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The Bloody Chamber: York Notes for AS & A2 by Steve Roberts 9781447913153 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99£2.29THE ULTIMATE GUIDES TO EXAM SUCCESS from York Notes - the UK's favourite English Literature Study Guides. York Notes for AS & A2 have been specifically designed for AS and A2 students to help you get the very best grade you can. They are... -
The Collected Poems by Robert Frost
RRP: £12.99£9.09A wonderful collection of Robert Frost's writingNo poet is more emblematically American than Robert Frost. Hailed as 'the most eminent, the most distinguished Anglo-American poet' by T.S. Eliot, he is the only writer in history to have been awarded four... -
Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings by Jane Yeh
RRP: £33.99£31.60Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings provides a complete creative writing course: from ways to jump-start your writing and inspire your creativity, right through to presenting your work to agents and publishers.It covers the genres of fiction,... -
Ulysses: A Reader's Odyssey by Daniel Mulhall
RRP: £13.99£9.75Marking the centenary of Ireland's - and possibly the world's - most famous novel, this joyful introductory guide opens up Ulysses to a whole new readership, offering insight into the literary, historical and cultural elements at play in James Joyce's... -
The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race Farah Karim-Cooper 9780861545346
RRP: £22.00£14.45SHAKESPEARE: increasingly irrelevant or lone literary genius of the Western canon? 'Powerful and illuminating' James Shapiro, author of 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, winner of the Baillie Gifford 'Winner of Winners' 2023 ... -
The Problem of Pain (C. S. Lewis Signature Classic) by C. S. Lewis
RRP: £9.99£6.64For centuries people have been tormented by one question above all - 'If God is good and all-powerful, why does he allow his creatures to suffer pain?' And what of the suffering of animals, who neither deserve pain nor can be improved by it? ... -
Gossip from the Forest: The Tangled Roots of Our Forests and Fairytales by Sara Maitland
RRP: £10.99£7.32Fairytales are one of our earliest and most vital cultural forms, and forests one of our most ancient landscapes. Both evoke a similar sensation in us - we find them beautiful and magical, but also spooky, sometimes horrifying. In this fascinating... -
The Culture: The Drawings by Iain M. Banks 9780356519425
RRP: £50.00£35.20This extraordinary collection celebrates the dazzling worldbuilding of Iain M. Banks, one of the most important and influential writers in modern science fiction.Faithfully reproduced from notebooks he kept in the 1970s and 80s, these annotated original... -
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 9780582823082 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99£1.78York Notes Advanced offer a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature. This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York... -
The Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath 9780385493918
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385493918Author Sylvia PlathFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group... -
The History of the Hobbit: One Volume Edition by John D. Rateliff
RRP: £35.00£24.69In one volume for the first time, this revised and updated examination of how J.R.R.Tolkien came to write his original masterpiece The Hobbit includes his complete unpublished draft version of the story, together with notes and... -
An Analysis of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique Elizabeth Whitaker 9781912128884
RRP: £6.50£6.11Betty Friedan's book The Feminine Mystique is possibly the best-selling of all the titles analysed in the Macat library, and arguably one of the most important. Yet it was the product of an apparently minor, meaningless assignment. Undertaking to... -
The Serpent Power: The Secrets of Tantric and Shaktic Yoga by Arthur Avalon 9780486230580
RRP: £20.99£13.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486230580Author Arthur AvalonFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Surrealist Women's Writing: A Critical Exploration by Anna Watz 9781526167156
RRP: £14.99£13.64Surrealist women's writing: A critical exploration is the first sustained critical inquiry into the writing of women associated with surrealism. Featuring original essays by leading scholars of surrealism, the volume demonstrates the extent and the... -
Daphne Du Maurier by Daphne Du Maurier
RRP: £10.99£7.12The definitive biography of Daphne Du Maurier, one of history's greatest psychological thriller novelistsRebecca, published in 1938, brought its author instant international acclaim, capturing the popular imagination with its haunting atmosphere of... -
The Best of A. A. Gill Adrian Gill 9781474607759
RRP: £10.99£7.77For over twenty years, people turned to A. A. Gill's columns every Sunday - for his fearlessness, his perception, and the laughter-and-tear-provoking one-liners - but mostly because he was the best. 'By miles the most brilliant journalist of our age', as... -
The Qur'an by Muhammad Abdel Haleem 9780192805485
RRP: £14.99£11.35'Read! Your Lord is the Most Bountiful one who taught by the pen, who taught man what he did not know.' The Qur'an, believed by Muslims to be the word of God, was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad 1400 years ago. It is the supreme authority in Islam... -
Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory: Fourth Edition by Peter Barry
RRP: £11.99£8.57Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for over two decades. This new and expanded fourth edition continues to offer readers the best single-volume introduction to the field. The... -
Palestine by Joe Sacco
RRP: £20.00£15.42A powerful graphic novel, capturing the heart of day-to-day life in occupied Palestine.In late 1991 and early 1992, at the time of the first Intifada, Joe Sacco spent two months with the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, travelling and taking... -
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Jonah S. Rubin
RRP: £6.50£6.11Eric Hoffer's The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements is one of the most widely read works of social psychology written in the 20th-century. It exemplifies the powers of creative thinking and critical analysis at their best, providing... -
William Shakespeare's Hamlet: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook Sean McEvoy (Varndean College, Brighton, UK and Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) 9780415314336
RRP: £19.99£17.69William Shakespeare's Hamlet (c.1600-1601) has achieved iconic status as one of the most exciting and enigmatic of plays. It has been in almost constant production in Britain and throughout the world since it was first performed, fascinating generations... -
Small Wars Permitting: Dispatches from Foreign Lands by Christina Lamb 9780007256891 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29An extraordinary collection of reportage that tells the story of some of the most important world events of the past 16 years, from one of the most talented and intrepid female journalists at work today. Since leaving England aged 21 with an... -
The Outsider by Colin Wilson
RRP: £9.99£6.80The classic study of alienation, creativity and the modern mind'Excitingly written, with a sense of revelation' GUARDIANTHE OUTSIDER was an instant literary sensation when it was first published in 1956, thrusting its youthful author into the front rank... -
The Pocket Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai by Yamamoto Tsunetomo
RRP: £9.99£6.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611806991Author Yamamoto TsunetomoFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Frankenstein: York Notes for AS & A2 by Glennis Byron 9781447913214 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99£2.29THE ULTIMATE GUIDES TO EXAM SUCCESS from York Notes - the UK's favourite English Literature Study Guides. York Notes for AS & A2 are brand new and have been specifically designed for AS and A2 students to help you get the very best grade you can. ... -
The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
RRP: £19.99£13.63Learn about the greatest works of literature, and the lives of those who wrote them in The Literature Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Literature... -
An Analysis of C.L.R. James's The Black Jacobins Nick Broten 9781912128891
RRP: £6.50£6.11Today we take it for granted that history is much more than the story of great men and the elites from which they spring. Other forms of history - the histories of gender, class, rebellion and nonconformity - add much-needed context and color to our... -
Jane Eyre: York Notes for AS & A2 by Karen Sayer 9781447948834 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99£2.29THE ULTIMATE GUIDES TO EXAM SUCCESS from York Notes - the UK's favourite English Literature Study Guides. York Notes for AS & A2 are specifically designed for AS & A2 students to help you get the very best grade you can. They are comprehensive, easy... -
Jane Eyre: York Notes for AS & A2 Karen Sayer 9781447948834
RRP: £7.99£7.02THE ULTIMATE GUIDES TO EXAM SUCCESS from York Notes - the UK's favourite English Literature Study Guides. York Notes for AS & A2 are specifically designed for AS & A2 students to help you get the very best grade you can. They are comprehensive, easy... -
Midsomer Murders on Location: A Guide to the Midsomer Counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Oxfordshire by Sabine Schreiner 9781901091373
RRP: £7.50£6.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901091373Author Sabine SchreinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Irregular Special PressPublisher Baker Street StudiosWeight(grams)... -
The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories by Christopher Booker
RRP: £19.99£16.31This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of 'basic stories' in the world. Using a wealth of examples, from ancient myths and folk tales via the plays... -
Superspy Science: Science, Death and Tech in the World of James Bond by Kathryn Harkup 9781472982254
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Witty and well researched.' THE TIMES 'A scientific dose of reality.' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'A fun and comprehensive exploration.' LINDA McROBBIE 'Endlessly fascinating.' LIBRARY JOURNAL The science behind James Bond's exploits - armaments, tactics,... -
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded edition by J. R. R. Tolkien 9780008628765
RRP: £30.00£19.53The comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life of one of the world's greatest storytellers, now revised and expanded to include more than 150 previously unseen letters, with revealing new insights into The Hobbit, The Lord... -
I Could Not Believe It: The 1979 Teenage Diaries of Sean DeLear by Sean Delear
RRP: £15.99£9.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635901832Author Sean DelearFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher Semiotext (E) -
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes
RRP: £9.99£7.11'May be the most detailed, painstaking anatomy of desire that we are ever likely to see or need again... An ecstatic celebration of love and language' Washington PostThe language we use when we are in love is not a language we speak. It is a language... -
The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £8.99£6.45Nietzsche's first published book, The Birth of Tragedy is a compelling argument for the necessity of art in lifeThis landmark work of criticism is fuelled by Nietzsche's enthusiasms for Greek tragedy, the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the music of... -
Treatise on the Whole-World: by Edouard Glissant Celia Britton 9781789621310
RRP: £22.99£20.72This exciting, challenging book covers a wide range of subject matter, but all linked together through the key ideas of diversity and 'Relation'. It sees our modern world, shaped by immigration and the aftermath of colonization, as a multiplicity of... -
The Picture of Dorian Gray: York Notes Advanced by Frances Gray 9781408217313 [USED COPY]
£14.00Packed full of analysis and interpretation, historical background, discussions and commentaries, York Notes will help you get right to the heart of the text you're studying, whether it's poetry, a play or a novel. You'll learn all about the historical... -
Literature: Why It Matters Robert Eaglestone (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) 9781509532322
RRP: £9.99£8.95'Facts alone are wanted in life,' exclaims Mr Gradgrind at the beginning of Dickens' Hard Times. Literature is not about facts alone, and - despite two and a half thousand years of arguments - no one can agree on what it is, or how to study it. But,... -
The Library of Greek Mythology by Apollodorus
RRP: £7.99£5.79The only work of its kind to survive from classical antiquity, the Library of Apollodorus is a unique guide to Greek mythology, from the origins of the universe to the Trojan War. Apollodorus' Library has been used as a source book by classicists...