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Aftermath by Preti Taneja
RRP: $23.38$22.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945492549Author Preti TanejaFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Transit BooksPublisher Transit Books -
The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65 by Delia Jarrett-Macauley
RRP: $38.98$28.31This is an original, full length biography of Britain's first twentieth-century black feminist - Una Marson - poet, playwright, and social activist and BBC broadcaster. Una Marson is recognised today as the first major woman poet of the Caribbean and... -
My Emily Dickinson by Susan Howe
RRP: $25.33$21.47For Wallace Stevens, "Poetry is the scholar's art." Susan Howe-taking the poet-scholar-critics Charles Olson, H.D., and William Carlos Williams (among others) as her guides-embodies that art in her 1985 My Emily Dickinson (winner of the Before Columbus... -
Le Morte D'Arthur Volume 1 by Sir Thomas Malory
RRP: $25.33$17.55Le Morte D'Arthur is Sir Thomas Malory's richly evocative and enthralling version of the Arthurian legend. Recounting Arthur's birth, his ascendancy to the throne after claiming Excalibur, his ill-fated marriage to Guenever, the treachery of Morgan le... -
Wodehouse: A Life by Robert McCrum 9780393327519
RRP: $52.65$43.80To Evelyn Waugh he was simply "the Master." He wrote ninety novels and story collections, and among his immortal characters are Jeeves, Psmith, and the Empress of Blandings (who is, of course, a pig). Equally impressive is the range of his devotees:... -
The Illustrated World of Tolkien by David Day 9781645171317
RRP: $48.73$40.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645171317Author David DayFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Readerlink Distribution Services, LLCPublisher Readerlink Distribution Services,... -
Roald Dahl: Teller of the Unexpected by Matthew Dennison
RRP: $39.00$27.87Book 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... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, 1950-2000 by Dominic Head
RRP: $64.33$55.34In this introduction to post-war fiction in Britain, Dominic Head shows how the novel yields a special insight into the important areas of social and cultural history in the second half of the twentieth century. Head's study is the most exhaustive survey... -
The Annotated Waste Land with Eliot's Contemporary Prose: Second Edition by T. S. Eliot 9780300119947
$48.03Newly revised and in paperback for the first time, this definitive, annotated edition of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land includes as a bonus all the essays Eliot wrote as he was composing his masterpiece. Enriched with period photographs, a London map of... -
Folk Tales of Egypt by Hasan M. Sami
RRP: $70.20$67.92In this book Hasan M. El-Shamy has gathered the first authentic new collection of modern Egyptian folk narratives to appear in nearly a century. El-Shamy's English translations of these orally presented stories not only preserve their spirit, but give... -
German Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Nicholas Boyle
RRP: $17.53$12.58German writers, from Luther and Goethe to Heine, Brecht, and Gunter Grass, have had a profound influence on the modern world. This Very Short Introduction presents an engrossing tour of the course of German literature from the late Middle Ages to the... -
The Private World of Georgette Heyer by Jane Aiken Hodge
RRP: $19.48$13.86As 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... -
The Death of Truth by Michiko Kakutani
RRP: $15.58$10.55From a Pulitzer Prize-winning critic comes an impassioned critique of the West's retreat from reason. 'The Death of Truth is destined to become the defining treatise of our age' David Grann ... -
The Essays by Francis Bacon
RRP: $25.33$17.73One of the major political figures of his time, Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) served in the court of Elizabeth I and ultimately became Lord Chancellor under James I in 1617. A scholar, wit, lawyer and statesman, he wrote widely on politics, philosophy... -
The English Novel: An Introduction by Terry Eagleton
RRP: $58.40$51.89Written by one of the world's leading literary theorists, this book provides a wide-ranging, accessible and humorous introduction to the English novel from Daniel Defoe to the present day. Covers the works of major authors, including Daniel Defoe, Henry... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend by Elizabeth Archibald 9780521677882
RRP: $46.78$38.98For more than a thousand years, the adventures of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table have been retold across Europe. They have inspired some of the most important works of European literature, particularly in the medieval period: the romances... -
King John and Henry VIII by Eric Rasmussen
RRP: $25.33$23.13From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's most unusual and provocative histories. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of King John and Henry VIII in... -
The Wellness Syndrome by Carl Cederstrom 9780745655611
RRP: $31.18$28.10Not exercising as much as you should? Counting your calories in your sleep? Feeling ashamed for not being happier? You may be a victim of the wellness syndrome. In this ground-breaking new book, Carl Cederstroem and Andre Spicer argue that the... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Graphic Novel by Stephen Tabachnick
RRP: $44.83$34.28Since the graphic novel rose to prominence half a century ago, it has become one of the fastest growing literary/artistic genres, generating interest from readers globally. The Cambridge Companion to the Graphic Novel examines the evolution of comic... -
Roman History by Cassius Cocceianus Dio
RRP: $48.65$47.85A sweeping chronicle from Aeneas to Alexander Severus.Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), circa AD 150-235, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of Cilicia) he went in 180 to Rome, entered the Senate, and... -
