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The Swoose by Dick King-Smith
RRP: $13.63Booksplease Price: $10.51Fitzherbert's mother is a goose, but his father was a swan - which makes him a swoose! As Fitzherbert grows up he decisdes he wants to fly and he wants to meet his father. His search begins, but what... -
Fables Jean de La Fontaine 9781857155082
RRP: $29.25Booksplease Price: $22.29Seventeenth-century Frenchman Jean de La Fontaine happily plundered Aesop and other classical writers as a source for his witty, elegant fables, as well as inventing a number of his own. Seeking to... -
A Sketch of Anglo-Indian Literature: The Le Bas Prize Essay for 1907 by Edward Farley Oaten
RRP: $70.18Booksplease Price: $64.14First published in 1908, Farley pioneering essay on the subject of Anglo Indian literature, by this point had never been attempted to be explored in such detail at the time of winning the coveted... -
Typhoon by Joseph Conrad 9781857150049
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $23.56In these three sea stories, based on his own experience, Conrad invests his portraits of mundane steamers and their crews with epic qualities of fortitude and courage in the face of overwhelming... -
The Everyman Anthology Of Poetry For Children Gillian Avery 9781857159318
RRP: $24.38Booksplease Price: $18.43Gillian Avery, historian of children's books and novelist whose first book THE WARDEN'S NEICE has become a modern classic of children's literature, has made a very personal selection of favourite... -
Russian Poets Peter Washington 9781841597805
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.89Ever since Pushkin, Russian poets have been famous for their ability to combine private and public experience in lyric poetry of a comprehensiveness and intensity unmatched elsewhere. Ranging in... -
A Sportsman's Notebook Ivan Turgenev 9781857150544
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.84This is the classic book that put Turgenev on the literary map--both in his own time and for all of history. The strength of this, his first book, was such that, even if Turgenev had never written... -
The Angsana Tree Mystery by Ovidia Yu 9781408717004
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64'One of Singapore's finest living authors' South China Morning Post 'Simply glorious. Every nook and cranny of 1930s Singapore is brought richly to life' CATRIONA MCPHERSON ... -
Great Contemporaries: Churchill Reflects on FDR, Hitler, Kipling, Chaplin, Balfour, and Other Giants of His Age Sir Sir Winston S. Churchill 9781350448759
Booksplease Price: $58.91Winston S. Churchill won the Nobel Prize for Literature for "his mastery of historical and biographical description." Nowhere is that mastery more evident than in Great Contemporaries, first... -
The Master Of Ballantrae And Weir Of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson 9781857151060
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.25Two of Stevenson's historical novels set against the Scottish landscape and featuring psychological studies of individuals. The unfinished "Weir of Hermiston", on which the author was working at the... -
Classical Literary Criticism by Penelope Murray
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.00The works collected in this volume have profoundly shaped the history of criticism in the Western world: they created much of the terminology still in use today and formulated enduring questions... -
The Gambler and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.00The Gambler and Other Stories is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's collection of one novella and six short stories reflecting his own life - indeed, 'The Gambler', a story of a young tutor in the employment of a... -
The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.97Bo Mason, his wife, Elsa, and their two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifting from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks out his fortune - in the... -
Voices of the Other: Children's Literature and the Postcolonial Context Roderick McGillis 9780415653152
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $93.21This book offers a variety of approaches to children's literature from a postcolonial perspective that includes discussions of cultural appropriation, race theory, pedagogy as a colonialist activity,... -
Cautionary Verses Hilaire Belloc 9781857159370
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.03These classic tales of Awful Warnings about the consequences of Bad Behaviour are among the best of comic verse ever written for children. 'Designed for the Admonition of children between the ages of... -
Aladdin by W. Heath Robinson
RRP: $24.38Booksplease Price: $17.84From the Eastern folk tales that make up the vast collection known as THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS certain stories - of Aladdin, Sindbad and Ali Baba - have become everlasting favourites with children... -
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 9781857159288
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45The most popular of all ghost stories was first published on 17 December 1843, and by Christmas Eve 6, 000 copies had been sold at a published price of five shillings. The story of Scrooge, a miser... -
The Whispering Land by Gerald Durrell 9780241955840
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07'When you have a large collection of animals to transport from one end of the world to the other you cannot, as a lot of people seem to think, just hoist them aboard the nearest ship and set off with... -
The Journals of Captain Cook by James Cook
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Cook led three famous expeditions to the Pacific Ocean between 1768 and 1779. In voyages that ranged from the Antarctic circle to the Arctic Sea, Cook charted Australia and the whole coast of New... -
The Talmud: A Selection by Norman Solomon
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $27.38The Talmud is one of the most significant religious texts in the world, second only to the Bible in its importance to Judaism. As the Bible is the word of God, The Talmud applies that word to the... -
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.33A parable on Darwinian theory, and a biting social satire, H.G. Wells's science fiction classic The Island of Dr Moreau is a fascinating exploration of what it is to be human. This Penguin Classics... -
Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Icelandic Stories by Hermann Palsson
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $16.67Written around the thirteenth century AD by Icelandic monks, the seven tales collected here offer a combination of pagan elements tightly woven into the pattern of Christian ethics. They take as... -
All My Cats by Bohumil Hrabal
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $12.42'One of the greatest European prose writers' Philip RothIn the autumn of 1965, Bohumil Hrabal bought a weekend cottage in the countryside east of Prague. There, until his death, he tended to an... -
Multimodal Epistemologies: Towards an Integrated Framework by Arianna Maiorani
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $81.51This volume develops a new multimodal semiotic approach to the study of communication, examining how multimodal discourse is construed transmedially and interculturally and how new technologies and... -
Everyman Book Of Nonsense Verse Louise Guinness 9781857155143
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45Wonderful collection of nonsense verse, from Chesterton to Dahl, Lear to Carroll. With beautitul, original illustrations, both full colour and black & white.A true collectors treasure for grown ups... -
Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991 by Salman Rushdie
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45Drawing from two political and several literary homelands, this collection presents a remarkable series of trenchant essays, demonstrating the full range and force of Salman Rushdie's remarkable... -
Fairy Tales Hans Christian Andersen 9781857159011
RRP: $29.25Booksplease Price: $23.58Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales originally appeared in batches each Christmas in the mid-19th century, and Spink's English translation was first published in 1960. This edition has Heath... -
Grimms' Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.03First published in Germany in 1812, these tales were collected by the two brothers Grimm from neighbouring villages and spinning rooms, and include "Hansel and Gretel", "Snow White and the Seven... -
Blake Poems William Blake 9781857157109
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $17.20Blake's explosive lyrical genius is here represented by the full text of 'Songs of Innocence' and 'Songs of Experience', plus a wide range of marvellous short poems unpublished in his lifetime. In... -
The Cosmic Time of Empire: Modern Britain and World Literature by Adam Barrows 9780520260993
RRP: $70.20Booksplease Price: $64.37Combining original historical research with literary analysis, Adam Barrows takes a provocative look at the creation of world standard time in 1884 and rethinks the significance of this remarkable... -
The Collected Stories by Ernest Hemingway
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $30.32Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) is celebrated as a novelist and man of action. He is perhaps most famous for WHOM THE BELL TOLLS and A FAREWELL TO ARMS. But he was equally prolific as a writer of short... -
Quick, Let's Get Out of Here by Michael Rosen
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $11.74The yucky things your brother does, the annoying things your parents say, the funny things you feel.Michael Rosen knows all about YOU! A much-loved classic of family life from the brilliant Michael... -
Australia and Britain: Studies in a Changing Relationship by James Homs
RRP: $175.48Booksplease Price: $155.03This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information.Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk.About the AuthorA.F. MADDEN, Professorial Fellow, Nuffield College and Reader... -
King Arthur And His Knights Of The Round Table by Roger Lancelyn Green
RRP: $29.25Booksplease Price: $22.87The legends of King Arthur - the most revered hero of British Mythology - have been retold many times, but Roger Lancelyn Green's version has become a classic since its first publication in 1953... -
Darwin by Adrian J. Desmond
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $27.36This biography of Charles Darwin attempts to capture the private unknown life of the real man - the gambling and gluttony at Cambridge, his gruelling trip round the globe, his intimate family life,... -
Payment Deferred by C. S. Forester
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.42Mr Marble is in serious debt, desperate for money to pay his family's bills, until the combination of a wealthy relative, a bottle of Cyanide and a shovel offer him the perfect solution. In fact, his... -
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 9781857155037
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $23.56Dumas' most popular novel, The Three Musketeers, has long been a favourite with children, and its heroes are well-known from many a film and TV adaption. Set in France in the seventeenth century, it... -
Poems And Prose by John Donne 9781857157222
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $17.20The major seventeenth-century English poet between Shakespeare and Milton, Donne is chiefly celebrated as a love poet. But he was also the author of magnificent satires and epistles, and a series of... -
The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914 by Simon Heffer
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.43'A riveting account of the pre-First World War years . . . The Age of Decadence is an enormously impressive and enjoyable read.' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times'A magnificent account of a less than... -
Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes Walter Jerrold 9781857159219
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.03Every child's bookshelf should start with a collection of nursery rhymes so that these fantastic and nonsensical verses (some so old their meaning is long forgotten) are among the first magical words...