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Hearing Things by Philip Osment
Booksplease Price: £12.27Hearing Things explores the dilemmas of psychiatry from the points of view of patients, relatives and staff. Based on experiences of psychiatrists and patients, the 'healthy' and the 'ill', the play... -
Vera by Elizabeth von Arnim
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Lucy Entwhistle and Everard Wemyss are both reeling from recent unhappiness when they meet and swiftly fall in love. Lucy is Wemyss's 'sweet girl', and to Lucy, Everard is the whole world. The only... -
Collected Poems by Dennis O'Driscoll 9781784105112
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.67In this career-defining book, the poems of Dennis O'Driscoll are gathered together for the first time. Beginning with Kist in 1982 and ending with the posthumous Update in 2014, the selection was... -
Openings: 'So varied, so subtle, so tonally poised - a stunning collection.' TESSA HADLEY by Lucy Caldwell 9780571382750
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.54'One of the finest short-storywriters at work today. These stories are honest, finely nuanced and indelible in their impact.'WENDY ERSKINE'One of our best short story writers.' THE TIMES'You'll lose... -
Descent of Man and Other Stories by Edith Wharton 9781513219837
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.69"Will writers ever recover that peculiar blend of security and alertness which characterizes Mrs. Wharton and her tradition?" -- E. M. ForsterThe Descent of Man and Other Stories offers the author's... -
Sister India by Peggy Payne 9781573229104
Booksplease Price: £17.35The exotic and suspenseful New York Times Notable Book that tells the story of an eccentric guest-house keeper in Varanasi, India, and the passions evoked by her sacred city along the GangesThe... -
Julia Wedgwood: The Victorian Female Intellectual by Sue Brown 9781839984105
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £95.76Though Julia Wedgwood is still remembered as a commentator on the work of her uncle, Charles Darwin, and for her brief but intense friendship with Browning, her contemporary standing as a writer... -
Radio Empire: The BBC’s Eastern Service and the Emergence of the Global Anglophone Novel by Daniel Ryan Morse
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Initially created to counteract broadcasts from Nazi Germany, the BBC's Eastern Service became a cauldron of global modernism and an unlikely nexus of artistic exchange. Directed at an educated... -
Radio Empire: The BBC’s Eastern Service and the Emergence of the Global Anglophone Novel by Daniel Ryan Morse 9780231198363
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.46Initially created to counteract broadcasts from Nazi Germany, the BBC's Eastern Service became a cauldron of global modernism and an unlikely nexus of artistic exchange. Directed at an educated... -
Portable Property: Victorian Culture on the Move by John Plotz 9780691146621
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02What fueled the Victorian passion for hair-jewelry and memorial rings? When would an everyday object metamorphose from commodity to precious relic? In Portable Property, John Plotz examines the new... -
Julia Wedgwood, The Unexpected Victorian: The Life and Writing of a Remarkable Female Intellectual by Sue Brown 9781839988592
Booksplease Price: £25.71Though Julia Wedgwood is still remembered as a commentator on the work of her uncle, Charles Darwin, and for her brief but intense friendship with Browning, her contemporary standing as a writer... -
The Fourth Pig by Naomi Mitchison 9780691191447
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.00An enchanting collection that introduces the author and activist Naomi Mitchison to a new generation of readersThe Fourth Pig, originally published in 1936, is a wide-ranging collection of fairy... -
Galdos and the Art of the European Novel: 1867-1887 by Stephen Gilman 9780691614885
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £51.87Benito Perez Galdos (1843-1920) was one of Spain's outstanding novelists and the author of two vast cycles of novels and a number of plays. In this critical study of Galdos in English, Stephen Gilman... -
A Bloomsbury Group Reader S. P. Rosenbaum (University of Toronto) 9780631190592
RRP: £47.95Booksplease Price: £45.06Because whenever they wrote the members of Bloomsbury tried to write well, there is an abundant variety of illuminating and delightful reading to be found in the short prose works of the Group's... -
Earth Prayers Carol Ann Duffy, DBE 9781035048144
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.11'Carol Ann Duffy is the most humane and accessible poet of our time' - GuardianThe wonders of nature have inspired poets for centuries, stretching far back beyond the Romantics. Beautifully curated... -
Anticipatory Materialisms in Literature and Philosophy, 1790-1930 by Jo Carruthers 9783030298166
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £99.82Anticipatory Materialisms explores nineteenth and early twentieth-century literature thatanticipates and pre-empts the recent philosophical 'turn' to materiality and affect. Critical volumes that... -
Jane Austen, Early and Late by Freya Johnston
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.05A reexamination of Austen's unpublished writings that uncovers their continuity with her celebrated novels-and that challenges distinctions between her "early" and "late" workJane Austen's six... -
Last Words: Variations on a Theme in Cultural History by Karl S. Guthke 9780691628158
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.63Whether Goethe actually cried "More light!" on his deathbed, or whether Conrad Hilton checked out of this world after uttering "Leave the shower curtain on the inside of the tub," last words,... -
Empty Nest: Poems for Families by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.06'Carol Ann Duffy is the most humane and accessible poet of our time' - GuardianIn this stunning anthology of ninety nine modern and classic poems, Carol Ann Duffy delves into the powerful and unique... -
The New Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad by J. H. Stape 9781107610378
