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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...

This anthology represents the talent and scope to be found in contemporary African writing. It contains both new and previously published stories by such authors as Nadine Gordimer, Ben Okri, Kojo Laing, Mia Couto and Moyez Vassanji.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907222627Author Lionel JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Strange Attractor PressPublisher Strange Attractor Press

Thomas Hardy notes the thrush's 'full-hearted evensong of joy illimited', Gilbert White observes how swallows sweep through the air but swifts 'dash round in circles' and Rachel Carson watches sanderlings at the ocean's edge, scurrying 'across the beach...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544147003Author Christopher McDougallFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)...

Real ladies do not travel - or so it was once said. This collection of women's travel writing dispels the notion by showing how there are few corners of the world that have not been visited by women travellers. There are also few difficulties, physical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498186377Author Frank ParsonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams)...

Mourad and his family live in Nice. His retired father spends his days fixing up things in the backyard; his mother, bemoaning the loss of her natal village in North Africa. Dounia, the eldest, is a staunch feminist; Mina, the youngest, blushes when the...

Laugh your way through these stories that are sure to bring some sunshine into your days!If laughter is the best medicine, this book is your prescription. We've gathered some great storytellers to document the mishaps and misadventures of everyday life...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910974094Author Orsola CasagrandeFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Comma PressPublisher Comma Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804139700Author Jacqueline NovakFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams)...

The inescapable reality of death has given rise to much of literature's most profound and moving work. D. J. Enright's wonderfully eclectic selection presents the words of poet and novelist, scientist and philosopher, mystic and sceptic. And alongside...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935907725Author Walter LippmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Westphalia PressPublisher Westphalia PressWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

There's nothing quite like a quick fire question, the pressure of a countdown, or the expectant stare of Jeremy Paxman for making even the most intelligent quiz show contestants (as well as the not so clever) come out with the most unbelievably stupid...

This epic saga of brotherhood and rivalry, of loyalty and treachery, of victory and death forms part of the indelible core of classical Chinese culture and continues to fascinate modern-day readers.In 220 EC, the 400-year-old rule of the mighty Han...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732153028Author Royalty Account Jonathan LarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Oomph! PressPublisher Oomph! PressWeight(grams) 64gDimensions(mm)...

In spring 2004, Susan Sontag was diagnosed with the incurable blood cancer. She had a huge appetite for experience, and a wild, extravagant desire to live. Rieff writes movingly about being by her side during that last year and at her death, and about...

From 1973 to 1988, Race Today, the journal of the revolutionary Race Today Collective was at the epicentre of the struggle for racial justice in Britain. Placing race, sex and social class at the core of its analysis, it featured in its articles and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486257914Author Mrs Henry SchoenfeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 399Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies 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...

Apologies 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062792419Author Nora McInernyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916150935Author Wendy ErskineFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Paper Visual Art JournalPublisher Paper Visual Art Journal

A volume of four new plays as part of the RSC's Midsummer Mischief by Alice Birch, E. V. Crowe, Timberlake Wertenbaker and Abi Zakarian. The writers had the famous quote by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, "Well-behaved women seldom make history" as an initial...

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...

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...

Peace Work is volume seven of Spike Milligan's outrageous, hilarious, legendary War Memoirs.'I had not informed my parents of my return, I wanted it to be a lovely surprise; it was, for me, they were away ...'The seventh and last volume of Spike...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812989786Author Teju ColeFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420969740Author AristotleFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 5mm

MOZAMBIQUE MYSTERIES is about turning fifty and finding a new direction. Lisa St Aubin de Teran travelled to Mozambique and, for the first time in her much-travelled life, felt at home - in a place 'so remote that few have visited it since the time of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143129592Author Daniel KleinFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm *...

In 1986, Susan Campbell made the chance discovery of a hitherto unknown garden diary. She spent the next 35 years researching its background before writing this book. The diary was written between 1838 and 1865 by the father of Charles Darwin, Doctor...

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This selection of John Donne's most powerful prose shows that the man remembered predominantly for his poetry was also a preacher, and a prose writer of extraordinary power. In it, he explores the metaphysical collision between poetry and religion,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578283647Author Michael Allen GerberFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Good Cheer LLCPublisher Good Cheer LLCWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

Symbols and tropes of liquidity have long been connected to notions of the feminine and, therefore, with orthodox constructions of femininity and womanhood. Underpinning these ideas is the vital importance of water as life force, which has given it a...

Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991) is today recognized as one of the foremost woman writers to emerge from twentieth-century Italy. The Complete Short Stories of Natalia Ginzburg brings together in English translation for the first time the eight short stories...

The Caribbean is the source of one of the richest, most accessible, and yet technically adventurous traditions of contemporary world literature. This collection of Caribbean short stories is pan-Caribbean, including stories from the four main languages...

This classic of Shakespeare scholarship begins with a masterly introductory essay analysing and exemplifying the various categories of sexual and non-sexual bawdy expressions and allusions in Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. The main body of the work...

This Norton Critical Edition of Milton's Selected Poetry and Prose includes "Lycidas"-widely considered the greatest short poem in English-the great tragedy Samson Agonistes, the masque Comus, the brief epic Paradise Regained, and eighteen sonnets as...