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Gravel in my Shoe by John Fuller 9781784740412
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'The only peace: to know my placeAnd what I now must do,Striding with the light full in my face,And gravel in my shoe.'Bright, elemental and as dexterously brilliant as ever, John Fuller's latest... -
The Bone Flowers by John Fuller 9781784741525
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'When does a poem end?' In this rambunctious romp of a narrative poem, John Fuller taps out the rhythms of life against the riddle of time: from his story of opportunistic art-dealer Old Billy... -
A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £3.66'Immensely powerful and is an extraordinary testament to the human desire for survival' Daily MailA harrowing and inspiring true story of a young boy's abusive childhood, from internationally... -
Monica Jones, Philip Larkin and Me: Her Life and Long Loves by John Sutherland
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'A brilliant biography - John Sutherland has brought Monica Jones to life as she deserves.' Claire Tomalin'Eye-opening... in this account [Monica Jones] comes alive.' The Sunday TimesMonica Jones was... -
William Barnes by William Barnes
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31In 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... -
Poetry by Heart: A Treasury of Poems to Read Aloud by Julie Blake
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Familiar poems and almost unknown poems. Love poems and war poems. Funny poems and heartbroken poems. Poems that re-create the world we know and poems written on the dark side of the moon. Poetry by... -
Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas: Collected Poems : R S Thomas by R. S. Thomas
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38Published to mark the poet's 80th birthday, this collection confirms R. S. Thomas as our pre-eminent poet.'This is the book I've been waiting for' Ted HughesThe complete works of one of Britain's... -
The Poets Quest for God: 21st Century Poems of Faith, Doubt and Wonder by Oliver Brennan 9781908998255
Booksplease Price: £26.61Poetry. Religion & Sprituality. Edited by Todd Swift, Fr. Oliver Brennan, Kelly Davio and Cate Myddleton-Evans. This major anthology, the first of its kind, gathers work from renowned contemporary... -
Emma (Vintage Classics Austen Series) by Jane Austen
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05Jane Austen's Emma is her masterpiece, mixing the sparkle of her early books with a deep sensibility' Observer Emma is young, rich and independent. She has decided not to get married and ... -
Granta 41: Biography 9780140140521
Booksplease Price: £15.96Why do biographies remain so popular? "Granta 41" presents a special collection of biographies organized around a single idea - how do you tell the story of a life?. Also in this issue is the... -
A. E. Housman: A Critical Biography by Professor Norman Page 9780333656013
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £43.51A.E. Housman (1859-1936) was a poet of enormous popularity and widespread influence: a Latin scholar of the front rank, a superb prose stylist, a notable writer of comic verse and, thanks to the... -
The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse by Philip Larkin
RRP: £29.49Booksplease Price: £21.45Philip Larkin's Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse provoked controversy and dispute on first publication in 1973. Warmly welcomed by fellow poets John Betjeman and W.H. Auden, it was also... -
After Nature by W. G. Sebald 9780141003368
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31After Nature is the very first literary work by W. G. Sebald, author of Austerlitz'The greatest writer of our time' Peter CareyAfter Nature by W.G. Sebald, author of Austerlitz, is his first literary... -
The Things Between Us - Living Words: Anthology 1 - Words and Poems of People Experiencing Dementia by Julia Miranda 9781905565245
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £16.06'This is an important collection of witnessings to an important subject, and valuable for what it addresses, as well as the way it addresses.' Sir Andrew Motion 'This is poetry from a place where we... -
Threads by William Henry Searle
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78-----------------------------'Touching and on occasion profoundly moving ... The connections and affinities that fill this book enliven, enlighten and delight.' STEPHEN FRY'Beautifully written and... -
If You Could See Laughter Mandy Coe 9781844714872
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.39If You Could See Laughter is Mandy Coe's first collection of poetry for children. An award-winning poet, Mandy Coe is an educational specialist in poetry in schools and has been commissioned by... -
A Girl in Winter by Philip Larkin
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Lose yourself in this tale of young love by the 'best-loved English poet of the past 100 years.' (Sunday Times)Katherine Lind is a refugee who has become a librarian in a wartime Northern town. One... -
Branch-lines: Edward Thomas and Contemporary Poetry Lucy Newlyn 9781904634355
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.09'The one hundred and forty poems he wrote in the last two years of his life are a miracle. I can think of no body of work in English that is more mysterious.' - Michael Longley. When Edward Thomas... -
Jill by Philip Larkin
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Michaelmas term, 1940. 18-year-old John Kemp has come down from Lancashire to Oxford University to begin his scholarship studying English. But when he invents an imaginary sister to win the attention... -
John Keats by John Keats
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31John Keats (1795-1821) abandoned a career in medicine to write poetry, until his life was cut tragically short from tuberculosis at the age of twenty-five. By that time, he had published three... -
Writers and Their Mothers by Dale Salwak 9783319885858
