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The Pearl Oyster by Paul Southgate 9780444529763
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £77.67Contrary to a generally held view that pearls are found by chance in oysters, almost all are now produced from farms. This book is a comprehensive treatment of all aspects of the biology of pearl... -
The Jazz Poetry Anthology by Sascha Feinstein
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46" . . . in a class by itself . . . sensitive, moving, and powerful jazz imagery . . . the perfect companion to listening to good jazz." -Jazziz Magazine"In the course of the history of jazz, there... -
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell 9780393930634
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.24This Norton Critical Edition of Gaskell's first novel is based on the 1854 Fifth Edition, the last edition corrected by the author. "Contexts" includes letters related to Mary Barton's publication as... -
The Beauty of Inflections: Literary Investigations in Historical Method and Theory by Jerome J. McGann 9780198117506
Booksplease Price: £54.66This collection of studies, which spans the past decade, was first published in hardback in 1985. As well as exploring the fault-lines marking the various kinds of ahistorical literary studies from... -
Uncommon Champions: Fifteen Athletes Who Battled Back by Marty Kaminsky
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.88Just in time for the 2022 Winter Olympics, here is a motivating collection of true stories from athletes, including many former Olympians, who have faced incredible adversity-proving that integrity... -
The Times Lives Less Ordinary: Obituaries of the eccentric, unique and undefinable by Nigel Farndale 9780008637071
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.30Discover the lives of some of the most fascinating and unconventional characters of recent times, with 85 obituaries carefully curated from The Times archive. Be they dons, pop stars, vicars, MPs,... -
Classic Cat Stories by Various 9781529020991
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.62Cats, be they much loved pets or inscrutable creatures, lend themselves to stories and literary invention. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning pocket size classics. These... -
PN Review 270 by Michael Schmidt 9781800173699
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61The March-April 2023 issue An issue of dialogues, with whales, with Rimbaud, with Mexico, Afghanistan, Germany, Canada, with John Lucas, D.H. Lawrence and many more Includes new poems by Colm... -
Outside Modernism: In Pursuit of the English Novel, 1900-30 by Lynne Hapgood 9780333794135
Booksplease Price: £46.28Outside Modernism presents eleven original essays which re-evaluate the range of English novels written between 1900 and 1930, assigned by critics to a space outside modernism. Drawing on critical... -
The Iconography of Landscape: Essays on the Symbolic Representation, Design and Use of Past Environments by Denis E. Cosgrove 9780521389150
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £39.21The Iconography of Landscape, first published in 1988, draws together fourteen scholars from diverse disciplines across the humanities and social sciences to explicate the status of landscape as a... -
Free Will and Modern Science by Richard Swinburne 9780197264898
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.80Do humans have a free choice of which actions to perform? Three recent developments of modern science can help us to answer this question. First, new investigative tools have enabled us to study the... -
Scablands and Other Stories Dr Jonathan Taylor 9781784632946
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.42These are tales from the post-industrial scablands - stories of austerity, poverty, masochism and migration. The people here are sick, lonely, lost, half-living in the aftermath of upheaval or trauma... -
Records of an Incitement to Silence by Gregory Woods 9781800171282
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Longlisted for the Polari Book Prize 2022. Gregory Woods is the leading British critic and historian of gay literature. He has published five previous Carcanet poetry collections, the first being... -
Cafe des Artistes by John Hartley Williams 9780224087858
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.50Welcome to the Cafe des Artistes. Your host, the owner, bartender, master of ceremonies and only other guest: John Hartley Williams. Here you will be entertained and diverted - by bizarre stories of... -
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New Jack Jocks: Rebels, Race and the American Athlete by Larry Platt 9781592131914 [USED COPY]
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £1.00Latrell Sprewell. Allen Iverson. John McEnroe. Even Mohammed Ali and Mike Schmidt and Michael Jordan. These are characters of our national imagination, athletes who stand as symbols of our complex... -
New Jack Jocks: Rebels, Race, And The American Athlete by Larry Platt 9781566399548
RRP: £49.00Booksplease Price: £46.47Latrell Sprewell. Allen Iverson. John McEnroe. Even Mohammed Ali and Mike Schmidt and Michael Jordan. These are characters of our national imagination, athletes who stand as symbols of our complex... -
New Jack Jocks: Rebels, Race and the American Athlete by Larry Platt 9781592131914
Booksplease Price: £22.14Latrell Sprewell. Allen Iverson. John McEnroe. Even Mohammed Ali and Mike Schmidt and Michael Jordan. These are characters of our national imagination, athletes who stand as symbols of our complex... -
A Soaring Season: The Incredible, Inspiring Story of the 2003-04 Saint Joseph's Hawks Aaron Harrison Bracy 9781955041430
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £22.06In 2003-04, the Saint Joseph's Hawks became the most unlikely and most captivating story in college basketball. Led by two compelling leading characters, outspoken, media-friendly coach Phil... -
Collected Poems by Tony Harrison 9780241974353
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Tony Harrison published his first pamphlet of poems in 1964 and for over fifty years has been a prominent force in modern poetry. His poetic range is truly far-reaching, from the intimate tenderness... -
Other Dickens: Pickwick to Chuzzlewit by John Bowen 9780198185062
Booksplease Price: £52.92In the first half of his career, Dickens wrote some of the most important novels of the nineteenth century, including The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, and Martin Chuzzlewit. They are exorbitant and... -
Thomas Hardy's Public Voice: The Essays, Speeches, and Miscellaneous Prose by Thomas Hardy 9780198185260
Booksplease Price: £126.07Thomas Hardy has generally been viewed as an intensely private figure, shy of publicity and even of people, self-isolated in his Dorsetshire home, and much more cautious and conservative in his... -
Maryland Basketball: Tales from Cole Field House by Paul McMullen 9780801872211
Booksplease Price: £37.35As the University of Maryland prepares to christen the state of the art Comcast Center, what better time to look back at the Terrapins path from college basketball obscurity to NCAA champions? ... -
Anti-basilisk by Christopher Middleton 9781857547894
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £9.60In The Anti-Basilisk Christopher Middleton, in the spirit that impelled Shelley to write The Masque of Anarchy, reveals as crooked the apparently straight and sees what's coming round corners with a...