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Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37TWICE WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONFROM THE WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONTHE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHORIn this collection of essays, the author of Demon Copperhead and... -
A Smell Of Fish by Matthew Sweeney 9780224060677
RRP: $10.72Booksplease Price: $8.28The poems in A Smell of Fish connect and radiate like the spokes of a wheel: haiku, sestinas, poems beginning with a line by somebody else or sparked off by foreign travel, a version of Dante, a sea... -
The Upshot: New & Selected Poems Anne Rouse 9781852248086
RRP: $11.99Booksplease Price: $9.06Anne Rouse is a keenly observant writer of spiky satirical portraits and shapely lyrics of the ordinary and the bizarre. Her latest book, "The Upshot", includes a new collection, "The Divided", which... -
The Art of Love by Ovid 9780099518822
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $7.38The Art of Love may have been written in the days of gladiators and emperors, but Ovid remains the smartest teacher on the subject of love in all of history. His advice is enduringly useful and... -
Jackself by Jacob Polley
Booksplease Price: $11.01Winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry.Jackself is the fourth collection from one of Britain's finest poets, and sees Jacob Polley at the height of his powers. In one of the most original books... -
Self into Song: Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures by Carol Rumens 9781852247607
RRP: $10.65Booksplease Price: $8.23In this innovative series of public lectures at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry to audiences drawn from both the city... -
Ox-Eye Anne Rouse 9781780376080
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Anne Rouse is a keenly observant writer of spiky satirical portraits and shapely lyrics of the ordinary and the bizarre. Her perspective in Ox-Eye - the term for a small cloud presaging a storm - is... -
Autobiography Of Red by Anne Carson
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.32In this extraordinary epic poem, Anne Carson bridges the gap between classicism and the modern, poetry and prose, with a volcanic journey into the soul of a winged red monster named Geryon. There is... -
Darwin's Love of Life: A Singular Case of Biophilia Karen L. Harel 9780231216708
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $20.78Biophilia-the love of life-encompasses the drive to survive, a sense of kinship with all life-forms, and an instinct for beauty. In this unconventional book, Kay Harel uses biophilia as a lens to... -
The Silvering Maura Dooley 9781780370941
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $9.89Maura Dooley's poetry is remarkable for embracing both lyricism and political consciousness, for its fusion of head and heart. These qualities have won her wide acclaim. Helen Dunmore (in Poetry... -
A New Divan - A Lyrical Dialogue between East and West by Barbara Schwepcke 9781909942288
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $18.44In honour of Goethe and the 200th anniversary of the first publication of his outstanding poem sequence the West-Eastern Divan (1819), A New Divan contains outstanding original poems by twenty-four... -
The Malarkey Helen Dunmore 9781852249403
RRP: $11.99Booksplease Price: $9.06The malarkey is over in the back of the car - As soon as you turn your back, time slips. The humdrum present has become the precious, irrecoverable past. The ways in which the present longs for the... -
Cafe des Artistes by John Hartley Williams 9780224087858
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $10.05Welcome 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 Illustrated Woman by Helen Mort
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION*'A raw, tender, potent collection' - JESSICA ANDREWS'Gorgeous poems - profound, exploratory, wild, playful - and completely now' - RUTH... -
Always Take Notes: Advice from some of the world's greatest writers Simon Akam 9781804188866
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.19FEATURING BRAND NEW UPDATED CONTENT EXCLUSIVE TO THIS EDITION 'Inspiring' - Cathy Rentzenbrink'Fascinating' - Joe Moran'A very lovely book' - Kate MosseBestselling and award-winning authors share the... -
Always Take Notes: Advice from some of the world's greatest writers by Simon Akam 9781804183182
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $18.76'Inspiring' - Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of Write It All Down'Fascinating and useful' - Joe Moran, author of First You Write A SentenceBestselling and award-winning authors share the secrets to their... -
A Person of Pakistani Origins by Ziauddin Sardar
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $21.08What does it mean to be a Pakistani? Can it mean more than one thing? And what do others think it means? Ziauddin Sardar explores what makes a Pakistani, and whether it's something one wants or... -
