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We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction by Joan Didion
RRP: $84.00$54.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307264879Author Joan DidionFormat HardbackPage Count 1160Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 987gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Facing Page Translation by Anonymous
RRP: $34.65$33.81The fourteenth-century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is one of the greatest classics of English literature, but one of the least accessible to most twentieth-century readers. Written in an obscure dialect, it is far more difficult to digest in the... -
La Bete humaine by Emile Zola
RRP: $18.88$12.62Did possessing and killing amount to the same thing deep within the dark recesses of the human beast? La Bete humaine (1890), is one of Zola's most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of murder, passion and possession, it is also a... -
The Bright Field by Margaret Reynolds
RRP: $35.68$23.67'Exquisite... a deeply insightful memoir which charts our fundamental longings for place and identity, and ultimately our yearnings for love.' Helena Kennedy'Extremely moving...an unusually thoughtful take on becoming a mother, enabled by removing... -
Mesopotamia by Serhiy Zhadan
RRP: $27.28$24.07A unique work of fiction from the troubled streets of Ukraine, giving invaluable testimony to the new history unfolding in the nation's post-independence years "Serhiy Zhadan is one of the most important creators of European culture at work today. His... -
Literary Theory: The Basics by Hans Bertens 9781032446929
RRP: $41.98$37.15Now in its fourth edition, Literary Theory: The Basics is an essential guide to the complicated and often confusing world of literary theory. Readers will encounter a broad range of topics from Marxist and feminist criticism to postmodernism, queer... -
Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer 9780393927559
$39.33The editor's lucid introduction, marginal glosses, and explanatory annotations make Troilus and Criseyde easily accessible to students with no prior knowledge of Chaucer or Middle English. Also included is Robert Henryson's Testament of Cresseid, the... -
Give Birth Like a Feminist: Your body. Your baby. Your choices. by Milli Hill 9780008313135
RRP: $20.98$12.62Featured on BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 5 Live Selected as one of the Independent's 10 best pregnancy books for expectant parents Birth is a feminist issue. It's the feminist issue... -
The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction by Jerrold E. Hogle
RRP: $56.68$48.72Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. In this volume, fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough and revealing accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying type of... -
You Made Me Late Again!: My New Collection by Pam Ayres
RRP: $23.08$16.78With over fifty new poems from Britain's favourite poet, You Made Me Late Again! is an essential addition to Pam Ayres' incomparable collection of works.Pam's poems are observant, witty and poignant in equal measure. In 'The Swifts' and 'The Pyracantha... -
Letters to a Young Poet: A New Translation and Commentary by Rainer Maria Rilke
RRP: $33.58$23.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611806861Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
The Wife of Bath: A Biography by Marion Turner 9780691206035
RRP: $31.48$25.52From 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... -
Black Cat Bone by John Burnside
RRP: $27.30$19.64John Burnside's remarkable book is full of strange, unnerving poems that hang in the memory like a myth or a song. These are poems of thwarted love and disappointment, of raw desire, of the stalking beast, 'eye-teeth/and muzzle/coated with blood'; poems... -
Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain by Amy Jeffs
RRP: $52.50$37.02A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, January 2022A TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEARA BBC HISTORY MAG BOOK OF THE YEARA DAILY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR'Expressive, bold and quite beautiful' The Lady'[a] delight... -
OCR Anthology for Classical Greek AS and A Level: 2024–2026 by Sam Baddeley
RRP: $62.98$58.93This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Greek AS and A-Level set text prescriptions for 2024-26 giving full Greek text, commentary and vocabulary and a detailed introduction for each text that also covers the prescription to be read in English for... -
The Paris Review Interviews: Vol. 1 Philip Gourevitch 9781841959252
RRP: $31.48$21.13From 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,... -
Piers Plowman: A New Annotated Edition of the C-Text Derek Pearsall 9780859897846
RRP: $36.94$35.28William Langland's poem stands at the centre of the study of ideological conflict, social change and religious ideas in the later fourteenth century. It is a poem that vividly encapsulates the great issues and debates of the day and acts as a commentary... -
The Illustrated World of Tolkien The Second Age by David Day 9781788404174
RRP: $63.00$43.47This volume is an in-depth and exquisitely illustrated guide to the Second Age of Middle-earth, one of the least-explored periods of Arda's history.The Illustrated World of Tolkien: The Second Age, is the follow up companion to the best-selling The... -
Keats's Poetry and Prose by John Keats 9780393924916
$38.07For this reason, this volume presents the writings in the order of publication rather than composition. Readers can trace the poems through letters, reviews, and related material chronologically interleaved with the texts themselves. This edition offers... -
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn
RRP: $23.08$15.83Nick Flynn met his father when he was twenty-seven years old, working as a caseworker in a homeless shelter in Boston. As a teenager he'd received letters from this mystery father - self-proclaimed poet (and greatest American novelist since Mark Twain),... -
Conversations with John Gardner by Allan Chavkin 9780878054237
RRP: $62.90$48.99This collection, selected from more than 140 interviews Gardner granted, presents a wealth of information on the life and art of one of America's foremost novelists. These interviews show him as a novelist, a charismatic teacher of creative writing, and... -
Warriors, Witches, Women: Mythology's Fiercest Females Kate Hodges 9781781319260
RRP: $39.88$27.62Meet mythology's fifty fiercest females in this modern retelling of the world's greatest legends. From feminist fairies to bloodsucking temptresses, half-human harpies and protective Vodou goddesses, these are women who go beyond long-haired, smiling... -
John Ruskin: An Illustrated Life of John Ruskin, 1819-1900 by James S. Dearden
RRP: $18.88$16.00John Ruskin was one of the most influential writers of the nineteenth century. His study of art and architecture in Britain and Europe led him to consider of the conditions of the people who lived in his world, and his interests embraced social and... -
Kafka: Making of an Icon by Ritchie Robertson 9781851246229
RRP: $73.50$62.56Franz Kafka died in 1924, when he was not yet forty-one. During his life he published only seven small books, but he left behind three unfinished novels and a mass of stories, reflections and personal writings which were published after his death. His... -
Warriors of Anatolia: A Concise History of the Hittites by Trevor Bryce
RRP: $33.58$30.45In this lively treatment of one of antiquity's most mysterious civilizations, whose history disappeared from the records over 3,000 years ago, Trevor Bryce sheds fresh light on Hittite warriors as well as on the Hittites' social, religious and political... -
Automating Translation Joss Moorkens 9781032436807
RRP: $73.48$64.79Translation technology is essential for translation students, practising translators, and those working as part of the language services industry, but looming above others are the tools for automating translation: machine translation and, more recently,... -
Wild Mind, Wild Earth: Our Place in the Sixth Extinction by David Hinton
RRP: $37.78$25.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645471479Author David HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
The War with Catiline. The War with Jugurtha by Sallust
RRP: $52.40$49.56Two military monographs.Sallust, Gaius Sallustius Crispus (86-35 BC), a Sabine from Amiternum, acted against Cicero and Milo as tribune in 52, joined Caesar after being expelled from the Senate in 50, was restored to the Senate by Caesar and took part in... -
Shetland by Ann Cleeves
RRP: $73.50$53.93In this gloriously illustrated companion to her crime novels featuring Inspector Jimmy Perez, Ann Cleeves takes readers through a year on Shetland. Discover its past, meet its people, celebrate its festivals and see how the flora and fauna of the islands... -
Trauma and Intellectual Disability: Acknowledgement, Identification & Intervention by Nigel Beail 9781914010590
$85.39This book is about Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) for people who have intellectual disabilities (ID). The provision of health and social care services is becoming more trauma informed, including in services for people with ID, where the experience of trauma... -
Shakespeare's Othello by Professor Graham Bradshaw
RRP: $18.88$13.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776007Author Graham BradshawFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
And Still I Rise by Dr Maya Angelou
RRP: $23.08$15.98A beautiful and inspiring collection of poetry by Maya Angelou, author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS and 'a brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' (BARACK OBAMA).'I write about being a Black American woman, however, I am... -
The Politics of Vibration: Music as a Cosmopolitical Practice by Marcus Boon
RRP: $44.08$38.58In The Politics of Vibration Marcus Boon explores music as a material practice of vibration. Focusing on the work of three contemporary musicians-Hindustani classical vocalist Pandit Pran Nath, Swedish drone composer and philosopher Catherine Christer... -
The Complete Fables by Aesop
RRP: $18.88$14.85A slave who represented his masters in court and negotiations, Aesop relied on allegorical animal stories, collected here in The Complete Fables, to convey his key points. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Greek by Olivia and Robert... -
The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Body by Travis M. Foster
RRP: $48.28$41.08The human body has been depicted in a variety of ways across a range of cultural and historical locations. It has been described, variously, as a biological entity, clothing for the soul, a site of cultural production, a psychosexual construct, and a... -
The Hooded Gunman: An Illustrated History of Collins Crime Club by John Curran
RRP: $84.00$60.56Winner of the 2019 H.R.F. Keating Award for best biography or critical book related to crime fiction! A lavish full-colour celebration of the 2000 books by more than 250 authors published by the iconic Crime Club between 1930 and 1994. ... -
The Messages We Send: Social Signals and Storytelling by G. R. F. Ferrari 9780198798422
$92.95G. R. F. Ferrari offers a new framework for understanding different ways in which we communicate with each other. He explores the idea of "intimations": social interactions that approach outright communication but do not quite reach it. The metaphor from... -
Heathen Gods in Old English Literature by Richard North 9780521030267
RRP: $56.68$51.41Heathen gods are hard to find in Old English literature. Most Anglo-Saxon writers had no interest in them, and scholars today prefer to concentrate on the Christian civilization for which the Anglo-Saxons were so famous. Richard North offers an... -
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist: Understanding What Happens When We Write and Read Novels by Orhan Pamuk
RRP: $27.28$18.48Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature'Engaging, brilliant' Guardian'A talkative, tender meditation' Financial Times'Every novelist will want to read this' Daily TelegraphWhat happens within us when we read a novel? And how does a writer create its... -
The Art of Voice: Poetic Principles and Practice by Tony Hoagland 9780393357912
RRP: $27.28$21.15In this accessible and distilled craft guide, acclaimed poet Tony Hoagland approaches poetry through the frame of poetic voice, that mysterious connective element that binds the speaker and reader together. A poem strong in the dimension of voice is an...