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Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things: A Routledge Study Guide by Alex Tickell
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.83On publication Arundhati Roy's first novel The God of Small Things (1997) rapidly became an international bestseller, winning the Booker Prize and creating a new space for Indian literature and culture within the arts, even as it courted controversy and... -
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.54'May be the most detailed, painstaking anatomy of desire that we are ever likely to see or need again... An ecstatic celebration of love and language' Washington PostThe language we use when we are in love is not a language we speak. It is a language... -
Oxford Student Texts: Robert Frost: Selected Poems by Robert Frost
Booksplease Price: £11.85One of a series designed to provide a new, accessible approach to the works of great poets and playwrights. Each text includes general notes on the text; discussion of themes, issues and context; and suggestions for further reading.Making A Level texts... -
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by Sir James George Frazer
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.33A classic study of the beliefs and institutions of mankind, and the progress through magic and religion to scientific thought, The Golden Bough has a unique status in modern anthropology and literature. First published in 1890, The Golden Bough was... -
A Poet's Revolution: The Life of Denise Levertov by Donna Krolik Hollenberg 9780520272460
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £30.41This first full-length biography of Anglo- American poet and activist Denise Levertov (1923-1997) brings to life one of the major voices of the second half of the twentieth century, when American poetry was a powerful influence worldwide. Drawing on... -
Herodotus: Histories Book I by Carolyn Dewald 9780521692700
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £29.63In the Histories, which could loosely be translated as 'Investigations' or 'Researches,' Herodotus tells how the Persian Empire began, grew, and then met defeat in Greece in his parents' generation. Book 1 begins that story. It introduces both the world... -
The Drama of Celebrity by Sharon Marcus 9780691210186
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.01A bold new account of how celebrity worksWhy do we care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a star? Do celebrities deserve the outsized attention they receive? Sharon Marcus challenges everything you thought you knew about our obsession... -
My Ear at His Heart by Hanif Kureishi
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.86'Hanif Kureishi's literary memoir explores his relationship with his father, a failed writer. Kurieshi is, of course, hugely successful...' EsquireAmongst a batch of papers, Hanif Kureishi discovered an abandoned manuscript - a novel, written by his... -
Science Fiction: A Very Short Introduction by David Seed
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.87Science Fiction has proved notoriously difficult to define. It has been explained as a combination of romance, science and prophecy; as a genre based on an imagined alternative to the reader's environment; and as a form of fantastic fiction and... -
Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction: Second Edition by Leela Gandhi 9780231178396
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.50Published twenty years ago, Leela Gandhi's Postcolonial Theory was a landmark description of the field of postcolonial studies in theoretical terms that set its intellectual context alongside poststructuralism, postmodernism, Marxism, and feminism... -
A Little History of Poetry by John Carey
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.83A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature--selected as the literature book of the year by the London Times "[A] fizzing, exhilarating book."-Sebastian... -
Ulysses Annotated: Revised and Expanded Edition by Don Gifford
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £25.02Don Gifford's annotations to Joyce's great modern classic comprise a specialized encyclopedia that will inform any reading of "Ulysses". The suggestive potential of minor details was enormously fascinating to Joyce, and the precision of his use of detail... -
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle 9780198856047
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.20'There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life.' In Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet a popular cultural phenomenon is born. We meet two of the most famous characters in modern literary history: the... -
Art of the Grimoire: An Illustrated History of Magic Books and Spells by Owen Davies 9780300272017
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.88A copiously illustrated global history of magic books, from ancient papyri to pulp paperbacks "A beautiful production: a typographic and calligraphic treat as treasurable as a rare magical text itself. Almost every page is filled with wonder."-Suzi... -
The Lifted Veil, and Brother Jacob by George Eliot
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.20`She had believed that my wild poet's passion for her would make me her slave; and that, being her slave, I should execute her will in all things.' The Lifted Veil was first published in Blackwood's Magazine in 1859. A dark fantasy woven from... -
Myth, Literature and the African World by Wole Soyinka 9780521398343
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.43Wole Soyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and one of the foremost living African writers, here analyses the interconnecting worlds of myth, ritual and literature in Africa. The ways in which the African world perceives itself as a cultural... -
Shakespeare's Macbeth by Professor Graham Bradshaw
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776045Author Graham BradshawFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Joy: 100 Poems by Christian Wiman 9780300248630
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.72One hundred of the most evocative modern poems on joy, selected by an award-winning contemporary poet"Bursting with energy and surprising locutions. . . . Even the most familiar poets seem somehow new within the context of Joy."-David Skeel, Wall Street... -
Sherlock Holmes Escape Book, A: The Adventure of the Tower of London by Charles Phillips
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.22A Sherlock Holmes Escape Book: The Adventure of the Tower of London is a unique form of puzzle book, in which the reader must solve the riddles to escape the pages. The fourth title in this ingenious series of Sherlock Holmes Escape Books, The... -
Oxford Literature Companions: L'Etranger: study guide for AS/A Level French set text by Simon Kemp 9780198418344
Booksplease Price: £11.11Get to grips with set texts and be fully prepared for the AS/A Level exam with the Modern Languages Oxford Literature Companions. The Companions are written by experienced lecturers, teachers and examiners and provide comprehensive coverage of... -
