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The Palace of Forty Pillars by Armen Davoudian 9781472158451
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Davoudian is an enchanting and intriguing new voice' Sunday Times'In this formally radical debut, Armen Davoudian shows how rhyme enacts longing for a homeland left behind; how meter sings to a lost... -
The Peregrine: The Hill of Summer & Diaries: The Complete Works of J. A. Baker by J. A. Baker 9780008138318
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.99Reissue of J. A. Baker's extraordinary classic of British nature writing Despite the association of peregrines with the wild, outer reaches of the British Isles, The Peregrine is set on... -
What You Didn't Miss: A Book of Literary Parodies as Featured in Private Eye by D. J. Taylor 9781780336886
RRP: £2.99Booksplease Price: £2.77Since the late 1990s, Private Eye's 'What You Didn't Miss' column has trained a vigilant lens on some of the great literary reputations of our age. Highlights of this bumper selection include Martin... -
Mortification: Writers’ Stories of their Public Shame by Robin Robertson 9780007171385
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95A collection of stories from some of the world's greatest writers about their own public humiliation. Humiliation is not, of course, unique to writers. However, the world of letters does... -
King James's Bible: A Selection W. H Stevenson 9781408230473
Booksplease Price: £42.90Without an understanding of Biblical stories, readers lose out on much of the richness of English literature, as authors from Milton through T.S. Eliot to Jeanette Winterson draw inspiration from... -
Siegfried Sassoon: The Making of a War Poet, A biography (1886-1918) by Jean Moorcroft Wilson 9780415973847
Booksplease Price: £44.99Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), soldier, poet, and witness to a century of war, is an icon of the twentieth century; Jean Moorcroft Wilson is the leading authority on him. In this two-volume... -
Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.34Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom he was married. They were written over a period of more than twenty-five years, the... -
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John Betjeman Collected Poems by John Betjeman 9780719568503 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.40'It would be difficult - in my opinion impossible - to point to a contemporary poet of greater originality or more genuine depth of feeling' Anthony PowellTHE DEFINITIVE JOHN BETJEMAN COLLECTION,... -
Jubilee Lines by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23To mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II's accession to the throne, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy brings together a dazzling array of contemporary poets (sixty in fact) to write about each... -
Sistersong by Lucy Holland 9781529039030
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.46In a magical ancient Britain, bards sing a story of treachery, love and death. This is that story. For fans of Madeline Miller's Circe, Lucy Holland's Sistersong retells the folk ballad 'The Twa... -
Things: A Story of the Sixties with A Man Asleep by Georges Perec
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Things: A Story of the Sixties is the story of a young couple who want to enjoy life, but the only way they know how to do so is through ownership of 'things'. Perec's first novel won the Prix... -
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Jubilee Lines by Carol Ann Duffy 9780571277056 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £1.87To mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II's accession to the throne, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy brings together a dazzling array of contemporary poets (sixty in fact) to write about each... -
Emily Dickinson: Over 100 poems on life and love Emily Dickinson 9781835553688
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.32This volume offers a deep dive into Dickinson's most iconic poems are organized into thematic sections that illuminate her contemplations on individuality, spirituality, nature, love and the... -
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Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes 9780571194735 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £1.98Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom he was married. They were written over a period of more than twenty-five years, the... -
Selected Poems by Roy Fuller 9781847771216
Booksplease Price: £14.86From his first wartime collection evoking a generation's experience of a country made strange by blackouts and air raids, the 'vivid allegorical / Reality of gun and hangar', to the consolatory... -
Only Remembered by Michael Morpurgo
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83Published to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, this beautiful anthology collects favourite extracts, poems and images from some of the UK's leading cultural, political and... -
Armadillo by William Boyd
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Marvellously paced and ingeniously plotted. A real page-turner' Observer_________________________One winter morning, Lorimer Black - young, good-looking, but with a somewhat troubled expression -... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Poetry of the First World War by Santanu Das 9781107692954
Booksplease Price: £26.61The poetry of the First World War remains a singularly popular and powerful body of work. This Companion brings together leading scholars in the field to re-examine First World War poetry in English... -
The Pelican Child Joy Williams 9781805228578
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Lauded as the best story writer of our time, Joy Williams returns with a taut collection that responds to our modern dilemmas with her signature dry wit and deftness of touch. In sinister and... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Poetry of the First World War by Santanu Das 9781107018235
Booksplease Price: £83.98The poetry of the First World War remains a singularly popular and powerful body of work. This Companion brings together leading scholars in the field to re-examine First World War poetry in English... -
Redcrosse: Remaking Religious Poetry for Today's World by Ewan Fernie 9781441138996
Booksplease Price: £29.55Do poetry and criticism matter in today's world? How can the poetry of the past help us tackle the changing nature of religious faith and national identity? This book explores the creation of... -
Reading Cy Twombly: Poetry in Paint by Mary Jacobus 9780691170725
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £40.45Many of Cy Twombly's paintings and drawings include handwritten words and phrases--naming or quoting poets ranging from Sappho, Homer, and Virgil to Mallarme, Rilke, and Cavafy. Enigmatic and... -
The Biographer and the Subject - A Study on Biographical Distance by Rana Tekcan
RRP: £22.90Booksplease Price: £16.96A good biography is a well-staged illusion. It creates - on paper - a vivid, rounded, and immediate sense of lived life. In contrast to purely fictional forms, biography writing does not allow total... -
The Complete Poems Of Anna Akhmatova Anna Akhmatova 9780862417161
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £25.42From the artistic passion of the St Petersburg poets and bohemians, to the collective suffering of a nation, Anna Akhmatova spoke to, and for, the soul of her people. This magnificent edition... -
Every Wrong Direction by Dan Burt
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.98Every Wrong Direction recreates and dissects the bitter education of Dan Burt, an American emigre who never found a home in America. It begins in the row homes of Jewish immigrants and working-class... -
The Last Fighting Tommy: The Life of Harry Patch, Last Veteran of the Trenches, 1898-2009 Richard van Emden 9781408897225
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.15'An extraordinary biography by the very last witness of a devastating four years in British history' Daily Mail On 17 June 2009, Harry Patch celebrated his 111th birthday. At the time, he was the... -
Berowne's Book by U. A. Fanthorpe 9781910392133
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.63Berowne's Book was written by U. A. Fanthorpe before she began to write the poetry that was to make her reputation as one of England's most popular contemporary poets. 'In 1974, having found that the... -
Dream State by Eric Puchner 9781399744133
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.29'A book of tears, laughter, longing, regrets and filled to the brim with life . . . a wonder'ANDREW SEAN GREER, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less'An exquisitely rendered novel about the vagaries... -
Selected Plays of Louis MacNeice by Louis MacNeice 9780198112457
Booksplease Price: £80.91Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) is rightly regarded as one of the foremost Irish poets of this century, but he was also a distinctive, gifted, and popular playwright. This unique selection of eight of... -
Grandpa’s Dear Old Girl Felicity Fair Thompson 9781068253799
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.59Millie's grandpa Big Frank has been the lighthouse keeper all his life, but when Jack-o-the-lamp comes to the island to automate the light, Millie is worried. What will her grandpa do now... -
Firestorm by Lucy Hounsom
Booksplease Price: £20.04To protect her future, she must defend her past Kyndra has finally mastered her cold Starborn powers - but is it too late? A faction of assassins, who can manipulate time, plan to rewrite the history... -
Poetry: A Very Short Introduction by Bernard O'Donoghue
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.00Poetry, arguably, has a greater range of conceptual meaning than perhaps any other term in English. At the most basic level everyone can recognise it--it is a kind of literature that uses special... -
The Ash and The Beech: The Drama of Woodland Change by Richard Mabey
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15From ash die-back to the Great Storm of 1987 to Dutch elm disease, our much-loved woodlands seem to be under constant threat from a procession of natural challenges. Just when we need trees most, to... -
His Invention So Fertile by Adrian Tinniswood 9780712673648
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.98Christopher Wren (1632-1723) was the greatest architect Britain has ever known. But he was more than that. A founder of the Royal Society, he mapped the moon and the stars, investigated the problem... -
The Complete Short Stories Muriel Spark 9781786890016
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51From the cruel irony of 'A member of the Family' to the fateful echoes of 'The Go-Away Bird' and the unexpectedly sinister 'The Girl I Left Behind Me', in settings that range from South Africa to the... -
Emma by Jane Austen 9780099511168
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.17Discover the classic story behind the major new film'Jane Austen's Emma is her masterpiece, mixing the sparkle of her early books with a deep sensibility' Observer Emma is young, rich and independent... -
The Atomics by Paul Maunder 9781785632327
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.54Midsummer, 1968. When Frank Banner and his wife Gail move to the Suffolk coast to work at a newly built nuclear power station, they are hoping to leave violence and pain behind them. Gail wants a... -
The Golden Treasury: Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language by F. Palgrave 9780333949535
Booksplease Price: £46.28Francis Turner Palgrave's The Golden Treasury is the best-known anthology of English Poetry ever published. Its aim back in 1861 was to teach 'those indifferent to the Poets to love them, and those... -
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Whatever it is, I Don't Like it: The Best of Howard Jacobson by Howard Jacobson 9781408810309 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £2.43It takes a particular kind of man to want an embroidered polo player astride his left nipple. Occasionally, when I am tired and emotional, or consumed with self-dislike, I try to imagine myself as... -
Walter de la Mare: Critical Appraisals Yui Kajita 9781836244981
Booksplease Price: £31.16This book aims to put Walter de la Mare back on the literary map. A writer beloved by many, he has nevertheless remained on the sidelines of literary history. Walter de la Mare: Critical Appraisals...