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Fifty Fifty: Carcanet's Jubilee in Letters by Robyn Marsack 9781784108786
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60A Book of the Year 2019 in The Morning Star. This is a rare glimpse into the inner workings of a small, ambitious press over a period of radical transformation in publishing. Each of Carcanet's... -
Edward Thomas's Poets by Edward Thomas 9781857549089
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £12.93Edward Thomas is one of the best-loved of English poets, and a model of integrity for many of his successors. His poetry was written during the space of just two years, before he was killed in the... -
Cancer Tom Raworth 9781800174627
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Cancer comprises Tom Raworth's writing from September 1970 through May 1971, and was originally to have been published by Harvey Brown's Frontier Press (based in West Newbury, Massachusetts) in 1973... -
Every Wrong Direction by Dan Burt
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.98Every Wrong Direction recreates and dissects the bitter education of Dan Burt, an American emigre who never found a home in America. It begins in the row homes of Jewish immigrants and working-class... -
The Devil Prefers Mozart: On Music and Musicians, 1962-1993 by Anthony Burgess 9781800173088
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.87The Devil Prefers Mozart is the first comprehensive collection of Anthony Burgess's writings about music. In this extensive compilation of essays and reviews, he covers a vast range of musical... -
Last Post by Frederic Raphael 9781800173033
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.31A The Tablet Book of the Year. Last Post has a double life; it both sounds for the gallant fallen and recalls what spurred freelance journalists, in all those yesterdays before e-mail, to get... -
American Originality: Essays on Poetry by Louise Gluck 9781800171558
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60The probing essays collected in American Originality scrutinise the terms we use to think about recent American poetry, its antecedents (not just Whitman and Dickinson but Ovid, Rilke, Thomas Mann,... -
Zest: Essays on the Art of Living by Iain Bamforth 9781800172050
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.98Following on the explorations of culture and politics in his previous collection The Good European, the writings in Zest delve into less obvious but important aspects of social life-into manual work... -
Citizen Poet: New and Selected Essays Eavan Boland 9781800171701
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.37At her death in 2020, Eavan Boland left a formidable body of work - poems and prose. Together hey transformed Irish poetry and had a considerable impact throughout the English-speaking world. She was... -
101 Letters by Christopher Middleton 9781800175679
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.99This selection of Middleton’s letters offers a new beginning point for readers of this dazzling, many-talented writer. The first letter here dates from 1936, the last from 2015, and this selection... -
NB by J.C.: A walk through the Times Literary Supplement by James Campbell
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.37A The Spectator and Observer Book of the Year. The NB column in the Times Literary Supplement, signed at the foot by J.C., occupied the back page of the paper for thirteen years. For a decade... -
The Ink Trade: Selected Journalism 1961-1993 by Anthony Burgess 9781784103927
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.98`The title of journalist is probably very noble, but I lay no real claim to it. I am, I think, a novelist and a musical composer manque: I make no other pretensions ...' (Anthony Burgess). ... -
At the Source: A Writer's Year by Gillian Clarke 9781857549867
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £9.60"At the Source" reflects upon a writer's deep inheritance of language, myth and nature. Her creative journeys begin from those sources. The book opens with a house, Blaen Cwrt. A river rises, a... -
Essence of the Brontes: A Compilation with Essays by Muriel Spark 9781847772466
Booksplease Price: £16.86First published by Peter Owen in 1993, this book brings together Muriel Spark's writings on the Bronte sisters, including a selection of their letters and a selection of Emily Bronte's poems... -
Alexander Goehr, Composing a Life: Teachers, Mentors & Models by Jack Van Zandt 9781800173576
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.31Alexander ('Sandy') Goehr is a leading British composer and teacher. Born into a Jewish musical family in Berlin in 1932, he arrived in England in 1933 with his father, Walter, a composer, conductor,... -
God's Zoo: Artists, Exiles, Londoners by Marius Kociejowski 9781847772664
Booksplease Price: £23.86This beautifully illustrated book consists of a series of encounters with writers, artists and musicians living in London, all of whom are exiles or emigres displaced from their cultural and... -
Drawings by Sarah Raphael 9781857546620
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £22.27Sarah Raphael (1960-2001) died young: preparing a show for New York, she contracted pneumonia and never recovered. Her work, large- and small-scale, is now represented in all the leading British... -
The Good European: Arguments, Excursions and Disquisitions on the Theme of Europe by Iain Bamforth 9781857547658
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £12.93Nietzsche, warning his countrymen in the Bismarck era against the nationalism that sought to promote all that was anti-rational in the German tradition, exhorted them to be "good Europeans", avatars... -
Year of Plagues: A Memoir of 2020 by Fred D'Aguiar 9781800172418
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.30In this piercing and unforgettable memoir, the award-winning poet reflects on a year of turbulence, fear, and hope. For acclaimed British-Guyanese writer Fred D'Aguiar, 2020 was a year of personal... -
Close to the Next Moment: Interviews from a Changing Ireland by Eavan Boland 9781847770486
