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Grand Canyon's Tusayan Village by Patrick Whitehurst 9780738578903
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £16.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738578903Author Patrick WhitehurstFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia... -
Grand Canyon's Tusayan Village by Patrick Whitehurst 9781531652098
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £18.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781531652098Author Patrick WhitehurstFormat HardbackImprint Arcadia Publishing Library... -
Benjamin Britten: New Perspectives on His Life and Work by Lucy Walker
Booksplease Price: £82.05An essay collection which examines Britten's juvenilia, influences such as Shostakovich and Verdi, his opera Owen Wingrave and a libretto written by Australian novelist Patrick White with the hope of... -
The Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History by Patrick Whitehurst 9781540228826
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £20.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540228826Author Patrick WhitehurstFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint Arcadia Publishing Library... -
The Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History by Patrick Whitehurst 9781467128339
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £16.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467128339Author Patrick WhitehurstFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia... -
Great Western Railway: 150 Glorious Years by Patrick Whitehouse 9780715387634
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.53Possibly the best-loved and most publicized transport system in the world, the GWR is a legend in the world of locomotives. This detailed history shows just how the GWR earned its moniker, "God's... -
Education in a Postfactual World: From Knowing to Understanding by Patrick Whitehead 9781627346856
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £28.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627346856Author Patrick WhiteheadFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Brown Walker Press... -
The Earth Care Manual: A Permaculture Handbook for Britain and Other Temperate Climates by Patrick Whitefield 9781856232791
RRP: £49.95Booksplease Price: £35.14This critically acclaimed and definitive permaculture design book was the inspiration that BBC2's Brigit Strawbridge (of Its Not Easy Being Green) needed to attend her first permaculture design... -
Katherine Mansfield and Children by Gerri Kimber
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £19.03Presents cutting-edge criticism on the theme of Katherine Mansfield and childrenWhat Virginia Woolf called 'Childlikeness' is a facet of Mansfield's personality which permeates every aspect of her... -
Katherine Mansfield and Children by 9781474491907
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £86.19What Virginia Woolf called 'Childlikeness' is a facet of Mansfield's personality which permeates every aspect of her personal and creative life. It is present in her mature fiction, where some of her... -
Hazzard and Harrower: The letters by Brigitta Olubas 9781742238180
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.14Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower met in person for the first time in London in 1972, six years after they began a correspondence that would span four decades. They exchanged letters, cards and... -
A Companion to Australian Literature since 1900 by Nicholas Birns 9781571134714
Booksplease Price: £40.39A fresh, twenty-first-century look at Australian literature in a broad, inclusive, and multicultural sense. Australian literature is one of the world's richest, dealing not only with "local"... -
Inland Gerald Murnane 9781913505820
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60Inland is a work which gathers in emotional power as it moves across the grasslands of its narrator's imagination - from Szolnok County on the great plains of Hungary where a man writes in the... -
Cyclone Country: The Language of Place and Disaster in Australian Literature by Chrystopher J. Spicer 9781476681566
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.19The storm has become a universal trope in the literature of crisis, revelation and transformation. It can function as a trope of place, of apocalypse and epiphany, of cultural mythos and story,... -
Barley Patch Gerald Murnane 9781916751149
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60Published in Australia in 2009, Barley Patch was Murnane's first book in fourteen years, written after a period in which he had thought he would never write fiction again. The book begins with the... -
: Pandora and Occam (1992): On the Limits of Language and Literature by Horst Ruthrof 9781138744479
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.69First published in 1992, this book evokes Pandora and Occam as metaphoric corner posts in an argument about language as discourse and in doing so, brings analytic philosophy to bear on issues of... -
The Psychotherapy of Everyday Life Peter Lomas 9781560006299
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £45.63The place of the psychotherapist within the hierarchy of the medical profession and his status in the public opinion are ambiguous: many myths and ill-informed fears cloud the practice of... -
The Plains by Gerald Murnane 9781921922275
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Patrick White Literary Award 1999 (Australia).Book InformationISBN 9781921922275Author Gerald MurnaneFormat... -
Beached by Melissa Bubnic
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.10Melissa Bubnic's Beached is a darkly funny comedy about modern freak shows, love and cream buns. Loads of cream buns. Arty is the world's fattest teenager. At sixty-seven stone, he is a young man... -
Oyster: A Novel by Janette Turner Hospital 9780393319361
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £21.42Outer Maroo, a small, opal mining town in the Australian outback, is stewing in heat, drought, and guilty anxiety. Some ghastly cataclysm has occurred on the opal fields, but this is a taboo subject... -
Orpheus Lost: A Novel by Janette Turner Hospital 9780393334142
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £20.04In this compelling reimagining of the Orpheus myth, Leela, a young mathematician, encounters gifted Australian musician Mishka performing in the subway. The connection is immediate; a steamy love... -
Movement and Belonging: Lines, Places, and Spaces of Travel by Carol E. Leon 9780820472546
RRP: £76.25Booksplease Price: £68.45The uncertainties and newness that surround us today prompt radical questions about ourselves and our relationship with the external world. How do and can we belong to the places and spaces of today?... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel by Nicholas Birns 9781316514481
RRP: £77.00Booksplease Price: £66.72The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel provides a clear, lively, and accessible account of the novel in Australia. The chapters of this book survey significant issues and developments in the... -
Faces and Masks of Ugliness in Literary Narratives by Ryszard W. Wolny 9783631645451
RRP: £34.60Booksplease Price: £31.80This collection of essays deals primarily with the idea of ugliness as represented in a variety of literary narratives in English. Shakespeare's Caliban and his depiction in The Tempest and its... -
The Art of Personality in Literature and Psychoanalysis Meg Harris Williams 9781782206194
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £33.73The Art of Personality is a diverse selection of talks and papers on psychoanalysis and literature given by the author over the past ten years. They elaborate on the goal expressed by Milton as... -
Doing Ethical Research by Hannah Farrimond 9780230297470
Booksplease Price: £36.82Navigating ethical issues throughout your research project can be a confusing and daunting task. But why are ethics so important anyway? Can you anticipate or prepare for ethical dilemmas before they... -
The Singapore Grip: NOW A MAJOR ITV DRAMA J.G. Farrell 9781474613941
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26NOW A MAJOR ITV DRAMA, THE SINGAPORE GRIP IS A MODERN CLASSIC FROM THE BOOKER-PRIZE WINNING J.G. FARRELL'Brilliant, richly absurd, melancholy' Observer'Enjoyable on many different levels' Sunday... -
Contemporary Australian Literature: A World Not Yet Dead by Nicholas Birns 9781743324363
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £22.33Australia has been seen as a land of both punishment and refuge. Australian literature has explored these controlling alternatives, and vividly rendered the landscape on which they transpire... -
Nobel Laureates In Search Of Identity And Integrity: Voices Of Different Cultures by Andres Hallengren 9789812560742
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.79In this collection of essays, biographies and Nobel lectures, ten Nobel Laureates from five continents give various and startling perspectives on current questions about modernity and tradition,... -
Dislocations: Stories by Janette Turner Hospital 9780393306811
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £16.62These moving and insightful stories help us to find our place in a world in which we have all become rootless travelers. Janette Turner Hospital's characters are exiles who share an intimate... -
The Last Magician: A Novel by Janette Turner Hospital 9780393325270
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £18.19The Last Magician is about power and betrayal, sexual obsession and social ostracism. At its center is Lucy, a good girl and a whore, whose nights are spent in a kaleidoscope of identities as she... -
Question of Commitment by Susan McKernan 9780043550328
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £26.38In the years since the Second World War, Australia has seen a period of literary creativity which outshines any earlier period in the nation's literary history. This creativity has its beginnings in... -
In the Wake of First Contact: The Eliza Fraser Stories by Kay Schaffer 9780521499200
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £29.61Eliza Fraser was an English woman shipwrecked on the Australian coast in 1836, where she lived with an Aboriginal community until her rescue. The story of a 'civilised' white female being taken... -
Transgender Experience: Place, Ethnicity, and Visibility Chantal Zabus 9781138548558
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £45.63This collection by trans and non-trans academics and artists from the United States, the UK, and continental Europe, examines how transgenderism can be conceptualized in a literary, biographical, and... -
The Slumber of Apollo: Reflections on Recent Art, Literature, Language and the Individual Consciousness by John Holloway 9780521248044
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £86.14In this challenging 1993 book John Holloway explores one of the most significant aspects of contemporary culture, arguing that over the last hundred years or so there has been a radical change in the... -
The Slumber of Apollo: Reflections on Recent Art, Literature, Language and the Individual Consciousness by John Holloway 9780521023658
Booksplease Price: £32.12In this challenging 1993 book John Holloway explores one of the most significant aspects of contemporary culture, arguing that over the last hundred years or so there has been a radical change in the... -
The Writer Written: The Artist and Creation in the New Literatures in English by Jean-Pierre Durix 9780313258947
Booksplease Price: £61.63Few people are so widely read within Commonwealth literature or are so knowledgeable about so many different cultures as Jean-Pierre Durix. . . . The first part of the book deals with general,... -
Writing Colonisation: Violence, Landscape, and the Act of Naming in Modern Italian and Australian Literature by Sabina Sestigiani 9781433123986
RRP: £72.35Booksplease Price: £64.31Writing Colonisation: Violence, Landscape, and the Act of Naming in Modern Italian and Australian Literature offers a unique comparative analysis of modern Italian and Australian literature which has... -
Australian Books and Authors in the American Marketplace 1840s-1940s by Professor David Carter 9781743325797
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £23.70Shortlisted for the Walter McRae Russel Award 2019Australian Books and Authors in the American Marketplace 1840s-1940s explores how Australian writers and their works were present in the United... -
Australia and Nuclear War by 9780367530228
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £32.38'I pray that words spoken at this conference may carry beyond walls and reach thousands of ears hitherto deaf to warnings of the final catastrophe.' So said Patrick White in June 1983 at an important...