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Female Voices and Egyptian Independence: Marginalized Women in Egyptian and British Fiction by Rania M. Mahmoud 9780755651047
Booksplease Price: $178.21This book offers a nuanced analysis of the ways in which Egyptian and British novels represent the Egyptian nationalist project in its struggle against British hegemony in the aftermath of two... -
The Destroyers by Christopher Bollen 9781471136207
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43'The Destroyers is a smart, sophisticated literary thriller; for all its originality, it invokes the shades of Lawrence Durrell and Graham Greene' Jay McInerney, author of Bright, Precious DaysWhen... -
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RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $4.68'The Destroyers is a smart, sophisticated literary thriller; for all its originality, it invokes the shades of Lawrence Durrell and Graham Greene' Jay McInerney, author of Bright, Precious DaysWhen... -
Sicily: A Literary Guide for Travellers by Andrew Edwards 9781838601829
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $33.13This compelling guide uncovers Sicily's multi-faceted personality through famous literary figures. Rising up from the heart of the Mediterranean, Sicily has a rich and ancient history spanning... -
All the Tiny Moments Blazing: A Literary Guide to Suburban London by Ged Pope
Booksplease Price: $61.62The London suburbs have, for more than two hundred and fifty years, fired the creative literary imagination: whether this is Samuel Johnson hiding away in bucolic preindustrial Streatham, Italo Svevo... -
You Can Get Arrested For That by Rich Smith 9780552174633
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $24.32What started out as an innocent board game inspired Rich Smith to undertake a daring crime spree across the United States - a journey to break the dumbest American laws on the statute books.In the... -
The Garden of the Gods by Gerald Durrell
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50The third book in The Corfu Trilogy (after My Family and Other Animals and Birds, Beasts and Relatives), the beloved books that inspired ITV's television series The Durrells.Just before the Second... -
Carrying the Can: Memoir Of A Filmmaker Christopher Miles 9781917458375
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $54.05From childhood, Christopher Miles was fascinated by celluloid. This love of the moving image announced itself early: he was just 17 when the BBC screened his first film in 1957. To be a filmmaker,... -
Birds, Beasts and Relatives by Gerald Durrell
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50The follow up to My Family and Other Animals and the second book in The Corfu Trilogy, the beloved books that inspired ITV's television series The Durrells.In this second collection of tales... -
Birds, Beasts, and Relatives by Gerald Durrell 9780241762950
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50Volume Two of Gerald Durrell's beloved account of his childhood in Corfu, now in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time'A lot of frolic, fun and charming ribaldry, as well as the warm feeling of... -
A House In Corfu by Emma Tennant
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.66A House in Corfu is the story of one of the most beautiful places on earth, still astonishingly unspoilt, on the west coast of Corfu. In the early 1960s, Emma Tennant's parents, on a cruise, spotted... -
The Tao of Travel by Paul Theroux
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50A compendium of travel writing from a master travellerPaul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe by collecting the best writing on travel from the books that shaped him, as a reader... -
Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn Donald Spoto 9780099487043
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45Born in Brussels in 1929, Audrey Hepburn was the daughter of a British father and a Dutch Baroness. But when she was five, her father deserted the family. With the outbreak of war in 1939, her mother... -
The Satyricon by Petronius Arbiter 9780140448054
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50The Satyricon is one of the most outrageous and strikingly modern works to have survived from the ancient world. Most likely written by an advisor of Nero, it recounts the adventures of Encolpius and... -
Fourteen Byzantine Rulers: The Chronographia of Michael Psellus by Michael Psellus 9780140441697
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $25.00This chronicle of the Byzantine Empire, beginning in 1025, shows a profound understanding of the power politics that characterized the empire and led to its decline.About the AuthorE. R. A. Sewter... -
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Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn by Donald Spoto 9780099487043 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $3.84Born in Brussels in 1929, Audrey Hepburn was the daughter of a British father and a Dutch Baroness. But when she was five, her father deserted the family. With the outbreak of war in 1939, her mother... -
The Ariadne Objective: Patrick Leigh Fermor and the Underground War to Rescue Crete from the Nazis by Wes Davis
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45In the bleakest years of the Second World War when it appeared that nothing could slow the advance of the German army, Hitler set his sights on the Mediterranean island of Crete, the ideal staging... -
The Whispering Land by Gerald Durrell 9780241955840
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07'When you have a large collection of animals to transport from one end of the world to the other you cannot, as a lot of people seem to think, just hoist them aboard the nearest ship and set off with... -
Venice Jan Morris 9780571396634
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50'The best book about Venice ever written' (Sunday Times) - Jan Morris' bestselling travel writing classic is an essential guide to this magical city, newly introduced by Tracy Chevalier.Whether the... -
Wild Olives: Life in Majorca With Robert Graves by William Graves
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.89In 1944, at the age of five, William Graves was taken from England to the delightful mountain village of Deya in Majorca, where his father - the poet Robert Graves - had returned with his new family... -
Guide to Greece: Central Greece by Pausanias
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.49Written in the second century AD by a Greek traveller for a predominantly Roman audience, Pausanias' Guide to Greece is an extraordinarily literate and well-informed guidebook. A study of buildings,... -
Hindoo Holiday: An Indian Journal J. R. Ackerley 9780141189253
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25A highly entertaining and moving journal chronicling J. R. Ackerley's time in IndiaIn the 1920s, the young J. R. Ackerley spent several months in India as the Private Secretary to the Maharajah of... -
Olinger Stories by John Updike
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.89In an interview, Updike once said, "If I had to give anybody one book of me, it would be the Olinger Stories." These stories were originally published in The New Yorker and then in various... -
Quicksands: A Memoir by Sybille Bedford
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $24.32Beginning in 1956 with the publication of A Legacy, Sybille Bedford has narrated - in fiction and non-fiction - what has been by turns her sensuous, harrowing, altogether remarkable life. In this... -
The Penguin Dictionary of Jokes by Fred Metcalf
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50Looking for a good joke? Searching for an ice-breaker for that after-dinner speech? Or are you just in need of a few laughs?Then stop! Your search is over. This book is the finest, funniest... -
Dance To The Music Of Time Volume 1 Anthony Powell 9780099436683
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $28.76_________________________The first three volumes of Anthony Powell's remarkable A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME sequence: A QUESTION OF UPBRINGING; A BUYER'S MARKET; THE ACCEPTANCE WORLD'One of the... -
The Persian Expedition by Xenophon
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00In The Persian Expedition, Xenophon, a young Athenian noble who sought his destiny abroad, provides an enthralling eyewitness account of the attempt by a Greek mercenary army - the Ten Thousand - to... -
An Apology for Idlers by Robert Louis Stevenson
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $11.74An irresistible invitation to reject the work ethic and enjoy life's simple pleasures (such as laughing, drinking and lying in the open air), Robert Louis Stevenson's witty and seminal essay on the... -
British and American Writers in Sicily by Carmine Rapisarda 9781291092226
RRP: $20.59Booksplease Price: $19.36It is a selection of diaries, letters, poems...written by anglophone travellers like Coleridge, Wilde, Woolf, Ruskin, Pound, Lawrence , Durrel, Forster. They visited Sicily and left their memories... -
Oranges and Snow: Selected Poems of Milan Djordjevic by Milan Djordjevic 9780691142463
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $32.39Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic has done more than anyone since Czeslaw Milosz to introduce English-language readers to the greatest modern Slavic poets. In Oranges and Snow, Simic... -
On Henry Miller: Or, How to Be an Anarchist by John Burnside 9780691166872
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $31.75An engaging invitation to rediscover Henry Miller-and to learn how his anarchist sensibility can help us escape "the air-conditioned nightmare" of the modern worldThe American writer Henry Miller's... -
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, Volume VI: Prose: 1969-1973 by W. H. Auden 9780691164588
RRP: $179.40Booksplease Price: $142.80This sixth and final volume of W. H. Auden's prose displays a great writer's mind in its full maturity of wisdom, learning, and emotional and moral intelligence. It contains the full text of the only... -
Alexandria Still: Forster, Durrell, and Cavafy by Jane Lagoudis Pinchin 9780691616599
RRP: $74.10Booksplease Price: $61.04Few places have shaped as many sensibilities as the exotic, mythical city of Alexandria. Jane Lagoudis Pinchin's gracefully written book describes the profound influence exerted by the spirit of... -
Diplomacy in Postwar British Literature and Culture by Caroline Zoe Krzakowski 9781683932901
Booksplease Price: $147.83In Diplomacy in Postwar British Literature and Culture, Krzakowski examines representations of international relations in fiction and non-fiction by Rebecca West, Lawrence Durrell, Olivia Manning,... -
God'S Torment: Poems By Alain Bosquet by Alain Bosquet 9780821410912
Booksplease Price: $45.77Ohio University Press published a first volume of Alain Bosquet's work, Selected Poems, in 1973. Since then, the avant-garde and metaphysical poetry of Bosquet has become widely available to an... -
Inventing Paradise: The Greek Journey, 1937-47 by Edmund Keeley 9780810119390
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $31.01In the looming shadow of an oppressive dictatorship and imminent world war, George Seferis and George Katsimbalis, along with other poets and writers from Greece's fabled Generation of the 1930s,... -
Sail Away by Lena Lencek 9781569245842
Booksplease Price: $34.28Something happens when men and women put a plank between themselves and the water and set out on a voyage, whether for a day or a lifetime. Now Sail Away brings together the very finest writing about... -
Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier: Centenary Essays by Max Saunders 9789004299160
Booksplease Price: $181.99The controversial British writer Ford Madox Ford is increasingly recognized as a major presence in early twentieth-century literature. He is best-known for his fiction, especially The Good Soldier,... -
Because the Light Will Not Forgive Me: Essays from a Poet by Shaun T. Griffin
Booksplease Price: $55.54This is a book of essays about the American West, ranging from what it means to be a poet/artist, to social justice and environmental concerns, to memory, place, and landscape. It's about looking... -
Tenth Muse: An Anthology by Harold Pinter 9781857548365
Booksplease Price: $52.28"The Tenth Muse" gathers together the selections of work of well known poets made by members of their family. These selections originally appeared in pamphlets produced by the Greville...