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Blind Goddess by Anne Holt
RRP: $12.89$8.64THE FIRST INSTALMENT IN THE HANNE WILHELMSEN SERIES.A superbly chilling story of corruption in the corridors of power.A drug dealer is battered to death in the outskirts of Oslo. A young Dutch student, covered in blood, walks aimlessly through the... -
Brideshead Abbreviated: The Digested Read of the Twentieth Century by John Crace
RRP: $14.18$10.02John Crace's 'Digested Read' column in the Guardian has rightly acquired a cult following. Each week fans avidly devour his latest razor-sharp literary assassination, while authors turn tremblingly to the appropriate page of the review section, fearful... -
The Tale of Beatrix Potter; a Biography by Margaret 1907-1994 Lane 9781013769450
RRP: $27.03$22.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013769450Author Margaret 1907-1994 LaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 327g -
Orwell on Truth by George Orwell
RRP: $19.34$14.13A selection of George Orwell's prescient, clear-eyed and stimulating writing on the subjects of truth and lies. With an introduction by Alan Johnson.'Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two equals four. If that is granted, all else follows.'This... -
'I mBeal an Bhais': The Great Famine and the Language Shift in Nineteenth-Century Ireland by Gearoid O Tuathaigh 9780990468677
RRP: $12.84$10.51Ireland's Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University publishes Famine Folios, a unique resource for students, scholars and researchers, as well as general readers, covering many aspects of the Famine in Ireland from 1845-1852 - the worst demographic... -
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 3: Paradiso by Robert M. Durling
$65.64One of the greatest living Italian-to-English translators, Robert Durling's rendition of the third and final volume of Dante's masterful literary epic is now available in paperback. As with the two preceding volumes, Durling's precise and powerful... -
28 Portuguese poets: A bilingual anthology by Richard Zenith
RRP: $16.77$11.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910251003Author Richard ZenithFormat PaperbackPage Count 319Imprint Dedalus PressPublisher Dedalus PressWeight(grams) 420g -
Pierre Reverdy by Pierre Reverdy
RRP: $21.92$15.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590176795Author Pierre ReverdyFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 153gDimensions(mm)... -
Exceeding My Brief by Barbara Hosking 9781785904622
RRP: $12.89$9.11From the tragic massacre at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, to signing the Treaty of Rome when Britain entered the Common Market, Barbara Hosking was there. This is the story of a Cornish scholarship girl with no contacts who ended up in the corridors... -
Italian Short Stories by Dimitri Vittorini
RRP: $14.18$10.02This second volume of Italian Short Stories, with its parallel translations aims - as the first volume did - to exemplify the richness and variety of Italian writing of the twentieth century. In this volume, however, some of the language used is a little... -
Peter Pan and Other Plays: The Admirable Crichton; Peter Pan; When Wendy Grew Up; What Every Woman Knows; Mary Rose by Sir J. M. Barrie 9780199537839
RRP: $10.31$7.47For some 20 years at the beginning of the century J M Barrie enjoyed enormous commercial success with a wide variety of plays, but he is best known for Peter Pan. It retains its popularity today, both in the original and in adaptations. As well as being... -
Island Stories: Britain and Its History in the Age of Brexit by David Reynolds
RRP: $21.92$14.54'Concise, elegant and lucid ... A very useful primer on the delusions of an English mentality' Guardian What do we get wrong about Britain's history and its place in the world? ... -
The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm: The Complete First Edition by Jacob Grimm 9780691160597
RRP: $45.15$33.50When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Cinderella" would become the most celebrated in the... -
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 9780199538263
RRP: $12.89$9.17Wives and Daughters, Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel, is regarded by many as her masterpiece. Molly Gibson is the daughter of the doctor in the small provincial town of Hollingford. Her widowed father marries a second time to give Molly the woman's... -
What is Latin American History? by Marshall Eakin 9781509538522
RRP: $20.63$17.93What 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... -
Wilfred Owen by Wilfred Owen 9780571315284
RRP: $16.76$11.04No poetry has touched readers' hearts more deeply than the soldier poets of the First World War. Published to commemorate the centenary of 1914, this stunning set of books, with specially commissioned covers by leading print makers, is an essential... -
Plays Unpleasant by George Bernard Shaw
RRP: $16.76$11.73With Plays Unpleasant, Shaw issued a radical challenge to his audiences' complacency and exposed social evils through his dramatization of the moral conflicts between youthful idealism and economic reality, promiscuity and marriage, and the duties of... -
English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology by David Bevington 9780393976557
$62.28Popular in their own time, the 27 plays included here-by Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Webster, Thomas Middleton, among many others-reveal why these playwrights' achievements, like Shakespeare's, deserve reading, teaching, and performing afresh... -
The Norton Anthology of English Literature by Stephen Greenblatt 9780393603064
$42.00The most trusted anthology for complete works and helpful editorial apparatus. The Tenth Edition supports survey and period courses with NEW complete major works, NEW contemporary writers, and dynamic and easy-to-access digital resources. NEW video... -
The Dictionary of Norse Myth & Legend by Andrew Orchard
RRP: $24.50$16.45From Loki to Thor, Ragnarok to BeowulfA gripping and truly mesmerising delve into the Norse legendsFrom bestselling books to blockbusting Hollywood movies, the myths of the Scandinavian gods and heroes are part of the modern day landscape.For over a... -
