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Postcolonial Narrative and the Work of Mourning: J.M. Coetzee, Wilson Harris, and Toni Morrison by Sam Durrant 9780791459454
RRP: £72.50Booksplease Price: £69.61Sam Durrant's powerfully original book compares the ways in which the novels of J. M. Coetzee, Wilson Harris, and Toni Morrison memorialize the traumatic histories of racial oppression that continue... -
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: £112.12Why 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... -
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... -
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"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: £29.45On 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: £22.44According 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: £81.75Examines 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 9781496829337
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12Joanna 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... -
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 Summer That Melted Everything by Tiffany McDaniel 9781911344360
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Winner of The Guardian's Not the Booker Prize. Fielding Bliss has never forgotten the summer of 1984. The year a heatwave scorched the small town of Breathed, Ohio. The year he became friends with... -
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... -
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 ... -
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... -
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... -
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: £10.99Booksplease 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: £12.99Booksplease 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... -
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... -
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Exquisite Cadavers by Meena Kandasamy 9781786499653 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.40From 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... -
J. M. Coetzee's Poetics of the Child: Arendt, Agamben, and the (Ir)responsibilities of Literary Creation by Dr Charlotta Elmgren 9781350249462
Booksplease Price: £33.49Tracing 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... -
J. M. Coetzee's Poetics of the Child: Arendt, Agamben, and the (Ir)responsibilities of Literary Creation by Dr Charlotta Elmgren 9781350138421
Booksplease Price: £112.13Tracing 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... -
Doing Animal Studies with Androids, Aliens, and Ghosts: Defamiliarizing Human-Nonhuman Animal Relationships in Fiction David P. Rando 9781350356160
Booksplease Price: £30.54Exploring 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... -
Personal Identity and Literature by Patrick Colm Hogan
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19In 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: £90.57Exploring 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... -
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Rules of the Wild by Francesca Marciano 9780099274698 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £2.58In the vast space of East Africa lives a close-knit tribe of expatriates. They all meet at dinner parties; they share the same doctors and eat at the same restaurants; they sleep with each other and... -
Language, Literature, and Education for the Development of Postcolonial Africa by Professor Aloysius Ngefac 9781350509528
Booksplease Price: £85.65This open access edited volume brings together a multidisciplinary team of scholars to investigate the concept of transformative development through decolonial approaches to language, literatures,... -
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... -
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... -
Rules of the Wild by Francesca Marciano 9780099274698
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47In the vast space of East Africa lives a close-knit tribe of expatriates. They all meet at dinner parties; they share the same doctors and eat at the same restaurants; they sleep with each other and...