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The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem by Julie Phillips 9780393088595
RRP: £21.99£19.41What does it mean to create, not in "a room of one's own" but in a domestic space? Do children and genius rule each other out? In The Baby on the Fire Escape, award-winning biographer Julie Phillips traverses the shifting terrain where motherhood and... -
The Girl From Hockley: Growing up in working class Birmingham by Kathleen Dayus
RRP: £12.99£8.18The Girl from Hockley is a new, revised edition bringing together in one new volume this remarkable story. Born into the industrial slums of Birmingham in 1903, Kathleen Dayus became a legend in her own time. She vividly recalls her Edwardian childhood... -
Fierce Bad Rabbits: The Tales Behind Children's Picture Books by Clare Pollard
RRP: £10.99£7.77What is The Tiger Who Came to Tea really about? How is Meg and Mog related to Polish embroidery? And why does death in picture books involve being eaten? Fierce Bad Rabbits explores the stories behind our favourite picture books, weaving in tales of... -
Russian Roulette: 'A brilliant new life of Graham Greene' - Evening Standard by Richard Greene
RRP: £12.99£8.18Probably the greatest British novelist of his generation, Graham Greene's own story was as strange and compelling as those he told of Pinkie the Mobster, Harry Lime, or the Whisky Priest. A restless traveller, he was a witness to many of the key events... -
Time Come: Selected Prose by Linton Kwesi Johnson
RRP: £20.00£14.29A Financial Times Music Book of the Year 2023'Key to understanding black British history' - Sunday Times'Sharp and still relevant' - Zadie SmithRecognized as one of the great poets of modern times, and as a deeply respected and influential political and... -
Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: £9.99£7.11In November 1929, Christopher Isherwood - determined to become a 'permanent foreigner' - packed a rucksack and two suitcases and left England on a one-way ticket for Berlin. With incredible candour and wit, Isherwood recalls the decadence of Berlin's... -
Hitch 22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: £12.99£8.56Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle AwardIn this long-awaited and candid memoir, Hitchens re-traces the footsteps of his life to date, from his childhood in Portsmouth, with his adoring, tragic mother and reserved Naval officer father; to... -
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
RRP: £11.99£8.43'No one can write a man's life except himself.' In his Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau tells the story of his life, from the formative experience of his humble childhood in Geneva, through the achievement of international fame as novelist and... -
One to One: Self-Understanding Through Journal Writing by Christina Baldwin 9780871316523
£7.32For years I've been telling friends about the therapeutic powers of the act of writing. Now at last I have a book that I can recommend.-Judith Guest, author of Ordinary PeopleBook InformationISBN 9780871316523Author Christina BaldwinFormat PaperbackPage... -
Howdunit: A Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the Detection Club by Martin Edwards
RRP: £14.99£9.70Winner of the H.R.F. Keating Award for best biographical/critical book related to crime fiction, and nominated for the Edgar Allen Poe and Macavity Awards for Best Critical/Biographical book. Ninety crime writers from the world's... -
Riding The Tosh Horse: Ethel M. Dell, A Written Life by David Tanner 9781839527203
RRP: £13.99£13.46The romantic novelist Ethel M. Dell was a recluse, and actively avoided marketing herself as a personality in any way, but her formula was successful. She reached a very large audience publishing 98 titles and earning, at the height of her career, about... -
Let Not the Waves of the Sea by Simon Stephenson
RRP: £10.99£7.40LET NOT THE WAVES OF THE SEA is Simon Stephenson's account of his journey following the loss of his brother in the Indian Ocean tsunami. If it is a story of grief, it is also a story of hope and of the unexpected places where healing can be found... -
The Complete Unreliable Memoirs: Volume One by Clive James
RRP: £14.99£10.86Clive James, a true polymath, became a generation-defining voice as a broadcaster, a critic, a poet and an author. Among his greatest achievements, his five hilarious, heartwarming books of autobiography are collected now in two volumes: his Complete... -
