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The Selling and Self-Regulation of Contemporary Poetry by J.T. Welsch 9781839981807
RRP: $48.75$46.37The Selling and Self-Regulation of Contemporary Poetry is the first book-length study of the contemporary poetry industry. By documenting radical changes over the past decade in the way poems are published, sold, and consumed, it connects the seemingly... -
Stalin's Library: A Dictator and his Books by Geoffrey Roberts
RRP: $48.75$41.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780300179040Author Geoffrey RobertsFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Yale University PressPublisher Yale University PressWeight(grams) 156g -
Ecocriticism Greg Garrard 9781032004020
RRP: $38.98$34.50Ecocriticism explores the ways in which we imagine and portray the relationship between humans and the environment across many areas of cultural production, including Romantic poetry, wildlife documentaries, climate models, the Hollywood blockbuster The... -
Portable Magic: Our Long Love Affair with Books by Emma Smith 9780241427262 [USED COPY]
RRP: $39.00$7.51'A fascinating journey into our relationship with the physical book...I lost count of the times I exclaimed with delight when I read a nugget of information I hadn't encountered before' Val McDermid, The TimesMost of what we say about books is really... -
Portable Magic: Our Long Love Affair with Books by Emma Smith
RRP: $39.00$34.36'A fascinating journey into our relationship with the physical book...I lost count of the times I exclaimed with delight when I read a nugget of information I hadn't encountered before' Val McDermid, The TimesMost of what we say about books is really... -
The Real Thing: Reflections on a Literary Form by Terry Eagleton 9780300274295
RRP: $33.13$28.49A clear-sighted and entertaining defence of literary realism, and an account of its key practitioners Realist fiction is one of the most enduring artforms history has ever witnessed. By describing the intricate inner life of its characters, or widening... -
The Illustrated World of Tolkien The Second Age by David Day 9781788404174
RRP: $58.50$39.78This volume is an in-depth and exquisitely illustrated guide to the Second Age of Middle-earth, one of the least-explored periods of Arda's history.The Illustrated World of Tolkien: The Second Age, is the follow up companion to the best-selling The... -
Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish Tom McCarthy 9781681370866
RRP: $31.18$22.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681370866Author Tom McCarthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,... -
A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
RRP: $33.13$24.73This study of the history of reading goes from the earliest examples of the clay tablets and cuneiform of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt via the invention of printing in the 15th century to the birth of a mass reading public and today's digital revolution... -
Dive Deeper: Journeys with Moby-Dick by George Cotkin 9780199855759
RRP: $55.56$33.40Herman Melville's epic tale of obsession has all the ingredients of a first rate drama--fascinating characters in solitude and society, battles between good and evil, a thrilling chase to the death--and yet its allusions, digressions, and sheer scope can... -
John Milton's Paradise Lost: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook by Margaret Kean
RRP: $38.98$34.50John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost (1667) is a literary landmark. His reworking of Biblical tales of the loss of Eden constitutes not only a gripping literary work, but a significant musing on fundamental human concerns ranging from freedom and fate... -
The Bookseller's Tale by Martin Latham
RRP: $19.48$13.86A SPECTATOR AND EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'A joy. Each chapter instantly became my favourite' David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas'Wonderful' Lucy Mangan'The right book has a neverendingness, and so does the right bookshop.'This is the story... -
Letters to Gil by Malik Al Nasir 9780008464479
RRP: $19.48$12.95'A searing, triumphant story. A testament to the tenacity of the human spirit as well as a beautiful ode to an iconic figure' IRENOSEN OKOJIE Letters to Gil is... -
The Book in the Renaissance by Dr. Andrew Pettegree
RRP: $37.03$32.33A groundbreaking study of the fascinating, yet largely unknown world of books in the first great age of print, 1450-1600 The dawn of print was a major turning point in the early modern world. It rescued ancient learning from obscurity, transformed... -
A Bite of the Apple: A Life with Books, Writers and Virago by Lennie Goodings
RRP: $38.98$27.85'The moment I got my job at Virago in 1978 I knew it would be a long time before I would leave. I certainly wouldn't have had the brazen hope then-only twenty-five and very recently new to Britain-that I would ever become the Publisher, but I did know... -
The Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth-Century Novel by J. A. Downie
RRP: $79.93$78.96Although the emergence of the English novel is generally regarded as an eighteenth-century phenomenon, this is the first book to be published professing to cover the 'eighteenth-century English novel' in its entirety. This Handbook surveys the... -
The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself by Dr. Andrew Pettegree
RRP: $33.13$29.27The extraordinary history of news and its dissemination, from medieval pilgrim tales to the birth of the newspaper Long before the invention of printing, let alone the availability of a daily newspaper, people desired to be informed. In the... -
The Oxford English Literary History: Volume V: 1645-1714: The Later Seventeenth Century by Margaret J. M. Ezell 9780198183112
$132.76The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more. Each of these thirteen groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered... -
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway 9780099285045
RRP: $19.48$13.86Hemingway's captivating memoir of living in Paris during the twenties.'If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast'Hemingway's memories of... -
A Little Book About Books: Quotes for the Bibliophile in Your Life by Orange Hippo!
RRP: $11.68$8.58The world of books in one little book. It doesn't matter how well read you are, A Little Book About Books is packed full of quotes, one-liners and famous lines from names that everyone will recognise. For bibliophiles, they'll enjoy recognising their... -
A Book of Book Lists: A Bibliophile's Compendium by Alex Johnson 9780712352253
RRP: $19.48$13.26This is a book of book lists. Not of the '1,001 Books You MUST Read Before You Die' variety but lists that tell stories. Lists that make you smile, make you wonder, and see titles together in entirely new ways. From Bin Laden's bookshelf to the books... -
Books v. Cigarettes by George Orwell
RRP: $15.58$11.29Beginning with a dilemma about whether he spends more money on reading or smoking, George Orwell's entertaining and uncompromising essays go on to explore everything from the perils of second-hand bookshops to the dubious profession of being a critic,... -
Marcel Proust's Search For Lost Time by Patrick Alexander
RRP: $29.23$19.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307472328Author Patrick AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 335gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
The Book Lover's Almanac: A Year of Literary Events, Letters, Scandals and Plot Twists by Alex Johnson 9780712354240
RRP: $38.98$26.03Enjoy daily distraction with this engaging Almanac. Each date is assigned one or more literary connections. Book lovers will find extracts from authors' diaries and letters, chance upon the narrative twists and transformative moments in their favourite... -
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020 by Salman Rushdie 9781529111996
RRP: $25.33$17.73From 'Best of the Booker' winner Salman Rushdie, an incisive and inspiring collection of non-fiction essays, criticism and speeches that takes readers on a thrilling journey through the evolution of language and culture.'One of the greatest writers of... -
Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
RRP: $37.03$26.54A darkly comic and moving reflection on what it means to be human in a world where nothing is certain, from the award-winning Oxford professor'The best book about multiple sclerosis'THE TIMES'An outstanding feat'SUNDAY TIMESWe all have trapdoors in our... -
F.M.R.L. - Footnotes, Mirages, Refrains and Leftovers of Writing Sound Daniela Cascella 9781782798170
RRP: $19.48$16.75Listening into writing, reading into writing take shape in F.M.R.L. through a collection of short texts, fragments and 'deranged essays', with attention to pacing and linguistic derives. An archive of books, notebooks, events and records prompts the... -
Letters to Gil by Malik Al Nasir
RRP: $39.00$13.36'A searing, triumphant story. A testament to the tenacity of the human spirit as well as a beautiful ode to an iconic figure' IRENOSEN OKOJIE Letters to Gil is... -
Novel Houses: Twenty Famous Fictional Dwellings by Christina Hardyment
RRP: $48.75$37.97'Novel Houses' visits unforgettable dwellings in twenty legendary works of English and American fiction. Each chapter stars a famous novel in which a dwelling is pivotal to the plot, and reveals how personally significant that place was to the writer who... -
Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They Do by Meredith Maran
RRP: $31.18$21.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452298156Author Meredith MaranFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 196g -
Agatha Christie’s Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World by Mark Aldridge
RRP: $48.75$32.82From the very first book publication in 1920 to the upcoming film release of Death on the Nile, this investigation into Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot celebrates a century of probably the world's favourite fictional detective. ... -
How to be Well Read: A guide to 500 great novels and a handful of literary curiosities by John Sutherland
RRP: $21.43$15.15'Generous, enjoyable and well informed.' Observer'500 expertly potted plots and personal comments on a wide range of pop and proper prose fiction.' The Times___________________________________________________________Ranging all the way from Aaron's Rod... -
Books that Changed the World: The 50 Most Influential Books in Human History Andrew Taylor 9781782069423
RRP: $21.43$14.43Books That Changed the World tells the fascinating stories behind 50 books that, in ways great and small, have changed the course of human history. Andrew Taylor sets each text in its historical context and explores its wider influence and legacy... -
Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook by Scott McEathron 9780415255288
RRP: $38.98$34.50This sourcebook offers an introduction to Thomas Hardy's crucial novel, offering:a contextual overview, a chronology and reprinted contemporary documents, including a selection of Hardy's poemsan overview of the book's early reception and recent critical... -
Power: A Reader by Mark Haugaard 9780719057298
RRP: $38.98$35.53An introductory guide to some of the most significant perspectives on the subject of power within social and political theory. Contains extracts from such leading contemporary thinkers as Giddens, Lukes and Bourdieu alongside recent conceptions of power... -
Meet Me in the Margins by Melissa Ferguson
RRP: $21.43$13.53You've Got Mail meets The Proposal-this romance is one for the books.Savannah Cade's dreams are coming true. The Claire Donovan, editor-in-chief of the most successful romance publishing company in the country, has requested to see the manuscript... -
A Year With C. S. Lewis: 365 Daily Readings from his Classic Works by C. S. Lewis 9780007532827
RRP: $21.43$15.39Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Seduced by Story by Peter Brooks
RRP: $33.13$19.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376639Author Peter BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar by Colm Toibin 9780330491389
RRP: $19.48$14.18In 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,... -
Ian McEwan's "Enduring Love": A Reader's Guide by Roger Clark 9780826414786
$35.28A critical examination of Ian McEwan and his novel, "Enduring Love", this title forms part of a series that aims to provide accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, acclaimed and influential novels of recent years. A team of...