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The Weird And The Eerie by Mark Fisher
RRP: $17.53$12.09What 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... -
Country Girl by Edna O'Brien
RRP: $25.33$16.69The BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls trilogy begins in August 2019.I thought of life's many bounties, to have known the extremities of joy and sorrow, love, crossed love and unrequited love, success and failure, fame and... -
Essays by George Orwell
RRP: $29.23$21.35The articles collected in George Orwell's Essays illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who elevated political writing to an art. This outstanding collection brings together Orwell's longer, major... -
Africa's Tarnished Name by Chinua Achebe
RRP: $5.85$4.86He needed to hear Africa speak for itself after a lifetime of hearing Africa spoken about by othersElectrifying essays on the history, complexity, diversity of a continent, from the father of modern African literature.Penguin Modern: fifty new books... -
Mom and Me and Mom by Maya Angelou
RRP: $17.53$12.09'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... -
Suddenly Sixty and Other Shocks of Later Life by Judith Viorst 9780684867632
RRP: $33.15$19.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684867632Author Judith ViorstFormat HardbackPage Count 79Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 249g -
Anathemas and Admirations by E M Cioran
RRP: $23.38$22.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611456882Author E M CioranFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 438gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
Virginia Woolf "The Hours. the British Museum Manuscript of _Mrs. Dalloway_ by Helen M Wussow 9781935625018
RRP: $107.25$90.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935625018Author Helen M WussowFormat PaperbackPage Count 524Imprint Pace University PressPublisher Pace University PressWeight(grams) 694gDimensions(mm)... -
GCSE English Language and English Literature Grade 9-1 WJEC Eduqas Complete Practice and Revision Guide with free online Q&A flashcard download (Collins GCSE 9-1 Revision) by Collins GCSE
RRP: $21.43$18.21Exam Board: WJEC Eduqas Level: GCSE 9-1 Subject: English Suitable for the 2024 exams Complete revision and... -
And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou 9780860687573
RRP: $19.48$13.26The 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,... -
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
RRP: $17.53$14.02Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works. Since Hemingway's personal papers were released in 1979, scholars have examined and debated the changes made to the text before publication. Now this... -
The Penguin Modern Classics Book by Henry Eliot
RRP: $58.50$43.97The essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the worldFor six decades the Penguin Modern Classics series has been an era-defining, ever-evolving series of books, encompassing works by modernist pioneers, avant-garde iconoclasts, radical... -
Surrealist Women's Writing: A Critical Exploration by Anna Watz 9781526167156
RRP: $29.23$26.60Surrealist 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... -
The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 by Martin Amis 9780099422228
RRP: $29.23$21.35Like John Updike, Martin Amis is the pre-eminent novelist-critic of his generation. The War Against Cliche is a selection of his reviews and essays over the past quarter-century. It contains pieces on Cervantes, Milton, Donne, Coleridge, Jane Austen,... -
The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell's 1984 by Dorian Lynskey
RRP: $19.48$14.18Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionLonglisted for the Orwell Prize for Political WritingThe Ministry of Truth charts the life of George Orwell's 1984, one of the most influential books of the twentieth century and a work that is ever... -
Paterson by William Carlos Williams
RRP: $27.28$23.28Paterson 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... -
How Novels Work by John Mullan
RRP: $18.51$13.22Never 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... -
The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1994-2016 by Martin Amis
RRP: $25.33$17.73Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction - his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed. The Rub of Time comprises superb critical pieces on Amis's heroes Nabokov,... -
Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction Grady Hendrix 9781594749810
RRP: $48.75$30.95SEE the amazing vintage book covers featuring well-dressed skeletons, evil dolls, knife-wielding killer crabs! READ the shocking plots involving devil worship, satanic children, and haunted real estate! LEARN the stories of long-forgotten creators as... -
The Collected Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
RRP: $25.33$17.73Dorothy Parker, more than any of her contemporaries, captured the spirit of the Jazz Age in her poetry and prose, and The Collected Dorothy Parker includes an introduction by Brendan Gill in Penguin Modern Classics.Dorothy Parker was the most... -
Fierce Bad Rabbits: The Tales Behind Children's Picture Books Clare Pollard 9780241354797