Edith Pargeter: Ellis Peters by Margaret Lewis 9781854113290
RRP: £7.95£5.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854113290Author Margaret LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press -
Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves
RRP: £9.99£7.11An autobiographical work that describes firsthand the great tectonic shifts in English society following the First World War, Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That is a matchless evocation of the Great War's haunting legacy, published in Penguin Modern... -
Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World: Essays by Barry Lopez 9781912559558
RRP: £12.99£9.70An ardent steward of the land, fearless traveller and unrivalled observer of nature and culture, Barry Lopez died after a long illness on Christmas Day in 2020. The previous summer, a wildfire had consumed much of what was dear to him in his home and the... -
Tove Jansson: Work and Love by Tuula Karjalainen
RRP: £16.99£12.68Now in paperback, a beautifully illustrated account of of Tove Jansson's life and artThe definitive biography of one of the most unique and beloved children's authors of the 20th century, the creator of the Moomins. Tove Jansson (1914-2001) led a long,... -
We Were Rich and We Didn't Know It: A Memoir of My Irish Boyhood by Tom Phelan 9781501197109
RRP: £8.99£5.82"You don't have to be Irish to cherish this literary gift-just being human and curious and from a family will suffice." -Malachy McCourt, New York Times bestselling author of A Monk Swimming In the tradition of Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes and Alice... -
Friends and Enemies: A Memoir by Barbara Amiel 9781472134219
RRP: £25.00£16.55Included in The Times and Daily Telegraph Book of the Year round-ups'Friends and Enemies is an extraordinary read showing unflinching candour from a truly remarkable woman' Elton John 'Blistering . . . shockingly candid . . . stiletto-sharp memoir of the... -
Shakespeare: The World as a Stage by Bill Bryson
RRP: £9.99£6.52Bill Bryson's biography of William Shakespeare unravels the superstitions, academic discoveries and myths surrounding the life of our greatest poet and playwright. Ever since he took the theatre of Elizabethan London... -
My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs by Kazuo Ishiguro
RRP: £4.99£3.60Delivered in Stockholm on 7 December 2017, My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs is the lecture of the Nobel Laureate in Literature, Kazuo Ishiguro. A generous and hugely insightful biographical sketch, it explores his relationship... -
A Poet's Revolution: The Life of Denise Levertov by Donna Krolik Hollenberg 9780520272460
RRP: £38.00£29.84This first full-length biography of Anglo- American poet and activist Denise Levertov (1923-1997) brings to life one of the major voices of the second half of the twentieth century, when American poetry was a powerful influence worldwide. Drawing on... -
Writing Haiku: A Beginner's Guide to Composing Japanese Poetry - Includes Tanka, Renga, Haiga, Senryu and Haibun by Bruce Ross
RRP: £12.99£8.35A world of dewAnd within every dewdropA world of struggle The iconic three-line haiku form is increasingly popular today as people embrace its simplicity and grace-and its connections to the Japanese ethos of mindfulness and minimalism. Say more with... -
Arnold Bennett: Lost Icon by Patrick Donovan
RRP: £25.00£17.33During his 1920s heyday, Arnold Bennett was one of Britain's most celebrated writers. As the author of The Old Wives' Tale and Clayhanger he was a household name, writing just as much for the common man as London's literati. His face was plastered over... -
Murder Isn't Easy: The Forensics of Agatha Christie by Carla Valentine
RRP: £10.99£7.05Fascinating - PrimaEngaging and informative - GuardianAgatha Christie is one of our most beloved authors - a storyteller unparalleled in her clever plots and twisting tales. But Agatha was also a forensic expert; in each of her books she employs an... -
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark
RRP: £20.00£15.29The first biography of this great and tragic poet that takes advantage of a wealth of new material, this is an unusually balanced, comprehensive and definitive life of Sylvia Plath.'Surely the final, the definitive, biography of Sylvia Plath' Ali Smith ... -
Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century by Roseanne Montillo 9781982153748
RRP: £10.99£7.00This glittering, "wild romp of a story, boldly and beautifully told" (Neal Thompson, author of The First Kennedys) explores the darkly intertwined fates of infamous socialite Ann Woodward and literary icon Truman Capote, sweeping us to the upper echelons... -
Endless Flight: The Genius and Tragedy of Joseph Roth by Keiron Pim 9781783785117
RRP: £12.99£8.56The acclaimed first English-language biography of the great European novelist and journalist, Joseph Roth, author of The Radetzky March, a writer who captured life in Europe between the wars like no other. The mercurial, self-mythologising novelist... -
Virginia Woolf by Alexandra Harris 9780500297834
RRP: £12.99£8.35An accessible introduction to a writer whose work is of timeless significance and whose unconventional life is a continuous source of fascination. In 1907, when she was twenty-five and not yet a published novelist, Virginia Stephen had everything still... -
The Swimmer: The Wild Life of Roger Deakin by Patrick Barkham
RRP: £20.00£14.69BEST BOOK OF 2023 ACCORDING TO THE NEWSTATESMAN AND OBSERVERThe definitive biography of beloved author, Roger DeakinRoger Deakin, author of the immortal Waterlog and Wildwood, was a man of unusually many parts. A born writer who nonetheless took decades... -
Diaries and Notebooks by Patricia Highsmith
RRP: £30.00£28.28'It promises to be one of the literary highlights of 2021 - publication of the diaries of Patricia Highsmith, one of the most conflicted, fascinating novelists of the 20th century' Edward Helmore, Guardian'My secrets-the secrets that everyone has-are... -
The Inklings: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien and Their Friends by Humphrey Carpenter
RRP: £10.99£7.25Critically acclaimed, award-winning biography of CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien and the brilliant group of writers to come out of Oxford during the Second World War. C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and their friends were a regular feature of the Oxford... -
The Daphne Du Maurier Companion by Daphne Du Maurier
RRP: £12.99£8.18'A marvellous celebration of du Maurier's life, work and cultural legacy' SARAH WATERS 'She wrote exciting plots, she was highly skilled at arousing suspense' GUARDIAN 'One of the last century's most original literary talents ' DAILY TELEGRAPH Daphne du... -
Thunder and Lightning by Colin Bateman
RRP: £14.99£14.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785374357Author Colin BatemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
Sleepless: Discovering the Power of the Night Self by Annabel Abbs 9781529366471
RRP: £16.99£11.54'Sleepless has changed how I feel about sleep . . . I was captivated' The Times, Book of the Week'This book will inspire you to get up, light a candle, and experience your own Night Self' Financial TimesTHE NIGHT SELF IS: CREATIVE. CURIOUS... -
The Man in the Red Coat by Julian Barnes
RRP: £10.99£7.77*SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARDS 2020*'A bravura performance, highly entertaining' Evening StandardThe Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty tour of Belle Epoque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering... -
How To Be A Heroine: Or, what I've learned from reading too much by Samantha Ellis
RRP: £10.99£7.77Cathy Earnshaw or Jane Eyre?Petrova or Posy?Scarlett or Melanie?Lace or Valley of the Dolls?On a pilgrimage to Wuthering Heights, Samantha Ellis found herself arguing with her best friend about which heroine was best: Jane Eyre or Cathy Earnshaw. She was... -
Goethe: Life as a Work of Art by Rudiger Safranski 9781631494895
RRP: £18.99£17.34Here, Rudiger Safranski sets his sights on the writer considered the Shakespeare of German literature. Goethe (1749-1832) awakened a burgeoning German nation and the European continent with his electrifying novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. Safranski... -
William Blake vs the World by John Higgs
RRP: £10.99£7.05'Fascinating' The Times'Blakeian in its singularity' New Statesman'A wonderful adventure' Irish Times'Rich, complex and original' Tom Holland'A crisp, ambitious and thoroughly contemporary introduction' Times Literary SupplementPoet, artist, visionary... -
The Writer's Garden: How gardens inspired the world's great authors by Jackie Bennett 9780711277168
RRP: £30.00£18.61See inside the gardens where literary giants from Tolstoy to Agatha Christie created some of their finest works in this visually stunning and fascinating book. Discover the flower gardens, vegetable plots, landscapes and writing hideaways of 30 great...