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Advise and Dissent: Memoirs of an Ex-Senator by James G. Abourezk 9780803248588
RRP: £16.50Booksplease Price: £14.46Advise and Dissent is the personal odyssey of James Abourezk, from his coming of age as the son of Lebanese immigrants in South Dakota, through his hardscrabble days as a farmhand, bartender,... -
100 Greatest American Plays by Thomas S. Hischak 9781442256057
Booksplease Price: £57.47Theatre in America has had a rich history-from the first performance of the Lewis Hallam Troupe in September 1752 to the lively shows of modern Broadway. Over the past few centuries, significant... -
Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics by Darieck Scott
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02Winner of the 2023 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ+ Studies! Explores Black representation in fantasy genres and comic books Characters like Black Panther, Storm, Luke Cage, Miles Morales, and Black... -
Poetry for Kids: Robert Frost by Robert Frost
Booksplease Price: £11.99A 2018 Notable Poetry Book for Children (National Council of Teachers of English)Poetry for Kids: Robert Frost is a collection specially curated for young readers which won't just be read, but... -
The United States Constitution: 200 Years of Anti-Federalist, Abolitionist, Feminist, Muckraking, Progressive, and Especially Socialist Criticism by Professor Bertell Ollman 9780814761700
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.12"How can anyone claim to really understand our Constitution without knowing what these critical traditions had to say?" Michael Wallace, Professor of History, John Jay College. "A real... -
The Mask of Apollo: A Virago Modern Classic by Mary Renault 9780349018591
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02THE ANCIENT GREEK STAGE BROUGHT THRILLINGLY TO LIFE BY THE QUEEN OF HISTORICAL FICTION'Mary Renault has made the classical era alive' GORE VIDAL'Her books have stood the test of time' INDEPENDENTThe... -
Borges and Me: An Encounter by Jay Parini
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74LONGLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZEIn frantic flight from the Vietnam War, Jay Parini leaves the United States for Scotland. There, through unlikely circumstances, he meets famed Argentinian... -
Baggage: Tales from a Fully Packed Life by Alan Cumming 9781838856632
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £10.50'No one ever fully recovers from their past. There is no cure for it. You just learn to manage and prioritise it. I believe the second you feel you have triumphed or overcome something, anything - an... -
Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac Barry Gifford 9780857867643
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Jack Kerouac died in 1969 at the age of forty-seven . . . Most of his friends survived him. Our idea was to seek them out and talk with them about Jack's life and their own lives. The final result,... -
East to the Dawn (Media tie-in): The Life of Amelia Earhart by Susan Butler
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.72Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) captured the hearts of America after becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic in 1928. Nine years later, her disappearance on an around-the-world flight brought... -
Remember To Remember by Henry Miller 9780811201131
Booksplease Price: £20.33This collection of stories and essays takes its title from a long prose reverie in which Henry Miller, after his return to the United States, thinks back to the happy years of middle life which he... -
Fire from Heaven: A Novel of Alexander the Great: A Virago Modern Classic by Mary Renault 9780349018607
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'The Alexander Trilogy contains some of Renault's finest writing. Lyrical, wise, compelling: the novels are a wonderful imaginative feat' SARAH WATERS'The Alexandriad is one of the twentieth... -
So Famous and So Gay: The Fabulous Potency of Truman Capote and Gertrude Stein by Jeff Solomon 9780816696826
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) and Truman Capote (1924-1984) should not have been famous. They made their names between the Oscar Wilde trial and Stonewall, when homosexuality meant criminality and... -
The Whole Harmonium: The Life of Wallace Stevens by Paul Mariani 9781451624380
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.90Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) lived a richly imaginative life that he expressed in his poems. The Whole Harmonium presents Stevens within the living context of his times and as the creator of a poetry... -
Leaving the Gay Place: Billy Lee Brammer and the Great Society by Tracy Daugherty
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.86Acclaimed by critics as a second F. Scott Fitzgerald, Billy Lee Brammer was once one of the most engaging young novelists in America. "Brammer's is a new and major talent, big in scope, big in its... -
Vanishing Streets: Journeys in London by J. M. Tyree
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £11.40Vanishing Streets reveals an American writer's twenty-year love affair with London. Beguiling and idiosyncratic, obsessive and wry, it offers an illustrated travelogue of the peripheries, retracing... -
The Search for Rational Drug Control by Franklin E. Zimring 9780521558822
Booksplease Price: £28.58This book presents a comprehensive examination of the drug control policy process in the United States. How are policy choices identified, debated and selected? How are the consequences of... -
The Passages of Herman Melville by Jay Parini
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Herman had often walked these streets, eyeing the forest of tall ships, their blackened strakes handsomely curved, masts like crosses, empty of sails . . .1841. A young Herman Melville is yet to... -
Tiny Terror: Why Truman Capote (Almost) Wrote Answered Prayers by William Todd Schultz 9780199752041
RRP: £20.49Booksplease Price: £17.68Truman Capote was one of the most gifted and flamboyant writers of his generation, renowned for such books as Other Voices, Other Rooms, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and his masterpiece, the nonfiction... -
The Ocean Is Closed by 9781733540148
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.38"Bradshaw was a famously charming man, and his lounge-lizard urbanity fully suffuses his prose. This new anthology is a necessary book for all men and women of letters." -Martin Amis A... -
The Ballad of John Latouche: An American Lyricist's Life and Work by Howard Pollack 9780190458294
Booksplease Price: £41.95Born into a poor Virginian family, John Treville Latouche (1914-56), in his short life, made a profound mark on America's musical theater as a lyricist, book writer, and librettist. The wit and skill... -
The Collected Drama of H. L. Mencken: Plays and Criticism by S. T. Joshi 9780810883697
Booksplease Price: £80.73Throughout his career as a literary critic, H. L. Mencken was intent on elevating the bold, the daring, and the innovative over the hackneyed, the trite, and the superficial, and his drama criticism... -
The Search for Rational Drug Control by Franklin E. Zimring 9780521416689
Booksplease Price: £47.28This book presents a comprehensive examination of the drug control policy process in the United States. How are policy choices identified, debated and selected? How are the consequences of... -
Babylon: Legend, History and the Ancient City by Michael Seymour 9781784536916
Booksplease Price: £29.55For two thousand years the real, physical metropolis lay buried while another, ghostly city lived on through ideas as varied as the legendary Hanging Gardens, the career of the biblical Daniel, and... -
The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia by Tom Boellstorff
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.35The Gay Archipelago is the first book-length exploration of the lives of gay men in Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous nation and home to more Muslims than any other country. Based on a... -
The Deadline: Essays Jill Lepore 9781324095613
Booksplease Price: £15.02Few, if any, historians have brought such insight, wisdom, and empathy to public discourse as Jill Lepore. Arriving at The New Yorker in 2005, Lepore, with her panoptical range and razor-sharp style,... -
The Making of The Wizard of Oz by Aljean Harmetz
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.21Released in conjunction with the 75th-anniversary DVD release of The Wizard of Oz, this book is the definitive story of how one of America's most beloved movies was made and a marvelous,... -
Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life: Volume I: The World Before the War by Max Saunders 9780199668342
Booksplease Price: £44.86The first volume of a major new critical biography Ford Madox Ford wrote some of the best English prose of the twentieth century, mastering and metamorphosing all its major forms: the novel, literary... -
James Purdy: Life of a Contrarian Writer by Michael Snyder
RRP: £33.49Booksplease Price: £31.27A definitive biography of a twentieth century gay author whose work has recently been rediscovered and enjoys a cult following. One of the most iconoclastic twentieth-century American novelists,... -
Star by Yukio Mishima 9780811228428
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.61All eyes are on Rikio. And he likes it, mostly. His fans cheer, screaming and yelling to attract his attention-they would kill for a moment alone with him. Finally the director sets up the shot, the... -
Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1939-1947 by Anais Nin 9780804011464
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.29Mirages opens at the dawn of World War II, when Anais Nin fled Paris, where she lived for fifteen years with her husband, banker Hugh Guiler, and ends in 1947 when she meets the man who would be "the... -
Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1939-1947 by Anais Nin
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.42Mirages opens at the dawn of World War II, when Anais Nin fled Paris, where she lived for fifteen years with her husband, banker Hugh Guiler, and ends in 1947 when she meets the man who would be "the... -
Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985 - Updated Edition by Italo Calvino 9780691139456
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.82This is the first collection in English of the extraordinary letters of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Italy's most important postwar novelist, Italo Calvino (1923-1985) achieved... -
Chasing the Dragons: An Introduction to Draconic Astrology: How to find your soul purpose in the horoscope by Victor Olliver
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.45Draconic astrology is an ancient technique which seems to have got lost in the mists of time somewhere between ancient Babylon and about 1950, when it suddenly resurfaced. It's a powerful tool that... -
Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time by Teju Cole
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.25A profound book of essays from a celebrated master of the form. "Darkness is not empty," writes Teju Cole in Black Paper, a book that meditates on what it means to sustain our humanity-and witness...