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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Hunter S. Thompson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28'We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like, "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive ..."' ... -
Art at the Table: The Lotos Club State Dinner Tradition by J. Robert Moskin 9781785512322
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £29.47Founded in New York City in 1870, The Lotos Club is one of the oldest literary and arts clubs in the United States. Lotos became known for its tradition of honouring outstanding men and women from... -
Literary Selves: Autobiography and Contemporary American Nonfiction by James N. Stull 9780313288258
Booksplease Price: £61.05Departing from previous discussions of literary nonfiction in terms of its being literature or journalism, this new study treats literary nonfiction as autobiography, examining a large body of work... -
The Collected Writings of Michael Anton: Volume One by Michael Anton 9781641774819
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £20.43Michael Anton’s writings weave in and out of public and private life. Through examining a wide range of topics from his "motherland" of California to the intellectuals at the Claremont Institute and... -
Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition by James T. Kloppenberg 9780691147468
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.05Derided by the Right as dangerous and by the Left as spineless, Barack Obama puzzles observers. In Reading Obama, James T. Kloppenberg reveals the sources of Obama's ideas and explains why his... -
It's All a Kind of Magic by Rick Dodgson
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.08Counterculture icon and best-selling author of the anti-authoritarian novels One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Sometimes a Great Notion, Ken Kesey said he was ""too young to be a beatnik and too... -
Brief History Of Economics, A: Artful Approaches To The Dismal Science (2nd Edition) E Ray Canterbery (Florida State Univ, Usa) 9789814304801
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £33.31Blending past and present, this brief history of economics is the perfect book for introducing students to the field.A Brief History of Economics illustrates how the ideas of the great economists not... -
West of the West: Imagining California by Leonard Michaels 9780520201644
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £25.26Conceived as a novelistic journey through the worlds of California, "West of the West" offers a vivid and diverse collection of writings on the state where extremes of every sort are dramatically... -
Tar Heel Lightnin': How Secret Stills and Fast Cars Made North Carolina the Moonshine Capital of the World by Daniel S. Pierce 9781469653556
Booksplease Price: £27.46From the late nineteenth century well into the 1960s, North Carolina boasted some of the nation's most restrictive laws on alcohol production and sale. For much of this era, it was also the nation's... -
The Pursuit of Happiness and the American Regime: Political Theory in Literature by Elizabeth Amato 9781498554190
Booksplease Price: £86.43The Declaration of Independence claims that individuals need liberty to pursue happiness, but provides little guidance on the "what" of happiness. Happiness studies and liberal theory are incomplete... -
Psychopaths Anonymous, 4 by Will Carver
Booksplease Price: £10.17When AA meetings make her want to drink more, alcoholic murderess Maeve sets up a group for psychopaths ... The dark, unpredictable, electrifyingly original new thriller from critically acclaimed... -
The Tribute by Jean-Marc Rochette 9781787739963
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £18.11"Before Avatar came The Tribute" A team of scientists and soldiers land on an alien planet with the hope they will find a new source of energy. The expedition is vital for the survival of... -
The Tortilla Curtain T. C. Boyle 9781526608871
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Winner of the Prix Medicis Etranger; 'examines America's guerilla war between the haves and have-notes with a zing unequalled since The Bonfire of the Vanities'(Observer) When Delaney Mossbacher... -
Philanthropy in America: A History by Olivier Zunz 9780691128368
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.70American philanthropy today expands knowledge, champions social movements, defines active citizenship, influences policymaking, and addresses humanitarian crises. How did philanthropy become such a... -
The Daves Next Door by Will Carver
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.45The lives of five strangers collide on a London train carriage, as they become involved in an incident that will change them all forever. A shocking, intensely emotive and wildly original new... -
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The Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort 9781444778120 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.34Stock market multimillionaire at 26. Federal convict at 36. The iconic true story of greed, power and excess.THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AND MAJOR MOVIE SENSATION, DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE AND... -
We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58A masterful novel about a violent crime and its reverberations throughout a community - as timely and relevant in 2019 as it was when first published in 2001 'We were the Mulvaneys,... -
Seers and Judges: American Literature as Political Philosophy by Christine Dunn Henderson 9780739103197
Booksplease Price: £91.39Alexis de Tocqueville asserted that America had no truly great literature, and that American writers merely mimicked the British and European traditions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries... -
Fun Buttons by Peggy Ann Osborne 9780887406911
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £21.29Fun Buttons is different! Humor in button subjects and design is featured in the nearly 400 color photographs, text and captions. From all over the world, over three centuries, this gathering of... -
New York and the Literary Imagination: The City in Twentieth Century Fiction and Drama by Edward Margolies 9780786430710
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.19This work reveals the myths of New York and the various, often paradoxical ways that authors have portrayed New York City. Part One examines New York from the perspectives of a New York... -
Roger Ebert's Book of Film: From Tolstoy to Tarantino, the Finest Writing From a Century of Film by Roger Ebert 9780393040005
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £52.00For this delicious, instructive, and vastly enjoyable anthology, Roger Ebert has selected and introduced an international treasury of more than 100 selections that touch on every aspect of filmmaking... -
The Devil's Candy: The Anatomy Of A Hollywood Fiasco by Julie Salamon 9780306811234
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £18.15When Brian De Palma agreed to allow Julie Salamon unlimited access to the film production of Tom Wolfe's best-selling book The Bonfire of the Vanities , both director and journalist must have felt... -
The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume IX: Virginia Volume 9 by William Wright
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Home to extraordinary writers such as William Styron, Tom Wolfe, and Ellen Glasgow, the state of Virginia's literary past is among the most prolific in the nation. Indeed, this state, with its... -
The Lennon Companion by David Gutman 9780306812705
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.00John Lennon lives on. Forty years after the Beatles invaded America in 1964, and more than twenty years after Lennon's death, his work is perennially popular and continues to appeal across the... -
Fire and Power: The American Space Program as Postmodern Narrative by William D. Atwill 9780820337739
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £26.12In Fire and Power William D. Atwill maps the cultural contours of space-age America through readings of some of the era's most popular and influential narratives: Saul Bellow's Mr. Sammler's Planet,... -
The Greatest Adventure Stories Ever Told: Nineteen Gripping Tales Lamar Underwood 9781493086511
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.37In the gripping tale "Love of Life," told as only Jack London could tell it, a starving prospector fights for life in the rugged Yukon; in "Typhoon," Joseph Conrad takes us out to sea where a lonely... -
The Grateful Dead Reader by David G. Dodd 9780195147063
Booksplease Price: £20.79Arranged in chronological order, these pieces add up to nothing less than a full-scale history of the greatest tour band in the history of rock. From Tom Wolfe's account of the Dead's first... -
She's a Bad Motorcycle by Geno Zanetti 9781560253174
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.75Why do people ride motorcycles? Thomas Krens, curator of The Art of the Motorcycle, the most popular exhibition ever mounted at the Guggenheim Museum, writes: "For much of society, the motorcycle... -
The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting: How a Bunch of Rabble-Rousers, Outsiders, and Ne’er-do-wells Concocted Creative Nonfiction by Lee Gutkind 9780300251159
Booksplease Price: £26.61An account of the emergence of creative nonfiction, written by the “godfather” of the genre In the 1970s, Lee Gutkind, a leather-clad hippie motorcyclist and former public relations writer, fought... -
Dandies: Fashion and Finesse in Art and Culture by Susan Fillin-Yeh 9780814726952
Booksplease Price: £90.57Dandies: Fashion and Finesse in Art and Culture considers the visual languages, politics, and poetics of personal appearance. Dandyism has been most closely associated with influential caucasian... -
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut 9780241467985
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.81'Vonnegut looked the world straight in the eye and never flinched' J. G. BallardThis bitterly funny Cold War satire on the end of the world expresses our deepest fears of Armageddon, and has become a... -
Moondust by Andrew Smith
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78A revised and updated edition of the classic work to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the first moon landing 'It left me spellbound ... belongs to the same tradition as Tom Wolfe's The... -
The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir by Griffin Dunne 9781804710548
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.68At eight, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin, he attended his aunt Joan Didion's legendary LA launch party for Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid... -
The Artificial White Man: Essays on Authenticity by Stanley Crouch 9780465015160
Booksplease Price: £18.06Another dance of the bull through the china shop of cliches, The Artificial White Man proves the correctness of Tom Wolfe's observation that Stanley Crouch is "the jazz virtuoso of the American... -
Masterpieces of Beat Literature by Michael J. Dittman 9780313332838
Booksplease Price: £51.71The writers of the Beat Generation wrote during a particularly chaotic period in modern history. They responded to the threat of the nuclear age, the anti-Communist hysteria that gripped America, and... -
Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis 9780393338690
Booksplease Price: £12.13Michael Lewis was fresh out of Princeton and the London School of Economics when he landed a job at Salomon Brothers, one of Wall Street's premier investment firms. During the next three years, Lewis... -
The Funny Stuff: The Official P. J. O’Rourke Quotationary and Riffapedia by P. J. O'Rourke
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'P. J. O'Rourke was the funniest writer of his generation, one of the smartest and one of the most prolific. Now that he belongs to the ages, P.J. takes his rightful place along with Oscar Wilde,... -
Double-Tracking: Studies in Duplicity by Rosanna McLaughlin 9780995705227
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28To double-track is to be both: counter-cultural and establishment, rich and poor, a bum with the keys to a country retreat, an exotic addition to the dinner table who still knows how to find their... -
The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima by Henry Scott Stokes 9780815410744
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £12.85Novelist, playwright, film actor, martial artist, and political commentator, Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) was arguably the most famous person in Japan at the time of his death. Henry Scott Stokes, one... -
The Da Capo Book of Rock & Roll by Clinton Heylin 9780306809200
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.36Since the early days of rock 'n' roll,since Elvis Presley came out of Memphis to startle the world,a whole body of writing has grown up around it, from the album notes to obituaries, from on-the-road...