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Benjamin's Crossing by Jay Parini
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80There is no such thing as history, you see. It's a dream, perhaps even a dream of a dream . . .Walter Benjamin is dead. One of the most radiant minds of the twentieth century has been snatched away... -
Borges and Me: An Encounter by Jay Parini
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.37LONGLISTED 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... -
The Passages of Herman Melville by Jay Parini
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Herman 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... -
Why Poetry Matters by Jay Parini 9780300151466
Booksplease Price: $19.91A brief, passionate book about the nature of poetry and its use in the world Poetry doesn't matter to most people, observes Jay Parini at the opening of this book. But, undeterred, he commences a... -
Last Steps: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy by Jay Parini 9780141191195
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.111910. Anna Karenina and War and Peace have made Leo Tolstoy the world's most famous author. But fame comes at a price. In the tumultuous final year of his life, Tolstoy is desperate to find respite,... -
The Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy's Final Year by Jay Parini 9781841959672
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.77By 1910, Leo Tolstoy, the world's most famous author, had become an almost religious figure, surrounded on his lavish estate by family and followers alike. Set in the tumultuous last year of the... -
Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal by Axinn Professor of English Jay Parini 9780345805836
Booksplease Price: $27.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345805836Author Axinn Professor of English Jay PariniFormat PaperbackPag -
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Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies: The Life of Gore Vidal by Jay Parini 9780349139401 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $3.39An intimate yet frank biography of Gore Vidal, one of the most accomplished, visible and controversial American novelists and cultural figures of the past century. The product of thirty years of... -
Poetry for Kids: Robert Frost by Robert Frost
RRP: $24.05Booksplease Price: $14.11A 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... -
Signs and Wonders by Alix Ohlin
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $2.87'Signs and Wonders' documents a couple's divorce after twenty-six years of marriage; in 'Robbing the Cradle', a teacher desperate to conceive resorts to the most extreme measures imaginable; and 'The... -
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 9781847497550
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.45First published in 1855 and extended by the author over the course of more than three decades, Leaves of Grass embodies Walt Whitman's lifetime ambition to create a new voice that could capture the... -
Moby Dick by Herman Melville 9781847496447
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.54When the young Ishmael gets on board Captain Ahab's whaling ship, little does he suspect that the mission on which he is about to embark is the fulfilment of his master's obsessive desire for revenge... -
The Brontesaurus: An A-Z of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte (and Branwell) by John Sutherland
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36Did Charlotte Bronte take opium? Did the Reverend Bronte carry a loaded pistol? What, precisely, does 'wuthering' mean?Distinguished literary critic John Sutherland takes an idiosyncratic look at the... -
Freight Dogs by Giles Foden
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92'Every new novel by Giles Foden is something to celebrate' Paul Theroux'An amazing and profound work, rich in memorable detail' Jay Parini'Foden has cleverly reworked the grand African adventure... -
A High Calling: Or, Where Do You Get Your Ideas From? John Greening 9781804471494
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.15Sharing what he's learnt during half a century's creative work, John Greening gives us an insight into the life of a poet, playwright, editor, reviewer, teacher and performer. Eminently readable,... -
All a Novelist Needs: Colm Toibin on Henry James by Colm Toibin 9780801897795
RRP: $32.83Booksplease Price: $24.92This book collects, for the first time, Colm Toibin's critical essays on Henry James. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his novel about James's life, The Master, Toibin brilliantly analyzes James... -
Metroland by Julian Barnes 9780099540069
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04From the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction comes a magnificent portrait of youth and growing up.Christopher and Toni found in each other the perfect companion for that universal... -
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Fiction Agonistes: In Defense of Literature by Gregory Jusdanis 9780804768757 [USED COPY]
RRP: $101.84Booksplease Price: $10.18In this path-breaking new work, Gregory Jusdanis asks why literature matters. Why are we afraid to admit our pleasures of reading, to defend the arts to the school board, to discuss the importance of... -
Harvesting Darkness: New Poems 2019-2023 by Robin Morgan 9781925950830
RRP: $18.69Booksplease Price: $12.64Robin Morgan's latest collection is a tour-de force: poetry that thrills the intellect and stirs the emotions. Robin shares her joys and intimacies which take centre stage and laments 'the... -
Fiction Agonistes: In Defense of Literature by Gregory Jusdanis
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $21.31In this path-breaking new work, Gregory Jusdanis asks why literature matters. Why are we afraid to admit our pleasures of reading, to defend the arts to the school board, to discuss the importance of... -
The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80In 1788 Daniel Rooke sets out on a journey that will change the course of his life. As a lieutenant in the First Fleet, he lands on the wild and unknown shores of New South Wales. There he sets up an... -
Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby Sarah Churchwell 9781844087686
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $10.71Since its publication in 1925, The Great Gatsby has become one of the world's best-loved books. Careless People tells the true story behind F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, exploring in newly rich... -
The Famished Road by Ben Okri 9780099929307
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.62WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 'So long as we are alive, so long as we feel, so long as we love, everything in us is an energy we can use' The narrator, Azaro, is an abiku, a spirit child, who in the... -
On Color by David Kastan
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.88Ranging from Homer to Picasso, and from the Iranian Revolution to The Wizard of Oz, this spirited and radiant book awakens us anew to the role of color in our lives Our lives are saturated by color... -
Herring Tales: How the Silver Darlings Shaped Human Taste and History by Donald S. Murray
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.19A lighthearted and informative narrative about the history of herring and our love affair with the silver darlings. Scots like to smoke or salt them. The Dutch love them raw. Swedes look on with... -
Leo Tolstoy: A Very Short Introduction by Liza Knapp 9780198813934
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36War and Peace and Anna Karenina are widely recognised as two of the greatest novels ever written. Their author, Leo Tolstoy, has been honoured as the father of the modern war story; as an innovator... -
Trenton Makes Tadzio Koelb 9781786494061
Booksplease Price: $21.23"A novel of bewitching ingenuity" New York Times"Electrifying" Lit HubAbe Kunstler wants his share of the American Dream, which for him is a factory job, a wife and a family. Getting these things... -
Trenton Makes Tadzio Koelb 9781786494078
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $7.84SHORTLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE, 2018__________________________________________"A novel of bewitching ingenuity" New York Times"Electrifying" Lit... -
Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.17Stephen Greenblatt's Will in the World is widely recognised to be the fullest and most brilliant account ever written of Shakespeare's life, his work and his age.Shakespeare was a man of his time,... -
Freight Dogs by Giles Foden 9780297609100
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $12.261996: in a Ugandan dive bar, the 'freight dogs' gather. An anarchic group of mercenary pilots from Texas, Russia, Kenya and Belgium who transport weapons between warring African nations, without... -
Feeling Italian: The Art of Ethnicity in America by Thomas J. Ferraro 9780814727300 [USED COPY]
RRP: $115.24Booksplease Price: $11.522006 American Book Award, presented by the Before Columbus Foundation Southern Italian emigration to the United States peaked a full century ago-;descendents are now fourth and fifth generation,... -
Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance by Joseph Luzzi 9781324066019
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.26Some five hundred years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created works of unearthly beauty. A star of Florence's art world, he was commissioned by a member of the city's powerful... -
Freight Dogs by Giles Foden 9780297868019
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $11.661996: in a Ugandan dive bar, the 'freight dogs' gather. An anarchic group of mercenary pilots from Texas, Russia, Kenya and Belgium who transport weapons between warring African nations, without... -
My Body Keeps Your Secrets: Dispatches on Shame and Reclamation by Lucia Osborne-Crowley
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41From Lucia Osborne-Crowley, author of I Choose Elena, comes an immersive polyphonic memoir exploring the intricacies of abuse, trauma, and shame. Through the voices of women, trans and non-binary... -
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The Famished Road by Ben Okri 9780099929307 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $3.10WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 'So long as we are alive, so long as we feel, so long as we love, everything in us is an energy we can use' The narrator, Azaro, is an abiku, a spirit child, who in the... -
Creatures of a Day: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy by Irvin D. Yalom
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.07What makes life worth living? What can we do to lead meaningful lives? And how do we confront our inevitable end? In his long career, eminent psychotherapist and author Irvin Yalom has pressed his... -
Springtime in a Broken Mirror by Mario Benedetti
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65An extraordinary story of love and exile, from one of the great masters of the Latin American novel'Having news from you is like opening a window'Santiago is trapped. Taken political prisoner in... -
Tolstoy: A Russian Life by Rosamund Bartlett
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07In November 1910, Count Lev Tolstoy died at a remote Russian railway station attended by the world's media. He was eighty-two years old and had lived a remarkable and long life during one of the most... -
I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World by James Geary
Booksplease Price: $16.78It is the East, and Juliet is the sun! This is one of Shakespeare's most famous lines and one of the most well-known metaphors in literature. But metaphor is much more than a mere literary device... -
Collected Poems: Mervyn Peake by Mervyn Peake 9781857549713
RRP: $17.35Booksplease Price: $12.86It is forty years since the death of Mervyn Peake (1911-68), the author of the much-loved Gormenghast novels. To mark the anniversary this first comprehensive edition of Peake's poetry is published...