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Olivier Messiaen and the Music of Time by Paul Griffiths 9780571247325
Booksplease Price: $27.98Olivier Messiaen was one of the outstanding creative artists of his time. The strength of his appeal, to listeners as well as to composers, is a measure of the individuality of his music, which draws... -
Good Will Hunting by Matt Damon 9780571196111
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.03Wildly charismatic, impossibly brilliant, totally rebellious - Will Hunting is a mathematical genius who lives on the fringes of society, refusing to accept the talent that he has for maths and... -
The Singing Detective by Dennis Potter 9780571145904
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $15.05This is the unabridged original text of Dennis Potter's acclaimed six-part television serial. The narrative counterpoints life in a hospital ward of a writer crippled by a horrific skin disease with... -
Jonathan Swift: A Hypocrite Reversed by David Nokes 9780571317615
Booksplease Price: $19.66David Nokes presents a gripping and authoritative portrait of Swift in his multifarious roles as satirist, politician, churchman and friend. Drawing on the most recent scholarship, he seeks in... -
Disraeli's Grand Tour: Benjamin Disraeli and the Holy Land, 1830–1831 by Robert Blake 9780571302833
Booksplease Price: $20.92'Lively and entertaining... [Disraeli's Grand Tour] concentrates on one colourful episode, or sequence of episodes, in the young Disraeli's life: the tour through the Mediterranean and Near East... -
The Ingenious Mr Fairchild: The Forgotten Father of the Flower Garden by Michael Leapman 9780571290277
Booksplease Price: $19.66By the early eighteenth century botanists were inching towards the shocking truth that plants had male and female organs and reproduced sexually. The first person to realize the practical... -
The Missionary's Wife by Tim Jeal 9780571311750
Booksplease Price: $19.66In The Missionary's Wife (1996) - his return to historical fiction - Tim Jeal expertly evoked Africa in the 1890s: a continent in turmoil as a horde of prospecters, hunters and missionaries scramble... -
Mandeville by Matthew Francis
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26The Travels of Sir John Mandeville was one of the most popular books of the later Middle Ages. Purporting to describe the circumnavigation of an English knight through Africa, India, and the Middle... -
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Tell Me the Truth About Love by W. H. Auden 9780571202607 [USED COPY]
RRP: $6.44Booksplease Price: $3.37Fifteen famous love poems and cabaret songs written in the 1930s by W. H. Auden, including 'Funeral Blues' as featured in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral.Tell Me the Truth About Love gathers... -
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A. E. Housman by A. E. Housman 9780571226740 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $2.70In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their selection of verses and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their introductions, the... -
Selected Poems of Mick Imlah by Mick Imlah
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Mick Imlah's second and long-awaited collection The Lost Leader was published to acclaim in 2008, shortly before his early death in January 2009. The present retrospect connects the work of three... -
The Arctic by Don Paterson
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56'The Arctic' in Don Paterson's powerful new collection is the name of a bar frequented by the survivors of several kinds of apocalypse. The poems gathered here are as various as the clientele:... -
For Love or Money by Tim Jeal 9780571303878
Booksplease Price: $17.12For Love or Money was Tim Jeal's first novel, accepted for publication in 1966 while he was still an undergraduate at Oxford. It is the story of temporary gentleman George, who lives as a kept man... -
Cushing's Crusade by Tim Jeal 9780571303915
Booksplease Price: $17.12Derek Cushing - thirtyish, balding, unassuming archivist/researcher into European expansion in East Africa - is also the son of Gilbert, father of Giles, and husband of Diana. On the last count,... -
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After Easter by Anne Devlin 9780571173945 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.90Booksplease Price: $3.13After Easter is not a political play, rather a psychological play - inevitably funny. It is a contemporary portrait of a woman who reaches that point in her life when she will either grow or fade,... -
Pedagogical Sketchbook: Introduction by Sibyl Moholy-Nagy by Paul Klee
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91'One of the most famous of modern art documents - a poetic primer, prepared by the artist for his Bauhaus pupils, which has deeply affected modern thinking about art . . . This little handbook leads... -
Ten Principal Upanishads by Shri Purohit Swami 9780571093632
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.91'This is a book to be read slowly and lovingly, for it is full of grand passages and haunting phrases from those ancient sages who have left us some of the profoundest reflections ever made upon the... -
The Magic Pencil 4 by Aw Faber-Castell 9780228880851
Booksplease Price: $13.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228880851Author Aw Faber-CastellFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint
101 Sonnets by Don Paterson
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26Poets have been fascinated and challenged by the sonnet ever since it was imported from Italy to England in the sixteenth century. With its fourteen lines, inexhaustibly variable, it has met...
On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored by Adam Phillips
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26The author is committed to psychoanalysis as part of a wider cultural conversation, and this unique collection of essays on a wide range of relatively unexplored subjects combines literary and...
