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The Lauras by Sara Taylor
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €7.12'A writer of real gravitas and potency.' Ali Smith'An extraordinary journey ... Engrossing, original and eloquent.' Helen Dunmore'Elegiac and beautifully observed.' Observer'Vivid and captivating.'... -
Shakespeare′s Tragedies by E Smith 9780631220091
RRP: €145.12Booksplease Price: €134.74This Guide steers students through the critical writing on Shakespeare's tragedies from the sixteenth century to the present day. Guides students through four centuries of critical writing on... -
Jack the Ripper?: Edward Buckley: East End Thug and Gang Member Jonathan Tye 9781036115685
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €19.78In the early hours of Tuesday, 3 April 1888, just after the Easter Bank Holiday, Emma Elizabeth Smith, a middle-aged woman living in unfortunate circumstances, was brutally attacked in a side street... -
London Journal 1762-1763 by James Boswell 9780140436501
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.02Edinburgh-born James Boswell, at twenty-two, kept a daily diary of his eventful second stay in London from 1762 to 1763. This journal, not discovered for more than 150 years, is a deft, frank and... -
The Vinland Sagas by Leifur Eiricksson
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.29The Saga of the Greenlanders and Eirik the Red's Saga contain the first ever descriptions of North America, a bountiful land of grapes and vines, discovered by Vikings five centuries before... -
Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.46Love in a Cold Climate is the wickedly funny sequel to Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love which is now a major BBC series and Prime Video series directed by Emily Mortimer starring Lily James,... -
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Shakespeare's Language by Frank Kermode 9780140285925 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €2.75The true biography of Shakespeare - and the only one we really need to care about - is in the plays. Sir Frank Kermode, Britain's most distinguished literary critic, has been thinking about them all... -
The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street by Charles Nicholl
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98In 1612 Shakespeare gave evidence at the Court of Requests in Westminster - it is the only occasion his spoken words are recorded. The case seems routine - a dispute over an unpaid marriage-dowry -... -
Shakespeare's Language by Frank Kermode
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98The true biography of Shakespeare - and the only one we really need to care about - is in the plays. Sir Frank Kermode, Britain's most distinguished literary critic, has been thinking about them all... -
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The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street by Charles Nicholl 9780141023748 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €2.83In 1612 Shakespeare gave evidence at the Court of Requests in Westminster - it is the only occasion his spoken words are recorded. The case seems routine - a dispute over an unpaid marriage-dowry -... -
A Bright Cold Day: The Wonder of George Orwell Nathan Waddell 9780861549788
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.31A pioneering biography of George Orwell told through moments of everyday life 'A fascinating, oblique take... Revelatory and very insightful.' William Boyd, author of The Predicament When we... -
Work Like a Woman: A Manifesto For Change by Mary Portas
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €8.07'There aren't many books that can claim to change your life, but this one will.' Clare Balding'A force for good, for change. This book will make you change the way you think. Mary is my hero.'... -
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Work Like a Woman: A Manifesto For Change by Mary Portas 9780593079980 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €3.12'There aren't many books that can claim to change your life, but this one will.' Clare Balding'A force for good, for change. This book will make you change the way you think. Mary is my hero.'... -
Return to the City of Joseph: Modern Mormonism's Contest for the Soul of Nauvoo by Scott C. Esplin
Booksplease Price: €23.94In the mid-twentieth century, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) returned to Nauvoo, Illinois, home to the thriving religious community led by Joseph Smith before his murder in... -
Return to the City of Joseph: Modern Mormonism's Contest for the Soul of Nauvoo by Scott C. Esplin 9780252042102
RRP: €104.72Booksplease Price: €84.66In the mid-twentieth century, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) returned to Nauvoo, Illinois, home to the thriving religious community led by Joseph Smith before his murder in... -
Participation in Crime: Domestic and Comparative Perspectives Alan Reed 9780367601522
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €50.62Following on from the earlier edited collection, Loss of Control and Diminished Responbility, this book is the first volume in the Substantive Issues in Criminal Law series. It serves as a leading... -
What Blest Genius?: The Jubilee That Made Shakespeare by Andrew McConnell Stott 9780393248654
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €21.27In September 1769, three thousand people descended on Stratford-Upon-Avon to celebrate the legacy of the town's most famous son. For three days, attendees paraded through garlanded streets, listened... -
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Bluffer's Guide to University: Instant Wit & Wisdom by Rob Ainsley 9781785215858 [USED COPY]
RRP: €8.32Booksplease Price: €2.25Instantly acquire all the knowledge you need to pass as an expert in the world of university. Know how to get in, where to get in, how to stay in, what to say, where to say it, what not to say, where... -
30 Great Myths about Shakespeare by Laurie Maguire 9780470658512
RRP: €22.55Booksplease Price: €22.26Think you know Shakespeare? Think again . . . Was a real skull used in the first performance of Hamlet? Were Shakespeare's plays Elizabethan blockbusters? How much do we really know about the... -
The Supernatural in Society, Culture, and History by Dennis Waskul 9781439915240
