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What We Talk About When We Talk About Crime Jennifer Fleetwood 9781912559534
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.67Over the past few decades, there has been a remarkable rise in the number of people who speak publicly about their experience of crime. These personal accounts used to be confined to the police... -
The Threshold and the Ledger Tom McCarthy 9781912559671
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912559671Author Tom McCarthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Notting Hill EditionsPublisher... -
Ways of Telling Xandra Bingley 9781912559893
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.11‘Ways of Telling isn't like any other book. Is it social reportage, the eye at the keyhole, the war at the door? It is its own thing.’ Margaret Atwood ‘I couldn’t love it more. After the very first... -
A GARDEN FROM A HUNDRED PACKETS OF SEED by James Fenton
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.86In this light-hearted book, poet and gardener James Fenton describes a hundred plants he would choose to grow from seed. 'It seemed a simple and interesting idea: what plants would you choose if... -
A Twitch Upon the Thread: Writers on Fishing Jon Day 9781912559138
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.44The best fishing writing is never really about fishing, or never only about fishing, and the writers collected in A Twitch Upon the Thread use angling as a way to write about love, loss, faith, and... -
Journey to Armenia by Osip Mandelstam
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.75Osip Mandelstam visited Armenia in 1930, and during the eight months of his stay he rediscovered his poetic voice and was inspired to write an experimental meditation on the country and its ancient... -
Mentored by a Madman: The William Burroughs Experiment by Andrew Lees
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.95Lees draws on Burroughs' search for an addiction cure to discover a ground-breaking treatment for shaking palsy, and learns how to use the deductive reasoning of Sherlock Holmes to diagnose patients... -
Humiliation by Wayne Koestenbaum 9781907903465
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.99The lives of people both famous and obscure are filled with moments when their dirty laundry sees daylight. At such times we witness the reversibility of success, of prominence, but also come to... -
Brazil That Never Was by A. J. Lees
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.99As a boy growing up near Liverpool in the 1950s, Andrew Lees would visit the docks with his father to watch the ships from Brazil unload their exotic cargo of coffee, cotton bales, molasses, cocoa -... -
Noriko Smiling by Adam Mars-Jones 9781907903458
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.18'Late Spring, directed and co-written by Yasujiro Ozu, was released in 1949, which makes it an old film, or a film that has been new for a long time...' So begins this remarkable essay in narrative... -
On Christmas by Gyles Brandreth
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.99A seasonal anthology of Christmas-themed writings to savour during the highs and lows of Christmas Day. This delightful book offers a diverse array of classic and contemporary writers who have... -
Confessions of a Heretic, Revised Edition Roger Scruton 9781912559343
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.99Confessions of a Heretic is a collection of provocative essays by the influential social commentator and polemicist Roger Scruton. Each "confession" reveals aspects of the author's thinking that his... -
Happy Half Hours by A.A. Milne
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.18A.A. Milne, best known as the author of the classic Winnie-the-Pooh stories, was a successful writer long before his children's stories launched him to overnight success. Milne himself disliked being... -
Virginia Woolf: Essays on the Self by Virginia Woolf
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.99Woolf's fine character studies of several authors, among them Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who 'seems not a man, but a swarm, a cloud, a buzz of words, darting this way and that, clustering, quivering... -
Nairn's Paris: 2017 by Ian Nairn
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.99Following on from the bestselling Nairn's Towns - a celebration of the city of Paris by cult figure Ian Nairn. Illustrated with original black and white images taken by Nairn himself. More than a... -
Smoke: 2017 by John Berger
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.02A pictoral essay by the great art critic, novelist and long-time smoker, John Berger, and Turkish writer and illustrator Selcuk Demirel. "Once upon a time, men, women and (secretly) children smoked... -
On Cats: An Anthology by Margaret Atwood
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.61For centuries, cats have been worshipped, adored and mistrusted in equal measure. This beautiful gift book contains a selection of essays, stories, and poems on cats by writers from across the ages. ... -
Beneath My Feet: Writers on Walking: 2018 by Duncan Minshull 9781910749982
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.44"Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness." -Soren Kierkegaard Duncan Minshull has always walked and in the... -
My Katherine Mansfield Project by Kirsty Gunn
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.48A new work by a highly acclaimed author - The Big Music(2012) was described as 'One of the finest novels of the past decade' by the TLS The essay will appeal to all fans of Katherine Mansfield A... -
Notting Hill: A Walking Guide: 2018 by Julian Mash 9781910749944
RRP: £13.50Booksplease Price: £11.87A walking guide to this historic London neighbourhood, uncovering its countercultural roots. A delightful English/Japanese pocket-size guide to London's most popular district. Through four walks... -
Mentored by a Madman: The William Burroughs Experiment by 9781912559121
