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The Oxford Book of Sea Stories by Tony Tanner
Booksplease Price: £27.44'And then went down to the ship.' Thus, with a nod to Homer, Ezra Pound began his own epic odyssey through the world of literature and the modern world. There is no literature without a departure, a... -
Love Among the Ruins by Angela Thirkell 9780349018652
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' New York TimesIt's the summer of 1947, and peacetime has brought new challenges to... -
Country Chronicle Angela Thirkell 9780349018676
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' New York TimesThe county of Barsetshire is aflutter with preparations. With the wedding of... -
Thomas Hardy in Context by Phillip Mallett 9781107454217
Booksplease Price: £32.42This collection covers the range of Thomas Hardy's works and their social and intellectual contexts, providing a comprehensive introduction to Hardy's life and times. Featuring short, lively... -
Flora Annie Steel: A Critical Study of an Unconventional Memsahib by Helen Pike Bauer 9781772122602
RRP: £42.99Booksplease Price: £36.25Flora Annie Steel (1847-1929) was a contemporary of Rudyard Kipling and rivaled his popularity as a writer during her lifetime, but her legacy faded due to gender-biased politics. She spent 22 years... -
The Round-dance of Water by Sergey Kuznetsov
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.46From the man Arturo Perez-Reverte has called "the most talented young Russian author" comes this extraordinary family saga, a journey into the depths of the human soul.The Round-dance of Water is a... -
Terrorism, Insurgency and Indian-English Literature, 1830-1947 Alex Tickell (University of Portsmouth, UK) 9780415745697
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.94In this ground-breaking interdisciplinary study of terrorism, insurgency and the literature of colonial India, Alex Tickell re-envisages the political aesthetics of empire. Organized around key... -
The Return of the Native: A Norton Critical Edition by Thomas Hardy 9780393927870
Booksplease Price: £22.73It is accompanied by more than 500 editorial footnotes, many new to this edition, that provide essential historical background and glossing of dialect words. Also new to the Second Edition are the... -
Pomfret Towers: A Virago Modern Classic by Angela Thirkell
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Pomfret Towers, Barsetshire seat of the earls of Pomfret, was constructed, with great pomp and want of concern for creature comforts, in the once-fashionable style of Sir Gilbert Scott's St Pancras... -
Zebra Stripes by Tim Caro
Booksplease Price: £39.17From eminent biologists like Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin to famous authors such as Rudyard Kipling in his Just So Stories, many people have asked, "Why do zebras have stripes?" There are... -
Peace Breaks Out by Angela Thirkell
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' New York TimesIt is 1945. When peace breaks out at last, familiar wartime routines are... -
The Brandons: A Virago Modern Classic by Angela Thirkell
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Lavinia Brandon is quite the loveliest widow in Barsetshire, blessed with beauty and grace, as well as two handsome grown-up children, Delia and Francis. So thinks their cousin Hilary Grant when he... -
Heart of Darkness, The Man Who Would Be King, and Other Works on Empire, A Longman Cultural Edition by Joseph Conrad
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £32.04From Longman's Cultural Editions series, Heart of Darkness, The Man Who Would Be King, and Other Works on Empire shows the literary and historical context within which-and against which-both Conrad... -
The Victorian Novel On File: Secrets, Hoards, and Information Storage Priyanka Anne Jacob 9780198917939
RRP: £77.00Booksplease Price: £70.68The Victorian Novel On File argues that the nineteenth-century information explosion shapes the novel form. In a world teeming with data, the novel is a storage medium, cluttered with detail and... -
The River of Adventure Enid Blyton 9781529008890
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.73The River of Adventure is the final thrilling instalment in the Adventure series by Enid Blyton, one of the best-loved children's writers of all time. This gorgeous edition of the classic adventure... -
Kipling in India Harish Trivedi (Former Professor, University of Delhi, India) 9780367547288
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80This book explores and re-evaluates Kipling's connection with India, its people, culture, languages, and locales through his experiences and his writings. Kipling's works attracted interest among a... -
Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages by Prof. Harold Bloom
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.47"If readers are to come to Shakespeare and to Chekhov, to Henry James and to Jane Austen, then they are best prepared if they have read Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear, Robert Louis Stevenson and... -
The Valley of Adventure by Enid Blyton 9781529008845
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.73The Valley of Adventure is the third thrilling instalment in the Adventure series by Enid Blyton, one of the best-loved children's writers of all time. This gorgeous edition of the classic adventure... -
The Mountain of Adventure by Enid Blyton 9781529008869
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37The Mountain of Adventure is the fifth thrilling instalment in the Adventure series by Enid Blyton, one of the best-loved children's writers of all time. This gorgeous edition of the classic... -
The Ship of Adventure by Enid Blyton
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.99The Ship of Adventure is the sixth exciting instalment in the Adventure series by Enid Blyton, one of the best-loved children's writers of all time. This gorgeous edition of the classic adventure... -
Fishing Stories by Henry Hughes
