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Disintegration in Frames: Aesthetics and Ideology in the Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Cinema by Pavle Levi
RRP: $113.40$96.50Disintegration in Frames examines the ways in which national identity and interethnic relations are approached, evaluated, and critically dissected in films by directors such as Dusan Makavejev, Emir Kusturica, and Srdan Dragojevic; subcultural... -
Norfolk: A photographic journey through the land of Ruth Galloway by Elly Griffiths 9781529427523
RRP: $63.00$42.84A stunning companion to Elly Griffiths' beloved crime series, the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries, and a photographic journey through magical Norfolk.Norfolk, a land of peaceful broads, marshy fens, sprawling coastline and shady brecks, is the home of Dr Ruth... -
The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction by Ursula Le Guin
RRP: $16.78$12.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999675998Author Ursula Le GuinFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Ignota BooksPublisher Ignota Books -
The Screwtape Letters: Letters from a Senior to a Junior Devil (C. S. Lewis Signature Classic) by C. S. Lewis
RRP: $20.98$13.94A milestone in the history of popular theology, 'The Screwtape Letters' is an iconic classic on spiritual warfare and the power of the devil. This profound and striking narrative takes the form of a series of letters from Screwtape, a devil... -
The Devil Finds Work by James Baldwin
RRP: $31.50$18.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307275950Author James BaldwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 147gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
East of Eden by John Steinbeck 9780143129486
RRP: $39.90$25.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Oprah Book Club.Book InformationISBN 9780143129486Author John SteinbeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam... -
Rational Recovery: The New Cure for Substance Addiction by Jack Trimpey
RRP: $39.88$24.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671528584Author Jack TrimpeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & Schuster -
Essays On The Art Of Angela Carter: Flesh and the Mirror by Lorna Sage
RRP: $27.28$5.86Go out and get Carter. Get all her fiction, all her fact.' Ali Smith This distinguished volume of essays commemorates the work of Angela Carter. Here her fellow writers, along with an impressive company of critics, disuss the novels, stories and... -
How to Read a Book by Charles Van Doren
RRP: $23.08$14.70With half a million copies in print, How to Read a Book is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader, completely rewritten and updated with new material. Originally published in 1940, this book is a rare... -
Mere Christianity (C. S. Lewis Signature Classic) by C. S. Lewis
RRP: $20.98$13.94One of the most popular and beloved introductions to the concept of faith ever written, 'Mere Christianity' has sold millions of copies worldwide. The book brings together C.S. Lewis's legendary radio broadcasts during the war years, in which... -
Palestine by Joe Sacco
RRP: $42.00$32.38A 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 Qur'an by Muhammad Abdel Haleem 9780192805485
RRP: $31.48$23.84'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... -
Wanderers: A History of Women Walking by Kerri Andrews
RRP: $20.98$14.93Now 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: $35.68$26.19'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... -
Selected Diaries by Virginia Woolf
RRP: $27.28$19.09Virginia Woolf turned to her diary as to an intimate friend, to whom she could freely and spontaneously confide her thoughts on public events or the joys and trials of domestic life. Between 1st January 1915 and her death in 1941 she regularly recorded... -
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded edition by J. R. R. Tolkien 9780008628765
RRP: $63.00$40.26The 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... -
And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
RRP: $20.98$14.28The classic collection of poetry 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 - lyrical and dramatic, exuberant and playful - speaks of love,... -
Bedside Companion for Food Lovers: An anthology of literary morsels for every night of the year by Jane McMorland Hunter 9781849947961
RRP: $48.20$30.83A delicious literary anthology all about food. With extracts from over 200 authors, it embraces fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and even a smattering of recipes, with one piquant extract for every night of the year.This absorbing book is a literary feast... -
The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion by Wayne G. Hammond
RRP: $73.50$51.56A 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... -
Letting Stories Breathe by Arthur W. Frank
RRP: $44.10$42.65Stories accompany us through life from birth to death. But they do not merely entertain, inform, or distress us - they show us what counts as right or wrong and teach us who we are and who we can be. Though stories can connect individuals, they also can... -
Trivium: The Classical Liberal Arts of Grammar, Logic, & Rhetoric by John Martineau
RRP: $41.90$28.27If you've ever wanted to know more about the power of 'P', the hypnotic rhythm of anapestic tetrameter, or how to change the mood of a verb, then look no further. If you've ever needed to catch a red herring, wield a zeugma, deepen your pathos or... -
The Culture: The Drawings by Iain M. Banks 9780356519425
RRP: $105.00$72.87This 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... -
The Connell Short Guide To Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca by Theo Tait 9781907776939
RRP: $16.78$13.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776939Author Theo TaitFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Connell GuidesPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Gossip from the Forest: The Tangled Roots of Our Forests and Fairytales by Sara Maitland
RRP: $23.08$15.37Fairytales 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... -
Ulysses: A Reader's Odyssey by Daniel Mulhall
RRP: $29.38$20.48Marking 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 Collected Poems by Robert Frost
RRP: $27.28$19.09A 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: $71.38$66.36Creative 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,... -
Bedside Companion for Book Lovers: An Anthology of Literary Delights for Every Night of the Year by Jane McMorland Hunter
RRP: $48.20$30.62A glorious treasury of literary curiosities for every night of the year. Bedside Companion for Book Lovers contains an eclectic mix of fact and fiction, letters, diaries, essays and dedications, all suffused with the joys of books and reading. The... -
The Weird And The Eerie by Mark Fisher
RRP: $18.88$13.02What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the most haunting and anomalous fiction of the 20th century belongs to these two modes. The Weird and the Eerie are closely related but distinct modes, each... -
The Great White Bard: Shakespeare, Race and the Future by Farah Karim-Cooper
RRP: $46.20$30.35SHAKESPEARE: 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 ... -
Daphne Du Maurier by Daphne Du Maurier
RRP: $23.08$14.95The 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 Serpent Power: The Secrets of Tantric and Shaktic Yoga by Arthur Avalon 9780486230580
RRP: $44.08$29.11Apologies 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)... -
A Dictionary of Tolkien by David Day 9780753728277
RRP: $31.48$23.98Arranged in a handy A-Z format, A Dictionary of Tolkien explores and explains the creatures, plants, events and places that make up these strange and wonderful lands. It is essential reading for anyone who loves Tolkien's works and wants to learn... -
The Library of Greek Mythology by Apollodorus
RRP: $16.78$12.45The 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... -
The Best of A. A. Gill by Adrian Gill
RRP: $23.08$16.32For 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... -
It's Too Late Now: The Autobiography of a Writer by A.A. Milne 9780715655047
RRP: $20.98$14.53In his classic autobiography A. A. Milne, with his characteristic self-deprecating humour, recalls a blissfully happy childhood in the company of his brothers, and writes with touching affection about the father he adored. From Westminster School he... -
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes
RRP: $20.98$14.93'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 Poems by W. B. Yeats 9781857151039
RRP: $39.88$29.42A leader of the twentieth-century Irish nationalist movement, who eventually became one of the Free States's senators, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is also the greatest poet that nation has yet produced. The present selection includes poetry from... -
The Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath 9780385493918
RRP: $31.48$20.58Apologies 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 Feminine Mystique by Elizabeth Whitaker
RRP: $13.65$12.83Betty 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...