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Writing the Thames Christina Hardyment 9781851244508
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.38Thames aficionado Robert Gibbings once wrote that 'the quiet of an age-old river is like the slow turning of the pages of a well-loved book'. Writing the Thames tells a much-loved river's story through the remarkable prose, poetry and illustration... -
British Folk Tales and Legends: A Sampler by Katharine M. Briggs
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.58In 1970 Katharine Briggs published in four volumes the vast and authoritative Dictionary of British Folktales and Legends to wide acclaim. This sampler comprises the very best of those tales and legends. Gathered within, readers will find an extravagance... -
Mortal Beauty, God's Grace: Major Poems and Spiritual Writings of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Gerard Manley Hopkins 9780375725661
RRP: £17.50Booksplease Price: £12.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375725661Author Gerard Manley HopkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm)... -
Where My Feet Fall: Going for a Walk in Twenty Stories by Duncan Minshull 9780008414115
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.18The Independent Best Book for Walkers 2022 Where can a walk take you? It goes without saying, walking can connect us to our surroundings and free us from our worries. It can raise our heart rate and relax our minds. It can lead us... -
New Irish Short Stories by Joseph O'Connor
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.00Edited by Joseph O'Connor (author of Star of the Sea and Ghost Light) New Irish Short Stories is a stunning collection from a fascinating variety of writers, both new and established. Featuring, among many others, William Trevor and Roddy Doyle,... -
The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens by Jenny Hartley 9780199591411
Booksplease Price: £25.11What was it like to be Charles Dickens? His letters are the nearest we can get to a Dickens autobiography: vivid close-up snapshots of a life lived at maximum intensity. This is the first selection to be made from the magisterial twelve-volume British... -
Selected Essays, Poems and Other Writings by A. S. Byatt
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.45The works collected in this volume provide an illuminating introduction to George Eliot's incisive views on religion, art and science, and the nature and purpose of fiction. Essays such as 'Evangelical Teaching' show her rejecting her earlier religious... -
Ben Jonson: The Complete Masques by Ben Jonson 9780300105384
Booksplease Price: £49.65The Renaissance court masque, traditionally an entertainment of music, dancing, pageantry, and spectacular scenic effects, was transformed by Ben Jonson into a serious mode of literary expression. By using its peculiar viability as a forum for his... -
Samuel Johnson: The Yale Anthology of His Prose and Poetry by Samuel Johnson
RRP: £32.50Booksplease Price: £29.46An anthology of the essential and enduring works of Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson was eighteenth-century Britain's preeminent man of letters-moral and literary critic, biographer, lexicographer, and poet-and his influence endures to this day. This... -
The Very Salt Of Life: Welsh Women's Political Writings from Chartism to Sufferage by Jane Aaron
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.59Apologies 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 -
Self-Help by Samuel Smiles
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.78'The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the true source of national vigour and strength.' A bestseller immediately after its publication in 1859, Self-Help... -
The Portable Chekhov by Anton Chekhov 9780140150353
Booksplease Price: £15.36Anton Chekhov remarked toward the close of his life that people would stop reading him a year after his death. But his literary stature and popularity have grown steadily with the years, and he is accounted the single most important influence on the... -
A Bit of a Writer: Brendan Behan's Collected Short Prose by Brendan Behan 9781843519003
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.63Brendan Behan wrote over one hundred articles for Irish newspapers between 1951 and 1956 as he rose to international fame, with most of them written in a weekly column in the Irish Press. The articles reveal a serious writer capable of great comic set... -
The Norton Anthology of English Literature by Stephen Greenblatt 9781324062981
Booksplease Price: £37.74A sweeping revision that speaks to how English literature is taught today. From the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Shorter Eleventh Edition, showcases exciting new authors, works, and textual clusters... -
Vorticism: New Perspectives by Mark Antliff 9780199937660
Booksplease Price: £107.36The London-based avant-garde movement Vorticism, like its continental counterparts Cubism and Futurism and its English rival Bloomsbury was created by artists, poets, writers, and artist-writers, as a project that defied disciplinary boundaries... -
On the Trail of Sherlock Holmes by Browning, Stephen 9781526779014
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.88There can be no question, Mr Dear Watson, of the value of exercise before breakfast' Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of Black Peter You may have been introduced to the magic of the greatest of English detectives by reading the books by Sir Arthur... -
Hopkins Poems And Prose Gerard Manley Hopkins 9781857157215
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £9.14The greatest English religious poet of the nineteenth century, Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89) was a Jesuit priest and literary scholar whose life ended prematurely after his exhausting pastoral work among the slums of Liverpool and Dublin. His poems are... -
The Mabinogion by Gwyn Jones 9780460872973
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.20'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... -
All Over Ireland: New Irish Short Stories by Deirdre Madden
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.00All Over Ireland, edited by Deirdre Madden (Molly Fox's Birthday, Time Present and Time Past), continues the tradition of featuring the work of both new and established writers, including Colm Toibin, Mary Morrissy and Eoin McNamee. These diverse and... -
Exiles by James Joyce
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.10'That is my fear. That I stand between her and any moments of life that should be hers...' Set against the backdrop of the Home Rule Crisis of 1912, Exiles is James Joyce's only surviving play. It tells the story of writer Richard Rowan and his... -
