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The Endurance of Things by Martin Gray 9781917000062
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.42Perfect for lovers of travel, art, cultural wonder and the natural world, The Endurance of Things is a rich and accessible collection of short, affectionate essays, chiefly about the life and culture... -
Collected Poems by Kingsley Amis 9780141194219
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37'One of the very best of our poets' Anthony PowellKingsley Amis wrote poems throughout his life, turning his acerbic, bracing perceptiveness on the same subjects that fill his novels: lust, lost... -
The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym by Paula Byrne 9780008322243
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.88'Captures both Barbara and her writing so miraculously' JILLY COOPER Picked as a Book to Look Forward to in 2021 by the Guardian, The Times and the Observer ... -
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Selected Poetry by Isabel Quigly 9780140585049 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.91SHELLEY'S WORK HAS BEEN CRITICIZED FOR ITS DIDACTICISM AND UNDISCIPLINED EMOTIONALISM. BUT ESSENTIALLY HE WAS A POET OF IDEAS AND IN HIS SEARCH FOR TRUTH AND ORIGINAL HUMAN PERFECTION, SHELLEY WAS... -
joinedupwriting Roger McGough 9780241374214
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80'The patron saint of poetry' Carol Ann Duffy'McGough is a true original and more than one generation would be much the poorer without him' The Times_______________For fifty years, Roger McGough has... -
Poems Of The Sea J D McClatchy 9781841597461
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $11.82Throughout history, poets have felt the ancient pull of the sea, exploring the full range of mankind's nautical fears, dreams, and longings. The colorful legends of the sea-pirates and mermaids,... -
The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1994-2016 by Martin Amis
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction - his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed. The Rub of Time... -
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Betjeman by A. N. Wilson 9780099498377 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $3.38John Betjeman was by far the most popular poet of the twentieth century. His collected poems sold over two million copies. Television audiences loved his quirky evocations of landscape and... -
Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert by John Drury
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08For the first time, John Drury convincingly integrates the life and poetry of George Herbert, giving us in Music at Midnight the definitive biography of the man behind some of the most famous poems... -
Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life by Yiyun Li
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.51'Profoundly engaging in depth, with remarkable subtlety and rare, limpid beauty. A must-read' - Mary GaitskillA luminous memoir about reading, writing and how to find meaning in a lifeWritten over... -
Selected Poems: Blake by William Blake
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37Writer and religious rebel, William Blake ((1757-1827) sowed the seeds for Romanticism in his innovative poems concerning faith and the visions that inspired him throughout his life. Whether... -
The Five and Twenty Tales of the Genie by M Sivadasa 9780140455199
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.87Half mythical, heroic and sagacious, the emperor Vikramaditya is widely regarded as India's greatest monarch. This collection of stories tells of the ruler's fabled encounter with a vetala, a genie... -
A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems: The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman by A. E. Housman
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.65A.E. Housman was one of the best-loved poets of his day, and A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems is a collection of poems whose elegant simplicity of form belies their hidden complexities. This Penguin... -
That Uncertain Feeling by Kingsley Amis
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65In That Uncertain Feeling by Kingsley Amis, competition is stiff for the position of sub-librarian in Aberdarcy Library. For John Lewis, the situation is complicated by the attentions of daunting and... -
Studies in Classic American Literature by D. H. Lawrence 9780140183771
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.86Lawrence asserted that 'the proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it'. In these highly individual, penetrating essays he has exposed 'the American whole soul'... -
Selected Poems by Paul Celan
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37One of the major twentieth-century European poets, Paul Celan wrote poetry of exceptional linguistic brilliance and intensity drawn from his experiences, particularly of the war years and the loss of... -
Selected Poems by Stevie Smith 9780141186559
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Stevie Smith was one of the few modern poets to reach a wide general audience. Bizarre, witty, sad, sometimes caustic, her poems impart a zest for life, and reveal her unique eye for the marvels of... -
The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $17.74The Faerie Queene was the first epic in English and one of the most influential poems in the language for later poets from Milton to Tennyson. Dedicating his work to Elizabeth I, Spenser brilliantly... -
Metaphysical Poetry by Colin Burrow
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28A key anthology for students of English literature, Metaphysical Poetry is a collection whose unique philosophical insights are some of the crowning achievements of Renaissance verse, edited with an... -
Where Soldiers Fear To Tread: At Work in the Fields of Anarchy by John Burnett 9780099464990
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71In 1998, on the lookout for adventure and willing to take a risk, John Burnett left the comforts of the mainstream and became a UN relief worker in Somalia. He was completely unprepared for the... -
The Penguin Book of English Verse by P. J. Keegan
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.67This ambitious and revelatory collection turns the traditional chronology of anthologies on its head, listing poems according to their first individual appearance in the language rather than by poet... -
A Dangerous Liaison by Carole Seymour-Jones 9780099481690
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $18.56A Dangerous Liaison tells the intense, passionate and sometimes painful story of how these two brilliant free-thinkers - and rivals - came to a share a relationship that was to last over fifty years... -
Hide-And-Seek With Angels: The Life of J.M. Barrie by Lisa Chaney 9780099453239
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63When James Matthew Barrie died, in 1937, his funeral was an occasion for national mourning. Crowds gathered; reporters and newsreel men came to record the day, and many well-known figures followed... -
Paradiso by Dante Alighieri
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Having plunged to the uttermost depths of Hell and climbed the Mount of Purgatory in parts one and two of the Divine Comedy, Dante ascends to Heaven in this third and final part, continuing his... -
Conamara Blues by John O'Donohue
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.15Conamara in the West of Ireland has a strange and beautiful landscape - a landscape of intense contrasts uniquely dependent on light and shade. In daylight, a subtle radiance of gentle colours... -
A Tranquil Star: Unpublished Stories by Primo Levi
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century. This landmark selection of his short stories opens up a world of wonder, love, cruelty and curious twists of... -
A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller In this remarkable memoir of love, loss and literature, acclaimed biographer Claire Tomalin turns her eye to another fascinating literary life: her own. She tells of... -
The Anti-Death League by Kingsley Amis
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65In this surreal comedy of soldiers and spies, Lieutenant James Churchill and his colleagues find themselves questioning their purpose. Are they for death or against it? These men of action will... -
Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic by Alexander Stille 9780099594918
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.48Excellent Cadavers (a term used in Sicily to distinguish the assassination of prominent government officials from the hundreds of common criminals killed in the course of routine mafia business)... -
Love Visions by Geoffrey Chaucer 9780140444087
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Spanning Chaucer's working life, these four poems build on the medieval convention of 'love visions' - poems inspired by dreams, woven into rich allegories about the rituals and emotions of courtly... -
Sunjata: Gambian Versions of the Mande Epic by Bamba Suso 9780140447361
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.77Sunjata Keita was the founder of one of the greatest empires of Western Africa. These two epic accounts of his life portray a greedy, slow-witted child - said to have crawled until the age of seven -... -
Inside Story Martin Amis 9781529113471
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92'Utterly compelling' GuardianLife...is shapeless, it does not point to and gather round anything, it does not cohere. Artistically, it's dead. Life's dead.So begins a love letter to life, a... -
100 Poems To See You Through by Daisy Goodwin 9781529104691
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28When times are tough - whether because of illness, bereavement or receiving bad news - it can be hard to find the right words. Help comes in the form of this beautifully packaged gift book,... -
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis 9780141182599 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $3.23'A brilliantly and preposterously funny book' Guardian'A flawless comic novel ... I loved it then, as I do now. It has always made me laugh out loud' Helen Dunmore, The TimesJim Dixon has... -
The Shorter Poems by Edmund Spenser 9780140434453
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.82Although he is most famous for The Faerie Queene, this volume demonstrates that for these poems alone Spenser should still be ranked as one of England's foremost poets.Spenser's shorter poems reveal... -
Poems and Prose by Gerard Hopkins
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65Dazzling in its prosodic innovations, such as the 'sprung rhythm' he pioneered, and wide-ranging in its complexity and metaphysical interest. The Penguin Classics edition of Gerard Manley Hopkins's... -
Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour by Gustave Flaubert
Booksplease Price: $17.51At once a classic of travel literature and a penetrating portrait of a "sensibility on tour," Flaubert in Egypt wonderfully captures the young writer's impressions during his 1849 voyages. Using... -
Owning Up: The Trilogy by George Melly
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.48This single volume includes three famous memoirs - Scouse Mouse, Rum, Bum & Concertina and Owning Up, with a new introduction by the author. Scouse Mouse is a funny and frequently touching story of... -
New Poems Book Four by Charles Bukowski 9780753510360
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Charles Bukowski was one of America's best-known writers and one of its most influential and imitated poets. His slum upbringing, his succession of menial jobs and his experience of gritty urban... -
The Mersey Sound: Restored 50th Anniversary Edition by Adrian Henri
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80'I wanted your soft vergesBut you gave me the hard shoulder'The Mersey Sound brought poetry down from the shelf and on to the street, capturing the mood of the Sixties and speaking to real lives with...