Literary Collections

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909983885Author Jane AaronFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Honno LtdPublisher Honno Ltd

Three senior civil servants are dead or missing. As their brief is management of the deadly Virus, Bernard, Mona and the rest of the hard-pressed Health Enforcement Team are fighting not just a pandemic, but government secrets.Full UK marketing campaign...

Since it was first published in 1989, _Men of the Battle of Britain_ has become a standard reference book for academics and researchers interested in the Battle of Britain. Copies are also owned by many with purely an armchair interest in the events of...

The perfect gift for fans of classic novels, crafting and puns. 'There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my glue gun.' This crafting celebration of...

Hildegard of Bingen [1098-1179], an important figure in her own time, has come increasingly to critical attention in recent years. Cause et Cure, attributed to Hildegard, is both a cosmological text and a medical handbook; it is a densely layered work...

The Stanzaic Morte Arthur engages with the tragic implications of the chivalric love between Lancelot, Arthur and Guinevere; the Alliterative Morte Arthur with those of the aspirations of militant chivalry espoused by Arthur and his knights. The texts...

A suspicious mind.Sextus Empiricus (ca. AD 160-210), exponent of scepticism and critic of the Dogmatists, was a Greek physician and philosopher, pupil and successor of the medical sceptic Herodotus (not the historian) of Tarsus. He probably lived for...

How can we know if the peace that has been established following a civil war is a stable peace? More than half of all countries that experienced civil war since World War II have suffered a relapse into violent conflict, in some cases more than once...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905881611Author John FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 145mm...

The Journal to Stella, Jonathan Swift's letters to Esther Johnson, or 'Stella', and Rebecca Dingley, written between September 1710 and June 1713, offers an extraordinary commentary on Swift's experiences in London during the most politically active and...

A Forest on Many Stems: Essays on the Poet's Novel provides a unique entrance to the rare prose of many remarkable modern and contemporary poets including Etel Adnan, Renee Gladman, Langston Hughes, Kevin Killian, Alice Notley, Fernando Pessoa, Rainer...

Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given...

In May 1941 Lena Mukhina was an ordinary teenage girl, living in Leningrad, worrying about her homework and whether Vova - the boy she liked - liked her. Like a good Soviet schoolgirl, she was also diligently learning German, the language of Russia's...

A Treasury of Virtues is a collection of sayings, sermons, and teachings attributed to 'Ali ibn Abi Talib (d. 40/661), the cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad, the first Shia Imam and the fourth Sunni Caliph. An acknowledged master of Arabic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913637484Author Philip BatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Candy Jar BooksPublisher Candy Jar Books

Openings & Outings brings together over forty pieces from the long and distinguished career of the writer and commentator David Pryce-Jones. Taking us from a meeting with Rudolf Hess's widow, to the slums of Tangier, to the front lines of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942547068Author Madhu H KazaFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Blue Sketch PressPublisher Blue Sketch PressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

"The notes are a model of economy... The introduction is quite superb... The volume as a whole is a worthy addition to a series which has already begun to establish high expectations." TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT Chaucer made extensive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789389539639Author Charles Henry LaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm...

A collection of personal essays from America’s most revered essay writer, Joseph Epstein.America’s greatest living essayist writes about life and aging and being all too nicely out of it. In these personal pieces, he takes on topics as varied as grieving...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912436378Author Beverley WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley PressDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 28mm

Queer Eye star Jonathan Van Ness dives into his favourite subjects in Love That Story, a new collection of heartfelt and entertaining essays. From experiencing heartbreaking grief to uncovering the hidden LGBTQ history of his hometown, Quincy, from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593155711Author Donald TrumpFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Vanguard Press IncPublisher Vanguard Press IncWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Greek text with connecting commentary. Text includes introduction, notes, vocabulary, maps and illustrations.Book InformationISBN 9780906515129Author XenophonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing...

In antiquity Archilochus of Paros was considered a poet rivalled only by Homer and Hesiod, yet he has been relatively neglected by modern scholarship. This is largely due to the fragmentary state of his surviving poetry, though our knowledge has expanded...

This is a detailed account of the theatrical fortunes of A Midsummer Night's Dream on the British stage, from the 1590s to the 1990s. The substantial, illustrated introduction traces the rise of the play from theatrical neglect in the eighteenth century...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101904428Author Catherine BurnsFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854115805Author Judy KendallFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 355g

This highly acclaimed introduction to the medieval lyric during the period 850-1300 is now reissued in a third edition, which includes a new preface and substantial new bibliographical indications. After an introductory discussion of the performers and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375726392Author Gore VidalFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 357gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941628232Author Zoe BossiereFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Rose Metal PressPublisher Rose Metal PressWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

The most original book of Julien Gracq's later output is about Nantes. It begins with a quotation from Beaudelaire that is repeated and distorted. Nantes, still haunted by Andr (c) Breton, Jacques Vache and Rimbaud behind them is reconstructed from a...

Latin love elegy is one of the most important poetic genres in the Augustan era, also known as the golden age of Roman literature. This volume brings together leading scholars from Australia, Europe and North America to present and explore the Greek and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590178508Author E. B. WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 392gDimensions(mm)...

Letters of an imperial tutor.The literary remains of the rhetorician Marcus Cornelius Fronto (ca. AD 100-176) first came to light in 1815, when Cardinal Mai, then prefect of the Ambrosian Library in Milan, discovered that beneath an account of the Acts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374531898Author Elizabeth BishopFormat PaperbackPage Count 928Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

In 1984, a time when the publishing landscape was becoming increasingly corporate, Nigel Newton decided to start a new independent literary publishing company. The following year, over early mornings and late nights, he and publisher David Reynolds came...

The product of a lifetime immersed in the literary, performing arts, and entertainment worlds, "Lives and Letters" spotlights the work, careers, intimate lives, and lasting achievements of a vast array of celebrated writers and performers in film,...

Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), one of the greatest of Italian poets, was also the leading spirit in the Renaissance movement to revive the cultural and moral excellence of ancient Greece and Rome. This two-volume set contains an ample, representative...

Defiant, humorous, empathetic and insightful, 'Not Quite Right For Us' pierces through the hierarchical mechanics of class, race, gender. A celebration of outsiderness and an ode to otherness, 'Not Quite Right For Us' is a singular collection of stories,...