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k-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2004-2016) by Mark Fisher
RRP: $52.50$36.50Edited by Darren Ambrose and with a foreword by Simon Reynolds, this comprehensive collection brings together the work of acclaimed blogger, writer, political activist and lecturer Mark Fisher (aka k-punk). Covering the period 2004 - 2016, the collection... -
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
RRP: $20.98$14.93A fascinating insight into the vibrant culture of Modernism, and the rich artistic world of Paris's Left Bank, Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas includes an introduction by Thomas Fensch in Penguin Modern Classics.For Gertrude Stein... -
The Ring Legends of Tolkien: An Illustrated Exploration of Rings in Tolkien's World, and the Sources that Inspired his Work from Myth, Literature and History by David Day
RRP: $35.68$25.79The perfect Father's Day giftTolkien's One Ring, at the centre of one of the greatest fantasy tales ever told, is an undeniably iconic and powerful symbol in literature. Tracing centuries of ancient folklore, The Ring Legends of Tolkien is a deep and... -
X-Men by Stan Lee 9780143135777
RRP: $52.50$37.70Illustrated throughout, The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents specially curated cartoon anthologies of the world's greatest superheroesThe seeds of a pop-cultural phenomenon were sown with the launch of the first X-Men comic in 1963, at the... -
Fractured Borders: Reading Women's Cancer Literature by Mary K. DeShazer 9780472069095
RRP: $58.70$47.42Looks at the ways that literary artists have responded to women's cancer through poetry, drama, fiction, autobiography, and environmental writing. Women have been writing about cancer for decades, but since the early 1990s, the body of literature on... -
The Complete Tolkien Companion by J E a Tyler 9781250023551
RRP: $63.00$31.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250023551Author J E a TylerFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 206mm... -
The Unforgivable: And Other Writings by Cristina Campo 9781681378022
RRP: $35.68$24.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681378022Author Cristina CampoFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
What Am I Still Doing Here?: My Life as Me by Roger Lewis
RRP: $23.08$15.54'Unremittingly glorious. I and the world demand more and we shall thump our tin mugs on the table demanding it until we are satisfied.'Stephen FryLoveable... Dreadful... Amazing... Learned... Baroque... Exquisite... Utterly wonderful... Uplifting..... -
Michel Faber by Rodge Glass 9781837644773
$71.59This book by Rodge Glass, the award-winning novelist, short story writer and biographer, is the first ever detailed assessment of Michel Faber's life and work across genre and form. It draws on intimate, wide-ranging interviews with the author over a... -
History of the Gothic: Twentieth-Century Gothic by Lucie Armitt 9780708320433
RRP: $41.98$31.98Why, at a time when the majority of us no longer believe in ghosts, demons or the occult, does Gothic continue to have such a strong grasp upon literature, cinema and popular culture? This book answers the question by exploring some of the ways in which... -
Ulysses Unbound: A Reader's Companion to James Joyce's Ulysses by Terence Killeen
RRP: $23.08$16.32Ulysses is one of the foundational texts of modern literature, yet has a reputation for complexity and controversy. In Ulysses Unbound, Joyce expert Terence Killeen untangles this seemingly knotty classic to reveal the wonders beneath, in a clear and... -
Mom and Me and Mom by Maya Angelou
RRP: $18.88$13.02'In the first decade of the twentieth century, it was not a good time to be born black, or woman, in America.' So begins this stunning portrait of Vivian Baxter Johnson: the first black woman officer in the Merchant Marines, purveyor of a gambling... -
X-Men by Stan Lee 9780143135760
RRP: $88.20$62.20Illustrated throughout, The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents specially curated cartoon anthologies of the world's greatest superheroesThe seeds of a pop-cultural phenomenon were sown with the launch of the first X-Men comic in 1963, at the... -
Dylan Thomas: A New Life by Andrew Lycett
RRP: $31.48$20.58The definitive biography of the poet who was almost as notorious for his 'rock 'n' roll' lifestyle as his artistic workDylan Thomas was a romantic and controversial figure; a poet who lived to excess and died young. An inventive genius with a gift for... -
Twenty-First-Century Tolkien: What Middle-Earth Means To Us Today by Professor Nick Groom 9781838957001
RRP: $27.28$17.98'Fascinating.... Wonderfully exhilarating.' Mail on SundayFinalist for The Tolkien Society Best Book AwardAn engaging, original and radical reassessment of J.R.R. Tolkien, revealing how his visionary creation of Middle-Earth is more relevant now than... -
The Avengers by Stan Lee
RRP: $52.50$37.55Illustrated throughout, The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents specially curated cartoon anthologies of the world's greatest superheroesStarting in 1961, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and their collaborators transformed the superhero genre with a series... -
Song of the Earth by Jonathan Bate
RRP: $27.28$18.94The most important critical work for decades' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times In the brilliantly engaging style that characterised The Genius of Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate has written a series of compelling pieces on the link between literature and the... -
Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway by Michael Whitworth 9780230506428
$62.14Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway (1925) has long been recognised as one of her outstanding achievements and one of the canonical works of modernist fiction. Each generation of readers has found something new within its pages, which is reflected in its... -
What W. H. Auden Can Do for You by Alexander McCall Smith 9780691234533
RRP: $27.28$19.61Bestselling novelist Alexander McCall Smith's charming account of how the poet W. H. Auden has helped guide his life-and how he might guide yours, tooWhen facing a moral dilemma, Isabel Dalhousie-Edinburgh philosopher, amateur detective, and title... -
Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney by Dennis O'Driscoll 9780571242535
RRP: $35.68$24.32Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies; but no book-length portrait has appeared until now. Through his own lively and eloquent reminiscences, Stepping Stones retraces the poet's... -
And Still I Rise by Dr Maya Angelou
RRP: $23.08$15.54A beautiful and inspiring collection of poetry by Maya Angelou, author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS and 'a brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' (BARACK OBAMA).'I write about being a Black American woman, however, I am... -
The Connell Short Guide To Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot by Sophie Ratcliffe 9781907776786
RRP: $12.58$10.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776786Author Sophie RatcliffeFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Connell GuidesPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Paterson by William Carlos Williams
RRP: $29.38$26.19Paterson is both a place-the New Jersey city in whom the person (the poet's own life) and the public (the history of the region) are combined. Originally four books (published individually between 1946 and 1951), the structure of Paterson (in Dr... -
Modernism and Opera by Richard Begam 9781421420622
$92.02At first glance, modernism and opera may seem like strange bedfellows-the former hostile to sentiment, the latter wearing its heart on its sleeve. And yet these apparent opposites attract: many operas are aesthetically avant-garde, politically... -
Telling America's Story to the World: Literature, Internationalism, Cultural Diplomacy by Harilaos Stecopoulos 9780192864635
RRP: $178.50$161.97Telling America's Story to the World argues that state and state-affiliated cultural diplomacy contributed to the making of postwar US literature. Highlighting the role of liberal internationalism in US cultural outreach, Harilaos Stecopoulos contends... -
Modernism: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Butler
RRP: $18.88$13.55Is a tower block, your unmade bed, your lavatory basin, or the bicycle chained to the gate next door a work of art? Why should a novel have a beginning, a middle, and an end; or even a story? Whether we recognise it or not, virtually every aspect of our... -
Aspects of the Novel by E. M. Forster 9780141441696
RRP: $20.98$14.93E.M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel is an innovative and effusive treatise on a literary form that, at the time of publication, had only recently begun to enjoy serious academic consideration. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction... -
Study and Revise for AS/A-level: Skirrid Hill by Luke McBratney
RRP: $26.25$24.86Exam Board: AQA A, WJEC, WJEC EduqasLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: English literatureFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016Enable students to achieve their best grade in AS/A-level English Literature with this year-round course companion;... -
Study and Revise for AS/A-level: The Handmaid's Tale by Nicola Onyett
RRP: $26.25$24.86Exam Board: AQA A, AQA B, OCR, EdexcelLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: English literatureFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016Enable students to achieve their best grade in AS/A-level English Literature with this year-round course companion;... -
Spanish Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Jo Labanyi
RRP: $18.88$13.55Spanish literature has given the world the figures of Don Quixote and Don Juan, and is responsible for the 'invention' of the novel in the 16th century. The medieval period produced literature in Castilian, Catalan, Galician, Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew,... -
Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things by Ann Laura Stoler
RRP: $48.28$41.16Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality has been one of the most influential books of the last two decades. It has had an enormous impact on cultural studies and work across many disciplines on gender, sexuality, and the body. Bringing a new set of... -
A Little Learning: The First Volume of an Autobiography by Evelyn Waugh
RRP: $20.98$14.93'Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.' Waugh begins his story with heredity, writing of the energetic, literary and sometimes eccentric men and women who, unknown to themselves,... -
Modern Latin American Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria
RRP: $18.88$13.55In the 1960s, Latin American literature became known worldwide as never before. Writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Carlos Fuentes, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, and Mario Vargas Llosa all became part of the general culture of... -
A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-1918 by Joseph Loconte
RRP: $29.38$20.48Had there been no Great War, there would have been no Hobbit, no Lord of the Rings, no Narnia, and perhaps no conversion to Christianity by C. S. Lewis.The First World War laid waste to a continent and brought about the end of innocence-and the end of... -
The Penguin Book of Oulipo: Queneau, Perec, Calvino and the Adventure of Form by Philip Terry
RRP: $27.28$19.09A TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'Lovers of word games and literary puzzles will relish this indispensable anthology' The Guardian 'At times, you simply have to stand back in amazement' Daily Telegraph'An exhilarating feat, it takes its... -
The Perfect Stranger by P. J. Kavanagh 9781910463291
RRP: $18.88$13.15The Perfect Stranger was first published in the '60s and since then has continued to find a select group of passionate admirers. Evocative and engaging, and ultimately deeply emotional, The Perfect Stranger is the story of a soldier, a poet and a husband... -
Edward Bond by Michael Mangan 9780746308837
RRP: $39.25$35.87Edward Bond has been, since his controversial arrival on the theatrical scene in 1965, one of Britain's most distinctive and important theatre writers. This study examines his work, from The Pope's Wedding (1962) to Coffee (1995). It gives an overview of... -
All Sorts of Lives: Katherine Mansfield and the art of risking everything by Claire Harman 9781529918342
RRP: $23.08$16.32** The Sunday Times Best Literary Book of 2023**** A Waterstones Best Book of 2023**'All Sorts of Lives is a beautiful, fastidiously researched and fascinating exploration of Mansfield's life and work' A.L. KENNEDYRestless outsider, masher-up of form and... -
Junglist by Two Fingas
RRP: $23.08$15.54Back in print after two decades, Junglist tells the compelling, comic, stream-of-consciousness story of four young Black men coming of age among the raves and Jungle music scene in London during the 1990s. Layered with poetic verse, prose and... -
T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland by Seamus Perry
RRP: $18.88$13.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776274Author Seamus PerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD