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1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four (Collins Classics) by George Orwell
RRP: $5.13$3.02HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Winston Smith rewrites history. It's his job. Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, he helps the Party, and the... -
The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature by C. S. Lewis 9781107604704
RRP: $25.71$21.53The Discarded Image paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. It describes the 'image' discarded by later years as 'the medieval synthesis... -
Goodbye Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land by Jacob Mikanowski 9780861547326
RRP: $18.85$12.66An 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... -
Michel Houellebecq: Humanity and its Aftermath by Douglas Morrey 9781846318610
$58.46An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.Michel Houellebecq is perhaps the single most successful and controversial of all contemporary novelists writing in French. Houellebecq has... -
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
RRP: $17.14$11.00Pippi Longstocking is nine years old. She has just moved into Villa Villekulla where she lives all by herself with a horse, a monkey, and a big suitcase full of gold coins. The grown-ups in the village try to make Pippi behave in ways that they think a... -
A Bookshop of One’s Own: How a group of women set out to change the world by Jane Cholmeley 9780008651046
RRP: $29.14$19.67The captivating true story of an underdog business - a feminist bookshop founded in Thatcher's Britain - from a woman at the heart of the women's liberation movement. An Independent and Stylist Best Non-Fiction Book... -
What Was Shakespeare Really Like? by Stanley Wells 9781009340373
RRP: $25.71$16.95Sir Stanley Wells is one of the world's greatest authorities on William Shakespeare. Here he brings a lifetime of learning and reflection to bear on some of the most tantalising questions about the poet and dramatist that there are. How did he think,... -
Wanderers: A History of Women Walking by Kerri Andrews
RRP: $17.14$12.20Now 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... -
Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music by Alex Ross
RRP: $29.14$21.39'An absolutely masterly work' Stephen Fry Alex Ross, renowned author of the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics-an aesthetic war zone where... -
Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year by Eleanor Parker 9781789147735
RRP: $18.85$13.33Now available in paperback, Winters in the World is a beautifully observed journey through the cycle of the year in Anglo-Saxon England, exploring the festivals, customs and traditions linked to the different seasons. Drawing on a wide variety of source... -
1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four (Collins Classics) by George Orwell 9780008442613
RRP: $13.71$10.27The international bestselling classic from the author of Animal Farm. Winston Smith rewrites history. It's his job. Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, he helps the Party, and the omnipresent Big Brother,... -
Your New Baby: An Owner's Manual by Martin Baxendale
RRP: $6.84$4.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780951354216Author Martin BaxendaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Silent But Deadly PublicationsPublisher Silent But Deadly Publications -
Dr Faustus 1616 by Chiaki Hanabusa
RRP: $77.19$55.51This is an edition of Christopher Marlowe's play Dr Faustus as it was printed in its revised and augmented form in 1616. It follows the publication of the Malone Society edition of the 1604 text in 2018. This is one of the most celebrated of all... -
Dylan Thomas Omnibus: Under Milk Wood, Poems, Stories and Broadcasts by Dylan Thomas
RRP: $18.85$7.05All Dylan Thomas' major works gathered together and featuring a bold new livery in celebration of the Dylan Thomas centenary.A rich collection of Dylan Thomas' best-loved poems and stories, such as PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG DOG, and pieces he... -
The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes by Jackson Crawford 9781624663567
RRP: $30.86$25.01"The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a Modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!) and well worth the wait. These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge... -
All Before Me: A Search for Belonging in Wordsworth’s Lake District by Esther Rutter 9781783787951
RRP: $29.14$19.86In her early twenties, Esther Rutter suffered an acute mental breakdown while teaching English in Japan. Sectioned and held in a Japanese psychiatric institution until she could be flown home under escort, her recovery only began when she came to live... -
The History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey Monmouth
RRP: $22.28$14.27Completed in 1136, The History of the Kings of Britain traces the story of the realm from its supposed foundation by Brutus to the coming of the Saxons some two thousand years later. Vividly portraying legendary and semi-legendary figures such as Lear,... -
Lord of the Flies: New Grade 9-1 GCSE English Literature AQA Text Guide (Collins GCSE 9-1 Snap Revision) by Collins GCSE
RRP: $10.27$5.69Exam Board: AQA Level: GCSE Grade 9-1 Subject: English Literature Suitable for the 2024 exams Everything you need to revise for your... -
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy 9780393937527
$22.86The text of the novel is again based on Hardy's final revision for the 1912 Wessex Edition. The Norton Critical Edition includes: expanded footnotes, further drawing out Hardy's web of allusions and comprehensively indicating the material culture in... -
The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis
RRP: $17.14$12.33C.S. Lewis's dazzling allegory about heaven and hell - and the chasm fixed between them - is one of his most brilliantly imaginative tales, as he takes issue with the ideas in William Blake's 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell'. In a dream, the... -
The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story by Philip Hensher
