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History, Memory, Trauma in Contemporary British and Irish Fiction by Beata Piatek
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.30History, memory and trauma as well as their complex interrelations have been lying at the centre of interdisciplinary academic debates since the end of the previous century. These are also themes... -
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 9780099511878
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.63'Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire' J. K. Rowling ... -
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Lolita is comedy, subversive yet divine' Martin Amis, ObserverPoet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then... -
Pistache by Sebastian Faulks
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49pistache (pis-tash): a friendly spoof or parody of another's work. [Deriv uncertain. Possibly a cross between pastiche and p**stake.] From Thomas Hardy's football report to Dan Brown's visit to the... -
A Horror and a Beauty: The World of Peter Ackroyd's London Novels Petr Chalupsky 9788024631615
Booksplease Price: £15.82Peter Ackroyd's writing is obsessed with the defining heterogeneity of London its rich diversity of human experience, mood, and emotion, of actions and events, and of the tools through which all of... -
Love + Marriage = Death: And Other Essays on Representing Difference by Sander L. Gilman 9780804732628
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.21The essays in this collection, written by a pioneering interdisciplinary scholar, deal with the roles of images in the construction of stereotypes and the categories of difference as represented in... -
What You Didn't Miss: A Book of Literary Parodies as Featured in Private Eye by D. J. Taylor 9781780336886
RRP: £2.99Booksplease Price: £2.77Since the late 1990s, Private Eye's 'What You Didn't Miss' column has trained a vigilant lens on some of the great literary reputations of our age. Highlights of this bumper selection include Martin... -
Willing, Wanting, Waiting by Richard Holton
Booksplease Price: £24.52Richard Holton provides a unified account of intention, choice, weakness of will, strength of will, temptation, addiction, and freedom of the will. Drawing on recent psychological research, he argues... -
The Task of the Critic: Terry Eagleton in Dialogue by Terry Eagleton
Booksplease Price: £28.48Terry Eagleton occupies a unique position in the English-speaking world today. He is not only a productive literary theorist, but also a novelist and playwright. He remains a committed socialist... -
The Quantity Theory of Insanity: Reissued by Will Self 9781408827451
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.49The fictional world of Will Self is unlike any other. In The Quantity Theory of Insanity, we learn, amongst other things, the dark and terrible secret of Ward 9, why you are right to think that... -
History of English Literature, Volume 8: From the Late Inter-War Years to 2010 by Franco Marucci 9781789974034
RRP: £60.50Booksplease Price: £54.90For ordering the hardcover version of this book, please contact orders@peterlang.com (Retail Price: £100.00, $151.90). ‘Franco Marucci’s History of English Literature is unique in its field. There is... -
The Comic Turn in Contemporary English Fiction: Who's Laughing Now? by Huw Marsh 9781474293037
Booksplease Price: £112.13The Comic Turn in Contemporary English Fiction explores the importance of comedy in contemporary literature and culture. In an era largely defined by a mood of crisis, bleakness, cruelty,... -
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda's Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BESTSELLER, NOW AN ACCLAIMED TV SERIESThis is the definitive account of the run-up to 9/11: from the man who lit the spark of radical Islam in 1948, to those who built up a... -
The Language of Literature Adrian Beard 9780415286336
Booksplease Price: £26.09Routledge A Level English Guides equip AS and A2 Level students with the skills they need to explore, evaluate, and enjoy English.Books in the series are built around the various skills specified in... -
Contemporary British Fiction by Nick Bentley 9780748624201
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.04This critical guide introduces major novelists and themes in British fiction from 1975 to 2005. It engages with concepts such as postmodernism, feminism, gender and the postcolonial, and examines the... -
Unfinished Business by Conrad Williams 9781448215522
Booksplease Price: £16.21Unfinished Business is to the Publishing Industry what The Player is to the Movie Business: an entertaining novel about life, love and revenge in Publishing by an industry insider.Mike is a literary... -
Stop All the Clocks by Noah Kumin 9781648211201
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £19.15A Thrilling Debut that Explores the Profound Mysteries of Life in the Digital Age Mona Veigh was feeling burnt out from the tech world-and life in general. Following the death of her unconventional... -
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.85'I do not know of any other writer who has done as much with language ... a very funny book' William S. Burroughs Fifteen-year-old Alex doesn't just like ultra-violence - he also enjoys rape, drugs... -
Getting Rid Of Mister Kitchen by Charlie Higson
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £4.01From the author of the latest official James Bond novel'Charlie Higson's thrillers are major events' Mark Billingham'Very funny and utterly unstoppable' The Times'A sizzlingly paced modern thriller'... -
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.37Few books have had such an impact as Wild Swans: a popular bestseller which has sold more than 13 million copies and a critically acclaimed history of China; a tragic tale of nightmarish cruelty and... -
Granta 63: Beasts by Ian Jack 9780903141208
