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Blood Brothers: New Grade 9-1 New GCSE Grade English Literature AQA Text Guide (Collins GCSE 9-1 Snap Revision) by Collins GCSE
RRP: $10.27$8.75Exam Board: AQA Level: GCSE Grade 9-1 Subject: English Literature Suitable for the 2024 exams Everything you need to revise for your... -
Fierce Bad Rabbits: The Tales Behind Children's Picture Books by Clare Pollard
RRP: $18.85$13.33What 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... -
Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives by Helen Taylor
RRP: $20.57$14.46Ian McEwan once said, 'When women stop reading, the novel will be dead.' This book explains how precious fiction is to contemporary British women readers, and how they draw on it to tell the stories of their lives. Female readers are key to the... -
The Face: A Time Code by Ruth Ozeki
RRP: $17.14$11.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632060525Author Ruth OzekiFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Restless BooksPublisher Restless BooksWeight(grams) 115g -
The Working Class and Twenty-First-Century British Fiction: Deindustrialisation, Demonisation, Resistance by Phil O'Brien
RRP: $68.59$60.14The Working Class and Twenty-First-Century British Fiction looks at how the twenty-first-century British novel has explored contemporary working-class life. Studying the works of David Peace, Gordon Burn, Anthony Cartwright, Ross Raisin, Jenni Fagan, and... -
The Anatomy of Genres: How Story Forms Explain the Way the World Works by John Truby
RRP: $34.31$28.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374539221Author John TrubyFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)... -
Michel Faber by Rodge Glass 9781837644773
$58.47This 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... -
The Dark Enlightenment - Imperium Press by Nick Land 9781922602688
RRP: $42.87$30.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922602688Author Nick LandFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Imperium PressPublisher Imperium PressWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 108mm * 7mm -
Contemporary Literature and the Body: A Critical Introduction by Alice Hall 9781350180154
RRP: $34.29$30.21Contemporary Literature and the Body: a Critical Introduction introduces readers to key theorists and shifting critical trends in the field from 1940 to the present and examines these in relation to close readings of texts from a range of different... -
The Common Reader: Second Series (Collins Classics) by Virginia Woolf 9780008658458
RRP: $5.13$3.96HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts,... -
Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives by Helen Taylor 9780198827689
RRP: $27.43$20.41Ian McEwan once said, 'When women stop reading, the novel will be dead.' This book explains how precious fiction is to contemporary women readers, and how they draw on it to tell the stories of their lives. Female readers are key to the future of fiction... -
The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020 by Rachel Kushner
RRP: $17.14$12.20From the Booker-shortlisted author of The Mars Room, a career-spanning collection of spectacular essays about politics and culture.In The Hard Crowd, Rachel Kushner gathers a selection of her writing from over the course of the last twenty years that... -
Neil Gaiman in the 21st Century: Essays on the Novels, Children's Stories, Online Writings, Comics and Other Works by Tara Prescott 9780786494774
RRP: $25.71$22.35Neil Gaiman has emerged as one of the most influential literary figures of the twenty-first century, from his roots in graphic novels to experimental social media collaborations, from award-winning fantasy fiction to beloved children's books. To borrow a... -
Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy by Dr Steven Powell
RRP: $25.71$19.67THE TELEGRAPH'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR 2024 EDGAR ALLAN POE AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE H.R.F KEATING AWARD FOE BEST BIOGRAPHICAL/CRITICAL BOOK "As gripping and twisted as a James Ellroy novel." - Ian Rankin "A masterpiece of... -
The David Foster Wallace Reader by David Foster Wallace
RRP: $29.14$21.75'One of the most dazzling luminaries of contemporary American fiction' Sunday Times 'The most commanding and exciting and inventive rhetorical virtuosity of any writer alive... [He] nailed it like nobody else ever had' Jonathan Franzen'[He was] first... -
The House of Fiction: From Pemberley to Brideshead, Great British Houses in Literature and Life by Phyllis Richardson
RRP: $17.14$11.05From the gothic fantasies of Walpole's Otranto to post-modern takes on the country house by Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian McEwan, Phyllis Richardson guides us on a tour through buildings real and imagined to examine how authors' personal experiences helped to... -
Maus Now by Art Spiegelman
RRP: $34.31$25.49A richly illustrated book in which leading cultural critics, authors, and academics reflect on the radical achievement and innovation of Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece Maus'The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about... -
Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State by Kerry Howley
RRP: $39.45$26.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525655497Author Kerry HowleyFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf -
The Book About Everything: Eighteen Artists, Writers and Thinkers on James Joyce's Ulysses by Declan Kiberd
RRP: $18.85$12.21To celebrate the centenary of the publication of Ulysses, the most important literary work of the twentieth century, eighteen artists, writers and thinkers respond to an episode each of the great modernist text. Each essayist is an expert in one of... -
Aftermath by Preti Taneja
RRP: $20.57$20.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945492549Author Preti TanejaFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Transit BooksPublisher Transit Books -
Retroland: A Reader's Guide to the Dazzling Diversity of Modern Fiction by Peter Kemp 9780300269628
RRP: $34.31$29.13The essential companion for lovers of the contemporary novel Over the past fifty years, fiction in English has never looked more various. Books bulkier than Victorian three-deckers appear alongside works of minimalist brevity, and experiments with form... -
The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020 by Rachel Kushner 9781787332973
