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By the Bog of Cats by Marina Carr
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Set in the mysterious landscape of the bogs of rural Ireland, Carr's lyrical and timeless play tells the story of Hester Swane, an Irish traveller with a deep and unearthly connection to her land... -
Love by Carol Ann Duffy, DBE
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In Love, Carol Ann Duffy, one of the English language's best-loved living poets presents from her own archives, in chronological order, her favourites among her poems on the theme of love, drawing on... -
The Mizzy by Paul Farley
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Paul Farley is now widely recognized as one of the leading English poets writing today. As usual it is impossible to summarize in terms of theme, as his interests are too various: there's an air of... -
Rocket and Lightship: Essays on Literature and Ideas by Adam Kirsch 9780393243468
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.13Adam Kirsch has been described as "elegant and astute-[a] critic of the very first order" (The New York Times). In Rocket and Lightship he examines the work and life of writers past and present, from... -
The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss by Robert Macfarlane 9781324006848
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £22.36The Book of Birds is a field guide with a difference: It shows readers not just how to identify birds, but also how to identify with them. Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris conjure the unique... -
Making Words Matter: The Agency of Colonial and Postcolonial Literature by Ambreen Hai 9780821418819
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02Why 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 Spark of Modernism: Twenty Speculative Stories and Writings That Defined an Era, 1886-1939 by William Gillard, 9781476691091
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.32Between the years of 1886 and 1939, the world saw the first automobiles, rapid urbanization, the decay of empires, vast economic inequality, the first airplanes and the terrifying secrets of the atom... -
Scott's Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh by Ian Duncan 9780691144269
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.51Scott's Shadow is the first comprehensive account of the flowering of Scottish fiction between 1802 and 1832, when post-Enlightenment Edinburgh rivaled London as a center for literary and cultural... -
Personal Impressions: Updated Edition by Isaiah Berlin 9780691157702
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.82In this collection of remarkable biographical portraits, the great essayist and intellectual historian Isaiah Berlin brings to life a wide range of prominent twentieth-century thinkers, politicians,... -
The Wall: LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 by John Lanchester
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.24* A Financial Times and Evening Standard Book of the Year ** LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2020 *'Masterly . . . A signal achievement ... -
Collected Grimm Tales by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99This volume contains Carol Ann Duffy's adaptation plus the dramatization by Tim Supple and the Young Vic Company. The plays were produced by the Young Vic, London, in 1994 and 1997.'Great theatre is... -
Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood 9780811220248
Booksplease Price: £10.01First published in 1934, Goodbye to Berlin has been popularized on stage and screen by Julie Harris in I Am a Camera and Liza Minelli in Cabaret. Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin:... -
These Days: 'A gem of a novel, I adored it.' MARIAN KEYES by Lucy Caldwell
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31WINNER OF THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTIONWINNER OF THE E. M. FORSTER AWARDAS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4s BOOK AT BEDTIMETwo sisters. Four nights. One City.April, 1941. Belfast has escaped the... -
Veering: A Theory of Literature by Nicholas Royle
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.42This book reflects on the figure of veering to form a new theory of literature. Contrary to a widespread sense that literature has become increasingly irrelevant to our culture and everyday life,... -
A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £106.58Serialized in Ford Madox Ford's English Review in 1908-9, A Personal Record (1912) both documents and fictionalizes Conrad's early life and the opening stages of his careers as a writer and as a... -
The Poems of Wilfred Owen by Wilfred Owen 9780393303858
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £17.39Of all the work bequeathed by to us by that generation of young men who fought in the trenches, Owen's is the most remarkable for its breadth of sympathy and its understanding of human suffering and... -
Utopianism, Modernism, and Literature in the Twentieth Century by Ms. Alice Reeve-Tucker 9780230358935
Booksplease Price: £46.74Utopianism, Modernism, and Literature in the Twentieth Century considers the links between utopianism and modernism in two ways: as an under-theorized nexus of aesthetic and political interactions;... -
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Wilfred Owen by Wilfred Owen 9780571207251 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.99In 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... -
Gut Symmetries by Jeanette Winterson 9781847087317
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Travelling across the Atlantic on board the QE2, Alice - a bright, young physicist - meets Jove, short for Giovanni, one of the world's most respected experts on time travel and a confirmed lothario... -
Cavafy's Alexandria: Expanded Edition by Edmund Keeley 9780691044989
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £44.30C. P. Cavafy, one of the greatest modern Greek poets, lived in Alexandria for all but a few of his seventy years. Alexandria became, for Cavafy, a central poetic metaphor and eventually a myth... -