Booksplease Price: £20.86In the first decade of the new millennium, Jody Allen Randolph interviewed twenty-two leading Irish poets, artists, fiction writers and playwrights to create a record of how the makers of a culture... -
Midnight Letterbox by Edwin Morgan
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.28One of the central figures of twentieth-century Scottish literature, Edwin Morgan was a prolific letter-writer. His correspondence, like his poetry, is wide-ranging, full of generosity and... -
Purity of Diction in English Verse: AND Articulate Energy by Donald Davie
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.30Donald Davie's first two prose books (1952, 1955), available now in one volume with a new foreword, set the agenda for 'The Movement' and shaped the critical approach of two generations of readers... -
Pictures of War by Mary Griffiths 9781857549935
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £14.95Mary Griffiths' knowledge of war began with her parents' stories and a suitcase full of black and white photographs taken by her father during his service in the Second World War. War remained family... -
Singer on the Shore: Essays 1991-2004 by Gabriel Josipovici 9781857548440
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £14.28The novelist Gabriel Josipovici's new book of essays ranges from writings on the Bible, Shakespeare, Kafka, Borges and the Israeli novelist Aharon Appelfeld to considerations of Rembrandt's... -
Among Communists Sinéad Morrissey 9781800174061
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.95The first Communist memoir from Northern Ireland, set against a backdrop of the vanished culture of Belfast Communism, from the winner of the T.S. Eliot and Forward Prizes.About the AuthorSinead... -
Essays by Anthony V. Capildeo 9781800175693
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.99Anthony V. Capildeo's new book brings together a selection of their brilliant essays, letters and columns, many of them published in the leading poetry journal PN Review. The essays are, almost by... -
Eavan Boland: A Poet's Dublin by Eavan Boland 9781847774477
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60Published to celebrate the seventieth birthday of acclaimed Irish poet Eavan Boland, this book brings together many of Boland's best known poems with her own striking photographs of her native city,... -
Roots Home: Essays and a Journal by Gillian Clarke
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60Shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year 2022. Wales's best-loved contemporary poet, one of the major poets of our endangered environment, returns to prose in Roots Home. As in At the Source... -
Lives and Letters of Artemisia Gentileschi by Artemisia Gentileschi 9781843681960
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Reverse Side of the Tapestry by Alberto Manguel 9781800175808
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60The Reverse Side of the Tapestry is the definition Cervantes gives of translation in Don Quixote; here, it is an essay on the translator's craft. Alberto Manguel has been a translator of many great... -
Distance and Memory by Peter Davidson 9781847771551
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £11.57This is a book about remoteness: a memoir of places observed in solitude, of the texture of life through the quiet course of the seasons in the far north of Scotland. It is a book grounded in the... -
Doctor's Dictionary: Writings on Culture and Medicine by Iain Bamforth 9781784100568
Booksplease Price: £18.38In this pithy abecedarium, doctor and poet Iain Bamforth takes a close look at the conflict of values embodied in what we call medicine - never entirely a science and no longer quite the art it... -
Shelley’s Living Artistry: Letters, Poems, Plays by Madeleine Callaghan
Booksplease Price: £35.78This study of the poetry and drama of Percy Bysshe Shelley reads the letters and their biographical contexts to shed light on the poetry, tracing the ambiguous and shifting relationship between the... -
Library Lives: A Constellation of Books and Objects from the Rylands Stella Halkyard 9781800174375
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.67Library Lives plots the lifelong love affair between one particular bookworm and the John Rylands Library in Manchester, its collections drawn from every corner and period of the textual and... -
Surviving Revolution: Bourgeois Lives and Letters Denise Z. Davidson 9781501784880
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Surviving Revolution explores how two wealthy and well-connected families with roots in Lyon responded to the French Revolution and the resulting transformations. In building a new political system... -
Surviving Revolution: Bourgeois Lives and Letters Denise Z. Davidson 9781501783401
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £92.50Surviving Revolution explores how two wealthy and well-connected families with roots in Lyon responded to the French Revolution and the resulting transformations. In building a new political system... -
Imperial Lives and Letters of the Eleventh Century by Theodor E. Mommsen 9780231121217
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Although numerous texts are available in translation that illustrate the papal side of the Investiture Controversy, few accounts exist that convey the position of secular leaders. Imperial Lives and... -
The World's Greatest Books Vol.- X Lives and Letters by J a Hammerton 9789359951027
Booksplease Price: £16.95Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Atlantic Families: Lives and Letters in the Later Eighteenth Century by Sarah Pearsall 9780199600441
Booksplease Price: £61.52The Atlantic represented a world of opportunity in the eighteenth century, but it represented division also, separating families across its coasts. Whether due to economic shifts, changing political... -
Postbox Kashmir: Two Lives in Letters by Postbox Kashmir Divya Arya 9780143451693
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £9.70Do only Muslims live in Kashmir?Why do girls in Kashmir do stone pelting?Whom do they want freedom from?Can you imagine being confined to the four walls of your home with no internet, no social...