147878
RRP: $25.33$18.06George Orwell left post-war London for Barnhill, a remote farmhouse on the Isle of Jura, to write what became Nineteen Eighty-Four. He was driven by a passionate desire to undermine the enemies of democracy and make plain the dangers of dictatorship,... -
Life of Johnson by James Boswell
RRP: $48.75$36.31Samuel Johnson was a poet, essayist, dramatist, and pioneering lexicographer, but his continuing reputation depends less on his literary output than on the fortunate accident of finding an ideal biographer in James Boswell. As Johnson's constant and... -
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life by Gerald S. Martin 9780747596141 [USED COPY]
RRP: $37.03$8.19Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of the modern classic One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, is one of the greatest and most popular writers of the late-twentieth century. As Gerald Martin tells the story of the author's... -
Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser by Susan Bernofsky
RRP: $29.23$25.41The first English-language biography of one of the great literary talents of the twentieth century, written by his award-winning translator Finalist for the 2021 NBCC Award for Biography "[An] authoritative, moving biography. . . . Walser made of his... -
Ten Years On The Parish: The Autobiography and Letters of George Garrett: 2017 by Tony Wailey 9781786940759
RRP: $32.18$29.68George Garrett's autobiographical work Ten Years On The Parish, published here in full for the first time since it was written in the late 1930s, shines a light on the hardships and poverty endured by many in the years between the wars. Garrett was a... -
The Diary of Anais Nin 1934-1939 by Anais Nin 9780156260268
RRP: $56.53$38.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156260268Author Anais NinFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books Classics -
Heinrich Heine: Writing the Revolution by George Prochnik
RRP: $37.03$31.55A rich, provocative, and lyrical study of one of Germany's most important, world-famous, and imaginative writers "A concise, fast-paced biography of the German poet, critic, and essayist. . . . A discerning portrait of the writer and his times."-Kirkus... -
Owen Barfield, Romanticism Come of Age: A Biography by Simon Blaxland-de Lange
RRP: $43.88$35.82'Barfield towers above us all... the wisest and best of my unofficial teachers.' - C.S. Lewis --- 'We are well supplied with interesting writers, but Owen Barfield is not content to be merely interesting. His ambition is to set us free from the prison... -
Man with a Maid: Bk. 1 by Thad Ziolkowski
$22.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802140012Author Thad ZiolkowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint TBS The Book Service LtdPublisher TBS The Book Service Ltd -
Fury of Past Time: A Life of Gwyn Thomas by Daryl Leeworthy
RRP: $39.00$27.87Gwyn Thomas was born, the last of twelve children, into a Rhondda mining family in 1913. After a childhood marked by the strikes of the 1920s, he went off to study Spanish at Oxford University and in Madrid, where he met the poet Federico Garcia... -
What I Talk about When I Talk about Running by Haruki Murakami 9780307389831
RRP: $33.15$19.01Apologies 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... -
Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy by Park Honan 9780198186953
RRP: $87.73$65.85Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy is the most thorough and detailed life of Marlowe since John Bakeless's in 1942. It has new material on Marlowe in relation to Canterbury, also on his home life, schooling, and six and a half years at Corpus Christi... -
Hallelujah! the Welcome Table: A Lifetime of Memories with Recipes by Maya Angelou
RRP: $37.03$27.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812974850Author Maya AngelouFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
On the Sultan's Service: Halid Ziya Usakligil's Memoir of the Ottoman Palace, 1909-1912 by Douglas S. Brookes
RRP: $54.58$47.07"When at last we were approaching the Harem, the Sultan, surely quite alarmed, said to me in a low voice (was that so the eunuch walking in front of us wouldn't hear, or because in this lonely and dark passageway he was frightened of his own voice?), Ne... -
F.W. Harvey: Soldier, Poet by Anthony Boden 9780750967266
RRP: $33.13$26.01F.W. Harvey was one of a generation whose lives were splintered by the First World War, and one of that group of war poets for whom the war changed everything. He joined the 5th Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment only days after war was declared,... -
Authors in Context: Oscar Wilde by John Sloan
RRP: $19.48$13.86Authors in Context examines the work of major writers in relation to their own time and to the present day. Combining history with lively literary discussion, each volume provides comprehensive insight into texts in their context. Wit, dandy, literary... -
Fritz Leiber and H.P. Lovecraft: Writers of the Dark by Fritz Leiber 9780809500789
$27.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809500789Author Fritz LeiberFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Borgo PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 483g -
Jane and Dorothy: A True Tale of Sense and Sensibility by Marian Veevers
RRP: $35.08$26.60Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth were born just four years apart, in the 1770s, in a world torn between heady revolutionary ideas and fierce conservatism, and both were influenced by the Romantic ideals of Dorothy's brother, William Wordsworth, and his... -
Ezra Pound: The Solitary Volcano by John Tytell
RRP: $37.05$29.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385198707Author John TytellFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 559gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Life of Dante by Dante Alighieri 9781847496638
RRP: $15.58$11.29"Life of Dante" brings together the earliest accounts of Dante available, putting the celebratory essay of literary genius Giovanni Boccaccio together with the historical analysis of leading humanist Leonardo Bruni. Their writings, along with the other... -
Guy de Maupassant by Christopher Lloyd
RRP: $25.33$17.73The most celebrated French storyteller of the nineteenth century, Guy de Maupassant was a master of the modern short story. Offering an intriguing picture of French life, the enduring appeal of his stories derives from understated artistry, extreme... -
John Mcgahern: Authority and Vision by Zeljka Doljanin
RRP: $48.75$34.94This unique collection brings together essays by experts from a variety of disciplines, including history, sociology, education, journalism, creative writing and literary criticism, to offer new insights into the writer, his work and his legacy... -
Stan Lee: The Man behind Marvel by Bob Batchelor 9781538128435
RRP: $25.33$20.22The 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... -
Herge, Son of Tintin by Benoit Peeters 9781421404547
RRP: $54.60$18.08Tintinology [tin-tin-ol-uh-jee] (noun) is the study of the works of comic creator Herge and the cultural impact of Tintin, his best-known and most influential character. The adventures of Tintin and his dog, Snowy, have captivated people worldwide since... -
All We Know: Three Lives by Lisa Cohen 9780374534486
RRP: $42.90$28.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374534486Author Lisa CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)... -
Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott
RRP: $33.15$21.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594482878Author Anne LamottFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Spillane: King of Pulp Fiction by Max Allan Collins
RRP: $40.93$37.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613163795Author Max Allan CollinsFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Penzler PublishersPublisher Penzler PublishersWeight(grams) 725gDimensions(mm)... -
Ryszard Kapuscinski: A Life by Artur Domoslawski
$65.95The life and work of Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski was dangerously bold and deeply enigmatic. This controversial biography opens up the secrets and contradictions of this globally renowned Polish journalist and writer.Artur Domos?awski travels the globe, following... -
A Very Queer Family Indeed: Sex, Religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain by Simon Goldhill
RRP: $60.45$59.65"We can begin with a kiss, though this will not turn out to be a love story, at least not a love story of anything like the usual kind." So begins A Very Queer Family Indeed, which introduces us to the extraordinary Benson family. Edward White Benson... -
Arthur Rimbaud by Seth Whidden
RRP: $25.33$25.08Before he had turned 21, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) upended the house of French poetry and left it in shambles. What makes Rimbaud's poetry important, argues Seth Whidden, is part of what makes his life so compelling: rebellion, audacity, creativity and... -
Is that Kafka?: 99 Finds by Reiner Stach 9780811225168
RRP: $25.33$22.35In the course of compiling his highly acclaimed three-volume biography of Kafka, while foraying to libraries and archives from Prague to Israel, Reiner Stach made one astounding discovery after another: unexpected photographs, inconsistencies in... -
The Little Book of Charles Dickens: Dickensian Wit and Wisdom for Our Times by Orange Hippo!
RRP: $11.68$8.58'The greatest writer of his time.' (George Orwell)The author of 20 much-loved novels and novellas, Charles Dickens combined humour and pathos to explore Victorian society in all its shades. Widely praised for his rich narratives and larger-than-life... -
Jane Austen Treasury, The by Janet Todd 9780233005140
RRP: $19.48$14.70The Jane Austen Treasury is a delightful collection of facts and insights into the life and times of the great novelist and the attitudes and customs that shaped both her and her work. Taking each of her novels in turn, and exploring both underlying...