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Donna Tartt's "The Secret History" by Tracy Hargreaves 9780826453204
$23.34This work is part of the Continuum Contemporaries series giving readers accessible and informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential contemporary novels. It contains a biography of the novelist, a full-length... -
I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys by Miranda Seymour 9780008353254
RRP: $32.25$21.71'An absolute belter of a biography' MARINA HYDE A Times Literary Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2022 An LA Times Best Book of the Year 2022 An... -
John Milton: A Biography by Neil Forsyth 9780745953106
RRP: $14.18$12.69John Milton was born in 1608 and in the late 1630s he travelled to the Continent where he met, among others, Galileo and Grotius. A staunch republican, he served as Latin secretary to Oliver Cromwell during the Commonwealth. After the restoration of... -
The Quotation Bank: Blood Brothers GCSE Revision and Study Guide for English Literature 9-1 by Esse Publishing 9781999981617
RRP: $7.68$6.79Focusing on the core assessment objectives for GCSE English Literature 9-1, The Quotation Bank takes 25 of the most important quotations from the text and provides detailed material for each quotation, covering interpretations, literary techniques and... -
Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F.Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald by F. Scott Fitzgerald
RRP: $19.34$14.33____________________ 'A superbly edited and evocatively illustrated collection that brings together everything that Scott wrote to his wife' - Sunday Telegraph 'Heartbreaking ... Love has seldom seemed more poignant' - Sunday Times 'Excellent ..... -
Poems in Progress: Drafts from Master Poets Alexandra Ault 9780712354660
RRP: $38.70$25.41Ask two poets what their first drafts look like, and you'll get wildly different answers. From typed pages with delicate annotation to hasty scribbles in a dog-eared notebook, drafts can tell us so much more about poems - and their poets - than their... -
Theories of Reading: Books, Bodies, and Bibliomania by Karin Littau 9780745616599
RRP: $23.21$21.01Why do literary theorists see reading as an act of dispassionate textual analysis and meaning production, when historical evidence shows that readers have often read excessively, obsessively, and for sensory stimulation? Posing these and other questions,... -
Brave New World: York Notes Advanced by Aldous Huxley
RRP: $10.31$8.19York Notes Advanced offer a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature. This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York... -
Beyond the Cyborg: Adventures with Donna Haraway by Margret Grebowicz 9780231149297
RRP: $36.12$28.12Feminist theorist and philosopher Donna Haraway has substantially impacted thought on science, cyberculture, the environment, animals, and social relations. This long-overdue volume explores her influence on feminist theory and philosophy, paying... -
The Satyricon by Petronius Arbiter
RRP: $14.18$10.31`The language is refined, the smile not grave, My honest tongue recounts how men behave.' The Satyricon is the most celebrated work of fiction to have survived from the ancient world. It can be described as the first realistic novel, the father... -
The Common Reader: Second Series (Collins Classics) by Virginia Woolf 9780008658458
RRP: $3.86$3.15HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts,... -
Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino 9780141181349
RRP: $21.92$17.20Meticulously selected and artfully recreated, the selection of stories in Italian is vast and ranges geographically from Corsica and Sicily to Venice and the Alps. Calvino is himself clearly captivated by the folkloric imagination and communicates this... -
The Kojiki: An Account of Ancient Matters by Gustav Heldt 9780231163897
RRP: $32.25$25.27Japan's oldest surviving narrative, the eighth-century Kojiki, chronicles the mythical origins of its islands and their ruling dynasty through a diverse array of genealogies, tales, and songs that have helped to shape the modern nation's views of its... -
Like the Flowing River: Thoughts and Reflections by Paulo Coelho 9780007235803
RRP: $12.89$8.82A breathtaking collection of reflections from one of the world's best loved storytellers, Paulo Coelho. In this riveting collection of thoughts and stories, Paulo Coelho, the author of 'The Alchemist', offers his personal reflections on a wide... -
The Bookseller's Tale by Martin Latham
RRP: $12.89$9.44A SPECTATOR AND EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'A joy. Each chapter instantly became my favourite' David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas'Wonderful' Lucy Mangan'The right book has a neverendingness, and so does the right bookshop.'This is the story... -
Character: Three Inquiries in Literary Studies by Amanda Anderson
RRP: $24.51$23.87Over the last few decades, character-based criticism has been seen as either naive or obsolete. But now questions of character are attracting renewed interest. Making the case for a broad-based revision of our understanding of character, Character... -
The Otter Book by Jo Byrne 9781802580822
RRP: $12.89$9.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802580822Author Jo ByrneFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg LimitedDimensions(mm) 150mm * 150mm * 20mm -
A Man without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut 9780747586050
RRP: $14.18$10.31This is vintage Vonnegut - hilariously funny and razor-sharp as he fixes his gaze on art, politics, himself and the condition of the soul of America today. Written over the last five years in the form of a loose memoir, "A Man without a Country" is an... -
Our Masters' Voices: The Language and Body-language of Politics by Max Atkinson
RRP: $46.43$40.88`Max Atkinson presents a neat blend of applied political psychology and communications theory that is bound to be read closely in the corridors of power. His study of the art of effective political persuasion will revolutionize - for the better -... -
Slide Rule by Nevil Shute Norway
RRP: $12.89$9.44Nevil Shute was a power and a pioneer in the world of flying long before he began to write the stories that made him a bestselling novelist. This autobiography charts Shute's path from childhood to his career as a gifted aeronautical engineer working at... -
Anti - Woke: Selected Essays by Brendan O'Neill by Brendan O'Neill 9781925826265
RRP: $20.64$15.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925826265Author Brendan O'NeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Connor Court Publishing Pty LtdPublisher Connor Court Publishing Pty... -
C.S. Lewis's Oxford by Simon Horobin 9781851245642
RRP: $38.70$32.56The fantastical fictional land of Narnia, famously reached via a magical wardrobe, has many connections to the world in which its creator C.S. Lewis lived. The influence of Oxford can be seen not only in medieval buildings and towers but also in the... -
Convertible Ice Cream Shop by Rosie Neave 9781789897203
RRP: $25.79$18.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789897203Author Rosie NeaveImprint Miles Kelly Publishing LtdPublisher Miles Kelly Publishing Ltd -
How To Read Joyce by Derek Attridge 9781862079120
RRP: $11.60$8.72James Joyce is known as a 'difficult' writer, even if he is no longer thought of as a 'dirty' one. Yet many readers - and not just in colleges and universities - have discovered his books to be funny, moving, illuminating and packed with memorable... -
Le Morte D'Arthur Volume 1 by Sir Thomas Malory
RRP: $16.76$11.86Le Morte D'Arthur is Sir Thomas Malory's richly evocative and enthralling version of the Arthurian legend. Recounting Arthur's birth, his ascendancy to the throne after claiming Excalibur, his ill-fated marriage to Guenever, the treachery of Morgan le... -
Ghalib: Selected Poems and Letters by Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib 9780231182072
RRP: $28.38$22.39This selection of poetry and prose by Ghalib provides an accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the preeminent Urdu poet of the nineteenth century. Ghalib's poems, especially his ghazals, remain beloved throughout South Asia for their arresting... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare by Emma Smith 9780521671880
RRP: $25.79$19.65This lively and innovative introduction to Shakespeare promotes active engagement with the plays, rather than recycling factual information. Covering a range of texts, it is divided into seven subject-based chapters: Character; Performance; Texts;... -
The Seasons of the Soul: The Poetic Guidance and Spiritual Wisdom of Herman Hesse Hermann Hesse 9781583943137
RRP: $21.92$15.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583943137Author Hermann HesseFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Perplexing Plots: Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder by David Bordwell
RRP: $36.12$28.12Narrative innovation is typically seen as the domain of the avant-garde. However, techniques such as nonlinear timelines, multiple points of view, and unreliable narration have long been part of American popular culture. How did forms and styles once... -
In the Presence of Absence by Mahmoud Darwish
RRP: $16.76$11.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsRunner-up for Literary Award (Translation) 2012.Book InformationISBN 9781935744016Author Mahmoud DarwishFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher... -
The Tale of Sinuhe by R. B. Parkinson
RRP: $12.89$9.44The Tale of Sinuhe, from c.1875 BC, has been acclaimed as the supreme masterpiece of Ancient Egyptian poetry, a perfect fusion of monumental, dramatic, and lyrical styles, and a passionate probing of its culture's ideals and anxieties. This anthology... -
Queer Theory Now: From Foundations to Futures Hannah McCann 9781352007510
$39.35This short textbook provides an introduction to queer theory, exploring its key genealogies and terms as well as its application across various academic disciplines and to contemporary life more generally. The authors engage with a wide range of... -
Miracles of Life by J. G. Ballard
RRP: $14.18$9.62J. G. Ballard was, for over fifty years, one of this country's most significant writers. Beginning with the events that inspired his classic novel, 'Empire of the Sun', this revelatory autobiography charts the course of his astonishing life. ... -
Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time by Joseph Frank 9780691155999
RRP: $38.70$30.10Joseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the writer in any language--and one of the greatest literary biographies of the past half-century. Now Frank's monumental, 2500-page work has been... -
Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time by Hilary Spurling
RRP: $12.89$9.44BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 in The Sunday Times, Spectator, Mail on Sunday, Observer and Financial Times'A landmark biography' The Times, Books of the Year'One of our generation's greatest biographers' London Review of Books'Witty, spirited, richly crowded... -
The Miser and Other Plays by Jean-Baptiste Moliere 9780140447286
RRP: $16.76$12.05Moliere combined all the traditional elements of comedy - wit, slapstick, spectacle and satire - to create richly sophisticated and enduringly popular dramas. The Miser is the story of Harpagon, a mean-spirited old man who becomes obsessed with making... -
Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida by Robert Chandler
RRP: $16.76$12.05From the reign of the Tsars in the early 19th century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, the short story has long occupied a central place in Russian culture. Included are pieces from many of the acknowledged masters of Russian literature -... -
Furies: Stories of the wicked, wild and untamed by Margaret Atwood
RRP: $21.92$14.89'Wonderful . . . all killer, no filler' Red Magazine'Dazzling stories, as inventive as they are inspiring' Daily Mirror 'Where power and feminist rage meet' Stylist______________________________A fun and fearless anthology of feminist tales, by fifteen... -
Paris: A Literary Anthology by Zachary Seager 9781035023615
RRP: $12.89$9.13Take a literary stroll through the streets of Paris, visit its world-famous monuments, delve into its history and wander amongst its poets and artists.Countless author and poets have found home on the streets of Paris. In Paris: A Literary Anthology,... -
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Illustrated by Gertrude Stein 9781594204609
RRP: $25.46$23.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594204609Author Gertrude SteinFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 970gDimensions(mm) 243mm *...