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Welsh Valleys Phrasebook - Get by in Valleys-Speak! by David Jandrell
RRP: €4.75€4.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784614058Author David JandrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa -
The Walker: On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City by Matthew Beaumont 9781788738910
RRP: €22.60€16.41There is no such thing as the wrong step; every time we walk we are going somewhere. Moving around the modern city becomes more than from getting from A to B, but a way of understanding who and where you are. In a series of riveting intellectual rambles,... -
What Am I Still Doing Here?: My Life as Me by Roger Lewis
RRP: €13.08€7.70'Unremittingly glorious. I and the world demand more and we shall thump our tin mugs on the table demanding it until we are satisfied.'Stephen FryLoveable... Dreadful... Amazing... Learned... Baroque... Exquisite... Utterly wonderful... Uplifting..... -
Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin 9780141036939
RRP: €15.46€10.82Charles Dickens is the acclaimed definitive biography by bestselling author Claire Tomalin Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social... -
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
RRP: €13.08€8.94In this extraordinary essay, Virginia Woolf examines the limitations of womanhood in the early twentieth century. With the startling prose and poetic licence of a novelist, she makes a bid for freedom, emphasizing that the lack of an independent income,... -
Romanticism: An Anthology by Duncan Wu
RRP: €35.64€34.52ROMANTICISM Praise for the third edition: "An outstanding anthology, an excellent choice for advanced undergraduate courses on the Romantic era. This edition's improvements include illustrations, a detailed chronology, and expanded selections from women... -
Michel Faber by Rodge Glass 9781837644773
€40.57This book by Rodge Glass, the award-winning novelist, short story writer and biographer, is the first ever detailed assessment of Michel Faber's life and work across genre and form. It draws on intimate, wide-ranging interviews with the author over a... -
Ideas and Opinions by Albert Einstein
RRP: €26.18€17.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679601050Author Albert EinsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)... -
Adam Bede by George Eliot 9780199203475
RRP: €10.70€7.68'Our deeds carry their terrible consequences...consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves.' Pretty Hetty Sorrel is loved by the village carpenter Adam Bede, but her head is turned by the attentions of the fickle young squire, Arthur... -
Arguably by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: €17.84€11.66A Sunday Times BestsellerChristopher Hitchens (1949-2011) was a matchless writer, debater and humanist. Throughout his life he shone the light of reason and truth into the eyes of charlatans and hucksters, exposing falsehood and decrying hypocrisy... -
Modern Luck: Narratives of Fortune in the Long Twentieth Century by Robert S. C. Gordon 9781800083615
RRP: €53.55€46.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800083615Author Robert S. C. GordonFormat HardbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 530g -
Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction by Alec Nevala-Lee 9780062571953
RRP: €16.65€10.82Hugo and Locus Award FinalistAn Economist Best Book of the YearA Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Book of 2018"An amazing and engrossing history...Insightful, entertaining, and compulsively readable." - George R. R. MartinAstounding is the landmark... -
The Novel Cure: An A to Z of Literary Remedies by Ella Berthoud
RRP: €15.46€10.19Mumsnet 'Best Books for Christmas 2016''Ideal for anyone who has ever wondered what on earth to read next' SJ WATSON'Witty, engaging and informative. The sort of book you choose for a friend and end up wanting to keep' RACHEL JOYCEThis is a medical... -
Toni Morrison: Writing the Moral Imagination by Valerie Smith 9781118917695
RRP: €26.12€22.99This compelling study explores the inextricable links between the Nobel laureate's aesthetic practice and her political vision, through an analysis of the key texts as well as her lesser-studied works, books for children, and most recent novels. Offers... -
Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science by Debapriya Sarkar
RRP: €64.26€55.68The Renaissance, scholars have long argued, was a period beset by the loss of philosophical certainty. In Possible Knowledge, Debapriya Sarkar argues for the pivotal role of literature-what early moderns termed poesie-in the dynamic intellectual culture... -
Wonderworks: Literary invention and the science of stories by Angus Fletcher
RRP: €13.08€8.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800750234Author Angus FletcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Swift PressPublisher Swift Press -
The Upright Revolution: Or Why Humans Walk Upright by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
RRP: €17.84€15.51Science has given us several explanations for how humans evolved from walking on four limbs to two feet. None, however, is as riveting as what master storyteller Ngugi wa Thiong'o offers in The Upright Revolution. Blending myth and folklore with an acute... -
Filth: Dirt, Digust, and Modern Life by Ryan Johnson
RRP: €26.17€22.84From floating barges of urban refuse to dung-encrusted works of art, from toxic landfills to dirty movies, filth has become a major presence and a point of volatile contention in modern life. This book explores the question of what filth has to do with... -
Henry Eliot's Book of Bookish Lists by Henry Eliot
RRP: €15.46€10.82Who had birds called Death, Wigs and Spinach? How do you spell the noise of a door slamming? Whose working title was The Chronic Argonauts?Henry Eliot - author, editor and insatiable bookworm - has ransacked the libraries and archives of world... -
The Penguin Classics Book by Henry Eliot
RRP: €35.70€26.83**Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year**The Penguin Classics Book is a reader's companion to the largest library of classic literature in the world.Spanning 4,000 years from the legends of Ancient Mesopotamia to the poetry of the First World War,... -