Edward Thomas: A Miscellany by Edward Thomas
RRP: $12.89$8.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912916085Author Edward ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo Publishers -
Oxford in Quotations by Violet Moller
$12.63Since its humble beginnings as a ford for oxen across the river Thames in the tenth century, Oxford has been an inspiration to generations of writers and thinkers, who have admired its 'dreaming spires' (Matthew Arnold), or warned of its excesses, as did... -
Orwell in Spain by George Orwell
RRP: $16.76$11.73Including Homage to Catalonia'Spain not only defined Orwell as an individual, it also gave him his first glimpse of totalitarianism' D. J. Taylor, GuardianGeorge Orwell's experience of the Spanish Civil War had a transformative effect on his life and... -
Tennis Whites and Teacakes by John Betjeman
RRP: $14.18$9.55Tennis Whites and Teacakes brings together the best of Betjeman's poetry, private letters, journalism and musings to present a fully rounded picture of what he stood for. From his arguments for new steel buildings to his amusement about the etiquette of... -
The Miser and Other Plays by Jean-Baptiste Moliere 9780140447286
RRP: $16.76$11.73Moliere combined all the traditional elements of comedy - wit, slapstick, spectacle and satire - to create richly sophisticated and enduringly popular dramas. The Miser is the story of Harpagon, a mean-spirited old man who becomes obsessed with making... -
Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas: The Two Dylans by K G Miles 9780857162328
RRP: $19.34$14.13There are so many strange and wonderful connections and coincidences; shared passions and associations that tie these two cultural icons - BOB DYLAN and DYLAN THOMAS together. This provides a rich tapestry - from the ancient Welsh folk tales of the... -
Iceland: A Literary Guide for Travellers by Marcel Krueger
RRP: $25.79$19.13A guide to Iceland's rich literary heritage - from Norse witches to contemporary crime fiction. Iceland is an island of multiple identities in constant flux, just like its unruly, volcanic ground. Shaped as much by storytelling as it is by tectonic... -
The Mabinogion by Gwyn Jones 9780460872973
RRP: $12.89$9.24'So they took the blossoms of the oak, and the blossoms of the broom, and the blossoms of the meadow-sweet, and produced from them a maiden, the fairest and most graceful that man ever saw...' In this superb collection of tales, Celtic mythology and... -
The Art of the Glimpse: 100 Irish short stories by Sinead Gleeson 9781800249691
RRP: $23.22$16.72The #1 Irish Times bestseller A special reissue from Head of Zeus's bestselling anthology collection of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinead Gleeson, author of Constellations, winner of the Irish Book Award Non Fiction Book of the Year... -
Turning the Boat for Home: A life writing about nature by Richard Mabey 9781529111958
RRP: $12.89$9.17'One of our greatest nature writers' GuardianFor over fifty years, Richard Mabey has been a pioneering voice in modern nature writing. This book collects pieces across his rich career, tracing his continually evolving ideas as much as the profound... -
The Norton Anthology of English Literature by Stephen Greenblatt
$42.00The most trusted anthology for complete works and helpful editorial apparatus. The Tenth Edition supports survey and period courses with NEW complete major works, NEW contemporary writers, and dynamic and easy-to-access digital resources. NEW video... -
The Very Salt Of Life: Welsh Women's Political Writings from Chartism to Sufferage by Jane Aaron
RRP: $11.60$8.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870206907Author Jane AaronFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Honno LtdPublisher Honno LtdWeight(grams) 352g -
Writing from Ukraine: Fiction, Poetry and Essays since 1965 by Mark Andryczyk
RRP: $14.18$10.02A selection of fifteen of Ukraine's most important, dynamic and entertaining contemporary writersUnder USSR rule, the subject matter and style of literary expression in Ukraine was strictly controlled and censored. But once Ukraine gained independence... -
Major Works by Jonathan Swift
RRP: $16.76$12.04This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique selection from the full range of Swift's fifty-year career - prose, poetry, and letters... -
Spider Queen's Halloween by Russell Punter 9781474982313
RRP: $7.73$4.77The Spider Queen wants a Halloween feast. So Weevil and his team set to work. But will a sneaky thief spoil the party? Find out in this latest addition to the popular phonics readers series. With phonically regular text, this funny story is all treat and... -
In Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbas by Stanislav Aseyev 9780674268791
RRP: $21.87$17.47In this collection of dispatches, Stanislav Aseyev attempts to understand the reasons behind the success of Russian propaganda among the residents of the industrial region of Donbas. For the first time, an inside account shows the toll on real human... -
Letters To A Young Poet by Rainer Rilke 9780679642329
RRP: $18.05$11.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679642329Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm)... -
Notice to Quit: The Great Famine Evictions by L. Perry Curtis 9780990468660
RRP: $12.84$10.51Ireland's Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University publishes Famine Folios, a unique resource for students, scholars and researchers, as well as general readers, covering many aspects of the Famine in Ireland from 1845-1852 - the worst demographic... -
William Blake: Selected Poems by William Blake
RRP: $14.18$10.02'To see a World in a Grain of Sand 'And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour' William Blake wrote some of the most moving and memorable verse in the English language. Deeply committed to visionary... -
Three Little Truths by Eithne Shortall
RRP: $11.60$7.64**AN IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER**___________________________'Funny, endearing, mysterious and outrageous, this book is wildly entertaining and hugely enjoyable.' Liz NugentOn this street, no secret is safe.___________________________The Pine Road WhatsApp...