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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,... -
Modernist Time Ecology by Jesse Matz 9781421426990
RRP: £44.50Booksplease Price: £32.90A new view of the way modernist fiction writers tried to solve the problem of time.Do our fictions transform time? Do they cultivate the temporal environment? Such was the hope-or the fantasy-at work... -
Jubilee Lines by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23To mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II's accession to the throne, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy brings together a dazzling array of contemporary poets (sixty in fact) to write about each... -
Wenceslas: A Christmas Poem by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £4.99Beginning with the King's Cook, who is preparing a sumptuous Christmas Pie, Wenceslas takes us to a medieval feast. The lords and ladies are at their places, the wine is in full flow, the musicians... -
Dorothy Wordsworth's Christmas Birthday by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40It is Christmas Eve, 1799, and Dorothy Wordsworth is awake in the dead of night. She stands outside in the winter cold, waiting patiently.When the new day breaks it will bring family and friends to... -
Christmas Poems by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £10.42This beautifully illustrated collection brings together, for the first time, Carol Ann Duffy's much-celebrated festive poems.For a decade, while she was Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy gifted her... -
Fiction & the Colonial Experience by Jeffrey Meyers 9781032190907
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19British 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... -
What I Believe: Humanist ideas and philosophies to live by Andrew Copson 9780349438429
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.51Discover the rich diversity of non-religious thought today in this inspiring collection of interviews with over thirty different humanists in the public eye, including Stephen Fry, Sandi Toksvig and... -
Devotions: ‘One of the finest short story writers at work today.’ Wendy Erskine Lucy Caldwell 9780571398256
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'Exhilarating, devastating, comforting, essential.' CLAIRE KILROY'These are stories which sing off the page.' JAN CARSON'Powerful, compelling and richly crafted.' MARY COSTELLO'Profoundly intimate.'... -
101 Poems for Children Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy: A Laureate's Choice by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.00Carol Ann Duffy, appointed Poet Laureate in 2009, has chosen her favourite poems for children for this stunning collection of classic and modern verse, exquisitely illustrated by multi-award-winning... -
Embark by Sean O'Brien
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A new collection by Sean O'Brien - 'Auden's true inheritor', and one of our wisest poetic chronographers - is not just a literary event, but also, invariably, a reckoning of the times. Given the... -
Mrs Scrooge: A Christmas Tale by Carol Ann Duffy
Booksplease Price: £5.52Mrs Scrooge is a delightful Christmas poem from Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy. Published as a small hardback and filled with bright illustrations by Posy Simmonds, this modern take on A Christmas... -
The Renaissance in the 19th Century: Revision, Revival, and Return by Lina Bolzoni
RRP: £37.95Booksplease Price: £32.62The Renaissance in the 19th Century examines the Italian Renaissance revival as a Pan-European critique: a commentary on and reshaping of a nineteenth-century present that is perceived as deeply... -
Another Night Before Christmas by Carol Duffy
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.00In a gorgeous pocket-sized hardback, Another Night Before Christmas is Carol Ann Duffy's magical contemporary reworking of the famous poem by Clement C. Moore. Beautifully presented, this wonderful... -
Crewe Train by Rose Macaulay
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Denham Dobie has been brought up in Andorra by her father, a retired clergyman. On his death, she is snatched from this reclusive life and thrown into the social whirl of London by her sophisticated... -
Three Wise Men Carol Ann Duffy, DBE 9781529083958
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26It was the twelfth night of the winter feastsand giant yule logs had burned without cease . . .Seeking refuge from a snowstorm, a nameless traveller is welcomed into an ancient hall to warm their... -
The Christmas Truce by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Down at the Front, on a cold winter's night in 1914, amidst the worst war the world had ever seen, an inexplicable silence spread from man to man. Belief was in the air. Then the soldiers ceased fire... -
Wilfred Owen by Wilfred Owen 9780571315284
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23No poetry has touched readers' hearts more deeply than the soldier poets of the First World War. Published to commemorate the centenary of 1914, this stunning set of books, with specially... -
Consuming Traditions: Modernity, Modernism, and the Commodified Authentic by Elizabeth Outka 9780199921843
RRP: £36.49Booksplease Price: £28.57In an unprecedented phenomenon that swept across Britain at the turn of the nineteenth century, writers, advertisers, and architects began to create and sell images of an authentic cultural realm... -
Childhood, Boyhood and Youth (riverrun editions) Leo Tolstoy 9781787479302
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'The beautiful illusion, when reading Tolstoy, is that one is looking directly at the world, as opposed to a depiction' Andrew O'Hagan from his preface to Childhood, Boyhood and YouthPublished in... -
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Jubilee Lines by Carol Ann Duffy 9780571277056 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £1.87To mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II's accession to the throne, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy brings together a dazzling array of contemporary poets (sixty in fact) to write about each... -
Outsiders Together: Virginia and Leonard Woolf by Natania Rosenfeld
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.35The marriage of Virginia and Leonard Woolf is best understood as a dialogue of two outsiders about ideas of social and political belonging and exclusion. These ideas infused the written work of both... -
Chinese Narrative: Critical and Theoretical Essays by Andrew H. Plaks 9780691609928
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £46.54Although Chinese narrative, and especially the genres of colloquial fiction, have been subjected to intensive scholarly scrutiny, no comprehensive volume has provided a framework that would permit an... -
Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India by Akshya Saxena
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.02How English has become a language of the people in India-one that enables the state but also empowers protests against itAgainst a groundswell of critiques of global English, Vernacular English... -
Janeites: Austen's Disciples and Devotees by Deidre Lynch 9780691050065
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.35Over the last decade, as Jane Austen has moved center-stage in our culture, onto best-seller lists and into movie houses, another figure has slipped into the spotlight alongside her. This is the... -
Heirs to Dionysus: A Nietzschean Current in Literary Modernism by John Burt Foster 9780691605906
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £62.82Building on recent transformative theories of influence, John Foster explores the many ways Nietzsche's intellectual and artistic example helped shape an interconnected series of major literary... -
Jane Austen, or The Secret of Style by D. A. Miller
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.92What is the world-historical importance of Jane Austen? An old maid writes with the detachment of a god. Here, the stigmatized condition of a spinster; there, a writer's unequalled display of... -
Imagining Virginia Woolf: An Experiment in Critical Biography by Maria DiBattista
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Where other works of literary criticism are absorbed with the question--How to read a book?--Imagining Virginia Woolf asks a slightly different but more intriguing one: how does one read an author?... -
Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India by Akshya Saxena 9780691219981
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £74.71How English has become a language of the people in India-one that enables the state but also empowers protests against itAgainst a groundswell of critiques of global English, Vernacular English... -
The Visual Arts, Pictorialism, and the Novel: James, Lawrence, and Woolf by Marianna Torgovnick 9780691611419
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.93Marianna Torgovnick maintains that it is worthwhile to think about novels in terms of the visual arts--in part because major novelists like James, Lawrence, and Woolf did so, and did so fruitfully,... -
A Shrinking Island: Modernism and National Culture in England by Jed Esty
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.35This book describes a major literary culture caught in the act of becoming minor. In 1939, Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary, "Civilisation has shrunk." Her words captured not only the onset of World... -
Arctic Summer: Author of the 2021 Booker Prize-winning novel THE PROMISE by Damon Galgut
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.19FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISE'A masterly piece of fiction. Delicate and detailed' Daily Mail'It is a project to which Galgut, whose fiction has often covered the terrain of... -
Closure in the Novel by Marianna Torgovnick 9780691615059
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.82Drawing on a wide range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century English, French, American, and Russian novels, Marianna Torgovnick demonstrates the variety and complexity of the process by which a work... -
Fraulein Schmidt and Mr Anstruther by Elizabeth von Arnim
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49What on earth could have induced Mr Anstruther to fall in love with Fraulein Schmidt? He is an eligible English bachelor from a good family with great expectations; she is the plain, poor, 'spinster'... -
The Other Country by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40The Other Country was Carol Ann Duffy's third collection, and as with her later books, takes its readers on journeys that seem initially similar - but soon prove anything but. This book leads our... -
The Facts of Life Patrick Gale 9781472255525
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Patrick Gale's THE FACTS OF LIFE is a mesmerising, epic yet intimate novel of love, music and the life events that stay with us forever - perfect for any reader of Armistead Maupin, or E M... -
Last Essays by Joseph Conrad 9780521190596
Booksplease Price: £118.38Bringing together work composed from 1890 to 1924, the nineteen pieces collected in the posthumously published Last Essays (1926) serve as a primer to Conrad's wide interests and to the varieties of...