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Becoming George Orwell: Life and Letters, Legend and Legacy by John Rodden 9780691182742
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $44.63The remarkable transformation of Orwell from journeyman writer to towering iconIs George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Yes, according to John Rodden's provocative book about the... -
Heart Beats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem by Catherine Robson 9780691163376
RRP: $58.80Booksplease Price: $49.41Many people in Great Britain and the United States can recall elderly relatives who remembered long stretches of verse learned at school decades earlier, yet most of us were never required to recite... -
Mourning and Mysticism in First World War Literature and Beyond: Grappling with Ghosts by George M. Johnson 9781349673476
Booksplease Price: $55.86This book traces how iconic writers - including Arthur Conan Doyle, J.M. Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, Virginia Woolf, Wilfred Owen, and Aldous Huxley - shaped their response to the loss of loved ones in... -
Snap!: Band 02A/Red A (Collins Big Cat) by Charlotte Middleton
Booksplease Price: $11.53A colourful retelling of Rudyard Kipling's The Elephant's Child, this fable explains how the elephant got its long trunk. As the elephant journeys through the jungle it admires the features of the... -
No Dialect Please, You're a Poet: English Dialect in Poetry in the 20th and 21st Centuries Claire Helie 9781032240756
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $87.78No Dialect Please, You're a Poet is situated at the crossroads in research areas of literature and linguistics. This collection of essays brings to the forefront the many ways in which dialect is... -
Becoming George Orwell: Life and Letters, Legend and Legacy by John Rodden 9780691228419
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $33.77The remarkable transformation of Orwell from journeyman writer to towering iconIs George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Yes, according to John Rodden's provocative book about the... -
A History of the Modern British Ghost Story by S. Hay 9781349326150
Booksplease Price: $98.15Ghost stories are always in conversation with novelistic modes with which they are contemporary. This book examines examples from Sir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, Henry James and Rudyard Kipling,... -
Janeites: Austen's Disciples and Devotees by Deidre Lynch 9780691050065
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $68.73Over the last decade, as Jane Austen has moved center-stage in our culture, onto best-seller lists and into movie houses, another figure has slipped into the spotlight alongside her. This is the... -
Children's Classics: Black Beauty (Easy Classics) Gemma Barder 9781802631616
RRP: $14.68Booksplease Price: $11.93Black Beauty is born on an idyllic English farm before moving to Birtwick Park, where he is treated with kindness and love. However, when he is forced to leave his perfect home, he soon learns how... -
The Jungle Book by Cynthia Alonso
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.56This unique retelling of The Jungle Book takes young readers on a tactile journey with playfully layered pages, engaging text and beautiful, colourful illustrations.Long ago, a baby named Mowgli, was... -
The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading Sam Leith 9781836430407
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.88*A Sunday Times, Irish Times, Financial Times, Independent, Daily Mail, TLS, Economist, Prospect, Evening Standard and New Statesman Book of the Year 2024* Can you remember the first time you fell... -
Illustration in Fin-de-Siècle Transatlantic Romance Fiction by Kate Holterhoff 9781032212067
RRP: $86.08Booksplease Price: $78.79This book examines illustrations created to accompany fictions written by several of the most popular authors published in Britain and America between 1885 and 1920. By studying the lavish... -
Empire's Children: Empire and Imperialism in Classic British Children's Books Ilias Bantekas 9780415515665
RRP: $107.08Booksplease Price: $96.77Empire's Children looks at works at by Rudyard Kipling, Frances Hodgson Burnett, E. Nesbit, Hugh Lofting, A.A. Milne, and Arthur Ransome for the ways these writers consciously and unconsciously used... -
A Second Book of Broadsheets: With an Introduction by Geoffrey Dawson by Various 9781138901476
RRP: $73.48Booksplease Price: $67.28This book, together with A Book of Broadsheets makes up an anthology of the 1915 broadsheets distributed by The Times to members of H.M. Forces serving in the trenches of World War I. The volume... -
The Jungle Books by 9781847495839
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.64The adventures of Mowgli, the young man raised by wolves in the jungles of Central India, and his friends Baloo the bear, Bagheera the panther and Kaa the python, as they face the arch villain Shere... -
Elephant by Errol Fuller 9780691191324
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $46.31A lavishly illustrated celebration of these glorious animals-and a poignant lament for their futureElephants are among the most beloved of all creatures. Their behavior can seem almost human, from... -
Edward Elgar and His World by Professor Byron Adams 9780691134468
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $70.50Edward Elgar (1857-1934) is undoubtedly one of the most fascinating, important, and influential figures in the history of British music. He rose from humble beginnings and achieved fame with music... -
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RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $4.85The adventures of Mowgli, the young man raised by wolves in the jungles of Central India, and his friends Baloo the bear, Bagheera the panther and Kaa the python, as they face the arch villain Shere... -
A Book of Broadsheets: With an Introduction by Geoffrey Dawson by Various 9781138901445
RRP: $73.48Booksplease Price: $67.28This book, together with A Second Book of Broadsheets makes up an anthology of the 1915 broadsheets distributed by The Times to members of H.M. Forces serving in the trenches of World War I. The... -
Rooms of Their Own: Where Great Writers Write Alex Johnson 9780711258013
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $22.95Rooms of Their Own travels around the world examining the unique spaces, habits and rituals in which famous writers created their most notable works. The perennial question asked of all authors is,... -
Effeminism: The Economy of Colonial Desire by Revathi Krishnaswamy 9780472034888
RRP: $48.20Booksplease Price: $47.36Effeminism charts the flows of colonial desire in the works of British writers in India. Working on the assumption that desire is intensely political, historically constituted, and materially... -
The American Essays of Henry James by Henry James
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $101.37"No one, among American writers, was more contemporary or had a more powerful grasp of American history and American myth," writes Leon Edel of Henry James. This collection of James's essays on... -
Stories by Al Sarrantonio
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.84Stories, edited by bestselling authors Neil Gaiman (author of The Ocean at the End of the Lane and the epic American Gods) and Al Sarrantonio, is 'an unmissable collection' (Guardian), filled with... -
The Writer's Garden: How gardens inspired the world's great authors by Jackie Bennett 9780711277168
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $44.21See inside the gardens where literary giants from Tolstoy to Agatha Christie created some of their finest works in this visually stunning and fascinating book. Discover the flower gardens, vegetable... -
Jack London and the Sea by Anita Duneer
RRP: $92.40Booksplease Price: $77.24The first book-length study of London as a maritime writer Jack London's fiction has been studied previously for its thematic connections to the ocean, but Jack London and the Sea marks the first... -
Dublin John Wyse Jackson 9781906011239
RRP: $14.68Booksplease Price: $11.45Stuff Dublin into your coat pocket. The perfect companion for a visit to the Fair City, or indeed to any inn, bar or cafe in Ireland. Some of the greatest writers in the English language were born in... -
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
RRP: $12.58Booksplease Price: $10.61A FAIRY TALE FOR EVERYONE.'Beyond all the borders that divide us, there is a place of infinite possibilities and pure magic. I think of Neil Gaiman as a writer who wears the key to that land around... -
Make Good Art by Neil Gaiman
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45From the bestselling author of the acclaimed novel AMERICAN GODS and the prize-winning THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE.In May 2012, Neil Gaiman delivered the commencement address at Philadelphia's... -
Smoke and Mirrors: includes 'Chivalry', this year's Radio 4 Neil Gaiman Christmas special by Neil Gaiman
RRP: $12.58Booksplease Price: $10.61***This short fiction collection includes 'Chivalry', this year's Radio 4 Neil Gaiman Christmas Day special, starring Glenda Jackson and Kit Harington. This is the story of Mrs Whitaker, who finds... -
The Compassionate Memsahibs: Welfare Activities of British Women in India, 1900-1947 by Mary Ann Lind 9780313260599
Booksplease Price: $160.67The Compassionate Memsahibs refutes the traditional view--perpetuated in the works of writers like Rudyard Kipling--of the memsahibs as a homogeneous group of aloof, pampered women who had little... -
If: Band 08/Purple (Collins Big Cat) by Collins Big Cat
Booksplease Price: $14.89Using the influence of Rudyard Kipling's Poem "If", award-winning author Mij Kelly explores the challenges of living in a world filled with monstrous people, and how important it is to keep smiling... -
Poems on Friendship 9781454944799
RRP: $12.58Booksplease Price: $8.95These elegantly designed poetry chapbooks are essential reading for lovers of classic literature and collectible editions in their own right. They make perfect keepsakes to own and to share with... -
Reading the Cinematograph: The Cinema in British Short Fiction, 1896-1912 by Andrew Shail 9780859898539
RRP: $157.50Booksplease Price: $130.77The birth of cinema coincided with the heyday of the short story. This book studies the relationship between popular magazine short stories and the very early British films. It pairs eight intriguing... -
The Nation's Favourite: Poems by Griff Rhys-Jones
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87In a nationwide poll to discover Britain's favourite poem, Rudyard Kipling's 'If...' was voted number one. This unique anthology brings together the results of the poll in a collection of the... -
Classic Cat Stories by Various 9781529020991
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.00Cats, be they much loved pets or inscrutable creatures, lend themselves to stories and literary invention. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning pocket size classics. These... -
Night Clerk at the Hotel of Both Worlds by Angela Ball 9780822959755
RRP: $35.60Booksplease Price: $27.30Winner of the 2006 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry Selected by Terrance HayesWinner of the 2008 Poetry Award from Mississippi Institute of Arts and LettersAngela Ball's lyrical, wry, and rueful poems... -
Fiction and the American Literary Marketplace: The Role of Newspaper Syndicates in America, 1860-1900 by Charles Alan Johanningsmeier 9780521497107
RRP: $130.20Booksplease Price: $125.12Conventional literary history has virtually ignored the role of newspaper syndicates in publishing some of the most famous nineteenth-century writers. Stephen Crane, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling,... -
Imperial Beast Fables: Animals, Cosmopolitanism, and the British Empire by Kaori Nagai 9783030514921
Booksplease Price: $159.18This book coins the term 'imperial beast fable' to explore modern forms of human-animal relationships and their origins in the British Empire. Taking as a starting point the long nineteenth-century... -
Images of India in British Fiction: Anglo-India vs. the Metropolis by Sebastian Horstmann 9783631673669
RRP: $146.48Booksplease Price: $130.35This book investigates how India was portrayed in British novels and short stories during the heyday of the British Raj. In the tradition of post-colonial studies such as Edward Said's Orientalism,... -
Ethnographic Narratives as World Literature: Uneven Entanglements in European and South Asian Writing by Lucio De Capitani 9783031387036
Booksplease Price: $210.53This book links world-literary studies with anthropology and ethnography. It shows how ethnographic narratives can represent a compelling point of departure for world-literary explorations. The...