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The Ultimate Book Guide: Over 600 Good Books for 8-12s by Daniel Hahn 9780713667189
RRP: £12.99£10.19WITH THIS BOOK, 8-12s WILL NEVER AGAIN CRY, 'WHAT WILL I READ NEXT?' The only reference needed - a fully up-to-date guide to the best children's books around - from classics to titles published to the end of 2003. The funny, friendly and frank... -
The Sackett Companion by Louis L'Amour 9780553371024
RRP: £14.99£11.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553371024Author Louis L'AmourFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 448gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
What Nuns Read: Books and Libraries in Medieval English Nunneries Volume 158 by David N Bell 9780879072070
RRP: £39.99£32.91The literacy and education of medieval nuns has been a subject of dispute and study in recent years. In his third Index of medieval libraries, David Bell presents a comprehensive list of all manuscripts and printed books which have been traced with... -
The Art Of Perspective: Who Tells the Story by Christopher Castellani 9781555977269
RRP: £10.99£8.24A writer may have a story to tell, a sense of plot, and strong characters, but for all of these to come together some key questions must be answered. What form should the narrator take? An omniscient, invisible force, or one - or more - of the... -
The Lost Origins of the Essay by John D'Agata 9781555975326
RRP: £25.00£18.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555975326Author John D'AgataFormat PaperbackPage Count 695Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 1089gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 155mm *... -
Preserving on Paper: Seventeenth-Century Englishwomen's Receipt Books by Kristine Kowalchuk
RRP: £32.00£29.53Apricot wine and stewed calf's head, melancholy medicine and "ointment of roses." Welcome to the cookbook Shakespeare would have recognized. Preserving on Paper is a critical edition of three seventeenth-century receipt books-handwritten manuals that... -
Books That Saved My Life: Reading for Wisdom, Solace and Pleasure by Michael McGirr 9781925773149 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£7.81Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Books That Saved My Life: Reading for Wisdom, Solace and Pleasure by Michael McGirr 9781925773149
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsLong-listed for NIB Waverley Literary Award 2019 (Australia).Book InformationISBN 9781925773149Author Michael McGirrFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint The Text Publishing... -
Facing the Fiend: Satan as a Literary Character by Eva Marta Baillie 9781620329245
RRP: £21.00£16.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620329245Author Eva Marta BaillieFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)... -
Great Books by David Denby 9780684835334
£20.38Explores the current debate about what constitutes a classic and the revolutionary power great works of literature contain.Book InformationISBN 9780684835334Author DenbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 492Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon &... -
D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers: A Casebook by John Worthen 9780195170412
£46.62This casebook on D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers is the first to address itself to the full text of the novel, first published in 1992. The introduction discusses the novel's composition and the range of approaches adopted by critics since its original... -
The Savage Detectives Reread by David Kurnick
RRP: £16.99£13.65The Savage Detectives elicits mixed feelings. An instant classic in the Spanish-speaking world upon its 1998 publication, a critical and commercial smash on its 2007 translation into English, Roberto Bolano's novel has also been called an exercise in... -
The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future by Robert Darnton 9781586489021 [USED COPY]
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The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future by Robert Darnton 9781586489021
RRP: £13.99£9.23The era of the printed book is at a crossroad. E-readers are flooding the market, books are available to read on cell phones, and companies such as Google, Amazon, and Apple are competing to command near monopolistic positions as sellers and dispensers... -
Psychoanalysis as Therapy and Storytelling by Antonino Ferro
RRP: £39.99£35.06Is psychoanalysis a type of literature? Can telling 'stories' help us to get at the truth?Psychoanalysis as Therapy and Storytelling examines psychoanalysis from two perspectives - as a cure for psychic suffering, and as a series of stories told between... -
How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor: A Smart, Irreverent Guide to Biography, History, Journalism, Blogs, and Everything in Between by Thomas C. Foster
RRP: £12.99£11.31The New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor uses the same skills to teach how to access accurate information in a rapidly changing 24/7 news cycle and become better readers, thinkers, and consumers of media.We live in... -
Media Critique in the Age of Gillray: Scratches, Scraps, and Spectres by Joseph Monteyne 9781487527747
RRP: £52.00£45.50In the late 1790s, British Prime Minister William Pitt created a crisis of representation when he pressured the British Parliament to relieve the Bank of England from its obligations to convert paper notes into coin. Paper quickly became associated with... -
The Hatred of Literature by William Marx
RRP: £35.95£28.96For the last 2,500 years literature has been attacked, booed, and condemned, often for the wrong reasons and occasionally for very good ones. The Hatred of Literature examines the evolving idea of literature as seen through the eyes of its adversaries:... -
Vineland Reread by Peter Coviello
RRP: £16.99£13.65Vineland is hardly anyone's favorite Thomas Pynchon novel. Marking Pynchon's return after vanishing for nearly two decades following his epic Gravity's Rainbow, it was initially regarded as slight, a middling curiosity. However, for Peter Coviello, the... -
The Evolution of the Weird Tale by S., T. Joshi 9780974878928
RRP: £15.00£13.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974878928Author S., T. JoshiFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 285gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
