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The Gin Closet by Leslie Jamison
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £16.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439153239Author Leslie JamisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint -
Splinters: A Memoir by Leslie Jamison 9781783788910
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The Empathy Exams: Essays by Leslie Jamison
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.37The subjects of this stylish and audacious collection of essays range from an assault in Nicaragua to a Morgellons meeting; from Frida Kahlo's plaster casts to a gangland tour of LA. Jamison is... -
Splinters: A Memoir Leslie Jamison 9781783788934
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Never less than gripping... Reads like a classic' Observer 'Exceptional... thrilling and bitter and fulfilling' Vogue How do you rebuild a life? How do you move forward into joy when haunted by... -
The Empathy Exams: Essays by Leslie Jamison 9781555976712
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £12.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Award (Paperback Original) 2014. Commended for Indies... -
Make It Scream, Make It Burn by Leslie Jamison
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.37'Intelligent, compassionate, and so fiercely, prodigiously brave. This is the essay at its creative, philosophical best' Eleanor Catton, author of The Luminaries on THE EMPATHY EXAMS A profound... -
American Creative Writers on Class by Leslie Jamison 9781937806002
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Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story by Leslie Jamison 9780316374989
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316374989Author Leslie JamisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint -
On Violence and On Violence Against Women by Jacqueline Rose 9780571332724
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A blazingly insightful, provocative study of violence against women from the peerless feminist critic. 'To read Rose is to understand that there is no border between us and the world; it is an... -
American Epidemic: Reporting from the Front Lines of the Opioid Crisis by Leslie Jamison
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Just a few years ago, the opioid crisis could be referred to as a 'silent epidemic,' but the scourge of opiate addiction is no longer being overlooked. This is in large part thanks to the... -
Kept Secret: The Half-Truth in Nonfiction by Jen Hirt
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £13.47Creative non-fiction writers wrestle constantly with the boundaries of creative license - what to reveal, when to reveal it, and how best to do it. While the truth inspire us to make confident... -
And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready by Meaghan O'Connell
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.62Operating Instructions for the Millennial set: a fiercely honest account of becoming a mother before you're "ready."If you feel totally alienated by the cutesy, sanctimonious tone of the "motherhood... -
Immanuel by Matthew McNaught
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23At what point does faith turn into tyranny? In Immanuel, winner of the inaugural Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize, Matthew McNaught explores his upbringing in an evangelical Christian community in... -
Having and Being Had by Eula Biss 9780571346431
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'A major achievement.' CLAUDIA RANKINE'Endlessly absorbing.' SINEAD GLEESON 'A probing tour of capitalism and class.' MAGGIE NELSON'Exhilarating.' JENNY OFFILLA personal reckoning with the... -
Brief Encounters: A Collection of Contemporary Nonfiction by Judith Kitchen 9780393350999
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.85Brief Encounters expands the vibrant field of shorts-as these sharply focused pieces have come to be known-with nearly eighty new selections: representing an impressive range of voices, perspectives,... -
Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £11.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501160349Author Lulu MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint -
My Fair Junkie: A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean by Amy Dresner
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.52Growing up in Beverly Hills, the only child of a comedy writer and a fashion designer, Amy Dresner believed that everything was always funny and turned out right. And she needed to believe it. If you... -
The Wonderful World that Almost Was: A Life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek Andrew Durbin 9781803512136
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.91The work of photographer Peter Hujar defined downtown New York in the 1970s and 1980s. Paul Thek was an American sculptor and painter. Hujar and Thek met in 1956 and shared a strong intellectual and... -
Into Being: The Radical Craft of Memoir and its Power to Transform Lily Dunn 9781526179258
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.37The acclaimed author of Sins of My Father shares the secrets of writing a new, transformative kind of memoir.Into being is an essential guide to writing memoir in a radical and empowering way... -
What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence by Michele Filgate
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In the early 2000's, as an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an essay about being abused by her stepfather. It took many years for her to realize what she was actually trying to... -
This Woman's Work: Essays on Music Various 9781474621496
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02This Woman's Work: Essays on Music is edited by Kim Gordon and Sinead Gleeson and features contributors Anne Enright, Fatima Bhutto, Jenn Pelly, Rachel Kushner, Juliana Huxtable, Leslie Jamison, Liz... -