RRP: $32.57$21.41*A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021*From the Booker-shortlisted author of The Mars Room, a career-spanning collection of spectacular essays about politics and culture.Rachel Kushner is a writer celebrated for her 'chops, ambition, and killer instinct'... -
The House of Fiction: From Pemberley to Brideshead, Great British Houses in Literature and Life by Phyllis Richardson 9781783523801
RRP: $34.31$18.83From the gothic fantasies of Walpole's Otranto to post-modern takes on the country house by Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian McEwan, Phyllis Richardson guides us on a tour through buildings real and imagined to examine how authors' personal experiences helped to... -
Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age by Timothy Bewes
RRP: $51.46$39.14Everywhere today, we are urged to "connect." Literary critics celebrate a new "honesty" in contemporary fiction or call for a return to "realism." Yet such rhetoric is strikingly reminiscent of earlier theorizations. Two of the most famous injunctions of... -
A History of the Booker Prize: Contemporary Fiction Since 1992 by Merritt Moseley
RRP: $63.45$55.80In this book, Merritt Moseley offers a brief history of the Booker Prize since 1992. With a short chapter covering each year, we follow the change in criteria, the highs and lows, short lists, winners, and controversies of the Booker Prize. The book also... -
More Posthuman Glossary by Professor Rosi Braidotti
RRP: $37.72$30.88The notion of the posthuman continues to both intrigue and confuse, not least because of the huge number of ideas, theories and figures associated with this term. More Posthuman Glossary provides a way in to the dizzying array of posthuman concepts,... -
Writing Backwards: Historical Fiction and the Reshaping of the American Canon by Alexander Manshel 9780231211277
RRP: $51.46$39.14Contemporary fiction has never been less contemporary. Midcentury writers tended to set their works in their own moment, but for the last several decades critical acclaim and attention have fixated on historical fiction. This shift is particularly... -
Relating Suicide: A Personal and Critical Perspective by Anne Whitehead
RRP: $25.71$23.07Writing against the prevailing narrativization of suicide in terms of why it happened, Whitehead turns instead to the questions of when, how, and where, calling attention to suicide's materiality as well as its materialization. By turns provocative and... -
Lecture by Mary Cappello
RRP: $20.57$13.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945492426Author Mary CappelloFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Transit BooksPublisher Transit Books -
Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene: Imagining Futures and Dreaming Hope in Literature and Media by Dr Marek Oziewicz
RRP: $44.58$38.78The first study to look at the intersection of the discourse of the Anthropocene within the two highly influential storytelling modes of fantasy and myth, this book shows the need for stories that articulate visions of a biocentric, ecological... -
Gray Matters: Finding Meaning in the Stories of Later Life by Ellyn Lem
RRP: $54.89$38.23Winner of the 2021 Excellence in Research and Scholarly Activity Award from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Finalist for the 2021 American Book Fest Best Book Awards Aging is one of the most compelling issues today, with record numbers of seniors... -
The Poetry and Drama of Jackie Kay: (Scotnotes Study Guides) by Lorna Smith
RRP: $11.92$9.31Jackie Kay served as Scotland's Makar from 2016 to 2021 and is one of Scotland's foremost writers. Much of her work explores her own life and heritage, her upbringing and the cultural forces which shaped her. Many of her poems illuminate the stuff of... -
Douglas Coupland - Shopping in Jail: Ideas Essays and Stories for the Increasingly Real 21st Century by Douglas Coupland
$16.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783943365863Author Douglas CouplandFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 111gDimensions(mm) 195mm *... -
The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism by Sarah Chihaya 9780231194570
RRP: $34.31$26.66Like few other works of contemporary literature, Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels found an audience of passionate and engaged readers around the world. Inspired by Ferrante's intense depiction of female friendship and women's intellectual lives, four... -
Contemporary Novelists and the Aesthetics of Twenty-First Century American Life by Alexandra Kingston-Reese 9781609386757
RRP: $118.36$95.68Contemporary Novelists and the Aesthetics of Twenty-First Century American Life gives us a new way to view contemporary art novels, asking the key question: How do contemporary writers imagine aesthetic experience? Examining the works of some of the most... -
Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill by Helen Vendler 9780691145341
RRP: $42.88$38.47In Last Looks, Last Books, the eminent critic Helen Vendler examines the ways in which five great modern American poets, writing their final books, try to find a style that does justice to life and death alike. With traditional religious consolations no... -
The Literary Afterlives of Roger Casement, 1899–2016 by Alison Garden
RRP: $51.44$46.96This book explores the literary afterlives of one of Ireland's most enigmatic, shape-shifting and controversial sons, Roger Casement. A seminal human rights activist, a key figure in the struggle for Irish independence, a traitor to British... -
Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species by Ursula K. Heise
RRP: $41.17$39.50We are currently facing the sixth mass extinction of species in the history of life on Earth, biologists claim the first one caused by humans. Activists, filmmakers, writers, and artists are seeking to bring the crisis to the public's attention through... -
Using Digital Humanities in the Classroom: A Practical Introduction for Teachers, Lecturers, and Students by Dr Claire Battershill
RRP: $37.72$33.07Rooted in the day-to-day experience of teaching and written for those without specialist technical knowledge, this is a new edition of the go-to guide to using digital tools and resources in the humanities classroom. In response to the rapidly changing... -
Climate Lyricism by Min Hyoung Song
RRP: $39.43$33.62In Climate Lyricism Min Hyoung Song articulates a climate change-centered reading practice that foregrounds how climate is present in most literature. Song shows how literature, poetry, and essays by Tommy Pico, Solmaz Sharif, Frank O'Hara, Ilya...