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Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.37Hermione Lee sees Virginia Woolf afresh, in her historical setting and as a vital figure for our times. Her book moves freely between a richly detailed life-story and new attempts to understand... -
Lives of Houses by Hermione Lee 9780691193663
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.94A group of notable writers-including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow-celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists,... -
Tom Stoppard: A Life by Hermione Lee
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101972663Author Hermione LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 912Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random... -
The Novels of Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37This book, first published in 1977, is not about Bloomsbury, lesbianism, madness or suicide, but is a much-needed introduction to Virginia Woolf's nine novels, written in the hope of turning... -
Biography: A Very Short Introduction by Hermione Lee
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.37Biography is one of the most popular, best-selling, and widely-read of literary genres. But why do certain people and historical events arouse so much interest? How can biographies be compared... -
Stars, Clouds, and Shadows by Hermione Lee 9780369511294
RRP: £12.06Booksplease Price: £11.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780369511294Author Hermione LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Evernight TeenPublisher... -
Tom Stoppard: A Life by Professor Dame Hermione Lee
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.90Shot through with Stoppard's voice, and illuminating all his plays, Lee's gripping narrative draws on unprecedented access to archive material, interviews and long conversations with Stoppard himself... -
Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald 9780006542544
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24From the Booker Prizewinning author of 'Offshore' and 'The Blue Flower'; a funny, touching, authentic story of life at Broadcasting House during the Blitz. The human voices of Penelope... -
Stevie Smith: A Selection: edited by Hermione Lee by Stevie Smith
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.97This comprehensive and welcoming edition draws on the whole of Stevie Smith's output in poetry, prose and drawings from Novel on Yellow Paper (1936) to Scorpion and Other Poems (1972). Hermione Lee's... -
The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.63Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It is March 1913, and the grand old city of Moscow is stirring herself to meet the beginning of spring. Change is in the air, and nowhere more so than at... -
Terrorism: The Basics Hermione Lee (Wolfson College, Oxford) 9780415573344
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.95Terrorism: The Basics is an ideal starting point for anyone interested in one of the most discussed, written about and analysed aspects of modern life. Common misconceptions are dispelled as the... -
Willa Cather: Double Lives by President Hermione Lee 9781101973936
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £17.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101973936Author Hermione LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random... -
Eric's Tale: Otherworld Trilogy Companion Novel by Hermione Lee 9798891260122
RRP: £10.27Booksplease Price: £9.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798891260122Author Hermione LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint World Castle Publishing,... -
Zack's Tale: An Otherworld Trilogy Companion Novel and Prequel by Hermione Lee 9798891261044
RRP: £10.65Booksplease Price: £10.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798891261044Author Hermione LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint World Castle Publishing,... -
The Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It is 1912, and at Cambridge University the modern age is knocking at the gate. Fred Fairly, a Junior Fellow at the college of St Angelicus,... -
Eileen's Tale: An Otherworld Trilogy Companion Novel and Sequel by Hermione Lee 9798891261242
RRP: £11.06Booksplease Price: £10.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798891261242Author Hermione LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint World Castle Publishing,... -
The Pinecone by Jenny Uglow
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43The Pinecone is set in the village of Wreay, near Carlisle, where a masterpiece in Victorian architecture stands - the strangest and most magical church in England. This vivid, original book tells... -
Elizabeth Gaskell by Jenny Uglow
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.97Winner of the Portico PrizeShortlisted for the Whitbread Biography of the YearHigh-spirited, witty and passionate, Elizabeth Gaskell wrote some of the most enduring novels of the Victorian age,... -
The Knox Brothers by Penelope Fitzgerald 9780007118304
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Penelope Fitzgerald's biography of her remarkable family. 'When I was very young I took my uncles for granted, and it never occurred to me that everyone else in the world was not like them... -
The Golden Child by Penelope Fitzgerald 9780006546252
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24'The Golden Child', Penelope Fitzgerald's first work of fiction, is a classically plotted British mystery centred around the arrival of the Golden Child at a London museum. Far be it for... -
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop. Hardborough becomes a... -
Charlotte Mew: and Her Friends by Penelope Fitzgerald
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Penelope Fitzgerald's fascinating portrait of the tragic poet and her life at the heart of the Bloomsbury set. Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) cut one of the most distinctive figures of the... -