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.43Fishing Stories nets an abundant catch of wonderful writing in a wide variety of genres and styles. The moods range from the rollicking humour of Rudyard Kipling's "On Dry-Cow Fishing as a Fine Art"... -
Tippoo Sultan's Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger Toy-Machine!!! by Daljit Nagra 9780571264919
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Look We Have Coming to Dover!, the remarkable debut by Daljit Nagra, marked the arrival of a thrilling new voice in poetry and won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection along the way. In... -
Unseasonable Youth: Modernism, Colonialism, and the Fiction of Development by Jed Esty 9780199857968
Booksplease Price: £59.88Unseasonable Youth examines a range of modernist-era fictions that cast doubt on the ideology of progress through the figure of stunted or endless adolescence. Novels of youth by Oscar Wilde, Olive... -
Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Norton Critical Edition by Phillip Mallett 9781324071891
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.05This Norton Critical Edition includes: The first one-volume version of the novel, from 1892, accompanied by the note to the first edition, preface to the fifth edition, and three appendices to the... -
The Island of Adventure by Enid Blyton 9781529008821
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.99The Island of Adventure is the first thrilling instalment in the Adventure series by Enid Blyton, one of the best-loved children's writers of all time. This gorgeous edition of the classic adventure... -
Heart Like a Fakir: General Sir James Abbott and the Fall of the East India Company by Chris Mason 9781538169568
Booksplease Price: £96.65Heart Like a Fakir is a history of the final forty years of British East India Company rule in India as witnessedby General Sir James Abbott (1807-1896), the man for whom the Pakistani town of... -
The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll by Lewis Carroll 9781137505460
Booksplease Price: £49.74Lewis Carroll is one of the world's best-loved writers. His immortal Wonderland and delightful nonsense verses have enchanted generations of children and adults alike. The wit and imagination, the... -
Little Bear's Spring by Elli Woollard
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Little Bear's Spring is a glorious reminder for children and adults of just how wonderful the natural world is, and that, sometimes, the unlikeliest of friendships are the best kind.Little Bear has... -
Dinosaurs Don't Draw by Elli Woollard
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16Dinosaurs aren't known for their drawing - they're known for their stamping and stomping and ROARING! All except for one creative young dinosaur who just can't seem to stop! He transforms rocks,... -
A Trap for Fools by Amanda Cross 9781509820177
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Taking its name from a Rudyard Kipling poem and littered with his verses throughout, A Trap for Fools is a novel about overcoming adversity, and one of Amanda Cross's best mysteries.Campus security... -
The Transvaal Rebellion: The First Boer War, 1880-1881 by John Laband
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £34.58This book takes a unique look at the first Boer war by concentrating on the events and battles of the First Boer War. Due attention is also given to the 2nd Boer War - it's origins, key players and... -
Northbridge Rectory by Angela Thirkell
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02As the war continues it brings its own set of trials to the the village of Northbridge. Eight officers of the Barsetshire Regiment have been billeted at the rectory, and Mrs Villars, the Rector's... -
The Road to Ruins by Ian Graham
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.28For anyone who ever wanted to be an archaeologist, Ian Graham could be a hero. This lively memoir chronicles Graham's career as the ""last explorer"" and a fierce advocate for the protection and... -
Cheerfulness Breaks In by Angela Thirkell
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' New York TimesIt is summer 1939 and the social event of the year is about to take place:... -
Talbot Mundy, Philosopher of Adventure: A Critical Biography Brian Taves 9780786422340
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.19This critical biography chronicles both the actual travels and the philosophical meanderings of Talbot Mundy, one of the pioneers of the fantasy and adventure genre. Less celebrated than his... -
Ayesha by H. Rider Haggard 9781513266305
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.74"An imaginative, entertaining adventure story."-E.F. Bleiler "Enchantment is just what this writer exercised; he fixed pictures in our minds that thirty years have been unable to wear away... -
The Near Future in 21st Century Fiction: Climate, Retreat and Revolution by David Sergeant
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.63A growing awareness of climate change and looming planetary crisis has put unprecedented pressure on the near future, leading to an increasing amount of fiction being set there. But what do these... -
Cinema and Modernism by David Trotter
RRP: £19.75Booksplease Price: £18.77This study revolutionises our understanding of both literary modernism and early cinema. Trotter draws on the most recent scholarship in English and film studies to demonstrate how central cinema as... -
Doctoring the Novel: Medicine and Quackery from Shelley to Doyle by Sylvia A. Pamboukian 9780821419908
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £47.40If nineteenth-century Britain witnessed the rise of medical professionalism, it also witnessed rampant quackery. It is tempting to categorize historical practices as either orthodox or quack, but... -
St. Nicholas and Mary Mapes Dodge: The Legacy of a Children's Magazine Editor, 1873-1905 by Susan R. Gannon 9780786417582
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.19St. Nicholas has been called the best children's magazine ever published, particularly during the tenure of its founding editor, Mary Mapes Dodge. From 1873 to 1905, Dodge worked to create what...