The Cambridge Old English Reader by Richard Marsden
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £30.39This reader remains the only major new reader of Old English prose and verse in the past forty years. The second edition is extensively revised throughout, with the addition of a new 'Beginning Old English' section for newcomers to the Old English... -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by W. R. J. Barron 9780719055171
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.34Dual text on facing pages, now revised and updated. Critically acclaimed translation now in its twenty fifth year. Extensive notes, glossary and introduction .About the AuthorW. R. J. Barron is Honourary Research Fellow, University of ExeterBook... -
Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin 9780393935615
Booksplease Price: £13.43Written during the most eventful years of Benjamin Franklin's life (1771-90), the Autobiography is one of the most influential memoirs in history. This newly edited Norton Critical Edition includes an introduction that explains the history of the... -
Hamlet: York Notes for AS & A2 by Jeff Wood
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.45THE ULTIMATE GUIDES TO EXAM SUCCESS from York Notes - the UK's favourite English Literature Study Guides. York Notes for AS & A2 are specifically designed for AS & A2 students to help you get the very best grade you can. They are comprehensive, easy... -
The Conjure-Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem by Rudolph Fisher 9780472064922
Booksplease Price: £20.73The first known mystery written by an African-American, set in 1930s Harlem.Book InformationISBN 9780472064922Author Rudolph FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan... -
The Collected Poems: with parallel Greek text by Constantine P. Cavafy
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.54'a Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe' E. M. Forster E. M. Forster's description of C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) perfectly encapsulates the unique perspective Cavafy brought to bear on history... -
100 Novels That Changed the World by Colin Salter 9780008599089
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £14.69A look at 100 inspiring novels that have left a significant mark on the world of literature and popular culture. Before the novel, the world of books was dominated by scientific tomes, religious tracts and histories... -
Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda by Pablo Neruda
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.56The perfect gift for Valentine's DaySelected Poems contains Neruda's resonant, exploratory, intensely individualistic verse, rooted in the physical landscape and people of Chile. Here we find sensuous songs of love, tender odes to the sea, melancholy... -
Home And Exile by Chinua Achebe
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12This trenchant and illuminating book by one of Africa's most influential and celebrated writers is a major statement on the importance and dangers of stories, one in which Achebe makes telling use of his personal experiences to examine the political... -
The Poetics of Impersonality: T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound by Maud Ellmann
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £27.12This book features original readings of Pound and Eliot from a major literary critic. In this classic work, Maud Ellmann examines T. S. Eliot's and Ezra Pound's criticism in terms of what she calls the 'poetics of impersonality'. She convincingly shows... -
The Diaries of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka 9780241695746
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £17.39Available for the first time in English, the complete, uncensored diaries of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers 'The writing glimmers with sensitivity, and openness to the world' - The Wall Street JournalDating from 1909 to 1923,... -
On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud by Andrew Blauner 9780691242439
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.74A collection of colorful and candid essays and other pieces about Freud and his legacy today, featuring twenty-five leading writersWith original contributions by Andre Aciman * Sarah Boxer * Jennifer Finney Boylan * Susie Boyt * Gerald Early * Esther... -
Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982 by Philip Larkin 9780571131204
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.02The appearance of Philip Larkin's second prose collection - reviews and critical assessments of writers and writing; pieces on jazz, mostly uncollected; some long, revealing and often highly entertaining interviews given on various occasions - was a... -
Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary by David Crystal
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.58Winner of Best Book, Publication, or Recording prize at the Falstaff Awards 2015 Shortlisted for the 2016 SLA Information Book Award The Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary is the first of its kind, a brand new illustrated alphabetical... -
The Collected Works of Kahlil Gibran by Kahlil Gibran
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.05Poet, artist and mystic Kahlil Gibran was born in 1883 to a poor Christian family in Lebanon and emigrated to the United States as an adolescent. His masterpiece, The Prophet, a book of poetic essays written in his youth, has sold over eight million... -
Poems by a Lady by Helen Craik 9781906841560
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £16.53The poetry of Helen Craik (1751–1825), Gothic novelist and friend of Robert Burns, was long thought lost. The rediscovery of her manuscript Poems by a Lady (1790), transcribed and annotated here for the first time, invites a fresh evaluation of her life... -
Dear Reader: The Comfort and Joy of Books by Cathy Rentzenbrink
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Last Act of Love, Cathy Rentzenbrink's Dear Reader is the ultimate love letter to reading and to finding the comfort and joy in stories.'Exquisite' - Marian Keyes, author of Grown Ups'A warm, unpretentious... -
The Art of Drama, Volume 2: Macbeth by Neil Jones 9781999737658
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999737658Author Neil JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Peripeteia PressPublisher Peripeteia PressWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm... -
Bodas De Sangre by Federico Garcia Lorca 9780719007644
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.66"This excellent edition is most welcome. A select bibliography, a brief vocabulary, several footnotes to explain points of difficulty, fourteen long endnotes... and even the music of the songs, make the edition an extremely valuable and interesting... -
The Tain: From the Irish epic Tain Bo Cuailnge by Louis Le Brocquy
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.88The Tain Bo Cuailnge, centre-piece of the eighth-century Ulster cycle of heroic tales, is Ireland's greatest epic. It tells the story of a great cattle-raid, the invasion of Ulster by the armies of Medb and Ailill, queen and king of Connacht, and their...