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The Internet is a Playground by David Thorne 9780988689503
RRP: $23.43$20.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988689503Author David ThorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint 27bslash6Publisher 27bslash6Weight(grams) 290g -
Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth by Walter Burkert
RRP: $39.99$31.00Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even in Christianity. How did this violent phenomenon achieve the status of the sacred? This question is examined in... -
The Collected Prose of T.S. Eliot Volume 3 T. S. Eliot 9780571295524
RRP: $64.50$42.69T. S. Eliot is regarded as the most important poet-critic of modern times, the twentieth century's 'Man of Letters' whose reputation was forged not only on the strength of his verse, but on the enduring influence of his critical writings. The Collected... -
The Hedgehog And The Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: $12.89$9.03'Brilliant. Searching and profound' E.H. Carr, Times Literary Supplement'When reading Isaiah Berlin we breathe an altogether different air' New York Review of Books'Beautifully written' W. H. Auden, New Yorker'Ingenious. Exactly what good critical... -
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson
RRP: $12.89$8.90WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CRITIC AND ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF NEGROLAND 'This is one of the most imaginative - and therefore moving - memoirs I have ever read' - Vivian Gornick, author of... -
Trioedd Ynys Prydein: The Triads of the Island of Britain by Rachel Bromwich 9781783163052
RRP: $32.24$25.54Rachel Bromwich's magisterial edition of Trioedd Ynys Prydein has long won its place as a classic of Celtic studies. This revised edition shows the author's continued mastery of the subject, including a new preface by Morfydd Owen, and will be essential... -
Towards a World Unknown: The OCR Anthology - Conflict - The Student Guide by David Wheeler 9781911477044
$22.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911477044Author David WheelerFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Red Axe BooksPublisher Red Axe Books -
After the Last Sky: Palestinian Lives by Edward Said 9780231114493
RRP: $36.12$28.12This book offers a searing portrait of Palestinian life and identity that is at once an exploration of Edward Said's unclaimable past and a testimony to the lives of those living in exile.A searing portrait of Palestinian life and identity that is at... -
The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture by Orlando Figes
RRP: $19.34$14.13'Magnificent. Beautifully written, immaculately researched and thoroughly absorbing from start to finish. A tour de force that explains how Europe's cultural life transformed during the course of the 19th century - and so much more' Peter Frankopan From... -
Old Mortality by Sir Walter Scott
RRP: $18.05$12.91Old Mortality (1816), which many consider the finest of Scott's Waverley novels, is a swift-moving historical romance that places an anachronistically liberal hero against the forces of fanaticism in seventeenth-century Scotland, in the period infamous... -
The Collected Prose of T.S. Eliot Volume 2 T. S. Eliot 9780571295500
RRP: $64.50$42.69T. S. Eliot is regarded as the most important poet-critic of modern times, the twentieth century's 'Man of Letters' whose reputation was forged not only on the strength of his verse, but on the enduring influence of his critical writings. The Collected... -
Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac
RRP: $11.60$7.75This is the tragic story of a father whose obsessive love for his two daughters leads to his financial and personal ruin. It is set against the background of a whole society driven by social ambition and lust for money. The detailed descriptions of both... -
Japanese Short Stories for Beginners: 20 Captivating Short Stories to Learn Japanese & Grow Your Vocabulary the Fun Way! by Lingo Mastery 9781951949464
RRP: $16.64$12.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951949464Author Lingo MasteryFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Lingo MasteryPublisher Lingo MasteryWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Another Time by W. H. Auden
RRP: $16.76$11.35Another Time was the first volume that Auden published after his departure to America with Christopher Isherwood in January 1939. It was dedicated to Chester Kallman. The poems, some of which date from the early thirties, are about people, places and the... -
Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature by Terry Eagleton 9780816618637
RRP: $24.50$21.90The three essays in this volume were originally published as individual pamphlets by the Field Day Theatre Company in Derry, Nothern Ireland. Founded in 1980 as a theatre cmpany, Field Day has eveolved as a publisher concerned with the typically Irish... -
Time to Be in Earnest by P. D. James 9780571203963
RRP: $14.18$9.73P. D. James's extraordinary memoir of her early life and time starting out as a novelist, as well as diaries recording her in old age.In this intriguing and very personal book, part diary, part memoir, P. D. James considers the twelve months of her life... -
The Noble Liar: How and why the BBC distorts the news to promote a liberal agenda by Robin Aitken 9781785906008
RRP: $12.89$9.65To some, it is the voice of the nation, yet to others it has never been clearer that the BBC is in the grip of an ideology that prevents it reporting fairly on the world. Many have been scandalised by its pessimism on Brexit and its one-sided... -
King Lear: Arden Performance Editions by William Shakespeare
RRP: $11.60$10.60King Lear has ruled for many years. As age overtakes him, he divides his kingdom amongst his children. Misjudging their loyalty, he soon finds himself stripped of all the trappings of state, wealth and power that had defined him. Arden Performance... -
The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics by Arthur W. Frank
RRP: $24.51$23.87Since it was first published in 1995, "The Wounded Storyteller" has occupied a unique place in the body of work on illness. Both the collective portrait of a "remission society" of those who suffer from some type of illness or disability and a cogent... -
Winter Journal by Paul Auster
RRP: $14.18$9.73'You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person world to whom none of these things will ever happen, and then, one by one, they all begin to happen to you, in the same way they happen to everyone else... -
Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature Professor Colby Gordon 9780226835006
