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Pulphead by John Jeremiah Sullivan
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction) 2011 and Saroyan Writing Prize (Nonfiction) 2012.Book... -
Pulphead: Notes from the Other Side of America by John Jeremiah Sullivan
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54John Jeremiah Sullivan takes us on a funhouse hall-of-mirrors ride through the other side of America - to the Ozarks for a Christian rock festival; to Florida to meet the straggling refugees of MTV's... -
Blood Horses: Notes of a Sportswriter's Son by John Jeremiah Sullivan 9780312423766
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £15.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312423766Author John Jeremiah SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Picador USAPublisher... -
Impossible Owls: Essays from the Ends of the World by Brian Phillips
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Hilarious, nimble, and thoroughly illuminating' Colson Whitehead, author of The Underground Railroad'Recalls the work of John Jeremiah Sullivan and the late David Foster... -
Bad Taste: Or the Politics of Ugliness Nathalie Olah 9780349702247
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02TATE BOOK OF THE MONTH 2023A timely critique of consumer culture which captures this image-obsessed moment in history, perfect for fans of Zadie Smith's Feel Free and Jia Tolentino's Trick Mirror... -
White Girls by Hilton Als
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'I defy you to read this book and come away with a mind unchanged' John Jeremiah Sullivan'Als has a serious claim to be regarded as the next James Baldwin' Observer'I see how we are all the same,... -
Mystery Is Not Despair: Notes from Hidden Spaces by Will McGrath 9781950539505
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31In Farewell Transmission, Will McGrath guides us on a rambling quest into the enlightenment of other lives. Funny and heartbreaking, intimate and galvanizing, these essays venture from Yemen to... -
Flight Path: A Search for Roots beneath the World's Busiest Airport by Hannah Palmer 9781938235283
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.97In the months leading up to the birth of her first child, Hannah Palmer discovers that all three of her childhood houses have been wiped out by the expansion of Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson... -
Radiant Truths: Essential Dispatches, Reports, Confessions, and Other Essays on American Belief by Jeff Sharlet 9780300212686
Booksplease Price: £41.86A startling and immensely pleasurable collection of American writings on belief, from the Civil War to Occupy Wall Street Beginning with Walt Whitman singing hymns at a wounded soldier's bedside... -
Kentucky Renaissance: The Lexington Camera Club and Its Community, 1954-1974 Brian Sholis 9780300218985
Booksplease Price: £32.91A groundbreaking study of the extraordinary photographers, writers, printmakers, and publishers who formed a flourishing modernist community in Kentucky Dozens of American cities witnessed the... -
New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton 9780811217248
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.04New Seeds of Contemplation is one of Thomas Merton's most widely read and best-loved books. Christians and non-Christians alike have joined in praising it as a notable successor in the meditative... -
The Best American Magazine Writing 2015 by Sid Holt
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.02This year's Best American Magazine Writing features articles on politics, culture, sports, sex, race, celebrity, and more. Selections include Ta-Nehisi Coates's intensely debated "The Case For... -
The Ink in the Grooves: Conversations on Literature and Rock 'n' Roll by Florence Dore 9781501766206
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.25Drop the record needle on any vinyl album in your collection, then read the first pages of that novel you've been meaning to pick up-the reverberations between them will be impossible to miss. Since... -
The Best American Magazine Writing 2006 by The American Society of Magazine Editors 9780231139939
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.33In the magazine world, no recognition is more highly coveted or prestigious than a National Magazine Award. Annually, members of the American Society of Magazine Editors, in association with the... -
I Am Sorry To Think I Have Raised A Timid Son Kent Russell 9781472151032
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Kent Russell's essays take him to society's ragged edges - the places where savagery and civilization collide. Perhaps among the misfits and the misunderstood - the losers, the hardcore, the... -
Ghost Dances: Proving Up onthe Great Plains by Josh Garrett-Davis
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £22.56Growing up in South Dakota, Josh Garrett-Davis always knew he would leave. But as a young adult, he kept going back-in dreams and reality and by way of books. With this beautifully written narrative... -
The Best American Magazine Writing 2012 by Sid Holt
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.26Chosen from the 2012 National Magazine Awards finalists and winners, this anthology is filled with compelling features and profiles, eye-opening reporting, and incisive criticism and analysis of... -
Shake It Up: Great American Writing on Rock and Pop from Elvis to Jay Z: A Library of America Special Publication by Jonathan Lethem
Booksplease Price: £41.50The essential playlist of great writing about the music that rocked America, with fifty landmark pieces on Otis Redding, Janis Joplin, Lez Zepplin, and other rock n' roll legends Jonathan Lethem and... -
How Music Got Free: The Inventor, the Music Man, and the Thief by Stephen Witt
