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Macbeth: The New Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare 9780192862426
RRP: £6.99£5.30'Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?' Dark and violent, Macbeth is a restless, haunting exploration of the human costs of violence and power. One of the most theatrically spectacular of Shakespeare's plays, Macbeth has... -
Grace Nichols by Sarah Lawson Welsh 9780746309551
RRP: £18.69£13.33This 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... -
Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion by Jack Zipes 9780415610254
RRP: £18.99£16.87The fairy tale is arguably one of the most important cultural and social influences on children's lives. But until the first publication of Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion, little attention had been paid to the ways in which the writers and... -
Selected Poems: with parallel German text by Rainer Maria Rilke
RRP: £10.99£7.21'Nowhere, beloved, can world be but within us' Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the leading poets of European Modernism, and one of the greatest twentieth-century lyric poets in German. From The Book of Hours in 1905 to the Sonnets of Orpheus... -
To Have or To Be? Erich Fromm 9781780936802
RRP: £21.99£19.81To Have Or to Be? is one of the seminal books of the second half of the 20th century. Nothing less than a manifesto for a new social and psychological revolution to save our threatened planet, this book is a summary of the penetrating thought of Eric... -
The Iliad & The Odyssey: 2-Volume box set edition by Homer 9781398803633
RRP: £19.99£14.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398803633Author HomerImprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd -
Midsomer Murders on Location: A Guide to the Midsomer Counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Oxfordshire by Sabine Schreiner 9781901091373
RRP: £7.50£6.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901091373Author Sabine SchreinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Irregular Special PressPublisher Baker Street StudiosWeight(grams)... -
Culture and Society: 1780-1950 by Raymond Williams
RRP: £12.99£9.34Acknowledged as a masterpiece of materialist criticism, this book delves into the complex ways economic reality shapes the imagination. Surveying two hundred years of history and English literature - from George Eliot to George Orwell - Williams provides... -
The Future is Fungi: How Fungi Can Feed Us, Heal Us, Free Us and Save Our World by Michael Lim 9781760761608
RRP: £25.00£17.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Australian Book Designer Awards 2023 (Australia).Book InformationISBN 9781760761608Author Michael LimFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint Thames and Hudson... -
12 Books That Changed The World: How words and wisdom have shaped our lives by Melvyn Bragg
RRP: £12.99£8.83When we think of great events in the history of the world, we tend to think of war, revolution, political upheaval or natural catastrophe. But throughout history there have been moments of vital importance that have taken place not on the battlefield, or... -
GCSE Set Text Student Guides - AQA GCSE (9-1) English Literature and Language - Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Jo Heathcote
RRP: £11.99£11.66Exam 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... -
The Sin of Abbe Mouret by Emile Zola 9780198736639
RRP: £9.99£6.61'I really don't understand how people can blame a priest so much, when he strays from the path.' The Sin of AbbA (c) Mouret tells the compelling story of the young priest Serge Mouret. Striving after spiritual purity and sanctity, he lives a life of... -
The Book in the Renaissance by Dr. Andrew Pettegree
RRP: £18.99£16.58A groundbreaking study of the fascinating, yet largely unknown world of books in the first great age of print, 1450-1600 The dawn of print was a major turning point in the early modern world. It rescued ancient learning from obscurity, transformed... -
The Atlas of Tolkien's Middle-earth by Karen Wynn Fonstad
RRP: £20.00£14.43Find 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... -
The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath And Ted Hughes by Janet Malcolm
RRP: £10.00£6.91Is it ever possible to know 'the truth' about Sylvia Plath and her marriage to Ted Hughes, which ended with her suicide? In The Silent Woman, renowned writer Janet Malcolm examines the biographies of Sylvia Plath, with particular focus on Anne... -
Beowulf: A Dual-Language Edition Howell D. Chickering 9781400096220
RRP: £13.99£9.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400096220Author Howell D. ChickeringFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 397gDimensions(mm)... -
Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence by Timothy Morton 9780231177535
RRP: £20.00£15.89Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present Anthropocene era takes the form of a strange loop or Moebius strip, twisted to have only one side. Deckard travels this oedipal path in Blade Runner (1982) when he learns that he might be the... -
The Annotated Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 9780674724693
RRP: £29.95£25.63Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights has been called the most beautiful, most profoundly violent love story of all time. At its center are Catherine and Heathcliff, and the self-contained world of Wuthering Heights, Thrushcross Grange, and the wild Yorkshire... -
The Space of Literature: A Translation of "L'Espace litteraire" by Maurice Blanchot
RRP: £27.99£24.52Maurice Blanchot, the eminent literary and cultural critic, has had a vast influence on contemporary French writers-among them Jean Paul Sartre and Jacques Derrida. From the 1930s through the present day, his writings have been shaping the international... -
Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories by Elizabeth Freeman
RRP: £20.99£18.66Time Binds is a powerful argument that temporal and sexual dissonance are intertwined, and that the writing of history can be both embodied and erotic. Challenging queer theory's recent emphasis on loss and trauma, Elizabeth Freeman foregrounds bodily... -
Aeneid by Virgil
RRP: £9.99£7.32'Arms and the man I sing of Troy...' So begins one of the greatest works of literature in any language. Written by the Roman poet Virgil more than two thousand years ago, the story of Aeneas' seven-year journey from the ruins of Troy to Italy, where... -
Sherlock Holmes Escape Book, A: The Adventure of the Tower of London by Charles Phillips
RRP: £9.99£7.00A 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... -
Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer
RRP: £20.00£11.83***BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK***'Funny, lively and convivial... how rare and nourishing this sort of roaming thought is and what a joy to read' MEGAN NOLAN, SUNDAY TIMES'An exhilarating, shape-shifting exploration of the perilous boundaries between art... -
Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis by Alice Kaplan
RRP: £15.00£13.05"A year in Paris"...Countless American students have been lured by that vision - and been transformed by their sojourn in the City of Light. "Dreaming in French" tells three stories of that experience and how it changed the lives of three extraordinary... -
The Prophets by Abraham Joshua Heschel 9780060936990
RRP: £19.99£15.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060936990Author Abraham J. HeschelFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Belinda by Maria Edgeworth 9780199682133
RRP: £13.99£10.01'It is singular, that my having spent a winter with one of the most dissipated women in England should have sobered my mind so completely.' Maria Edgeworth's 1801 novel, Belinda, is an absorbing, sometimes provocative, tale of social and domestic life... -
The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare
RRP: £8.99£6.55William Shakespeare is a global icon for his plays such as Hamlet, Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet, but his poetic meditations on love are among the most powerful and evocative poems ever written. This Penguin Classics edition of Sonnets and A Lover's... -
The Ghosts of Birds by Eliot Weinberger
RRP: £12.99£11.63The Ghosts of Birds offers thirty-five essays by Eliot Weinberger: the first section of the book continues his linked serial-essay, An Elemental Thing, which pulls the reader into "a vortex for the entire universe" (Boston Review). Here, Weinberger... -
Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004–2022 by Margaret Atwood 9781529114980
RRP: £12.99£9.34In Burning Questions Atwood aims her constant curiosity and impish humour at our world and reports back to us on what she finds.In it she seeks answers to Burning Questions such as:Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories?How can we live... -
Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop: The heartwarming story that inspired a nation, now an international bestseller Alba Donati 9781399605489
RRP: £9.99£7.00HOW A BOOKSELLER INSPIRED A NATIONThe diary of a publicist-turned bookseller who left Florence to open a tiny bookshop on a Tuscan hill. 'Like Chocolat meets Penelope Fitzgerald's The Bookshop, set in the Tuscan hills... A celebration of writing, words... -
2 Corinthians: A Handbook on the Greek Text by Fredrick J. Long 9781602587397
£44.68The Greek of 2 Corinthians is some of the most complex of any New Testament text, displaying Paul's full range of rhetorical strategies. Long's analysis of the soaring rhetoric locates Paul's letter within the first-century Mediterranean world, employing... -
Italian Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Hainsworth 9780199231799
RRP: £8.99£6.65In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey consider Italian literature from the Middle Ages to the present day, looking at themes and issues which have recurred throughout its history and continue to be of importance today. ... -
Byron's Don Juan: The Liberal Epic of the Nineteenth Century by Richard Cronin 9781009366236
RRP: £85.00£76.60In this first full-length study of Byron's masterpiece in over thirty years, Richard Cronin boldly presents Don Juan as the epic poem of its age. Impressively illuminating the whole literary nineteenth century through a single work, he asks what kind of... -
A Sentimental Journey and Other Writings by Laurence Sterne
RRP: £5.99£4.63'Love is nothing without feeling. And feeling is still less without love.' Celebrated in its own day as the progenitor of 'a school of sentimental writers', A Sentimental Journey (1768) has outlasted its many imitators because of the humour and... -
In the Presence of Schopenhauer Michel Houellebecq 9781509543250
RRP: £9.99£7.00The work of Michel Houellebecq - one of the most widely read and controversial novelists of our time - is marked by the thought of Schopenhauer. When Houellebecq came across a copy of Schopenhauer's Aphorisms in a library in his mid-twenties, he was... -
Selected Writings by John Ruskin
RRP: £9.99£7.32'To be taught to write or to speak - but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think - nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at... -
The Odd Women by George Gissing 9780199538300
RRP: £11.99£8.66`there are half a million more women than men in this unhappy country of ours . . . So many odd women - no making a pair with them.' The idea of the superfluity of unmarried women was one the `New Woman' novels of the 1890s sought to challenge. But... -
Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee
RRP: £16.99£14.22Hermione Lee sees Virginia Woolf afresh, in her historical setting and as a vital figure for our times. Her book moves freely between a richly detailed life-story and new attempts to understand crucial questions - the impact of her childhood, the cause... -
The Winter's Tale by Eric Rasmussen 9780230576162
£9.78From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of one of Shakespeare's last plays. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of The Winter's Tale in performance, takes a... -
The Wife of Bath: A Biography by Marion Turner
RRP: £20.00£16.13From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle Ages to #MeTooEver since her triumphant debut in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and...