Booksplease Price: £26.61Joseph Conrad's centrality to modern literature is well established. The New Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad provides essential guidance to varied developments in the field of Conrad studies... -
The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, Volume VI: Prose: 1969-1973 by W. H. Auden 9780691164588
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £75.51This sixth and final volume of W. H. Auden's prose displays a great writer's mind in its full maturity of wisdom, learning, and emotional and moral intelligence. It contains the full text of the only... -
Selling Manhattan by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.14One of those rare books that is immediately enjoyable yet will repay many re-readings' Poetry ReviewCarol Ann Duffy's highly praised second collection, for which she was given the Somerset Maughan... -
The Ballad of Syd & Morgan Haydn Middleton 9780992946074
RRP: £11.00Booksplease Price: £8.43A beautiful young man dressed in Cuban heels and a crushed-velvet jacket cuts a dash as he strides up Silver Street in his native Cambridge, heading for the ornate splendour of King's College. It... -
The Birds by Aristophanes 9780413772787
Booksplease Price: £14.79A contemporary adaptation of The Birds by an award-winning poet, published to tie in with a major production at the National Theatre directed by Kathryn Hunter Pez and Eck are on the hunt for the... -
Essentials of the Theory of Fiction by Michael J. Hoffman 9780822335214
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91What accounts for the power of stories to both entertain and illuminate? This question has long compelled the attention of storytellers and students of literature alike, and over the past several... -
Look What You Made Me Do: 'A great read' Jesse Armstrong, creator of Succession by John Lanchester 9780571298679
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.85'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 Rover by Joseph Conrad 9781107149021
Booksplease Price: £118.38Set in the South of France during the waning days of the French Revolution and the early years of Napoleonic rule, The Rover (1923) is the last novel that Conrad completed in his lifetime. A popular... -
Adapting Science Fiction to Television: Small Screen, Expanded Universe by Max Sexton 9781442252691
Booksplease Price: £91.39Before it reached television, science fiction existed on the printed page, in comic books, and on movie screens for decades. Adapting science fiction to the new medium posed substantial challenges:... -
When It Rained for a Million Years by Paul Farley 9781035068678
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Farley's strength, throughout his career, is the delicacy of his poems' music, their soft lighting and good humour, and this book is no exception' - Poetry Book Society BulletinA family cohabits... -
Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group in the Literary 1920s Kathleen Dixon Donnelly 9781036120450
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23Throughout her adult life, English novelist Virginia Woolf was surrounded by a tight group of friends and relatives. Known collectively as the Bloomsbury Group, they lived near each other in... -
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The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy 9780330372220 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.98That saying? Behind every famous man ...? From Mrs Midas to Queen Kong, from Elvis's twin sister to Pygmalion's bride, they're all here, in Carol Ann Duffy's inspired and inspirational collection,... -
The Trick Is To Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49From the corner of a darkened room Joy Stone watches herself. As memories of the deaths of her lover and mother surface unbidden, life for Joy narrows - to negotiating each day, each encounter, each... -
The Origins of Science Fiction by Michael Newton 9780198853619
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.73'Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all over. Rapid intercourse, from which the previous civilization had hoped so much, had ended by... -
Approaches to Teaching the Works of C. P. Cavafy Peter Jeffreys 9781603296519
Booksplease Price: £31.33A gay poet-historian writing from and about the edges of empiresKnown as a preeminent poet of queer male desire, C. P. Cavafy lived most of his life as part of the Greek minority community in... -
Approaches to Teaching the Works of C. P. Cavafy by Peter Jeffreys 9781603296502
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £69.61A gay poet-historian writing from and about the edges of empiresKnown as a preeminent poet of queer male desire, C. P. Cavafy lived most of his life as part of the Greek minority community in... -
Blood by Janice Galloway 9780749391959
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47'BLOOD is a virtuoso work: the writing sinewy and beautiful. . . the integrity of vision coruscating; the whole driven by the author's restless experimentation with form. And at least two stories,... -
Jane Austen, Early and Late by Freya Johnston 9780691198002
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.30A reexamination of Austen's unpublished writings that uncovers their continuity with her celebrated novels-and that challenges distinctions between her "early" and "late" workJane Austen's six... -
Beyond Moral Judgment by Alice Crary
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £24.82What is moral thought and what kinds of demands does it impose? Alice Crary's Beyond Moral Judgment claims that even the most perceptive contemporary answers to these questions offer no more than... -
'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy': On Where Eagles Dare by Geoff Dyer
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02A Telegraph, Evening Standard and Daily Mail Book of the YearFrom the acclaimed writer and critic Geoff Dyer, an extremely funny scene-by-scene analysis of Where Eagles Dare - published as the film... -
Modernism and Physical Illness: Sick Books by Peter Fifield 9780198825425
Booksplease Price: £98.93T. S. Eliot memorably said that separation of the man who suffers from the mind that creates is the root of good poetry. This book argues that this is wrong. Beginning from Virginia Woolf's 'On Being...