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Elizabethan Narrative Poems: The State of Play by Lynn Enterline 9781350197633
Booksplease Price: £34.84Tracing the development of narrative verse in London's literary circles during the 1590s, this volume puts Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece into conversation with poems by a... -
Elizabethan Narrative Poems: The State of Play by Lynn Enterline 9781350073364
Booksplease Price: £102.21Tracing the development of narrative verse in London's literary circles during the 1590s, this volume puts Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece into conversation with poems by a... -
How to Run A Government: So that Citizens Benefit and Taxpayers Don't Go Crazy by Michael Barber
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Billions of citizens around the world are frustrated with their governments. Why is this? And what can we do about it? In this groundbreaking book Michael Barber draws on his wealth of international... -
The Butterfly Isles: A Summer In Search Of Our Emperors And Admirals by Patrick Barkham 9781783784585
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Butterflies animate our summers but the fifty-nine species found in the British Isles can be surprisingly elusive. Some bask unseen at the top of trees in London parks; others lurk at the bottom of... -
Churchill: The Scottish Years by Andrew Liddle 9781780278599
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23This is the true story of Winston Churchill and Scotland. In the popular imagination, Winston Churchill is the bulldog of 1940 - uncompromising and Conservative. But in 1922 he was the reforming,... -
Poems: Third Series William Shakespeare 9781903436875
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.35In 1593 Shakespeare awoke and found himself famous. Lines from his comic, erotic, tragic poem Venus and Adonis were on everyone's lips.The appearance in 1594 of the darkly reflective and richly... -
The Complete Poems of Shakespeare by Cathy Shrank 9780582784109
Booksplease Price: £45.71Although best known for his plays, William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) was also a poet who achieved extraordinary depth and variety in only a few key works. This edition of his poetry provides detailed... -
On Rock or Sand?: Firm Foundations for Britain's Future by John Sentamu
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The aim of this book is nothing less than to assess and reset the terms of the debate about the kind of nation we want to be. It asks: What are the essential values we need for building a just,... -
Shakespeare's Ovid: The Metamorphoses in the Plays and Poems by A. B. Taylor 9780521030311
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £40.09Ovid's great poem, Metamorphoses, was a source of life long fascination and inspiration for Shakespeare. He drew on its great myths throughout his career: in early works like Venus and Adonis and... -
Petrarch's Canzoniere in the English Renaissance by Anthony Mortimer 9789042016767
Booksplease Price: £63.41Seven centuries after the birth of Petrarch (1304-74) the nature and extent of his influence loom ever larger in the study of renaissance literature. In this revised and expanded edition of... -
Innovation in Islam: Traditions and Contributions by Mehran Kamrava 9780520266940
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £71.19Why has the West developed and modernized, while the Muslim world has lagged behind? Why has democracy not found a hospitable home in much of the Muslim world? And why have the opponents of... -
Shakespeare's Ovid: The Metamorphoses in the Plays and Poems by A. B. Taylor 9780521771924
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £86.14Ovid's great poem, Metamorphoses, was a source of life long fascination and inspiration for Shakespeare. He drew on its great myths throughout his career: in early works like Venus and Adonis and... -
Lighthouse for the Drowning by Jawdat Fakhreddine 9781942683391
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.69Presented bilingually, this first US publication of Jawdat Fakhreddineone of the major Lebanese names in modern Arabic poetryestablishes a revolutionary dialogue between international, modernist... -
The Luciano Story by Joachim Joesten 9780306805929
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.00No gangster has ever been more powerful than Charles "Lucky" Luciano (1897-1962). By the mid-1920s, he had taken over the New York bordellos and was making more than a million dollars a year. In 1931... -
The Twin Sister Planets Venus and Earth: Why are they so different? by Robert J. Malcuit 9783319345031
Booksplease Price: £91.68This book explains how it came to be that Venus and Earth, while very similar in chemical composition, zonation, size and heliocentric distance from the Sun, are very different in surface... -
Where You Live by Jill McDonough 9781844719099
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22Martinis and fantastic breasts. A wild wedding hangover. Pink angora and instructing six women / to write tercets on snow. In lesbian love-poems, conversations, intimate jokes from a hundred parties,... -
Innovation in Islam: Traditions and Contributions by Mehran Kamrava 9780520266957
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.55Why has the West developed and modernized, while the Muslim world has lagged behind? Why has democracy not found a hospitable home in much of the Muslim world? And why have the opponents of... -
The Kings of Strength: A History of All Strong Men from Ancient Times to Our Own Edmond Desbonnet 9781476687247
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £31.08More than a century ago, the barrel-chested strongman clad in leopard skins, Roman sandals and carrying an oversized barbell was a common performer in fairs, circuses and vaudeville theaters. In... -
The Social Archetype: Realizing Society’s Threefold Unity, A New Goetheanism by Nigel Hoffmann 9781912992553
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16We live in a time of multiple challenges to our rights and freedoms - not only in authoritarian regimes but also in liberal democracies around the globe. As the storm clouds of crisis gather, Rudolf... -
Guilty Men by Cato the Younger 9781785902413
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.74Britain's 2016 vote to leave the EU was the most momentous democratic decision ever made in British history. No development since the Second World War is likely to have more far-reaching consequences... -
