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Red Britain: The Russian Revolution in Mid-Century Culture by Matthew Taunton
Booksplease Price: £90.87Red Britain sets out a provocative rethinking of the cultural politics of mid-century Britain by drawing attention to the extent, diversity, and longevity of the cultural effects of the Russian... -
Revolution: The Event in Postwar Fiction by Matthew Wilkens 9781421420875
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £22.24Socially, politically, and artistically, the 1950s make up an odd interlude between the first half of the twentieth century-still tied to the problems and orders of the Victorian era and Gilded... -
Hope Against Hope by Nadezhda Mandelstam
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.04'Suddently, at about one o'clock in the morning, there was a sharp, unbearably explicit knock on the door. 'They've come for Osip', I said'.In 1933 the poet Osip Mandelstam- friend to Boris Pasternak... -
Briefly Very Beautiful by Roz Dineen 9781526659187
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.27A startlingly beautiful story of a family's survival, and an unforgettable dystopian vision of a familiar world in flamesLonglisted for the Climate Fiction Prize 2024A Spectator Book of the Year... -
Katherine Mansfield: The Story-Teller by Kathleen Jones
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £19.33The compelling and intimate story of one of the world's foremost short story writers Weaving together intimate details from Katherine Mansfield's letters and journals with the writings of her friends... -
The Science Fiction Handbook by Dr Nick Hubble 9781441170965
Booksplease Price: £30.87As we move through the 21st century, the importance of science fiction to the study of English Literature is becoming increasingly apparent. The Science Fiction Handbook provides a comprehensive... -
Briefly Very Beautiful Roz Dineen 9781526659200
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73A startlingly beautiful story of a family's survival, and an unforgettable dystopian vision of a familiar world in flamesLonglisted for the Climate Fiction Prize 2024A Spectator Book of the... -
Screening Woolf: Virginia Woolf on/and/in Film by Earl G. Ingersoll 9781611479706
Booksplease Price: £76.51As the subtitle indicates, this book has three majors concerns. The first and most important concern is an examination of the film adaptations of Woolf's novels-To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and Mrs... -
Eugenics, Literature, and Culture in Post-war Britain Clare Hanson 9781138109490
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49This book explores eugenics in its wider social context and in literary representations in post-war Britain. Drawing on a wide range of sources in medicine, social and educational policy, genetics,... -
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir by Joyce Johnson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.62January 1957: girl meets boy on a blind date arranged by Allen Ginsberg. The girl was Joyce Johnson, the boy Jack Kerouac, and it was nine months before 'On The Road' became a permanent part of the... -
Discrepant Solace: Contemporary Literature and the Work of Consolation David James 9780198985914
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.31Consolation has always played an uncomfortable part in the literary history of loss. But in recent decades its affective meanings and ethical implications have been recast by narratives that appear... -
In Gratitude by Jenny Diski
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42_______________ 'One of the most inventive, original and disturbing writers of her generation' - Daily Telegraph 'Diski does not do linear, or normal, or boring ... In Gratitude amounts to the... -
Discrepant Solace: Contemporary Literature and the Work of Consolation by David James
Booksplease Price: £101.94Consolation has always played an uncomfortable part in the literary history of loss. But in recent decades its affective meanings and ethical implications have been recast by narratives that appear... -
Katherine Mansfield: The Story-Teller by Kathleen Jones 9780748643547
RRP: £43.00Booksplease Price: £40.62Weaving together intimate details from Katherine Mansfield's letters and journals with the writings of her friends and acquaintances, Kathleen Jones creates a captivating drama of this fragile yet... -
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46_______________ WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK _______________ 'A remarkable achievement' - Sunday Times 'A... -
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale 9780747596486 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £1.61_______________ WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK _______________ 'A remarkable achievement' - Sunday Times 'A... -
Look! We Have Come Through!: Living With D. H. Lawrence by Lara Feigel 9781408877555
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74'Her intensity and intimacy are engaging' Blake Morrison, Guardian 'A lovely, urgent, serious book' Tessa Hadley 'Refreshing and unexpected' Daisy Hay, Financial Times Brilliantly interweaving... -
The Lioness in Winter: Writing an Old Woman's Life by Ann Burack-Weiss 9780231151849
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £63.59When she started working with the aged more than forty years ago, Ann Burack-Weiss began storing the knowledge and skills she thought would help when she got old herself. It was not until she hit her... -
The Language Puzzle: How We Talked Our Way Out of the Stone Age Steven Mithen 9781800811607
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'A tour de force' Alice Roberts 'Wonderful ... A remarkably comprehensive biography of the single most important thing we all share - language' Robin Dunbar The relationship between language,... -
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Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay by William Boyd 9781408867990 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £2.41THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Amory Clay's first memory is of her father doing a handstand - but it is his absences that she chiefly remembers. Her Uncle Greville, a photographer, gives her... -
Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay by William Boyd 9781408867990
Booksplease Price: £10.86THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Amory Clay's first memory is of her father doing a handstand - but it is his absences that she chiefly remembers. Her Uncle Greville, a photographer, gives her... -
Phenomenological Perspectives on Place, Lifeworlds, and Lived Emplacement: The Selected Writings of David Seamon David Seamon 9781032357324
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Phenomenological Perspectives on Place, Lifeworlds and Lived Emplacement is a compilation of seventeen previously published articles and chapters by David Seamon, one of the foremost researchers in... -
The Haunting of Alma Fielding: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020 by Kate Summerscale
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.99SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'A page-turner with the authority of history' PHILIPPA GREGORY 'As gripping as a novel. An engaging, unsettling, deeply satisfying read' SARAH... -
Memories of the Future by Siri Hustvedt
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED'Few contemporary writers are as satisfying and stimulating to read as Siri Hustvedt' Washington Post'A 21st-century Virginia Woolf'... -
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A Lovely Way to Burn: Plague Times Trilogy 1 by Louise Welsh 9781848546530 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.97'A taut thriller so involving that I missed my bus stop!' Woman & Home'I read it in two sittings, pausing only to sleep and dream about it. Gripping, perfectly paced and beautifully written' ERIN... -
Black and White: Cinema, politics and the arts in Zimbabwe Agnieszka Piotrowska (Manchester School of Art, UK) 9781138817869
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.04In Black and White Agnieszka Piotrowska presents a unique insight into the contemporary arts scene in Zimbabwe - an area that has received very limited coverage in research and the media. The book... -
A Lovely Way to Burn: Plague Times Trilogy 1 by Louise Welsh
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.55As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book at BedtimeIt doesn't look like murder in a city full of death. A pandemic called 'The Sweats' is sweeping the globe. London is a city in crisis. Hospitals begin to fill...