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Disintegration in Frames: Aesthetics and Ideology in the Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Cinema by Pavle Levi
RRP: $64.50$56.00Disintegration in Frames examines the ways in which national identity and interethnic relations are approached, evaluated, and critically dissected in films by directors such as Dusan Makavejev, Emir Kusturica, and Srdan Dragojevic; subcultural... -
Country Girl by Edna O'Brien
RRP: $16.76$9.40The BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls trilogy begins in August 2019.I thought of life's many bounties, to have known the extremities of joy and sorrow, love, crossed love and unrequited love, success and failure, fame and... -
Nana by Emile Zola
RRP: $12.89$7.74'She was the golden beast, an unconscious force, the very scent of her could bring the world to ruin.' Nana, daughter of a drunk and a laundress, is the Helen of Troy of Paris. A sexually magnetic high-class prostitute and actress, she becomes a... -
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
RRP: $28.38$18.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385720250Author Sylvia PlathFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Bantam Doubleday DellPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)... -
The Weird And The Eerie by Mark Fisher
RRP: $11.60$8.24What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the most haunting and anomalous fiction of the 20th century belongs to these two modes. The Weird and the Eerie are closely related but distinct modes, each... -
The Art of Drama, Volume 2: Macbeth by Neil Jones 9781999737658
RRP: $16.76$15.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999737658Author Neil JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Peripeteia PressPublisher Peripeteia PressWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm... -
The Brothers Lionheart by Astrid Lindgren
RRP: $10.31$7.28There's no one Karl Lion loves more than his older brother, Jonathan, who is brave, strong, and handsome - everything Karl believes he is not. Karl never wants to be parted from him. But Karl is sick, and knows he's going to die. To comfort him, Jonathan... -
Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake 9780192810892
RRP: $13.53$9.88Blake was one of the finest craftsmen of his time, an artist for whom art and poetry were inextricably linked. He was an indepedent and rebellious thinker, who abhorred pretention and falsity in others. His Songs of Innocence are products of this... -
Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver
RRP: $15.47$10.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156724005Author Mary OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 116gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 135mm... -
The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters by Adam Nicolson
RRP: $14.18$7.91Longlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (now the Bailie Gifford) 'A thrilling and complex book, enlarges our view of Homer ... There's something that hits the mark on every page'... -
Frankenstein: or `The Modern Prometheus': The 1818 Text by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
RRP: $7.73$4.26By the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window-shutters, I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His... -
The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading Sam Leith 9780861548187
RRP: $38.70$25.17'A MARVEL' PHILIP PULLMAN Do you remember the first time you fell in love with a book? The stories we read as children extend far beyond our childhoods; they are a window into our deepest hopes, joys and anxieties. They reveal our past – collective and... -
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 9780198804970
RRP: $7.73$5.97"Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt!" Throughout the hardships of her childhood - spent with a severe aunt and abusive cousin, and later at the austere Lowood charity school - Jane Eyre clings to a sense of self-worth, despite of her... -
Goodbye Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land by Jacob Mikanowski 9780861547326
RRP: $14.18$9.80An epic history of the 'other' Europe, a place of conflict and coexistence, of faith and folklore. 'Do not rush to bid farewell to eastern Europe until reading this book. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, this very personal story of the... -
The Book Club Journal: All the Books You've Read, Loved, & Discussed by Adams Media
RRP: $16.76$11.36Keep track of your book club selections and record your latest literary adventures with this reading journal to stay organized for your next meeting! Book clubs are a great way to read new books and discover different genres and new topics that you may... -
Reading Virgil: AeneidI and II by Peter Jones
RRP: $32.24$29.06Virgil's Aeneid, an epic which tells the story of Aeneas' flight from burning Troy, his adventures on the high seas and eventual arrival in Italy, thereby founding the Roman race, is one of the most influential works of Roman literature. This edition of... -
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
RRP: $14.18$9.31THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER PICKED BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT, IRISH TIMES, SPECTATOR, TLS, NEW STATESMAN, MAIL ON SUNDAY, I PAPER, PROSPECT, REVEW31 AND EVENING STANDARD AS A BOOK OF 2021 'A masterclass from a warm and engagingly... -
The Black Unicorn by Audre Lorde
RRP: $11.60$8.58I have been womanfor a long timebeware my smileI am treacherous with old magicFilled with rage and tenderness, Audre Lorde's most acclaimed poetry collection speaks of mothers and children, female strength and vulnerability, renewal and revenge,... -
Wanderers: A History of Women Walking by Kerri Andrews
RRP: $12.89$9.44Now in B-format paperback, this book describes ten women over the past three hundred years who have found walking essential to their sense of themselves, as people and as writers. Wanderers traces their footsteps, from eighteenth-century parson's... -
Three Novels of Iain Banks: Whit, The Crow Road and The Wasp Factory by A. MacGillivray 9780948877483
RRP: $8.97$7.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948877483Author A. MacGillivrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish Literary... -
Martha Maps It Out by Leigh Hodgkinson 9780192777782
RRP: $10.31$7.28Martha LOVES drawing maps. She creates maps of everything, from outer space to her little (but very exciting) bedroom! This entertaining picture book is perfect for sharing with young children. Let Martha be your guide as she explores all the people... -
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen 9781350116788
RRP: $14.18$12.78This revised Student Edition of Ibsen's popular play contains introductory commentary and notes by Sophie Duncan, which offer a contemporary lens on the play's gender politics and consider seminal productions and adaptations of the play into the 21st... -
On Being Blue by William H. Gass
RRP: $11.60$8.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590177181Author William H. GassFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
The Consolation of Philosophy by Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 9780140447804
RRP: $12.89$9.44Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek scholar. When he became involved in a conspiracy and was imprisoned in Pavia, it was to the Greek philosophers that he turned. THE CONSOLATION was written... -
Mariner: A Voyage with Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Malcolm Guite
RRP: $19.34$12.96'The story of Coleridge's life does undoubtedly echo that of his poem; this is a book that provides rewarding rereadings of both' - The Sunday TimesA new biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, shaped and structured around the story he himself tells in his... -
Romeo and Juliet (Collins Classroom Classics) by William Shakespeare
$4.27Exam board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR, Eduqas; Cambridge Assessment International EducationLevel & Subject: GCSE 9-1 English Literature; IGCSE Literature in EnglishFirst teaching: September 2015; September 2018Next exam: June 2024 This edition of... -
Anju and Banju: Korean Tapas/Seoul Mum's Recipes by An Dongsun 9781526208699
RRP: $38.70$25.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526208699Author An DongsunFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint Poets and Punks LtdPublisher Poets and Punks Ltd -
Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick
RRP: $12.89$8.90Sally Rooney: 'High intelligence and beauty.'Margo Jefferson: 'Extraordinary'Rediscover a lost American classic in this kaleidoscopic scrapbook of one woman's memories, with a new introduction by Eimear McBride. I am alone here in New York, no longer a... -
Everyday Shakespeare: Lines for Life by Ben Crystal
RRP: $21.92$13.18An absolutely joyous, gasp-out-loud achievement. - Stephen FryA cathedral of consciousness - Shakespeare's uncanny insight into human nature finds us, unearthed here. - LionHeart, artist, poet, and BBC Radio London presenterShakespeare had an ear and... -
Agatha Christie: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Lucy Worsley 9781529303919
RRP: $14.18$9.68'A smart and highly entertaining portrait of a literary powerhouse'- THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR'A riveting portrait'- GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR***'Worsley's sparkling biography brings a fresh eye to Christie's life and work, firmly busting the myth... -
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne - Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022 by Katherine Rundell
RRP: $14.18$9.73**A Sunday Times top ten bestseller****Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2023****Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize for Non-Fiction 2023****Shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize 2023**'Masterly.'... -
The Collected Poems of J. R. R. Tolkien J. R. R. Tolkien 9780008628826
RRP: $116.10$80.95World first publication of the collected poems of J.R.R. Tolkien, spanning almost seven decades of the author’s life and presented in an elegant three-volume hardback boxed set. J.R.R. Tolkien aspired to be a poet in the first instance, and poetry was... -
Create Dangerously by Albert Camus
RRP: $3.87$3.39'To create today is to create dangerously'Camus argues passionately that the artist has a responsibility to challenge, provoke and speak up for those who cannot in this powerful speech, accompanied here by two others.Penguin Modern: fifty new books... -
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan 9781784745677
RRP: $24.50$17.83'A work of non-fiction . . . but it has all the complexity of emotional heft of a great novel . . . Question 7 sets the high-water mark for what the genre [of memoir] can be' Sunday Times'There's so much . . . in Flanagan's beautiful, unclassifiable... -
East of Eden by John Steinbeck 9780143129486
RRP: $16.14$15.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Oprah Book Club.Book InformationISBN 9780143129486Author John SteinbeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam... -
Literary Tourism, the Trossachs and Walter Scott by Nicola J. Watson
RRP: $25.74$19.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908980007Author Nicola J. WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Scottish Literature InternationalPublisher Association for Scottish Literary... -
Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle
RRP: $9.02$6.84Thomas Carlyle's Past and Present (1843) was a prophetic warning of impending disaster for mid-Victorian Britain that was delivered in what the author described as a 'miraculous thunder-voice, from out of the centre of the world.' The impact of Carlyle's... -
H. D. and Bryher: An Untold Love Story of Modernism by Susan McCabe 9780190621223
RRP: $40.62$38.11H.D. & Bryher: An Untold Love Story of Modernism takes on the daring task of examining the connection between two queer women, one a poet and the other a historical novelist, living from the late 19th century through the 20th century. When they met in... -
Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative by Jane Alison
RRP: $16.76$14.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948226134Author Jane AlisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint CatapultPublisher CatapultWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 139mm * 20mm -
Erotic Poems by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
RRP: $14.18$9.30`a world without love would be no world' Elegy II This bilingual edition of Goethe's erotic poems contains the Roman Elegies (1789), The Diary (1810), and a selection from the Venetian Epigrams of 1790. Editorial censorship has long...