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Anxious Men: Masculinity in American Fiction of the Mid-Twentieth Century by Clive Baldwin
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £95.01Focusing on a complex and contentious period that was formative in shaping American society and culture in the twentieth century, this book sheds new light on the ways in which fiction engaged with... -
Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar Cynthia Carr 9781250371744
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250371744Author Cynthia CarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Castle Point BooksPublisher... -
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Film That Terrified a Rattled Nation by Joseph Lanza 9781510737907
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £21.37Lanza turns his attentions to the production, reception, social climate, and impact of a movie that rattled the American psyche in the wake of Nixon, Watergate, and Vietnam.When Tobe Hooper's... -
Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar by Cynthia Carr 9781250066350
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £17.64Warhol superstar and transgender icon Candy Darling was glamour personified, but she was without a real place in the world. Growing up on Long Island, lonely and quiet and queer, she was enchanted... -
Ernest Hemingway. Supplement to Ernest Hemingway: A Comprehensive Bibliography by Audre Hanneman 9780691617787
Booksplease Price: £48.07This supplementary bibliography describes work by and about Ernest Hemingway published between 1966 and 1973. Part One lists publications by Hemingway, including six recent books, new editions of... -
What Becomes a Legend Most: A Biography of Richard Avedon by Philip Gefter 9780062442741
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £14.85"Wise and ebullient." - DwightGarner, The New York TimesNow in paperback, the first definitive biography of Richard Avedon, a monumental photographer of the twentieth century, from award-winning... -
Tru by Jay Presson Allen 9780573700347
RRP: £13.95Booksplease Price: £10.53Winner! 1990 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show Adapted from the words and works of Truman Capote, Tru takes place in the writer's New York City apartment during the week before... -
The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing by Sonia Faleiro
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73**Longlisted for the ALCS Gold Non-Fiction Dagger** **Longlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize 2022** 'Haunting ... lingers in the mind long after the final page is turned'... -
Poetry and the Fate of the Senses by Susan Stewart 9780226774145
Booksplease Price: £33.54What is the role of the senses in the creation and reception of poetry? How does poetry carry on the long tradition of making experience and suffering understood by others? With Poetry and the Fate... -
Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman by Sam Wasson
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.35"So smart and entertaining it should come with its own popcorn"-PeopleCoinciding with the sixtieth anniversary of the film version of Truman Capote's Breakast at Tiffany's, the acclaimed, New York... -
Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement Tanisha Ford 9780063115729
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56WINNER 2024 NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING LITERARY WORK BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHYAn engrossing social history of the unsinkable Mollie Moon, the stylish founder of the National Urban League Guild... -
Literary Journalism: A Biographical Dictionary of Writers and Editors by Edd C. Applegate 9780313299490
Booksplease Price: £66.89Literary journalism, a specific type of new journalism, utilizes descriptive detail, realistic dialogue, and dramatic literary techniques to enliven nonfiction reporting. Features of literary... -
100 Most Popular Nonfiction Authors: Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies by Bernard A. Drew 9781591584872
Booksplease Price: £67.39Profiles of and reading lists for 100 of today's most popular nonfiction authors have been gathered together in this affordable, single source reference, which covers representatives from all major... -
Deconstructing True Crime Literature by Charlotte Barnes 9783031410444
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £99.61This book provides a critical discussion of True Crime literature, arguing for the deconstruction of the genre into subgenres that better reflect a work’s contents. In analysing seminal and... -
365 Gays of the Year (Plus 1 for a Leap Year): Discover LGBTQ+ history one day at a time by Lewis Laney
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.18*SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK DESIGN AND PRODUCTION AWARDS 2023*'A fascinating, whistle-stop tour of LGBTQIA+ icons and allies from across the globe and throughout history... This will be a great... -
Rosemary's Baby: Introduction by Chuck Palanhiuk by Ira Levin
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.17'The Swiss watchmaker of the suspense novel' Stephen KingRosemary Woodhouse and her struggling actor-husband, Guy, move into the Bramford, an old New York City apartment building with an ominous... -
The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories: From Hans Christian Andersen to Angela Carter by Jessica Harrison 9780241396704
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31The perfect gift this Christmas season: a generous selection of some of the greatest festive stories of all timeThis is a collection of the most magical, moving, chilling and surprising Christmas... -
What Becomes a Legend Most: A Biography of Richard Avedon by Philip Gefter
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.57"Wise and ebullient." - Dwight Garner, The New York TimesThe first definitive biography of Richard Avedon, a monumental photographer of the twentieth century, from award-winning photography critic... -
Mockingbird Songs: My Friendship with Harper Lee by Wayne Flynt 9780062660091
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062660091Author Wayne FlyntFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins... -
Sook's Cookbook: Memories and Traditional Receipts from the Deep South by Marie Rudisill 9780807133798
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £19.15Sook's Cookbook brims with delicious, uniquely southern recipes such as green olive jambalaya, watermelon rind preserves, and poinsettia cake, as well as classic buttermilk biscuits and lemon... -
