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Oscillation in Literary Modernism by John Francis Harty 9783631593936
RRP: £70.30Booksplease Price: £62.54While the two modernist novels considered in this book, Samuel Beckett's Murphy and Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, were initially understood within the categories of stoic and tragic despair,... -
Demented Particulars: The Annotated 'Murphy' by Chris Ackerley
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.50Demented Particulars offers a detailed annotation of Samuel Beckett's first published novel, Murphy. The book includes an extensive Introduction, which outlines the compositional and publishing... -
![The Vindications: Vindication of the Rights of Men, ""Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft 9781551110882](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9836608/10853129/9781551110882__73692.1783058146.jpg?c=1 "The Vindications: Vindication of the Rights of Men, ""Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft 9781551110882")
The Vindications: Vindication of the Rights of Men, ""Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft 9781551110882
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £14.49The works of Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) ranged from the early Thoughts on the Education of Daughters to The Female Reader, a selection of texts for girls, and included two novels. But her... -
The Monk by D. L. Macdonald 9781551112275
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £16.52The Monk is the most sensational of Gothic novels. The main plot concerns Ambrosio, an abbot of irreproachable holiness, who is seduced by a woman (or perhaps a demon) disguised as a novice, and who... -
Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46WINNER OF THE 1990 COMMONWEALTH WRITERS PRIZE, SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 1990Since the age of eleven Moses Berger has been obsessed with the Gursky clan, an insanely wealthy, profoundly... -
Literary Sussex by Alan Starr
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68In the quiet countryside or by the sea - and always very close to London - Sussex has offered a creative space for writers, from Lord Tennyson to Lee Child. Other writers, like Kate Mosse, Maureen... -
In the Quaker Hotel by Helen Tookey
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.95In the title poem, the speaker sits at the window of a small hotel room. The room is a holding zone, a temporary stopping-place between memory and possibility. In the Quaker Hotel is full of... -
The Oxford Book of Sea Stories by Tony Tanner
Booksplease Price: £29.51'And then went down to the ship.' Thus, with a nod to Homer, Ezra Pound began his own epic odyssey through the world of literature and the modern world. There is no literature without a departure, a... -
Writing and Reality: A Study of Modern British Diary Fiction by Andrew Hassam 9780313285400
Booksplease Price: £76.51The diary format has long been utilized by novelists as a means of imparting reality to fiction. This volume analyzes the forms of diary fiction employed by a range of British writers in the... -
Writing the Lives of Writers by Warwick Gould 9780333684610
Booksplease Price: £90.56Writing the Lives of Writers ponders that strange ventriloquized dialogue between biographers and their subjects, a dialogue all the stranger when the subject is a writer. It contains 22 essays by... -
Writing the Lives of Writers by Warwick Gould 9781349265503
Booksplease Price: £90.56Writing the Lives of Writers ponders that strange ventriloquized dialogue between biographers and their subjects, a dialogue all the stranger when the subject is a writer. It contains 22 essays by... -
Infernal Paradise: Mexico and the Modern English Novel by Ronald G. Walker 9780520362826
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £70.89The allure of Mexico in modern English fiction is a compelling and underexplored subject, particularly in the works of D. H. Lawrence, Aldous Huxley, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, and Malcolm Lowry... -
Infernal Paradise: Mexico and the Modern English Novel by Ronald G. Walker 9780520319233
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £38.17The allure of Mexico in modern English fiction is a compelling and underexplored subject, particularly in the works of D. H. Lawrence, Aldous Huxley, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, and Malcolm Lowry... -
The Vampyre and Ernestus Berchtold or, the Modern Oedipus: Collected Fiction of John William Polidori by D. L. Macdonald 9780802074652
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02In 1816, John William Polidori travelled to Geneva as Byron's personal physician; there he met Mary and Percy Shelley and took part in the most famous house party in literary history. To pass the... -
Messing About in Boats by Michael Hofmann
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £34.28Written by the eminent poet Michael Hofmann, this approachable and companionable book offers readings of four poems on the subject of boats. Based on Michael Hofmann's Clarendon lectures, this... -
The Stray Bullet: William S. Burroughs in Mexico by Jorge Garcia-Robles 9780816680634
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58William S. Burroughs arrived in Mexico City in 1949, having slipped out of New Orleans while awaiting trial on drug and weapons charges that would almost certainly have resulted in a lengthy prison... -