RRP: $18.85$13.33'Sometimes - not often - a book comes along that feels like Christmas. Philip Hensher's timely, but timeless, selection of the best short stories from the past 20 years is that kind of book. His introduction is as enriching as anything that has been... -
England's Insular Imagining: The Elizabethan Erasure of Scotland by Lorna Hutson 9781009253574
RRP: $51.46$45.20How have the English conceived of Scotland? Lorna Hutson's book is an essential intervention in the contested narrative of British nationhood. It argues that England deployed a mythical 'British History' in pursuing dominion over its northern neighbour:... -
The Brothers Lionheart by Astrid Lindgren
RRP: $13.71$9.37There'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... -
The Collected Poems: with parallel Greek text by Constantine P. Cavafy
RRP: $17.14$12.20'a Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe' E. M. Forster E. M. Forster's description of C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) perfectly encapsulates the unique perspective Cavafy brought to bear on history... -
The Last Englishman: The Life of J.L. Carr by Byron Rogers 9781781311523
RRP: $30.88$20.82'A fine biography...Rogers has done a wonderful job' Daily Telegraph J. L. Carr was the most English of Englishmen: headmaster of a Northamptonshire school, cricket enthusiast and campaigner for the conservation of country churches. But he was also the... -
Philip Allan Literature Guide (for GCSE): The Woman in Black by Margaret Mulheran
$25.51For study or revision, these guides are the perfect accompaniment to the set text, providing invaluable background and exam advice. Philip Allan Literature Guides (for GCSE) offer succinct and accessible coverage of all key aspects of the set text and... -
Adverse Genres in Fernando Pessoa by K. David Jackson 9780195391213
RRP: $157.81$142.99This book is an introduction to and interpretation of the world of Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935), one of the most fascinating and complex figures in European literary modernism and the avant-garde. Raised in South Africa and writing much of his literary... -
The Complete Brecht Toolkit by Stephen Unwin
RRP: $22.28$15.47A practical, hands-on guide - for actors, directors, teachers and students - to Brecht's theory and practice of theatre, with a full set of exercises to help put theory into practice. The Complete Brecht Toolkit examines, one by one, Brecht's many,... -
How Novels Work by John Mullan
RRP: $15.42$11.06Never has contemporary fiction been more widely discussed and passionately analysed; recent years have seen a huge growth in the number of reading groups and in the interest of a non-academic readership in the discussion of how novels work. Drawing on... -
Selected Poems and Prose by Edward Thomas
RRP: $18.85$13.33The selected poems and prose writings of Edward Thomas, with a Foreword from Robert Macfarlane, author of The Old Ways'I have come to the borders of sleep, The unfathomable deepForest where all must loseTheir way, however straight,Or winding, soon or... -
The Tain: From the Irish epic Tain Bo Cuailnge by Louis Le Brocquy
RRP: $18.85$13.67The Tain Bo Cuailnge, centre-piece of the eighth-century Ulster cycle of heroic tales, is Ireland's greatest epic. It tells the story of a great cattle-raid, the invasion of Ulster by the armies of Medb and Ailill, queen and king of Connacht, and their... -
The Poetic Edda by Carolyne Larrington
RRP: $17.14$12.20'She sees, coming up a second time, Earth from the ocean, eternally green; the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them, over the mountain hunting fish.' After the terrible conflagration of Ragnarok, the earth rises serenely again from the... -
The House of Ulloa by Emilia Pardo Bazan
RRP: $17.14$12.20A rich and unforgettable tragic-comic novel of sexual intrigue and political scheming, The House of Ulloa is one of the greatest works of nineteenth-century Spanish literature.The House of Ulloa follows pure and pious Father Julian Alvarez, who is sent... -
The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White 9780199591961
RRP: $25.71$18.78Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne (1789) reveals a world of wonders in nature. Over a period of twenty years White describes in minute detail the behaviour of animals through the changing seasons in the rural Hampshire parish of Selborne. He... -
Conrad's Decentered Fiction by Johan Adam Warodell
RRP: $128.65$116.19What are the fingerprints of Joseph Conrad's fiction? This richly illustrated book argues that Conrad's vibrant details set him apart as a writer and brings them from the margins to the center for study. With recently discovered primary sources -... -
Green Retreats: Women, Gardens and Eighteenth-Century Culture by Stephen Bending
RRP: $41.15$35.63Green Retreats presents a lively and beautifully illustrated account of eighteenth-century women in their gardens, in the context of the larger history of their retirement from the world - whether willed or enforced - and of their engagement with the... -
Spirals: The Whirled Image in Twentieth-Century Literature and Art by Nico Israel 9780231153034
RRP: $37.74$29.14In this elegantly written and beautifully illustrated book, Nico Israel reveals how spirals are at the heart of the most significant literature and visual art of the twentieth century. Juxtaposing the work of writers and artists-including W. B. Yeats and... -
Reading William Blake by Saree Makdisi
RRP: $27.43$23.84William Blake (1757-1827) is one of the most original and influential figures of the Romantic Age, known for his work as an artist, poet and printmaker. Grounding his ideas both in close reading and in the latest scholarship, Saree Makdisi offers an... -
Winter Evening Tales by James Hogg 9780748620869
RRP: $34.29$28.85Winter Evening Tales (1820; second edition 1821) was James Hogg's most successful work of prose fiction in his lifetime. Its experimental medley of novellas, tales, poems and sketches posed a lively alternative to the dominant form of the historical... -
Seven Viking Romances by Hermann Palsson
RRP: $22.28$15.59Combining traditional myth, oral history and re-worked European legend to depict an ancient realm of heroism and wonder, the seven tales collected here are among the most fantastical of all the Norse romances. Powerfully inspired works of Icelandic...