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The Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath 9780385493918
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385493918Author Sylvia PlathFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group... -
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,... -
The Last Englishman: The Life of J.L. Carr by Byron Rogers 9781781311523
RRP: £18.00£11.49'A fine biography...Rogers has done a wonderful job' Daily Telegraph J. L. Carr was the most English of Englishmen: headmaster of a Northamptonshire school, cricket enthusiast and campaigner for the conservation of country churches. But he was also the... -
Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading by Lucy Mangan
RRP: £9.99£7.11A love letter to the joys of childhood reading from Wonderland to Narnia.When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up new worlds and cast light on all the complexities she encountered in this one.She was whisked away to Narnia -... -
The Feminine Mystique by Elizabeth Whitaker
RRP: £6.50£6.11Betty Friedan's book The Feminine Mystique is possibly the best-selling of all the titles analysed in the Macat library, and arguably one of the most important. Yet it was the product of an apparently minor, meaningless assignment. Undertaking to... -
The Duchess of Malfi by John Fletcher
£13.41The Duchess of Malfi is one of the major tragedies of the early modern period and remains popular in the theatre as well as in the classroom. The story of the Duchess's secret marriage and the cruel revenge of her brothers has fascinated and appalled... -
The Serpent Power: The Secrets of Tantric and Shaktic Yoga by Arthur Avalon 9780486230580
RRP: £20.99£13.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486230580Author Arthur AvalonFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Brighter Than You Think: 10 Short Works by Alan Moore: With Critical Essays by Marc Sobel by Marc Sobel
RRP: £16.99£12.29A collection of Alan Moore's (Watchmen, From Hell) difficult-to-find comics short stories. From bold experiments, through early takes on his favorite subjects, to self-critiques of his older work, this wide-ranging collection is an essential look at... -
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... -
Surrealist Women's Writing: A Critical Exploration by Anna Watz 9781526167156
RRP: £14.99£13.64Surrealist women's writing: A critical exploration is the first sustained critical inquiry into the writing of women associated with surrealism. Featuring original essays by leading scholars of surrealism, the volume demonstrates the extent and the... -
Daphne Du Maurier by Daphne Du Maurier
RRP: £10.99£7.12The definitive biography of Daphne Du Maurier, one of history's greatest psychological thriller novelistsRebecca, published in 1938, brought its author instant international acclaim, capturing the popular imagination with its haunting atmosphere of... -
London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885-1914 by Matt Cook 9780521089807
RRP: £30.99£22.85London and the Culture of Homosexuality explores the relationship between London and male homosexuality from the criminalization of all 'acts of gross indecency' between men in 1885 to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 - years marked by an... -
Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 2: Part 1: 1927-1930 by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £28.95£23.30In the frenzied final years of the Weimar Republic, amid economic collapse and mounting political catastrophe, Walter Benjamin emerged as the most original practicing literary critic and public intellectual in the German-speaking world. Volume 2 of the... -
The Complete Poems by John Keats
RRP: £12.99£9.09Covering the entire output of an archetypal - and tragically short-lived - romantic genius, the Penguin Classics edition of The Complete Poems of John Keats is edited with an introduction and notes by John Barnard.Keats's first volume of poems, published... -
The Moon Almanac: A Month-by-Month Guide to the Lunar Year by Judith Hurrell 9781787839915
RRP: £9.99£6.80When can you spot the Hunter's Moon, a Smiling Moon or a Pink Moon? How can the phases of the moon help your garden grow? What influence does the moon have on hamsters, coral and skylarks? Navigate the rhythms of the night sky with this... -
Philip Allan Literature Guide (for GCSE): The Woman in Black by Margaret Mulheran
£14.87For study or revision, these guides are the perfect accompaniment to the set text, providing invaluable background and exam advice. Philip Allan Literature Guides (for GCSE) offer succinct and accessible coverage of all key aspects of the set text 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... -
A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin
RRP: £10.99£7.77A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller In this remarkable memoir of love, loss and literature, acclaimed biographer Claire Tomalin turns her eye to another fascinating literary life: her own. She tells of a wartime childhood, Cambridge friendships and an early... -
Diane Samuels' Kindertransport: The author's guide to the play by Diane Samuels
RRP: £9.99£7.27The author's guide to Kindertransport, an invaluable and uniquely authoritative resource for anyone studying, teaching or performing the play. Since it was first staged by the Soho Theatre Company in London in 1993, Diane Samuels' Kindertransport has... -
Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels by Scott McCloud 9780060780944
RRP: £16.99£12.49"Magnificent! The best how-to manual ever published." - Kevin Kelly, Cool Tools Scott McCloud tore down the wall between high and low culture in 1993 with Understanding Comics, a massive comic book about comics, linking the medium to such... -
The World of All Souls: The Complete Guide to a Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night, and the Book of Life by Deborah E Harkness
RRP: £42.00£25.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735220744Author Deborah HarknessFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint VikingPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 953gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 191mm *... -
Top Girls by Caryl Churchill
RRP: £10.99£9.66Marlene thinks the eighties are going to be stupendous. Her sister Joyce has her doubts. Her daughter Angie is just frightened. Since its premiere in 1982, Top Girls has become a seminal play of the modern theatre. Set during a period of British... -
Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph by Lucasta Miller 9781529110906
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Outstanding... The best short introduction I have come across' Sunday TimesWhen he died at the age of just twenty-five, few imagined John Keats would one day be considered among the greatest poets of all time.Taking nine of Keats's best-known poems,... -
Dancing at the Edge of the World by Ursula K. Le Guin 9780802135292
£14.43The celebrated author offers her thoughts on a broad range of subjects, including literary criticism, the state of science fiction writing today, and government and governmental policies.Book InformationISBN 9780802135292Author Ursula K. Le GuinFormat... -
Vita: The Life of Vita Sackville-West by Victoria Glendinning
RRP: £16.99£13.16The Whitbread Prize-winning biography of Vita Sackville-West. Vita Sackville-West was a vital, gifted and complex woman. A dedicated writer, she made her mark as poet, novelist, biographer, travel writer, journalist and broadcaster. She was also one... -
Fire Island: A Queer History by Jack Parlett 9781783787029
RRP: £10.99£7.32"A beautiful, beguiling journey to the ultimate queer utopia" - Olivia Laing "Clued-up but insatiably thirsty, poignant, packed with literary intrigue, Fire Island is a beaming beach read" - Jeremy Atherton Lin --- Fire Island: a slim strip of... -
OCR Classical Civilisation A Level Components 31 and 34: Greek Religion and Democracy and the Athenians by Athina Mitropoulos
RRP: £14.99£13.54This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for A-Level Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017). It covers Components 31 and 34 from the 'Beliefs and Ideas' Component Group: Greek Religion by Athina Mitropoulos and... -
Poems: Introduction by Patti Smith by William Blake
RRP: £8.99£6.45'Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled' William Blake ... -
The Tin Ring: My Memoir of Love and Survival in the Holocaust by Zdenka Fantlova 9780857162298
RRP: £12.99£9.09The Tin Ring is moving memoir of love, loss and hope. Zdenka Fantlova's peaceful life was changed forever when she was sent to Terezin concentration camp. Here, she was given a humble engraved tin ring by her first love Arno. When he gave her the ring he... -
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... -
Le Morte D'Arthur Volume 2 by Sir Thomas Malory
RRP: £12.99£9.00Volume two of Le Morte D'Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory's powerful and elegaic version of the Arthurian legend, recounts the adventures of Sir Tristram de Liones and the treachery of Sir Mordred, and follows Sir Launcelot's quest for The Holy Grail, his... -
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Jonah S. Rubin
RRP: £6.50£6.11Eric Hoffer's The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements is one of the most widely read works of social psychology written in the 20th-century. It exemplifies the powers of creative thinking and critical analysis at their best, providing... -
William Shakespeare's Hamlet: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook by Sean McEvoy
RRP: £19.99£17.69William Shakespeare's Hamlet (c.1600-1601) has achieved iconic status as one of the most exciting and enigmatic of plays. It has been in almost constant production in Britain and throughout the world since it was first performed, fascinating generations... -
The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem by Matthew Hollis 9780571297221
RRP: £12.99£8.32** Chosen as a New Statesman, Financial Times, Observer and Sunday Times Book of the Year **A riveting account of the making of T. S. Eliot's celebrated poem The Waste Land on its centenary.'A rattling good story' Sunday Telegraph'A work of art' Times... -
Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes
RRP: £10.99£7.77The only autobiography by the great Roland Barthes, philosopher, literary theorist and semiotician.This is the autobiography of one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century. As idiosyncratic as its author, Barthes plays both commentator and subject... -
A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze
RRP: £25.99£23.16A Thousand Plateaus is the second part of Deleuze and Guattari's landmark philosophical project, Capitalism and Schizophrenia - a project that still sets the terms of contemporary philosophical debate. Written over a seven year period, A Thousand... -
The Two Noble Kinsmen, Revised Edition: Third Series by William Shakespeare
RRP: £12.99£12.68This tragi-comedy is one of the plays we know Shakespeare worked with a collaborator on -- John Fletcher -- and is based on Chaucer's Knight's Tale. This revised edition includes a new introductory essay bringing the edition up-to-date in terms of both... -
Letters written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark by Mary Wollstonecraft
RRP: £8.99£6.45'If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.' William Godwin, the author's future husband, was not alone in admiring Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and... -
The Outsider by Colin Wilson
RRP: £9.99£6.80The classic study of alienation, creativity and the modern mind'Excitingly written, with a sense of revelation' GUARDIANTHE OUTSIDER was an instant literary sensation when it was first published in 1956, thrusting its youthful author into the front rank... -
The Pocket Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai by Yamamoto Tsunetomo
RRP: £9.99£6.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611806991Author Yamamoto TsunetomoFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc