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Dissolved Frontiers: Encountering the Other and the deconstruction of a binary world model in David Lodge's Nice Work by Stefanie Grenzebach 9783640995325
Booksplease Price: £18.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783640995325Author Stefanie GrenzebachFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Grin VerlagPublisher Grin... -
What about the Rogue?: Survival and Metamorphosis in Contemporary British Literature and Culture- Followed by an interview with David Lodge by Ana Raquel Lourenco Fernandes 9789052017334
RRP: £40.90Booksplease Price: £37.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789052017334Author Ana Raquel Lourenco FernandesFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Presses... -
Making Nice by Ferdinand Mount 9781472992895
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.04The deliciously sharp new novel from Ferdinand Mount, author of the Sunday Times Book of the Year Kiss Myself Goodbye Ferdinand Mount's stinging satire plunges into the dubious world of London PR... -
The Quantity Theory of Morality Will Self 9780802166296
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802166296Author Will SelfFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly... -
Writers and Their Teachers by Dale Salwak
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £17.21By turns reflective, entertaining and moving, this book reveals how some of the most influential and best loved writers of our time were shaped by their inspirational teachers. Nobel laureate J. M... -
Every Family Has A Story: How to Grow and Move Forward Together by Julia Samuel
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Essential, clever and kind' Alain de Botton'I am a huge admirer of Julia's work' Elizabeth Day____________________In her bestselling follow-up to Grief Works and This Too... -
Either/Or: From the bestselling author of THE IDIOT by Elif Batuman
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49The new novel from the bestselling author of The Idiot follows one young woman's quest for self-knowledge, as she travels abroad and tests the limits of her newfound adulthood. 'Elif Batuman is the... -
Either/Or by Elif Batuman
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.46SELIN IS THE LUCKIEST PERSON IN HER FAMILY:The only one who was born in America and got to go to Harvard. Now it's her second year, 1996, and Selin knows she has to make it count. The first order of... -
Making a Noise: Getting It Right, Getting It Wrong in Life, Arts and Broadcasting Sir John Tusa 9781474607087
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.84In almost sixty years of professional life, John Tusa has fought for and sometimes against the major arts and political institutions in the country. A distinguished journalist, broadcaster and leader... -
Making a Noise: Getting It Right, Getting It Wrong in Life, Arts and Broadcasting by John Tusa
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £4.01John Tusa is a distinguished journalist, broadcaster and leader of arts organisations, best remembered for his times at the BBC, including creating Newsnight.Tusa's memoir is etched with candour. His... -
Brief Encounters: Notes from a Philosopher's Diary by Anthony Kenny 9780281079193
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £15.50Cardinals, directors, dissidents, dons, judges, novelists, philosophers, prime ministers, scientists, world statesmen. . . Throughout his long and distinguished career, Sir Anthony Kenny has... -
Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss Rajeev Balasubramanyam 9781784708818
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16'I loved this beautiful book. It's tender and compassionate, written with exquisite care and verve, and so so SO funny' MARIAN KEYESProfessor Chandra is about to embark on the trip of a lifetime. In... -
Brief Encounters: Notes from a Philosopher's Diary by Anthony Kenny
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64Cardinals, directors, dissidents, dons, judges, novelists, philosophers, prime ministers, scientists, world statesmen. . . Throughout his long and distinguished career, Sir Anthony Kenny has... -
Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma by Dr Mariel Buqué 9781785044281
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74'Blending science, therapy and personal anecdotes, Break the Cycle empowers readers to disrupt harmful patterns from the past and cultivate new cycles of love and strength.' Vex King, bestselling... -
The Bridge: A nine-step plan to healing your trauma, accepting yourself and living life to the full by Donna Lancaster 9780241513101
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Powerful, brilliant and deeply healing' Fearne Cotton'God in her wisdom divined this book' Thandiwe Newton________________________________Step into the person you were born to be. Heartbreak is an... -
Home is Where the Start Is: How Your Family Made You, and How You Can Make Yourself Even Better by Richard Hogan 9781844886173
Booksplease Price: £18.56The bestselling guide for understanding how your family made you, and how you can make yourself even better.'Excellent' - Brendan O'Connor, RTE'I loved it' - Sile Seoige, Ready to Be Real * * * Our... -
Home is Where the Start Is: How Your Family Made You, and How You Can Make Yourself Even Better by Richard Hogan 9780241996652
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23IThe bestselling guide for understanding how your family made you, and how you can make yourself even better. 'Excellent' - Brendan O'Connor, RTE Radio One'I loved it' - Sile Seoige, Ready to Be Real... -
The Real You: How to escape your fears and limitations to become the person you were born to be by Andrew Parr
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'A gracefully written book about the inner strength we all have within us' Wim Hof ________________________________________________________________________________Do you feel held back by your own... -
Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader by Nigel Wood 9780582784543
RRP: £69.99Booksplease Price: £69.51'In our era, criticism is not merely a library of secondary aids to the understanding and appreciation of literary texts, but also a rapidly expanding body of knowledge in its own right.' David... -
Mythology in the Modern Novel: A Study of Prefigurative Techniques by John J. White 9780691620152
