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Pondlife by Al Alvarez
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28From the author of The Savage God, a unique memoir of growing old, and a lesson in not going gently into that good night The ponds of Hampstead Heath are small oases; fragments of wild nature ... -
The Savage God: A Study of Suicide Al Alvarez 9780747559054
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63Using the untimely death of the poet and friend, Sylvia Plath, as a point of departure, Al Alvarez confronts the controversial and often taboo area of human behaviour: suicide. "The Savage God"... -
Feeding the Rat: A Climber's Life on the Edge by Al Alvarez 9780747564522
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Feeding the Rat is the story of an extraordinary man: climbing legend Mo Anthoine, who found his greatet joy in adventures that tested the far limits of human endurance. That passion for "feeding the... -
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Risky Business: People, Pastimes, Poker and Books by Al Alvarez 9780747593119 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $3.42Al Alvarez's writing career has come in many guises. One of the most influential post-war critics, he has written profoundly and eloquently about writers and their craft for over fifty years. But... -
He Played For His Wife And Other Stories by Anthony Holden
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59He Played For His Wife...And Other Stories continues a rich tradition of fictional writing on one of the world's greatest games. A ghost at the table, a heads-up with Shakespeare, a high stakes... -
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.84The first biography of this great and tragic poet that takes advantage of a wealth of new material, this is an unusually balanced, comprehensive and definitive life of Sylvia Plath.'Surely the final,... -
The Hand I Played David Spanier 9781842430392
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92The gambling writer and journalist David Spanier looks back at his life-long love of poker in this compelling memoir. Spanier takes us from teenage days spent playing the horses to the elegant... -
Visiting Mrs Nabokov And Other Excursions by Martin Amis
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $14.73Fuelled by innumerable cigarettes, Martin Amis provides dazzling portraits of contemporaries and mentors alike: Larkin and Rushdie; Greene and Pritchett; Ballard and Burgess and Nicholson Baker; John... -
The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth 9780099477570
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04When talented young writer Nathan Zuckerman makes his pilgrimage to sit at the feet of his hero, the reclusive master of American Literature, E. I. Lonoff, he soon finds himself enmeshed in the great...