All Of Us: The Collected Poems by Raymond Carver 9781860463648
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $15.69Raymond Carver, who became a master-storyteller of his generation and was hailed in Europe as 'the American Chekhov', wrote of himself: "I began as a poet. My first publication was a poem. So I... -
The Hat by Selima Hill
RRP: $10.65Booksplease Price: $8.23Selima Hill's "The Hat" is a disturbing portrayal of a woman's struggle to regain her identity. Her story emerges through a series of short poems, often related to animals: how she is preyed upon and... -
Us&Them: A Novel by Bahiyyih Nakhjavani 9781503606852
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.17Lili and Goli have argued endlessly about where their mother, Bibijan, should live since the Iranian Revolution. They disagree about her finances too, which remain blocked as long as she insists on... -
Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain by Charlotte Higgins
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.05**NOW A HIT STAGE PRODUCTION**Take a journey around the archaeological and cultural remains of Roman Britain with the award-winning author of Greek Myths. This is a book about the encounter with... -
Gloria: Selected Poems Selima Hill 9781852248055
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.50Selima Hill's poetry has been called wanton, wildly imaginative, tender, intelligent, dangerous, defiant, subversive and startling. All these qualities are strongly present throughout "Gloria", a... -
The Consolation of Nature: Spring in the Time of Coronavirus by Michael McCarthy
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S BEST NATURE BOOKS OF 2020SHORTLISTED FOR THE RICHARD JEFFERIES SOCIETY & WHITE HORSE BOOKSHOP LITERARY PRIZE'Lovely: full of fascinating detail and anecdote, but the undertow of... -
Loop of Jade Sarah Howe 9780701188696
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $11.82*WINNER OF THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE 2015**WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES / PETERS FRASER + DUNLOP YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2015**SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION 2015*There... -
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Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain by Charlotte Higgins 9780099552093 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $3.51**NOW A HIT STAGE PRODUCTION**Take a journey around the archaeological and cultural remains of Roman Britain with the award-winning author of Greek Myths. This is a book about the encounter with... -
Jiving with Wasps: New & Selected Poems Rita Ann Higgins 9781780377643
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07Jiving with Wasps is a new retrospective from Rita Ann Higgins drawing on a dozen books of poetry published over four decades, from Goddess on the Mervue Bus (1986) to The Long Weekend (2024), in... -
Austerity Measures: The New Greek Poetry by Karen van Dyck
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63'I remember caresses, kisses, touchingeach other's hair. We had no sense thatanything else existed'- Elena Penga, 'Heads''Nothing, not even the drowning of a childStops the perpetual motion of the... -
Wound is the Origin of Wonder Maya C. Popa 9781035017386
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75I can't undo all I have done to myself,what I have let an appetite for love do to me.I have wanted all the world, its beautiesand its injuries; some days,I think that is punishment enough.Maya C... -
A Little History of Poetry by John Carey 9780300255034
Booksplease Price: $18.05A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature--selected as the literature book of the year by the London... -
Home Front by Bryony Doran
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $11.58Even in peacetime, many women find themselves isolated in a wartime of their own when their loved ones are involved in conflicts overseas. As mothers or wives they live in a state of separation, from... -
White Holes: Inside the Horizon by Carlo Rovelli 9781802062144
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80'If you want to remember why you once fell in love with the idea of the cosmos, or want to fall in love with it for the first time, then this book is for you' ObserverFrom Carlo Rovelli, the... -
The Best British Poetry 2014 Mark Ford 9781907773686
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.76The Best British Poetry 2014 presents the finest and most engaging poems found in literary magazines and webzines over the past year. The material gathered represents the rich variety of current UK... -
Birds in the Ancient World: Winged Words by Jeremy Mynott
Booksplease Price: $70.69Birds pervaded the ancient world. They impressed their physical presence on the daily experience and imaginations of ordinary people in town and country alike, and figured prominently in literature...