Pluto by Glyn Maxwell 9781447231585
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Pluto - the non-planet, the ex-planet - is the dominant celestial influence in Glyn Maxwell's new collection: Pluto is a book about change, the before-and-after of love, the aftermath of loss: change... -
One Thousand Nights and Counting by Glyn Maxwell 9781509880003
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42This book selects from twenty years of Glyn Maxwell's poetry, and provides a concise introduction to one of the most imaginatively gifted poets of the age. Maxwell's is perhaps the most immediately... -
Wilfred Owen by Wilfred Owen
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31In 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... -
1914: Poetry Remembers by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67The First World War holds a unique place in the nation's history; the poetry it produced, a unique place in the nation's hearts. To mark the centenary of the First World War in 2014, the Poet... -
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The Wall: LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 by John Lanchester 9780571298730 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.09* A Financial Times and Evening Standard Book of the Year ** LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2020 *'Masterly . . . A signal achievement ... -
Becoming George Orwell: Life and Letters, Legend and Legacy by John Rodden 9780691182742
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40The remarkable transformation of Orwell from journeyman writer to towering iconIs George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Yes, according to John Rodden's provocative book about the... -
Standing Female Nude by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Carol Ann Duffy's outstanding first collection, Standing Female Nude, introduced readers to all they would come to love about her poetry. From lovers to wives to war photographers, the poems it... -
Personality by Andrew O'Hagan
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Andrew O'Hagan's second novel, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, is a powerful tale about society, celebrity and self-destruction.Maria Tambini is a thirteen-year-old girl with a great... -
The Wren-Boys by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.37It is a cold day in Ireland, the 26th of December; frost lies thick on the blackthorn. A man walks the just-waking village, banging on every door, summoning the boys. Today is St. Stephen's Day, when... -
Masters are You Mad? by Glyn Maxwell 9781849434072
Booksplease Price: £14.24'I'll be revenged on the whole pack of you!' vowed Malvolio at the end of Twelfth Night, but twelve years have passed in Illyria and nothing has been heard of him. Illyria is a ghost town now: all... -
Understanding Kazuo Ishiguro by Brian W. Shaffer 9781570037948
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91This is a comprehensive guide to the life and work of the author of ""The Remains of the Day"".One of the most closely followed British writers of his generation, the Japanese-born, English-raised... -
Mean Time by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26In her prize-winning fourth collection, Mean Time, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy dramatizes scenes from childhood, adolescence and adulthood, finding moments of grace or consolation in memory, love... -
The Idea of Italy: Photography and the British Imagination, 1840-1900 by Maria Antonella Pelizzari
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.80A unique portrait of nineteenth-century Italy as seen through the eyes of the first generation of British photographers This book examines the ways in which the new medium of photography influenced... -
Fiction & the Colonial Experience by Jeffrey Meyers 9781032190822
RRP: £91.99Booksplease Price: £90.68British colonialism provided a rich vein of material for the novelists of the first half of the 20th century. This study, originally published in 1968, looks at five writers and their reaction to the... -
Outlaw Fathers in Victorian and Modern British Literature: Queering Patriarchy by Helena Gurfinkel 9781611476378
Booksplease Price: £95.49Outlaw Fathers in Victorian and Modern British Literature: Queering Patriarchy traces the representations of outlaw fathers, or queer patriarchs, and their relationships with their queer sons, in a... -
Traitors: History's Greatest Turncoats, From Judas Iscariot to the Men Who Plotted to Kill Hitler Ian Crofton 9781529440010
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'If I had to choose between betraying my friend and betraying my country, I hope I should have the courage to betray my country.' E. M. FORSTERPeople have betrayed their country, or their friends,... -
Camp Austen: My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan by Ted Scheinman 9780865478213
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.42The son of a devoted Jane Austen scholar, Ted Scheinman spent his childhood summers eating Yorkshire pudding, singing in an Anglican choir, and watching Laurence Olivier as Mr. Darcy. Determined to... -
Look What You Made Me Do: From the bestselling author of Capital John Lanchester 9780571298662
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38'A great read. A box of delights which is also a thrilling satirical torture chamber.' Jesse Armstrong, creator of Succession 'An absolute riot . . . totally compulsive.' Observer 'A modern master of... -
The Time by the Sea: Aldeburgh 1955-1958 by Dr. Ronald Blythe
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The Time by the Sea is about Ronald Blythe's life in Aldeburgh during the 1950s. He had originally come to the Suffolk coast as an aspiring young writer, but found himself drawn into Benjamin... -
The King of Christmas by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £4.85On a frosty winter evening, the Baron watches the snow fall. He is bored and worried. It will soon be Christmas and everything is too quiet. What can he do to bring excitement to the Manor?His wife,...