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Studies in Medievalism XXXI: Politics and Medievalism (Studies) III by Karl Fugelso 9781843846253
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €97.93Like 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 Stories of the Sea Harriet Sanders 9781035014927
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.07For centuries, writers have been inspired by the sea, pitting man against nature in stories and novels. The allure of the sea is mighty, and here is a collection of classic adventure stories from... -
The Vikings and the Victorians - Inventing the Old North in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Andrew Wawn 9780859916448
RRP: €41.64Booksplease Price: €37.19The first book-length treatment of C19 fascination with Norse heroes. This is the first book-length treatment of the Victorians' fascination with the old north. It explores the ways in which the... -
Best-Loved Poems by Neil Philip
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50This highly accessible collection gathers together the best-loved gems of English language verse, from the deeply moving to the hilariously silly. The poems span the entire range of verse from high... -
The Thousandth Man: A Biography of James McGregor Stewart by Barry Cahill
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €29.80James McGregor Stewart (1889-1955) was perhaps the foremost Canadian corporate lawyer of his day. He was also an appellate counsel, venture capitalist, Conservative Party fundraiser, bibliographer of... -
Complete Poems by Ernest Hemingway 9780803272590
Booksplease Price: €16.27Ernest Hemingway never wished to be widely known as a poet. He concentrated on writing short stories and novels, for which he won the Nobel Prize in 1956. But his poetry deserves close attention, if... -
The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories by Sarah Orne Jewett 9780140434767
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.84The Country of Pointed Firs, Sarah Orne Jewett's masterpiece, established her among the consummate stylists of nineteenth-century American fiction. Composed in a series of beautiful web-like... -
Postcolonial Studies: A Materialist Critique by Benita Parry 9780415336000
RRP: €48.78Booksplease Price: €44.65This powerful selection of essays proposes practices of reading and criticism to make the field of postcolonial studies more fully attentive to historical circumstances and socio-material conditions... -
Old Yellowstone Days by 9780826347527
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.85Over thirty years after its original publication, former Yellowstone National Park archivist Paul Schullery's collection of travelers' accounts of their visits to the first national park still... -
Grimms' Fairy Tales, Retold by Elli Woollard, Illustrated by Marta Altes by Elli Woollard
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.85A 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... -
We Are Soldiers: Our heroes. Their stories. Real life on the frontline. by Danny Danziger
RRP: €8.32Booksplease Price: €3.30What is it like to drive a Challenger tank over desert terrain for six days in a row? Or hover an Apache AH1 attack helicopter a hundred metres above enemy ground? How quickly can a Sapper clear a... -
Masculinity in Children's Animal Stories, 1888-1928: A Critical Study of Anthropomorphic Tales by Wilde, Kipling, Potter, Grahame and Milne by Wynn Yarbrough 9780786459438
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €29.98The animal stories produced around the turn of the 20th century have maintained a remarkable hold on the imagination of children worldwide. This book examines the performance of masculinity in... -
Such Silver Currents RP: The Story of William and Lucy Clifford, 1845-1929 by Monty Chisholm
Booksplease Price: €37.96Such Silver Currents is the first biography of a mathematical genius and his literary wife, their wide circle of well-known intellectual and artistic friends, and through them of the age in which... -
As Others See Chicago: Impressions of Visitors, 1673-1933 by Bessie Louise Pierce
Booksplease Price: €34.33Sometimes it takes an outsider to capture the essence of an individual place, The impressions of travelers in particular have a special allure - unanticipated and serendipitous, their views get to... -
Opposites: The Opposing Forces of the Universe by Soledad Romero Mariño
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €15.47Everything that exists in the universe has an opposite, and this poetic journey captures the beauty of how none of these opposites remain pure or still! All opposites are complementary, one could not... -
The Real Kenneth Grahame: The Tragedy Behind The Wind in the Willows by Galvin, Elisabeth 9781526748805
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €18.14He wrote one of the most quintessentially English books, yet Kenneth Grahame (1859 -1932) was a Scot. He was four years old when his mother died and his father became an alcoholic, so Kenneth grew up... -
The Peculiar Sanity of War: Hysteria in the Literature of World War I by Celia Malone Kingsbury 9780896724822
Booksplease Price: €40.33During wartime, paranoia, gossip, and rumor become accepted forms of behavior and dominant literary tropes. ""The Peculiar Sanity of War"" examines the impact of war hysteria on definitions of sanity... -
A History of Wine in America, Volume 2: From Prohibition to the Present by Thomas Pinney 9780520254305
RRP: €39.27Booksplease Price: €36.57"A History of Wine in America" is the definitive account of winemaking in the United States, first as it was carried out under Prohibition, and then as it developed and spread to all fifty states... -
McClure's Magazine and the Muckrakers by Harold S. Wilson 9780691620862
RRP: €61.88Booksplease Price: €54.16McClure's was the leading muckraking journal among the many which flourished at the turn of the century. Both a literary and political magazine, It introduced exciting new writers to the American... -
Bedtime Stories for 6 Year Olds by Helen Paiba
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.33Bedtime Stories for 6 Year Olds is a rich and varied selection of heart-warming stories, perfect for snuggling up with at bedtime, by some of the very best writers for children. Great for reading... -