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78What links Taylor Swift to a factory worker? Kanye West to a German engineer? Beyonce to a boardroom mogul? They've all changed the face of the music business, in the most unexpected ways. How... -
Impossible: Rodney Mullen, Ryan Sheckler, And The Fantastic History Of Skateboarding by Cole Louison 9780762770267
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.38The Impossible aims to get skateboarding right. Journalist Cole Louison gets inside the history, culture, and major personalities of skating.About the AuthorCole Louison is a writer for GQ magazine... -
The Correspondence J. D. Daniels 9781910702369
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'What a nutjob!' - Geoff Dyer'Questions that occurred to me as I read this brilliant, baffling book: What the hell is this? Who the hell is this? Is this poetry?' - Tom BissellCan civilization save... -
Young Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Memoir and a Reckoning by Alex Halberstadt
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78'Engrossing' Daniel Beer, Guardian'A beautiful book... incisive, radiant' Olivia Laing'Illuminating, dramatic... majestic writing' Spectator'Enthralling... a triumph' Andrew SolomonAlex Halberstadt... -
Let Me Clear My Throat: Essays by Elena Passarello 9781936747450
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31From Farinelli, the eighteenth century castrato who brought down opera houses with his high C, to the recording of "Johnny B. Goode" affixed to the Voyager spacecraft, Let Me Clear My Throat dissects... -
It Gets Me Home, This Curving Track by Ian Penman 9781910695876
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23When all else fails, when our compass is broken, there is one thing some of us have come to rely on: music really can give us a sense of something like home. With It Gets Me Home, This Curving Track,... -
Two Hours: The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon by Ed Caesar
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16WINNER OF THE CROSS SPORTS BOOK AWARD FOR NEW WRITER OF THE YEAR'Lyrical and passionate ... a celebration of the human spirit and what it can achieve' ObserverTwo hours to cover twenty-six miles and... -
Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H. W. Bush by Geoff Dyer
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95In November 2011, Geoff Dyer fulfilled a childhood dream of spending time on an aircraft carrier. Dyer's stay on the USS George Bush, on active service in the Arabian Gulf, proved even more intense,... -
New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time Craig Taylor 9781848549722
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.60Over the last 20 years, New York City has been convulsed by enormous challenges: terrorist attack, blackout, hurricane, recession, pandemic. New Yorkers is a grand portrait of the irrepressible city... -
300 Arguments by Sarah Manguso
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.76'Jam-packed with insights you'll want to both text to your friends and tattoo on your skin . . . A sweeping view of a human mind trying to make order of the world around us.' Celeste Ng, author of... -
Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn's Comrade Shelley Fisher Fishkin 9780300288612
Booksplease Price: £15.72The origins and influence of Jim, Mark Twain's beloved yet polarizing literary figure "Astute. . . . Sheds new light on a much-studied character."-Publishers Weekly Mark Twain's Jim, introduced... -
New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time Craig Taylor 9781848549708
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.90'Beautifully woven' Sunday Times'Extraordinary city stories ... ambitious and entertaining ... [Taylor] does a fine job of telling the New York story' GuardianA symphony of contemporary New York told... -
Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons by Jeremy Denk
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A virtuosic memoir . . . elegant, frank and well-structured, that entirely resists cliche . . . readable for both diehard classical music fans and complete newcomers... -
The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40From the author of The World and All That It Holds, Aleksandar Hemon's The Book of My Lives is an unforgettable memoir of a life forever marked by international conflict.Aleksandar Hemon grew up in a... -
Guestbook: Ghost Stories by Leanne Shapton
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.01'Shapton has created a mystical territory - a performance, an exhibition, a guestbook - in which I felt the ghost within myself; the thing that will outlive me. A fearless and exquisite book'... -
The Telling Room: Passion, Revenge and Life in a Spanish Village by Michael Paterniti 9781782112792
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23As heard on Radio 4 Book of the Week.In the medieval Castilian village of Guzman (population: 80), villagers have gathered for centuries in the 'telling room' to share stories and drink the local... -
Do Not Sell At Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World's Rarest 78rpm Records by Amanda Petrusich 9781451667066
Booksplease Price: £12.44Before MP3s, CDs, and cassette tapes, even before LPs or 45s, the world listened to music on fragile, 10-inch shellac discs that spun at 78 revolutions per minute. While vinyl has enjoyed a... -
The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs by Greil Marcus
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £5.68One of our finest critics gives us an altogether original history of rock 'n' roll Unlike all previous versions of rock 'n' roll history, this book omits almost every iconic performer and ignores the...