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An exploration of how the image and idea of the dragon has evolved through history How did the dragon get its wings? Everyone in the modern West has a clear idea of what a dragon looks like and of the sorts of stories it inhabits, not least devotees...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905928026Author James LawtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Dewi Lewis Media LtdPublisher Dewi Lewis Media LtdDimensions(mm) 230mm * 150mm * 20mm

This volume brings together in convenient form a rich selection of Japanese prose dating from the ninth to the seventeenth centuries, a period during which the preeminent cultural and aesthetic values were those of the Heian court. It contains 22 works...

'A book celebrating a remarkably successful programme and rife with examples of valuable craft and life lessons' - Peter Ho Davies, The GuardianAn essential companion for young writers facing the long period of apprenticeship that lies ahead of them,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989555996Author Paddy ManningFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc.

Edited and introduced by leading cultural and theatre critic Aleks Sierz, this bold and urgent collection of contemporary plays by England's newest and most relevant young writers explores the various cultures and identities of a nation that is at once...

Exploring history 1400-1900: An anthology of primary sources reaches out to the reader across an expanse of 500 years. It offers a broad sweep of history in the light of three key themes: consumers and producers; beliefs and ideologies; and...

'Whether you agree with him or not, P.J. writes a helluva piece.' Richard Nixon P.J. O'Rourke has had a prolific career as one of America's most celebrated humourists. But that career almost didn't happen. As he tells it, 'I began to write for pay in the...

The London theatres arguably were the central cultural institutions in England during the Romantic period, and certainly were arenas in which key issues of the time were contested. While existing anthologies of Romantic drama have focused almost...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061780196Author Paul RudnickFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED AND A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMEN'Richly intelligent insights on every page' Financial Times'A rare kind of quiet intellectual confidence' Sunday TelegraphIn these fascinating, lively...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990315506Author Chantal PanozzoFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Cross Border Content Inc.Publisher Cross Border Content Inc.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616402587Author Frances RollestonFormat HardbackPage Count 266Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909585416Author Charles BoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint CB EditionsPublisher CB Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806529707Author Andre GideFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Philosophical LibraryPublisher Philosophical LibraryWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

The remarkable memoir of Zuzana Ruzickova, Holocaust survivor and world-famous harpsichordist. 'Extraordinary' Sunday Times 'Compelling' Daily Telegraph Zuzana Ruzickova grew up in 1930s Czechoslovakia dreaming of two things: Johann Sebastian...

One 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...

Apologies 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

An unrivalled and very entertaining picture of the various and sometimes bizarre strands of Indian lives in colonial Trinidad. Seepersad Naipaul is a pioneer, combining insight with high style, however strange or mundane his subject.With contextualising...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907222528Author Mark PilkingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Strange Attractor PressPublisher Strange Attractor Press

One of the oldest extant works of Western literature, the Iliad is a timeless epic poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic pride and the arbitrary, often vicious decisions of fate and the gods. Renowned scholar and acclaimed translator...

A compendium of travel writing from a master travellerPaul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe by collecting the best writing on travel from the books that shaped him, as a reader and a traveller. Part philosophical guide, part...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732589971Author Rozsa GastonFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint Renaissance EditionsPublisher Renaissance EditionsWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)...

Collected here are the complete love poems of May Swenson -- poems full of kindness, of sensuousness, of gentle affection, of love satisfied. As Maxine Kumin writes in her foreword to this collection, "the majority of Swenson's love poems are human...

`I must find my own complicated junkie to have violent sex with. In 1994, nothing seemed like a better idea, save being able to write about it later.' Michelle Tea is our exuberant, witty guide to the hard times and wild creativity of queer life in...

Auberon Waugh was a philosopher - savage, eccentric, but a philosopher nonetheless. More than any writer of his era, Auberon Waugh had a genius for dividing his readers, into the delighted and the infuriated, and he retains the ability to start a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593242681Author Claude McKayFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

When Rebecca Perry was growing up, she competed nationally and internationally as a trampolinist. This immersive and compelling book deftly blends memoir and lyrical nonfiction to explore a time she 'chose air over earth' and intensive schedules of...

Tosca, one of Puccini's greatest and most popular operas, is a supreme example of music's power to enthral the audience. In his introductory essay to this guide, Bernard Williams discusses the enduring quality of its appeal. Bernard Keeffe, in his...

**A Book of the Year in The Times and The Sunday Times ** Trees are essential, for nature and for us. Yet we are cutting and burning them at such a rate that we are fast approaching a tipping point. But there is still hope. If we had a trillion...

Volume Ten in Methuen's highly successful series of Plays by Women provides the second selection of international plays by theatre director Annie Castledine. It encompasses Diana Quick's adaptation of Simone de Beauvoir's The Woman Destroyed, Tinch...

Richard Holloway is one of our most beloved public thinkers. Throughout his life he has turned to poets and writers to help answer the big questions, and for solace and guidance in the face of life's challenges. Now he shares those poems and words which...

The first anthology to explore early radio Brings into the public domain important texts on early radio, including a large number of translations previously unavailable in English Offers a new transnational perspective on radio's rise as a medium of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739364991Author Timothy ThorntonFormat PaperbackPage Count 347Imprint Pilot PressPublisher Pilot Press

*Large format edition* The most famous sports book in the world, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack has been published every year since 1864. Highlights from this year's edition include Gideon Haigh on the men's Ashes, former England captain Mike Brearley on...

'Much reading is like much eating, wholly useless without digestion.' - R. South 'If I had read as much as other men, I should have been as ignorant as they.' - T. Hobbes 'Choose an author as you choose a friend.' - W. Dillon 'A blessed...

'Do you sometimes think that you might wish that you were a national treasure, like Alan Bennett?' 'I'm rather glad I'm not. I'm quite pleased to be what I think I am, which is a sort of national liability.' Over the course of seven decades,...

One of the most unusual books in classical Arabic literature, The Epistle of Forgiveness is the lengthy reply by the prolific Syrian poet and prose writer Abu l-'Ala' al-Ma'arri (d. 449/1057), to a letter written by an obscure grammarian, Ibn al-Qarih...

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...

Love Stories brings together a captivating assortment of short stories inspired by romantic entanglement in its many forms: first love, infatuation, obsession, unrequited love, marriage, adultery, jealousy, and the complicated bonds of those who have...