Critical Approaches to Food in Children's Literature Kara K. Keeling 9780415808910
RRP: €60.68Booksplease Price: €54.84Critical Approaches to Food in Children's Literature is the first scholarly volume on the topic, connecting children's literature to the burgeoning discipline of food studies. Following the lead of... -
The Imperial Archive: Knowledge and Fantasy of Empire by Thomas Richards
Booksplease Price: €18.43Nineteenth-century Britain could be seen as the first information society in history-for the simple reason that it accumulated knowledge from the far-flung corners of its empire faster than it could... -
I Love Horses Steven D. Price 9781493086870
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €17.53I Love Horses gathers the most memorable quotes about horses ever written, recorded, or carried down through the ages, together with XX fantastic photos of the prettiest horses available. Horses... -
Lorca: Blood Wedding by Salvador Ortiz-Carboneres 9780856687952
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €31.88Federico Garcia Lorca was born near Granada in 1898. Initially set on studying music in Paris, after his piano teacher died in 1916 he became involved in a literary and artistic group, including H... -
An Introduction to Group Work Skill Fred Milson 9781032867717
RRP: €38.07Booksplease Price: €35.09First Published in 1973, An Introduction to Group Work Skill is designed to make the understanding of group work skills accessible to all- mothers, teachers, employers, as well as professional social... -
Victorian Parlour Games: A Modern Host’s Guide to Classic Fun for Everyone Chronicle Books 9781797231006
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.39Bring a piece of history into your game night with this collection of fun and playable Victorian-era party games. Victorian Parlour Games is a beautifully designed and compact hardcover volume full... -
Literary and political Essays: Annotated Edition George Orwell 9781847495150
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.26One of the most celebrated novelists in the English language, George Orwell was also a prolific essay writer and literary reviewer, penning articles on such diverse subjects as the craft of writing,... -
Jutland Cottage Angela Thirkell 9780349018713
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02'Charming, very funny indeed' ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH Change is in the air in Barsetshire. The country may have a new queen, but Greshambury has a new rector, Canon Fewling, and a returned prodigal... -
Lorca: Blood Wedding by Salvador Ortiz-Carboneres 9780856687860
Booksplease Price: €142.48Federico Garcia Lorca was born near Granada in 1898. Initially set on studying music in Paris, after his piano teacher died in 1916 he became involved in a literary and artistic group, including H... -
Crime Where the Nights are Long: Canadian Stories of Crime and Adventure from the Golden Age of Storytelling by David Skene-Melvin 9780889242814
Booksplease Price: €18.21The period from the early 1880s through the First World War has been called "The Golden Age of the Storytellers." These were the writers who sought not to write great literature, but to entertain,... -
Writing and Freedom: From Nothing to Persons and Back by William Myers 9780999513408
Booksplease Price: €62.75Twelve essays in literary theory, philosophy, and religion – about atheism, freedom, and "the Jesus thought experiment" – connect, but don't conclude. A recurring theme is the "nothing" at the heart... -
A Moroccan Trilogy: Rabat, Marrakesh and Fez Jerome Tharaud 9781780601625
RRP: €17.85Booksplease Price: €12.28From 1917 19, the Tharaud brothers immersed themselves in Morocco while observing the determined imposition of the French Protectorate at first hand. With unique access to both colonial manoeuvres... -
The Mammoth Book of Limericks Glyn Rees 9781845296810
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50The most enduringly popular poetical verse form in the English language is very much alive and well.This monster volume of 2,000 limericks ranges from clean to (moderately) filthy, all guaranteed to... -
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.00'An impenetrable mystery seems destined to hang for ever over this act of madness or despair.' Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her... -
London Town: A Choral Celebration by John Rutter 9780193528383
RRP: €15.41Booksplease Price: €13.82London Town was commissioned and written to be performed by the combined forces of unison children's choir and SATB mixed voices, with piano. The vividly communicative six-movement work, which is... -
Shakespeare's Other Lives: An Anthology of Fictional Depictions of the Bard by Maurice J. O'Sullivan 9780786422807
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €23.31For generations scholars have labored scrupulously to try to separate the facts of William Shakespeare's life from the myths that have entangled them. However, those who have written fictions... -
By Touch Alone: Blindness and Reading in Nineteenth-Century Culture Vanessa Kay Warne 9780472057511
RRP: €29.69Booksplease Price: €28.73By Touch Alone demonstrates how reading by touch not only changed the lives of nineteenth-century blind people, but also challenged long-standing perceptions about blindness and reading. Over the... -
Making Words Matter: The Agency of Colonial and Postcolonial Literature by Ambreen Hai 9780821418819
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €22.63Why should Salman Rushdie describe his truth telling as an act of swallowing impure "haram" flesh from which the blood has not been drained? Why should Rudyard Kipling cast Kim, the imperial... -
Nature Writing for Every Day of the Year by Jane McMorland Hunter
Booksplease Price: €27.60Enjoy a whole year of the very finest nature writing, with one carefully selected piece to savour every day. This beautifully illustrated daily anthology brings you the very best of nature writing... -
Gardens of the National Trust (National Trust) by Stephen Lacey
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €22.67The definitive guide to hundreds of Britain's most outstanding gardens, in the care of the National Trust The National Trust has the finest collection of gardens in the United Kingdom. In...