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Steel City Readers: Reading for Pleasure in Sheffield, 1925-1955 Mary Grover 9781802078589
RRP: £24.99£22.41An Open Access edition of this book will be made available on publication via the Liverpool University Press website.Steel City Readers makes available, and interprets in detail, a large body of new evidence about past cultures and communities of reading... -
The Red Thread: Twenty Years of NYRB Classics by Edwin Frank 9781681373911
RRP: £16.99£12.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681373911Author Edwin FrankFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books by Maureen Corrigan 9780375709036
RRP: £16.99£12.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375709036Author Maureen CorriganFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
The Woman Reader by Belinda Jack
RRP: £10.99£9.37How have women read differently from men through the ages? In all manner of ways, this book asserts. This lively story has never been told before: the complete history of women's reading and the ceaseless controversies it has inspired. Belinda Jack's... -
Don't Save Anything: Uncollected Essays, Articles, and Profiles by James Salter 9781640091115
RRP: £12.99£12.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640091115Author James SalterFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 221mm * 147mm * 21mm -
Bookishness: Loving Books in a Digital Age by Jessica Pressman
RRP: £25.00£19.59Twenty-first-century culture is obsessed with books. In a time when many voices have joined to predict the death of print, books continue to resurface in new and unexpected ways. From the proliferation of "shelfies" to Jane Austen-themed leggings and... -
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... -
Curiosity by Alberto Manguel
RRP: £12.99£11.46An eclectic history of human curiosity, a great feast of ideas, and a memoir of a reading life from an internationally celebrated reader and thinker Curiosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward and the... -
Reading 1759: Literary Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and France by Shaun Regan 9781611485936
RRP: £46.00£40.35Reading 1759 investigates the literary culture of a remarkable year in British and French history, writing, and ideas. Familiar to many as the British "year of victories" during the Seven Years' War, 1759 was also an important year in the histories of... -
Heaven, Hell and Paradise Lost by Ed Simon 9781632461520
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632461520Author Ed SimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Ig PublishingPublisher Ig Publishing -
A Scream Goes Through the House: What Literature Teaches Us About Life by Arnold Weinstein 9780812972436
RRP: £16.99£12.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812972436Author Arnold WeinsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 435g -
101 Best Sex Scenes Ever Written: An Erotic Romp Through Literature for Writers and Readers by Barnaby Conrad 9781610350013
RRP: £15.99£9.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610350013Author Barnaby ConradFormat PaperbackPage Count 163Imprint Linden Publishing Co IncPublisher Linden Publishing Co IncDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World by Naomi S. Baron 9780199315765
RRP: £23.49£17.13People have been reading on computer screens for several decades now, predating popularization of personal computers and widespread use of the internet. But it was the rise of eReaders and tablets that caused digital reading to explode. In 2007, Amazon... -
Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels: A Routledge Study Guide by Roger D. Lund
RRP: £29.99£26.64An extremely complex, yet widely studied text, Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels ranks as one of the most scathing satires of British and European society ever published. Students will therefore welcome the publication of Roger Lund's sourcebook, which... -
Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books by Michael Dirda
RRP: £16.95£9.98Michael Dirda has been hailed as "the best-read person in America" (The Paris Review) and "the best book critic in America" (The New York Observer). In addition to the Pulitzer Prize he was awarded for his reviews in The Washington Post, he picked up an... -
The Novel: A Survival Skill by Tim Parks 9780198739593
RRP: £23.99£23.68The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been... -
A History of the Booker Prize: Contemporary Fiction Since 1992 Merritt Moseley 9781032019109
RRP: £36.99£32.53In this book, Merritt Moseley offers a brief history of the Booker Prize since 1992. With a short chapter covering each year, we follow the change in criteria, the highs and lows, short lists, winners, and controversies of the Booker Prize. The book also... -
Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation Into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin by Megan Rosenbloom
RRP: £13.99£11.04On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those bound in human skin. Would you know one if you held it in your hand? In Dark Archives, Megan... -
Cervantes' Don Quixote: A Casebook by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria 9780195169386
RRP: £47.49£31.79This casebook gathers a collection of ambitious essays about both parts of the novel (1605 and 1615) and also provides a general introduction and a bibliography. The essays range from Ramon Menendez Pidal's seminal study of how Cervantes dealt with... -
Book Lust by Nancy Pearl
RRP: £10.99£10.11What to read next is every book lover's greatest dilemma. Nancy Pearl comes to the rescue with this wide-ranging and fun guide to the best reading new and old. Pearl, who inspired legions of litterateurs with "What If All (name the city) Read the Same... -
Against the Grain: Selected Essays by Terry Eagleton 9780860918417
RRP: £15.99£13.80These essays (and a ballad) have their origins in Terry Eagleton's continuing engagement with the possibilities of a literary criticism that is both materialist and open to diverse currents of thought in the human sciences.Eagleton's combative... -
The Business of Books: How the International Conglomerates Took Over Publishing and Changed the Way We Read by Andre Schiffrin
RRP: £14.99£13.97Post-war American publishing has been ruthlessly transformed since Andre Schiffrin joined its ranks in 1956. Gone is a plethora of small but prestigious houses that often put ideas before profit in their publishing decisions, sometimes even deliberately... -
Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World by Anne Jamison 9781939529190
£12.97What is fanfiction, and what is it not? Why does fanfiction matter? And what makes it so important to the future of literature? Fic is a groundbreaking exploration of the history and culture of fan writing and what it means for the way we think about... -
The Bright Book of Life: Novels to Read and Reread by Harold Bloom
RRP: £14.99£9.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984898432Author Harold BloomFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The Book On The Bookshelf by Henry Petroski 9780375706394
RRP: £15.99£11.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375706394Author Henry PetroskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Shakespeare's First Reader: The Paper Trails of Richard Stonley by Jason Scott-Warren 9780812251456
RRP: £39.00£34.12Richard Stonley has all but vanished from history, but to his contemporaries he would have been an enviable figure. A clerk of the Exchequer for more than four decades under Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I, he rose from obscure origins to a life of opulence;... -
A Commentary on Herodotus: Volume II: Books V-IX by W. W. How 9780198721390
RRP: £28.99£22.38Herodotus has been called by Cicero and other ancient critics `the father of history'. He was in fact the first to make the events of the past the subject of research and verification (historie) and then relate their consequences to the present. The main... -
Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out by Shannon Reed 9781335007964
RRP: £27.99£16.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335007964Author Shannon ReedFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 218mm... -
The Secret Life of Stories: From Don Quixote to Harry Potter, How Understanding Intellectual Disability Transforms the Way We Read by Michael Berube
RRP: £19.99£17.54How an understanding of intellectual disability transforms the pleasures of reading Narrative informs everything we think, do, plan, remember, and imagine. We tell stories and we listen to stories, gauging their "well-formedness" within a couple of... -
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... -
Fabulous Monsters: Dracula, Alice, Superman, and Other Literary Friends by Alberto Manguel
RRP: £13.99£12.25"In art and words, a book lover honors the characters he can't forget."-New York Times Book Review An original look at how literary characters can transcend their books to guide our lives, by one of the world's most eminent bibliophiles Alberto Manguel,... -
Infinite Fictions: Essays on Literature and Theory by David Winters 9781782798033
RRP: £12.99£7.24David Winters has quickly become a leading voice in the new landscape of online literary criticism. His widely-published work maps the furthest frontiers of contemporary fiction and theory. The essays in this book range from the American satirist Sam... -
On Browsing by Jason Guriel
RRP: £9.99£6.75Nominated for the 2023 Heritage Toronto Book AwardA defense of the dying art of losing an afternoon-and gaining new appreciation-amidst the bins and shelves of bricks-and-mortar shops.Written during the pandemic, when the world was marooned at home and... -
Death's Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve by Sandra M. Gilbert 9780393329698
RRP: £29.00£23.83Prominent critic, poet, and memoirist Sandra M. Gilbert explores our relationship to death though literature, history, poetry, and societal practices. Does death change--and if it does, how has it changed in the last century? And how have our experiences... -
Conversations by Jorge Luis Borges
RRP: £18.99£16.18I wrote a poem this morning, and one of the themes of the poem is that languages are not equivalent, that each language is a new way of feeling the world. Jorge Luis Borges Recorded during Borges' final years, this third volume of his conversations with... -
Psy-Complex in Question - Critical Review in Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Social Theory Ian Parker 9781785357497
RRP: £19.99£16.97Psy-Complex in Question traces a series of key debates in and against the psy-complex through critical reviews of twenty-five key texts over the last twenty-five years, with an emphasis on recent critical psychological, psychoanalytic and critical social... -
Practices of Ephemera in Early Modern England by Callan Davies
RRP: £125.00£108.26This collection is the first to historicise the term ephemera and its meanings for early modern England and considers its relationship to time, matter, and place. It asks: how do we conceive of ephemera in a period before it was routinely employed (from... -
Bound to Read: Compilations, Collections, and the Making of Renaissance Literature by Jeffrey Todd Knight
RRP: £58.00£50.17Concealed in rows of carefully restored volumes in rare book libraries is a history of the patterns of book collecting and compilation that shaped the literature of the English Renaissance. In this early period of print, before the introduction of... -
Evolution of the Book by Frederick G. Kilgour 9780195118599
RRP: £60.00£49.36Kilgour's study is a concise history of the book as we know it in all its forms, starting from the very beginning with the invention of writing and concluding at the present time with the electronic revolution and what it may hold for the future. Kilgour... -
Gallery of Clouds by Rachel Eisendrath
RRP: £17.99£11.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681375434Author Rachel EisendrathFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc