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A Queen for All Seasons: A Celebration of our One and Only Queen Elizabeth II on her Platinum Jubilee by Joanna Lumley
RRP: £20.00£13.75'Lovely... delivers the warmest of glows' - Telegraph'Who wouldn't love this chocolate-box delight of insights and snapshots of The Queen...A treasure chest' - Good HousekeepingA sparkling celebration of our much-loved Queen Elizabeth II including... -
Culture and Society: 1780-1950 by Raymond Williams
RRP: £12.99£9.09Acknowledged as a masterpiece of materialist criticism, this book delves into the complex ways economic reality shapes the imagination. Surveying two hundred years of history and English literature - from George Eliot to George Orwell - Williams provides... -
The Oxford Companion to the Brontes: Anniversary edition by Christine Alexander 9780198819950
RRP: £32.49£24.19This special edition of The Oxford Companion to the Brontes commemorates the bicentenary of Emily Bronte's birth in July 1818 and provides comprehensive and detailed information about the lives, works, and reputations of the Brontes - the three sisters... -
By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean: The Birth of Eurasia by Barry Cunliffe
RRP: £25.99£19.28By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean is nothing less than the story of how humans first started building the globalized world we know today. Set on a huge continental stage, from Europe to China, it is a tale covering over 10,000 years, from the origins of... -
Notes Towards the Definition of Culture by T. S. Eliot
RRP: £10.99£7.32'The term culture ... includes all the characteristic activities and interests of a people; Derby Day, Henley Regatta, Cowes, the twelfth of August, a cup final, the dog races, the pin table, the dart board, Wensleydale cheese, boiled cabbage cut into... -
The Annotated Collected Poems by Edward Thomas
RRP: £15.00£10.20Edward Thomas wrote a lifetime's poetry in two years. Already a dedicated prose writer and influential critic, he became a poet only in December 1914, at the age of 36. In April 1917 he was killed at Arras. Often viewed as a 'war poet', he wrote nothing... -
Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations by Toni Morrison
RRP: £9.99£7.11"She was our conscience. Our seer. Our truth-teller. She was a magician with language, who understood the power of words." - Oprah WinfreyA vital non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated and revered American writersSpanning four decades,... -
Shakespearean: On Life & Language in Times of Disruption by Robert McCrum
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Enchanting' - Simon Russell Beale 'Remarkable' - James Shapiro'Wonderful . . . compulsively readable' - Nicholas HytnerWhy do the collected works of an Elizabethan writer continue to speak to us as if they were written yesterday?When Robert McCrum began... -
The Iliad: A New Translation by Peter Green by Homer 9780520281431
RRP: £14.99£12.27One of the oldest extant works of Western literature, the Iliad is a timeless epic poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic pride and the arbitrary, often vicious decisions of fate and the gods. Renowned scholar and acclaimed translator... -
Lost Time: Lectures On Proust In A Soviet Prison Camp by Eric Karpeles
RRP: £11.99£8.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681372587Author Eric KarpelesFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,... -
Maus Now by Art Spiegelman
RRP: £20.00£14.86A 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... -
Paris: A Literary Anthology by Zachary Seager 9781035023615
RRP: £9.99£6.52Take a literary stroll through the streets of Paris, visit its world-famous monuments, delve into its history and wander amongst its poets and artists.Countless author and poets have found home on the streets of Paris. In Paris: A Literary Anthology,... -
Aftermath by Preti Taneja
RRP: £11.99£11.83Apologies 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 -
A Queen for All Seasons: A Celebration of Queen Elizabeth II by Joanna Lumley
RRP: £10.99£7.40'Lovely... delivers the warmest of glows' - Telegraph 'Who wouldn't love this chocolate-box delight of insights and snapshots of The Queen...A treasure chest' - Good Housekeeping In 2022 Queen Elizabeth II celebrated seventy years as Queen and Head of... -
Possessed: A Cultural History of Hoarding by Rebecca R. Falkoff 9781501752803
