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Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice by Janet Todd
RRP: £8.99£7.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776021Author Janet ToddFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
100 Children's Crosswords: Holiday by Phillip Clarke 9781474997966
RRP: £4.99£3.31Test your knowledge with over 100 holiday-themed crosswords, covering everything from camping and cities to tropical islands and famous landmarks. The crosswords gradually get harder throughout the book, and are perfect for popping in a suitcase, for... -
The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa by Translator Richard Zenith 9780802139146
RRP: £11.99£10.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802139146Author Fernando PessoaFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema between the Second and the Third Worlds by Rossen Djagalov
RRP: £35.00£28.57Would there have been a Third World without the Second? Perhaps, but it would have looked very different. From Internationalism to Postcolonialism recounts the story of two Cold War-era cultural formations that claimed to represent the Third World... -
The Art of Rhetoric (Collins Classics) by Aristotle
RRP: £2.99£2.58HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics... Despite dating from the 4th century BC, The Art of Rhetoric continues to be regarded by many as the single most important work on the art of persuasion... -
The Making of Middle-Earth: The Worlds of Tolkien and the Lord of the Rings by Christopher A Snyder
RRP: £25.00£17.63This volume is perhaps the most in-depth exploration ever undertaken of Tolkien's world. Accessible but authoritative, and fully illustrated, it is now being reissued with a stunning new cover treatment and updated commentary on new books, films, games,... -
Fragments by Heraclitus
RRP: £15.00£10.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142437650Author HeraclitusFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 108gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 130mm *... -
How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One by Stanley Fish 9780061840531
RRP: £9.99£6.84If you know sentences, you know everything. Good sentences promise nothing less than lessons and practice in the organization of the world. Some appreciate fine art; others appreciate fine wines. Stanley Fish appreciates fine sentences. "The New York... -
Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
RRP: £14.99£10.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385418867Author Joseph CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing... -
Out Of The Kumbla: Caribbean Women and Literature by Carole Boyce Davies 9780865430433
RRP: £29.95£20.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865430433Author Carole Boyce DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 682g -
Dumbledore: The Life and Lies of Hogwarts's Renowned Headmaster: An Unofficial Exploration by Irvin Khaytman
RRP: £12.99£8.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948174787Author Irvin KhaytmanFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Topix Media LabPublisher Topix Media LabWeight(grams) 743gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 159mm... -
March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 1 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 9780268102654
RRP: £31.00£27.73To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the University of Notre Dame Press is proud to publish Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's epic work March 1917, Node III, Book 1, of The Red Wheel. The Red Wheel is Solzhenitsyn's... -
Essays by George Orwell
RRP: £14.99£10.95The articles collected in George Orwell's Essays illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who elevated political writing to an art. This outstanding collection brings together Orwell's longer, major... -
Passenger to Teheran by Vita Sackville-West 9781773236407
£7.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773236407Author Vita Sackville-WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Must Have BooksPublisher Must Have BooksWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Much Ado About Numbers by Rob Eastaway 9781805460275
RRP: £16.99£11.76"A spectacular journey... Highly recommended!" Dr Simon Smith, The Shakespeare Institute "A fascinating and hugely entertaining guide to Shakespearean mathematics." Prof Sarah Hart, author of Once Upon A Prime"A playful and engaging book ... bound to... -
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence 9780141441443
RRP: £10.99£7.99The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent husband, delicate Gertrude devotes her life to her children, especially to her sons, William and Paul - determined they will not follow... -
Africa's Tarnished Name by Chinua Achebe
RRP: £3.00£2.63He needed to hear Africa speak for itself after a lifetime of hearing Africa spoken about by othersElectrifying essays on the history, complexity, diversity of a continent, from the father of modern African literature.Penguin Modern: fifty new books... -
Gift Songs by John Burnside
RRP: £13.00£8.66To the Shakers, a good song was a gift; indeed the test of a song's goodness was how much of a gift it was. In their call to 'labour to make the way of God your own', Shaker artists expressed an aesthetic that had much in common with the old Japanese... -
The Selected Journals of L. M. Montgomery: Volume 2: 1910-1921 by Rubio 9780195418019
£20.92Elizabeth Waterston is a 2011 Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada.This volume of Lucy Maud Montgomery's journals records a time of great change and upheaval both in Montgomery's life and in society. When she wrote the first entry in this volume she had... -
The Poetic Edda by Carolyne Larrington
RRP: £9.99£6.61'She sees, coming up a second time, Earth from the ocean, eternally green; the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them, over the mountain hunting fish.' After the terrible conflagration of Ragnarok, the earth rises serenely again from the... -
