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Wace's Roman De Brut: A History Of The British (Text and Translation) Judith Weiss (University of Durham, Eugene Vinaver Fund (United Kingdom)) 9780859897341
£53.73Wace's "Brut" is an 1155 French verse rendering of Geoffrey of Monmouth's earlier Latin "history" of Britain, from the time of Brutus, the eponymous founder, to the 7th century. Wace uses Geoffrey's stories, such as those of King Lear and King Arthur,... -
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx 9780099540748
RRP: £5.99£4.63WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID AARONOVITCHThe Communist Manifesto was first published in London, by two young men in their late twenties, in 1848. Its impact reverberated across the globe and throughout the next century, and it has come to be recognised... -
J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye: A Cultural History by Josef Benson 9781442277946
RRP: £35.00£30.71Since its publication in 1951, The Catcher in the Rye has been a cultural phenomenon, not only as an assigned text for English courses, but as a touchstone for generations of alienated youth. As the focus of recent major films and a successful... -
Granta 155: Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists 2 by Sigrid Rausing
RRP: £14.99£10.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909889392Author Valerie MilesFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 450gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 147mm... -
Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist 1968-1976 by Hunter S. Thompson
RRP: £16.99£12.87_______________ 'The music made by the language resembles gunfire, or an exploding grenade ... he fires off missives as though they were missiles' - Observer 'Very few editions of collected letters are worth reading from cover to cover, but this is... -
The Best American Travel Writing 2016 by Bill Bryson 9780544812093
RRP: £15.99£10.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544812093Author Bill BrysonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 23mm -
The Origins of Beowulf - and the Pre-Viking Kingdom of East Anglia by Sam Newton 9780859914727
RRP: £19.99£15.94Where did Beowulf, unique and thrilling example of an Old English epic poem come from? In whose hall did the poem's maker first tell the tale? The poem exists now in just one manuscript, but careful study of the literary and historical associations... -
Agricola by Cornelius Tacitus
RRP: £24.95£23.76The paramount historian of the early Roman empire. Tacitus (Cornelius), famous Roman historian, was born in AD 55, 56 or 57 and lived to about 120. He became an orator, married in 77 a daughter of Julius Agricola before Agricola went to Britain, was... -
Frank Exchanges: Letters between Frank Whitbourn, theatre enthusiast, and David Wood, children’s dramatist by David Wood 9781915603876
RRP: £12.99£9.34Between 1959 and 2005, David Wood ('the national children's dramatist') corresponded with his mentor, Frank Whitbourn, teacher, writer and theatre practitioner. Frank Exchanges opens with a letter from Whitbourn, praising a young Wood following a... -
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin 9780807006115
RRP: £27.00£18.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807006115Author James BaldwinFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 391gDimensions(mm) 223mm * 146mm * 21mm -
Number One Is Walking: My Life in the Movies and Other Diversions by Steve Martin
RRP: £23.99£21.39Steve Martin has never written about his career in the movies before. In Number One is Walking, he shares anecdotes from the sets of his beloved films - from Father of the Bride to Roxanne, The Jerk to Three Amigos, and many more, bringing readers... -
New Plays from Spain: Eight Works by Seven Playwrights by Frank Hentschker 9780984616053
£20.16A selection of plays representing the most innovative and respected voices working in contemporary Spanish theater.Book InformationISBN 9780984616053Author Frank HentschkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Martin E. Segal Theatre CenterPublisher... -
The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 9: 1939-1941 by T. S. Eliot
RRP: £60.00£40.18This volume covers the production of Eliot's play The Family Reunion; the publication of The Idea of a Christian Society; and the joyous versifying of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. After exhausting himself through nights of fire-watching in the... -
Collins Cambridge International AS & A Level - Cambridge International AS & A Level Literature in English Student's Book by Maria Cairney
RRP: £30.00£28.91Exam Board: Cambridge Assessment International EducationLevel & Subject: Cambridge International AS & A Level Literature in EnglishFirst teaching: September 2019 First examination: from 2021 The Student's Book introduces the key concepts and... -
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke 9781946963130
£5.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946963130Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Albatross PublishersPublisher Albatross PublishersWeight(grams) 68gDimensions(mm)... -
Antiphon: The Speeches by Antiphon
RRP: £27.99£24.27This volume provides a commentary on the six surviving speeches of the fifth-century BC Athenian orator Antiphon, all of which concern homicide, together with a fragment of Antiphon's final speech at his own trial for treason in 411 BC. The commentary... -
Wave Me Goodbye: Stories of the Second World War by Anne Boston
RRP: £9.99£7.00'Fascinating . . . a poignant book . . . an unusual and absolutely authentic view of those convulsive years' OBSERVER 'Each story in Wave Me Goodbye is a relic of the Second World War' SUNDAY TIMES 'This is as stark and acidic a collection of war stories... -
The Python Years: Diaries 1969-1979 Volume One by Michael Palin
RRP: £14.99£10.86Michael Palin's bestselling diaries before, during and after Monty Python.Michael Palin's diaries begin when he was newly married and struggling to make a name for himself in the world of television comedy. But Monty Python was just around the corner . ... -
Latin Prose Composition by "Bradley's Arnold" 9780862921507
£29.75This frequently reprinted volume is the 'sine qua non' for all who would attempt to write faultless classical Latin Prose. It is impressively detailed in explaining syntactical nuances, in its exemplification and in the range of its exercise. Bradley's... -
The Essence of Reality: A Defense of Philosophical Sufism by Mohammed Rustom
RRP: £32.00£28.61A groundbreaking exposition of Islamic mysticism The Essence of Reality was written over the course of just three days in 514/1120, by a scholar who was just twenty-four. The text, like its author 'Ayn al-Qudat, is remarkable for many reasons, not least... -
Reckoning by V (formerly Eve Ensler) 9781635579048
RRP: £16.99£12.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635579048Author V (formerly Eve Ensler)Format HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 454g -
Look Alive Out There: Essays by Sloane Crosley 9781250310415
RRP: £17.00£11.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250310415Author Sloane CrosleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 23mm -
Can We All Be Feminists?: Seventeen writers on intersectionality, identity and finding the right way forward for feminism by June Eric-Udorie
RRP: £11.99£8.22'A map for how feminism can move forward inclusively' (GRAZIA), featuring essays by writers including Brit Bennett, bestselling author of The Vanishing Half, and Afua Hirsch, bestselling author of Brit(ish)Black Lives Matter * Trans Rights * Sex Workers'... -
Mind, Body, Soul Journal: Discover a sense of purpose and live your best life by Andrea Hayes 9780717183470
RRP: £18.99£14.22This timeless journal, beautifully illustrated with pages for monthly journaling, is an indispensable companion if you want to live a more focused, positive life. A practical workbook designed to help you find more meaning and fulfilment amidst the... -
Golf: Fairway Fables by Simon Drew 9781905377695
RRP: £7.50£6.19*Simon Drew's 29th book, in which he turns his attention to golf finding the fun and frolics in every aspect of the game Simon Drew has produced this book in much the same way he played golf. In the dim distant past he would attempt to drive a ball... -
Alexandrian, African and Spanish Wars by Julius Caesar
RRP: £24.95£23.76Arrivals, inspections, victories.In this volume are three works concerning the campaigns engaged in by the great Roman statesman Julius Caesar (100-44 BC), but not written by him. The Alexandrian War, which deals with troubles elsewhere also, may have... -
Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
RRP: £10.99£8.23This mesmerising, macabre collection contains Edgar Allan Poe's best-known poetry, including 'The Raven', 'Annabel Lee' and 'Lenore', and a selection of his very best stories, along with his finest tales from the last decade of his tragically short life... -
Map Reading: The Nobel Lecture and Other Writings by Abdulrazak Gurnah
RRP: £9.99£7.32'One of the world's most prominent postcolonial writers ... He has consistently and with great compassion penetrated the effects of colonialism and its effects on the lives of uprooted and migrating individuals' Anders Olsson, chairman of the Nobel... -
社会视角 Social Perspective: An Intermediate-Advanced Chinese Course: Volume I by Yi Ning
RRP: £35.99£31.69Social Perspective is a course set over one academic year for intermediate learners of Chinese. In two volumes, it focuses on developing learners' language competency to a high advanced plus/advanced level (ACTFL/CEFR B2-C1) through exploring social... -
Light The Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process by Joe Fassler
RRP: £13.99£9.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143130840Author Joe FasslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Catarina the Wise and Other Wondrous Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales by Giuseppe Pietr
RRP: £19.00£18.50Well, gentlemen, here's a tale that people have told time and again ...So begins the title story in this collection of fifty Sicilian folk and fairy tales edited and translated by noted folklore scholar Jack Zipes. But while some of the stories may sound... -
Along Heroic Lines by Christopher Ricks 9780192894656
RRP: £22.99£19.56A selection of new and revised essays from eminent scholar and critic Professor Christopher Ricks. Christopher Ricks brings together new as well as substantially augmented critical essays across a wide range. Several derive from his term as the... -
Happy Bunnies by Axel Scheffler 9780702307874
RRP: £10.99£7.21Join a wonderful cast of bunny characters as they enjoy all their favourite activities! This joyous picture book is brought to life by the incomparable Axel Scheffler, illustrator of The Gruffalo and Zog. Where are rabbits happiest? Is it when they're... -
I Am Your Sister Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde by Rudolph P. Byrd 9780199846450
RRP: £26.99£16.66Audre Lorde was not only a famous poet; she was also one of the most important radical black feminists of the past century. Her writings and speeches grappled with an impressive broad list of topics, including sexuality, race, gender, class, disease, the... -
Roland in Moonlight by David Bentley Hart 9781621386933
RRP: £22.00£20.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621386933Author David Bentley HartFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 562gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
City Folk and Country Folk by Sofia Khvoshchinskaya
RRP: £12.99£10.14An unsung gem of nineteenth-century Russian literature, City Folk and Country Folk is a seemingly gentle yet devastating satire of Russia's aristocratic and pseudo-intellectual elites in the 1860s. Translated into English for the first time, the novel... -
Comrades: A Lifetime of Friendships by Rosita Boland
RRP: £9.99£7.32'I was fascinated, moved and entertained by every page. This is the kind of book the world needs right now' DONAL RYAN_______________'My dictionary's first two definitions of 'comrade' are:A close companion.An intimate associate or friend.The third one... -
The Pursuit of Europe: A History by Anthony Pagden 9780198757665
RRP: £31.49£21.94The European Union, we are told, is facing extinction. Most of those who believe that, however, have no understanding of how, and why, it became possible to imagine that the diverse peoples of Europe might be united in a single political community. ... -
The Methuen Drama Book of Contemporary Monologues for Men by Chrys Salt 9780413772923
£18.09This book of contemporary monologues for women includes pieces from the best of the last three decades of contemporary playwriting, from Howard Brenton and Bryony Lavery to Charlotte Jones and Mark Ravenhill. Including extracts from plays by... -
Report from Ground Zero by Dennis Smith
RRP: £19.10£14.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452283954Author Dennis SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 150mm * 23mm