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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: €7.13€6.07Exam Board: AQA Level: GCSE Grade 9-1 Subject: English Literature Suitable for the 2024 exams Everything you need to revise for your... -
The Dark Enlightenment - Imperium Press by Nick Land 9781922602688
RRP: €29.74€20.61Apologies 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 -
Fierce Bad Rabbits: The Tales Behind Children's Picture Books Clare Pollard 9780241354797
RRP: €13.08€9.25What 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... -
The Face: A Time Code Ruth Ozeki 9781632060525
RRP: €11.89€8.03Apologies 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 -
Michel Faber Rodge Glass 9781837644773
€40.57This 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... -
Mapping Fairy-Tale Space: Pastiche and Metafiction in Borderless Tales by Prof Christy Williams 9780814343838
RRP: €39.21€37.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814343838Author Prof Christy WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Wayne State University PressPublisher Wayne State University... -
The Emergence Of Memory: Conversations with W.G. Sebald by Lynne Sharon Schwartz 9781583229156
RRP: €15.46€10.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583229156Author Lynne Sharon SchwartzFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 171g -
The Common Reader: Second Series (Collins Classics) by Virginia Woolf 9780008658458
RRP: €3.56€2.75HarperCollins 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,... -
The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020 by Rachel Kushner
RRP: €11.89€8.46From 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... -
The Anatomy of Genres: How Story Forms Explain the Way the World Works by John Truby
RRP: €23.80€18.86Apologies 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)... -
The Tree by John Fowles
RRP: €17.85€13.04John Fowles' writing life was dominated by trees. From the orchards of his childhood in suburban Essex,to the woodlands of wartime Devon, to his later life on the Dorset coast, trees filled his imagination and enriched his many acclaimed and best-selling... -
Bukowski In A Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life by Kim Addonizio
RRP: €26.17€17.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143128465Author Kim AddonizioFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 198g -
To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight by Terrance Hayes 9781940696614
RRP: €21.41€14.64"Hayes leaves resonance cleaving the air." -NPRIn these works based on his Bagley Wright lectures on the poet Etheridge Knight, Terrance Hayes offers not quite a biography but a compilation "as speculative, motley, and adrift as Knight himself." Personal... -
Maus Now by Art Spiegelman
RRP: €23.80€17.01A 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... -
Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy by Dr Steven Powell
RRP: €17.84€13.98THE 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 Book About Everything: Eighteen Artists, Writers and Thinkers on James Joyce's Ulysses by Declan Kiberd
RRP: €13.08€8.47To 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... -
House of Fiction: From Pemberley to Brideshead, Great Houses in English Literature Phyllis Richardson 9781783526932
RRP: €11.89€7.66From 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... -
Retroland: A Reader's Guide to the Dazzling Diversity of Modern Fiction by Peter Kemp 9780300269628
RRP: €23.80€20.21The 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 Strength of Poetry by James Fenton 9780199261390
€41.94Why should a poet feel the need to be original? What is the relationship between genius and apprenticeship? James Fenton examines some of the most intriguing questions behind the making of the art - issues of creativity and the 'earning' of success, of... -
Aftermath by Preti Taneja
RRP: €14.27€13.60Apologies 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 -
Lecture by Mary Cappello
RRP: €14.27€9.52Apologies 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 -
Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species by Ursula K. Heise
RRP: €28.56€27.41We 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... -
The Global Novel: Writing the World in the 21st Century by Adam Kirsch 9780997722901
RRP: €11.89€8.03What will 21st century fiction look like? Acclaimed literary critic Adam Kirsch examines some of our most beloved writers, including Haruki Murakami, Elena Ferrante, Roberto Bolano, and Margaret Atwood, to better understand literature in the age of... -
Placeless People: Writings, Rights, and Refugees by Lyndsey Stonebridge
RRP: €42.23€40.64In 1944 the political philosopher and refugee, Hannah Arendt wrote: 'Everywhere the word 'exile' which once had an undertone of almost sacred awe, now provokes the idea of something simultaneously suspicious and unfortunate.' Today's refugee 'crisis' has... -
The David Foster Wallace Reader by David Foster Wallace
RRP: €20.22€15.09'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... -
Contemporary Literature and the Body: A Critical Introduction by Alice Hall 9781350180154
RRP: €23.79€20.96Contemporary 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 House of Fiction: From Pemberley to Brideshead, Great British Houses in Literature and Life by Phyllis Richardson 9781783523801 [USED COPY]
RRP: €23.80€3.15From 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... -
The House of Fiction: From Pemberley to Brideshead, Great British Houses in Literature and Life by Phyllis Richardson 9781783523801
RRP: €23.80€13.38From 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... -
Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene: Imagining Futures and Dreaming Hope in Literature and Media by Dr Marek Oziewicz
RRP: €30.93€26.91The 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... -
Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives by Helen Taylor
RRP: €15.46€10.82Ian 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... -
More Posthuman Glossary by Professor Rosi Braidotti
RRP: €26.17€22.94The 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,... -
Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age by Timothy Bewes
RRP: €35.70€27.72Everywhere 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... -
Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives by Helen Taylor 9780198827689
RRP: €20.22€14.98Ian 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... -
Relating Suicide: A Personal and Critical Perspective Anne Whitehead 9781350192164
RRP: €17.84€16.01Writing 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... -
Writing Backwards: Historical Fiction and the Reshaping of the American Canon by Alexander Manshel 9780231211277
RRP: €35.70€27.72Contemporary 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... -
Gray Matters: Finding Meaning in the Stories of Later Life by Ellyn Lem
RRP: €34.50€29.70Winner 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... -
Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction by Bruce Robbins 9781503633209
RRP: €22.60€19.90An accessible introduction to cultural theory and an original polemic about the purpose of criticism. What is criticism for? Over the past few decades, impassioned disagreements over that question in the academy have burst into the news media. These... -
Shopping in Jail: Ideas, Essays, and Stories for the Increasingly Real Twenty-First Century Douglas Coupland 9783943365863
€11.35Apologies 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: €23.80€18.91Like 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... -
Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State by Kerry Howley
RRP: €27.37€17.05Apologies 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