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Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship by Christopher Hitchens 9781560255925
Booksplease Price: £19.06Since the end of the Cold War so-called experts have been predicting the eclipse of America's "special relationship" with Britain. But as events have shown, especially in the wake of 9/11, the... -
Victorian Writers and the Image of Empire: The Rose-Colored Vision by Laurence Kitzan 9780313317781
Booksplease Price: £76.51Writers of imperial fiction in the period 1840-1914 created a strong image of the British Empire that was often confused with the empire as it actually existed. Even in the 1940s, many people in... -
Poems for Happiness by Richard Coles 9781035063079
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.62Discover the many faces of happiness in this inspiring collection of poems, which includes work by some of the world’s greatest poets.Poetry is the perfect medium to capture the elusive nature of... -
Grimms' Fairy Tales, Retold by Elli Woollard, Illustrated by Marta Altes by Elli Woollard 9781529053425
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A beautiful gift edition of Grimms' Fairy Tales featuring five classic stories, charmingly retold in rhyming verse with stunning illustrations.Follow Little Red through the woods, where she... -
Imperial Beast Fables: Animals, Cosmopolitanism, and the British Empire by Kaori Nagai 9783030514952
Booksplease Price: £75.32This 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... -
The Poetry of Horses Various 9781788166041
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.17Since prehistory, horses have given us assistance, close companionship and artistic inspiration. Horses offer everything from practical help to brisk exercise to the sheer exhilaration of... -
Geography and the Literary Imagination in Victorian Fictions of Empire: The Poetics of Imperial Space by Jean Fernandez
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80In this pioneering study, Dr. Fernandez explores how the rise of institutional geography in Victorian England impacted imperial fiction's emergence as a genre characterized by a preoccupation with... -
Love and Freindship by Jane Austen 9781804470725
RRP: £5.00Booksplease Price: £4.62Jane Austen, one of the nation's most beloved authors, whose face adorns our currency, surely needs no introduction, but while many are familiar with her groundbreaking novels, and despite lending... -
Jews and Jewishness in British Children's Literature Madelyn Travis 9781032927954
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.14In a period of ongoing debate about faith, identity, migration and culture, this timely study explores the often politicised nature of constructions of one of Britain’s longest standing minority... -
The Cat that Walked by Himself and Other Cat Stories (Collins Classics) 9780008679453
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.98HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself,... -
The Jungle Book: Band 16/Sapphire (Collins Big Cat) by Narinder Dhami
Booksplease Price: £8.23Build your child's reading confidence at home with books at the right level Rudyard Kipling's much-loved classic story for children, retold here by Narinder Dhami. Follow Mowgli's... -
KS2 Comprehension Book 4 by Celia Warren 9780721711577
Booksplease Price: £4.95Key Stage 2 Comprehension provides a unique collection of stimulating texts that appeal strongly to both boys and girls, together with questions that both build and stretch comprehension skills and... -
Shadowing the White Man's Burden: U.S. Imperialism and the Problem of the Color Line by Gretchen Murphy 9780814795989
Booksplease Price: £90.57During the height of 19th century imperialism, Rudyard Kipling published his famous poem "The White Man's Burden." While some of his American readers argued that the poem served as... -
Technosophy: Strategic Approaches to the Assessment and Management of Manufacturing Technology Innovation by P. Levy 9789048159116
Booksplease Price: £90.56This volume contains the genuine proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on the Strategic Approaches to the Assessment and Management of Manufacturing Technology Innovation, Bled,... -
Sailor Talk: Labor, Utterance, and Meaning in the Works of Melville, Conrad, and London by Mary K. Bercaw Edwards
Booksplease Price: £119.01This book investigates the highly engaging topic of the literary and cultural significance of 'sailor talk.' The central argument is that sailor talk offers a way of rethinking the figure of the... -
The History of England by Jane Austen 9781804470244
RRP: £5.00Booksplease Price: £4.62Jane Austen, one of the nation's most beloved authors, whose face adorns our currency, surely needs no introduction, but while many are familiar with her groundbreaking novels, few have come across... -
The Golden Age of British Short Stories 1890-1914 by Philip Hensher
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Excellent, entertaining and ingenious ... from Oscar Wilde to Arthur Conan Doyle, this fine anthology celebrates one of the richest moments in Britain's literary history' Sunday TimesThe quarter... -
The New Oxford Book of Children's Verse by Neil Philip
RRP: £15.49Booksplease Price: £12.13Like its predecessor, Iona and Peter Opie's Oxford Book of Children's Verse, this is an anthology of poetry written for children. It begins in the eighteenth century and ends in 1995, with the... -
Loos - Hill 70: French Flanders by Andrew Rawson 9780850529043
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42The Battle of Loos formed part of a wider offensive conducted by both French and British Forces in September 1915. The British First Army, under the leadership of General Haig, were to break through... -
The Cat that Walked by Himself and Other Cat Stories (Collins Classics) 9780008619930
RRP: £3.99Booksplease Price: £2.99HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by... -
Papers and Journals by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43One of the greatest thinkers of the nineteenth century, Soren Kierkegaard (1814-55) often expressed himself through pseudonyms and disguises. Taken from his personal writings, these private... -
Sailor Talk: Labor, Utterance, and Meaning in the Works of Melville, Conrad, and London by Mary K. Bercaw Edwards 9781802075410
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £31.16This book investigates the highly engaging topic of the literary and cultural significance of ‘sailor talk.’ The central argument is that sailor talk offers a way of rethinking the figure of the... -
Horse Stories by Diana Secker Tesdell
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.43Horse Stories corrals two centuries of short fiction about the most majestic of domesticated animals. From writers old and new come stories of magnificent stallions, broken-down nags, racehorses,... -
Modernism and the Materiality of Texts by Eyal Amiran 9781107136076
RRP: £103.00Booksplease Price: £93.23Modernism and the Materiality of Texts argues that elements of modernist texts that are meaningless in themselves are motivated by their authors' psychic crises. Physical features of texts that... -
The Secret War: Treason, Espionage and Modern Fiction by Eva Horn 9780810127630
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.74The Secret War marks a new direction in the cultural history and theory of intelligence gathering and state secrecy in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. While historical truth remains... -
Technosophy: Strategic Approaches to the Assessment and Management of Manufacturing Technology Innovation by P. Levy 9781402002106
Booksplease Price: £90.56This volume contains the genuine proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on the Strategic Approaches to the Assessment and Management of Manufacturing Technology Innovation, Bled,... -
Civilizing War: Imperial Politics and the Poetics of National Rupture by Nasser Mufti 9780810136021
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.32Civilizing War traces the historical transformation of civil war from a civil affair into an uncivil crisis. Civil war is today synonymous with the global refugee crisis, often serving as grounds for... -
Caesar: The Life Story of a Panda-Leopard by Patrick O'Brian 9780393321821
RRP: £14.50Booksplease Price: £12.51A stark tale encompassing the cruelty and beauty of the natural world, and a clear demonstration of the storytelling gift that would later flower in the Aubrey/Maturin series. When he was fourteen... -
Translating England into Russian: The Politics of Children's Literature in the Soviet Union and Modern Russia by Elena Goodwin 9781350245327
Booksplease Price: £34.84From governesses with supernatural powers to motor-car obsessed amphibians, the iconic images of English children's literature helped shape the view of the nation around the world. But, as... -
Malaria and Victorian Fictions of Empire by Jessica Howell
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £34.78The impact of malaria on humankind has been profound. Focusing on depictions of this iconic 'disease of empire' in nineteenth-century and postcolonial fiction, Jessica Howell shows that authors such... -
It's Too Late Now: The Autobiography of a Writer by A.A. Milne 9780715655047
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31In his classic autobiography A. A. Milne, with his characteristic self-deprecating humour, recalls a blissfully happy childhood in the company of his brothers, and writes with touching affection... -
Gustav Mahler and the Symphony of the 19th Century: Translated by Neil K. Moran by Constantin Floros 9783631626894
RRP: £69.75Booksplease Price: £62.37The subject of this book is the semantics of symphonic music from Beethoven to Mahler. Of fundamental importance is the realization that this music is imbued with non-musical, literary, philosophical... -
The Return of the Mughal: Historical Fiction and Despotism in Colonial India, 1863-1908 by Alex Padamsee 9781137354938
Booksplease Price: £56.13This Pivot explores the uses of the Mughal past in the historical fiction of colonial India. Through detailed reconsiderations of canonical works by Rudyard Kipling, Flora Annie Steel and Romesh... -
Studies in Medievalism XXXI: Politics and Medievalism (Studies) III by Karl Fugelso 9781843846253
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £82.29Like its two immediate predecessors, this volume tackles the most pressing and contentious issue in medievalism studies: how the Middle Ages have been subsequently deployed for political ends. The... -
Classic Dog Stories by Various
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.62From the grit of a frontier man's dog, from pampered lapdog to wayward mongrel, from faithful guard dog to strong willed pet they're all here in Classic Dog Stories - the perfect gift for dog lovers... -
Rags & Bones by Melissa Marr
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02One of Amazon's Top 10 YA novels for 2013. Featuring stories by Neil Gaiman, Garth Nix and the authors of Beautiful Creatures, Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, this is a unique and imaginative... -
Roman Odes, Elegies & Epigrams by Peter Washington
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49The great Roman poets of Antiquity wrote some of the most compelling lyrical poetry of all time, to be read privately but also on occasion to be performed publicly on the field of victory, at a... -
Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Fiona Sampson 9781324074649
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.67"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." With these words, Elizabeth Barrett Browning has come down to us as a romantic heroine, a recluse controlled by a domineering father and often... -
Malaria and Victorian Fictions of Empire by Jessica Howell 9781108484688
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.69The impact of malaria on humankind has been profound. Focusing on depictions of this iconic 'disease of empire' in nineteenth-century and postcolonial fiction, Jessica Howell shows that authors such... -
The Byronic Hero and the Rhetoric of Masculinity in the 19th Century British Novel by D. Michael Jones 9781476662282
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.19Where does the violence at the heart of modern masculinity come from? From action movies to video games to sports culture, why is so much about being a man connected to violent competition? The story...