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The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton 9780684842370
Booksplease Price: £10.65Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is an elegant, masterful portrait of desire and betrayal in old New York-now with a new introduction from acclaimed author Colm Toibin for the... -
Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Listen out for Rutger Bregman. He has a big future shaping the future' Observer 'A more politically radical Malcolm Gladwell' New York Times 'The Dutch... -
Ernest Hemingway: A Comprehensive Bibliography by Audre Hanneman 9780691622859
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £66.64This bibliography of Hemingway's writings and related materials includes, for the first time, all of his books, pamphlets, stories, articles, newspaper contributions, juvenilia, library holdings of... -
The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers by Ayn Rand 9780452281547
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £19.08In 1958, Ayn Rand, already the world-famous author of such bestselling books as Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, gave a private series of extemporaneous lectures in her own living room on the art... -
Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends by Anne Applebaum
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'The most important non-fiction book of the year' David HareIn the years just before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, people... -
Through the Wheat: A Novel of the World War I Marines by Thomas Boyd
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.65Fresh out of a Defiance, Ohio, high school, Thomas Boyd (1898-1935) joined the Marines to serve his country in the patriotic heat of the spring of 1917. In 1919 he came home from the war with a Croix... -
Hiroshima by John Hersey 9780141041865
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, it was the beginning of a terrifying new episode in human history. Written only a year... -
Harry's Bar: The Life and Times of the Legendary Venice Landmark by Arrigo Cipriani 9781956763065
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Now in paperback, the inside story of one of the world's most renowned watering holes, legendary since the days of Hemingway.Harry's Bar in Venice has remained one of the world's most storied... -
Hiroshima by John Hersey
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.84The explosion over Hiroshima of the first nuclear bomb reduced, in an instant, an entire city to rubble and killed over 100,000 men, women and children. It also announced a new era in human history:... -
Wry Harvest: An Anthology of Midwest Humor by Chris Lamb 9780253218728
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.77If you live in the Midwest, you have to know how to laugh. Tornados, floods, drought, and miles and miles of flat land: if you don't have a sense of humor, you might want to consider living somewhere... -
The Atom Station by Halldor Laxness
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49When the Americans make an offer to buy land in Iceland to build a NATO airbase after the Second World War, a storm of protest is provoked throughout the country. Narrated by a country girl from the... -
Credo: The Rose Wilder Lane Story Peter Bagge 9781770463417
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.15Peter Bagge returns with a biography of another fascinating twentieth-century trailblazer the writer, feminist, war correspondent, and libertarian Rose Wilder Lane. Following the popularity and... -
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros 9781841594231
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41The House on Mango Street is one of the most cherished novels of the last fiftyyears. Readers from all walks of life have fallen for the voice of EsperanzaCordero, growing up in Chicago and inventing... -
Understanding John Updike by Frederic Svoboda 9781643360966
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91The winner of every major American literary prize, John Updike (1932-2009) was one of the most popular and prolific novelists of his time and a major cultural figure who traced the high point and... -
Spokesmen by T.K. Whipple 9780520315105
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £31.29Spokesmen, by T. K. Whipple, gathers a series of essays written in the 1920s, a decade when American literature was breaking decisively from academic gentility and provincial puritanism. Whipple... -
The Best American Book of the 20th Century by Societe realiste 9789491677267
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £16.10As 'The Best American Book of the 20th Century' travels through the textual materiality of an entire century of mass-produced literature, it suggests intertextual relationships between the narratives... -
Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorUrsula Parrott (1899-1957) was born Katherine Ursula Towle in Dorchester, Massachusetts. After graduating... -
No Prophets: The Fight to Save Democracy from Christian Nationalism by Jared Huffman 9781324130482
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.69Sinclair Lewis is said to have warned: "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross." On January 6, 2021, Rep. Jared Huffman saw something chillingly close to... -
Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents by Ian Buruma 9780691156057
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.70Why religion must be separated from politics if democracy is to thrive around the worldFor eight years the president of the United States was a born-again Christian, backed by well-organized... -
Aleister Crowley in America: Art, Espionage, and Sex Magick in the New World by Tobias Churton 9781620556306
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £18.80An exploration of Crowley's relationship with the United States * Details Crowley's travels, passions, literary and artistic endeavors, sex magick, and psychedelic experimentation * Investigates... -
Roaring Back: The Fall and Rise of Tiger Woods by Curt Sampson
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £11.93The incredible true story of Tiger Woods's dramatic return to glory at the 2019 Masters following his humbling and very public personal, physical, and professional setbacks. One publicly... -
A Mirror in the Roadway: Literature and the Real World by Morris Dickstein 9780691130330
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.02In a famous passage in The Red and the Black, the French writer Stendhal described the novel as a mirror being carried along a roadway. In the twentieth century this was derided as a naive notion of... -
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum by Katherine Boo 9781846274510 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.98'A Mumbai slum understood and imagined as never before in language of intense beauty' Salman Rushdie 'If Bollywood ever decides to do its own version of The Wire, this would be it' Barbara... -
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum by Katherine Boo 9781846274510
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'A Mumbai slum understood and imagined as never before in language of intense beauty' Salman Rushdie 'If Bollywood ever decides to do its own version of The Wire, this would be it' Barbara...