Queer Friendship: Male Intimacy in the English Literary Tradition by George E. Haggerty 9781108418751
RRP: £90.00£81.03Friendship in the classical world was celebrated as among the highest human achievements: nothing was more likely to lead to the divine than looking for it in the eyes of a friend. In exploring the complexities of male-male relations beyond the simple... -
Mount Doom: The Prophecy of Tolkien Revealed by Paul List 9781956267730
RRP: £30.99£22.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956267730Author Paul ListFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Freiling PublishingPublisher Freiling PublishingWeight(grams) 835gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders
RRP: £20.00£9.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984856036Author George SaundersFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Mere Christianity (C. S. Lewis Signature Classic) by C. S. Lewis
RRP: £9.99£6.84One of the most popular and beloved introductions to the concept of faith ever written, 'Mere Christianity' has sold millions of copies worldwide. The book brings together C.S. Lewis's legendary radio broadcasts during the war years, in which... -
Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
RRP: £12.99£8.66Sylvia Plath is one of the defining voices in twentieth-century poetry. This classic selection of her work, made by her former husband Ted Hughes, provides the perfect introduction to this most influential of poets. The poems are taken from Sylvia... -
The Double Flame: Essays on Love & Eroticism by Octavio Paz
RRP: £15.99£11.79A discourse on the connection between sex, eroticism and love in literature by the Nobel Prize-winning poet and essayist.About the AuthorThe celebrated poet and essayist, Octavio Paz was born in 1914 in Mexico City. Paz began to write at an early age,... -
The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr 9780062223074
RRP: £10.99£9.42Credited with sparking the current memoir explosion, Mary Karr's The Liars' Club spent more than a year at the top of the New York Times list. She followed with two other smash bestsellers: Cherry and Lit, which were critical hits as well. For thirty... -
Traces by Ernst Bloch 9780804741187
RRP: £83.00£17.73Written between 1910 and 1929, Traces is considered Ernst Bloch's most important work next to The Principle of Hope and The Spirit of Utopia. This book, which collects aphorisms, essays, stories, and anecdotes, enacts Bloch's interest in showing how... -
The Routledge Critical Adoption Studies Reader by Emily Hipchen 9781032067827
RRP: £35.99£31.94The Routledge Critical Adoption Studies Reader presents a central source of scholarly approaches arranged around fundamental questions about how adoption, as a complex practice of family-making, is represented in art, philosophy, the law, history,... -
A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie by Kathryn Harkup
RRP: £11.99£8.66Shortlisted for the BMA Book Awards and Macavity Awards 2016 Fourteen novels. Fourteen poisons. Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's all made-up ... Agatha Christie revelled in the use of poison to kill off unfortunate victims in her books;... -
Classical Literary Criticism by D. A. Russell 9780199549818
RRP: £8.99£6.65This excellent and accessible work includes many major texts in translation: Aristotle's Poetics, Longinus' On Sublimity, Horace's Art of Poetry, Tacitus' Dialogues, and extracts from Plato and Plutarch. Based on the highly praised Ancient Literary... -
The Gaelic Poetry of Derick Thomson: (Scotnotes Study Guides) by Petra Johana Poncarova
RRP: £6.95£5.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906841430Author Petra Johana PoncarovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish... -
Jane Austen at Home: A Biography by Lucy Worsley
RRP: £12.99£8.83THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'This is my kind of history: carefully researched but so vivid that you are convinced Lucy Worsley was actually there at the party - or the parsonage.' Antonia Fraser'A refreshingly unique perspective on Austen and her work and... -
Mom and Me and Mom by Maya Angelou
RRP: £8.99£6.39'In the first decade of the twentieth century, it was not a good time to be born black, or woman, in America.' So begins this stunning portrait of Vivian Baxter Johnson: the first black woman officer in the Merchant Marines, purveyor of a gambling... -
Beyond the Northlands: Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas by Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough
RRP: £16.99£12.47In the dying days of the eighth century, the Vikings erupted onto the international stage with brutal raids and slaughter. The medieval Norsemen may be best remembered as monk murderers and village pillagers, but this is far from the whole story... -
Conflict Bodies: The Politics of Rape Representation in the Francophone Imaginary by Regine Michelle Jean-Charles 9780814252932
£33.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814252932Author Regine Michelle Jean-CharlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University... -
Emma by Jane Austen 9780198837756
RRP: £6.99£5.30'I wonder what will become of her!' So speculate the friends and neighbours of Emma Woodhouse, the lovely, lively, wilful,and fallible heroine of Jane Austen's fourth published novel. Confident that she knows best, Emma schemes to find a suitable... -
Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year by Eleanor Parker 9781789147735
RRP: £10.99£7.99Now available in paperback, Winters in the World is a beautifully observed journey through the cycle of the year in Anglo-Saxon England, exploring the festivals, customs and traditions linked to the different seasons. Drawing on a wide variety of source... -
Hiddenness, Uncertainty, Surprise: Three Generative Energies of Poetry by Jane Hirshfield
RRP: £10.99£7.61In this innovative series of public lectures at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry to audiences drawn from both the city and the university. The lectures are then published in... -
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
RRP: £10.99£7.99A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of...