Moments Of Being by Virginia Woolf 9780712646185
RRP: €15.46€10.82Virginia Woolf's only autobiographical writing is to be found in this collection of five unpublished pieces. Despite Quentin Bell's comprehensive biography and numerous recent studies of her, the author's own account of her early life holds new... -
Literary Meaning: From Phenomenology to Destruction by William Ray
RRP: €48.73€42.71This book is both a guide to, and interpretation of, the course of modern literary theory. Exploring the various theories of reading which have informed post-war literary criticism, it shows that for all the fervour of current debate about new movements... -
So We Read on: How the Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures by Maureen Corrigan 9780316230063
RRP: €23.79€15.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316230063Author Maureen CorriganFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 206mm *... -
Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively
RRP: €13.08€9.25'Wonderful. A manifesto of horticultural delight' Literary Review 'Beautiful. Perfect for literary garden lovers' Good Housekeeping'Rich and unusual, a book to treasure. Few recent gardening books come anywhere close to its style, intelligence and... -
Grace Nichols by Sarah Lawson Welsh 9780746309551
RRP: €22.24€15.86This first full-length study of Grace Nichols's work argues that, rather than exploring the tension between its 'Caribbeaness' and 'Britishness', it is more productively read in terms of a series of border crossings. Nichols's major female protagonists... -
The Conspiracy Against The Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror by Thomas Ligotti
RRP: €20.22€12.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143133148Author Thomas LigottiFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Shakespeare: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: €20.22€14.61Peter Ackroyd's marvellous biography is a living attempt to reach into the heart of Shakespeare.He creates an intimate and immediate connection with his subject, so that the book reads like the work of a contemporary - meeting Shakespeare afresh on his... -
Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Butler
RRP: €10.70€7.68Postmodernism has been a buzzword in contemporary society for the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler challenges and explores the key ideas of postmodernists, and their engagement with theory,... -
The Changeling: Thomas Middleton & William Rowley by N. W. Bawcutt
RRP: €17.84€13.23Competitive price and format. Compacted and up-to-date version of the earlier Revels Plays edition by the same editor, taking account of more recent critical works. A key Renaissance text.About the AuthorN.W. Bawcutt, formerly Reader in English... -
The Grail Legend by Emma Jung
RRP: €35.70€28.19The Holy Grail and its quest is a legend that has had a powerful impact on our civilization and culture. The Grail itself is an ancient Celtic symbol of plenty as well as a Christian symbol of redemption and eternal life, the chalice that caught the... -
Oxford Literature Companions: L'Etranger: study guide for AS/A Level French set text by Simon Kemp 9780198418344
€13.13Get 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... -
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Culler
RRP: €10.70€7.68What is literary theory? Is there a relationship between literature and culture? In fact, what is literature, and does it matter? These are some of questions addressed by Jonathan Culler in this Very Short Introduction to literary theory. Often a... -
Shakespeare by Bill Bryson
RRP: €13.08€8.63From bestselling author Bill Bryson comes this compelling short biography of William Shakespeare, our greatest dramatist and poet. Examining centuries of myths, half-truths and downright lies, Bill Bryson makes sense of the man behind the... -
The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry: From Ancient to Contemporary, The Full 3000-Year Tradition by Tony Barnstone 9780385721981
RRP: €19.03€13.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385721981Author Tony BarnstoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 414gDimensions(mm)... -
Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes: Cultural Studies in 1 Corinthians by Kenneth E. Bailey
RRP: €21.41€15.89The result of over thirty years of research and lecturing, Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes is a ground-breaking study of Paul's first epistle to the Corinthians. Bailey examines this canonical letter through the lenses of Paul's Jewish socio-cultural and... -
GCSE Set Text Student Guides - AQA GCSE (9-1) English Literature and Language - Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Jo Heathcote
RRP: €14.27€13.88Exam Board: AQALevel & Subject: GCSE 9-1 English Language, GCSE 9-1 English LiteratureFirst teaching: September 2015Next exams: June 2023 Develop your students' skills in English Literature and English Language as you study The Strange Case of... -
Writing Home by Alan Bennett
RRP: €20.22€13.78Already a bestseller, this is a wonderfully entertaining collection of Alan Bennett's prose writings. Writing Home brings together diaries, reminiscences and reviews to give us a unique and unforgettable portrait of one of England's leading playwrights... -
Selected Poems 1923-1958 by E. E. Cummings
RRP: €15.46€10.60This selection made by E.E. Cummings himself from eleven books of poems constitutes a comprehensive introduction to his work.About the AuthorE. E. Cummings (1894-1962) was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His first book, The Enormous Room (1922), was... -
Introduction to Old English by Peter S. Baker 9780470659847
RRP: €36.83€32.67Featuring numerous updates and additional anthology selections, the 3rd edition of Introduction to Old English confirms its reputation as a leading text designed to help students engage with Old English literature for the first time. A new edition of one... -
The Atlas of Tolkien's Middle-earth by Karen Wynn Fonstad
RRP: €23.80€17.17Find your way through every part of J.R.R. Tolkien's great creation, from the Middle-earth of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings to the undying lands of the West... The Atlas of Tolkien's Middle-earth is an essential guide to the geography...