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.06THE SCENE OF THE CRIME: Genocide is a word that has haunted this century, but its definition is contentious and our memory of it selective. A photographic essay by Simon Norfolk introduced by Michael... -
Dracula by Colm Toibin 9781780332413
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02No book since Mrs Shelley's Frankenstein, or indeed any other at all has come near yours in originality, or terror - Poe is nowhere..."-Charlotte Stoker (Mother of Bram Stoker).Originally published... -
Millennium People by J. G. Ballard
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Violent rebellion comes to London's middle classes. As he searches for the truth behind the Heathrow bomb that killed his ex-wife, psychologist David Markham infiltrates a shadowy protest... -
Lust by Elfriede Jelinek 9781852421830
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In a quaint Austrian ski resort, things are not quite what they seem. Hermann, the manager of a paper mill, has decided that sexual gratification begins at home. Which means Gerti - his wife and... -
The Intimate Adventures Of A London Call Girl by Belle De Jour
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Belle de Jour is the nom de plume of a high-class call girl working in London. This is her story.From the summer of 2003 to the autumn of 2004 Belle charted her day-to-day adventures on and off the... -
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess 9780393341768
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.00In Anthony Burgess's influential nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, a teen who talks in a fantastically... -
A Man In Full by Tom Wolfe
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46A dissection of greed-obsessed America a decade after The Bonfire of the Vanities and on the cusp of the millennium, from the master chronicler of American culture Tom WolfeCharlie Croker, once a... -
For Esme - with Love and Squalor: And Other Stories by J. D. Salinger 9780241985922
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43In honour of the centennial of the birth of J.D. Salinger in 1919, Penguin reissues all four of his books in beautiful commemorative hardback editions - with artwork and text based on the very first... -
Middlemarch by George Eliot
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.81Considered one the masterpieces of realist fiction, George Eliot's novel, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, explores a fictional nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of modern changes... -
Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.92The seventy-fifth anniversary edition, with a new introduction by Anthony Quinn.'I recommend Hamilton at every opportunity, because he was such a wonderful writer and yet is rather under-read today... -
High-Rise by J. G. Ballard 9780008134891
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.54Coming in March 2016 from acclaimed director Ben Wheatley, a major motion picture adaptation of J. G. Ballard's compelling and unnerving tale of what happens when life in a luxury apartment building... -
Pavel and I Dan Vyleta 9780747596318
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Berlin, 1946. During one of the coldest winters on record, Pavel Richter, a decommissioned GI, finds himself at odds with a rogue British Army colonel and a Soviet General when a friend deposits the... -
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The Intimate Adventures Of A London Call Girl by Belle De Jour 9780753819234 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.19Belle de Jour is the nom de plume of a high-class call girl working in London. This is her story.From the summer of 2003 to the autumn of 2004 Belle charted her day-to-day adventures on and off the... -
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Risky Business: People, Pastimes, Poker and Books by Al Alvarez 9780747593119 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £2.62Al Alvarez's writing career has come in many guises. One of the most influential post-war critics, he has written profoundly and eloquently about writers and their craft for over fifty years. But... -
London: the Autobiography Jon E. Lewis 9781845299422
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50In London: The Autobiography the life of the capital is told, for the first time, by those who made it and saw it at first hand. From Roman times to the 21st century, Londoners and visitors to the... -
Attention Seeking by Adam Phillips
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A short, fascinating introduction to the concept of attention from Britain's leading psychoanalyst, author of Missing Out and On Kindness.What we find of interest may tell us more than we think..... -
Fictions of State: Culture and Credit in Britain, 1694–1994 by Patrick Brantlinger 9780801431906
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £92.50In this ambitious book, Patrick Brantlinger offers a cultural history of Great Britain focused on the concept of "public credit," from the 1694 founding of the Bank of England to the present. He... -
Worlds Enough and Time: Explorations of Time in Science Fiction and Fantasy by George Edgar Slusser 9780313317064
Booksplease Price: £76.51With our lives firmly controlled by the steady pace of time, humans have yearned for ways to escape its constraints, and authors have responded with narratives about traveling far into the past or... -
Northanger Abbey (Vintage Classics Austen Series) by Jane Austen
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Jane Austen takes a satirical swipe at the gothic novel in this classic book bursting with sly subversive wit. 'Jane Austen is a genius, and Northanger Abbey is hugely underrated' Martin Amis... -
Days of the Dead Tim Glencross 9781444797626
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78William Hoffer - handsome, refined, a little cold perhaps - is an established figure in London society.But Hoffer has secrets. He is vague about his Midwestern origins. The counsel he offers a...