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Closing Time: The True Story of the "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" Murder by Lacey Fosburgh 9781504052832
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.55The real story behind the murder of a Manhattan schoolteacher that became a symbol of the dangers of casual sex: "A first-rate achievement" (Truman Capote). In 1973, Roseann Quinn, an Irish-Catholic... -
The City of the Living: A literary chronicle narrating one of the most vicious crimes in recent Roman history by Nicola Lagioia 9781787703995
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73For fans of Truman Capote and Emmanuel Carrere In March 2016, in an apartment on the outskirts of Rome, two “ordinary” young men brutally tortured and murdered twenty-two-year-old Luca Varani. News... -
The Christmas of the Phonograph Records: A Recollection by Mari Sandoz 9780803292420
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.34Charmingly, Mari Sandoz tells of a long-ago Christmas in western Nebraska when her father's house was filled with good music. Old Jules had ordered an Edison phonograph and boxes of cylinder records... -
Victim: The Other Side of Murder by Gary Kinder 9780871137357
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £13.16Now a classic of true crime, Victim is a compelling and tragic look at how lives can be changed forever by a random act of violence. During an armed robbery, several hostages were brutally tortured,... -
Tru and Nelle by G. Neri
Booksplease Price: £6.94Long before they became famous writers, Truman Capote (In Cold Blood) and Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird) were childhood friends in Monroeville, Alabama. This fictionalised account of their time... -
50 States of Murder: An Atlas of American Crime by Harold Schechter 9781523524143
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38From true crime master Harold Schechter, author of Murderabilia, comes 50 States of Murder, a geographic telling of some of the most notorious but lesser-known murders for each US State.Filled with... -
Elegy Landscapes: Constable and Turner and the Intimate Sublime by Stanley Plumly
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.12Stanley Plumly explores immortality in art through the work of two impressive landscape artists: John Constable and J.M.W. Turner. Seeking the transcendent aesthetic awe of the sublime and reeling... -
The Missing Word by Concita De Gregorio
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23"Like Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, De Gregorio takes a true story and reveals what life cannot. Extraordinary."-Grazia Irina's life with her husband and her twin daughters is orderly. An Italian... -
Making a Life in Photography: Rollie McKenna by Jessica D. Brier 9781785514548
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £34.07Making a Life in Photography: Rollie McKenna is the first career survey of prolific American photographer Rosalie (Rollie) Thorne McKenna (1918–2003). After graduating from Vassar College in 1940,... -
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... -
Norman Mailer: An American Aesthetic by Andrew Wilson 9783039114061
RRP: £55.20Booksplease Price: £49.54This book is a comprehensive study of the work of the American author Norman Mailer, charting his response to critical events in his country's development since 1945. Focusing on Mailer's... -
Leading with the Chin: Writing American Masculinities in Esquire, 1960-1989 by Brad Congdon 9781487522162
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.66Leading with the Chin focuses on the Esquire writings of James Baldwin, Truman Capote, Raymond Carver, Don DeLillo, Norman Mailer, and Tim O'Brien to examine how these authors negotiated important... -
Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood 9780811220262
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £10.30On a train to Berlin in late 1930, William Bradshaw locks eyes with Arthur Norris, an irresistibly comical fellow Englishman wearing a rather obvious wig and nervous about producing his passport at... -
The Politics and Poetics of Journalistic Narrative by Phyllis Frus 9780521102742
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £39.21The Politics and Poetics of Journalistic Narrative investigates the textuality of all discourse, arguing that the ideologically charged distinction between 'journalism' and 'fiction' is socially... -
What Is Queer Food?: How We Served a Revolution John Birdsall 9781324073796
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £19.14Food in America and Europe has long been shaped, twisted and upended by queer creatives. Beloved food writer John Birdsall fills the gap between the past and present, channelling the twin forces of... -
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee 9781804958728
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49ONE OF THE GREATEST AMERICAN NOVELS EVER WRITTENWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION'No one forgets this book' Independent'One of the best first novels I remember ... uniquely unsentimental'... -
Party Stories by Ella Carr 9781841596389
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.73Momentous parties have long provided dramatic scenes in fiction, from Natasha’s first ball in War and Peace to Lizzie meeting Darcy in Pride and Prejudice to J. Edgar Hoover consorting with Truman... -
The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges
RRP: £4.00Booksplease Price: £3.00'Summer was drawing to a close, and I realized that the book was monstrous.'Fantastical tales of mazes, puzzles, lost labyrinths and bookish mysteries, from the unique imagination of a literary... -
The Politics and Poetics of Journalistic Narrative by Phyllis Frus 9780521443241
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £86.44The Politics and Poetics of Journalistic Narrative investigates the textuality of all discourse, arguing that the ideologically charged distinction between 'journalism' and 'fiction' is socially... -
The Writer's Table: Famous authors and their favourite recipes Valerie Stivers 9780711293915
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.55These are the dishes that fuelled great writing. Ever wondered what Iris Murdoch might have served for supper, or how Emily Dickinson took her tea? The Writer's Table brings together dining habits...