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Kind Katie shares her bread and cheese with an old woman on her way through the forest. The woman thanks her with the gift of a magic porridge pot - but it's important to give the pot the right instructions, or the porridge will get out of hand... With...

Although Neil M. Gunn is well-known as one of Scotland's foremost writers of the 20th century, he is less well-known as a perceptive and meditative essayist who wrote on a variety of subjects - from landscape, nature and the sea to literature, politics...

La Belle Roumaine tells the story of Ana, a beautiful and bewitching Romanian woman. Shuttling between the capital cities of Europe. The novel follows Ana as she seduces cafe owners, philosophers, and wandering emigrants alike, each receiving a different...

John Tripp had a chameleon genius which enlivened the literary life of Wales for nearly three decades. Poet, short story writer and journalist, he was an outspoken and often controversial writer. Charming, abrasive, lyrical and satirical, 'The Meaning...

Vilmundar saga vidutan is an entertaining romance composed in the late Middle Ages in Iceland, where it remained popular for another five centuries. It tells of the adventures of Vilmundur, the rustic son of a farmer, whose rise through society is...

This volume contains a collection of new editions of all the known fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English technical recipes for painters, strainers, scribes, illuminators, and dyers, written c. 1300-1500. Most are previously unpublished and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997777130Author Doug SkinnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Black Scat BooksPublisher Black Scat BooksWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913861469Author Julie GuinandFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Strangers PressPublisher UEA Publishing ProjectWeight(grams) 80gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

This groundbreaking anthology, part of the Women, Theatre and Performance series, brings together an extraordinary mix of one-act and full length plays and solo performance texts written by women. Included in the volume are texts by Beatrice Herford,...

Victor Hugo spent years in political exile off the coast of Normandy. While there, he produced his masterpiece, Les Miserables--but that wasn't all: he also wrote a book-length poem, La Fin de Satan, left unfinished and not published until after his...

"Everyone is free here. . . . The cities are open. They are open to the world and to the future. That is what gives them all an air of adventure; and . . . a kind of touching beauty." So wrote the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre on a 1945 trip to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780757527654Author Johnson-BaileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 574Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing CompanyPublisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

General Amos Amir's autobiography tells the story of the man, the warrior and the commander and the story of the struggling, newly-born, Israeli Air Force. From the Six Days War of 1967 and onward, the IAF turned to be an extremely important component of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845278502Author Gwennan EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Gwasg Carreg GwalchPublisher Gwasg Carreg GwalchDimensions(mm) 190mm * 135mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528998161Author Kym RigterFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419682179Author Paul FrederickFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 145g

Under what conditions could ecology, instead of being one cluster of movements among others, organise politics around an agenda and a set of beliefs? Can ecology aspire to define the political horizon in the way that liberalism, socialism, conservatism...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913861803Author Jen CallejaFormat PaperbackPage Count 37Imprint Egg Box PublishingPublisher UEA Publishing Project

One of the earliest known published works written by an African author, The Interesting Narrative was a groundbreaking memoir that helped pave the way for the abolition of slavery. In it, Equiano describes his early life in Africa, his abduction and his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781509551033Author C FleuryFormat HardbackPage Count 226Imprint Polity PressPublisher Polity PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913337896Author John TownsendPage Count 10Imprint ScribblersPublisher Salariya Book Company Ltd

Lift the flaps to reveal super-cute animals and warm messages of love and affection. An adorable book to share with family and friends. Features a large gatefold flap on each right-hand page.Book InformationISBN 9781914011085Author Tiny and TimPage Count...

A conservation tale of the Gilbert's Potoroo - Australia's rarest mammal. When a bushfire destroys Potoroo's home, he becomes one of the last surviving Gilbert's Potoroos at Two Peoples Bay in Western Australia. Frightened, hurt and alone, Potoroo needs...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913565664Author Ann McNairFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Tarquin PublicationsPublisher Tarquin PublicationsWeight(grams) 210g

Identifying gaps in knowledge is the first duty of any historian who sets out to understand the past. It is impossible fully to understand our forebears without some idea of what they did not know: the history of ignorance is an indispensable part of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910251799Author Polina CosgraveFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 111g

The stories that Paul Filev has collected in this anthology of recent Macedonian fiction introduce English-language readers to a literature that has long been overlooked. Ranging from melancholy realism, such as Rumena Buzarovska's "Lily," to surreal...

Three men and three women: a plant collector, a merchant and his novelist wife, a military officer, and two famous women travelers went to China between the Opium War and the formal end of the opium trade, 1842-1907. Their range of perspectives, their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733165617Author Stefan ThemersenFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Black Scat BooksPublisher Black Scat Books

In the historic tradition of calendar stories and calendar illustrations, author and film director Alexander Kluge and celebrated visual artist Gerhard Richter have composed December, a collection of thirty-nine stories and thirty-nine snow-swept...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438454436Author Gabrielle Sidonie ColetteFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Excelsior EditionsPublisher State University of New York PressWeight(grams)...

This is the first anthology of Decadent short stories reflecting a variety of fin-de-siecle themes. This wide-ranging anthology showcases for the first time the short story as the most attractive medium through which writers experiment with Decadent...

What is Latin American History? surveys the development of this vibrant and dynamic field of study in North America, Latin America, and Europe. After briefly sketching the growth of the topic up to the 1960s, Marshall Eakin focuses on the past...

This selection from the most productive Christian pen of the 19th century is also an introduction to one of its most compelling and troubled minds. John Henry Newman (1801-1891) was a dominant figure in both the Anglican and the Roman Catholic churches...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944682132Author Professor Michael GoldmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Spuyten Duyvil PublishingPublisher Spuyten Duyvil PublishingWeight(grams)...

These artful new translations of nine of Schnitzler's most important stories and novellas reinforce the Viennese author's remarkable achievement.ReviewsSimply masterful...These clear, uncluttered translations are dreamlike. * The Review of Higher...

Based on an exhaustive study of the manuscripts and printed editions in which these poems have appeared, the eighth in the series of The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne presents newly edited critical texts of thirteen Divine Poems and...