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €77.22In the twenty-first century, as in centuries past, stories of the supernatural thrill and terrify us. But despite their popularity, scholars often dismiss such beliefs in the uncanny as... -
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay 9780063459779
RRP: €14.28Booksplease Price: €9.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063459779Author Roxane GayFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint -
Thomas Nashe and Late Elizabethan Writing by Andrew Hadfield
RRP: €23.74Booksplease Price: €18.09A critical biography of one of the most celebrated prose stylists in early modern English.This book provides an overview of the life and work of the scandalous Renaissance writer Thomas Nashe (1567-c... -
Looking After Your Books Francesca Galligan 9781851246274
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.12Have you ever wondered whether the assortment of books you have at home is a 'collection'? Do you want to reorganize it? Expand it? Or repair some of your treasured volumes? This quirky but... -
Of Human Kindness: What Shakespeare Teaches Us About Empathy by Paula Marantz Cohen
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €24.66An award-winning scholar and teacher explores how Shakespeare's greatest characters were built on a learned sense of empathy"Thoughtful, astute, invitingly readable-and uncommonly timely. Especially... -
We'll Never Have Paris Andrew Gallix 9781912248384
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.95In 1948 Robert Doisneau took a picture of a young woman working at her typewriter on the banks of the Seine. With her stylish sunglasses and short skirt, she seems to epitomise Left Bank bohemian... -
Epistolary Courtiership and Dramatic Letters: Thomas Overbury and the Jacobean Playhouse Jackie Watson 9781474483384
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €27.20Through an analysis of the career of the eminent courtier Sir Thomas Overbury, Epistolary Courtiership and Dramatic Letters re-examines what is meant by courtiership in the Jacobean period. With a... -
Shakespeare in Jest Indira Ghose 9780367322465
RRP: €136.85Booksplease Price: €131.36Shakespeare in Jest draws fascinating parallels between Shakespeare's humour and contemporary humour. Indira Ghose argues that while many of Shakespeare's jokes no longer work for us, his humour was... -
Harrying: Skills of Offense in Shakespeare's Henriad by Harry Berger 9780823256631
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €24.86Harrying considers Richard III and the four plays of Shakespeare's Henriad-Richard II, Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2, and Henry V. Berger combines close reading with cultural analysis to show how... -
The Supernatural in Society, Culture, and History by Dennis Waskul
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94In the twenty-first century, as in centuries past, stories of the supernatural thrill and terrify us. But despite their popularity, scholars often dismiss such beliefs in the uncanny as... -
Harrying: Skills of Offense in Shakespeare's Henriad by Harry Berger 9780823256624
RRP: €80.92Booksplease Price: €71.91Harrying considers Richard III and the four plays of Shakespeare's Henriad-Richard II, Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2, and Henry V. Berger combines close reading with cultural analysis to show how... -
Tragic Conditions in Shakespeare: Disinheriting the Globe by Paul A. Kottman 9780801893711
Booksplease Price: €71.40Paul A. Kottman offers a new and compelling understanding of tragedy as seen in four of Shakespeare's mature plays- As You Like It, Hamlet, King Lear, and The Tempest. The author pushes beyond... -
Shakespeare in the North: Place, Politics and Performance in England and Scotland by Adam Hansen 9781474435932
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €30.13Presents fresh perspectives on Shakespeare's representations of and in the 'North', past and present Presents a wide range of emerging and established scholars working across the North of England,... -
Sir Walter Ralegh: The Renaissance Man and His Roles by Stephen Greenblatt 9781324106371
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €17.39Exposing the tensions and contradictions of Renaissance England, Stephen Greenblatt presents Sir Walter Ralegh as a symbol of his age-focusing on his lifelong attempt to fashion his own identity as a... -
Consent: Domestic and Comparative Perspectives Alan Reed 9780367595876
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €48.72This volume presents a leading contribution to the substantive arena relating to consent in the criminal law. In broad terms, the ambit of legally valid consent in extant law is contestable and... -
King of Lost Dreams by Nevin Holness 9780241635483
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.53Eli's search to retrace his past continues... in the second book in the King of Dead Things Duology.For fans of dark fantasy like Cemetery Boys, Noughts & Crosses and Threads that Bind from major new... -
Shakespeare and the English-speaking Cinema by Russell Jackson 9780199659463
Booksplease Price: €38.47Shakespeare and the English-speaking Cinema is a lively, authoritative, and innovative overview of the ways in which Shakespeare's plays have been adapted for cinema. Organised by topics rather than... -
Shakespeare Without a Life by Margreta de Grazia
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €30.25A fascinating account of how Shakespeare's works were understood and valued by readers and writers from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, before Shakespeare's biography came to dominate... -
Shakespeare and Outsiders by Marianne Novy 9780199642359
Booksplease Price: €39.98OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS General Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley Wells Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare... -
If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation Daniel Hahn 9781805301622
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €21.31Why might Hamlet be even longer in Italian? How does the story of Romeo and Juliet begin . . . in Thai? How do you build a joke in German, or recreate a rhyme in Japanese? And why are Lady Macbeth's... -
Shakespeare and Montaigne by Lars Engle 9781474458245
RRP: €39.26Booksplease Price: €35.01Ground-breaking essays comparing Shakespeare and Montaigne Introduces and explores a wide range of fresh approaches to comparative study of Shakespeare and Montaigne Illuminates connections,...