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Fear in the Blood: Tales from the Dark Lineages of the Weird Mike Ashley 9780712355650
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $15.48Sheridan Le Fanu and his niece, Rhoda Broughton. Louisa Baldwin and her nephew, Rudyard Kipling. Nathaniel Hawthorne, his son, Julian, and his grand-daughter, Hildegarde. Joan Aiken and her father,... -
Lesley Castle: An Unfinished Novel in Letters by Jane Austen 9781804470961
RRP: $10.50Booksplease Price: $9.70Jane 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... -
Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship by Christopher Hitchens 9781560255925
Booksplease Price: $40.03Since 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... -
Grimms' Fairy Tales, Retold by Elli Woollard, Illustrated by Marta Altes by Elli Woollard 9781529053425
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45A 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: $158.17This 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: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.96Since 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: $96.58Booksplease Price: $87.78In 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: $10.50Booksplease Price: $9.70Jane 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: $86.08Booksplease Price: $77.99In 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: $16.78Booksplease Price: $12.56HarperCollins 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 Golden Age of British Short Stories 1890-1914 by Philip Hensher
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38'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: $32.53Booksplease Price: $25.47Like 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... -
The Cat that Walked by Himself and Other Cat Stories (Collins Classics) 9780008619930
RRP: $8.38Booksplease Price: $6.28HarperCollins 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... -
Sailor Talk: Labor, Utterance, and Meaning in the Works of Melville, Conrad, and London by Mary K. Bercaw Edwards
Booksplease Price: $249.92This 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: $10.50Booksplease Price: $9.70Jane 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 Jungle Book: Band 16/Sapphire (Collins Big Cat) by Narinder Dhami
Booksplease Price: $17.28Build 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: $10.40Key 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: $190.20During 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: $190.18This 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,... -
Papers and Journals by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.10One 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: $69.28Booksplease Price: $65.44This 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: $31.50Booksplease Price: $24.00Horse 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: $216.30Booksplease Price: $195.78Modernism 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: $73.50Booksplease Price: $62.45The 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: $190.18This 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: $65.10Booksplease Price: $55.27Civilizing 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: $30.45Booksplease Price: $26.27A 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: $73.16From 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 9781108484688
RRP: $197.40Booksplease Price: $188.35The 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: $60.88Booksplease Price: $52.90Where 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... -
The Victorians and the Visual Imagination by Kate Flint 9780521089524
RRP: $96.60Booksplease Price: $94.12The Victorians and the Visual Imagination is an exciting and innovative exploration of the Victorians' attitudes towards sight. Tantalized by physiologists who proved the unreliability of the eye,... -
Classic Dog Stories by Various
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.00From 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: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84One 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: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73The 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: $33.58Booksplease Price: $28.71"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
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $73.04The 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: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35In 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: $146.48Booksplease Price: $130.98The 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: $117.87This 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: $178.50Booksplease Price: $172.81Like 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...