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Forays into Swedish Poetry by Lars Gustafsson
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56When poet/critic Lars Gustafsson was the editor of Bonniers Litterara Magasin, he was bombarded with the question, "What makes a good poem?" Forays into Swedish Poetry is his answer.The fifteen poems... -
Homer And Langley by E. L. Doctorow
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Brilliant brothers Langley and Homer Collyer are born into bourgeois New York comfort, their home a mansion on upper Fifth Avenue, their future rosy. But before he is out of his teens Homer begins to... -
Touch her soft lips and part by William Walton 9780193410909
Booksplease Price: £4.12for SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied The text for this arrangement of the second of William Walton's Two Pieces for Strings from Henry V' is based on the line 'Touch her soft mouth, and part'... -
Greek Myths: A New Retelling, with drawings by Chris Ofili by Charlotte Higgins
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.67'A great storyteller' Madeline Miller, author of CirceIn this powerful new collection, Charlotte Higgins foregrounds Greek mythology's most enduring heroines. Here are the myths of Heracles and... -
On Alchemy: Essential Practices and Making Art as Alchemy by Brian Cotnoir
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Alchemy is the art of transmuting base metal into gold - a material process that also functions as a metaphor for spiritual transformation and creativity. This book contains all the information and... -
The Unspeakable Skipton: The Modern Classic Pamela Hansford Johnson 9781473679894
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Witty, satirical and deftly malicious' Anthony Burgess Described by the New York Times upon her death as 'one of Britain's best-known novelists', delve into the sparkling and satirical world of... -
Snarky as F*ck: A Sassy, Irreverant Guide for Dealing with People's Bullsh*t Lawrence Dorfman 9781510777835
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Learn how to become the most glorious a**shole the world has ever seen. Are you tired of everyone's bullsh*t? Responding to their dumba** questions? Making boring small talk and offering robotic... -
A House by the Sea by Bunny Williams 9781419720819
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £41.26Tastemaker, author, and renowned designer, Bunny Williams has been at the top of the interior design world for more than 40 years. This book is something of a sequel to her acclaimed and much-beloved... -
The Diary of a Young Girl (H/B slipcase) by Anne Frank
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.91This stunning facsimile hardback edition in a slipcase includes the definite edition of The Diary with an exclusive introduction written by Buddy Elias, who was Anne Frank's beloved first cousin:... -
The Trojan Women and Other Plays by Euripides
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99Hecuba The Trojan Women Andromache In the three great war plays contained in this volume Euripides subjects the sufferings of Troy's survivors to a harrowing examination. The horrific brutality... -
Oedipus Plays: Oedipus Tyrannos; Oedipus at Kolonos; Antigone by Sophocles
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Oedipus Plays includes Timberlake Wertenbaker's translations of Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannos, Oedipus at Kolonos and... -
The Ash Girl by Timberlake Wertenbaker
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95When an invitation to The Ball arrives at the Ash girl's house, from Prince Amir, she can't bring herself to believe that she, like her sisters, can go. With her mother dead and her father away, she... -
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition by Anne Frank 9780141315195
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67'One of the greatest books of the century' - Guardian'Hiding...where would we hide?... Margot and I started packing our most important belongings into a satchel. The first thing I stuck in was this... -
The Virago Book of Friendship Rachel Cooke 9780349018430
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £10.62A fond, fascinated look at women's friendship through the fiction, diaries, and letters of friends'A highly entertaining, often instructive anthology bursting with every kind of amicable - or... -
The Clinking: A powerful ecological love story about grief and hope in a warming world by Susie Greenhill 9780733652332
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.45From Richell Prize-winning debut author Susie Greenhill comes a tender and profoundly moving exploration of life and loss.In the early morning, Elena woke as Orla pulled back the doona and climbed... -
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Assimilating Asians: Gendered Strategies of Authorship in Asian America by Patricia P. Chu 9780822324300 [USED COPY]
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £6.11One of the central tasks of Asian American literature, argues Patricia P. Chu, has been to construct Asian American identities in the face of existing, and often contradictory, ideas about what it... -
Oedipus Tyrranos by Sophocles
Booksplease Price: £14.24This Norton Critical Edition includes: Emily Wilson's superb translation of Sophocles' best-known play, accompanied by her engaging introduction, translator's note and explanatory footnotes... -
Entering the Twofold Mystery: On Christian Conversion by Fr Erik Varden
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.99A book about the insight, comfort, and direction our troubled age can find in monastic wisdom. Erik Varden published The Shattering of Loneliness in 2018. Now, with the world in the throes of... -
The Bayeux Tapestry: The Life Story of a Masterpiece by Carola Hicks
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.07The vivid scenes on the Bayeux Tapestry depict the events leading up to the Battle of Hastings in 1066. It is one of Europe's greatest treasures and its own story is full of drama and surprise. Who... -
Of Farming and Classics: A Memoir by David Grene
Booksplease Price: £16.75A fiercely independent thinker, colorful storyteller, and spirited teacher, David Grene devoted his life to two things: farming, which he began as a boy in Ireland and continued into old age; and... -
The Home Front in World War Two by Neil R. Storey
