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Robin Hood in Popular Culture - Violence, Transgression, and Justice by Thomas Hahn
Booksplease Price: $213.19Studies of varied aspects of Robin Hood legends and associated topics: the greenwood, archery, outlawry, and 20c response to the legends. The Robin Hood tradition has had a continuing appeal from... -
A Counter-History of Crime Fiction: Supernatural, Gothic, Sensational by Maurizio Ascari 9780230525009
Booksplease Price: $176.59This book takes a look at the evolution of crime fiction. Considering 'criminography' as a system of inter-related sub-genres, it explores the connections between modes of literature such as revenge... -
Win, Lose or Draw Peter Corris 9781760294786
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50The forty-second book in the Cliff Hardy seriesWill one man's loss be Hardy's gain?'I'd read about it in the papers, heard the radio reports and seen the TV coverage and then forgotten about it, the... -
The Dunbar Case Peter Corris 9781743317518
Booksplease Price: $19.56The thirty-eighth book in the Cliff Hardy seriesThis wasn't Hardy's usual brief--uncover the mysteries of a nineteenth-century shipwreck--but he could do with an easy case and the retainer was... -
Was It for This by Hannah Sullivan 9780571362288
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Hannah Sullivan's first collection, Three Poems, won the T. S. Eliot Prize and the inaugural John Pollard International Poetry Prize. Was It for This continues that book's project, offering a... -
Selected Poems Jen Hadfield 9781035032853
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorJen Hadfield lives in Shetland. Her first collection Almanacs won an Eric Gregory Award in 2003. Her second... -
Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction: A World of Crime by Andrew Pepper 9781137425720
RRP: $194.98Booksplease Price: $194.77Why has crime fiction become a global genre? How do writers use crime fiction to reflect upon the changing nature of crime and policing in our contemporary world? This book argues that the... -
Parallax by Sinead Morrissey 9781847772046
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $14.80Winner of the 2013 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry Shortlisted for the 2013 Forward Prize for Best Collection In Parallax Sinead Morrissey documents what is caught, and what is lost, when houses and... -
Crime Fiction in the City: Capital Crimes Lucy Andrew 9780708325865
Booksplease Price: $54.80Crime Fiction in the City: Capital Crimes expands upon previous studies of the urban space and crime by reflecting on the treatment of the capital city, a repository of authority, national identity... -
Art of Scratching Shazea Quraishi 9781780372488
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $14.39Taking inspiration from sources including historical and medical texts, curator's notes and the Complete Kama Sutra, Shazea Quraishi's poems explore love and loss through a range of voices: an Iraqi... -
The Problem of Labour in Fourteenth-Century England by James Bothwell
Booksplease Price: $144.24Attitudes towards `labour', in the wake of the Black Death, shown to range from early protest literature to repressive authoritarianism. At the very moment that the image of the honest labourer... -
The Half Healed by Michael Symmons Roberts 9780224085670
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $17.20The poems in Michael Symmons Roberts's fifth collection move in a world riven by violence and betrayal, between nations and individuals. As ever, this is a metaphysical poetry rooted in physical... -
On Balance by Sinead Morrissey
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.84Winner of the 2020 Gdansk European Poet of Freedom Literary Award. Winner of the 2017 Forward Prize for Best Collection. Winner of the 2017 Poetry Book Society Choice Award. Shortlisted for the 2017... -
Crime Uncovered: Private Investigator Alistair Rolls 9781783205233
Booksplease Price: $58.66The private investigator is one of the most enduring characters within crime fiction. From Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade - the hard-boiled loner trawling the mean streets - to Agatha Christie's... -
The Glimmer Shazea Quraishi 9781780376332
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64The Glimmer is a meditation on the time-span of life illuminated by many voices. In an artists' colony in Mexico, a taxidermist tends animals in their after-life, contemplating what remains of us... -
Alive Alive O Greta Stoddart 9781780371511
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $14.39People we love die. And at the heart of the grief there's a sense of wonder: we can't believe it, where have they gone, what are they now, what does that make us? We end up wondering at life too... -
Politics and Society in Italian Crime Fiction: An Historical Overview by Barbara Pezzotti 9780786476527
RRP: $70.18Booksplease Price: $60.02This book comprehensively covers the history of Italian crime fiction from its origins to the present. Using the concept of "moral rebellion," the author examines the ways in which Italian crime... -
Early English Performance: Medieval Plays and Robin Hood Games: Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies John Marshall 9781032177175
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $81.51Covering a period of nearly 40 years' work by the author this collection of essays in the Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies series brings the perspective of a Drama academic and... -
Christianity and Romance in Medieval England by Rosalind Field
RRP: $165.75Booksplease Price: $159.88Essays examining the genre of medieval romance in its cultural Christian context, bringing out its chameleon-like character. The relationship between the Christianity of medieval culture and its... -
Chaucer and Religion by Helen Phillips
RRP: $165.75Booksplease Price: $159.88New essays on Chaucer's engagement with religion and the religious controversies of the fourteenth century. How do critics, religious scholars and historians in the early twenty-first century view... -
The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies 9780340938270
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $13.77Longlisted for the Man Booker PrizeA Richard & Judy Book Club choice'A beautiful, ambitious novel . . . Emotionally resonant and perfectly rendered, I believed in every character, every sheep, every... -
The Silence Living in Houses by Esther Morgan 9781852247119
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $15.99The Silence Living in Houses unlocks the doors to houses of secrets and dreams where ghosts of the past are more real than the living. In unsettling poems rich with intrigue, Esther Morgan traces the... -
Beyond Calling Distance by Esther Morgan 9781852245702
Booksplease Price: $18.92Esther Morgan's poems travel great distances across huge landscapes, both real and metaphorical: the big skies and endless horizons of the English Fens, the dust and rock of the Moon, the seas and... -
Net-Positive Design and Sustainable Urban Development by Janis Birkeland
RRP: $72.13Booksplease Price: $66.48'Sustainable' urban planning, policy and design professes to solve sustainability problems, but often depletes and degrades ever more resources and ecosystems and concentrates wealth and concretize... -
In the Cage Kevin Hardcastle 9781771961479
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.62"The architecture of this first novel is faultlessly conceived; the construction of the storytelling is meticulously crafted. Hardcastle has an abiding sympathy for the neglected rural poor."-John... -
The Collected Prose of Robert Frost by Robert Frost 9780674034679
RRP: $52.55Booksplease Price: $50.25During his lifetime, Robert Frost notoriously resisted collecting his prose--going so far as to halt the publication of one prepared compilation and to "lose" the transcripts of the Charles Eliot...