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The Sicilian's Banished Bride / The Most Powerful Of Kings: The Sicilian's Banished Bride / The Most Powerful of Kings by Maya Blake 9780263278323 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £1.81Bound by a scandalous secret! When her ex-fiance Rocco discovers their child, Mia agrees to his proposal for her son's sake alone. She can't risk falling under... -
Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East by Reza Aslan 9780393340778
Booksplease Price: £29.47The countries that stretch along the broad horizons of the Middle East-from Morocco to Iran, from Turkey to Pakistan-boast different cultures, different languages, and different religions. Yet the... -
The Penguin Modern Classics Book by Henry Eliot
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.98The essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the worldFor six decades the Penguin Modern Classics series has been an era-defining, ever-evolving series of books, encompassing works by... -
Mastering Type: The essential guide to typography for print and digital design Denise Bosler 9781350414129
Booksplease Price: £99.59By breaking down the study of type into a systematic progression of relationships-letter, word, sentence, paragraph, page, and screen-award-winning graphic designer and professor of communication... -
Kinyras: The Divine Lyre by John Curtis Franklin
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £29.50Kinyras, in Greco-Roman sources, is the central culture-hero of early Cyprus: legendary king, metallurge, Agamemnon's (faithless) ally, Aphrodite's priest, father of Myrrha and Adonis, rival of... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Poetry by Michael Schoenfeldt
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £9.21Shakespeare's poems, aside from the enduring appeal of the Sonnets, are much less familiar today than his plays, despite being enormously popular in his lifetime. This Introduction celebrates the... -
The History of Reading, Volume 3: Methods, Strategies, Tactics by Rosalind Crone 9780230247567
Booksplease Price: £46.28We inhabit a textually super-saturated and increasingly literate world. This volume encourages readers to consider the diverse methodologies used by historians of reading globally, and indicates how... -
Encyclopedia of Spirits: The Ultimate Guide to the Magic of Fairies, Genies, Demons, Ghosts, Gods & Goddesses by Judika Illes 9780061350245
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.80Spirits permeate our culture. We flatter a woman by calling her a goddess, a man by calling him an "Adonis." Describe being stuck in an elevator as "hell," and you've just evoked Hel, the Norse... -
Postwar Politics in the G-7: Orders and Eras in Comparative Perspective by 9780299151041
Booksplease Price: £16.21This comparative history looks at politics in the nations collectively known as the Group of Seven - the United States, Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Japan and Italy - from the end of World War... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Poetry by Michael Schoenfeldt 9780521879415
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.63Shakespeare's poems, aside from the enduring appeal of the Sonnets, are much less familiar today than his plays, despite being enormously popular in his lifetime. This Introduction celebrates the... -
Some Boys I Knew by Clea Myers 9781788649889
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42What does it take for us to put our lives on hold and begin to heal? In the midst of a sequence of traumatic events-recovering from crystal-meth addiction, facing infertility, battling chronic... -
International Poetry Review: The Arab Spring, Volume 47, 2024 by Ana Hontanilla 9781469677347
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.41This issue centers on the role of poetry as a form of protest in Middle Eastern and North African traditions. It opens with the Tunisian poet Abul Qassem Al-Shabbi's "The Will of Life," which became... -
Mastering Type: The essential guide to typography for print and digital design Denise Bosler 9781350414136
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £27.27By breaking down the study of type into a systematic progression of relationships-letter, word, sentence, paragraph, page, and screen-award-winning graphic designer and professor of communication... -
Shakespeare and Queer Theory by Melissa E. Sanchez
Booksplease Price: £27.58Shakespeare and Queer Theory is an indispensable guide on the ongoing critical debates about queer method both within and beyond Shakespeare and early modern studies. Clearly elucidating the... -
Shakespeare and the Resistance: The Earl of Southampton, the Essex Rebellion, and the Poems that Challenged Tudor Tyranny by Clare Asquith
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.71The 1590s were black years for England. The queen was old, the succession unclear, and the treasury empty after decades of war. Amid the rising tension, William Shakespeare published a pair of... -
How to See Nature by Paul Evans
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67"Pack soup, cheese and a copy of How To See Nature by the Bard of Wenlock Edge and Guardian diarist."John Vidal With a title taken from the 1940 Batsford book, this is nature writing for the modern... -
Cultural Journeys into the Arab World: A Literary Anthology by Dalya Cohen-Mor 9781438471150
RRP: £72.50Booksplease Price: £69.61A diverse collection of fiction and nonfiction literature from across the Arabic-speaking world.Cultural Journeys into the Arab World provides a fascinating window into Arab culture and society... -
Dreamless by Josephine Angelini 9781509891962
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40A story of love, destiny and feuding families with extraordinary powers, descended from the heroes of ancient Greece, Dreamless is the second book in the heartstopping Starcrossed series by... -
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Dreamless by Josephine Angelini 9780330529747 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £1.25A story of love, destiny and feuding families with extraordinary powers, descended from the heroes of ancient Greece, Dreamless is the second book in the heartstopping Starcrossed series by... -
Cultural Journeys into the Arab World: A Literary Anthology by Dalya Cohen-Mor 9781438471143
Booksplease Price: £27.36A diverse collection of fiction and nonfiction literature from across the Arabic-speaking world.Cultural Journeys into the Arab World provides a fascinating window into Arab culture and society...