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Laughing Shall I Die: Lives and Deaths of the Great Vikings by Tom Shippey
RRP: $25.33$17.73In this robust new account of the Vikings, Tom Shippey explores their mindset, and in particular their fascination with scenes of heroic death. The book recounts many of the great bravura scenes of Old Norse literature, including the Fall of the House of... -
Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone by Minna Salami 9781786997111
RRP: $19.48$14.96In Sensuous Knowledge, Minna Salami draws on Africa-centric, feminist-first and artistic traditions to help us rediscover inclusive and invigorating ways of experiencing the world afresh. Combining the playfulness of a storyteller with the insight of... -
Dublin: A Writer's City by Christopher Morash
RRP: $39.00$27.26The words of its writers are part of the texture of Dublin, an invisible counterpart to the bricks and pavement we see around us. Beyond the ever-present footsteps of James Joyce's characters, Leopold Bloom or Stephen Dedalus, around the city centre, an... -
Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition by Ahmed El Shamsy
RRP: $48.75$38.20The story of how Arab editors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries revolutionized Islamic literatureIslamic book culture dates back to late antiquity, when Muslim scholars began to write down their doctrines on parchment, papyrus, and... -
Macbeth: Shakespeare Retold by William Shakespeare 9781914927034
RRP: $21.43$16.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914927034Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Redbrick BooksPublisher Redbrick BooksWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Spenser: The Faerie Queene by A. C. Hamilton 9781405832816
$60.14The Faerie Queene is a scholarly masterpiece that has influenced, inspired, and challenged generations of writers, readers and scholars since its completion in 1596. Hamilton's edition is itself, a masterpiece of scholarship and close reading. It is now... -
Theurgy: Theory and Practice: The Mysteries of the Ascent to the Divine by P. D. Newman 9781644118368
RRP: $50.70$32.04Connects the magical practice of theurgy to the time of Homer. First defined by the second century Chaldean Oracles, theurgy is an ancient magic practice whereby practitioners divinized the soul and achieved mystical union with a deity, the Demiurge, or... -
Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life by Jonathan Bate
RRP: $37.03$24.78SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 'Gripping and at times ineffably sad, this book would be poetic even without the poetry. It will be the standard biography of Ted Hughes for a long time to come' Sunday Times 'Seldom has... -
Stephen Lives by Anne Puryear 9780671536640
RRP: $29.23$28.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671536640Author Anne PuryearFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & Schuster -
Literary Devices by Amy Jones
RRP: $11.68$8.01What is the difference between literal and figurative writing? Is there really a secret set of tricks used by top authors to make their writing even better? Why not use these tricks all the time? This excellent little book, by English literature and... -
Agatha Christie's England by Caroline Crampton 9781838216733
RRP: $23.40$17.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838216733Author Caroline CramptonPage Count 1Imprint Herb Lester Associates LtdPublisher Herb Lester Associates LtdDimensions(mm) 208mm * 145mm * 5mm -
The Ruins Lesson: Meaning and Material in Western Culture by Susan Stewart
RRP: $48.75$47.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226792200Author Susan StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher University of Chicago PressWeight(grams) 178g -
Philosophical Investigations by Michael O'Sullivan
RRP: $12.68$11.91Many still consider Ludwig Wittgenstein's 1953 Philosophical Investigations to be one of the breakthrough works of twentieth-century philosophy. The book sets out a radically new conception of philosophy itself, and demonstrates all the attributes of a... -
After Sebald: Essays and Illuminations by John Coetzee 9780957152861
RRP: $31.20$22.29A collection of essays and other texts by eleven internationally acclaimed writers, critics and artists.Over a decade after his death W.G. Sebald remains a major presence in world literature. He has a devoted readership in many different countries. This... -
A Guide to Old English by Bruce Mitchell
RRP: $64.25$57.60A comprehensive introduction to Old English, combining simple, clear philology with the best literary works to provide a compelling and accessible beginners' guide. Provides a comprehensive introduction to Old EnglishUses a practical approach suited... -
Books v. Cigarettes by George Orwell
RRP: $15.58$11.29Beginning with a dilemma about whether he spends more money on reading or smoking, George Orwell's entertaining and uncompromising essays go on to explore everything from the perils of second-hand bookshops to the dubious profession of being a critic,... -
Selected Essays by T. S. Eliot
RRP: $39.00$27.03In this magisterial volume, first published in 1932, Eliot gathered his choice of the miscellaneous reviews and literary essays he had written since 1917 when he became assistant editor of The Egoist. In his preface to the third edition in 1951 he wrote:... -
Tales of the Narts: Ancient Myths and Legends of the Ossetians by John Colarusso
RRP: $48.75$38.20An exciting collection of mythology about heroes, heroines, villains, and monsters in the intriguing world of the nomad warriors of the CaucasusThe Nart sagas are to the Caucasus what Greek mythology is to Western civilization. Tales of the Narts expands... -
A Book of Book Lists: A Bibliophile's Compendium by Alex Johnson 9780712352253
RRP: $19.48$13.26This is a book of book lists. Not of the '1,001 Books You MUST Read Before You Die' variety but lists that tell stories. Lists that make you smile, make you wonder, and see titles together in entirely new ways. From Bin Laden's bookshelf to the books... -
Laws by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $48.65$46.39The statesman on statecraft.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius ... -
Monsters by Niklas Radstrom
$24.12"""None of this should ever have happened. Somebody should have given us a different life."" Two ten year olds are brought in for questioning. A third boy has gone missing. The investigator is gentle. The boys begin to talk. 1993. A play about the... -
Eliot: After The Waste Land by Robert Crawford
RRP: $48.75$35.14The second volume of Robert Crawford's magisterial biography of the revolutionary modernist, visionary poet and troubled man, drawing on extensive new sources.In this compelling and meticulous portrait of the twentieth century's most important poet,... -
The New Oxford Book of War Poetry by Jon Stallworthy
RRP: $25.33$17.73There can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war. Jon Stallworthy's classic and celebrated anthology spans centuries of human experience of war, from Homer's Iliad, through the First and Second World... -
How I Became a Tree by Sumana Roy
RRP: $23.38$19.79An exquisite, lovingly crafted meditation on plants, trees, and our place in the natural world, in the tradition of Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass and Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek "Sumana Roy has written-grown-a radiant and... -
The World is a Wedding by Bernard Kops 9781905512331
$16.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905512331Author Bernard KopsFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications -
Byron and the Poetics of Adversity by Jerome McGann
RRP: $38.98$33.40A long line of traditional, often conservative, criticism and cultural commentary deplored Byron as a slipshod poet. This pithy yet aptly poetic book, written by one of the world's foremost Romantic scholars, argues that assessment is badly mistaken... -
Reflections On Exile: And Other Literary And Cultural Essays by Edward W. Said
RRP: $33.13$23.36With their powerful blend of political and aesthetic concerns, Edward W. Said's writings have transformed the field of literary studies. As in the title essay, the widely admired "Reflections on Exile," the fact of his own exile and the fate of the... -
Trauma and Intellectual Disability: Acknowledgement, Identification & Intervention by Nigel Beail 9781914010590
$78.64This 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... -
The Enchanted Places: A Childhood Memoir by Christopher Milne
RRP: $19.48$14.18Now the subject of major Disney film starring Ewan McGregor, this is Christopher Robin in his own words.Millions of readers throughout the world have grown up with the stories and verses of A. A. Milne; have envied Christopher Robin in his enchanted... -
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol 9780300060997
RRP: $33.15$32.53Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls, a comic masterpiece about a mysterious con man and his grotesque victims, is one of the major works of Russian literature. It was translated into English in 1942 by Bernard Guilbert Guerney; the translation was hailed by... -
Livy, History of Rome I: A Selection by John Storey
RRP: $25.33$23.13This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin A-Level (Group 2) prescription of Livy's History of Rome, Book I, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary for chapters 53-54, 56 (haec agenti ...)-60, with a detailed... -
Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life by Claire Tomalin
RRP: $21.43$15.15Katherine Mansfield is the celebrated biography be bestselling author Claire Tomalin'One of the best biographies I have ever read: a perfect match of author and subject. It should become a classic' Alison LuriePursuing art and adventure across Europe,... -
Hekate Soteira: A Study of Hekate's Roles in the Chaldean Oracles and Related Literature by Sarah Iles Johnston
$35.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555404277Author Sarah Iles JohnstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Scholars PressPublisher Scholars PressWeight(grams) 341gDimensions(mm) 228mm *... -
The Fin de Siècle: A Reader in Cultural History, c.1880-1900 by Sally Ledger 9780198742791
$106.29In an important contribution to the developing field of interdisciplinary studies in the Humanities, Ledger and Luckhurst make available to students and scholars a large body of non-literary texts which richly configure the variegated cultural history of... -
The Translations of Seamus Heaney by Seamus Heaney
RRP: $68.25$46.47Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf (1999) was hailed as a masterpiece, alerting readers to his extraordinary ability to tune into other poets and languages and render their work fresh and alive in his own voice. In fact, as this volume attests, from... -
The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human by Instructor Jonathan Gottschall 9780544002340
RRP: $31.18$22.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544002340Author Instructor Jonathan GottschallFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm)... -
The Bookseller's Tale by Martin Latham
RRP: $19.48$13.86A 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... -
South and West: From A Notebook by Joan Didion
RRP: $17.53$11.74From one of the most important chroniclers of our time, come two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks - writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. ... -
The Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Story by Martin Scofield
RRP: $44.83$38.14This wide-ranging introduction to the short story tradition in the United States of America traces the genre from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century with Irving, Hawthorne and Poe via Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Faulkner to O'Connor and Carver... -
A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti 9780811200417
RRP: $17.53$13.34The title of this book is taken from Henry Miller's "Into the Night Life" and expresses the way Lawrence Ferlinghetti felt about these poems when he wrote them during a short period in the 1950's-as if they were, taken together, a kind of Coney Island of...