RRP: £19.50Booksplease Price: £15.85Ian McEwan, Margaret Drabble, Martin Amis, Rita Dove, Andrew Motion and Anthony Thwaite are among the twenty-two distinguished contributors of original essays to this landmark volume on the profound... -
The Peregrine: 50th Anniversary Edition: Afterword by Robert Macfarlane by J. A. Baker
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.86Reissue of J. A. Baker's extraordinary classic of British nature writing, with an exclusive new afterword by Robert Macfarlane. J. A. Baker's extraordinary classic of British nature... -
The Penguin Book of Elegy: Poems of Memory, Mourning and Consolation Prof Stephen Regan 9780241269626
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'A tremendous sentimental education of a book ... scholarly discernment mixed with a wild-card flair ... an exceptional anthology, fascinating and unignorable' Kate Kellaway, Observer (Poetry Book of... -
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Poem For The Day Two by Nicholas Albery 9780701173364 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £2.34Poem for the Day Two is a repeat of the formula which made Poem for the Day such a well-loved favourite. There are 366 poems (one for each day of the year, and one for leap years), to delight,... -
Betrumped: The Surprising History of 3000 Long-Lost, Exotic and Endangered Words by Edward Allhusen 9781445699080
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24Words change: they immigrate and emigrate. They reflect changing fashions and roam across centuries. This book delves into their origins: Where do words come from? How do their meanings change? ... -
Mad, Bad and Dangerously Haddock by Andrew Fusek Peters 9780745960210
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.92At 6'8 1/2", Andrew Fusek Peters is Britain's tallest poet. His collections include Sadderday and Funday, Love Hate and My Best Mate, and Poems with Attitude (the only poetry collection to have ever... -
Poem For The Day Two by Nicholas Albery
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.31Poem for the Day Two is a repeat of the formula which made Poem for the Day such a well-loved favourite. There are 366 poems (one for each day of the year, and one for leap years), to delight,... -
Foolish Lessons In Life And Love by Penny Rudge
RRP: £2.99Booksplease Price: £2.77Taras clutched her hand and planted kisses all over it. 'Katya, I'll do anything. Anything at all, if you'll just give me another chance.' But can the hapless Taras win Katya's stubborn Russian... -
A Concise Companion to Postwar British and Irish Poetry by Nigel Alderman 9781118646946
RRP: £37.95Booksplease Price: £35.41This volume introduces students to the most important figures, movements and trends in post-war British and Irish poetry. An historical overview and critical introduction to the poetry published in... -
I Brought the War with Me: Stories and Poems from the Front Line Lindsey Hilsum 9781784745349
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74'Remarkable: combines her exceptional experience as a war correspondent with selected poetry in an act of witness' ANDREW MOTIONI was standing outside an apartment block that had been split apart by... -
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Siegfried Sassoon: The Making of a War Poet by Jean Moorcroft Wilson 9780715631218 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.50The definitive biography of one of the twentieth century's finest poets, Siegfried Sassoon combines material from The Making of a War Poet and The Journey from the Trenches, the two bestselling... -
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Over 100 poems on life and love Elizabeth Barrett Browning 9781786752123
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.32From the intense affection of 'How Do I Love Thee?' to the powerful social protest in 'The Cry of the Children', the lyrical beauty of Barrett Browning's poetry continues to fascinate modern readers... -
House Mother Normal: A Geriatric Comedy by B. S. Johnson 9781447200383
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.52With an introduction by poet Andrew Motion. Eight residents in a home for the elderly sit down to dinner, along with the House Mother herself, and each takes it in turn to relay the proceedings of... -
Do You Mr Jones?: Bob Dylan with the Poets and Professors by Neil Corcoran 9781784706807
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49In 2016, Bob Dylan received the Nobel Prize in Literature 'for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition'. This collection of essays by leading poets and critics... -
Beowulf by Seamus Heaney 9780571230419
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Beowulf, composed between the seventh and tenth century, is the elegaic narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel,... -
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C. S. Lewis: A Biography by A. N. Wilson 9780007202713 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.37This acclaimed biography charts the progress of the brilliant, prolific writer, C. S. Lewis. C. S. Lewis was a deeply complex man, capable of inspiring both great devotion and great... -
The Sonnet by Stephen Regan 9780192893079
Booksplease Price: £113.61The Sonnet provides a comprehensive study of one of the oldest and most popular forms of poetry, widely used by Shakespeare, Milton and Wordsworth, and still used today by poets such as Seamus... -
C. S. Lewis: A Biography by A. N. Wilson
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78This acclaimed biography charts the progress of the brilliant, prolific writer, C. S. Lewis. C. S. Lewis was a deeply complex man, capable of inspiring both great devotion and great... -
John Betjeman Collected Poems John Betjeman 9780719568503
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38Collected Poems made publishing history when it first appeared, and has now sold more than two million copies, to an ever-growing readership. This newly expanded edition includes Betjeman's verse... -
The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £25.42George Orwell's best-known novels, Animal Farm, describing a revolution that goes horribly wrong, and Nineteen Eighty-Four, portraying a world where human freedom has been crushed, are two of the ...