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Lord of the Flies: with an introduction by Stephen King by William Golding
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $12.38William Golding's Lord of the Flies is a dystopian classic: 'exciting, relevant and thought-provoking' (Stephen King). When a group of schoolboys are stranded on a desert island, what could go... -
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The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy 9781509852666 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $10.32This unique collection of poems from the Poet Laureate, filled with her characteristic wit, is a feminist classic and a modern take on age-old mythology.Who? Him. The Husband. Hero. Hunk.The Boy Next... -
Cavafy as World Literature Associate Professor Takis Kayalis 9798765105313
Booksplease Price: $177.20An inclusive and detailed view of C. P. Cavafy as a "World poet," tracing his critical reception, his translation history and his work's multiple interpretations around the globe, from the 1920s to... -
The Prince's Boy by Paul Bailey
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.32In May 1927, nineteen-year-old Dinu Grigorescu, a skinny boy with literary ambitions, is newly arrived in Paris. He has been sent from Bucharest, the city of his childhood, by his wealthy father to... -
The Shadow-Line: A Confession by Joseph Conrad 9781107024427
RRP: $214.50Booksplease Price: $193.11Joseph Conrad's short novel The Shadow-Line: A Confession (1917) is one of the key works of early twentieth-century fiction. This edition, established through modern textual scholarship, and... -
Modernism after Postcolonialism: Toward a Nonterritorial Comparative Literature by Mara de Gennaro 9781421439464
RRP: $147.23Booksplease Price: $106.72A polemical reaction against a trend in global modernist studies which still privileges European and Anglophone texts.Existing studies of literary modernism generally read Anglophone Atlantic texts... -
Gently Down The Stream by Martin Sherman 9781350040625
Booksplease Price: $27.77Beau, a pianist expat living in London, meets Rufus, an eccentric young lawyer, at the dawn of the internet dating revolution. After a life spent recovering from the disappointment and hurt of loving... -
Greenland: A Novel by David Santos Donaldson
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $31.94Shortlisted for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction A dazzling, debut novel-within-a-novel in the vein of The Prophets and Memorial, about a young author writing about the secret... -
Greenland: A Novel by David Santos Donaldson 9780063159563
Booksplease Price: $22.97Shortlisted for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction A dazzling, debut novel-within-a-novel in the vein of The Prophets and Memorial, about a young author writing about the secret... -
Rebel Women Between the Wars: Fearless Writers and Adventurers Sarah Lonsdale 9781526195050
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.38An inspiring group biography of thirteen intrepid women who challenged the status quo in interwar Britain.What did it mean to be a 'rebel woman' in the interwar years? Historian Sarah Lonsdale traces... -
The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy, DBE 9781035038541
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.58Who? Him. The Husband. Hero. Hunk.The Boy Next Door. The Paramour. The Je t'adore.Behind every famous man is a great woman - and from the quick-tongued Mrs Darwin to the lascivious Frau Freud, from... -
Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life by Victoria Rosner 9780231133050
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $46.20Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life offers a bold new assessment of the role of the domestic sphere in modernist literature, architecture, and design. Elegantly synthesizing modernist... -
Sublime Noise: Musical Culture and the Modernist Writer by Josh Epstein 9781421415239
Booksplease Price: $103.17When Stravinsky's Rite of Spring premiered in Paris in 1913, the crowd rioted in response to the harsh dissonance and jarring rhythms of its score. This was noise, not music. In Sublime Noise, Josh... -
Alexandrian Sphinx: The Hidden Life of Constantine Cavafy Gregory Jusdanis 9781398551237
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $41.05A gripping and revealing new biography of one of the greatest of modern poets, the queer, Greek-Egyptian Constantine Cavafy, whose admirers have ranged from E.M. Forster, T.S. Eliot and Virginia... -
The Sound of Things Falling Juan Gabriel Vasquez 9781408831618
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Winner of the Alfaguara Prize Winner of the Gregor von Rezzori Prize 'A powerful, humane novel about a man trying to make sense of a war... -
Songs for the Flames by Juan Gabriel Vasquez 9781529405477
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.75"Like Bolano, Vasquez is a master stylist and a virtuoso of patient pacing and intricate structure" LEV GROSSMAN, Time Magazine"Juan Gabriel Vasquez . . . has succeeded Garcia Marquez as the literary... -
Modernism and Colonialism: British and Irish Literature, 1899-1939 by Richard Begam 9780822340386
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79This collection of essays by renowned literary scholars offers a sustained and comprehensive account of the relation of British and Irish literary modernism to colonialism. Bringing postcolonial... -
Moving Modernisms: Motion, Technology, and Modernity by David Bradshaw 9780198714170
Booksplease Price: $219.67The essays in Moving Modernisms: Motion, Technology, and Modernity, written by renowned international scholars, open up the many dimensions and arenas of modernist movement and movements: spatial,... -
Retrospective Juan Gabriel Vasquez 9781529418651
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06"One of the great novels to have been written in our language" MARIO VARGAS LLOSA"Beautifully written and gripping" GuardianHe thought that memories were invisible like light, and just as smoke made... -
Resisting Dialogue: Modern Fiction and the Future of Dissent by Juan Meneses 9781517906757
RRP: $175.50Booksplease Price: $141.78A bold new critique of dialogue as a method of eliminating dissent Is dialogue always the productive political and communicative tool it is widely conceived to be? Resisting Dialogue reassesses our... -
The Black Book: The Britons on the Nazi Hit List by Sybil Oldfield
RRP: $33.05Booksplease Price: $28.49'Thoroughly researched and fascinating' Observer 'Wondrous ... a formidable piece of scholarship' Bookanista In 1939, the Gestapo created a list of names: the Britons whose removal would be the... -
The Future Future: ‘Unlike anything else’ Salman Rushdie by Adam Thirlwell 9781787334403
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $28.35*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 GOLDSMITHS PRIZE*It's the eighteenth-century and Celine is in trouble'A terrific novel'FINANCIAL TIMES'A radically beautiful new novel'SHEILA HETI, author of Pure... -
Bacchae by Euripides 9780099577386
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.03This stunning translation, by the acclaimed poet Robin Robertson (Forward Prize, Man Booker shortlist 2018), has reinvigorated Euripides' devastating take of a god's revenge for contemporary readers,... -
Maps of Desire by Manuel Forcano 9781911469797
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.42Manuel Forcano, the outstanding Catalan poet, is a great traveller, and the poems in this, his first full-length book in English translation, embrace the cities, the landscapes and the people of the... -
Julian Bell: From Bloomsbury to the Spanish Civil War by Peter Stansky
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $77.03Julian Bell explores the life of a younger member, and sole poet, of the Bloomsbury Group, the most important community of British writers and intellectuals in the twentieth century, which includes... -
The Day's Ration: Selected Poems Gilles Ortlieb 9781911469421
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $17.75For Gilles Ortlieb, the day's ration is hard won. He takes the art of noticing to a new level, petrifying us with moments of bleakness and ushering us out of them through his humanity. He states... -
The Future Future: ‘Unlike anything else’ Salman Rushdie Adam Thirlwell 9781529922844
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 GOLDSMITHS PRIZE*It's the eighteenth-century and Celine is in trouble'A terrific novel'FINANCIAL TIMES'A radically beautiful new novel'SHEILA HETI, author of Pure... -
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Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-Siecle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship by Leela Gandhi 9780822337034 [USED COPY]
RRP: $218.40Booksplease Price: $17.59"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country." So E. M. Forster famously observed in his Two Cheers for Democracy... -
The Journey Abandoned: The Unfinished Novel by Lionel Trilling 9780231144513
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $33.25In 1947, Lionel Trilling, the prominent literary critic, published a novel entitled The Middle of the Journey. While conducting research in the archives at Columbia University, Geraldine Murphy... -
Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-Siecle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship by Leela Gandhi
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country." So E. M. Forster famously observed in his Two Cheers for Democracy... -
Resisting Dialogue: Modern Fiction and the Future of Dissent by Juan Meneses
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $35.57A bold new critique of dialogue as a method of eliminating dissent Is dialogue always the productive political and communicative tool it is widely conceived to be? Resisting Dialogue reassesses our... -
The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature: Readings from Western Antiquity to the Present Day by Byrne R.S. Fone
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $72.99In the three decades since New York City's Stonewall rebellion, gay literature has exploded as a distinctive form of cultural expression. In a variety of styles and genres, gay men have increasingly... -
Medea by Euripides 9780099511779
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61THE ACCLAIMED TRANSLATION BY ROBIN ROBERTSON (FORWARD PRIZE, MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLIST 2018)Euripides' Medea, the brutally powerful ancient Greek tragedy that reverberates down the centuries, has... -
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The Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau by Antoinette Burton 9780822340508 [USED COPY]
RRP: $171.60Booksplease Price: $25.49Santha Rama Rau was one of the best known South Asian writers in postwar America. Born into India's elite in 1923, Rama Rau has lived in the United States since the 1940s. Although she is no longer... -
The Raj Quartet - Vol 1 Paul Scott 9781857152975
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $29.35Paul Scott's epic study of British India in its final years has no equal. Tolstoyan in scope and Proustian in detail but completely individual in effect, it records the encounter between East and... -
The Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau by Antoinette Burton 9780822340713
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.70Santha Rama Rau was one of the best known South Asian writers in postwar America. Born into India's elite in 1923, Rama Rau has lived in the United States since the 1940s. Although she is no longer... -
The Raj Quartet - Vol 2 by Paul Scott
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $29.35Paul Scott's epic study of British India in its final years has no equal. Tolstoyan in scope and Proustian in detail but completely individual in effect, it records the encounter between East and... -
The Warm South: How the Mediterranean Shaped the British Imagination by Robert Holland
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.56An evocative exploration of the impact of the Mediterranean on British culture, ranging from the mid-eighteenth century to today Ever since the age of the Grand Tour in the eighteenth century, the... -
Moby-Dick: or, The Whale by Herman Melville
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.07The original 'Great American Novel', Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is a masterful study of obsession. This Penguin Classics edition contains an introduction by Andrew Delblanco, with explanatory... -
The Modernist Art of Queer Survival by Benjamin Bateman 9780190676537
RRP: $152.10Booksplease Price: $129.13Whether we speak of queer bodies targeted for harassment, queer sensibilities derided as dangerous, or queer intimacies denied legitimacy, we acknowledge a close companionship between queerness and...