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We Should Not Be Afraid Of The Sky Emma Hooper 9780735232761
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsLong-listed for Carol Shields Prize for Fiction 2023.Book InformationISBN 9780735232761Author Emma HooperFormat... -
Gender and Short Fiction: Women’s Tales in Contemporary Britain by Jorge Sacido-Romero 9780367665722
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80In their new monograph, Gender and Short Fiction: Women's Tales in Contemporary Britain, Jorge Sacido-Romero and Laura M Lojo-Rodriguez explain why artistically ambitious women writers continue... -
Whisper of the Seals by Roxanne Bouchard
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.01Detective Morales becomes immersed in a chilling case set on the icy seas of Quebec's remote Magdalen Islands, in the midst of a brutal seal hunt. A breathtaking, atmospheric, race-against-the-clock... -
Canadian Literature by Faye Hammill 9780748621613
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £86.19An important critical study of Canadian literature, placing internationally successful anglophone Canadian authors in the context of their national literary history. While the focus of the book is on... -
The Reason You Walk: A Memoir by Wab Kinew 9780143193555
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Kobo Emerging Writer Prize 2016 and McNally Robinson Book of the Year 2016 and Ontario Historical Society... -
Emergent Voices: CBC Canadian Literary Awards Stories, 1979-1999 by Robert Weaver 9780864922670
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £13.76Michael Ondaatje, Carol Shields, and Gail Anderson-Dargatz are among the winners of the CBC Literary Award who have gone on to become some of the biggest names in Canadian literature. They and other... -
Re-Writing Pioneer Women in Anglo-Canadian Literature by Conny Steenman-Marcusse 9789042013056
Booksplease Price: £62.63This study investigates the connections between nineteenth-century pioneer women in Canada and their putative twentieth-century biographers in Anglo-Canadian women’s fiction by Carol Shields (Small... -
Without a Guide: Contemporary Women's Travel Adventures by Katherine Govier 9780044409618
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.89Seventeen internationally celebrated women writers recall their most memorable voyages. From the Galapagos to the Australian outback, from Pakistan's Indus Gorge to Finland these moving, witty,... -
Contemporary American Trauma Narratives by Alan Gibbs
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £27.79This book looks at the way writers present the effects of trauma in their work. It explores narrative devices, such as 'metafiction', as well as events in contemporary America, including 9/11, the... -
Being Dead by Jim Crace 9781447250326
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD. A couple lie naked in the dunes at Baritone Bay, at the spot where, almost thirty years before, they had first had sex as students. Nostalgia has... -
Stories for Lovers 9780712355537
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Fall head over heels with this collection of unconventional and heartfelt romances that will leave you longing for more. From icons of feminist literature to forgotten Chinese modernists, these... -
White Male Nostalgia in Contemporary North American Literature by Tim Engles 9783030080211
Booksplease Price: £51.20White Male Nostalgia in Contemporary North American Literature charts the late twentieth-century development of reactionary emotions commonly felt by resentful, yet often goodhearted white men... -
White Male Nostalgia in Contemporary North American Literature by Tim Engles 9783319904597
Booksplease Price: £70.88White Male Nostalgia in Contemporary North American Literature charts the late twentieth-century development of reactionary emotions commonly felt by resentful, yet often goodhearted white men... -
A House of Air by Penelope Fitzgerald 9780007136438
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.00WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HERMIONE LEE The previously uncollected occasional prose of a great English writer - full of wit, feeling and illumination. Penelope Fitzgerald was a prolific letter writer... -
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Mapping Our Selves: Canadian Women's Autobiography by Helen M. Buss 9780773509757 [USED COPY]
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £6.18Buss supplies a framework for her study by reviewing male-centred theories of identity and some of the ways in which theorists working with women's autobiographical accounts are changing these models... -
Essentials of OCT in Ocular Disease Amar Agarwal 9781626230989
RRP: £134.00Booksplease Price: £109.71A state-of-the-art OCT resource Written by the leading authorities in the field, is a core clinical reference on this important new technology used to examine the structure of the eye. It provides... -
Angela Carter: A Literary Life by Sarah Gamble 9780333992937
Booksplease Price: £46.74By the time of her death in 1992, Angela Carter had come to be regarded as one of the most successful and original British authors of the twentieth-century, and her writing has subsequently become... -
The Creation of iGiselle: Classical Ballet Meets Contemporary Video Games by Nora Foster Stovel 9781772123814
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.94The unusual marriage of Romantic ballet and artificial intelligence is an intriguing idea that led a team of interdisciplinary researchers to design iGiselle, a video game prototype. Scholars in the... -
Seven Loves by Valerie Trueblood 9780316066389
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.52SEVEN LOVES tells the story of Mary Nilson's life through the indelible loves that define it over the years. From the passionate affair that changes her family and her future, to the risk-taking son... -
Feminist Narrative and the Supernatural: The Function of Fantastic Devices in Seven Recent Novels Katherine J. Weese 9780786436156
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59Women authors have explored fantasy fiction in ways that connect with feminist narrative theories, as examined here by Katherine J. Weese in seven modern novels. These include Margaret Atwood's... -
