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Circus of Dreams: Adventures in the 1980s Literary World John Walsh 9781472133489
RRP: £25.00£14.88Something extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. In the space of eight years, a generation of young British writers took the literary novel into new realms of setting, subject matter and style, challenging - and almost eclipsing -... -
Our Sister Killjoy by Ama Ata Aidoo 9780582308459
£13.39Out of Africa with her degree and her all seeing eyes comes Sissie. She comes to Europe, to a land of towering mountains and low grey skies and tries to makes sense of it all. What is she doing here? Why aren't the natives friendly? And what will she do... -
Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar by Colm Toibin 9780330491389
RRP: £9.99£7.48In Love in a Dark Time, Colm Toibin looks at the life and work of some of the greatest and most influential artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His subjects range from figures such as Oscar Wilde, born in the 1850s, to Pedro Almodovar,... -
Aesthetics: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art by Anne Sheppard 9780192891648
RRP: £42.99£35.37Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Poetics Aristotle Aristotle 9780486295770
RRP: £3.49£2.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486295770Author Aristotle AristotleFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Teaching Shakespeare: A Handbook for Teachers by Rex Gibson 9780521577885
RRP: £22.20£22.10Invaluable support for all teachers of Shakespeare in schools, colleges and institutions of higher education. Teaching Shakespeare is a major contribution to the knowledge and expertise of all teachers of Shakespeare in schools, colleges and... -
Prose Poetry: An Introduction by Paul Hetherington
RRP: £20.00£16.13An engaging and authoritative introduction to an increasingly important and popular literary genreProse Poetry is the first book of its kind-an engaging and authoritative introduction to the history, development, and features of English-language prose... -
Release the Bats: A Pocket Guide to Writing Your Way Out Of It by DBC Pierre
RRP: £12.99£8.80A guide to writing fiction by the Booker Prize-winning author of Vernon God Little.Part biography, part reflection and part practical guide, Release the Bats explores the mysteries of why and how we tell stories, and the craft of writing fiction. DBC... -
A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle by Hugh MacDiarmid
RRP: £12.99£8.80Kenneth Buthlay's edition of A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle is widely considered to be the best edition of all and provides extensive commentary and notes, taking the reader through MacDiarmid's complex and often opaque use of language. The drunk man... -
Narrative Discourse Revisited by Gerard Genette
RRP: £20.99£18.66In Narrative Discourse Revisited Genette both answers critics of the earlier work and provides a better-defined, richer, and more systematic view of narrative form and functioning. This book not only clarifies some of the more complex issues in the study... -
Fantastic Four by Stan Lee 9780143135838
RRP: £25.00£19.13Illustrated throughout, The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents specially curated cartoon anthologies of the world's greatest superheroeshroughout the 1960s, the Fantastic Four was both the flagship title and the creative laboratory of the Marvel... -
The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader by Brown Clarence
RRP: £20.42£15.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142437575Author VariousFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 493gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 129mm *... -
The Weird Tale by S. T. Joshi 9780809531226
RRP: £16.99£15.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809531226Author S. T. JoshiFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Wildside PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 455g -
The Cambridge Companion to John Dryden by Steven N. Zwicker 9780521531443
RRP: £28.99£24.42John Dryden, Poet Laureate to Charles II and James II, was one of the great literary figures of the late seventeenth century. This Companion provides a fresh look at Dryden's tactics and triumphs in negotiating the extraordinary political and cultural... -
George Mackay Brown Maggie Fergusson 9780719566059
RRP: £12.99£8.83George Mackay Brown was one of Scotland's greatest twentieth-century writers, but in person a bundle of paradoxes. He had a wide international reputation, but hardly left his native Orkney. A prolific poet, admired by such fellow poets as Seamus... -
Russian Thinkers by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: £10.99£7.99Few, if any, English-language critics have written as perceptively as Isaiah Berlin about Russian thought and culture. Russian Thinkers is his unique meditation on the impact that Russia's outstanding writers and philosophers had on its culture. In... -
The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney by Bernard O'Donoghue 9780521547550
RRP: £25.99£21.99Seamus Heaney is a unique phenomenon in contemporary literature, as a poet whose individual volumes (such as his Beowulf translation, and individual volumes of poems such as Electric Light and District and Circle) have been high in the bestseller lists... -
Ryokan: Zen Monk-Poet of Japan by Burton Watson 9780231044158
RRP: £25.00£19.59Ryokan (1758-1831), a Buddhist monk in the Zen sect, was a major figure in Tokugawa poetry. Although a Zen master, he never headed a temple but chose to live alone in simple huts and to support himself by begging. His poems are mainly a record of his... -
Shakespeare Box Set by William Shakespeare
RRP: £11.99£10.38For fans of the Bard is a deluxe box set of our three classic Shakespeare mini books: William Shakespeare: The Complete Plays in One Sitting, Shakespeare: The Bard's Guide to Abuses and Affronts, and Love Sonnets of Shakespeare. With this collection,... -
Old Age: Journey into Simplicity by Helen M. Luke 9781584200796
RRP: £14.99£10.95In this classic text on ageing wisely, the renowned Jungian analyst Helen M. Luke reflects on the final journeys described in Homer's Odyssey, Shakespeare's King Lear, and T.S. Eliot's Little Gidding, as well as devoting attention to suffering.In... -
On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction by Brian Boyd
