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The Penetrated Male by Jonathan Kemp 9780615870861
RRP: $46.20$36.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615870861Author Jonathan KempFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *... -
The Breaking of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, Graham Helen Vendler 9780674081215
$61.53Style is the material body of lyric poetry, Helen Vendler suggests. To cast off an earlier style is to do an act of violence to the self. Why might a poet do this, adopting a sharply different form? In this exploration of three kinds of break in poetic... -
Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action Kevin Guyan 9781350230729
RRP: $41.98$35.03Data has never mattered more. Our lives are increasingly shaped by it and how it is defined, collected and used. But who counts in the collection, analysis and application of data? This important book is the first to look at queer data - defined as... -
The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English by Ian Hamilton
RRP: $31.48$23.00This impressive volume provides over 1,500 thoroughly revised and updated entries on modern poets active from 1910 to the present day. An extensive guide to the lives of influential poets writing in English, in Britain and around the world, this... -
Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
RRP: $39.88$35.78A darkly comic and moving reflection on what it means to be human in a world where nothing is certain, from the award-winning Oxford professor'The best book about multiple sclerosis'THE TIMES'An outstanding feat'SUNDAY TIMESWe all have trapdoors in our... -
Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch by Terry Pratchett
RRP: $31.48$23.00Roundworld is in trouble again, and this time it looks fatal. Having created it in the first place, the wizards of Unseen University feel vaguely responsible for its safety. They know the creatures who lived there escaped the impending Big Freeze by... -
Macbeth by Eric Rasmussen
RRP: $18.88$17.26From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's great drama of ambition, desire and guilt. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of Macbeth in performance,... -
The Writings of Teresa de Cartagena by Dayle Seidenspinner-Nunez 9780859914468
RRP: $41.98$31.73Translation, with full explanatory notes, of the two works of Teresa de Cartagena, the fifteenth-century Spanish nun. This affordable, engaging and important translation of Teresa de Cartagena's works significantly expands and enriches the current... -
The Best Part of Me: Children Talk about Their Bodies in Pictures and Words by Wendy Ewald 9780316703062
RRP: $39.88$29.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316703062Author Ewald WFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & Company -
Graphic Details: Jewish Women's Confessional Comics in Essays and Interviews Sarah Lightman 9780786465538
RRP: $60.88$51.30The comics within capture in intimate, often awkward, but always relatable detail the tribulations and triumphs of life. In particular, the lives of 18 Jewish women artists who bare all in their work, which appeared in the internationally acclaimed... -
The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman by Sue Townsend
RRP: $23.08$16.78Glimpse into the life of one of Britain's best-loved comic writers - Sue Townsend - with this hilarious collection of her anecdotes and musings. ___________Enter the world of Susan Lilian Townsend - all our welcome! This sparkling collection of Sue... -
FBI Myths and Misconceptions: A Manual for Armchair Detectives by Jerri Williams 9781732462441
RRP: $27.28$25.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732462441Author Jerri WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Jerri WilliamsPublisher Jerri WilliamsWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm... -
The House of Ulloa by Emilia Pardo Bazan
RRP: $20.98$15.37A rich and unforgettable tragic-comic novel of sexual intrigue and political scheming, The House of Ulloa is one of the greatest works of nineteenth-century Spanish literature.The House of Ulloa follows pure and pious Father Julian Alvarez, who is sent... -
Four Quartets - T S Eliot and Spirituality by Richard Brock
$21.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993238802Author Richard BrockFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Patrician PressPublisher Patrician Press -
Poems about Books and Libraries by Andrew Scrimgeour
RRP: $25.20$18.23A remarkably diverse treasury of literary celebrations, Books and Libraries is sure to take pride of place on the shelves of the book-obsessed. Books have long captured the imagination of readers everywhere, commanding their love, earning their... -
Marcel Proust: A Biography by George D. Painter
RRP: $39.88$29.86'No biography has ever before thrown so much light on the making of a masterpiece. ' Raymond Mortimer. 'Mr Painter has done his work so well that it is hard to speak in moderate terms of his skill and unobtrusive wit. ' Anthony Powell. 'Brilliant and... -
The New Cambridge Companion to Coleridge by Tim Fulford
RRP: $48.28$41.08This new collection enables students and general readers to appreciate Coleridge's renewed relevance 250 years after his birth. An indispensable guide to his writing for twenty-first-century readers, it contains new perspectives that reframe his work in... -
Being and Event by Alain Badiou
RRP: $48.28$44.23Since the book's first publication in 1988, Alain Badiou's Being and Event has established itself of one of the most important and controversial works in contemporary philosophy and its author as one of the most influential thinkers of our time. Being... -
Oroonoko by Aphra Behn 9780393970142
$27.99The editor supplies explanatory annotations and textual notes. "Historical Backgrounds" is an especially rich collection of seventeenth-and eighteenth-century documents about colonizers and slaves in the new world. Topically arranged-"Montaigne on... -
A Shakespeare Motley: An Illustrated Assortment by Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
RRP: $27.20$19.55A Shakespearean Motley is a delightful cabinet of Shakespearean curiosities, arranged in a straightforward alphabetical order, that will inform, enthuse, intrigue and amuse anyone who would like to know more about the richly varied and versatile life and... -
Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake by Northrop Frye
RRP: $67.20$53.68This brilliant outline of Blake's thought and commentary on his poetry comes on the crest of the current interest in Blake, and carries us further towards an understanding of his work than any previous study. Here is a dear and complete solution to the... -
Unspeakable: The Sunday Times Bestselling Autobiography John Bercow 9781474616645
RRP: $23.08$15.98When John Bercow retired as Speaker of the House of Commons on 31 October 2019, he had become one of the most recognisable and iconoclastic figures in British politics, occupying a ringside seat during one of the most febrile periods in modern British... -
Selected Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
RRP: $16.78$11.36Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have also created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction... -
On Poetry Glyn Maxwell (Author) 9781350248359
RRP: $27.28$23.65'The most compelling, original, charismatic and poetic guide to poetry that I can remember. A handbook written from the heart by one of the true modern masters of the craft.' Simon Armitage A collection of short essays and reflections on poetry from... -
Parmenides' Vision: A Study of Parmenides' Poem by Stuart B. Martin
RRP: $163.80$144.65This book intends to establish, against his numerous modern critics, that the ancient philosopher Parmenides was a mystic. Instead of arriving at his conclusions by cold reason, Parmenides found the unity of Being, which he called "the Truth,"... -
Ovid's Metamorphoses by Elaine Fantham 9780195154108
RRP: $56.68$43.97Ovid's Metamorphoses have been seen to mark a culmination of the classical epic tradition and a revolutionary transferral of narrative interest from warfare to love and fantasy. This introduction considers how Ovid defined and shaped his narrative, its... -
The Aphorisms of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka
RRP: $42.00$33.87A splendid new translation of an extraordinary work of modern literature-featuring facing-page commentary by Kafka's acclaimed biographerIn 1917 and 1918, Franz Kafka wrote a set of more than 100 aphorisms, known as the Zurau aphorisms, after the... -
Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson
RRP: $73.50$66.65Beginning with the dim prehistory of the mythical gods and their descendants, Heimskringla recounts the history of the kings of Norway through the reign of Olaf Haraldsson, who became Norway's patron saint. Once found in most homes and schools and still... -
Are You Judging Me Yet?: Poetry and Everyday Sexism by Kim Moore 9781781726877
RRP: $20.98$15.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781726877Author Kim MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 135mm * 9mm -
Vita and Virginia: The Work and Friendship of V. Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf by Suzanne Raitt
$96.08This book examines the creative intimacy between Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf, interpreting both their relationship and their work in the light of their experience as married lesbians. The contradictions and conflicts of their situation are... -
The Fall of the Roman Republic: Roman History, Books 36-40 by Cassius Dio 9780198822882
RRP: $23.08$16.78'That was how things stood in the city at the time. With no one in charge, murders were taking place almost every day and the elections could not be held.' Books 36-40 of the Roman History by Cassius Dio (born ca. 163 CE), covers 69-50 BCE, the last... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative by H. Porter Abbott 9781108823357
RRP: $52.48$45.74What is narrative? How does it work and how does it shape our lives? H. Porter Abbott emphasizes that narrative is found not just in literature, film, and theatre, but everywhere in the ordinary course of people's lives. This widely used introduction,... -
Philip Larkin by Laurence Lerner 9780746311370
RRP: $39.25$36.41Philip Larkin is one of the finest English poets of our time. His poetic personality - nostalgic, wry, melancholy, ironic, witty and haunting - has appealed to a far wider audience than that of literary specialists, while also winning the respect of... -
Arabic Poetry: A Primer for Students by A. J. Arberry 9780521092579
RRP: $35.68$29.21Originally published in 1965, this is an introductory book for university students of Arabic literature. It begins with a substantial introduction in English by Professor Arberry on the development, nature, forms and rhythms of Arabic poetry. The main... -
Literary Allusion in Harry Potter Beatrice Groves 9781138284678
RRP: $54.58$48.26Literary Allusion in Harry Potter builds on the world-wide enthusiasm for J. K. Rowling's series in order to introduce its readers to some of the great works of literature on which Rowling draws. Harry Potter's narrative techniques are rooted in the... -
Untold Stories by Alan Bennett
RRP: $31.48$21.13Here, at last, is the astonishing sequel to Alan Bennett's classic Writing Home, updated for paperback. Untold Stories contains significant previously unpublished work, including a poignant memoir of his family and of growing up in Leeds, together with... -
Shadow & Evil In Fairy Tales by Marie-Louise Von Franz
RRP: $56.70$37.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877739746Author Marie-Louise von FranzFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace by D. T. Max 9781847084958
RRP: $20.98$14.49David Foster Wallace is to contemporary literature what Kurt Cobain is to music. He died young enough for his promise and his achievements to solidify into a legend. For many, he became someone worth reading, revering, following. How had a teen tennis... -
The Little Book of Shakespeare: Timeless Wit and Wisdom Orange Hippo! 9781800691926
RRP: $12.58$9.58'He was "not of an age, but for all time".' (Shakespeare's contemporary Ben Jonson) No writer, before or since, has matched Shakespeare in terms of influence, critical acclaim or popular success. His genius lay in his sheer dramatic skill, his powerful... -
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens 9780140435122
RRP: $20.98$16.21'A revelation ... as well as being sympathetic to the plight of children, it is hilarious' A. N. WilsonThe hero of Dickens's flamboyantly exuberant novel, Nicholas Nickleby, is left penniless after his father's death and forced to make his own way in the...