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Celebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer by Maya Angelou 9781844086153
RRP: £10.99£7.40A collection of poetry witnessing celebrations both private and public, from the author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS.'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMAMaya Angelou's poetry has stirred our souls,... -
The Philosophy of Hope: Beatitude in Spinoza Alexander Douglas (University of St Andrews, UK) 9781138594197
RRP: £36.99£32.53Can philosophy be a source of hope? Today it is common to believe that the answer is no - that providing hope, if it is possible at all, belongs either to the predictive sciences or to religion.In this exciting and stimulating book, however, Alexander... -
Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife by Francine Prose 9780061430800
RRP: £10.99£9.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061430800Author Francine ProseFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 199mm *... -
James Joyce and Trieste by Peter Hartshorn 9780313302527
£83.24Much attention has been given to Joyce's life in Dublin and Paris, but his productive years in Trieste have not received the same attention. In a thoroughly documented account, Hartshorn presents a clear, accessible study of Joyce's love/hate... -
Our Masters' Voices: The Language and Body-language of Politics by Max Atkinson
RRP: £35.99£31.69`Max Atkinson presents a neat blend of applied political psychology and communications theory that is bound to be read closely in the corridors of power. His study of the art of effective political persuasion will revolutionize - for the better -... -
Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London by Matthew Beaumont
RRP: £11.99£9.70"Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night," wrote the poet Rupert Brooke. Before the age of electricity, the nighttime city was a very different place to the one we know today - home to the lost, the vagrant and the noctambulant. Matthew... -
Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction by Charles Baxter 9781555975081
RRP: £18.00£11.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555975081Author Charles BaxterFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 161mm... -
Faulks on Fiction by Sebastian Faulks
RRP: £15.99£11.61Ever since Robinson Crusoe in 1719, the novel has introduced British readers to truly unforgettable characters - people in whom we can find deeper understanding of our own lives. In this engaging and personal book, Sebastian Faulks examines and... -
Boyhood: Scenes from provincial life by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: £10.99£7.77In Boyhood, J. M. Coetzee revisits the South Africa of half a century ago, to write about his childhood and interior life. Boyhood's young narrator grew up in a small country town. With a father he imitated but could not respect, and a mother he both... -
The Travel Writing Tribe: Journeys in Search of a Genre by Tim Hannigan
RRP: £12.99£11.95A Financial Times Travel Book of the Year 2021 Where can travel writing go in the twenty-first century? Author and lifelong travel writing aficionado Tim Hannigan sets out in search of this most venerable of genres, hunting down its legendary... -
How to Begin Studying English Literature by Nicholas Marsh 9781137508775
£25.45How to Begin Studying English Literature has established itself as one of the most successful and popular introductory student guides in the field. This fourth edition has been fully revised and expanded throughout, and now includes more examples and... -
Animus and Anima in Fairy Tales Marie-Louise Von Franz 9781894574013
RRP: £16.00£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894574013Author Marie-Louise Von FranzFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Inner City BooksPublisher Inner City Books -
The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books Saved My Life by Andy Miller
RRP: £10.99£7.25A working father whose life no longer feels like his own discovers the transforming powers of great (and downright terrible) literature in this laugh-out-loud memoir. Andy Miller had a job he quite liked, a family he loved and no time at all... -
Ian McEwan's "Enduring Love": A Reader's Guide by Roger Clark 9780826414786
£18.09A 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... -
The Ruins Lesson: Meaning and Material in Western Culture by Susan Stewart
RRP: £25.00£24.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226792200Author Susan StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher University of Chicago PressWeight(grams) 178g -
The Liberal Imagination by Lionel Trilling
RRP: £17.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590172834Author Lionel TrillingFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
How to Write Essays and Dissertations: A Guide for English Literature Students by Alan Durant 9780582784550
RRP: £36.99£35.74The first book that literature students should read, this guide reveals the distinct set of skills, conventions and methods of essay and dissertation writing.Taking students through the various stages of writing, from planning to final submission, it... -
Little Grey Cells: The Quotable Poirot by Agatha Christie
RRP: £9.99£7.26Discover the man behind the moustache in this book of one-liners by the world's most famous Belgian detective, revealing the wit and wisdom of Hercule Poirot and his creator, Agatha Christie. A perfect stocking-filler for every Christie fan, to help... -
Circus of Dreams: Adventures in the 1980s Literary World John Walsh 9781472133472
RRP: £12.99£8.60Something extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. In the space of eight years, a generation of young British writers took the literary novel into new realms of setting, subject matter and style, challenging - and almost eclipsing -... -
Brilliant Isles: Art That Made Us James Hawes 9781913083045
RRP: £8.99£6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913083045Author James HawesFormat HardbackImprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing -
Oxford Literature Companions: Como agua para chocolate: study guide for AS/A Level Spanish set text by Margaret Bond 9780198418375
£11.03Get to grips with set texts and be fully prepared for the AS/A Level exam with the Modern Languages Oxford Literature Companions. The Companions are written by experienced lecturers, teachers and examiners and provide comprehensive coverage of... -
Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination by Avery F. Gordon
RRP: £19.99£17.54"Avery Gordon's stunningly original and provocatively imaginative book explores the connections linking horror, history, and haunting. " -George Lipsitz "The text is of great value to anyone working on issues pertaining to the fantastic and the uncanny."... -
The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion by Wayne G. Hammond
RRP: £35.00£24.69A unique companion to The Lord of the Rings which relates the textual history of the Nation's Favourite Read; with a previously unpublished Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings, written by Tolkien himself. In The Lord of the Rings: A... -
12 Books That Changed The World: How words and wisdom have shaped our lives by Melvyn Bragg
RRP: £12.99£8.60When we think of great events in the history of the world, we tend to think of war, revolution, political upheaval or natural catastrophe. But throughout history there have been moments of vital importance that have taken place not on the battlefield, or... -
Marxism and Literature by Raymond Williams
RRP: £48.99£44.97This book extends the theme of Raymond Williams's earlier work in literary and cultural analysis. He analyses previous contributions to a Marxist theory of literature from Marx himself to Lukacs, Althusser, and Goldmann, and develops his own approach by... -
Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life by Natalie Goldberg 9781846042072
RRP: £15.99£11.61Wild Mind is for everyone who writes or wants to write. Natalie Goldberg teaches a Zen-like method that will take you straight to the source of creative power, to the mind that is 'raw, full of energy, alive and hungry'. These pages are packed with wise,... -
The Pilgrim's Progress: An Illustrated Christian Classic by John Bunyan 9781400216512
RRP: £14.99£11.35The Pilgrim's Progress has inspired readers across the centuries to persevere in their faith. For longstanding fans of Bunyan's tale, or for those encountering it for the first time, this illustrated edition offers new beauty and insight with striking... -
The Tree by John Fowles
RRP: £15.00£10.96John Fowles' writing life was dominated by trees. From the orchards of his childhood in suburban Essex,to the woodlands of wartime Devon, to his later life on the Dorset coast, trees filled his imagination and enriched his many acclaimed and best-selling... -
Renaissance Theories of Vision John Shannon Hendrix 9781138245488
RRP: £53.99£46.87How are processes of vision, perception, and sensation conceived in the Renaissance? How are those conceptions made manifest in the arts? The essays in this volume address these and similar questions to establish important theoretical and philosophical... -
The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage by Paul Elie 9780374529215
RRP: £11.99£9.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374529215Author Paul ElieFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 612g -
W. G. Sebald Uwe Schutte 9780746312995
RRP: £22.99£20.72W. G. Sebald was a literary phenomenon: a German literary scholar working in England, who took up creative writing out of dissatisfaction with German post-war letters. Within only a few years, his unique prose books made him one of the most celebrated... -
Strategies of Political Theatre: Post-War British Playwrights by Michael Patterson 9780521277327
RRP: £43.99£38.14This volume provides a theoretical framework for some of the most important play-writing in Britain in the second half of the twentieth century. Examining representative plays by Arnold Wesker, John Arden, Trevor Griffith, Howard Barker, Howard Brenton,... -
The Routledge Companion to Picturebooks Bettina Kummerling-Meibauer 9781032178837
RRP: £43.99£38.44Containing forty-eight chapters, The Routledge Companion to Picturebooks is the ultimate guide to picturebooks. It contains a detailed introduction, surveying the history and development of the field and emphasizing the international and cultural... -
Conjuring the Universe: The Origins of the Laws of Nature by Peter Atkins 9780198813378
RRP: £16.99£12.28The marvellous complexity of the Universe emerges from several deep laws and a handful of fundamental constants that fix its shape, scale, and destiny. There is a deep structure to the world which at the same time is simple, elegant, and beautiful. Where... -
For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: £12.99£8.56The global turmoil of the late 1980s and early 1990s severely tested every analyst and commentator. Few wrote with such insight as Christopher Hitchens about the large events - or with such discernment and wit about the small tell-tale signs of a... -
Stigmata: Escaping Texts by Helene Cixous 9780415345453
RRP: £16.99£15.22A 'wilful extremist' according to the London Times, Helene Cixous is hailed as one of the most formidable writers and thinkers of our time. Acclaimed by luminaries such as Jacques Derrida, her writing has nonetheless been misunderstood and misread, to a... -
Poems by Emily Dickinson 9781857157048
RRP: £12.00£8.44An exciting addition to Everyman's Library: a new series of small, handsome hardcover volumes devoted to the world's classic poets. Our books will have twice as many pages as Bloomsbury Classics ' 129pp and will cost 7. 99 against Bloomsbury's 9. 99. The... -
Basic Dutch: A Grammar and Workbook Jenneke A. Oosterhoff 9781032113029
RRP: £35.99£31.69Basic Dutch: A Grammar and Workbook comprises an accessible reference grammar and related exercises in a single volume. This second edition contains new chapters on spelling, pronunciation, and indirect speech, as well as revised and additional exercises... -
An Analysis of Nassim Nicholas Taleb's The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Eric R. Lybeck 9781912128204
RRP: £6.50£6.11One of the primary qualities of good creative thinking is an intellectual freedom to think outside of the box. Good creative thinkers resist orthodox ideas, take new lines of enquiry, and generally come at problems from the kinds of angles almost no one... -
Wild Mind, Wild Earth: Our Place in the Sixth Extinction by David Hinton
RRP: £17.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645471479Author David HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc