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The Presence by Dannie Abse 9780099531869 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99£2.13WINNER OF THE WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN/ACKERLY PRIZE. Several months after the death of poet Dannie Abse's wife, Joan, in a car accident, he began to write a diary which is both a record of present grief and a portrait of a... -
John Gwilym Jones by William Lewis 9780708312513 [USED COPY]
£3.86This is an introduction to the life and work of one of the greatest Welsh dramatists of this century. John Gwilym Jones (1904-1988) was also a short-story writer, novelist and literary critic whose work was almost exclusively in the Welsh language. The... -
The Wicked Wit of Jane Austen by Dominique Enright 9781843175674 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£1.87Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Man Who Left Too Soon - the Life and Works of Stieg Larsson by Barry Forshaw 9781843583707 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99£2.13Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
William Shakespeare by Peter Holland 9780199212835 [USED COPY]
RRP: £4.99£1.78Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Little Book of Betjeman by Jon Stroud 9781907803390 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£3.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907803390Author Jon StroudFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint G2 Entertainment LtdPublisher G2 Entertainment LtdWeight(grams) 326g -
Will's Will: The Last Wishes of William Shakespeare by Simon Trussler 9781905615247 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99£2.13The original will - one of the National Archives' most prized treasures - is reproduced in full, with a transcript for modern readers. Individual phrases are probed with a light, entertaining touch to reveal what we can piece together about Shakespeare... -
Married To Genius by Jeffrey Meyers 9781904915096 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£1.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904915096Author Jeffrey MeyersFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Southbank PublishingPublisher Southbank PublishingWeight(grams) 321g -
As I Was a Boy Fishing: Selected Essays by R.L. Davies 9781902638324 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99£1.79Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Dictionary of Literary Biography: v. 77: British Mystery Writers, 1920-39 by Thomas F. Staley 9780810345553 [USED COPY]
RRP: £233.01£87.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780810345553Author Thomas F. StaleyFormat HardbackPage Count 414Imprint Cengage GalePublisher Cengage GaleWeight(grams) 1503g -
Jane Austen by Carol Shields 9780753812563 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£2.13Bestselling novelist with an enormous critical reputation takes on one of the most popular and enduring English novelists of all. The prizewinning novelist Carol Shields, whose novels have themselves been compared to the works of Jane Austen, gives us a... -
'Tis: a Memoir by Frank McCourt 9780743200981 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.42£2.32"McCourt has created an unsparing portrait of a man, and a time, that's richer and more devastating than his earlier work. 'Tis is a better book than Angela's Ashes" (Esquire). Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt's poignant memoir of his Irish... -
The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue by Frederick Forsyth 9780593075401 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.29Frederick Forsyth has seen it all. And lived to tell the tale. 'We all make mistakes, but starting the Third World War would have been a rather large one. To this day, I still maintain it was not entirely my fault. But I'm getting ahead of myself. During... -
In the Blood: A Memoir of my Childhood by Sir Andrew Motion 9780571228034 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.29In the Blood is Andrew Motion's beautifully written memoir of growing up in post-war England - an unforgettable evocation of family life, school life and country life. It also tells the story of how these worlds are shattered, when his mother suffers a... -
Mailer: A Biography by Mary V. Dearborn 9780395736555 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99£11.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395736555Author Mary V. DearbornFormat HardbackPage Count 478Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 903g -
Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited by Philip Eade 9780297869207 [USED COPY]
RRP: £30.00£2.65BOOK OF THE WEEK on BBC Radio 4, a GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES and FINANCIAL TIMES Book of the Year and a Waterstones.com Best Biography of 2016 'A brisk, lively and wonderfully entertaining account of the life of a strange, tormented, unique creature' JOHN... -
Stieg Larsson, My Friend by Kurdo Baksi 9780857050212 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.26Five years after his death, Stieg Larsson is best known as the author of the Millennium Trilogy, but during his career as a journalist he was a crucial protagonist in the battle against racism and for democracy in Sweden, and one of the founders of the... -
Conversations with George Saunders by Michael O'Connell 9781496840295
RRP: £98.00£96.52Besides being one of America's most celebrated living authors, George Saunders (b. 1958) is also an excellent interview subject. In the fourteen interviews included in Conversations with George Saunders, covering nearly twenty years of his career, the... -
Thomas Jeffery Llewelyn Prichard by Sam Adams 9780708316450
RRP: £4.99£4.04A study of the strange life and pathetic death of T.J. Llewelyn Prichard, the author of "Twm Sion Catti", the first Welsh novel in English which was popular enough to have been pirated in the mid-19th century.About the AuthorSam Adams has written widely... -
Maeve Binchy: The Biography by Piers Dudgeon 9781849546959 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.65Maeve Binchy's heart-warming tales of love, life and loss made her one of Ireland's most celebrated writers. Seared with a truth and honesty that leapt from the page, her books captured the imagination and loyalty of millions of readers, for whom there... -
