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Orbit: The Seventies: David Bowie, Alice Cooper, Keith Richards and Michael Jackson by Michael Frizell 9781954044487
RRP: £19.99£19.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954044487Author Michael FrizellFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Tidalwave ProductionsPublisher Tidalwave ProductionsWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm)... -
Charlotte Bronte: A Life by Claire Harman
RRP: £14.99£10.95The definitive biography of an extraordinary novelist, by acclaimed literary biographer Claire Harman'There was no possibility of taking a walk that day . . .' With these words Charlotte Bronte began Jane Eyre and changed English literature irrevocably... -
Woman Much Missed: Thomas Hardy, Emma Hardy, and Poetry by Mark Ford 9780192886804
RRP: £25.00£21.19Woman Much Missed is the first book-length study of the many poems (over 150) that Thomas Hardy composed in the wake of the death of his first wife Emma in November of 1912. Mark Ford uses these poems to develop a narrative of their four-year courtship... -
Mozart in Motion: His Work and His World in Pieces by Patrick Mackie
RRP: £10.99£7.32'A dazzling celebration and recalibration of Mozart's genius, written with an energy to match its subject' Ian Bostridge Mozart is one of the most familiar and beloved icons of our culture, but how much do we really understand of his music, and what... -
The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy
RRP: £10.99£7.05'Every deep feeling a human is capable of will be shaken loose by this short, but profound book' David Sedaris'I wanted what we all want: everything. We want a mate who feels like family and a lover who is exotic, surprising. We want to be youthful... -
The Wife of Bath: A Biography by Marion Turner
RRP: £20.00£15.54From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle Ages to #MeTooEver since her triumphant debut in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and... -
The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem by Matthew Hollis 9780571297221
RRP: £12.99£8.32** Chosen as a New Statesman, Financial Times, Observer and Sunday Times Book of the Year **A riveting account of the making of T. S. Eliot's celebrated poem The Waste Land on its centenary.'A rattling good story' Sunday Telegraph'A work of art' Times... -
Head Over Heels in the Dales by Gervase Phinn
RRP: £9.99£7.11Join Gervase Phinn in the classroom where he faces his greatest challenge: keeping a straight face as teachers and children alike conspire to have him laughing out loud . . .'So funny, it will echo things that happen in your own life' 5***** Reader... -
Writing Home by Alan Bennett
RRP: £12.99£8.56Already a bestseller, this is a wonderfully entertaining collection of Alan Bennett's prose writings. Writing Home brings together diaries, reminiscences and reviews to give us a unique and unforgettable portrait of one of England's leading playwrights... -
Always Unreliable: Memoirs by Clive James
RRP: £16.99£12.18Always Unreliable is the collected first three volumes of Clive James's eloquently witty autobiographies, Unreliable Memoirs, Falling Towards England and May Week Was in June.In Unreliable Memoirs we meet the young Clive James - dressed in shorts and... -
The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne
RRP: £12.99£8.48Who was the real Jane Austen? Overturning the traditional portrait of the author as conventional and genteel, bestseller Paula Byrne's landmark biography reveals the real woman behind the books. In this paperback of the landmark biography,... -
My Mother Laughs by Chantal Akerman
RRP: £14.99£10.95In 2013, the filmmaker Chantal Akerman's mother was dying. She flew back from New York to care for her, and between dressing her, feeding her and putting her to bed, she wrote. She wrote about her childhood, the escape her mother made from Auschwitz but... -
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings by Thomas De Quincey
RRP: £7.99£5.79'I took it: - and in an hour, oh! Heavens! what a revulsion! what an upheaving, from its lowest depths, of the inner spirit! what an apocalypse of the world within me!' Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) launched a... -
Letters of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
RRP: £12.00£8.44The same inimitable voice and dazzling insights that make Emily Dickinson's poems immortal can be found in the whimsical, humorous, and often deeply moving letters she wrote to her family and friends throughout her life. The selection of letters... -
Surprised by Joy by C. S. Lewis
RRP: £9.99£7.19For many years an atheist, C. S. Lewis vividly describes the spiritual quest that convinced him of the truth and reality of Christianity, in his famous autobiography. "In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God ..... -
Testament Of Youth: Film Tie In by Vera Brittain
RRP: £12.99£8.18NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE With an introduction by her biographer, Mark Bostridge'Remains one of the most powerful and widely read war memoirs of all time' GUARDIAN 'Vera Brittain's heart-rending account of the way her generation's lives changed is still... -
The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality by William Egginton
RRP: £27.00£20.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593316306Author William EggintonFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector by Benjamin Moser
RRP: £16.99£12.28"That rare person who looked like Marlene Dietrich and wrote like Virginia Woolf," Clarice Lispector is one of the most popular but least understood of Latin American writers, and now in Why this World, after years of research on three continents,... -
What Am I Still Doing Here?: My Life as Me by Roger Lewis
RRP: £10.99£7.05'Unremittingly glorious. I and the world demand more and we shall thump our tin mugs on the table demanding it until we are satisfied.'Stephen FryLoveable... Dreadful... Amazing... Learned... Baroque... Exquisite... Utterly wonderful... Uplifting..... -
The Common Years by Jilly Cooper
RRP: £9.99£7.11During the ten years she lived at the edge of Putney Common Jilly Cooper walked daily on this expanse of green. For most of the time she lived there she kept a diary, noting the effects of the changing seasons and writing about her encounters with dogs... -
Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin
RRP: £12.99£9.09Charles Dickens is the acclaimed definitive biography by bestselling author Claire Tomalin Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social... -
100 Novels That Changed the World by Colin Salter 9780008599089
RRP: £22.00£14.58A look at 100 inspiring novels that have left a significant mark on the world of literature and popular culture. Before the novel, the world of books was dominated by scientific tomes, religious tracts and histories... -
Tom Stoppard: A Life by Professor Dame Hermione Lee 9780571314430
RRP: £30.00£9.68A unique portrait of a great playwright by one of our leadin literary biographers. With unprecedented access to private papers, diaries, letters, and countless interviews with figures ranging from Felicity Kendal to John Boorman and Trevor Nunn to Steven... -
Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life by Howard Sounes
RRP: £12.99£8.56Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life is the classic biography of Charles Bukowski, the hard-drinking barfly whose semi-autobiographical books about low-life America made him a cult figure across the globe. Extensive original research and unique... -
At the Loch of the Green Corrie by Andrew Greig
RRP: £10.99£7.05A homage to a remarkable poet and his world.'At The Loch of Green Corrie is more than merely elegant, more than a collection of albeit fascinating insights, laugh-out-loud observations and impressively broad erudition' - Sunday Herald'You could easily... -
The Importance of Music to Girls by Lavinia Greenlaw
RRP: £9.99£6.70If I had not kissed anyone, or danced with anyone, or had a reason to cry, the music made me feel as if I had gone through all that anyway . . . the music attracted and repelled, organised and disturbed and then let us into the night, clusters of emotion... -
How to Think Like Sherlock: Improve Your Powers of Observation, Memory and Deduction by Daniel Smith 9781843179535
RRP: £10.99£7.26'You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.' Such were the words of the master detective Sherlock Holmes to Dr Watson, as he noted how his friend failed to implement Holmes's techniques. In How to think like Sherlock you will learn how... -
Nobody Home: Writing, Buddhism, and Living in Places by Julia Martin 9781595342515
RRP: £12.99£8.63In this thoughtful, affectionate collection of interviews and letters spanning three decades, beloved poet Gary Snyder talks with South African writer and scholar Julia Martin. Over this period many things changed decisively--globally, locally, and in... -
Moments Of Being by Virginia Woolf 9780712646185
RRP: £12.99£9.09Virginia Woolf's only autobiographical writing is to be found in this collection of five unpublished pieces. Despite Quentin Bell's comprehensive biography and numerous recent studies of her, the author's own account of her early life holds new... -
Elizabeth Jane Howard: A Dangerous Innocence by Artemis Cooper
RRP: £14.99£9.32Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923-2014) wrote brilliant novels about what love can do to people, but in her own life the lasting relationship she sought so ardently always eluded her. She grew up yearning to be an actress; but when that ambition was thwarted... -
Dr Johnson's Dictionary: The Book that Defined the World by Henry Hitchings
RRP: £10.99£7.05By 1700, France and Italy already had dictionaries of their own, and it became a matter of national pride that England should rival them. Dr Johnson rose to the challenge, turning over the garret of his London home to the creation of his Dictionary. He... -
Goodbye to all that by Robert Graves 9781841593845
RRP: £12.99£9.09Robert Graves, aged nineteen, left school within a week of the outbreak of World War I, and immediately volunteered with the Royal Welch Fusiliers. His experiences as a junior officer form the heart of this compelling autobiography. Beginning with an... -
Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth by John Garth
RRP: £10.99£7.25* TOLKIEN * Now a major motion picture Acclaimed as 'the best book about Tolkien', this award-winning biography explores J.R.R. Tolkien's wartime experiences and their impact on his life and his writing of The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings... -
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
RRP: £10.99£7.00Homage to Catalonia remains one of the most famous accounts of the Spanish Civil War. With characteristic scrutiny, Orwell questions the actions and motives of all sides whilst retaining his firm beliefs in human courage and the need for radical social... -
Why Orwell Matters by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: £13.99£8.75"Hitchens presents a George Orwell fit for the twenty-first century." --Boston GlobeIn this widely acclaimed biographical essay, the masterful polemicist Christopher Hitchens assesses the life, the achievements, and the myth of the great political writer... -
Once Upon a Tome: The misadventures of a rare bookseller by Oliver Darkshire
RRP: £14.99£10.95'Peculiarly hilarious!' - William Gibson'Every page is a pleasure' - Lindsey FItzharris'Utterly charming' - Tom Holland'Laugh-out-loud' - Garth Nix'A must read' - Fergus Butler-Gallie'Brims with self-effacing charm' - Caitlin Doughty'Unfortunately I have... -
The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath And Ted Hughes by Janet Malcolm
RRP: £10.00£6.71Is it ever possible to know 'the truth' about Sylvia Plath and her marriage to Ted Hughes, which ended with her suicide? In The Silent Woman, renowned writer Janet Malcolm examines the biographies of Sylvia Plath, with particular focus on Anne... -
Going Solo by Roald Dahl 9780241677391
RRP: £7.99£5.79It was truly the most breathless and in a way the most exhilarating time I have ever had in my life.This beautiful edition of Going Solo, part of The Roald Dahl Classic Collection, features official archive material from the Roald Dahl Museum and is... -
The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue by Frederick Forsyth
RRP: £10.99£7.77FREDERICK FORSYTH HAS SEEN IT ALL. AND LIVED TO TELL THE TALE...At eighteen, Forsyth was the youngest pilot to qualify with the RAF.At twenty-five, he was stationed in East Berlin as a journalist during the Cold War.Before he turned thirty, he was in... -
Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury
RRP: £10.99£7.25In this exuberant book, the incomparable Ray Bradbury shares the wisdom, experience, and excitement of a lifetime of writing. The first thing a writer should be is - excited Author of the iconic FAHRENHEIT 451, THE ILLUSTRATED MAN...