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Flashman, Flash for Freedom!, Flashman in the Great Game by George MacDonald Fraser 9781841593258
RRP: £20.00£14.69For George MacDonald Fraser the bully Flashman was easily the most interesting character in Tom Brown's Schooldays, and imaginative speculation as to what might have happened to him after his expulsion from Rugby School for drunkenness ended in 12... -
OCR Classical Civilisation GCSE Route 1: Myth and Religion by Ben Greenley
RRP: £24.99£23.53This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for GCSE Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017). It covers the Thematic Study Component 11 and all three Literature and Culture options (Components 21-23): Thematic Study:... -
W. B. Yeats by W. B. Yeats
RRP: £12.99£8.56W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) was not only Ireland's greatest poet but one of the most influential voices in world literature in the twentieth century. His extraordinary work, in the words of this volume's editor Seamus Heaney, encourages us 'to be more... -
Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay by Anne Carson
RRP: £13.99£10.21Named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by the Modern LibraryAnne Carson's remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic loveSince it was first published, Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson's lyrical meditation on love in... -
Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
RRP: £12.99£8.56Sylvia Plath is one of the defining voices in twentieth-century poetry. This classic selection of her work, made by her former husband Ted Hughes, provides the perfect introduction to this most influential of poets. The poems are taken from Sylvia... -
Danse Macabre by Stephen King
RRP: £10.99£7.78Before he gave us the classic title On Writing, ('part biography, part collection of tips for the aspiring writer' - Guardian) Stephen King wrote a nonfiction masterpiece in Danse Macabre, 'One of the best books on American popular culture'... -
Bedside Companion for Food Lovers: An anthology of literary morsels for every night of the year by Jane McMorland Hunter 9781849947961
RRP: £22.95£14.31A delicious literary anthology all about food. With extracts from over 200 authors, it embraces fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and even a smattering of recipes, with one piquant extract for every night of the year.This absorbing book is a literary feast... -
The Book of Lost Tales 1 (The History of Middle-earth, Book 1) by J. R. R. Tolkien
RRP: £10.99£7.78The first of a two-book set that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkien's epic tale of war, The Silmarillion. The Book of Lost Tales stands at the beginning of the entire conception of Middle-earth and Valinor... -
A Century of Poetry: 100 Poems for Searching the Heart by Lord Rowan Williams
RRP: £19.99£14.44'All serious lovers of poetry will want this book.' A. N. Wilson All good poetry has the power to transport and transform us, to inspire and challenge us, to comfort and heal us, and to hold up a mirror to the world around us. In A Century of... -
The Culture: The Drawings by Iain M. Banks 9780356519425
RRP: £50.00£35.20This extraordinary collection celebrates the dazzling worldbuilding of Iain M. Banks, one of the most important and influential writers in modern science fiction.Faithfully reproduced from notebooks he kept in the 1970s and 80s, these annotated original... -
The Return of the Shadow (The History of Middle-earth, Book 6) by J. R. R. Tolkien
RRP: £10.99£7.77The first part of The History of The Lord of the Rings, an enthralling account of the writing of the Book of the Century which contains many additional scenes and includes the unpublished Epilogue in its entirety. The Return of the Shadow is... -
Fingerprints Of The Gods by Graham Hancock
RRP: £22.99£17.28THE MULTI-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING SENSATION THAT TURNED HISTORY ON ITS HEAD, FROM THE CREATOR OF NETFLIX'S ANCIENT APOCALYPSE 'One of the intellectual landmarks of the decade' Literary Review'Readers will hugely enjoy their quest in these pages of... -
The Collected Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
RRP: £12.99£9.09Dorothy Parker, more than any of her contemporaries, captured the spirit of the Jazz Age in her poetry and prose, and The Collected Dorothy Parker includes an introduction by Brendan Gill in Penguin Modern Classics.Dorothy Parker was the most... -
Classics: A Very Short Introduction by John Henderson
RRP: £8.99£6.45This Very Short Introduction to Classics links a haunting temple on a lonely mountainside to the glory of ancient Greece and the grandeur of Rome, and to Classics within modern culture-from Jefferson and Byron to Asterix and Ben-Hur. We are all... -
The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse by Red Pine 9781556594557
RRP: £17.00£11.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Washington State Book Award (Poetry) 2015.Book InformationISBN 9781556594557Author Red PineFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher... -
Tyrant: Shakespeare On Power by Stephen Greenblatt
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Brilliant' Sunday TimesHow does a truly disastrous leader - a sociopath, a demagogue, a tyrant - come to power? How, and why, does a tyrant hold on to power? And what goes on in the hidden recesses of the tyrant's soul?For help in understanding our most... -
The Iliad by Homer 9780140275360
RRP: £16.99£12.68One of the greatest epics in Western literature, THE ILIAD recounts the story of the Trojan wars. This timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods battling amidst devastation and destruction, as it moves to its tragic... -
Theogony and Works and Days by Hesiod
RRP: £7.99£5.79Hesiod, who lived in Boetia in the late eighth century BC, is one of the oldest known, and possibly the oldest of Greek poets. His Theogony contains a systematic genealogy of the gods from the beginning of the world and an account of the struggles of the... -
The Last Hedgehog by Pam Ayres
RRP: £7.99£6.14'A national treasure' Daily ExpressTo mark and celebrate National Hedgehog Awareness Week, Pam Ayres has written a less-than-fond farewell from perspective of the 'last hedgehog left on earth' - a delightful, hilarious and thought-provoking elegy to that... -