Stalking the Atomic City: Life Among the Decadent and the Depraved of Chornobyl by Markiyan Kamysh 9781782278559
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99The 1,000-square-mile Chornobyl Exclusion Zone is, for many, a symbol of total disaster: a reminder of shattered ideals and lost lives, now a toxic, dangerous no-man's-land. For Markiyan Kamysh, it... -
Vice Versa Thomas Anstey Guthrie 9781513135458
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.75Vice Versa (1882) is a comic novel by Thomas Anstey Guthrie. Guthrie's debut novel was a popular success, earning him a reputation as a leading humorist of his time. Adapted several times for film,... -
Vice Versa by Thomas Anstey Guthrie 9781513282954
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.97Vice Versa (1882) is a comic novel by Thomas Anstey Guthrie. Guthrie's debut novel was a popular success, earning him a reputation as a leading humorist of his time. Adapted several times for film,... -
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... -
The English Heretic Collection: Ritual Histories, Magickal Geography. by Andy Sharp
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26From its inaugural Black Plaque in honour of Witchfinder General director Michael Reeves, this unique collection follows a veridical trajectory to the frontiers of belief. Reeves' film becomes a... -
Writing Analytically by David Rosenwasser
Booksplease Price: £59.99Learning to write well requires learning to use writing as a tool to think well, and Rosenwasser/Stephen's WRITING ANALYTICALLY, 9th edition, shows you how. This reader-friendly book is built on... -
Stage, Stake, and Scaffold: Humans and Animals in Shakespeare's Theatre by Andreas Höfele 9780198701019
Booksplease Price: £40.19The powerful exchanges between stage, stake, and scaffold - the theatre, the bear garden and the spectacle of public execution - crucially informed Shakespeare's explorations into the construction... -
No Hamlets: German Shakespeare from Nietzsche to Carl Schmitt by Andreas Hoefele 9780192857439
Booksplease Price: £35.55No Hamlets is the first critical account of the role of Shakespeare in the intellectual tradition of the political right in Germany from the founding of the Empire in 1871 to the 'Bonn Republic' of... -
Stage, Stake, and Scaffold: Humans and Animals in Shakespeare's Theatre by Andreas Hofele 9780199567645
Booksplease Price: £82.13The powerful exchanges between stage, stake, and scaffold - the theatre, the bear garden and the spectacle of public execution - crucially informed Shakespeare's explorations into the construction... -
Midnight Is Not in Everyone's Reach 9781628976120
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.18A polyphonic novel set over the course of three days, Midnight is Not in Everyone's Reach is a stunning meditation on memory and time from Antonio Lobo Antunes, considered by many to be Portugal's... -
Anywhere out of the World: Essays on Travel, Writing, Death by Nicholas Delbanco 9780231133845
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02Nicholas Delbanco-who, John Updike says, "wrestles with the abundance of his gifts as a novelist the way other men wrestle with their deficiencies"-ventures forth to discover and illuminate various... -
Written Lives by Javier Marias 9780811216890
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.05In addition to his own busy career as "one of Europe's most intriguing contemporary writers" (TLS), Javier Marias is also the translator into Spanish of works by Hardy, Stevenson, Conrad, Faulkner,... -
Last Date in El Zapotal by Mateo García Elizondo 9781913867843
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.95A junkie looking for one last fix in a town full of ghosts .This is a ghost story. A junkie has gone to El Zapotal to die - to rent a room in this crumbling backwater, melt into one last fix, and not... -
Jernigan by David Gates
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05Peter Jernigan's life is slipping out of control. His wife's gone, he's lost his job and he's a stranger to his teenage son. Worse, his only relief from all this reality - alcohol - is less effective... -
Monument Maker David Keenan 9781474617109
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.80Is it possible for books to dream? For books to dream within books? Is there a literary subterranea that would facilitate ingress and exit points through these dreams? These are some of the questions... -
The Jaguar's Children: The remarkable novel from the winner of the 2023 Baillie Gifford Prize John Vaillant 9781399739016
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FIRE WEATHERThe Jaguar's Children will be read for a long time to come. It is a major social novel'PHILIPP MEYER, author of The Son'A large, ambitious... -
The Big Impossible: Novellas + Stories by Edward J Delaney 9781885983749
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.92"Easily ranks among the best fiction I've read this year." -David Abrams "If you've come to look for America, it's here in The Big Impossible. Taut, urgent, emotionally powerful stories about the... -
Call Him Mine by Tim MacGabhann
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A TELEGRAPH THRILLER OF THE YEAR 'A wild ride' Ian Rankin'Tough and uncompromising: you'll be glad you read it' Lee Child'Hilarious, gripping, poetic. I loved it' Adrian McKinty, author of The Chain ...