The Erotics of Restraint: Essays on Literary Form by Douglas Glover 9781771962919
RRP: £11.99£8.00Why do we read? What do we cherish in a book? What is the nature of a masterpiece? What do Alice Munro, Albert Camus, and the great Polish experimentalist Witold Gombrowicz have in common? In the tradition of Nabokov, Calvino, and Kundera, Douglas... -
The Decline of the Novel by Joseph Bottum
RRP: £20.00£19.40The novel has lost its purpose, Joseph Bottum argues in this fascinating new look at the history of fiction. We have not transcended our need for what novels provide, but we have grown to distrust the culture that allowed novels to flourish. "For almost... -
The Last Samurai Reread by Lee Konstantinou
RRP: £16.99£15.64Considered by some to be the greatest novel of the twenty-first century, Helen DeWitt's brilliant The Last Samurai tells the story of Sibylla, an Oxford-educated single mother raising a possible child prodigy, Ludo. Disappointed when he meets his... -
How To Write a Simple Book Review: It's easier than you think! by Allyson R Abbott 9781517591748
RRP: £6.99£6.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781517591748Author Allyson R AbbottFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Geomodernisms: Race, Modernism, Modernity by Laura Doyle
RRP: £21.99£19.19Modernism as a global phenomenon is the focus of the essays gathered in this book. The term "geomodernisms" indicates their subjects' continuity with and divergence from commonly understood notions of modernism. The contributors consider modernism as it... -
The Woman Reader by Belinda Jack 9780300120455 [USED COPY]
RRP: £22.50£3.11Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Literary Mafia: Jews, Publishing, and Postwar American Literature by Josh Lambert
RRP: £28.00£27.39An investigation into the transformation of publishing in the United States from a field in which Jews were systematically excluded to one in which they became ubiquitous "Readers with an interest in the industry will find plenty of insights... -
More Book Lust by Nancy Pearl
RRP: £10.99£10.93The response to Nancy Pearl's surprise bestseller Book Lust was astounding: the Seattle librarian even became the model for the now-famous Librarian Action Figure. Readers everywhere welcomed Pearl's encyclopedic but discerning filter on books worth... -
The Untold Story of the Talking Book by Matthew Rubery 9780674545441
RRP: £34.95£28.19Histories of the book often move straight from the codex to the digital screen. Left out of that familiar account are nearly 150 years of audio recordings. Recounting the fascinating history of audio-recorded literature, Matthew Rubery traces the path of... -
Love Among the Archives: Writing the Lives of George Scharf, Victorian Bachelor by Helena Michie
RRP: £23.99£21.85Two Literary Critics Romancing the Archive at London's National Portrait Gallery. Part biography, part detective novel, part love story, and part meta archival meditation, Love Among the Archives is an experiment in writing a life. Our subject is Sir... -
Shaped by Stories: The Ethical Power of Narratives by Marshall Gregory
RRP: £24.99£21.67In his latest book, Marshall Gregory begins with the premise that our lives are saturated with stories, ranging from magazines, books, films, television, and blogs to the words spoken by politicians, pastors, and teachers. He then explores the ethical... -
English: Shared Futures by Robert Eaglestone 9781843845164
RRP: £40.00£32.17Essays exploring the opportunities for and challenges to the discipline of English language and literature in education. The study of English literature, language, culture and creative writing is an important and dynamic enterprise. English: Shared... -
The Long Public Life of a Short Private Poem: Reading and Remembering Thomas Wyatt by Peter Murphy
RRP: £25.99£21.56Thomas Wyatt didn't publish "They Flee from Me." It was written in a notebook, maybe abroad, maybe even in prison. Today it is in every poetry anthology. How did it survive? That is the story Peter Murphy tells-in vivid and compelling detail-of the... -
Reading Beyond the Book: The Social Practices of Contemporary Literary Culture by Danielle Fuller 9781138929937
RRP: £39.99£35.06Literary culture has become a form of popular culture over the last fifteen years thanks to the success of televised book clubs, film adaptations, big-box book stores, online bookselling, and face-to-face and online book groups. This volume offers the... -
Missing Books: A Wander through One Man's Library by Brian Harris 9781534611672
RRP: £9.99£8.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781534611672Author Brian HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Inside the Critics' Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times by Phillipa K. Chong
RRP: £35.00£27.74An inside look at the politics of book reviewing, from the assignment and writing of reviews to why critics think we should listen to what they have to sayTaking readers behind the scenes in the world of fiction reviewing, Inside the Critics' Circle... -
Our Ladies of Darkness: Feminine Daemonology in Male Gothic Fiction by Joseph Andriano
RRP: £34.95£31.19Our Ladies of Darkness opens with a question raised by Nathaniel Hawthorne in his 1835 sketch "The Haunted Mind": "What if the fiend should come in women's garments, with a pale beauty amid sin and desolation, and lie down by your side?" Joseph Andriano... -
A Visit from the Goon Squad Reread by Ivan Kreilkamp
RRP: £16.99£13.65Jennifer Egan described her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Visit from the Goon Squad as a combination of Proust and The Sopranos. In rereading the book, Ivan Kreilkamp takes Egan up on her comparison, showing how it blends a concern with the status of... -
Esoteric Symbols: The Tarot in Yeats, Eliot, and Kafka by June Leavitt 9780761836742
RRP: £38.00£33.51In this pioneering scholarly work on occult symbols in literature, the reader is offered a vivid look into how W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, and Franz Kafka_three masters of symbolic expression_utilized Tarot cards in their poetry and prose. Focusing on the... -
Tl;dr: The Best of Odd Things Considered by Anita Dalton 9780990733577
RRP: £29.00£25.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990733577Author Anita DaltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 620Imprint Nine-Banded BooksPublisher Nine-Banded BooksWeight(grams) 898gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...