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Coasting Jonathan Raban 9781780601380
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.10'A valuable book and a necessary one. One of the funniest and cleverest voyages on record.' Christopher Hitchens, New Statesman 'The finest writer afloat since Conrad.' Geoffrey Moorhouse, The... -
Passage To Juneau by Jonathan Raban 9780330346290
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78An entrancing travelogue from celebrated writer Jonathan Raban.First published in 1999, Passage to Juneau is an account of Raban's personal journey from Seattle to the Alaskan Capital by boat through... -
For Love or Money Jonathan Raban 9781780601403
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.10'Jonathan Raban is the only person I listen to in matters of travel and books and writing in general. Reading him, talking to him as I have over fifty years, he has made my work better and me happier... -
Passage To Juneau by Jonathan Raban 9781035034536
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74'His erudition is enorous, his prose as beautiful and clear as the blue ocean on a crisp morning . . . Passage to Juneau is a wonderfully fluid read' - Sunday Times Passage to Juneau is an account of... -
Bad Land by Jonathan Raban 9781035034529
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Jonathan Raban's enthralling journey into the history of the Great Plains of Montana - the least populated, most uncharted region of the United States - to uncover the heart and soul of the country... -
Foreign Land by Jonathan Raban 9780375725944
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £11.88Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Soft City: Picador Classic by Jonathan Raban
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Jonathan Raban's Soft City is a compelling exploration of urban life: a classic in the literature of the city. First published in the 1970s, it is now more relevant to today's overcrowded planet than... -
The Oxford Book of the Sea by Jonathan Raban 9780192801944
RRP: £13.49Booksplease Price: £10.46It is no surprise that one of the earliest works in English literature should be a poem about the sea: the sea has been a source of fascination from the earliest times, and the Anglo-Saxon poem 'The... -
Bad Land: An American Romance by Jonathan Raban 9780679759065
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £13.18Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
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Bad Land by Jonathan Raban 9780330346221 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.83Jonathan Raban takes you on an enthralling journey into the least populated and least known region in the United States, the Great Plains of Montana, and finds there the heart and soul of the country... -
Old Glory: An American Voyage Jonathan Raban 9781780601366
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.32'Jonathan Raban is one of the world's greatest living travel writers.' William Dalrymple 'The best book of travel ever written by an Englishman about the United States' Jan Morris,... -
Arabia through the Looking Glass Jonathan Raban 9781780601397
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.10'Of all his generation's travellers, Jonathan Raban is the most sophisticated, writing with a subtle and imaginative brilliance.' Colin Thubron 'One of the most humane and visionary of all travel... -
Hunting Mr Heartbreak: A Discovery of America Jonathan Raban 9781780601373
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.10'Jonathan Raban is simply one of the great writers of non-fiction at work today. I hold his work in awe.' Robert Macfarlane 'Unfailingly witty and entertaining.' Salman RushdieFollowing in the... -
Here There Nowhere: Paintings by Michael Brophy by Jonathan Raban 9780870712951
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870712951Author Jonathan RabanFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint -
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Foreign Land: A Novel by Jonathan Raban 9780330292306 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.55For over thirty years, Goerge Grey has been a ship bunker in the west African nation of Montedor, a land of malaria and political upheaval. But now he's returning to England, to a life and world... -
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Hunting Mr. Heartbreak by Jonathan Raban 9780330320535 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £2.57For hundred of years this sentence has tantalized and inspired Europeans. Jonathan Raban followed in the steps of Hector St John de Crevecoeur -- Mr Heartbreak -- and several million other emigrants... -
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Arabia Through the Looking Glass by Jonathan Raban 9780330300582 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £1.98'A wonderful, rushing, crowded, enlightening voyage . . . A book which, in its ingenious understanding, its acceptance of a very imperfect world, and its energetic and constant fascination with human... -
Jonathan Raban's Novel 'Surveillance' and Its Criticism of Surveillance in the American Society After 9/11 by Uwe Mehlbaum 9783640792924
RRP: £25.50Booksplease Price: £20.98Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
In the Dutch Mountains Cees Nooteboom 9781782067191
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A morose provincial inspector of roads in Aragon settles down to write the fable of the Snow Queen. The Netherlands has now been stretched into a vast country with Northern flatlands and hazardous... -
Eliot in His Time: Essays on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of The Wasteland by A. Walton Litz 9780691619156
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.02The essays in this new collection, all by outstanding experts in the field of modern literature, provide a different and more complex sense of Eliot's place in literary history. The eight essays are:... -
The Bells in Their Silence: Travels through Germany by Michael Gorra 9780691126173
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02Nobody writes travelogues about Germany. The country spurs many anxious volumes of investigative reporting--books that worry away at the "German problem," World War II, the legacy of the Holocaust,... -
The New Granta Book of Travel Liz Jobey 9781847083302
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Granta has long been known for the quality of its travel writing. The 1980s were the culmination of a golden age, when writers including Paul Theroux and Bruce Chatwin, James Hamilton-Paterson and... -
All Points North: the bestselling memoir from the new Poet Laureate by Simon Armitage
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.59'A joy. Celebrates the real world and revels in its mad glory' Sue Townsend, Sunday Times_____________________________________All Points North is part-memoir and part-excursion. Charting the rugged... -
A Cruising Guide to Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands by Migael Scherer 9780071420396
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £56.53"Simply put, every local boater should have a dog-eared, well-thumbed copy [of this guide] as a permanent feature in the nautical library."-48 Degrees NorthA Cruising Guide to Puget Sound and the San... -
The Sea: Nature and Culture by Richard Hamblyn
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54This book explores the sea and its meanings from ancient myths to contemporary geopolitics, from Atlantis to the Mediterranean migrant crisis. Richard Hamblyn traces a cultural and geographical... -
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems (Collins Classics) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 9780008167561
RRP: £3.99Booksplease Price: £3.77HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Instead of the cross, the AlbatrossAbout my neck was hung' When an albatross leads a... -
Trollope by Victoria Glendinning 9780712697903
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.15Victoria Glendinning provides a woman's view of Anthony Trollope, placing emphasis on family, particularly on his relationship with his mother. But it is Anthony as a husband and lover that intrigues... -
My Secret History: A Novel by Paul Theroux
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.85'Written with a rare intensity of both intelligence and feeling. . . a superbly realistic evocation of the journeys (both dark and comical) of the human heart' Salman Rushdie, ObserverIn My Secret... -
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Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by Paul Theroux 9780140281118 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.32Dark Star Safari is Paul Theroux's now classic account of a journey from Cairo to Cape Town.Travelling across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, and through country after country, Theroux... -
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by Paul Theroux
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Dark Star Safari is Paul Theroux's now classic account of a journey from Cairo to Cape Town.Travelling across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, and through country after country, Theroux... -
Figures of Heresy: Radical Theology in English & American Writing, 1800-2000 by Andrew Dix
Booksplease Price: £114.18God is dead,' Nietzsche famously declared in The Gay Science; but this book will investigate God's surprising persistence and resurrection in the works of even the most seemingly atheistic of... -
Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood 9780349019062
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02CAROLINE BLACKWOOD'S MASTERPIECE, SHORTLISTED FOR THE 1977 BOOKER PRIZE*A New Yorker summer reading pick of 2026*'Full of genuine black humour' LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS'A darkly comic treat' CHRIS... -
Voyage in the Dark by Jean Rhys
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'A wonderful bitter-sweet book, written with disarming simplicity' Esther Freud'It was as if a curtain had fallen, hiding everything I had ever known,' says Anna Morgan, eighteen years old and... -
The Golden Apples by Eudora Welty
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95First published in 1949, THE GOLDEN APPLES is an acutely observed, richly atmospheric portrayal of small town life in Morgana, Mississippi. There's Snowdie, who has to bring up her twin boys alone... -
Undefeatable: Odesa in Love and War Julian Evans 9781917881043
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62'This is the account we've been starved of: an insight into Ukraine from an authoritative British writer who has skin in the country's game. 'Odesa is my discovered heart,' confesses Julian Evans,... -
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed by John Vaillant 9780393328646
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.16When a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Northwest, they reignite a mystery surrounding a shocking act of protest. Five months earlier,... -
The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'Sebald is the Joyce of the 21st Century' The TimesWhat begins as the record of W. G. Sebald's own journey on foot through coastal East Anglia, from Lowestoft to Bungay, becomes the conductor of... -
The Imperfect Life of T. S. Eliot by Lyndall Gordon
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £8.79T. S. Eliot once spoke of a lifetime burning in every moment. He had the mind to conceive a perfect life, and he also had the honesty to admit he could not meet it.'He was a man of extremes whose... -
The Collected Stories: World's End; Sinning with Annie; Jungle Bells; the Consul's File; the London Embassy; by Paul Theroux
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78The Collected Stories is a collection of award-winning writer Paul Theroux's short stories, each of which brimming with astute observations and sharp wit that will captivate readers the world over... -
The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.51WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARINA WARNER AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY MERVYN PEAKE Coleridge's celebrated poem was written at the suggestion of William Wordsworth in the early days of their friendship, and...