RRP: £16.99£13.30In Possessed, Rebecca R. Falkoff asks how hoarding-once a paradigm of economic rationality-came to be defined as a mental illness. Hoarding is unique among the disorders included in the American Psychiatric Association's DSM-5, because its diagnosis... -
Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume II, Issue 2 by Leon Wieseltier
RRP: £13.99£9.26About the AuthorLeon Wieseltier is the editor of Liberties. Celeste Marcus is the managing editor of Liberties. Martha C. Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago and author most... -
The Dictionary Wars: The American Fight over the English Language by Peter Martin 9780691188911
RRP: £25.00£19.18A compelling history of the national conflicts that resulted from efforts to produce the first definitive American dictionary of English In The Dictionary Wars, Peter Martin recounts the patriotic fervor in the early American republic to produce a... -
Arabian Nights of 1934 by Geoffrey O'brien
RRP: £23.00£15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949597271Author Geoffrey O'brienFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Terra Nova PressPublisher Terra Nova Press -
The Paper Chase: The Printer, the Spymaster, and the Hunt for the Rebel Pamphleteers by Joseph Hone
RRP: £9.99£7.11Longlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown'A remarkable achievement' SpectatorIn the summer of 1705, a masked woman knocked on the door of a London printer's workshop. She did not leave her name, only a package and the promise of protection. Soon after, an... -
Asian Interventions in Global Shakespeare: ‘All the World’s His Stage’ by Poonam Trivedi
RRP: £36.99£32.53This volume critically analyses and theorises Asian interventions in the expanding phenomenon of Global Shakespeare. It interrogates Shakespeare's 'universality' from Asian perspectives: how this has been modified or even replaced by the 'global bard' as... -
Writing Backwards: Historical Fiction and the Reshaping of the American Canon by Alexander Manshel 9780231211277
RRP: £30.00£22.82Contemporary 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... -
Disaster Mon Amour by David Thomson
RRP: £16.99£14.61A deep-and darkly comic-dive into the nature of disasters, and the ways they shape how we think about ourselves in the world "In this brilliant book, David Thomson tells the story of how we came to make disaster and catastrophe our best friends-how we... -
The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature by W. Michelle Wang 9780367619053
RRP: £43.99£38.44The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature seeks to understand the ways in which literature has engaged deeply with the ever-evolving relationship humanity has with its ultimate demise. It is the most comprehensive collection in this growing field... -
A Queen for All Seasons: A Celebration of Queen Elizabeth II by Joanna Lumley 9781529375930
RRP: £14.99£11.39'Lovely... delivers the warmest of glows' - Telegraph'Who wouldn't love this chocolate-box delight of insights and snapshots of The Queen...A treasure chest' - Good HousekeepingA sparkling celebration of our much-loved Queen Elizabeth II including... -
The Literary Afterlives of Roger Casement, 1899–2016 by Alison Garden
RRP: £29.99£27.38This 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... -
The Kingdom of Redonda: The Curious History of the Kingdom of Redonda by Michael Hingston
RRP: £13.99£9.26In the middle of the Caribbean, there sits a small island called Redonda. But what at first appears to be an uninhabited rock turns out to also be the site of a fragmented, fiercely contested kingdom that dates back more than a century-a kingdom of... -
The Oxford English Literary History: Volume I: 1000-1350: Conquest and Transformation by Laura Ashe
RRP: £32.49£28.41The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more. Each of these thirteen groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered... -
Civilizing War: Imperial Politics and the Poetics of National Rupture by Nasser Mufti 9780810136021
RRP: £34.95£28.78Civilizing War traces the historical transformation of civil war from a civil affair into an uncivil crisis. Civil war is today synonymous with the global refugee crisis, often serving as grounds for liberal-humanitarian intervention and nationalist... -
Forms of Dictatorship: Power, Narrative, and Authoritarianism in the Latina/o Novel by Jennifer Harford Vargas 9780190079673
RRP: £28.49£26.27An intra-ethnic study of Latina/o fiction written in the United States from the early 1990s to the present, Forms of Dictatorship examines novels that depict the historical reality of dictatorship and exploit dictatorship as a literary trope. This... -
The Making and Unmaking of Colonial Cities: Urban Planning, Imperial Power, and the Improvisational Itineraries of the Poor by Julia C. Obert 9780198881247
RRP: £65.00£58.56The Making and Unmaking of Colonial Cities is a comparative study of architectural space in four (post-)colonial capitals: Belfast, Northern Ireland; Windhoek, Namibia; Bridgetown, Barbados; and Hanoi, Vietnam. Each chapter takes up one of these cities,... -
Late Churchill: Language from Crisis to Death by Jonathan Locke Hart 9781032536217
RRP: £135.00£117.68This book focuses on a close analysis of selected speeches of Winston Churchill in the House of Commons and some of the responses from fellow MPs from the middle of 1940 to the death of Churchill in 1965, speeches in war and peace, during the aggression... -
Apocalyptic Patterns in Twentieth-Century Fiction by David Leigh
RRP: £90.00£78.77David J. Leigh explores the innovative influences of the Book of Revelation and ideas of an end time on fiction of the twentieth century, and probes philosophical, political, and theological issues raised by apocalyptic writers from Walker Percy, C. S... -
Recounting Deviance: Forms and Practices of Presenting Divergent Behaviour in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. in Collaboration with Kristina Muller-Bongard by Jorg Rogge
RRP: £33.99£28.01How do historical sources narrate or recount deviance? Is there a relationship between the manner in which divergent behaviour is recounted and the type of source in which this behaviour is presented? The articles present examples of the recounting of... -
Creating Communities: Towards a Description of the Mask-Function in Literature by Nourit Melcer-Padon
RRP: £38.99£31.98How does historical reality interrelate with fiction? And how much are readers themselves involved in fictional literature? With innovative interpretations of various well-known texts, Nourit Melcer-Padon introduces the use of literary masks and... -
The Plague in Print: Essential Elizabethan Sources, 1558–1603 by Rebecca Totaro
RRP: £31.95£28.07In The Plague in Print, Rebecca Totaro takes the reader into the world of plague-riddled Elizabethan England, documenting the development of distinct subgenres related to the plague and providing unprecedented access to important original sources of... -
The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700 by Lorna Hutson 9780198857358
£39.14This Handbook triangulates the disciplines of history, legal history, and literature to produce a new, interdisciplinary framework for the study of early modern England. Scholars of early modern English literature and history have increasingly found that... -
Telling It Like It Wasn't: The Counterfactual Imagination in History and Fiction by Catherine Gallagher
RRP: £31.00£30.19Inventing counterfactual histories is a common pastime of modern day historians, both amateur and professional. We speculate about an America ruled by Jefferson Davis, a Europe that never threw off Hitler, or a second term for JFK. These narratives are... -
The Oxford English Literary History: Volume V: 1645-1714: The Later Seventeenth Century by Margaret J. M. Ezell
RRP: £32.49£28.01The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more. Each of these thirteen groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered... -
Forms of Dictatorship: Power, Narrative, and Authoritarianism in the Latina/o Novel by Jennifer Harford Vargas 9780190642853
RRP: £74.00£67.31An intra-ethnic study of Latina/o fiction written in the United States from the early 1990s to the present, Forms of Dictatorship examines novels that depict the historical reality of dictatorship and exploit dictatorship as a literary trope. This... -
Hrafnkel or the Ambiguities: Hard Cases, Hard Choices by William Ian Miller 9780192855817
RRP: £27.49£24.68William Ian Miller presents a close reading of one of the best known of the Icelandic sagas, showing its moral, political, and psychological sophistication. Hrafnkel tells of a fairly simple feud in which a man rises, falls, and rises again with a...