RRP: $21.43$15.15What is The Tiger Who Came to Tea really about? How is Meg and Mog related to Polish embroidery? And why does death in picture books involve being eaten? Fierce Bad Rabbits explores the stories behind our favourite picture books, weaving in tales of... -
Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature by Dan Sinykin 9780231192958
RRP: $48.75$38.20In the late 1950s, Random House editor Jason Epstein would talk jazz with Ralph Ellison or chat with Andy Warhol while pouring drinks in his office. By the 1970s, editors were poring over profit-and-loss statements. The electronics company RCA bought... -
Study and Revise for AS/A-level: A Streetcar Named Desire by Nicola Onyett
RRP: $24.38$23.09Exam Board: AQA A, AQA B, Edexcel, 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... -
Licence to Kill: The Science of 007 by Kathryn Harkup 9781472982261
RRP: $35.08$26.91'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,... -
Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right by Jennifer Burns 9780195324877
RRP: $49.71$37.91Worshipped by her fans, denounced by her enemies, and forever shadowed by controversy and scandal, the novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand was a powerful thinker whose views on government and markets shaped the conservative movement from its earliest days... -
The Selected Works of Edward Said: 1966-2006 by Edward Said
RRP: $33.13$23.95A definitive volume expanded and updated to do justice to the four decade career of one of the most important cultural and intellectual thinkers of the 21st century The renowned literary and cultural critic and political thinker Edward Said was one of... -
Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin
RRP: $25.33$17.73Jane Austen is the definitive biography of one of Britain's best-loved novelists, from the acclaimed author of Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, Charles Dickens: A Life and The Invisible Woman'As near perfect a life of Austen as we are likely to get:... -
Molla Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster, 1906-1911 by Janet Afary
RRP: $185.25$150.68In 1906, a group of artists and intellectuals reinterpreted the tales of the Middle Eastern trickster Nasreddin to construct a progressive anti-colonial discourse with a strong emphasis on social, political and religious reform. Using folklore, visual... -
The Hobbits of Tolkien by David Day 9780753733783
RRP: $33.13$23.95An entire race was born when J.R.R. Tolkien scrawled on a leaf, 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.' From the invention of that single word (hobbit) Tolkien became the explorer and chronicler of the character, their race and their significant... -
Ulysses Annotated: Revised and Expanded Edition by Don Gifford
RRP: $60.45$54.17Don Gifford's annotations to Joyce's great modern classic comprise a specialized encyclopedia that will inform any reading of "Ulysses". The suggestive potential of minor details was enormously fascinating to Joyce, and the precision of his use of detail... -
Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus: Philosophical and Critical Perspectives by Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge 9780190685423
$58.81Written in three weeks of creative inspiration, Rainer Maria Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus (1923) is well known for its enigmatic power and lyrical intensity. The essays in this volume forge a new path in illuminating the philosophical significance of this... -
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: $33.13$23.95The 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... -
Ulysses Unbound: A Reader's Companion to James Joyce's Ulysses by Terence Killeen
RRP: $21.43$15.15Ulysses 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... -
Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee
RRP: $33.13$24.73Hermione Lee sees Virginia Woolf afresh, in her historical setting and as a vital figure for our times. Her book moves freely between a richly detailed life-story and new attempts to understand crucial questions - the impact of her childhood, the cause... -
k-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2004-2016) by Mark Fisher
RRP: $58.50$39.78Edited 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... -
Vita: The Life of Vita Sackville-West by Victoria Glendinning
RRP: $33.13$25.66The Whitbread Prize-winning biography of Vita Sackville-West. Vita Sackville-West was a vital, gifted and complex woman. A dedicated writer, she made her mark as poet, novelist, biographer, travel writer, journalist and broadcaster. She was also one... -
Inventing Ireland: The Literature of a Modern Nation by Declan Kiberd
RRP: $33.13$23.95Kiberd - one of Ireland's leading critics and a central figure in the FIELD DAY group with Brian Friel, Seamus Deane and the actor Stephen Rea - argues that the Irish Literary Revival of the 1890-1922 period embodied a spirit and a revolutionary,... -
ReQuiem Por Un Campesino EspanOl by Ramon J. Sender
RRP: $29.23$18.70"Requiem per un campesino espanol" was first published under the title Mosen Millan in Coleccion Aquelarre,Mexico, 1953. The present text follows the first Spanish edition published by Destino, Barcelona, 1974, which bears a few minor variants, mainly in... -
The Unforgivable Cristina Campo 9781681378022
RRP: $33.13$22.50Apologies 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: $21.43$12.62'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.....