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The Ethics of Exile: Colonialism in the Fictions of Charles Brockden Brown and J.M. Coetzee by Timothy F. Strode 9780415867245
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.94The book investigates the problem of how narrative, normally conceived of temporally, encodes its relation to space, especially the territorial space that is the subject of colonial possession and... -
Postcolonial Narrative and the Work of Mourning: J.M. Coetzee, Wilson Harris, and Toni Morrison by Sam Durrant 9780791459454
RRP: £72.50Booksplease Price: £69.67Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
South African London: Writing the Metropolis After 1948 by Andrea Thorpe 9781526174598
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.54This book presents a long-ranging and in-depth study of South African writing set in London during the apartheid years and beyond. Since London served as an important site of South African exile and... -
South African London: Writing the Metropolis After 1948 by Andrea Thorpe
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £61.61This book presents a long-ranging and in-depth study of South African writing set in London during the apartheid years and beyond. Since London served as an important site of South African exile and... -
Time and Alterity in South African Writing: Andre Brink, J.M. Coetzee, and Zakes Mda Revisited by Paulina Grzeda 9783631863343
RRP: £51.20Booksplease Price: £46.10The Covid-19 pandemic has thrust us all into a warped, disjointed 'coronatime,' which has both uncontrollably accelerated, and interminably decelerated, or got frozen. Just like the pandemic, this... -
Literary Connections Between South Africa and the Lusophone World by Anita De Melo 9781666916423
Booksplease Price: £81.47Literary Connections between South Africa and the Lusophone World connects literatures and cultures of South Africa and the Portuguese-speaking nations of Africa and beyond, and is set within... -
Literary Autobiography: Contemporary Novelists and their Self-Representations Melissa Schuh 9783032004109
Booksplease Price: £113.10Why do novelists write about themselves? What modes do novelists use to manipulate representations of their personality? Why is it often late in their career that novelists write about their own... -
!["Wooden Man"?: Masculinities in the Work of J.M. Coetzee ("Boyhood", "Youth" and "Summertime") by Daniel Matias 9781433138065](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/8027925/9063849/9781433138065__91826.1747639822.jpg?c=1 ""Wooden Man"?: Masculinities in the Work of J.M. Coetzee ("Boyhood", "Youth" and "Summertime") by Daniel Matias 9781433138065")
"Wooden Man"?: Masculinities in the Work of J.M. Coetzee ("Boyhood", "Youth" and "Summertime") by Daniel Matias 9781433138065
RRP: £90.40Booksplease Price: £79.85This book addresses the representation of masculinities in the work of J. M. Coetzee, with a particular focus on the writer's trilogy: Boyhood (1997), Youth (2002) and Summertime (2009)... -
Bestial Traces: Race, Sexuality, Animality by Christopher Peterson 9780823245215
Booksplease Price: £28.74On February 18th, 2009, Sean Delonas published a controversial cartoon in the New York Post depicting two policemen shooting and killing a monkey with the caption: "They'll have to find someone else... -
The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Idealistic young officer Giovanni Drogo is full of determination to serve his country well. But when he arrives at a bleak border station in the Tartar desert, where he is to take a short assignment... -
Monkey Trouble: The Scandal of Posthumanism by Christopher Peterson 9780823277803
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89According to scholars of the nonhuman turn, the scandal of theory lies in its failure to decenter the human. The real scandal, however, is that we keep trying. The human has become a conspicuous... -
Race, Decolonization, and Global Citizenship in South Africa by Chielozona Eze 9781580469333
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.99Examines the importance of South Africa's peaceful transition to democracy, especially in light of Nelson Mandela's belief that cosmopolitan dreams are not only desirable but a binding duty. ... -
Conversations with Joanna Scott by Michael Lackey 9781496829320
Booksplease Price: £88.60Joanna Scott (b. 1960) has been one of America's leading writers since the 1990s. Both critically acclaimed and winner of numerous prestigious awards, Scott's unique and probing vision and masterful... -
The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs by Damon Galgut
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISESHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE, 2003A year ago Patrick Winter was in Namibia completing his military service. Now, during the first free ... -
The Housemaid's Daughter Barbara Mutch 9780755392124
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.00Duty and love collide on the arid plains of central South Africa. Previously released as 'Karoo Plainsong' this is a fully revised debut novel.Cathleen Harrington leaves her home in Ireland in 1919... -
In a Strange Room: Author of the 2021 Booker Prize-winning novel THE PROMISE by Damon Galgut
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISEA young man takes three journeys, through Greece, India and Africa. He travels lightly, simply. To those who travel with him and those whom he meets... -
The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs: Author of the 2021 Booker Prize-winning novel THE PROMISE Damon Galgut 9781838958879
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISESHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE, 2003A year ago Patrick Winter was in Namibia completing his military service. Now, during the first free ... -
Fallen Land by Patrick Flanery 9780857898791
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Poplar Farm has been in Louise's family for generations, inherited by her sharecropping forebear from a white landowner after a lynching. Now, the farm has been carved up, the trees torn down; a... -
Absolution by Patrick Flanery 9780857892027
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67In her garden, ensconced in the lush vegetation of the Western Cape, Clare Wald, world-renowned author, mother, critic, takes up her pen and confronts her life. Sam Leroux has returned to South... -
The Good Doctor: Author of the 2021 Booker Prize-winning novel THE PROMISE by Damon Galgut
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISEWinner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and shortlisted for the Man Booker, The Good Doctor is a powerful tale of a friendship overshadowed by... -
Arctic Summer: Author of the 2021 Booker Prize-winning novel THE PROMISE by Damon Galgut
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.19FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISE'A masterly piece of fiction. Delicate and detailed' Daily Mail'It is a project to which Galgut, whose fiction has often covered the terrain of... -
The Impostor: Author of the 2021 Booker Prize-winning novel THE PROMISE by Damon Galgut
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISEShortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best BookA gripping, claustrophobic novel of guilty secrets, obsession and self-reinvention on... -
I Am No One Patrick Flanery 9781782397984
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Jeremy O'Keefe, a middle-aged Professor, returns to his native New York after a decade teaching at Oxford, and quickly settles into a lonely rhythm of unfulfilling lectures and long, silent evenings... -
J. M. Coetzee: Countervoices by Carrol Clarkson 9780230221567
Booksplease Price: £46.74Clarkson pays sustained attention to the dynamic interaction between Coetzee's fiction and his critical writing, exploring the Nobel prize-winner's participation in, and contribution to, contemporary... -
Exquisite Cadavers by Meena Kandasamy
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.43From the author of When I Hit You, shortlisted for the 2018 Women's Prize for FictionKarim and Maya:[x] share a home [x] worry about money [x] binge-watch films [x] argue all the time Karim, a young... -
The Perversity of Gratitude: An Apartheid Education by Grant Farred 9781439924969
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £68.02Apartheid, ironically, provided Grant Farred with the optimal conditions for thinking. He describes South Africa's apartheid regime as an intellectual force that, "Made thinking apartheid, more than... -
Experimental Life Writing Today Professor Vanessa Guignery 9781350529915
Booksplease Price: £85.65This comprehensive volume offers compelling critical essays surveying the myriad forms of innovation in contemporary Anglophone life writing. Experimental Life Writing Today provides a historical and... -
J. M. Coetzee's Poetics of the Child: Arendt, Agamben, and the (Ir)responsibilities of Literary Creation by Dr Charlotta Elmgren 9781350249462
Booksplease Price: £33.84Tracing how central tensions in J.M. Coetzee's fiction converge in and are made visible by the child figure, this book establishes the centrality of the child to Coetzee's poetics. Through readings... -
A Passage To India by E. M. Forster 9781857150292
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, and feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the 'real India', they seek... -
The Ambassadors by Henry James
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The greatest expression of his talent for witty, observant explorations of what it means to 'live well', Henry James's The Ambassadors is edited with an introduction and notes by Adrian Poole in... -
The Sound And The Fury by William Faulkner 9781857150698
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41Ever since the first furore was created on its publication in 1929, The Sound and the Fury has been considered one of the key novels of this century. Depicting the gradual disintegration of the... -
Doing Animal Studies with Androids, Aliens, and Ghosts: Defamiliarizing Human-Nonhuman Animal Relationships in Fiction David P. Rando 9781350356160
Booksplease Price: £30.77Exploring what can be learnt when literary critics in the field of animal studies temporarily direct attention away from representations of nonhuman animals in literature and towards liminal figures... -
A House For Mr Biswas by V. S. Naipaul 9781857152135
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.04In the comic masterpiece which established him one of the greatest writers in the English language, Naipaul follows the fortunes of Mr Biswas, the outsider who refuses to conform to the customs of... -
Waiting For The Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49The modern classic from double Booker Prize winner J.M. Coetzee - soon to be a major film starring Mark Rylance, Robert Pattinson and Johnny DeppFor decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a... -
Personal Identity and Literature by Patrick Colm Hogan
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.81In Personal Identity and Literature, Hogan examines what makes an individual a particular, unique self. He draws on cognitive and affective science as well as literary works - from Walt Whitman and... -
Doing Animal Studies with Androids, Aliens, and Ghosts: Defamiliarizing Human-Nonhuman Animal Relationships in Fiction by David P. Rando 9781350356122
Booksplease Price: £91.39Exploring what can be learnt when literary critics in the field of animal studies temporarily direct attention away from representations of nonhuman animals in literature and towards liminal figures... -
Pobby and Dingan by Ben Rice
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Pobby and Dingan live in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, the opal capital of Australia. They are friends with Kellyanne Williamson, the daughter of a miner: indeed only she can see them. Pobby and... -
Hermit in Paris by Italo Calvino
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Italo Calvino once said that he preferred to give false details about his biography since he felt that even the genuine data of a writer's life shed no light on the creative work. But this volume of... -
The African Trilogy: Things Fall Apart No Longer at Ease Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05Chinua Achebe is considered the father of African literature in English, the writer who 'opened the magic casements of African fiction' for an international readership. Following the 50th anniversary... -
Hunter of Stories Eduardo Galeano 9781472128867
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'Not since Guy de Maupasant has the short literary form been imbued with such grace, elegance and poignancy . . . these quintessential and often poetic pearls astonish, inspire reflection and...