Screening Love and War in Troy: Fall of a City by Dr Antony Augoustakis
$56.69This is the first volume of essays published on the television series Troy: Fall of a City (BBC One and Netflix, 2018). Covering a wide range of engaging topics, such as gender, race and politics, international scholars in the fields of classics, history... -
The Serious Game by Hjalmar Soderberg 9780714530611
RRP: $23.40$19.05Apologies 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)... -
National Theatre Connections 2021: Two Plays for Young People by National Theatre
RRP: $25.33$23.13It is the scale and range of creative collaboration inherent in theatre that sits at the very heart of National Theatre Connections Drawing together the work of ten leading playwrights, National Theatre Connections 2021 features work by brilliant... -
On Color by David Kastan
RRP: $33.13$28.49Ranging from Homer to Picasso, and from the Iranian Revolution to The Wizard of Oz, this spirited and radiant book awakens us anew to the role of color in our lives Our lives are saturated by color. We live in a world of vivid colors, and color marks our... -
Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity by Rory Finnin 9781487558253
RRP: $46.78$40.64In the spring of 1944, Stalin deported the Crimean Tatars, a small Sunni Muslim nation, from their ancestral homeland on the Black Sea peninsula. The gravity of this event, which ultimately claimed the lives of tens of thousands of victims, was shrouded... -
How to Live. What To Do.: In search of ourselves in life and literature by Josh Cohen
RRP: $19.48$13.86What can Alice in Wonderland teach us about childhood? Could reading Conversations with Friends guide us through first love? Does Esther Greenwood's glittering success and subsequent collapse in The Bell Jar help us understand ambition? And, finally,... -
Caribbean American Narratives of Belonging by Vivian Nun Halloran
$61.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258699Author Vivian Nun HalloranFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)... -
Georgette Heyer Biography by Jennifer Kloester
RRP: $25.33$17.73_________________________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... -
Contemporary Gothic by Catherine Spooner
RRP: $25.25$17.69Gothic images pervade contemporary culture, from popular interior decorating programmes to news stories of vampire-obsessed killers. Darkness and unease have never been more fashionable, as the media repeatedly proclaims that Gothic is back', heralding... -
Four Quartets - T S Eliot and Spirituality by Richard Brock
$19.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993238802Author Richard BrockFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Patrician PressPublisher Patrician Press -
Julius Caesar (No Fear Shakespeare) by SparkNotes 9781586638474
RRP: $15.58$10.92Read Shakespeare's plays in all their brilliance-and understand what every word means! Don't be intimidated by Shakespeare! These popular guides make the Bard's plays accessible and enjoyable.Each No Fear guide contains:The complete text of the... -
Science Fiction: A Very Short Introduction by David Seed
RRP: $17.53$12.89Science Fiction has proved notoriously difficult to define. It has been explained as a combination of romance, science and prophecy; as a genre based on an imagined alternative to the reader's environment; and as a form of fantastic fiction and... -
Aeschylus: v. I: Persians, Seven Against Thebes, Suppliants, Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
RRP: $48.65$45.61Four unconnected but unforgettable plays from ancient Athens' first great tragedian.Aeschylus (ca. 525-456 BC), the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world's great art forms, witnessed the establishment of democracy at Athens, fought ... -
Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Simon Taylor
RRP: $12.68$11.91Daniel Goldhagen's study of the Holocaust offers conclusions that run directly counter to those reached by Christopher Browning, whose book Ordinary Men is also the subject of a Macat analysis. As such, the two analyses make possible some interesting... -
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume V: Western Greek Thinkers, Part 2 by Andre Laks
RRP: $48.65$45.61A major new edition of the so-called Presocratics.The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the 'Presocratics') have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient... -
The Annotated Prison Writings of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde
RRP: $38.90$31.43"And I? May I say nothing, my lord?" With these words, Oscar Wilde's courtroom trials came to a close. The lord in question, High Court justice Sir Alfred Wills, sent Wilde to the cells, sentenced to two years in prison with hard labor for the crime of... -
On the Nature of the Gods by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $48.65$45.61The philosopher-statesman on theology and epistemology.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship,... -
Poems by William Butler Yeats 9781857157116
RRP: $23.40$16.46A leader of the twentieth-century Irish nationalist movement, who eventually became one of the Free States's senators, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is also the greatest poet that nation has yet produced. The present selection includes poetry from... -
Chuang Tzu by David Hinton
RRP: $29.23$17.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619024434Author David HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
Small World: Ireland, 1798-2018 by Seamus Deane
RRP: $39.00$32.82Seamus Deane was one of the most vital and versatile authors of our time. Small World presents an unmatched survey of Irish writing, and of writing about Irish issues, from 1798 to the present day. Elegant, polemical, and incisive, it addresses the...