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Tolstoy by Henri Troyat
$39.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802137685Author Henri TroyatFormat PaperbackPage Count 896Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly... -
Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
$20.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Awards 2006. Nominated for National Book Critics Circle Awards.Book InformationISBN 9781400078431Author Joan DidionFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Earl Hamner: From Walton's Mountain to Tomorrow by James E. Person
RRP: $29.23$19.27"Since Spencer's Mountain I have followed Earl Hamner's career with much interest and much satisfaction, having picked a winner." -Harper Lee, author of To Kill a MockingbirdEarl Hamner, one of America's best-loved storytellers, has never been the... -
Making Oscar Wilde by Michele Mendelssohn
RRP: $29.23$21.35Witty, inspiring, and charismatic, Oscar Wilde is one of the Greats of English literature. Today, his plays and stories are beloved around the world. But it was not always so. His afterlife has given him the legitimacy that life denied him. Making Oscar... -
Virginia Woolf, Life and London: A Biography of Place by Jean Moorcroft Wilson 9780393336580
RRP: $37.05$31.49Like Dickens, Pepys, and Dr. Johnson, Virginia Woolf had an intense personal and literary response to London, her native city and lifelong home. This book provides a dual portrait of the great writer and her London.Book InformationISBN... -
Edward Thomas and Wales by Jeff Towns 9781912681129
RRP: $19.48$16.03Edward Thomas and Wales offers a fascinating re-evaluation of Thomas's writing. Bringing together for the first time the prose and poetry centred in Thomas's ancestral land of Wales, it explores the `Welshness' of Thomas's work and of Thomas himself... -
Blues In Black And White by May Amin
RRP: $42.80$28.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865438903Author May AminFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 257g -
W.B.Yeats: A New Biography by A. Norman Jeffares 9780826455246
RRP: $156.00$149.70This volume, a reissue of the 1990 edition of Jeffares's biography of Yeats, with a new introduction and bibliography, is an account of Yeats's life and work. It features a collection of previously unpublished letters, photographs and poetry.Book... -
Wilfred Owen's Shrewsbury: from the Severn to Poetry and War by Helen McPhail 9781910839256
RRP: $25.25$21.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910839256Author Helen McPhailFormat PaperbackImprint Logaston PressPublisher Fircone Books Ltd -
Seedtime III: Notebooks, 1995-1998 by Phlippe Jaccottet
RRP: $33.13$28.49Writers' notebooks sometimes prove more revelatory than diaries or intimate journals. At first they might appear to be rag-and-bone shops of ideas, insights, hesitations, doubts, and records of things seen, heard, read, dreamt. But eventually they... -
Rimbaud: A Biography by Graham Robb 9780393322675
RRP: $56.55$49.02Unknown beyond the avant-garde at the time of his death, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) has been one of the most destructive and liberating influences on twentieth-century culture. During his lifetime he was a bourgeois-baiting visionary, and the list of his... -
Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir by Frances Mayes
RRP: $42.90$30.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307885920Author Frances MayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 201mm... -
Summer in the Shadow of Byron by Andrew McConnell Stott
RRP: $29.23$19.11Villa Diodati. 1816.In a villa on the shore of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and his young wife Mary, gathered for the summer. For three glittering months, this party of young bohemians would share their lives, charged with sexual and artistic... -
Print of a Hare's Foot by Rhys Davies 9781854111807 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.55$3.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854111807Author Rhys DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 235g -
Print of a Hare's Foot by Rhys Davies 9781854111807
RRP: $13.55$9.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854111807Author Rhys DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 235g -
May Sarton: A Biography by Margot Peters 9780449907986
RRP: $36.86$28.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449907986Author Margot PetersFormat PaperbackPage Count 474Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 590g -
Olaf Stapledon by Crossley 9780815602811
RRP: $77.90$58.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815602811Author Robert T. CrossleyFormat HardbackPage Count 474Imprint Syracuse University PressPublisher Syracuse University PressWeight(grams)... -
Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey by Ariel Dorfman 9780140282535
$31.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140282535Author Ariel DorfmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 217gDimensions(mm) 197mm *... -
Such, Such Were the Joys: Illustrated Orwell by George Orwell
RRP: $29.23$19.95One of the most famous writers of all time, George Orwell's life played a huge part in his understanding of the world. A constant critic of power and authority, the roots of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four began to grow in his formative years as a... -
The Ambulance Drivers: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and a Friendship Made and Lost in War by James McGrath Morris
RRP: $48.75$40.19Rich in evocative detail--from Paris cafes to Austrian chateaus, from the streets of Pamplona to the waters of Key West--The Ambulance Drivers tells the story of two aspiring writers, Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos, who met in World War I and... -
Gertrude Stein Has Arrived: The Homecoming of a Literary Legend by Roy Morris, Jr. 9781421431536
RRP: $39.98$31.71The American book tour that catapulted Gertrude Stein from quirky artist to a household name.In 1933, experimental writer and longtime expatriate Gertrude Stein skyrocketed to overnight fame with the publication of an unlikely best seller, The... -
Proust: The Search by Benjamin Taylor
RRP: $23.38$19.79An arresting study of the life, times, and achievement of one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century "Taylor's endeavor is not to explain the life by the novel or the novel by the life but to show how different events, different... -
Pleasant Valley by Louis Bromfield 9781606354612
RRP: $42.80$24.47Bromfield's personal account of life and environmental practice at his Malabar Farm Both memoir and environmental commentary, this unique and classic work by Louis Bromfield engages and educates us as he demonstrates the importance of sustainable... -
Letters of Ayn Rand by Ayn Rand 9780452274044
RRP: $52.07$39.84The publication of the letters of Ayn Rand is a cause for celebration, not only among the countless millions of Ayn Rand admirers the world over, but also among all those interested in the key political, philosophical, and artistic issues of our century... -
Kahlil Gibran: A Biography by Alexandre Najjar 9780863566684 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.48$5.01'If there is a man who can read "The Prophet" without a singing in the heart as of music born within, that man is indeed dead to life and truth' - "The Chicago Post". Author of the international bestseller "The Prophet", Kahlil Gibran and his work remain... -
Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries by Rick Emerson
RRP: $44.83$33.87"Unmask Alice by Rick Emerson goes a long way to showing what investigative journalism could be in the right hands . . . this book is undeniably buzzworthy." -Portland Book Review"An absorbing and unnerving read . . . this book demands to be finished in... -
Journeys Without a Map: A Writer's Life by Marion Molteno
RRP: $23.38$16.44Award-winning author Marion Molteno takes us on a magical journey of discovery into the life of a writer and her readers. From book events in small English towns to huge literary festivals in India and Pakistan, from the mountains of Tajikistan to... -
Robert Louis Stevenson: The Travelling Mind by Eileen Dunlop
RRP: $9.73$8.46'For we are very lucky, with a lamp before the door And Leerie stops to light it, as he lights so many more...' The picture of a small boy peering from a window at dusk to watch the lamplighter in the street is one of the enduring images of 19th-century... -
Maurice Blanchot: A Critical Biography by Christophe Bident
$70.61Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003) was one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. His novels, shorter narratives, literary criticism, and fragmentary texts exercised enormous influence over several generations of writers, artists, and... -
Moments Liberty by Virginia Woolf 9780156619127
RRP: $63.38$46.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156619127Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 739g -
Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. by Luis J Rodriguez 9780743276917
RRP: $35.08$21.63Apologies 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 *... -
Austerity Baby by Janet Wolff
RRP: $48.75$35.72Austerity Baby might best be described as an 'oblique memoir'. Janet Wolff's fascinating volume is a family history - but one that is digressive and consistently surprising. The central underlying and repeated themes of the book are exile and... -
Smashed in the USSR by Caroline Walton 9781908699220
$16.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908699220Author Caroline WaltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing -
Fritz Leiber and H.P. Lovecraft: Writers of the Dark by Fritz Leiber 9780809500772
RRP: $54.58$47.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809500772Author Fritz LeiberFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Wildside PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 652gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Katharine Briggs: Story-Teller by H.R. Ellis Davidson 9780718826598
$123.79Katharine Briggs made an indelible mark on the world of folklore with her compilation of the Dictionary of British Folktales in the English Languages, while her subsequent Dictionary of Fairies confirmed her already distinguished place among British... -
In Search of Sir Thomas Browne: The Life and Afterlife of the Seventeenth Century's Most Inquiring Mind by Hugh Aldersey-Williams 9780393241648
RRP: $80.93$68.17Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) was an English writer, physician, and philosopher whose work has inspired everyone from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Jorge Luis Borges, Virginia Woolf to Stephen Jay Gould. In an intellectual adventure like Sarah Bakewell's book... -
Pamela Hansford Johnson: Her Life, Work and Times by Wendy Pollard 9780856832987
RRP: $48.75$44.91This first biography of Pamela Hansford Johnson (1912-1981) has been written with the full co-operation of her three children, who allowed Wendy Pollard access to previously unexamined diaries, letters and much other material, illuminating their mother's... -
The Private Life of Lord Byron by Antony Peattie
$70.96The great Romantic poet Lord Byron starved himself compulsively for most of his life. His behaviour mystified his friends and other witnesses, yet he never imagined he was ill. Instead, he rationalised his behaviour as a fight for spiritual freedom and... -
It's All One Case: The Illustrated Ross Macdonald Archives by Jerome Charyn 9781606998885
RRP: $77.98$54.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606998885Author Jerome CharynFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics -
Virginia Woolf & Vanessa Bell: A Childhood in St Ives by Marion Whybrow
RRP: $48.73$32.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906690571Author Marion WhybrowFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint HalstarPublisher Halsgrove