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £37.43J. J. White reexamines the use of myth in fiction in order to bring a new terminological precision into the field. While concentrating on the German novel (Mann, Broch, and Nossack), he discusses the... -
Writers' & Artists' Yearbook 2018 by 9781472935052
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £16.10This bestselling guide to all areas of publishing and the media is completely revised and updated every year. The Yearbook is packed with advice, inspiration and practical guidance on who to contact... -
Windows and Doors: A Poet Reads Literary Theory by Natasha Saje 9780472035991
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.31Windows and Doors is a poetry handbook that places poststructuralist and postmodern ways of thinking alongside formalist modes, making explicit points of overlap and tension that are usually tacit... -
Literary Studies in Action Alan Durant (Middlesex University, UK) 9780415029452
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80`This is a textbook for the times, which addresses itself brilliantly to the twin phenomena of expanding horizons and diminishing resources of English studies.' - David LodgeReviews'Literary Studies... -
Gorky's Tolstoy and Other Reminiscences: Key Writings by and about Maxim Gorky by Donald Fanger 9780300111668
Booksplease Price: £57.66Superb new translations of Gorky's classic memoirs of Tolstoy and other remarkable Russians, along with unforgettable characterizations of Gorky himself by his contemporaries Maxim Gorky (1868-1936)... -
From Philosophy of Fiction to Cognitive Poetics by Piotr Stalmaszczyk 9783631669457
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £55.39Studies collected in this volume investigate selected issues in contemporary philosophy of language and philosophy of literature. Individual authors concentrate on philosophy of fiction and discuss... -
The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction by Frank Kermode
RRP: £17.49Booksplease Price: £13.26Frank Kermode is one of our most distinguished and beloved critics of English literature. Here, he contributes a new epilogue to his collection of classic lectures on the relationship of fiction to... -
What Good are the Arts? by John Carey 9780571226030
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.35From one of the country's most eminent reviewers and academics, a delightfully sceptical and devastatingly intelligent assessment of the true value of art.What Good are the Arts? by John Carey is a... -
Theorizing Literature: Literary Theory in Contemporary Novels – and Their Analysis Erik Schilling 9783031533259
Booksplease Price: £100.42This book offers an analytical model for the interpretation of theory-informed novels – American, English, French, German, and Italian – from the past 50 years. Works discussed include Laurent... -
Henry James in Contemporary Fiction: The Real Thing by Bethany Layne 9783030316495
Booksplease Price: £70.88This book explores the extraordinary proliferation of novels based on Henry James's life and works published between 2001 and 2016, the centenary of his death. Part One concentrates on biofictions... -
The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark 9780241964002
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'One of the greatest books about growing up' James Wood, Guardian'You girls are my vocation . . . I am dedicated to you in my prime'Miss Jean Brodie is a schoolmistress with a difference. She is... -
London Narratives: Post-War Fiction and the City by Lawrence Phillips 9780826426734
Booksplease Price: £40.79The post-war redevelopment of London has been the most extensive in its history, and has been accompanied by a dramatic social and cultural upheaval. This book explores the literary re-imagining of... -
Contemporary Fiction and Science from Amis to McEwan: The Third Culture Novel by Rachel Holland 9783030163747
Booksplease Price: £70.88This book identifies, in contemporary fiction, a new type of novel at the interface of science and the humanities, working from the premise that a shift has taken place in the relations between the... -
Henry James in Contemporary Fiction: The Real Thing by Bethany Layne 9783030316525
Booksplease Price: £70.88This book explores the extraordinary proliferation of novels based on Henry James's life and works published between 2001 and 2016, the centenary of his death. Part One concentrates on biofictions... -
Between Faith and Doubt: Dialogues on Religion and Reason by John Harwood Hick 9780230251670
Booksplease Price: £46.28This short book is a lively dialogue between a religious believer and a skeptic. It covers all the main issues including different ideas of God, the good and bad in religion, religious experience and... -
Saint Billie by Jeremy Reed 9781900564625
RRP: £7.95Booksplease Price: £7.12"Saint Billie".About the AuthorJeremy Reed was born in Jersey, Channel Islands, and read for his PhD at the University of Essex. He is widely acknowledged as the most imaginatively gifted British... -
Homo Academicus by Pierre Bourdieu
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.99This highly acclaimed work, in which Pierre Bourdieu turns his attention to the academic world and offers a brilliant analysis of modern intellectual culture, is now available in paperback. The... -
Postwar Academic Fiction: Satire, Ethics, Community by Kenneth Womack 9780333918821
Booksplease Price: £90.56As a literary genre, academic fiction has emerged in recent years as one of the most popular modes for satirizing the cultural conflicts and sociological nuances inherent in campus life. Drawing upon... -
Novelists in Interview by John Haffenden
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £34.09Originally published in 1985, fourteen foremost writers of fiction give detailed accounts of their writings in this absorbing collection by John Haffenden, whom The Sunday Times has applauded for... -
Every Short Story by Alasdair Gray 1951-2012 by Alasdair Gray 9780857865618
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.68The first sixteen tales in this collection were published by Canongate in 1983 with the title Unlikely Stories, Mostly. This collection also has fifty-seven tales from later books, plus sixteen new... -
All Her Faculties: The Representation of the Female Mind in the Twentieth-Century English Novel by Claudia Rosenhan 9783034317658
RRP: £86.65Booksplease Price: £76.62All Her Faculties focuses on the perpetuation and reflection in literature of particular representations of the female mind that are entrenched in conservative notions of womanhood. The study...