Literary Collections

'One of the greatest writers of our time.' Toni Morrison 'You Don't Know Us Negroes adds immeasurably to our understanding of Hurston ... her words make it impossible for readers to consider her anything but one of...

Dazzling in its prosodic innovations, such as the 'sprung rhythm' he pioneered, and wide-ranging in its complexity and metaphysical interest. The Penguin Classics edition of Gerard Manley Hopkins's Poems and Prose is selected and edited with an...

London today is embattled as rarely before. In a city of enormous wealth, poverty is rampant. The burnt-out hulk of Grenfell Tower stands as an appalling reminder that inequality can be so acute as to be murderous. Here, Claire Armitstead has drawn...

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with...

A late epic bridge between Homeric masterpieces.Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica, the only long mythological epic to survive in Greek from the period between Apollonius' Argonautica (3rd century BC) and Nonnus' Dionysiaca (5th century AD), fills in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780359949762Author Academy Der SprachclubFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486298979Author Gertrude SteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590177228Author Michel De MontaigneFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

The Gardener's Year is a charming and light-hearted insight into the life of an amateur gardener. Structured loosely around what to plant, grow or cultivate each month, Karel Capek takes us on a rollicking journey through a year in his own small garden...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908211897Author Sharon JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Carpet Bombing CulturePublisher Carpet Bombing Culture

Alfie Deyes is back with another instalment of his unique brand of nothingness. Bigger, better and even more pointless,The Pointless Book 2 is once again full of hilarious challenges and crazy activities, and the ultimate accessory to Alfie's wonderful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143105732Author Jorge Luis BorgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 153gDimensions(mm) 197mm...

The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, shorter edition features 73 works-many of them new to this edition-by 69 authors, offering a broad collection of short stories with the most thoughtful annotations and apparatus on the market. With a new "Authors in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590176207Author Simon LeysFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 565gDimensions(mm)...

Including Down and Out in Paris and London'Orwell was the great moral force of his age' SpectatorThe powerful writings collected together in this volume chronicle George Orwell's first-hand experiences of life among the underclass of the 'two nations' of...

Sybil, or The Two Nations is one of the finest novels to depict the social problems of class-ridden Victorian England. The book's publication in 1845 created a sensation, for its immediacy and readability brought the plight of the working classes sharply...

'Beautiful . . . insightful, fascinating and moving. It's a lovely LOVELY book' Marian Keyes'This book made me cry' Sara Cox After her mother, Brenda, passed away and her father sold the family home, broadcaster and writer Emma Kennedy found herself...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995467163Author Neil BowenFormat PaperbackImprint Peripeteia PressPublisher Peripeteia PressWeight(grams) 218g

A love letter to Paris written in iPhone notes and in the troubling intimacy of public transport post-Charlie Hebdo attacks, Lauren Elkin's diary of a year on a Parisian bus pays homage to Georges Perec and Annie Ernaux. In this chronicle of the ordinary...

Abbott and Mansfield's primer, first published in the nineteenth century and many times reprinted, remains one of the best introductions to Greek grammar. This is the latest edition, containing both accidence and syntax.A classic and respected...

The visionary masterpiece, tracing a riverboat crew's dreamlike jungle voyage ...'My new all time favourite book ... A magnificent, breathtaking and terrifying novel.' Tsitsi Dangarembga'An exhilarating experience ... Makes visions real and reality...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814254509Author Antonia SysonFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 372g

This is the first self-contained edition of Odyssey Books VI-VIII which together form a popular introduction to Homer for students of Greek, containing as they do the account of Odysseus' visit to the Phaeacians and including such famous episodes as...

From its inaugural Black Plaque in honour of Witchfinder General director Michael Reeves, this unique collection follows a veridical trajectory to the frontiers of belief. Reeves' film becomes a conspiratorial cauldron drawing in a host of tragic players...

"[Selected Poems] offers readers a chance to catch on to one of the most distinctive talents of our time, one of the few who can genuinely startle...Ruefle is clearly one of the best American poets writing, and her body of work is remarkable for its...

______________ 'A beautifully poised series of dialogues about literature, music and politics, and they're a testimony to the enormous gifts and courage of both men' - Tom Paulin, Guardian 'A marvellous eavesdrop on the discourse of exchange...

In a collection of essays published by the New York Times, MTV, and Pitchfork, among others - along with original, previously unreleased essays - Hanif Abdurraqib explores the political, social, racial condition of our world today through the language of...

Long Description ILL FEELINGS is a collective biography of medically unexplained illness. Structured around the narrative of their own ill feelings, Alice Hattrick uncovers their and their mother's case histories, and branches out into the records of ill...

'In a later age he would have become a successful war correspondent ... We have no more human account of the Peninsular War from a participant in all its battles. Vivid images - of people, landscapes, events - flows from his pen ... One of military...

A Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it.From the melancholy and amusement within the work of the writer John McGahern to an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915972170Author Anthony FitzgeraldFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint YouCaxton PublicationsPublisher YouCaxton Publications

The Voyage of the Beagle is Charles Darwin's account of the momentous voyage which set in motion the current of intellectual events leading to The Origin of Species. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Janet Brown...

State-of-the-art algorithmic deep learning and tensoring techniques for financial institutions The computational demand of risk calculations in financial institutions has ballooned and shows no sign of stopping. It is no longer viable to simply add more...

'This book should rock Whitehall to its foundations.' - Andy Burnham'This is crusading journalism at its best.' - Lord OwenIn the 1970s and 1980s almost 5,000 people in the UK contracted HIV or hepatitis C after being infected by contaminated NHS blood...

Christopher Ricks is one of the best-known living critics of English, and was described by W. H. Auden as `the kind of critic every poet dreams of finding'. Though published indepenently over many years, each of the essays in this collection of his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486408903Author W.E.B. Du BoisFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

James's correspondents included presidents and prime ministers, painters and great ladies, actresses and bishops, and the writers Robert Louis Stevenson, H.G. Wells and Edith Wharton. This fully-annotated selection from James's eloquent correspondence...

The Anglo-Saxon World introduces the Anglo-Saxons in their own words their chronicles, laws and letters, charters and charms, and above all their magnificent poems. Most of the greatest surviving poems are printed here in their entirety: the reader will...

Emily Eden was born in 1797 into the charmed inner circle of the English upper class who conducted the country's political life. In 1836 this prominent member of Whig society joined her brother George in India where he was Governor-General. She stayed...

Travel back in time to the cretaceous world and join Dino friends Rocky, Bill, Mazu and Tiny on their ROARsome adventures... but keep your eye out for Gigantosaurus! Packed full of puzzles, games, activities and more, the new Annual for 2022 will keep...