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The Poetry of Derek Mahon by Hugh Haughton
$56.88Derek Mahon is one of the leading poets of his time, both in Ireland and beyond, famously offering a perspective that is displaced from as much as grounded in his native country. From prodigious beginnings to prolific maturity, he has been, through thick... -
The Murder of Halland by Pia Juul 9780956284075
RRP: $12.90$9.03Bess and Halland live in a small town, where everyone knows everyone else. When Halland is found murdered in the main square the police encounter only riddles. For Bess bereavement marks the start of a journey that leads her to a reassessment of first... -
Fifty Forgotten Books by R. B. Russell
RRP: $16.76$11.84Fifty Forgotten Books is a very special sort of book about books, by a great bookman and for book-people of all ages and levels of experience. Not quite literary criticism, not quite an autobiography, it is at once a guided tour through the dusty... -
The Private World of Georgette Heyer by Jane Aiken Hodge
RRP: $12.89$9.44As an internationally bestselling phenomenon and queen of the Regency Romance, Georgette Heyer is one of the most beloved historical novelists of our time. She's written more than fifty novels - romances, detective stories and contemporary works of... -
Lakeland Fell Running for Mortals: 70 great runs by John Myatt 9781906095888
RRP: $32.24$26.57This book is aimed at parkrunners and club runners who run mainly on the roads but who would also like to run in the hills; roadrunners who want to head onto the fells but who are wary about taking the first step, maybe even a little intimidated by... -
Boy Actors in Early Modern England: Skill and Stagecraft in the Theatre by Harry R. McCarthy
RRP: $96.75$87.38Boy Actors in Early Modern England: Skill and Stagecraft in the Theatre provides a new approach to the study of early modern boy actors, offering a historical re-appraisal of these performers' physical skills in order to reassess their wide-reaching... -
The Medieval Mind of C. S. Lewis: How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind by Jason M. Baxter
RRP: $23.21$19.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514001646Author Jason M. BaxterFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm *... -
Shakespeare in a Divided America by James Shapiro
RRP: $14.18$9.73A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week'Excellent.' New Statesman'Outstanding.' Irish Times'Enthralling.' Guardian'Shapiro at his best.' Daily Telegraph From the author of 1599, a fresh perspective on the history of the United States - and a timely reminder of... -
Spain, Take This Chalice from Me and Other Poems: Parallel Text Edition by Cesar Vallejo
RRP: $16.76$16.15Cesar Vallejo is one of the best-known Latin American poets of the twentieth century. Challenging, intense, and difficult to translate, Vallejo's work has often been overshadowed by his fervent endorsement of communism. Noted scholar Ilan Stavans tackles... -
The #MeToo Effect: What Happens When We Believe Women by Leigh Gilmore
RRP: $32.25$25.27The #MeToo movement inspired millions to testify to the widespread experience of sexual violence. More broadly, it shifted the deeply ingrained response to women's accounts of sexual violence from doubting all of them to believing some of them. What... -
Faulks on Fiction by Sebastian Faulks
RRP: $20.63$15.21Ever since Robinson Crusoe in 1719, the novel has introduced British readers to truly unforgettable characters - people in whom we can find deeper understanding of our own lives. In this engaging and personal book, Sebastian Faulks examines and... -
The Flight of Love: A Messenger Poem of Medieval South India by Vedantedesika by Steven P. Hopkins 9780190495183
RRP: $118.68$94.53After a sleepless night spent longing for his absent wife Sita, Rama, god-prince and future king, surveyed his army camps on a clear autumn morning and spied a white goose playing in a pond of lotus flowers. Seeing this radiant creature who so resembled... -
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman 9781783784516
RRP: $12.89$8.90'The funniest book I've read in a long time: its deadpan, dry humour and its accumulation of absurdities will leave you rolling on your floor with laughter' The Times She thought she was a lover of the great classics of Russian literature - until she... -
Milton: Paradise Lost by John Milton 9781405832786
$50.62First published in 1968, Alastair Fowler's annotated edition of Paradise Lost is acknowledged as the most authoritative guide to this major work. It is the only recent edition of Paradise Lost to be based on the text of the first (1667) edition, now... -
The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature by Neil Cornwell
RRP: $42.56$37.62The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature is an engaging and accessible guide to Russian writing of the past thousand years. The volume covers the entire span of Russian literature, from the Middle Ages to the post-Soviet period, and explores all... -
Ecology and Natural History (Collins New Naturalist Library) by David Wilkinson 9780008293659
RRP: $45.15$29.70Ecology is the science of ecosystems, of habitats, of our world and its future. In the latest New Naturalist, ecologist David M. Wilkinson explains key ideas of this crucial branch of science, using Britain's ecosystems to illustrate each point. ... -
The Penguin Book of English Song: Seven Centuries of Poetry from Chaucer to Auden by Richard Stokes
RRP: $21.92$16.36Poetry and music have been associated with each other from the very beginning. The Penguin Book of English Song draws together a great variety of English poetry (including Irish, Scots and Welsh writers) that has reached a wider audience through the... -
Meter and Meaning: An Introduction to Rhythm in Poetry by Thomas Carper 9780415311755
RRP: $29.66$26.01Poet, Thomas Carper, and scholar, Derek Attridge, join forces in Meter and Meaning to present an illuminating and user-friendly way to explore the rhythms of poetry in English. They begin by showing the value of performing any poem aloud, so that we can... -
Autobibliography by Rob Doyle
RRP: $16.76$11.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800750524Author Rob DoyleFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Swift PressPublisher Swift Press -
The Road to Middlemarch: My Life with George Eliot by Rebecca Mead 9781847085160