A History of Burning: The perfect summer read for fans of Half of a Yellow Sun, Homegoing and Pachinko by Janika Oza 9781529921830
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA SARAH JESSICA PARKER BOOK OF THE YEARFour generations. Three sisters. One impossible choice.Tricked aboard a boat to East Africa, Pirbhai is only thirteen when he is... -
How Novels Work by John Mullan
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Never has contemporary fiction been more widely discussed and passionately analysed; recent years have seen a huge growth in the number of reading groups and in the interest of a non-academic... -
Garden Plots: The Politics and Poetics of Gardens by Shelley Saguaro 9781138258785
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Shelley Saguaro's unique book illustrates the persistent presence of gardens in literature. Gardens in fiction do not simply represent a familiar theme, Saguaro contends, but are bound up with wider... -
Literary Celebrity in Canada by Lorraine York 9781487521394
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02In recent years, Canadian authors have enjoyed tremendous international success, writing novels that become Oscar-nominated films or achieve coveted success as selections for the Oprah Winfrey... -
Literary Celebrity in Canada by Lorraine York 9780802092823
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £30.53In recent years, Canadian authors have enjoyed tremendous international success, writing novels that become Oscar-nominated films or achieve coveted success as selections for the Oprah Winfrey... -
The Girls Of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Beautifully packaged reissue of one of Muriel Spark's best loved novels, The Girls of Slender Means 'Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions' In the May... -
Prizing Literature: The Celebration and Circulation of National Culture by Gillian Roberts 9781442642713
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.08When Canadian authors win prestigious literary prizes, from the Governor General's Literary Award to the Man Booker Prize, they are celebrated not only for their achievements, but also for... -
Beyond The Glass by Antonia White 9781844083688
Booksplease Price: £20.70Clara Batchelor is twenty-two. Her brief, doomed marriage to Archie over, she returns to live with her parents in the home of her childhood. She hopes for comfort but the devoutly Catholic household... -
How Novels Work by John Mullan 9780199281770
RRP: £32.49Booksplease Price: £25.87Never has contemporary fiction been more widely discussed and passionately analysed; recent years have seen a huge growth in the number of reading groups and in the interest of a non-academic... -
The Selected Journals of L. M. Montgomery: Volume I: 1889-1910 by L. M. Montgomery 9780195415124
Booksplease Price: £22.19The author of the ever-popular Anne of Green Gables kept her journal from the age of fifteen till her death. This edition will contain a generous selection in three volumes.About the AuthorMary... -
Property: Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction by Valerie Martin 9780349117324
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.90WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2003Manon Gaudet is unhappily married to the owner of a Louisiana sugar plantation. She misses her family and longs for the vibrant lifestyle of her native New... -
Frost In May by Antonia White 9781844083787
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Nanda Gray, the daughter of a Catholic convert, is nine when she is sent to the Convent of Five Wounds. Quick-witted, resilient and eager to please, she accepts this closed world where, with all the... -
Mr. Jones Margaret Sweatman 9780864929143
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £17.75Winner, Margaret Laurence Award for FictionShortlisted, McNally Robinson Book of the Year and Relit Award (Novel)Award-winning author Margaret Sweatman has proven herself a virtuoso writer of... -
Anne of Green Gables: A Norton Critical Edition L. M. Montgomery 9780393926958
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.11This Norton Critical Edition offers an unrivaled selection of contextual and critical material, edited by two leading Montgomery scholars. "Backgrounds" brings together fourteen relevant excerpts... -
All I Did Was Ask by Terry Gross 9780786888207
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.00A fascinating collection of revealing and entertaining interviews by the award-winning host of National Public Radio's premier interview program Fresh Air. Over the last twenty years, Terry Gross has... -
Rising: A Shabbat Baking Story: Celebrate Jewish traditions with children aged 3-7 and make your own challah from the author's recipe Sidura Ludwig 9781529523287
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02A joyful picture book story celebrating a Jewish mother's tradition of making challah with her child - and includes the author's favourite recipe.Perfect for children who love to bake, this poetic,... -
The Pomegranates of Kandahar by Sarah Maguire 9780701181314
RRP: £9.00Booksplease Price: £6.84Sarah Maguire's rich and lyrical poems have been highly praised for the ease with which they ground precise, sensual detail within the wider context of world events. In this remarkable new... -
Frankie & Stankie: rejacketed Barbara Trapido 9780747599593
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.59Barbara Trapido's captivating novel of coming-of-age novel about sisters, friendship and political awakening in 1950s South Africa ______________________ 'This is a gorgeous book about growing up... -
Angela Carter: A Literary Life by Sarah Gamble 9780230580985
Booksplease Price: £46.74By the time of her death in 1992, Angela Carter had come to be regarded as one of the most successful and original British authors of the twentieth-century, and her writing has subsequently become... -
Swan: The Girl Who Grew by Sidura Ludwig 9781774713211
Booksplease Price: £12.89The third and final instalment in the Ginny Ross YA series, following the Red Cedar-nominated Amelia and Me and Geoffrey Bilson finalist Under Amelia's Wing. It's 1940, war is raging in Europe,...