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The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness by Paul Gilroy 9780860916758
RRP: $39.88$31.98"Whilst others scarcely put a toe in the water, in The Black Atlantic Gilroy goes in deep and returns with riches." Guardian Afrocentrism, Eurocentrism, Caribbean Studies. To the forces of cultural nationalism trapped in their respective camps,... -
The Meaning of Travel: Philosophers Abroad by Emily Thomas 9780198835400
RRP: $31.48$28.25"This is the finest kind of travel: not just across continents, but through time, space and our infinite minds. The journey is the joy, and Emily Thomas a terrific guide." - Mike Parker How can we think more deeply about travel? This was the... -
Roald Dahl: Teller of the Unexpected by Matthew Dennison
RRP: $42.00$30.47Book of the Week on Radio 4, and in the Observer, Sunday Times, Daily Mail and The Week 'Riveting, and immaculately written' Sunday Telegraph 'A superb psychological study of a literary genius' Business Post 'A rounded picture... and gets to... -
Selected Letters by John Keats
RRP: $39.88$28.58'I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination' - Keats, in a letter to his friend Benjamin Bailey in November 1817.In a period of great letter-writing, Keats's letters are outstanding. They begin in... -
The Art of Poetry: AQA Love Poems Through the Ages by James Browning 9780993077890
RRP: $25.18$23.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993077890Author James BrowningFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Peripeteia PressPublisher Peripeteia PressWeight(grams) 231g -
Classics and the Uses of Reception Charles Martindale (University of Bristol) 9781405131452
RRP: $90.20$79.74This landmark collection presents a wide variety of viewpoints on the value and role of reception theory within the modern discipline of classics. A pioneering collection, looking at the role reception theory plays, or could play, within the modern... -
Narrative Inquiry in Language Teaching and Learning Research Gary Barkhuizen 9781032411286
RRP: $94.48$82.49Narrative Inquiry in Language Teaching and Learning Research is the only entry-level introduction to research methods using stories, either as data or as a means of presenting findings, and a practical guide for those interested in carrying out narrative... -
The Women on the Porch by Caroline Gordon
RRP: $25.18$18.94One of the most remarkable novels every written by an American woman about women. First published in 1943, the story follows a womanAIs flight from Manhattan and her unfaithful husband to her rural ancestral home. Southern Classics Series.About the... -
The Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy: Choosing Tough Words by Angelica Michelis 9780719063015
RRP: $41.98$38.01The first full-length collection of essays on the poetry of Carol Ann Duffy. Duffy's poetry is both respected by academics, and widely read and enjoyed by both children and adults. Approaches Duffy's work from a variety of literary theoretical... -
An Analysis of Kenneth Waltz's Theory of International Politics Riley Quinn 9781912127078
RRP: $13.65$13.21Kenneth Waltz's 1979 Theory of International Politics is credited with bringing about a "scientific revolution" in the study of international relations - bringing the field into a new era of systematic study. The book is also a lesson in reasoning... -
Michel Faber Rodge Glass 9781837644773
$72.14This book by Rodge Glass, the award-winning novelist, short story writer and biographer, is the first ever detailed assessment of Michel Faber's life and work across genre and form. It draws on intimate, wide-ranging interviews with the author over a... -
An Analysis of Donna Haraway's A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century Rebecca Pohl 9781912453115
RRP: $13.65$13.21Haraway's 'A Cyborg Manifesto' is a key postmodern text and is widely taught in many disciplines as one of the first texts to embrace technology from a leftist and feminist perspective using the metaphor of the cyborg to champion socialist, postmodern,... -
The Secret Life of Books: Why They Mean More Than Words by Tom Mole
RRP: $20.98$14.81We love books. We take them to bed with us. We display them on our bookshelves. We write our names in them. They weigh down our suitcases when we go on holiday. We take them for granted. But there's much more to them than meets the eye.; From how books... -
Milton Place by Elisabeth De Waal 9781910263211
RRP: $35.70$32.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910263211Author Elisabeth De WaalFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books LtdWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm)... -
After Kathy Acker: A Biography by Chris Kraus
RRP: $23.08$16.78Rich girl, street punk, lost girl and icon ... scholar, stripper, victim and media-whore: The late Kathy Acker's legend and writings are wrapped in mythologies, created mostly by Acker herself. In this first, fully authorized biography, Kraus approaches... -
We Have Only This Life To Live Jean-Paul Sartre 9781590174937
RRP: $48.30$32.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590174937Author Jean-Paul SartreFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
The Victorian Art of Fiction: Nineteenth-century Essays on the Novel by Rohan Amanda Maitzen 9781551117690
RRP: $98.60$79.15The Victorian Art of Fiction presents important Victorian statements on the form and function of fiction. The essays in this anthology address questions of genre, such as realism and sensationalism; questions of gender and authorship; questions of form,... -
Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric Jameson
$49.08Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson's most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of "postmodernism". Jameson's inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from "high" art to "low" from market ideology to architecture, from... -
A Commentary on Homer's Odyssey: Volume I: Introduction and Books I-VIII by Alfred Heubeck 9780198147473
RRP: $100.78$87.53This is the first instalment of a three-volume commentary in English, compiled by an international team of scholars and first published in Italian under the auspices of the Fondazione Lorenzo Valla. In this volume the commentary by West (Books I-IV) and... -
The Story of English by Robert McCrum
RRP: $31.48$21.13The Story of English is the extraordinary tale of the origins and development of the English language. Two thousand years ago English was confined to a handful of savage tribes on the shores of north-west Europe; today, in one form or another, it is... -
This Woman's Work: Essays on Music by Various
RRP: $42.00$37.59This Woman's Work: Essays on Music is edited by Kim Gordon and Sinead Gleeson and features contributors Anne Enright, Fatima Bhutto, Jenn Pelly, Rachel Kushner, Juliana Huxtable, Leslie Jamison, Liz Pelly, Maggie Nelson, Margo Jefferson, Megan Jasper,... -
The Rise Of The Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding Ian Watt 9781847923851
RRP: $35.68$26.19This is the story of a most ingenious invention: the novel. Desribed for the first time in The Rise of The Novel, Ian Watt's landmark classic reveals the origins and explains the success of the most popular literary form of all time.In the space of a... -
The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell 9780140436624
RRP: $52.50$39.10In Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of English literature is revealed with unparalleled immediacy and originality, in a biography to which we owe much of our knowledge of the man himself. Through a series of richly detailed... -
The Journal Of Sir Walter Scott Sir Walter Scott 9780862418281
RRP: $42.00$29.11"I have all my life regretted that I did not keep a regular (journal). I have myself lost recollection of much that was interesting and I have deprived my family and the public of some curious information by not carrying this resolution into effect."... -
Losers by Josh Cohen
RRP: $12.60$9.58You are a loser. This isn't a personal slight, but an impersonal truth of the species, writes Josh Cohen in this essay about love, literature and politics. Today, no figure in more ridiculed and reviled than the loser. In the wake of recent political... -
Seduction and Betrayal by Elizabeth Hardwick 9780571347001
RRP: $23.08$15.83ONE OF THE WHITE REVIEW'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019Elizabeth Hardwick's iconic essay collection Seduction and Betrayal is a radical portrait of women and literature, reissued with a new introduction by Deborah Levy.'Hardwick's sentences are burned in my brain.'... -
Roman Imperialism: A Concise History of the Rise and Expansion of Ancient Rome by Dexter Hoyos 9781780762753
RRP: $31.48$28.69Rome - Urbs Roma: city of patricians and plebeians, emperors and gladiators, slaves and concubines - was the epicentre of a far-flung imperium whose cultural legacy is incalculable. How a tiny settlement, founded by desperate adventurers beside the banks... -
The Heroine's Journey: For Writers, Readers, and Fans of Pop Culture by Gail Carriger 9781944751340
RRP: $33.58$23.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944751340Author Gail CarrigerFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Gail Carriger LLCPublisher Gail Carriger LLCWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Heatstroke: a dark, compulsive story of love and obsession Hazel Barkworth 9781472265623
RRP: $27.28$18.54DO YOU REMEMBER THE SUMMER THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING? 'A thrilling look at mothers and daughters, adolescence, sex, suburbia and secrets' NELL FRIZZELL 'Unsettling, challenging and utterly immersive' CLARE MACKINTOSH'A sultry, stifling debut exploring... -
The Portable Roman Reader by Various 9780140150568
$33.58THE CULTURE OF THE ROMAN STATE - ONE OF THE GREAT FORMATIVE FACTS OF OUR WORLD - AS REPRESENTED BY SELECTIONS FROM THE WORKS OF ITS FINEST WRITERS, IN THE BEST ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS, INCLUDING: PLAUTUS; LUCRETIUS; CAESAR; CICERO; CATULLUS; VIRGIL; HORACE;... -
The Elder Edda by Andy Orchard
RRP: $20.98$15.37Part of a new series Legends from the Ancient North, The Elder Edda is one of the classic books that influenced JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings'I was in the East, battling giants,wicked-hearted women, who wandered the fells;great would... -
The Making of Shakespeare's First Folio by Emma Smith 9781851245987
RRP: $63.00$48.34In late November 1623, Edward Blount finally took delivery to his bookshop at the sign of the Black Bear near St Paul's a book that had been long in the making. Master William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies was the first collected... -
Walk It Off, Princess by David Thorne 9780988689589
RRP: $38.14$33.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988689589Author David ThorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint 27bslash6Publisher 27bslash6Weight(grams) 286g -
Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America by Jay Parini 9780307386182
RRP: $36.37$27.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307386182Author Jay PariniFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams) 329g -
Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis by Michael Ward
RRP: $26.23$20.50For over half a century, scholars have laboured to show that C. S. Lewis's famed but apparently disorganised Chronicles of Narnia have an underlying symbolic coherence, pointing to such possible unifying themes as the seven sacraments, the seven deadly... -
Macbeth: Shakespeare Retold by William Shakespeare 9781914927034
RRP: $23.08$17.62Apologies 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 *... -
The Reign of Wonder: Naivety and Reality in American Literature by Tony Tanner 9780521291989
RRP: $90.28$76.00The adopted attitude towards reality and experience in American literature tends to be one of wonder and cultivated naivety rather than analysis and judgement. In this book, Dr Tanner offers some reasons for this and seeks to demonstrate the peculiar... -
Myth, Literature and the African World by Wole Soyinka 9780521398343
RRP: $33.58$27.38Wole Soyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and one of the foremost living African writers, here analyses the interconnecting worlds of myth, ritual and literature in Africa. The ways in which the African world perceives itself as a cultural... -
In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination by Margaret Atwood
RRP: $23.08$15.98From her days as a child reader in the 1940s, through her time at Harvard, where she studied the Victorian ancestors of the form, and later as a writer and reviewer, Margaret Atwood has always been fascinated with science fiction. Here she brings... -
Complete Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm 9780415285964
RRP: $35.68$32.80The tale of 'Cinderella' is told wherever stories are still read aloud and everyone is familiar with 'Rapunzel' and 'The Golden Goose', but who has heard all the wonderful stories collected by the Brothers Grimm? Well, here's your chance, for within...