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.61When the Second World War broke out in September 1939, everybody in Britain knew that the civilian population would be affected far more than they had been in the First World War. As aircraft got... -
Medea and Other Plays by Euripides 9780199537969
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.92`the most tragic of the poets' Aristotle Euripides was one of the most popular and controversial of all Greek tragedians, and his plays are marked by an independence of thought, ingenious... -
Everybody's Fool by Richard Russo 9781760294823
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Richard Russo's new novel takes place in the decaying American town of North Bath over the course of a very busy weekend, ten years after the events of Nobody's Fool. Donald 'Sully' Sullivan is... -
Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations Professor Mary Beard 9781781250495
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.64Mary Beard is one of the world's best-known classicists - a brilliant academic, with a rare gift for communicating with a wide audience both though her TV presenting and her books. In a series... -
The Day I Fell Down the Toilet by Stephen Mangan 9780702330834
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.79A high-energy, laugh-out-loud, fully illustrated adventure story by much-loved actor Stephen Mangan and talented artist Anita Mangan, Celebrity Goggleboxers & creators of... -
The March: A Novel by E. L. Doctorow 9780349119595
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Doctorow's new novel is set towards the end of the American Civil War and follows General Sherman's epic march with sixty thousand Union troops through Georgia and the Carolinas, one of the major... -
What Happened Next: A Novel Edwin Hill 9781662536854
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.72A young man investigating his father's crimes is determined to uncover the truth in a gripping novel of suspense about family secrets, betrayal, and the weight of the past.What do I remember about... -
Christmas Horror Short Stories Flame Tree Studio (Literature and Science) 9781835628065
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.26The time of cheer and goodwill to all... Or is it? For many, Christmas falls in the bleak midwinter, in the long dark hours where cold icy fingers ever encroach upon the fire valiantly struggling in... -
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The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition by Anne Frank 9780141315195 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.41'One of the greatest books of the century' - Guardian'Hiding...where would we hide?... Margot and I started packing our most important belongings into a satchel. The first thing I stuck in was this... -
Super 8 Dream: the new novel from the prize-winning author of Forgetting Zoe by Ray Robinson 9781785634765
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78'Fast, feverish and arresting' George Harrison Paul lives quietly in a northern town. By day, he works at a cafe; by night, he channels his anguish into the dark, arresting panels of his graphic... -
Fictioning: The Myth-Functions of Contemporary Art and Philosophy by David Burrows
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £23.55Fictioning in art is an open-ended, experimental practice that involves performing, diagramming or assembling to create or anticipate new modes of existence. In this extensively illustrated book... -
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The Case of the Missing Bronte by Robert Barnard 9781509813209 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.06Superintendent Perry Trethowan is returning to London with his wife, Jan, after visiting his difficult family in Northumberland. Driving through the Yorkshire Dales their car breaks down, and they... -
The Heart of Darkness: Best Seller Readers by Joseph Conrad 9789607609847
Booksplease Price: £10.85The day I met him, however, something was troubling him greatly. He began to speak as soon as he saw me. Even though I had arrived at the camp after walking 35 kilometres that day, he did not even... -
Rome's Age of Revolution by Tim Whitmarsh 9781847925350
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.02How did Christianity grow into an international faith that shaped the world as we know it?'Remarkable ... A joy to read' JOSEPHINE QUINN, author of How the World Made the West'Dazzling ... Will... -
Daisy Jones and The Six: From the author of the hit TV series by Taylor Jenkins Reid
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49THE TIE-IN EDITION FOR THE AMAZON PRIME TV SERIES STARRING SAM CLAFLIN, RILEY KEOUGH AND CAMILA MORRONEFrom the author of CARRIE SOTO IS BACK, THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO and the bestselling... -
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Empire Falls, Maine: once a thriving hub of industry, this small town nestles in a bend of the vast and winding Knox River, and has always been the empire of the wealthy Whiting family. Now the last... -
Death's Own Door: The Lydmouth Crime Series Book 6 by Andrew Taylor
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Andrew Taylor is a master story-teller' Daily Telegraph From the No.1 bestselling author of The Ashes of London and The Fire Court, this is the sixth instalment in the acclaimed Lydmouth seriesWhen... -
Dogs: Stories and Poems by Mark Bryant 9781408710234
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £6.50'Handsomely produced . . . All in all, a quite absorbing collection, an easy Christmas present, and a perfect (if bulky) loo-side read.'Jeremy NicholasA wonderful selection of writing on dogs, from... -
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The Love Child: From the author of the Richard and Judy bestseller Last Letter Home by Rachel Hore 9781471156984 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.40The UNMISSABLE novel from the million-copy Sunday Times bestseller 'A gorgeous and deeply absorbing story' Tracy Rees, author of The House at SilvermoorA young mother's sacrifice. A child's... -
Jean Cocteau by James S. Williams 9781861893543
Booksplease Price: £13.92From the magical Beauty and the Beast to the surreal Orpheus films, Jean Cocteau is renowned as a leading figure in European cinema as well as a creative force collaborating with artists as diverse...