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Beasts and Beauties by Carol Ann Duffy 9780571226696
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70'One of those rare nights in the theatre when some strange alchemy takes place in the dark and as a shiver runs down your spine and a bubble of laughter rises in your throat, you remember why theatre... -
New and Collected Poems for Children by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38'In the world of British poetry, Carol Ann Duffy is a superstar.' (Guardian) This stellar edition of her poems brings together work from her four award-winning collections for children, and sprinkles... -
Among Communists Sinéad Morrissey 9781800174061
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.20The first Communist memoir from Northern Ireland, set against a backdrop of the vanished culture of Belfast Communism, from the winner of the T.S. Eliot and Forward Prizes.About the AuthorSinead... -
Nation and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century British Novel by Janice Ho
Booksplease Price: $67.45Nation and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century British Novel charts how novelists imagined changing forms of citizenship in twentieth-century Britain. This study offers a new way of understanding... -
The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf 9780099982906
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.12WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY FRANCES SPALDING AND ERICA WAGNERA party of English people board the Euphrosyne bound for South America. Among them is Rachel Vinrace, young, innocent and wholly ignorant of the... -
Geopolitics and the Anglophone Novel, 1890-2011 by John Marx 9781107020313
RRP: $189.00Booksplease Price: $180.89Literary fiction is a powerful cultural tool for criticizing governments and for imagining how better governance and better states would work. Combining political theory with strong readings of a... -
Gay Men's Literature in the Twentieth Century by Mark Lilly 9780814750810
Booksplease Price: $64.64Mainstream academic criticism has usually failed to engage gay work without distorting or ignoring its most central features. In gay men's writing, tenderness lies side by side with rage, and... -
British Literature and the Life of Institutions: Speculative States by Benjamin Kohlmann 9780198836179
RRP: $193.20Booksplease Price: $185.89British Literature and the Life of Institutions charts a literary prehistory of the welfare state in Britain around 1900, but it also marks a major intervention in current theoretical debates about... -
The Cambridge Apostles, 1820-1914: Liberalism, Imagination, and Friendship in British Intellectual and Professional Life by W.C. Lubenow 9780521037280
Booksplease Price: $68.08This book offers a highly engaging history of the world's most famous secret society, the Cambridge 'Apostles', based upon the lives, careers and correspondence of the 255 Apostles elected to the... -
Fiction and the Law: Legal Discourse in Victorian and Modernist Literature by Kieran Dolin 9780521100311
RRP: $88.20Booksplease Price: $86.06Law and literature have been two of the most powerful discourses in the construction of social reality. The relationship between the two has emerged as a vital area of study, as literary... -
Hotel Modernisms Anna Despotopoulou 9781032081281
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.35This collection of essays explores the hotel as a site of modernity, a space of mobility and transience that shaped the transnational and transcultural modernist activity of the first half of the... -
Christmas Poem 2025 by Carol Ann Duffy, DBE 9781529083972
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45It's Christmas Eve in London's financial district. A billionaire in his penthouse suite is visited by the ghost of Sarah Whitehead, the grief-stricken nun who has haunted the Bank of England for... -
Queering the Gothic by Hughes William 9780719086434
Booksplease Price: $49.43Queering the Gothic is the first multi-authored book concerned with the developing interface between Gothic criticism and queer theory. Considering a range of Gothic texts produced between the... -
On Friendship Andrew O'Hagan 9780571397471
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38** AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW ** From the bestselling author of Mayflies and Caledonian Road, a heart-enriching celebration of what makes us great: our friends.If we are lucky in our lives, our... -
Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times by Professor Aaron Sachs
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $66.36Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in BiographyA double portrait of two of America's most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them-and their uncanny... -
Postcolonial Studies: A Materialist Critique by Benita Parry 9780415336000
RRP: $86.08Booksplease Price: $81.54This powerful selection of essays proposes practices of reading and criticism to make the field of postcolonial studies more fully attentive to historical circumstances and socio-material conditions... -
Gay Men's Literature in the Twentieth Century by Mark Lilly 9780814750711
Booksplease Price: $190.20Mainstream academic criticism has usually failed to engage gay work without distorting or ignoring its most central features. In gay men's writing, tenderness lies side by side with rage, and... -
Bloomsbury, Beasts and British Modernist Literature by Derek Ryan 9781009182973
RRP: $163.80Booksplease Price: $156.72Bloomsbury, Beasts and British Modernist Literature reveals how the Bloomsbury group's fascination with beasts - from pests to pets, tiny insects to big game - became an integral part of their... -
Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times by Professor Aaron Sachs 9780691236957
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $38.83Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in BiographyA double portrait of two of America's most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them-and their uncanny... -
Making Words Matter: The Agency of Colonial and Postcolonial Literature by Ambreen Hai 9780821418802
Booksplease Price: $165.27Why should Salman Rushdie describe his truth telling as an act of swallowing impure "haram" flesh from which the blood has not been drained? Why should Rudyard Kipling cast Kim, the imperial... -
The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue by W. H. Auden
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $35.57When it was first published in 1947, The Age of Anxiety--W. H. Auden's last, longest, and most ambitious book-length poem--immediately struck a powerful chord, capturing the imagination of the... -
The Readable People of George Meredith by Judith Wilt 9780691618029
RRP: $88.20Booksplease Price: $76.92Meredith's reputation as an "unreadable" novelist prompted Judith Wilt to examine the relationship between author and reader in Meredith's fiction--a relationship that was combative and teacherly... -
Others by Joseph Hillis Miller
RRP: $100.80Booksplease Price: $84.90This volume fulfills the author's career-long reflections on radical otherness in literature. J. Hillis Miller investigates otherness through ten nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors: Friedrich... -
Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes by Philip Brett
RRP: $44.10Booksplease Price: $42.86Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes is one of the few operas of the last half-century to have gained a secure place in the repertory. Its appearance in 1945 shortly after the end of the war in Europe was... -
Advent Street by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54In this enchantingly illustrated Christmas poem, Carol Ann Duffy invites readers to open the windows on Advent Street. In each one is a gift. You may find yourself back-straight watching a ballerina,... -
The Flirt's Tragedy: Desire without End in Victorian and Edwardian Fiction by Richard A. Kaye 9780813921006
Booksplease Price: $125.45In the flirtation plots of novels by Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and W.M. Thackeray, heroines learn sociability through competition with naughty coquette-doubles. In the writing of George Eliot... -
Haunting Modernity and the Gothic Presence in British Modernist Literature by Daniel Darvay 9783319813417
Booksplease Price: $97.19This book explores the complex relationship between British modernism and the Gothic tradition over several centuries of modern literary and cultural history. Illuminating the blind spots of Gothic... -
Sandscapes: Writing the British Seaside by Jo Carruthers 9783030447793
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $26.29Sandscapes: Writing the British Seaside reflects on the unique topography of sand, sandscapes, and the seaside in British culture and beyond. This book brings together creative and critical writings... -
Armistice: A Laureate's Choice of Poems of War and Peace by Carol Ann Duffy 9780571347070
Booksplease Price: $7.33The Armistice of 1918 brought ceasefire to the war on the Western Front, but 'the Great War' would not as hoped be 'the war to end all wars'. In this affecting selection, the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann... -
On Friendship: From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan 9780571402977
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35'A witty, heartfelt but intelligent celebration of what it means to have great friends.' The Times 'Delightful.' Guardian 'The overwhelming tone of the book is joy, along with an optimism about... -
Our Fathers by Andrew O'Hagan
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35** Pre-order Andrew O'Hagan's new novel Caledonian Road now **'A beautiful, elegiac work . . . This should be required reading for everybody.' Ian RankinShortlisted for the Booker Prize, Our Fathers... -
Marina Carr Plays 1: Love in the Dark; The Mai; Portia Coughlan; By the Bog of Cats... by Marina Carr
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $30.60The first collection of plays by Marina Carr introduces the work of a major new voice in playwriting. Low in the Dark'One of the most exciting, new and absolutely original aspects of Carr's writing... -
My Country; a work in progress: in the words of people across the UK by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35Britannia calls a meeting, to listen to her people. Caledonia, Cymru, East Midlands, North East, Northern Ireland and the South West bring the voices of their regions. The debate is passionate and... -
The Cambridge Companion to Gay and Lesbian Writing by Hugh Stevens 9780521716574
RRP: $56.70Booksplease Price: $48.13In the last two decades, lesbian and gay studies have transformed literary studies and developed into a vital and influential area for students and scholars. This Companion introduces readers to the... -
Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca 9780571360147
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70A bride promised. A blood vow broken. The vengeance of a village released.I want you green. Green wind, green branches. Boat on the ocean. Horse on the mountain. Written in the summer of 1932 with... -
Faery Tales by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.79Once upon a time, there was a rich merchant who had three daughters. The girls were just as clever as they were bella and none more so than the youngest, whose name was Beauty. Disappear to faraway... -
Fiction and the Law: Legal Discourse in Victorian and Modernist Literature by Kieran Dolin 9780521623322
RRP: $197.40Booksplease Price: $188.35Law and literature have been two of the most powerful discourses in the construction of social reality. The relationship between the two has emerged as a vital area of study, as literary... -
The Boy Marina Carr 9780571400201
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70Your woman ranting, who said this, who said that, who said the other, all boils down to the usual rigmarole. The Oracle says don't. The clodhopper says I will if I want. The Oracle flattens him, the... -
War Poet by Jon Stallworthy 9781847772442
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $15.94Jon Stallworthy wrote his first poems during schooldays shadowed by the Second World War and a mother's memories of a brother and friends killed in the First. At school, too, he was introduced to the... -
Marina Carr: Plays 2: On Raftery's Hill; Ariel; Woman and Scarecrow; The Cordelia Dream; Marble by Marina Carr
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $30.18On Raftery's Hill'This is a play that howls to be seen; its courage is matched only by its dramatic power.' Sunday IndependentAriel'An astonishing piece of theatre. Interweaving themes drawn from...