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Pondlife by Al Alvarez
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.37From 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 Biggest Game in Town by Al Alvarez 9780312428426
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £12.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312428426Author Al AlvarezFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint -
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Risky Business: People, Pastimes, Poker and Books by Al Alvarez 9780747593119 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £2.55Al 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: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38He 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: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.55The 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,... -
Madness and Creativity in Literature and Culture by Corinne Saunders 9781403921994
Booksplease Price: £46.28This collection of essays explores the relation between literature and madness from the Medieval through to the Modern period. The essays examine how literature represents the experience of madness... -
Madness and Creativity in Literature and Culture by Jane Macnaughton 9781349726462
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.28This collection of essays explores the relation between literature and madness from the Medieval through to the Modern period. The essays examine how literature represents the experience of madness... -
Romantic Image by Frank Kermode 9780415261876
Booksplease Price: £15.34For the past four decades Frank Kermode, critic and writer, has steadily established himself as one of the most brilliant minds of his generation. Questioning the public's harsh perception of 'the... -
Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet by Elaine Feinstein
Booksplease Price: £20.70Ted Hughes is one of the greatest English poets of this century, yet his life was dogged by tragedy and controversy. His marriage to the American poet Sylvia Plath marked his whole life and he never... -
The Poetry of Suicide: Lessons in Grief from the Lives and Deaths of Poets J. T. Welsch 9781526191991
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.78A profound exploration of the connection between poetry and suicide.'Suicides have a special language', Anne Sexton wrote in her 1964 poem 'Wanting to Die'. But is it a language we can learn to... -
Lupercal by Ted Hughes 9780571383993
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Lupercal was Ted Hughes's second collection, containing some of his most brilliant animal poetry. It confirmed his reputation as a major talent in British poetry. 'Hughes has found his own voice,... -
Havana de Cuba Marzena Pogorzaly 9781843681519
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Marzena Pogorzaly made two trips to Havana. There, she walked the streets of Havana Vieja and El Centro, the old districts, trying to capture the melancholy beauty and decay of the city, and its... -
Children of the Valley by Castle Freeman
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.72Sheriff Lucian Wing goes to the aid of a pair of young runaways, Duncan and Pamela, who have fled to his backwoods county jurisdiction in Vermont. The girl's powerful stepfather New York has set a... -
Old Number Five by Castle Freeman
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Lucian Wing is the sheriff of a backwoods county in Vermont, a hardscrabble place far from the picture-postcard gaze. He is also a man with a problem. Multiple problems, in fact, including a... -
The Hand I Played David Spanier 9781842430392
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40The 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... -
Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Set in turn-of-the-century New York, E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime seamlessly blends fictional characters and realistic depictions of historical figures to bring to life the events that defined American... -
Visiting Mrs Nabokov And Other Excursions by Martin Amis
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Fuelled 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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49When 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... -
Hard Rock: Great British rock climbs from VS to E4 by Ian Parnell 9781912560295
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £31.36Hard Rock is the best of British rock climbing.Featuring over fifty crags and sixty-nine routes in England, Scotland and Wales, it epitomises all that is great about traditional climbing in Great...