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Scars Upon My Heart: Women's Poetry and Verse of the First World War by Catherine Reilly
RRP: £9.99£6.80Your battle wounds are scars upon my heart' wrote Vera Brittain in a poem to her beloved brother, four days before he died in June 1918. The rediscovery of TESTAMENT OF YOUTH has reminded a new generation of the bitter sufferings of women as well as men... -
Walden / Civil Disobedience / and Other Writings by Henry D. Thoreau 9780393930900
£13.73As a unique feature, the Third Edition includes generous excerpts from Thoreau's journal, reprinted by special arrangements with Princeton University Press from the definitive edition of his writings. Spanning the years 1845-54, these selections vividly... -
"Dream on Monkey Mountain" and Other Plays by Derek Walcott
£12.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374508609Author Derek WalcottFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc -
The Theatre of the Absurd by Martin Esslin
RRP: £24.99£21.78The 'Theatre of the Absurd' has become a familiar term to describe a group of radical European playwrights - writers such as Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, Jean Genet and Harold Pinter - whose dark, funny and humane dramas wrestled profoundly with the... -
Ebb and Flo and the Greedy Gulls by Jane Simmons 9781802580693
RRP: £7.99£5.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802580693Author Jane SimmonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg LimitedDimensions(mm) 250mm * 250mm * 10mm -
John Donne's Sermons on the Psalms and Gospels: With a Selection of Prayers and Meditations by John Donne 9780520239289
RRP: £30.00£23.29The glory of John Donne's prose at its best is very different from that of his verse, but is equal to it; and there can be no question that his best prose is in his sermons. His sense of form and arrangement, his psychological insight, his differences of... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Literature by Hugh Magennis
RRP: £22.99£19.56An approachable and stimulating introduction to Anglo-Saxon literature, this book provides indispensable guidance for students on this important and rewarding area of literary studies. The chapters are clearly organized by topic and significant attention... -
OCR Anthology for Classical Greek GCSE 2025-2026 by Judith Affleck
RRP: £14.99£13.54This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Greek GCSE set text prescriptions examined from 2025 to 2026. The texts covered are: Homer Iliad VI, lines 370-413 and 429-502 Herodotus Sections XIa (First Capture of Babylon), XII (Rebuff to... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siecle by Gail Marshall 9780521615617
RRP: £26.99£22.80Situated between the Victorians and Modernism, the fin de siecle is an exciting and rewarding period to study. In the literature and art of the 1890s, the processes of literary and cultural change can be seen in action. In this, more than any previous... -
The Door by Margaret Atwood
RRP: £10.99£7.40By the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace THE DOOR is Margaret Atwood's first book of poetry since the 1995 MORNING IN THE BURNED HOUSE. Its lucid yet urgent poems range in tone from lyric to ironic to meditative to prophetic, and in subject... -
Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore
RRP: £8.99£6.02A top ten New York Times bestseller. With the haunting emotional power of American Dirt and the atmospheric suspense of Where the Crawdads Sing: a compulsive debut novel that explores the aftershock of a brutal crime on the women of a small... -
Well-Kept Secrets: The Story of William Wordsworth by Andrew Wordsworth 9781843681946
RRP: £24.95£16.75Written by his collateral descendant, sculptor Andrew Wordsworth, this insightful biography studies Wordsworth's poetry to understand more fully this deeply private and often enigmatic personality, and it observes the artist's life to better grasp the... -
Montaigne's 'Essais' by Dorothy Gabe Coleman 9781032303277
RRP: £28.99£25.09This book, first published in 1987, is an examination of Montaigne's Essais and a guide to the reading of this fascinating, stimulating and imaginative writer - a writer who is also difficult to read and interpret. This book's aim is to help the reader... -
Literary Theory - an Introduction 2E Revised by Terry Eagleton 9781405179218
RRP: £18.95£16.85A quarter of a century on from its original publication, Literary Theory: An Introduction still conjures the subversion, excitement and exoticism that characterized theory through the 1960s and 70s, when it posed an unprecedented challenge to the... -
Selected Poems by Rabindranath Tagore
RRP: £12.99£9.09The poems of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) are among the most haunting and tender in Indian and in world literature, expressing a profound and passionate human yearning. His ceaselessly inventive works deal with such subjects as the interplay between... -
My Father's Places by Aeronwy Thomas
RRP: £10.99£7.40In 1949, after years of nomadic existence, nine-year-old Aeronwy Thomas and her family arrived at the Boat House in Laugharne, a small village on the Welsh coast. Here her father, the poet Dylan Thomas and mother, Caitlin, hoped to find peace, a place to... -
The Paris Review Interviews: Vol. 1 by Philip Gourevitch
RRP: £14.99£9.80From William Faulkner's famous reply, 'The writer's only responsibility is to his art,' to James Salter's confession 'What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish', the Paris Review has elicited many of the most arresting,... -
The Roman History: The Reign of Augustus by Cassius Cocceianus Dio
RRP: £12.99£9.09Augustus Caesar, the first emperor of Rome (27 BC-AD 14), brought peace and prosperity to his city after decades of savage civil war. This selection from Cassius Dio's Roman History gives the fullest description of that long struggle and ultimate triumph... -
The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni 9780140442748
RRP: £12.99£9.09Set in Lombardy during the Spanish occupation of the late 1620s, The Betrothed tells the story of two young lovers, Renzo and Lucia, prevented from marrying by the petty tyrant Don Rodrigo, who desires Lucia for himself. Forced to flee, they are then... -