The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens by Jenny Hartley
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.45What was it like to be Charles Dickens? His letters are the nearest we can get to a Dickens autobiography: vivid close-up snapshots of a life lived at maximum intensity. This is the first selection to be made from the magisterial twelve-volume British... -
Francis Bacon: France And Monaco by Martin Harrison 9780956873880
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £23.87It was in Paris in 1927, at an exhibition dedicated to Picasso, that Francis Bacon grasped his vocation as a painter. In 1946, he moved to Monaco on the French Riviera where he lived for four years, his time in the Principality marking a turning point in... -
The Works of Thomas Traherne V: Centuries of Meditations and Select Meditations Jan Ross (Royalty Account) 9781843843276
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £108.87This volume in the definitive edition of Thomas Traherne contains his best-known works, Centuries of Meditations and Select Meditations. Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674), a clergyman of the Church of England during the Restoration, was little known until... -
Plays Pleasant by George Bernard Shaw
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.45One of Bernard Shaw's most glittering comedies, Arms and the Man is a burlesque of Victorian attitudes to heroism, war and empire. In the contrast between Bluntschli, the mercenary soldier, and the brave leader, Sergius, the true nature of valour is... -
Midnight Letterbox by Edwin Morgan
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.34One of the central figures of twentieth-century Scottish literature, Edwin Morgan was a prolific letter-writer. His correspondence, like his poetry, is wide-ranging, full of generosity and enthusiasm, and above all a testament to his lifelong commitment... -
Richard Jefferies: A Miscellany by Richard Jefferies 9781912916054
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912916054Author Richard JefferiesFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo Publishers -
The New Oxford Book of Sixteenth-Century Verse by Emrys Jones 9780199561339
RRP: £26.49Booksplease Price: £22.35The sixteenth century has long been acknowledged the 'Golden Age' of English verse - with such names as Shakespeare, Donne, and Spenser to its credit it could hardly be otherwise. Yet this anthology, which includes both undisputed masterpieces and... -
The Sound of the Shuttle: Essays on Cultural Belonging & Protestantism in Northern Ireland by Gerald Dawe 9781788551069
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788551069Author Gerald DaweFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Irish Academic Press LtdPublisher Irish Academic Press Ltd -
Roots Home: Essays and a Journal by Gillian Clarke
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.77Shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year 2022. Wales's best-loved contemporary poet, one of the major poets of our endangered environment, returns to prose in Roots Home. As in At the Source (2008), she does something unusual with form. She... -
News from the Midell Regions and Calthorpe′s Chapel by Dorothy Calthorpe
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £38.55An introduction to a new early modern woman writer that makes her manuscripts available in print for the first time. This first print edition of two extant manuscripts by Dorothy Calthorpe (1648-1693) introduces a new seventeenth-century woman writer... -
Timon of Athens: The Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.27The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor: Stanley Wells The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers - A new, modern-spelling text, collated and... -
Brian Friel: Essays, Diaries, Interviews: 1964-1999: Essays and Interviews by Professor Christopher Murray
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.00Since the success of "Philadelphia Here I Come!" in 1964, Brian Friel has written over 20 plays to critical acclaim, confirming him as one of the major dramatists of the 20th century. This collection of writing from 1964 to 1999 delves into his work and... -
Wilfred Owen by Wilfred Owen
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.48In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an... -
Otherworlds: Fantasy and History in Medieval Literature by Aisling Byrne
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £28.84This book offers a new perspective on the otherworlds of medieval literature. These fantastical realms are among the most memorable places in medieval writing, by turns beautiful and monstrous, alluring and terrifying. Passing over a river or sea, or... -
The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell 9780871406736
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £11.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871406736Author Bertrand RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Liveright Publishing CorporationPublisher Liveright Publishing... -
Praeterita by John Ruskin 9780192802415
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.81'For as I look deeper into the mirror, I find myself a more curious person than I had thought.' John Ruskin (1819-1900) was a towering figure of the nineteenth century: an art critic who spoke up for J. M. W. Turner and for the art of the Italian... -
Oxford Student Texts: Wilfred Owen: Selected Poems by Helen Cross
Booksplease Price: £12.28One of a series designed to provide a new, accessible approach to the works of great poets and playwrights. Each text includes general notes on the text; discussion of themes, issues and context; and suggestions for further reading.One of a series, this... -
The Great Age of the English Essay: An Anthology by Denise Gigante
Booksplease Price: £44.64A collection of outstanding British periodical essays from the era in which the genre was invented From the pens of spectators, ramblers, idlers, tattlers, hypochondriacs, connoisseurs, and loungers, a new literary genre emerged in eighteenth-century... -
Turning the Boat for Home: A life writing about nature Richard Mabey 9780701181086
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.18'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: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries by Stephen Greenblatt 9781324062714
Booksplease Price: £32.82A sweeping revision that speaks to how English literature is taught today. From the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Eleventh Edition, showcases exciting new authors, works, and textual clusters that...