Shadows of Reality: W.G. Sebald's Photographic Materials by W. G. Sebald 9781911343660
RRP: £49.95£34.58The first-ever volume of the photographs of German writer W.G. Sebald, exquisitely designed to shed new light on his creative process, as it chronicles the images and encounters that shaped his writing life. Shadows of Reality presents a unique, fully... -
The Spice Must Flow: The Story of Dune, from Cult Novels to Visionary Sci-Fi Movies by Ryan Britt 9780593472996
RRP: £18.00£13.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593472996Author Ryan BrittFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm * 19mm -
What Is Poetry?: The Essential Guide to Reading and Writing Poems by Michael Rosen
RRP: £6.99£5.00A detailed and very personal guide to reading and writing poetry by one of the country's leading children's poets.Over many years as a working poet, Michael Rosen has thought a great deal about what poems are, what they can do and the pleasure that comes... -
All Before Me: A Search for Belonging in Wordsworth’s Lake District by Esther Rutter 9781783787951
RRP: £16.99£11.58In her early twenties, Esther Rutter suffered an acute mental breakdown while teaching English in Japan. Sectioned and held in a Japanese psychiatric institution until she could be flown home under escort, her recovery only began when she came to live... -
A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe
RRP: £12.99£10.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802150615Author Kenzaburo OeFormat PaperbackPage Count 165Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly... -
The History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey Monmouth
RRP: £12.99£8.32Completed in 1136, The History of the Kings of Britain traces the story of the realm from its supposed foundation by Brutus to the coming of the Saxons some two thousand years later. Vividly portraying legendary and semi-legendary figures such as Lear,... -
Miracles of Life by J. G. Ballard
RRP: £10.99£7.25J. 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. ... -
The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes by Jackson Crawford 9781624663567
RRP: £17.99£14.91"The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a Modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!) and well worth the wait. These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge... -
OCR Classical Civilisation AS and A Level Components 21 and 22: Greek Theatre and Imperial Image by Robert Hancock-Jones
RRP: £14.99£13.94This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for AS and A-Level Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017). It covers Components 21 and 22 from the 'Culture and the Arts' Component Group: Greek Theatre by James Renshaw... -
The Idiot by F. M. Dostoevsky
RRP: £19.00£11.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375702242Author Fyodor DostoevskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 437gDimensions(mm) 202mm... -
The Odyssey by Homer 9781853260254
RRP: £3.99£2.87With an Introduction and Notes by Adam Roberts, Royal Holloway, University of London. Homer's great epic describes the many adventures of Odysseus, Greek warrior, as he strives over many years to return to his home island of Ithaca after the Trojan War... -
99 Poems: New & Selected by Dana Gioia 9781555977719
RRP: £18.00£11.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555977719Author Dana GioiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 137mm *... -
OCR Classical Civilisation A Level Components 32 and 33: Love and Relationships and Politics of the Late Republic by Matthew Barr
RRP: £14.99£13.94This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for A-Level Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017). It covers Components 32 and 33 from the 'Beliefs and Ideas' Component Group: Love and Relationships by Matthew Barr and... -
Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson
RRP: £14.00£8.88Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time A book about romantic love, Eros the Bittersweet is Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros" in both classical philosophy and literature. Beginning with, "It... -
Bedside Companion for Book Lovers: An Anthology of Literary Delights for Every Night of the Year by Jane McMorland Hunter
RRP: £22.95£14.58A glorious treasury of literary curiosities for every night of the year. Bedside Companion for Book Lovers contains an eclectic mix of fact and fiction, letters, diaries, essays and dedications, all suffused with the joys of books and reading. The... -
The Quotation Bank: Frankenstein GCSE Revision and Study Guide for English Literature 9-1 by The Quotation Bank 9781999981648
RRP: £5.95£5.08Focusing 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... -
Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary by David Crystal
RRP: £14.99£9.31Winner of Best Book, Publication, or Recording prize at the Falstaff Awards 2015 Shortlisted for the 2016 SLA Information Book Award The Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary is the first of its kind, a brand new illustrated alphabetical... -
Dialogues and Essays by Seneca
RRP: £9.99£7.11'No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity.' In these dialogues and essays the Stoic philosopher Seneca outlines his thoughts on how to live in a troubled world. Tutor to the young emperor Nero, Seneca wrote... -
How I Wrote Certain Of My Books by Raymond Roussel 9781878972149
RRP: £13.99£12.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781878972149Author Raymond RousselFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Exact Change,U.S.Publisher Exact Change,U.S.Weight(grams) 416g -
Leaves of Grass and Other Writings by Walt Whitman 9780393974966
£13.73Following the texts is an album of portraits of Whitman, as well as "Whitman on His Art," a collection of Whitman's statements about his role as a poet taken from his notebooks, letters, conversations, and newspaper articles. While continuing to provide... -
Finn and Hengest by J. R. R. Tolkien
RRP: £9.99£7.26Tolkien's famous translations and lectures on the story of two fifth-century heroes in northern Europe. Professor J.R.R.Tolkien is most widely known as the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, but he was also a distinguished scholar...