Maeve Binchy: A Reminiscence by Piers Dudgeon 9781849545112 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.65Maeve Binchy's novels sold more than 40 million copies worldwide, and when she died on 30th July 2012, she did so as Ireland's best-loved writer. In books such as Circle of Friends, Tara Road and Scarlet Feather, no one else told stories like Maeve... -
One Man and a Mule: Across England with a Pack Mule by Hugh Thomson 9781848094697 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.65In the Middle Ages, mules were used to transport goods across Britain. Strong, sturdy and able to carry a good 160 lbs of weight, they made ideal walking companions (as long as you didn't ask them to do anything they disapproved of). Now Hugh Thomson has... -
Somewhere Towards The End by Diana Athill 9781847080691 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£1.78What is it like to be old? Diana Athill made her reputation as a writer with the candour of her memoirs - her commitment, in her words, 'to understand, to be aware, to touch the truth'. Now in her nineties, and freed from any inhibitions that even she... -
The Summer My Father Died by Yudit Kiss 9781846590948 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£2.63Yudit Kiss has grown up a Communist, sponged up her father's ideology unquestioningly. So as a child she is puzzled when others refer to her as Jewish, all she knows is that her family don't believe in a God. How can they? As her father lies dying, Yudit... -
Ken Elias: Thin Partitions by Ken Elias 9781854115010 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854115010Author Anne Price-OwenFormat PaperbackImprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 585g -
My Dear Mother: Stormy, Boastful, and Tender Letters by Distinguished Sons - from Dostoevsky to Elvis by Karen Elizabeth Gordan 9781565121218 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99£2.32Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Thomas Jeffery Llewelyn Prichard by Sam Adams 9780708316450 [USED COPY]
RRP: £4.99£4.56Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Love from Boy: Roald Dahl's Letters to his Mother by Donald Sturrock 9781444786279 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.29'Dear Mama, I am having a lovely time here. We play football every day here. The beds have no springs . . .'So begins the first letter that a nine-year-old Roald Dahl penned to his mother, Sofie Magdalene, under the watchful eye of his boarding-school... -
The House of Happy Endings by Leslie Garis 9780224082402 [USED COPY]
£2.70Leslie Garis' grandparents, Howard and Lillian Garis, were, from the turn of the century to the 1950s, phenomenally productive (and incredibly popular) authors of books for children. Every American child grew up reading the Uncle Wiggily stories, "The... -
The Love-charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War by Lara Feigel 9781408830444 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00£2.29'The nightly routine of sirens, barrage, the probing raider, the unmistakable engine ("Where are you? Where are you? Where are you?"), the bomb-bursts moving nearer and then moving away, hold one like a love-charm' Graham Greene When the first... -
John le Carre: The Biography by Adam Sisman 9781408827925 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00£2.80Over half a century since The Spy Who came in from the Cold made John le Carre a worldwide, bestselling sensation, David Cornwell, the man behind the pseudonym, remains an enigma. He has consistently quarried his life for his writing, and his novels seem... -
A Card From Angela Carter by Susannah Clapp 9781408826904 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.00£2.13Angela Carter was one of the most vivid voices of the twentieth century. When she died in 1992 at the age of fifty-one, she had published fifteen books of fiction and essays; outrage at her omission from any Booker Prize shortlists led to the foundation... -
Alone...But Never Lonely: Katherine by K Lee 9780997137828
£13.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997137828Author K LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Krystal Lee Enterprises LLCPublisher Krystal Lee Enterprises LLCWeight(grams) 150g -
Written in Water: Keats's final Journey by Alessandro Gallenzi 9781846884719
RRP: £12.99£9.09On 17th September 1820, accompanied by his friend Joseph Severn, John Keats left London for Italy on board the Maria Crowther in a desperate bid to restore his health. Anguished at the thought of having to part, possibly for ever, from his fiancée and... -
Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett: The Courtship Correspondence, 1845-1846. A Selection by Daniel Karlin 9780198185475
£99.98The love letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett are among the most famous in literary history: intimate and sensitive, they illuminate both the writers' lives and their creative aims and methods. Daniel Karlin's selection, which complements his... -
A Memoir of Jane Austen (Cactus Classics Large Print): 16 Point Font; Large Text; Large Type by James Edward Austen-Leigh 9781773600604
£21.59Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Paris Review Interviews, III: The Indispensable Collection of Literary Wisdom by The Paris Review 9780312363154
RRP: £18.99£14.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312363154Author Philip GourevitchFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams)... -
Confessions of a Reluctant Erotica Writer by Tori Ross 9798987994511
RRP: £10.99£8.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798987994511Author Tori RossFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Tori RossPublisher Tori RossWeight(grams) 150g -
Alexander Pope by Bonamy Dobree 9780806530178
RRP: £12.95£10.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806530178Author Bonamy DobreeFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Philosophical LibraryPublisher Philosophical LibraryWeight(grams) 200g -
Conversations with Beth Henley by Jackson R. Bryer 9781496844309
RRP: £24.95£15.69With roots in the American South, Beth Henley (b. 1952) has for four decades been a working playwright and screenwriter. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1981 at the age of twenty-eight, Henley so far has written twenty-five produced plays that are always...