David Hare Plays 3: Skylight; Amy's View; The Judas Kiss; My Zinc Bed by David Hare
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $18.01This is a new collection of some of David Hare's finest work, including Skylight (Winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play, 1996), Amy's View, The Judas Kiss and My Zinc Bed.David Hare...
Nice Weather by Frederick Seidel
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56'Something is going on. Something is wrong.' - 'Night'Frederick Seidel - the 'ghoul' (Chicago Review), the 'triumphant outsider' (Contemporary Poetry Review) - returns with a dangerous new ...
The Ashley Book of Knots by Clifford W. Ashley 9780571096596
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $51.51First published in 1944, and reprinted many times since then, the latest reissue of this magnificent book contains, for the first time, fully illustrated details of all minor amendments and...
Octagon John Goes to Mars by Brad Faber 9781943706211
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943706211Author Brad FaberFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint
The Art of Prayer by Igumen of Valamo Khariton
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $16.74This is a collection of texts on prayer, taken from Greek and Russian sources. The spiritual teaching of the Orthodox Church appears here in its classic and traditional form, but expressed in...
Collected Longer Poems by W. H. Auden
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.55First published in 1968, this companion volume to the Collected Shorter Poems was compiled by W.H. Auden to bring together six of his longer poetic works, originally published between 1930 and 1947...
A Stinging Delight: A Memoir by David Storey 9780571360321
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.56The third son of a coalminer, David Storey takes us from his tough upbringing in Wakefield, to being 'sold' to Leeds Rugby League Club, to his escape to the Slade School of Art and his life in...
Churchill on the Home Front, 1900–1955 by Paul Addison 9780571296392
Booksplease Price: $30.91'The best one-volume study of Churchill yet available.' David Cannadine, Observer'Magisterial.' Vernon Bogdanor, New Statesman'A tour de force... A masterly chronicle of Churchill as a domestic...
The White Father by Julian Mitchell 9780571304226
Booksplease Price: $19.66'[The White Father] was to be a State of the Nation novel, about the end of Empire, contrasting the last generation of men who'd served it, and the new one which was just breaking out from the long...
Tales from Ovid by Ted Hughes
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56When Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun's ground-breaking anthology After Ovid (also Faber) was published in 1995, Hughes's three contributions to the collective effort were nominated by most critics...
Companions of the Day and Night by Harris Wilson 9780571296224
Booksplease Price: $17.12'He ascended, eyes riveted, nailed to the steps leading up to the top of the pyramid of the sun. How many human hearts he wondered had been plucked from bodies there to feed the dying light of the...
The School Bag by Ted Hughes
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.94A companion to The Rattle Bag, The School Bag is an engaging and authoritative selection for the classroom.Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes have chosen an eclectic range of poets read in today's schools,...
Collected Poems by Hugo Williams
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.71In gathering four decades of work, Hugo Williams's Collected Poems brings back into print a vast body of material long since unavailable - from his 1965 debut Symptoms of Loss to Self-Portrait with a...
Nessie the Mannerless Monster by Ted Hughes
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.77Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster, is tired of being told that she doesn't exist. In this crackling, lolloping story in verse, Ted Hughes describes how she sets out on the road to London for an audience...![Porcelain by Moby 9780571321490 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9942274/10958784/9780571321490__78728.1786515682.jpg?c=1 "Porcelain by Moby 9780571321490 [USED COPY]")
Porcelain by Moby 9780571321490 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $5.75In the late eighties and early nineties, Moby, then an underground DJ and musician, was scraping out a living in New York City. In a scene popular chiefly among working-class African-Americans and...
Burn After Reading by Joel 9780571245222
RRP: $20.64Booksplease Price: $16.33Two gym instructors (Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand) accidentally stumble across and try to sell a disk containing the memoirs of CIA agent Osborne Cox (John Malkovich), who has recently resigned...
On Film by Wim Wenders
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.72Wim Wenders' body of work is among the most formidable in modern cinema: Paris Texas, Wings of Desire, The Buena Vista Social Club, The Million Dollar Hotel. And Wenders writes about cinema as...
Thom Gunn by Thom Gunn
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.43Thom Gunn (1929-2004) was educated at Cambridge University, and had his first collection of poems, Fighting Terms, published while still an undergraduate. He moved to northern California in 1954 and...
David Hare Plays 2: Fanshen; A Map of the World; Saigon; The Bay at Nice; The Secret Rapture by David Hare
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $18.54This second volume of plays by David Hare contains work from the 1970s and 1980s which confirmed him as one of the major contemporary playwrights in the English language. It includes Fanshen, his...
Naked Cinema: Working with Actors by Sally Potter 9780571304998
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $24.55Sally Potter has been renowned for her rapport with actors, and for the luminous performances she works with them to produce. Now she strips bare the art and craft of directing actors for the camera,...