How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom Johanna Hedva 9781638931164
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.68The long-awaited essay collection from one of the most influential voices in disability activism that detonates a bomb in our collective understanding of care and illness, showing us that sickness is... -
Hereditary Screenplay Book Ari Aster 9781733992039
Booksplease Price: £51.65The Hereditary Screenplay Book features a foreword by Bong Joon-ho, an essay by writer Leslie Jamison, and Ari Aster's meticulous shot list from the family seance scene.Book InformationISBN... -
Colored Television: Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2025 by Danzy Senna 9780349705040
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02** Winner of the 2025 ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION | Finalist for the 2025 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION | Longlisted for the 2025 JOYCE CAROL OATES LITERARY PRIZE, the 2024 NATIONAL BOOK... -
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZEChosen as 'BOOK OF THE YEAR' by Observer, Guardian, Telegraph, Irish Times, New Statesman, Times Literary Supplement, HeraldWhen Olivia Laing moved to New York... -
Easy Beauty: A Memoir by Chloé Cooper Jones
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £11.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Pulitzer Prize (Memoir/Autobiography) 2023.Book InformationISBN 9781982152000Author Chloe Cooper Jon -
Neon in Daylight by Hermione Hoby
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £3.39'What do you get when a writer of extreme intelligence, insight, style and beauty chronicles the lives of self-absorbed hedonists - The Great Gatsby, Bright Lights, Big City, and now Neon in Daylight... -
Ill Feelings by Alice Hattrick
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Long Description ILL FEELINGS is a collective biography of medically unexplained illness. Structured around the narrative of their own ill feelings, Alice Hattrick uncovers their and their mother's... -
Notes on Heartbreak: From Vogue’s Dating Columnist, the must-read book on losing love and letting go by Annie Lord
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.71'Arresting and vivid, raw and breathtaking...told with stunning originality' DOLLY ALDERTON, author of EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT LOVE'Annie Lord tells us a story at once both specific and universal'... -
Candy Land: Cake Zine Volume 5: by Tanya Bush 9798218443184
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.81Cake Zine's fifth issue, Candy Land, unwraps candy's connections to the literal and metaphorical land. It's ninety-six pages of essays, recipes, fiction, and art, including: * Conversations with... -
Thirst for Salt by Madelaine Lucas
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12A heady story about a life-changing summer romance, perfect for fans of A Theatre for Dreamers and Sorrow & Bliss 'A love affair so richly and attentively imagined it carries the grace and... -
William Shakespeare x Marcel Dzama: A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.50Set in an enchanted forest, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is the ideal subject for artist Marcel Dzama, whose work frequently references dreams, fairy tales, and mythical worlds. Inspired... -
I Want You to Be Happy: 'An extraordinarily gifted writer.' Sally Rooney Jem Calder 9780571387458
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51* AVAILABLE WHILE STOCKS LAST - LIMITED FIRST EDITION: featuring an exclusive hidden cover *AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST OF 2026'Prepare to see this everywhere.' Elle'I was totally invested.' Saba... -
No Choice: The Destruction of Roe v. Wade and the Fight to Protect a Fundamental American Right by Becca Andrews
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38'Powerful, deftly researched. A necessary and urgent deep-dive' ELINOR CLEGHORN'Brilliantly researched and enlightening' STYLIST, Books You Need to Know This Autumn'Absolutely captivating' LESLIE... -
Love and Ruin: Tales of Obsession, Danger, and Heartbreak from The Atavist Magazine by Evan Ratliff
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30Since its founding in 2011, The Atavist Magazine has garnered an unprecedented eight National Magazine Award nominations and was the first all-digital publication to win in feature writing. This... -
Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.42'A masterpiece, as fresh and shocking as if it were written yesterday' Craig Brown"I've been told that no one sings the word 'hunger' like I do. Or the word 'love'."Lady Sings the Blues is the... -
The Best American Magazine Writing 2019 by Sid Holt
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.88The Best American Magazine Writing 2019 presents articles honored by this year's National Magazine Awards, showcasing outstanding writing that addresses urgent topics such as justice, gender, power,... -
Waste by Brian Thill
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.54Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Though we try to imagine otherwise, waste is every object, plus time. Whatever else an... -
I Am the Central Park Jogger: A Story of Hope and Possibility by Trisha Meili
Booksplease Price: £12.69It was the end of a long day and Trisha Meili, a young New York stockbroker, was just out for a run. At 9.35 p.m. on April 19, 1989, as she jogs alone near 102nd Street in Central Park, she is... -
More, Please: On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for "Enough" by Emma Specter 9780063278370
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.05ONE OF TIME 100'S MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2024 * A DEBUTIFUL BEST BOOK OF 2024 * FEATURED IN NYLON * W MAGAZINE * GLAMOUR * BOOK RIOT * HEYALMA * BUSTLE * ELECTRIC LITERATURE * ROMPER * AND MORE!"Tend