Selected Poems by Thomas Hardy
RRP: £10.99£7.77Although best remembered today for his novels, Thomas Hardy thought of himself as a poet forced by circumstance to write fiction for a living. This generous selection of nearly two hundred poems includes such familiar pieces as "During Wind and Rain,"... -
Dante in Love by Harriet Rubin 9780743262989
RRP: £18.99£13.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743262989Author Harriet RubinFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Yellow Tulips: Poems 1968-2011 by James Fenton
RRP: £12.99£8.56Winner of both the Queen's Gold Medal and the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, James Fenton has given readers some of the most memorable lyric verse of the past decades, from the formal skill that marked his debut, Terminal Moraine, to the dramatic and... -
Treasure House of Mysteries by Brock 9780881414219
RRP: £14.00£10.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881414219Author BrockFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint St Vladimir's Seminary Press,U.S.Publisher St Vladimir's Seminary Press,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Charles Dickens's Great Expectations by John Sutherland
RRP: £8.99£6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776038Author John SutherlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
The Art of Love by Ovid 9780099518822
RRP: £6.99£5.13The Art of Love may have been written in the days of gladiators and emperors, but Ovid remains the smartest teacher on the subject of love in all of history. His advice is enduringly useful and entertaining. Between these covers you'll find all you need... -
What is Art? by Leo Tolstoy
RRP: £9.99£7.11During his decades of world fame as a novelist, Tolstoy also wrote prolifically in a series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice and religion. These works culminated in What is Art?, published in 1898. Impassioned and... -
Proud of Me by Sarah Haggar-Holt 9781474966245
RRP: £6.99£4.23An accessible child-centred story about self-acceptance and the importance of opening up to those closest to you. Becky and Josh are almost-twins, with two mums and the same anonymous donor dad. Josh can't wait until he's eighteen, the legal age when he... -
Seamus Heaney's Regions by Richard Rankin Russell 9780268040369
RRP: £45.00£39.58Regional voices from England, Ireland, and Scotland inspired Seamus Heaney, the 1995 Nobel prize-winner, to become a poet, and his home region of Northern Ireland provided the subject matter for much of his poetry. In his work, Heaney explored, recorded,... -
The Art of Drama, Volume 6: Othello: A critical guide for GCSE & A-level students by Johanna Harrison-Oram 9781913577872
RRP: £12.99£11.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913577872Author Johanna Harrison-OramFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Peripeteia PressPublisher Peripeteia PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)... -
The Classic Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar 9780393602975
£27.16This Norton Critical Edition collects seven different tale types, including multicultural versions and literary rescriptings. Along with the introductions and annotations by Maria Tatar are twenty-four critical essays exploring the various aspects of... -
The Wilds Of Poetry by David Hinton
RRP: £23.00£15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611804607Author David HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
"The Winter's Tale" by William Shakespeare
RRP: £9.99£8.82One of Shakespeare's later plays, best described as a tragi-comedy, the play falls into two distinct parts. In the first Leontes is thrown into a jealous rage by his suspicions of his wife Hermione and his best-friend, and imprisons her and orders that... -
Imagined Communities by Jason Xidias
RRP: £6.50£6.11Benedict Anderson's 1983 masterpiece Imagined Communities is a ground-breaking analysis of the origins and meanings of "nations" and "nationalism". A book that helped reshape the field of nationalism studies, Imagined Communities also shows the critical... -
The Desiderata of Happiness by Max Ehrmann
RRP: £12.99£9.09Desiderata, that world-famous poem that begins, 'Go placidly amid the noise and haste', must be one of the best-loved poems in the English language, revered by many as the ideal philosophy of life. Few people realise that it was written in 1927 by the... -
Outsiders Looking In: The Rossettis Then and Now by David Clifford 9781843311065
RRP: £16.95£16.46This new interdisciplinary collection of writing explores the achievements of the Rossettis in the context of the Victorian era and in the light of modern cultural and literary criticism. 'Outsiders Looking In' considers the position that the... -
The 14th Tale by Inua Ellams
£10.471988: at four-years-old, he short-circuited his home with a silver spoon and a Betamax video player. 1989: stopped a 700-strong student assembly with a tantrum. 1995: was chased through jungle growth by a crazed, frustrated French teacher called... -
Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music by Alex Ross
RRP: £16.99£12.47'An absolutely masterly work' Stephen Fry Alex Ross, renowned author of the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics-an aesthetic war zone where... -
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War by Louis Menand 9780007126880
RRP: £14.99£9.70Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022 Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas,... -
Red Thread: On Mazes and Labyrinths by Charlotte Higgins
RRP: £12.99£7.12'Charlotte Higgins's Red Thread is a masterwork' Ali SmithA thrillingly original, labyrinthine journey through myth, art, literature, history, archaeology and memoir. The tale of how the hero Theseus killed the Minotaur, finding his way out of the... -
Gender Swapped Fairy Tales by Karrie Fransman
RRP: £20.00£15.17Discover a collection of fairy tales unlike the ones you've read before . . . Once upon a time, in the middle of winter, a King sat at a window and sewed. As he sewed and gazed out onto the landscape, he pricked his finger with the needle, and three...