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What is the What by Dave Eggers
RRP: €13.08€9.25What is the What is Dave Eggers's astonishing novel about one of the world's most brutal civil warsValentino Achak Deng is just a boy when conflict separates him from his family and forces him to leave his small Sudanese village, joining thousands of... -
Abominations: Selected essays from a career of courting self-destruction by Lionel Shriver 9780008458652
RRP: €11.89€7.76The first essay collection from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. 'This trenchant, unrepentant collection reminds you that she's a brilliant writer... Order a copy in case she's cancelled by Christmas' THE TIMES... -
Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books by Hilary Mantel 9780008429973
€8.72A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the Light In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London... -
A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré 1945-2020 by John le Carré 9780241994559
RRP: €17.84€13.30John le Carre was a defining writer of his time. This enthralling collection letters - written to readers, publishers, film-makers and actors, politicians and public figures - reveals the playfully intelligent and unfailingly eloquent man behind the... -
The Turkish Embassy Letters by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
RRP: €13.08€8.81The critical and biographical introduction tells of Lady Wortley Montagu's travels through Europe to Turkey in 1716, where her husband had been appointed Ambassador. Her lively letters offer insights into the paradoxical freedoms conferred on Muslim... -
The Tangier Diaries by John Hopkins
RRP: €17.84€13.65John Hopkins brings back to life all the decadence and flamboyance of Tangier in the 1960s and 1970s. Tangier in the 1960s and '70s was a fabled place. This edge city, the 'Interzone', became muse and escapist's dream for artists, writers,... -
The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Places that Inspired Middle-earth by John Garth 9780711279858
RRP: €20.22€14.21"Every page brings forth the elegiac tone of JRR Tolkien's work... It is a beautiful book, including many wonderful pictures by Tolkien himself... Garth's book made me realise the impact that Tolkien has had on my life."The Times A lavishly illustrated... -
The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters by Adam Nicolson
RRP: €13.08€8.63Longlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (now the Bailie Gifford) 'A thrilling and complex book, enlarges our view of Homer ... There's something that hits the mark on every page'... -
The Love-charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War by Lara Feigel
RRP: €15.46€10.82When the first bombs fell on London in August 1940, the city was transformed overnight into a battlefront. For most Londoners, the sirens, guns, planes and bombs heralded gruelling nights of sleeplessness, fear and loss. But for Graham Greene and some of... -
Roughing it by Mark Twain 9780140390100
RRP: €17.84€13.03A fascinating picture of the American frontier emerges from Twain's fictionalized recollections of his experiences prospecting for gold, speculating in timber, and writing for a succession of small Western newspapers during the 1860s.About the AuthorBorn... -
Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
RRP: €15.46€10.82Jonathan Bate's Soul of the Age brings us closer than ever to understanding what being Shakespeare was actually like.How did plague turn Shakespeare from a jobbing hack into a courtly poet? How did Bottom's dream rewrite the Bible? How did Shakespeare's... -
Wheels within Wheels: The Makings of a Traveller by Dervla Murphy 9781906011406
RRP: €17.84€11.02A first-hand account of the life of travel writer Dervla Murphy in which she tells of her early life in Lismore, Co. Waterford, in her rather unusual household. Her father was the county librarian and her mother a chronic invalid. An only child, Dervla... -
Gathering Evidence by Thomas Bernhard
RRP: €13.08€9.25Born in 1931, the illegitimate child of an abandoned mother, Thomas Bernhard was brought up by an eccentric grandmother and adored grandfather. Tormented as a young student in a right-wing, catholic Austria, Bernhard ran away from home aged fifteen. At... -
The Music Room by William Fiennes
RRP: €11.89€8.40'Fiennes has exceptional gifts, and he has written a small masterpiece, a tribute to the power of place, family and memory' Sunday Telegraph William Fiennes' childhood was one of imagination and curiosity, bounded only by the horizon he saw from the... -
Strangers on a Pier by Tash Aw
RRP: €10.70€7.16'So wise and so well done. It made me wish it were much longer than it is' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie From the award-winning author of Five Star Billionaire and We, The Survivors comes a whirlwind personal... -
Maya Angelou by Linda Wagner-Martin 9781119629108
RRP: €23.74€21.03THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR MAYA ANGELOU DISCOVER THE REMARKABLE LIFE OF MAYA ANGELOU WITH A HIGHLY PERSONAL AND DETAILED ACCOUNT OF HER CHALLENGES AND TRIUMPHS The Life of the Author: Maya Angelou delivers an engaging and thorough retelling of the life and... -
Toni Morrison: The Last Interview by Toni Morrison 9781612198736
RRP: €15.46€10.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612198736Author Toni MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee
RRP: €20.22€15.09Hermione Lee sees Virginia Woolf afresh, in her historical setting and as a vital figure for our times. Her book moves freely between a richly detailed life-story and new attempts to understand crucial questions - the impact of her childhood, the cause... -
Walking The Invisible by Michael Stewart
RRP: €11.89€6.78See through the eyes of the Brontes as you immerse yourself in their lives and landscapes, wandering the very same paths they each would have walked in search of the inspiration behind their novels and poetry. An... -
Divine Invasions by Lawrence Sutin
RRP: €13.08€9.26Divine Invasions is the definitive biography of one of America's greatest novelists and science fiction's greatest ambassador to literary audiences.Philip K. Dick loosened the bonds of the genre, ultimately making his reputation as a literary writer who... -
Shelley: The Pursuit by Richard Holmes
RRP: €23.79€16.34A fantastic reissue of Richard Holmes' epic biography of this most enigmatic and intriguing of the Romantic poets. This is simply one of the greatest biographical achievements of recent years. Shelley, the most neglected of all the great... -
Lions and Shadows by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: €13.08€9.25WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JAMES FENTONSubtitled 'An education in the twenties', this work blends autobiography and fiction to describe the inner life of a writer evolving from precocious public school boy to Cambridge drop-out at large in London's... -
Mother's Boy: A Writer's Beginnings by Howard Jacobson 9781529115673
RRP: €13.08€9.25'One of the all-time great memoirs' Daily Telegraph'Wonderful...candid, shrewd and moving' William Boyd'Laugh-out-loud glorious and uproarious' Simon SchamaHoward Jacobson's funny, revealing and tender memoir of his path to becoming a writer.Howard... -
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett
RRP: €11.89€8.46'So compellingly personal you feel you're looking over her shoulder as she sits down to write' New York Times 'Electrically entertaining ... Funny, generous, spirited and kind' The Times This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage is an irresistible... -
The Illustrated Letters of the Brontes: The letters, diaries and writings of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte by Juliet Gardiner
RRP: €21.36€15.12The story both of the real world of the Brontes at Haworth Parsonage, their home on the edge of the lonely Yorkshire moors, and of the imaginary worlds they spun for themselves in their novels and poetry. Wherever possible, their story is told using... -
Miserable Miracle by Henri Michaux
RRP: €20.22€13.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590170014Author Henri MichauxFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky, a Crime and Its Punishment by Kevin Birmingham
RRP: €29.75€19.67From the acclaimed author of The Most Dangerous Book, the incredible true story behind the creation of a masterpiece of world literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and PunishmentIn the summer of 1865, the former exile Dostoevsky found himself trapped in... -
Chaucer: A European Life by Marion Turner
RRP: €23.80€18.49An acclaimed biography that recreates the cosmopolitan world in which a wine merchant's son became one of the most celebrated of all English writersGeoffrey Chaucer is often called the father of English literature, but this acclaimed biography reveals... -
A Sultry Month by Alethea Hayter 9780571372294
RRP: €15.46€10.19Wine and dine with Victorian London's literati in a heatwave in one of the first ever group biographies, introduced by Francesca Wade (author of Square Haunting).Though she loved the heat she could do nothing but lie on the sofa and drink lemonade and... -
A Moment of War by Laurie Lee
RRP: €10.70€8.33A Moment of War is the powerful and harrowing final book in Laurie Lee's acclaimed trilogy that began with Cider with RosieLaurie Lee was still a young man when he decided to fight for the Republican cause in Spain's civil war. But though he braved icy,... -
How to Drink Like a Writer: Recipes for the Cocktails and Libations That Inspired 100 Literary Greats by Apollo Publishers
RRP: €19.03€13.14Pairing 100 famous authors, poets, and playwrights from the Victorian age to today with recipes for their iconic drinks of choice, How to Drink Like a Writer is the perfect guide to getting lit(erary) for madcap mixologists, book club bartenders, and... -
A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East by Tiziano Terzani 9780006550716
RRP: €15.46€10.09Warned by a fortune-teller not to risk flying, the author - a seasoned correspondent - took to travelling by rail, road and sea. Consulting fortune-tellers and shamans wherever he went, he learnt to understand and respect older ways of life and beliefs... -
Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man and Ninety Days by Bill Clegg
RRP: €11.89€8.46What makes one of the most gifted, charismatic and successful young literary agents in New York fall into full-blown crack-addiction: a collapse that would cost him his business, his home, many of his friends and - very nearly - his life? In his utterly... -
Lara: The Untold Love Story That Inspired Doctor Zhivago by Anna Pasternak
RRP: €11.89€7.90'Riveting, tragic tale' New Yorker 'Anna Pasternak has produced an irresistible account of joy, suffering and passion' Financial Times The heartbreaking story of the passionate love affair between Boris Pasternak and... -
Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish by Francesca Peacock 9781837930173
RRP: €33.31€23.34'Puts Cavendish back into the literary history books where she belongs' Kate Mosse 'Scholarly, articulate, and never less than fascinating' Alice Loxton A biography of the remarkable, and in her time scandalous, seventeenth-century writer Margaret... -
Gather Together In My Name by Maya Angelou
RRP: €11.89€8.09The sequel to I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' Barack ObamaMaya Angelou's volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the... -
Maigret's Memoirs: Inspector Maigret #35 by Georges Simenon
RRP: €10.70€7.68'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray I can still see Simenon coming into my office the next day, pleased with himself, displaying even more self-confidence, if possible, than before, but nevertheless with a touch of anxiety in his eyes.'... -
The Shapeless Unease: ‘A small miracle of a book’ – Nathan Flier by Samantha Harvey
RRP: €11.89€8.46**Featured on BBC Radio 4's A Good Read** 'A profound meditation on language and loss and time, and on how we construct ourselves through stories. And it's painful. And it's beautiful. And I love it.' NATHAN FLIER Samantha Harvey's insomnia arrived,... -
Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace by David Lipsky
RRP: €20.22€13.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307592439Author David LipskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Three Rivers PressWeight(grams) 504g -
Under the Dome: Walks with Paul Celan by Jean Daive
RRP: €14.27€9.52An arresting memoir of the final years and tragic suicide of one of twentieth-century Europe's greatest poets, published on the centenary of his birth."Daive's memoir sensitively conjures a portrait of a man tormented by both his mind and his medical...