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The Private World of Georgette Heyer by Jane Aiken Hodge
RRP: $12.89$9.17As an internationally bestselling phenomenon and queen of the Regency Romance, Georgette Heyer is one of the most beloved historical novelists of our time. She's written more than fifty novels - romances, detective stories and contemporary works of... -
Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights by Professor Graham Bradshaw
RRP: $11.60$9.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776243Author Graham BradshawFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
The Last Days of Sylvia Plath by Carl Rollyson 9781496821225
RRP: $36.06$27.30In her last days, Sylvia Plath struggled to break out from the control of the towering figure of her husband Ted Hughes. In the antique mythology of his retinue, she had become the gorgon threatening to bring down the House of Hughes. Drawing on recently... -
Woolf's "To the Lighthouse": A Reader's Guide by Janet Winston 9780826495839
$30.48This is a concise and authoritative guide to Virginia Woolf's classic text "To the Lighthouse" (1927), including a brief plot summary and introduction to characters and a guide to critical reception. "To the Lighthouse" is one of Virginia Woolf's most... -
Devotion by Patti Smith
RRP: $18.05$15.80The National Book Award-winning author of Year of the Monkey, Just Kids, and M Train offers a rare, intimate account of her own creative process "Devotion is short enough to devour at one enjoyable sitting and thought-provoking enough to deserve... -
The Road to Middlemarch: My Life with George Eliot by Rebecca Mead 9781847085160
RRP: $12.89$8.64At the age of seventeen, Rebecca Mead read Middlemarch for the first time, and has read it again every five years since, each time interpreting and discovering it anew. In The Road to Middlemarch she writes passionately about her relationship to this... -
Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre by Josie Billington
RRP: $11.60$8.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776175Author Josie BillingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949-1962 by Doris Lessing 9780006388890
RRP: $15.47$11.61The second volume of the autobiography of Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. 'Walking in the Shade' begins in 1949, as Doris Lessing arrives in London with nothing but her young son and the manuscript of her first novel... -
Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory by Toril Moi
RRP: $43.85$38.70What are the political implications of a feminist critical practice? How do the problems of the literary text relate to the priorities and perspectives of feminist politics as a whole?Sexual/Textual Politics addresses these fundamental questions and... -
The Secret of Chanel No. 5: The Intimate History of the World's Most Famous Perfume by Tilar J. Mazzeo 9780061791031
RRP: $12.89$8.57With its rich golden hue, art deco-inspired bottle, and timeless, musky scent, Chanel Number 5 is the world's bestselling perfume. Reverently known among industry insiders as "le monstre" - the monster - it is arguably the most coveted consumer luxury... -
Christina Stead's The Man Who Loved Children: Bookmarked by Lucy Ferriss 9781632461544
RRP: $19.34$14.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632461544Author Lucy FerrissFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Ig PublishingPublisher Ig Publishing -
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by Josie Billington
RRP: $11.60$8.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776571Author Josie BillingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
The Heroine with 1001 Faces by Maria Tatar
RRP: $30.95$26.46How do we explain our newfound cultural investment in empathy and social justice? For decades, Joseph Campbell had defined our cultural aspirations in The Hero with a Thousand Faces, emphasising the value of seeking glory and earning immortality. His... -
An A-Z of Jane Austen by Michael Greaney 9781350254206
RRP: $18.05$14.89Jane Austen's richly textured worlds have enchanted readers for centuries and this neatly organised, playful book provides Austen enthusiasts and students alike with a unique insight into the much-loved writer's way with words. Using a lively A-Z... -
Women Who Did: Stories by Men and Women, 1890-1914 by Angelique Richardson
RRP: $19.34$14.13"A lady? decidedly. Fast? perhaps. Original? undoubtedly. Worth knowing? rather." Daring and dynamic, the 'new woman' came to represent the very spirit of the age. The stories in this anthology take up this phenomenon and examine society throughthe eyes... -
The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65 by Delia Jarrett-Macauley
RRP: $25.79$18.73This is an original, full length biography of Britain's first twentieth-century black feminist - Una Marson - poet, playwright, and social activist and BBC broadcaster. Una Marson is recognised today as the first major woman poet of the Caribbean and... -
Eros and Psyche: The Representation of Personality in Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, George Eliot by Karen Chase
RRP: $61.91$53.93How does Victorian fiction represent personality? How does it express emotion and how does it imagine the mind? These questions stand at the centre of Eros and Psyche, first published in 1984. In examining how three authors - Charlotte Bronte, Charles... -
The Mother of the Bront s: When Maria Met Patrick by Sharon Wright 9781526757609
RRP: $16.76$11.73At long last, the untold story of the mysterious Mrs Bront . They were from different lands, different classes, different worlds almost. The chances of Cornish gentlewoman Maria Branwell even meeting the poor Irish curate Patrick Bront in Regency... -
Dancing at the Edge of the World by Ursula K. Le Guin 9780802135292
RRP: $18.05$15.66The celebrated author offers her thoughts on a broad range of subjects, including literary criticism, the state of science fiction writing today, and government and governmental policies.Book InformationISBN 9780802135292Author Ursula K. Le GuinFormat... -
Agatha Christie: First Lady of Crime by Agatha Christie
RRP: $12.89$8.77Includes a new introduction from Sophie Hannah, bestselling author of THE MONOGRAM MURDERS and HAVEN'T THEY GROWNAgatha Christie was not only the biggest selling writer of detective stories the world has ever known, she was also a mystery in herself,... -
Memoirs from the Women's Prison by Nawal El Saadawi