RRP: $28.38$27.37A prehistory of transness that recovers early modern theological resources for trans lifeworlds. In this striking contribution to trans history, Colby Gordon challenges the prevailing assumption that trans life is a byproduct of recent medical... -
The Year That Shaped the Victorian Age: Lives, Loves and Letters of 1845 by Michael Wheeler
RRP: $38.69$34.24What was special about 1845 and why does it deserve particular scrutiny? In his much-anticipated new book, one of the leading authorities on the Victorian age argues that this was the critical year in a decade which witnessed revolution on continental... -
A Companion to 'The Doctrine of the Hert': The Middle English Translation and its Latin and European Contexts by Denis Renevey 9780859898218
$144.97The Doctrine of the Hert was the fifteenth-century English translation of De doctrina cordis, the thirteenth-century Latin devotional treatise addressed to nuns. The text progressively pairs the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit with seven key actions of... -
Oxford Student Texts: Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake
$15.17One 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... -
Reimagining the Past in the Borderlands of Medieval England and Wales by Georgia Henley 9780192856470
RRP: $24.50$23.10Challenging the standard view that England emerged as a dominant power and Wales faded into obscurity after Edward I's conquest in 1282, this book considers how Welsh (and British) history became an enduringly potent instrument of political power in the... -
Framing Narratives of the Second World War and Occupation in France, 1939-2009: New Readings by Margaret Atack
RRP: $32.25$23.12The Second World War and the German Occupation remain a major focal point in French culture and society, with new and sometimes controversial titles published every year - Irene Nemirovsky's Suite francaise and Jonathan Littell's Les Bienveillantes, both... -
The Unknown Unknown: Bookshops and the delight of not getting what you wanted by Mark Forsyth
RRP: $2.57$2.40Mark Forsyth - author of the Sunday Times Number One bestseller The Etymologicon - reveals in this essay, specially commissioned for Independent Booksellers Week, the most valuable thing about a really good bookshop.Along the way he considers the wisdom... -
Matter and Making in Early English Poetry: Literary Production from Chaucer to Sidney by Taylor Cowdery 9781009223744
RRP: $109.65$99.33What is literature made from? During the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries, this question preoccupied the English court poets, who often claimed that their poems were not original creations, but adaptations of pre-existing materials. Their... -
A Dictionary of Sources of Tolkien by David Day
RRP: $32.25$22.74The spellbinding world of Middle-earth is full of beasts and battles, heroes and heroines, and the struggle between good and evil.In this dictionary of sources, Tolkien scholar and best-selling author David Day's four decades of research inform us about... -
Feeling Pleasures: The Sense of Touch in Renaissance England by Joe Moshenska 9780198807193
$46.62The sense of touch had a deeply uncertain status in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It had long been seen as the most certain and reliable of the senses, and also as biologically necessary: each of the other senses could be relinquished, but to... -
The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frost by Prof. Harold Bloom 9780060540425
RRP: $19.34$14.14Almost all other poetry anthologies have been edited and annotated by a committee of scholars. This is entirely Bloom's selection with his own inimitable commentary. This comprehensive anthology attempts to give the common reader possession of six... -
Why Dylan Matters by Richard F. Thomas
RRP: $12.89$8.82A GUARDIAN AND INDEPENDENT BEST MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 'At last an expert classicist gets to grips with Bob Dylan' Mary Beard 'Thomas's elegant, charming book offers... -
Writing The Future by Dan Coxon 9781915368027
RRP: $12.89$9.03For as long as humans have existed, they have asked: What if? Science fiction was a defining genre of the postwar era, and its current boom across books, film and TV shows no sign of slowing. Space ships, time travel, aliens and artificial... -
Epidemic Empire: Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror, 1817 - 2020 by Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb
RRP: $39.99$38.95Terrorism is a cancer, an infection, an epidemic, a plague. For more than a century, this metaphor has figured insurgent violence as contagion in order to contain its political energies. In Epidemic Empire, Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb shows that this trope... -
A Dictionary of Tolkien by David Day 9780753728277
RRP: $19.34$15.12Arranged in a handy A-Z format, A Dictionary of Tolkien explores and explains the creatures, plants, events and places that make up these strange and wonderful lands. It is essential reading for anyone who loves Tolkien's works and wants to learn... -
The Haunting Of Sylvia Plath by Jacqueline Rose
RRP: $14.18$9.68Since her suicide in 1963 at the age of 30, Sylvia Plath has become a strange icon. This book addresses why this is the case and what this tells us about the way culture picks out important writers. The author argues that without a concept of fantasy... -
Truman Capote by George Plimpton 9780385491730
RRP: $25.80$21.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385491730Author George PlimptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 498Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing... -
Vi Spy: Never Say Whatever Again by Maz Evans 9781911490746
RRP: $10.31$6.98The second adventure in Maz Evans's laugh-out-loud funny Vi Spy series! PRAISE FOR THE SERIES: 'Twists, turns, spies and surprises. What more do you want? Tears? Laughter? Maz Evans delivers them all.' FRANK ... -
The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature by Daniel Hahn
RRP: $19.34$14.13The last thirty years have witnessed one of the most fertile periods in the history of children's books: the flowering of imaginative illustration and writing, the Harry Potter phenomenon, the rise of young adult and crossover fiction, and books that... -
This Woman's Work: Essays on Music Various 9781474621496
RRP: $12.89$9.03This Woman's Work: Essays on Music is edited by Kim Gordon and Sinead Gleeson and features contributors Anne Enright, Fatima Bhutto, Jenn Pelly, Rachel Kushner, Juliana Huxtable, Leslie Jamison, Liz Pelly, Maggie Nelson, Margo Jefferson, Megan Jasper,...