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Letters from Iceland by W. H. Auden
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66In the summer of 1936, W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice visited Iceland on commission to write a travel book, but found themselves capturing concerns on a scale that were far more international... -
The Philokalia Vol 4 by G. E. H. Palmer
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.42The Philokalia is a collection of texts on prayer and the spiritual life, written between the fourth and fifteenth centuries by masters of the Orthodox Christian tradition. First published in Greek... -
Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson 9780571223435
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer... -
Another Time by W. H. Auden 9780571234370
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Another Time was the first volume that Auden published after his departure to America with Christopher Isherwood in January 1939. It was dedicated to Chester Kallman. The poems, some of which date... -
Clay Machine-Gun by Victor Pelevin 9780571201266
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37The Clay Machine-Gun is a novel rich in hilarious paradox. Pelevin himself has described it as 'the first novel in world literature which takes place in an absolute void'. Controversially denied the... -
Temperament Stuart Isacoff 9780571234462
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37The piano is the best loved of musical instruments, thanks in part to the elegant symmetrical design of its ivory and ebony keyboard that ensures each pitch is reliably equidistant from the next. But... -
The Blue Tango by Eoin McNamee
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80'At 2.20am in the morning of the 13th November 1952 the body of 19 year old Patricia Curran was carried into the surgery belonging to the family doctor. At first Dr Kenneth Wilson thought she had... -
Stanley: Africa's Greatest Explorer by Tim Jeal
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Henry Morton Stanley was a cruel imperialist - a bad man of Africa. Or so we think: but as Tim Jeal brilliantly shows, the reality of Stanley's life is yet more extraordinary. Few people know of his... -
Because a Fire Was in My Head by Michael Morpurgo 9780571303113
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.45A wonderful anthology of poems to set fire to the imagination.We only have to 'remember, remember the 5th of November' to see a dark night filled with fireworks and bonfires. In their many... -
The Bacchae Euripides 9780571239160
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65One of the greatest of all Greek tragedies - savage, comic and intensely lyrical - The Bacchae powerfully dramatises the conflict between the emotional and rational sides of the human psyche. The... -
The Wars by Timothy Findley 9780571207992
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Robert Ross, a sensitive nineteen-year-old Canadian officer, went to war - the War to End All Wars. He found himself in the nightmare world of trench warfare; of mud and smoke, of chlorine gas and... -
Peter Gill Plays 2: Cardiff East, Certain Young Men, The York Realist, Original Sin by Peter Gill
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.40Cardiff East 'As scene melts into scene, one's appetite for knowing more and more about these people is constantly whetted, even for the ones one would avoid in real life. Each and every [character]... -
Berlin Red by Sam Eastland
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80April, 1945.East of Berlin, the Red Army stands poised to unleash its final assault upon the ruined capital of Hitler's Thousand Year Reich.To the north, at a lonely outpost near the Baltic sea,... -
Selected Poems by Michael Hofmann 9780571237746
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.66Michael Hofmann's poems have been widely admired, notably for their gift of compressed and vividly pointed reportage, and the collision course of words and dictions that his poetry characteristically... -
More Pricks Than Kicks by Samuel Beckett
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80His first published work of fiction (1934), More Pricks Than Kicks is a set of ten interlocked stories, set in Dublin and involving their adrift hero Belacqua in a series of encounters, as woman... -
The Amnesiac Sam Taylor 9780571233540
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65James Purdew is quietly obsessed with his own past - in particular three years of his life, about which he remembers nothing. So he travels back to the city of H, where he lived during those years,... -
The Haw Lantern by Seamus Heaney
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Widely praised on its first publication in 1978, The Haw Lantern ventured into new imaginative territory with poems exploring the theme of loss - including a celebrated sonnet sequence concerning the... -
Simon Gray: Plays 4: Common Pursuit; Holy Terror; After Pilkington; Old Flames; They Never Slept by Simon Gray
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66'Sharp, funny and clever . . . What a pleasure to re-encounter a play that combines unabashed intelligence and zinging wit with a rare generosity of spirit.'Daily Telegraph on The Common... -
Selected Plays 1999-2009: San Diego; Outlying Islands; Pyrenees; The American Pilot; Being Norwegian; Kyoto; Brewers Fayre David Greig 9780571234158
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.26David Greig: Plays 1 brings together four key plays by the playwright described by the Daily Telegraph as 'one of the most interesting and adventurous British dramatists of his generation'. In... -
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour & Professional Foul by Tom Stoppard 9780571112265
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.69Every Good Boy Deserves FavourA dissident is locked up in an asylum. If he accepts that he was ill and has been cured, he will be released. He refuses. Sharing his cell is a real lunatic who believes... -