RRP: $19.34$14.80In 1981, the celebrated author and activist Nawal el Saadawi was imprisoned by the Sadat regime in her native Egypt, for 'crimes against the state'. Through haunting and evocative prose, Saadawi here recounts how she and her fellow prisoners continued to... -
In and out of Bloomsbury: Biographical Essays on Twentieth-Century Writers and Artists by Martin Ferguson Smith 9781526171931
RRP: $25.80$18.74These highly original essays illuminate Virginia Woolf and a selection of other twentieth-century writers and artists. Based on detailed research and presenting previously unpublished texts, pictures, and photographs, they are notable feats of scholarly... -
How Should One Read a Book? by Virginia Woolf 9781913724474
RRP: $6.45$5.50First delivered as a speech to schoolgirls in Kent in 1926, this enchanting short essay by the towering Modernist writer Virginia Woolf celebrates the importance of the written word. With a measured but ardent tone, Woolf weaves together thought and... -
These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson by Martha Ackmann 9780393609301
RRP: $27.08$22.90On 3 August 1845, Emily Dickinson declared, "All things are ready"-and with this, her life as a poet began. Despite spending her days almost entirely "at home", Dickinson's interior world was extraordinary. She loved passionately, was ambivalent towards... -
Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties by Marion Meade 9780156030595
RRP: $28.37$21.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156030595Author Marion MeadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner Books -
Jane Austen: Her Life, Her Times, Her Novels by Janet Todd 9780233003702
RRP: $32.25$22.42Over the last 200 years, the novels of Jane Austen have been loved and celebrated across a diverse international readership. As a result, there is a bottomless appetite for detail about the woman behind the writing. Jane Austen traces her life and times;... -
Autobiographical Voices: Race, Gender, Self-Portraiture by Francoise Lionnet
RRP: $21.92$19.01Adopting a boldly innovative approach to women's autobiographical writing, Francoise Lionnet here examines the rhetoric of self-portraiture in works by authors who are bilingual or multilingual or of mixed races or cultures. Autobiographical Voices... -
The Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy: Choosing Tough Words by Angelica Michelis 9780719063015
RRP: $25.79$22.50The first full-length collection of essays on the poetry of Carol Ann Duffy. Duffy's poetry is both respected by academics, and widely read and enjoyed by both children and adults. Approaches Duffy's work from a variety of literary theoretical... -
A Bite of the Apple: A Life with Books, Writers and Virago by Lennie Goodings
RRP: $24.50$17.56'The moment I got my job at Virago in 1978 I knew it would be a long time before I would leave. I certainly wouldn't have had the brazen hope then-only twenty-five and very recently new to Britain-that I would ever become the Publisher, but I did know... -
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice Map by Martin Thelander 9789152770931
RRP: $10.31$6.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789152770931Author Martin ThelanderPage Count 2Imprint Paris GrafikPublisher Paris GrafikWeight(grams) 17gDimensions(mm) 148mm * 105mm * 1mm -
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice by Janet Todd
RRP: $11.60$9.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776021Author Janet ToddFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
A Room Of One's Own by Virginia Woolf 9789353420710
RRP: $10.32$9.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353420710Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 4mm -
Jane Austen: A Brief Life by Fiona Stafford
RRP: $15.47$13.09An elegant and accessible introduction to the life and works of one of England's greatest and most popular novelists"I want to salute Fiona Stafford's brilliant [book]. . . . It tells one all one needs to know about Jane Austen, and, best of all, leaves... -
The New Woman: Fiction and Feminism at the Fin De Siecle by Sally Ledger
RRP: $25.79$22.50Sexually transgressive, politically astute and determined to claim educational and employment rights equal to those enjoyed by men, the new woman took centre stage in the cultural landscape of late-Victorian Britain. By comparing the fictional... -
A Bite of the Apple: A Life with Books, Writers and Virago by Lennie Goodings 9780198828747
RRP: $12.89$9.17'The moment I got my job at Virago in 1978 I knew it would be a long time before I would leave. I certainly wouldn't have had the brazen hope then-only twenty-five and very recently new to Britain-that I would ever become the Publisher, but I did know... -
Mrs Gaskell and Me: Two Women, Two Love Stories, Two Centuries Apart by Nell Stevens 9781509868216
RRP: $12.89$9.11Winner of the 2019 Somerset Maugham Award'A great galloping joy of a book - funny, lyrical, fast paced, heart-warming - a delicious celebration of love and life' - Rebecca Stott, author of In the Days of RainIn 1857, Elizabeth Gaskell set sail for Rome,... -
Judith Butler by Sara Salih 9780415215190
RRP: $25.79$22.82Since the publication of Gender Trouble in 1990, Judith Butler has revolutionised our understanding of identities and the ways in which they are constructed. This volume examines her critical thought through key texts, touching upon such issues as:* The... -
H. D. and Bryher: An Untold Love Story of Modernism by Susan McCabe 9780190621223
RRP: $38.69$36.11H.D. & Bryher: An Untold Love Story of Modernism takes on the daring task of examining the connection between two queer women, one a poet and the other a historical novelist, living from the late 19th century through the 20th century. When they met in... -
Mrs Gaskell and Me: Two Women, Two Love Stories, Two Centuries Apart by Nell Stevens
RRP: $19.34$17.35Winner of the 2019 Somerset Maugham Award'A great galloping joy of a book - funny, lyrical, fast paced, heart-warming - a delicious celebration of love and life' Rebecca Stott, author of In the Days of RainIn 1857, after two years of writing The Life of... -
Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance by Jayne Ann Krentz
RRP: $28.37$24.24In Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women, Jayne Ann Krentz and the contributors to this volume-all best-selling romance writers-explode myths and biases that haunt both the writers and readers of romances. In this seamless, ultimately fascinating, and...