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.63A fascinating account by one of the world's leading neurologists of the profound influence of William Burroughs on his medical career. Lees relates how Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch and troubled... -
Junkspace/Running Room by Rem Koolhaas
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.99In Junkspace (2001), architect Rem Koolhaas itemises in delirious detail how our cities are being overwhelmed. His celebrated jeremiad is here updated and twinned with Running Room, a fresh response... -
What Time Is It? by John Berger
Booksplease Price: £17.29"Patience, patience, because the great movements of history have always begun in those small parenthesis that we call 'in the meantime.'" --John Berger The last book that John Berger wrote was this... -
Cataract by John Berger 9781907903328
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.18What happens when cataracts rob an art critic of his sight? John Berger, whose classic book Ways of Seeing has been in print for fifty years, joins forces with Turkish illustrator Selcuk Demirel to... -
Sauntering: Writers Walk Europe by Duncan Minshull
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.44On foot the world comes our way. We get close to the Continent's alpine ranges, arterial rivers, expansive coastlines. Close to its ancient cities and mysterious thoroughfares; and close to the... -
On Dogs: An Anthology by Tracey Ullman
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.99Dogs throughout history have enjoyed a special relationship with humankind, and our favourite four-legged creatures continue to grow in popularity. The writers and poets collected within this... -
The Foreigner by Richard Sennett 9781907903083
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.99Richard Sennett has spent an intellectual lifetime exploring how humans live in cities. In this pair of essays he visits two of the world's greatest cities at crucial moments in their history to... -
My Prizes by Thomas Bernhard
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.99Completed in 1980 but published here for the first time, My Prizes is an accounting - prize by prize, blow by blow - of the background and circumstances of reception of nine literary prizes that... -
How Shostakovich Changed My Mind by Stephen Johnson
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.74Through interviews conducted with surviving members of Soviet orchestras, through his reading of philosophers, psychoanalysts, and neurologists, Johnson paints a compelling picture of one man's music... -
Found and Lost by Alison Leslie Gold
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.15In this haunting memoir, Alison Gold gives a luminous account of key moments in her life that brought her to be the writer she is. They tell of her early activism; they tell of her descent into... -
A Short History of Power by Simon Heffer 9781907903205
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.99From Macaulay in the 19th century to Fukuyama in the late 20th, historians have often been lulled into thinking that things can only get better. Such belief in progress, argues leading political... -
Questions of Travel: William Morris in Iceland by Lavinia Greenlaw 9781910749562
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.63Morris's intimate journals, written for a friend, unconsciously explore questions of travel, noting his reaction to the idea of leaving or arriving, to hurry and delay, what it means to dread a place... -
William Morris in Iceland: Questions of Travel by Lavinia Greenlaw
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.99Morris's intimate journals, written for a friend, unconsciously explore questions of travel, noting his reaction to the idea of leaving or arriving, to hurry and delay, what it means to dread a place... -
Cyclogeography: Journeys of a London Bicycle Courier by 9781907903991
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.18Cyclogeography is an essay about the bicycle in the cultural imagination and a portrait of London seen from the saddle. The bicycle enables us to feel a landscape, rather than just see it, and in the... -
Frida Kahlo And My Left Leg by Emily Rapp Black
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.18Frida Kahlo was an amputee in the last part of her life, but long before that her right leg had been compromised by a childhood bout with polio. Since adolescence, Emily Rapp, herself an amputee... -
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A New Translation by Michael Hulse by Michael Hulse
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.86In Thus Spake Zarathustra, Nietzsche conducts his protagonist through his great journey of life - the quest for meaning, and fulfilment, and for a way to live with the knowledge of death. In this... -
Beautiful and Impossible Things: Selected Essays of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.29This new selection of essays by Oscar Wilde show-cases the varied aspects of his genius. For Pearson, the biographer, the essays and dialogues illustrate the many faces of Wilde's extraordinary... -
I Remember by Joe Brainard
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.75Joe Brainard's I Remember is a cult classic, envied and admired by writers from Frank O'Hara to John Ashbery and Edmund White. As autobiography, Brainard's method was brilliantly simple: to set down... -
Things I Don't Want to Know: A Response to George Orwell's Why I Write by Deborah Levy 9781907903632
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.86Things I Don't Want to Know is a unique response to George Orwell from one of our most vital contemporary writers. Taking Orwell's famous list of motives for writing as the jumping-off point for a... -
Music Lessons: Seven Composers and What They Taught Me Stephen Johnson 9781912559879
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.74From the bestselling author of the award-winning How Shostakovich Changed My Mind comes a new book about the cathartic power of music. For critic and composer Stephen Johnson, there have been...