RRP: $12.89$8.90At the age of seventeen, Rebecca Mead read Middlemarch for the first time, and has read it again every five years since, each time interpreting and discovering it anew. In The Road to Middlemarch she writes passionately about her relationship to this... -
Jane Austen: A Brief Life by Fiona Stafford
RRP: $12.89$11.21An elegant and accessible introduction to the life and works of one of England's greatest and most popular novelists"I want to salute Fiona Stafford's brilliant [book]. . . . It tells one all one needs to know about Jane Austen, and, best of all, leaves... -
The Grapes of Wrath SparkNotes Literature Guide: Volume 28 SparkNotes 9781411469556
RRP: $7.73$5.88When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs, and... -
The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist by Imil Habibi 9781906697266
RRP: $15.47$11.07Purposefully imitating Voltaire's classic Candide, another dark comedy which derives its humour from life's tragedies, Habiby's The Secret of Saeed the Pessoptimist is a classic of Arab literature. The story of Saeed, a Palestinian who becomes a citizen... -
The Origin of German Tragic Drama Walter Benjamin 9781804290460
RRP: $16.76$14.20The Origin of German Tragic Drama is Walter Benjamin's most sustained and original work. It begins with a general theoretical introduction on the nature of the baroque art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, concentrating on the peculiar... -
Shakespeare's Restless World: An Unexpected History in Twenty Objects by Neil MacGregor
RRP: $19.34$14.33The Elizabethan age was a tumultuous time, when long-cherished certainties were crumbling and life was exhilaratingly uncertain. Shakespeare's Restless World uncovers the extraordinary stories behind twenty objects from the period to re-create an age... -
The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction by Meghan Cox Gurdon
RRP: $14.18$9.82'As soon as I began to read, I was filled with that kind of engrossed blossoming that happens somewhere inside of you when you start a really nourishing book.' - Pandora SykesA conversation-changing look at the social, familial, neurological, and... -
Lectures on Russian Literature by Vladimir Nabokov
RRP: $16.13$14.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156027762Author Vladimir NabokovFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 204mm *... -
Subjectivity and Otherness: A Philosophical Reading of Lacan by Lorenzo Chiesa 9780262532945
$45.98The evolution of the concept of subjectivity in the works of Jacques Lacan. Countering the call by some "pro-Lacanians" for an end to the exegesis of Lacan's work-and the dismissal by "anti-Lacanians" of Lacan as impossibly... -
Summer Lightning & Other Stories by Olive Senior 9780582786271
$17.78Written in vivid, colourful detail, these rich, compelling stories recreate with sensitivity and wit a whole range of emotions, from childhood hope to brooding melancholy.Book InformationISBN 9780582786271Author Olive SeniorFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World Leo Damrosch 9780300205411
RRP: $19.34$17.32From a master biographer and leading scholar of eighteenth-century literature comes an award-winning new portrait of the greatest satirist in the English language Jonathan Swift is best remembered today as the author of Gulliver's Travels, the satiric... -
Around the World in 80 Books by David Damrosch
RRP: $16.76$12.05'Restlessly curious, insightful, and quirky, David Damrosch is the perfect guide to a round-the-world adventure in reading' Stephen GreenblattA transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, told through eighty classic and modern books'It is... -
Touches of Sweet Harmony: Pythagorean Cosmology and Renaissance Poetics by S K Heninger 9781621386230
$42.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621386230Author S K HeningerFormat HardbackPage Count 470Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 898gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *... -
The Paris Review Interviews: Vol. 3 by Philip Gourevitch
RRP: $19.34$12.98Since The Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest writers of our age, vivid self-portraits that are themselves works of finely-crafted literature. The magazine has spoken with most of the world's... -
Othello: The Pelican Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
RRP: $11.60$8.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143128618Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
I'm a Joke and So Are You: Reflections on Humour and Humanity by Robin Ince 9781786492616
RRP: $12.89$9.44Evening Standard's the Best Comedy Books of the Year, 2018Skinny's Book of the Year, 2018 'Joyfully entertaining. Full of warmth, wisdom and affectionate delight in the wonder and absurdity of being human.' Observer'Funny, honest and heart-warming.' Matt... -
Blake's 'Jerusalem' As Visionary Theatre: Entering the Divine Body by Susanne M. Sklar 9780199603145
$124.88Before etching Jerusalem William Blake wrote about creating 'the grandest poem that this world contains.' Blake's avowed intention in constructing the work was to move readers from a solely rational way of being (called Ulro) to one that is highly... -
Death By Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts by Kathryn Harkup
RRP: $14.18$11.11A deep dive into the science behind the creative ways Shakespeare killed off his characters. William Shakespeare found dozens of different ways to kill off his characters, and audiences today still enjoy the same reactions - shock, sadness, fear -... -
The Sourcebook of Magic Second Edition: A Comprehensive Guide to NLP Change Patterns by L. Michael Hall 9781904424253
RRP: $25.80$20.76In the newly revised version of The Sourcebook of Magic you will discover afresh the basic 77 NLP patterns for transformational magic. What's new? A change from merely describing the patterns to presenting the key questions that allow you to guide a... -
The Serious Game by Hjalmar Soderberg 9780714530611
RRP: $15.48$12.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714530611Author Hjalmar SoderbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers LtdWeight(grams)... -
Tristia: Vol 6 by Ovid
RRP: $32.19$30.44The poet in exile.Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BC-AD 17), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the emperor...