Edward Burne-Jones by Penelope Fitzgerald 9780007588220
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Penelope Fitzgerald, the Booker Prize-winning author of 'Offshore' and 'The Blue Flower', turns her attention to the remarkable life of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones. 'I... -
The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and The Secret History of Wonderland by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDThis is the secret history of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.Wonderland is part of our cultural heritage. But beneath the fairy tale lies the complex... -
This Dark Country: Women Artists, Still Life and Intimacy in the Early Twentieth Century by Rebecca Birrell
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022 Longlisted for the William M B Berger Prize for British Art History 2022 Guardian Art Book of the Year 2021 A dazzling, boldly original... -
Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life by Clare Mac Cumhaill
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46WINNER OF THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWNAN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOKA FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDElizabeth Anscombe: defiantly... -
In Her Nature: How Women Break Boundaries in the Great Outdoors by Rachel Hewitt 9781529920055
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'Heartfelt, passionate, infuriating and often devastating, this book will inspire you to fight for your right to tread your own path' CAROLINE CRIADO PEREZ, author of Invisible WomenWhen Rachel loses... -
Clive Bell and the Making of Modernism: A Biography by Professor Mark Hussey
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78'Amusing, charming, stimulating, urbane' - THE TIMES 'Revelatory' - GUARDIAN 'Restores Clive Bell vividly to life' - Lucasta Miller ______________ Clive Bell is perhaps better known today... -
A Dirty, Filthy Book: Sex, Scandal, and One Woman’s Fight in the Victorian Trial of the Century Michael Meyer 9780753559949
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorMichael Meyer is a critically-acclaimed author and journalist who has written for the New York Times, the... -
A Dirty, Filthy Book: Sex, Scandal, and One Woman’s Fight in the Victorian Trial of the Century by Michael Meyer 9780753559925
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53London, 1877. A petite young woman stands before an all-male jury, about to risk everything. She takes a breath, and opens her defence.Annie Besant and her confidant Charles Bradlaugh are on trial... -
Sontag: Her Life by Benjamin Moser
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £11.50WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHYSelected as a Book of the Year 2019 by the SPECTATOR, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN and FINANCIAL TIMES 'Definitive and delightful' Stephen Fry 'There can... -
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 9780141183411
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67A pioneering work of modernist fiction, using her unique stream-of-consciousness technique to explore the inner lives of her characters, Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse is widely regarded as one... -
Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce Colm Toibin 9780241354421
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.59An intimate study of three of Ireland's greatest writers from one of its best-loved contemporary voices, Colm Toibin__________________In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Toibin takes three of... -
To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf 9780241341681
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67'The Lighthouse was then a silvery, misty-looking tower with a yellow eye that opened suddenly and softly in the evening'To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family... -
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 9780241371954
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.99'One of the greatest elegies in the English language, a book which transcends time' Margaret DrabbleTo the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family, the Ramseys, whose... -
Christopher Isherwood Inside Out Katherine Bucknell 9780701186388
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.38'A first-rate biography of the man, the writer and the lover' DAVID HOCKNEY'Bucknell's research is impressive and her judgements astute' GUARDIANAn engrossing new biography of the man whose writings... -
Personal Impressions: Updated Edition by Isaiah Berlin 9780691157702
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.67In this collection of remarkable biographical portraits, the great essayist and intellectual historian Isaiah Berlin brings to life a wide range of prominent twentieth-century thinkers, politicians,... -
Games At Twilight by Anita Desai
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.46Set in contemporary Bombay and other cities, these stories reflect the kaleidoscope of urban life - evoking the colour, sounds and white-hot heat of the city. Warm, perceptive, humorous and touched... -
Vita and Harold: The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson 1919-1962 by Nigel Nicolson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.38The classic story of the relationship between Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, and a unique portrait of the Bloomsbury Group.'Vita and Harold have become part of our literature' OBSERVERThe... -
Dweller in Shadows: A Life of Ivor Gurney by Kate Kennedy
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.20The first comprehensive biography of an extraordinary English poet and composer whose life was haunted by fighting in the First World War and, later, confinement in a mental asylumIvor Gurney...