D. H. Lawrence by Tom Paulin 9780571234912
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.80David Herbert Lawrence was born in Nottinghamshire in 1885. Predominantly remembered as a novelist, Lawrence began writing poetry when he was nineteen and published his first pieces in 1909 in the... -
One by One in the Darkness by Deirdre Madden
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80One by One in the Darkness follows a week in the lives of three sisters shortly before the start of the IRA ceasefire in 1994, undercut with the story of their childhood in Northern Ireland of the... -
The North of England Home Service by Gordon Burn
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80'Extraordinary, funny, tender, poetic . . . The story that emerges is Britain's.' Times Literary SupplementWith a new introduction by George Shaw In a forensic dissection of Britain's souring... -
Music for Life: 100 Works to Carry You Through by Fiona Maddocks 9780571342747
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37How does music reflect the key moments in our lives? How do we choose the works that inspire, delight, comfort or console? Fiona Maddocks selects 100 classical works from across nine centuries,... -
The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps: The Courage Consort by Michel Faber 9781847678911
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Sian, troubled by dark dreams and seeking distraction, joins an archaeological dig at Whitby. The abbey's one hundred and ninety-nine steps link the twenty-first century with the ruins of the past... -
Of Mutability by Jo Shapcott 9780571352357
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $9.81Jo Shapcott's award-winning first three collections, gathered in Her Book: Poems 1988-1998, revealed her to be a writer of ingenuous, politically acute and provocative poetry, and rightly earned her... -
The Designated Mourner by Wallace Shawn
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65A daughter is tied to her brilliant father by a passionate bond. But then she is drawn towards an appealing man whose taste in cultural forms follows a disturbing path. The Designated Mourner is a... -
Something to Answer For by P. H. Newby
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36Winner of the inaugural Booker Prize in 1969.It is 1956 and Townrow is in Port Said - of these two facts he's reasonably certain. He has been summoned by the widow of his deceased friend, Elie Khoury... -
Trespassers: A Memoir by Julia O'Faolain 9780571294923
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Her mother, who wrote vivid versions of old Irish folk tales, once said of the Irish Civil War: 'In those days... fear kept you from sleeping, but also from getting fat or bored.' Her father was... -
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats: Illustrated by Edward Gorey by T. S. Eliot
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65A stunning new gift edition of this much-loved classic, with the celebrated black-and-white illustrations by Edward Gorey.Cats! Some are sane, and some are mad.Some are good, and some are bad . . ... -
John Clare by John Clare
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer... -
The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston by Siegfried Sassoon 9780571099139
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.40The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston includes Sherston's Progress and both Memoirs,About the AuthorSiegfried Sassoon was born in 1886 and educated at Clare College, Cambridge. He served in the... -
The Curtain: Essays by Milan Kundera
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08In this entertaining and stimulating essay, one of world literature's most distinctive thinkers sets out his personal view of the history and value of the novel in Western civilization. Too often,... -
Blue Remembered Hills: and other plays introduced by the author by Dennis Potter 9780571179060
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.64Dennis Potter here introduces three of his acclaimed works, Blue Remembered Hills (1979), Joe's Ark (1974) and Cream in My Coffee (1980), and discusses the artistic potential and the limitations of a... -
The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08The Golden Gate is a brilliantly achieved novel written in verse. Set in the 1980s in the affluence and sunshine of California's Silicon Valley, it is an exuberant and witty story of... -
High Ground: and Other Stories by John McGahern
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65The stories in High Ground are set in ordinary places, in the streets and suburbs and dancehalls of Dublin, the small towns and fields of the midlands, the big houses of the beleaguered Anglo-Irish... -
Keith Douglas: The Complete Poems by Keith Douglas 9780571276714
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.75By the time he was killed in Normandy, aged only twenty-four, in June 1944, Keith Douglas had achieved a body of work that has earned him the reputation as the most brilliant and promising poet of... -
New Selected Poems by Robert Lowell
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08'THE BEST AMERICAN POET OF HIS GENERATION.' - TIMEGathered on the occasion of Robert Lowell's one hundredth birthday, New Selected Poems offers a fresh and illuminating representation of one of the... -
The Animal Factory: Faber art notebooks, no.1 by Jerome Duval-Hamel 9782330166090
Booksplease Price: $21.17Art faber is an umbrella term for works of art - whether pictorial, literary, photographic, musical or cinematographic - whose main or secondary themes are work, business and the world of economics... -
101 Reykjavik by Hallgrimur Helgason 9780571209767
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65Hlynur Bjoern is an unemployed 30-something loner, still living with his mum, who spends his days on the Internet, watching satellite TV, and gazing at girls in the pub. But Hlynur's cosy,...