RRP: £23.95£19.84A century and a half after the publication of Origin of Species, evolutionary thinking has expanded beyond the field of biology to include virtually all human-related subjects-anthropology, archeology, psychology, economics, religion, morality, politics,... -
Fingerwiggly Monkeys by Felicity Brooks 9781474995566
RRP: £6.99£4.39Little children and their grown-ups can stick their fingers through the holes to become the arms of big and little monkey and tell a simple story. Little monkey learns to reach for a juicy mango to eat, swings through the jungle, and finds a leaf to... -
Haiku David Cobb 9780714124018
RRP: £9.99£7.00Japanese Haiku has been a much-loved form of poetry for many centuries. Composed of 17 syllables, it can convey the essence of an emotion, a fleeting moment in nature, or a throwaway comment. This collection features 60 classic haiku by masters such as... -
London: An Illustrated Literary Companion by Rosemary Gray 9781035031689
RRP: £9.99£7.08With diary entries, quotations, poems, essays and extracts, this is an exquisite time capsule of literary London which takes you on a captivating journey through the city.London: An Illustrated Literary Companion, compiled by Rosemary Gray, captures the... -
Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics by Timothy Morton
RRP: £26.95£23.25In Ecology without Nature, Timothy Morton argues that the chief stumbling block to environmental thinking is the image of nature itself. Ecological writers propose a new worldview, but their very zeal to preserve the natural world leads them away from... -
Georgette Heyer Biography by Jennifer Kloester
RRP: £12.99£9.34_________________________The perfect accompaniment to the definitive new editions of Georgette Heyer's celebrated novels that are currently being reissued.A remarkable biography of one of Britain's best-loved and best-selling novelists, 'the queen of... -
A Life of Colette: Secrets of the Flesh Judith Thurman 9780747548430
RRP: £16.99£12.47Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette was this century's first modern woman. She arrived in Paris around 1900 as the provincial child bride of a notorious rake and brilliant literary impressario, Willy, who signed her first novels, the Claudines, as his own. They... -
Shakespeare After All by Marjorie Garber
RRP: £23.00£15.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Book Award 2005.Book InformationISBN 9780385722148Author Marjorie GarberFormat PaperbackPage Count 1008Imprint Random House USA... -
Prose: The Centenary Edition by Elizabeth Bishop 9780701186272
RRP: £18.99£14.22Although Elizabeth Bishop is perhaps better known as a masterful poet, she was a dazzling and compelling prose writer too, as this centenary edition of her prose demonstrates. From her witty, unforgettable portraits of Marianne Moore and the Sitwells to... -
The Affect Theory Reader by Melissa Gregg
RRP: £23.99£21.16This field-defining collection consolidates and builds momentum in the burgeoning area of affect studies. The contributors include many of the central theorists of affect-those visceral forces beneath, alongside, or generally other than conscious knowing... -
Desire: A Memoir by Jonathan Dollimore 9781786615008
RRP: £14.99£11.67Desire: A Memoir is a hybrid of autobiography, meditation, and philosophy that explores the existential sources of his writing. Effortlessly blending the tragic and comic, Dollimore's unique voice relates a life haunted and torn by loss, and the at once... -
Balzac by Graham Robb 9780330320153
£20.00Graham Robb has produced a masterpiece literary biography in which Balzac bursts into life on every page. The living manifestation of the colourful and varied world he described, yet at the same time its most astonishing exception, Balzac is the perfect... -
An Analysis of Hans J. Morgenthau's Politics Among Nations Ramon Pacheco Pardo 9781912127177
RRP: £6.50£6.29Hans Morgenthau's Politics Among Nations is a classic of political science, built on the firm foundation of Morgenthau's watertight reasoning skills.The central aim of reasoning is to construct a logical and persuasive argument that carefully organizes... -
A History of London County Lunatic Asylums & Mental Hospitals by Brandon, Ed 9781399008730
RRP: £16.99£12.47From the Middle-Ages onwards, London's notorious Bedlam lunatic hospital saw the city's mad' locked away in dank cells, neglected and abused and without any real cure and little comfort. The unprecedented growth of the metropolis after the Industrial... -
"The Renegado" by Philip Massinger 9781904271611
£17.55The Renegado is one of the most shamelessly entertaining plays of its age, fetching its inspiration from a number of works by Cervantes, based on his own experiences as a captive in Algiers. Introducing the eroticized captivity narrative to the English... -
The Claustrum: An investigation of claustrophobic phenomena by Donald Meltzer 9781912567270
£32.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912567270Author Donald MeltzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint The Harris Meltzer TrustPublisher Karnac BooksWeight(grams) 324gDimensions(mm) 230mm... -
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol 9780300060997
RRP: £17.00£16.68Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls, a comic masterpiece about a mysterious con man and his grotesque victims, is one of the major works of Russian literature. It was translated into English in 1942 by Bernard Guilbert Guerney; the translation was hailed by... -
Lawyers at Play: Literature, Law, and Politics at the Early Modern Inns of Court, 1558-1581 by Jessica Winston
RRP: £29.49£27.15Many early modern poets and playwrights were also members of the legal societies the Inns of Court, and these authors shaped the development of key genres of the English Renaissance, especially lyric poetry, dramatic tragedy, satire, and masque. But how... -
Essential Essays (Two-volume set): Foundations of Cultural Studies & Identity and Diaspora by Stuart Hall
RRP: £39.00£35.39Volumes 1 and 2 of Stuart Hall's Essential Essays are available as a set From his arrival in Britain in the 1950s and involvement in the New Left, to founding the field of cultural studies and examining race and identity in the 1990s and early 2000s,... -
Vita and Harold: The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson 1919-1962 by Nigel Nicolson
RRP: £12.99£8.83The classic story of the relationship between Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, and a unique portrait of the Bloomsbury Group.'Vita and Harold have become part of our literature' OBSERVERThe marriage of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson was...