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Utopian Spaces of Modernism: Literature and Culture, 1885-1945 by Rosalyn Gregory 9780230303720
Booksplease Price: £46.74This volume undertakes a fundamental reassessment of utopianism during the modernist period. It charts the rich spectrum of literary utopian projects between 1885 and 1945, and reconstructs their... -
British Fiction of the 1990s by Nick Bentley
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37The 1990s proved to be a particularly rich and fascinating period for British fiction. This book presents a fresh perspective on the diverse writings that appeared over the decade, bringing together... -
Contemporary British Poetry and the City by Peter Barry 9780719055942
Booksplease Price: £23.54Though poets have always written about cities, the commonest critical categories (pastoral poetry, nature poetry, Romantic poetry, Georgian poetry, etc.) have usually stressed the rural, so that... -
How To Build A City by Tom Chivers 9781844718849
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22How To Build A City is the Crashaw Prize-winning debut collection of poetry by Tom Chivers. It is a poetic interrogation of the twenty-first century urban experience, drawing on the history, culture,... -
Reports from the Deep End by Maxim Jakubowski 9781803363172
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.58Few authors are so iconic that their name is an adjective – Ballard is one of them. Master of both literary and science fiction, his classic novels such as Empire of the Sun, Crash and Cocaine Nights... -
Derek Bailey: And the Story of Free Improvisation by Ben Watson
Booksplease Price: £35.15This brilliant biography of the cult guitar player will likely cause you to abandon everything you thought you knew about jazz improvisation, post-punk and the avant-garde. Derek Bailey was at the... -
Notting Hill: A Walking Guide: 2018 by Julian Mash 9781910749944
RRP: £13.50Booksplease Price: £11.87A walking guide to this historic London neighbourhood, uncovering its countercultural roots. A delightful English/Japanese pocket-size guide to London's most popular district. Through four walks... -
The Park by Oscar Zarate
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.68On a beautiful Sunday afternoon, an incident takes place in a North London park. Chris is accidentally bitten by an excited dog, and aims a defensive kick at it. The owner, well-known polemicist... -
Crimean Sonnets: A New English Version by Kevin Jackson by Kevin Jackson 9781905208302
RRP: £6.00Booksplease Price: £5.30Kevin Jackson's versions (rather than literal translations) of the sonnet sequence written in exile between 1824 and 1829 by Poland's greatest poet, Adam Mickiewicz, are both urgent and memorable... -
On Brick Lane by Rachel Lichtenstein
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Brick Lane today is a place of extremes - a street that's constantly reinventing itself. Blending history and reportage with personal testimony and urban myths, and interspersing these with maps and... -
Contemporary Literary Landscapes: The Poetics of Experience Daniel Weston 9780367140533
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.23Writing landscapes inevitably occurs in dialogue with a long textual and pictorial tradition, but first-hand experience also provides key stimuli to many writers' accounts. This monograph employs a... -
Music's Duel - New and Selected Poems by Gavin Selerie 9781848610033
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £16.06"Music's Duel" gathers work from across the Gavin Selerie's career, combining major sequences or extracts with a range of less available material, some previously unpublished. Placed... -
Writing London: Volume 3: Inventions of the City by Julian Wolfreys 9780230008953
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book stages a series of interventions and inventions of urban space between 1880 and 1930 in key literary texts of the period. Making sharp distinctions between modernity and modernism, the... -
The London Object: Writing London at the End of Capitalism by Grant Hamilton 9781032006178
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Etienne Balibar writes that today we are at the end of capitalism. This is not because capitalism has run its course or has met an irresistible force, but because there can be no purer form of... -
Writing Across the Landscape: Travel Journals 1950-2013 Lawrence Ferlinghetti 9781631495946
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.66Lawrence Ferlinghetti-legendary poet and best-selling author-collects here his travel journals. Traversing the latter half of the twentieth century to the present, Writing Across the Landscape... -
Writing Across the Landscape: Travel Journals 1960-2013 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti 9781631490019
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £25.33Lawrence Ferlinghetti-legendary poet and best-selling author-collects here his travel journals. Traversing the latter half of the twentieth century to the present, Writing Across the Landscape... -
The 1970s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction by Nick Hubble 9781350003507
Booksplease Price: £28.88How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1970s shape Contemporary British Fiction? Exploring the impact of events like the Cold War, miners' strikes and Winter of... -
Radical: A Life of My Own by Xiaolu Guo 9781529920024
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15The new memoir from prize-winning writer and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo - playful, provocative and original, it's her deeply personal take on striving for a life of her own'When it comes to spinning light... -
A272-An Ode to a Road Pieter Boogaart 9781843680956
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.49"Road all about it!" - The Sun "One of the most original, crazy, informative and enjoyable books to appear for a long time: this guide is utterly appealing" - Sarah Anderson,Travel Bookshop "The... -
Fitzrovia, The Other Side of Oxford Street: A Social History 1900-1950 by Ann Basu 9780750987905
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.18This is the other side of the story. Before the Second World War, Ann Basu's family of Jewish tailors lived where the BT Tower stands today. At that time of high migration, the women's fashion trade... -
The Constitutionals Peter Robinson 9781909747487
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Taking some convalescent wanders around Reading, the narrator of The Constitutionals, a figure haunted by being called Crusoe in childhood, also `sets out to avert global catastrophe, hoping to... -
Collecting, Curating, and Researching Writers' Libraries: A Handbook by Richard W. Oram 9781442234970
Booksplease Price: £90.57Academic collection practices in recent years have extended to the private libraries of notable individual authors. As a consequence, book historians have become more interested in the study of... -
Wild Twin Jeff Young 9781915068408
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24'To become invisible is what I want most, the dream of disappearing.'One morning in the 1970s Jeff Young slips out of his parents home with the intention of hitch-hiking to Paris in search of a... -
The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950 by Carmen Callil 9781849016766
Booksplease Price: £20.70For Colm Toibin and Carmen Callil there is no difference between literary and commercial writing - there is only the good novel: engrossing, inspirational, compelling. In their selection of the best... -
Seeing Further Esther Kinsky 9781804271162
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23While travelling through the Great Alfoeld, the vast plain in south-eastern Hungary, Esther Kinsky stops in a small town near the Romanian border. Like many other things, the cinema, 'mozi' in... -
Contemporary British Fiction by Nick Bentley 9780748624201
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.04This critical guide introduces major novelists and themes in British fiction from 1975 to 2005. It engages with concepts such as postmodernism, feminism, gender and the postcolonial, and examines the... -
![Underground London: Travels Beneath the City Streets by Stephen Smith 9780349115658 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9665895/10682615/9780349115658__45353.1781288671.jpg?c=1 "Underground London: Travels Beneath the City Streets by Stephen Smith 9780349115658 [USED COPY]")
Underground London: Travels Beneath the City Streets by Stephen Smith 9780349115658 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.32What is visible to the naked eye has been exhaustively raked over; in UNDERGROUND LONDON, acclaimed travel writer Stephen Smith provides an alternative guide and history of the capital. It's a... -
![The Vorrh: Book One in the Vorrh Trilogy by Brian Catling 9781473606630 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9672888/10689608/9781473606630__93694.1781295239.jpg?c=1 "The Vorrh: Book One in the Vorrh Trilogy by Brian Catling 9781473606630 [USED COPY]")
The Vorrh: Book One in the Vorrh Trilogy by Brian Catling 9781473606630 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.41'A benchmark not just for imaginative writing but for the human imagination in itself...Read this book, and marvel.' Alan Moore'A work of genius.' Iain Sinclair'Brian Catling is simply a genius. His... -
My Battle of Hastings: Chronicle of a Year by the Sea by Xiaolu Guo 9781529918670
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'This is urgent, compelling but also delightful writing' Lauren ElkinIn the depths of winter, Xiaolu Guo moves into a tiny dilapidated flat on the Hastings seafront - a room of her own where she can... -
How Pale the Winter Has Made Us by Adam Scovell 9781910312452
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Isabelle is alone in Strasbourg. The day after her partner leaves to travel abroad, she receives news of her father's suicide, his body found hanging in a park back home in Crystal Palace. Isabelle... -
Underground London: Travels Beneath the City Streets by Stephen Smith 9780349115658
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.88What is visible to the naked eye has been exhaustively raked over; in UNDERGROUND LONDON, acclaimed travel writer Stephen Smith provides an alternative guide and history of the capital. It's a... -
The Vorrh: Book One in the Vorrh Trilogy by Brian Catling
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'A benchmark not just for imaginative writing but for the human imagination in itself...Read this book, and marvel.' Alan Moore'A work of genius.' Iain Sinclair'Brian Catling is simply a genius. His... -
BOWIELAND: Walking In The Footsteps Of David by Peter Carpenter 9781800961562
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Fabulous... What a ghost story! A ripping read.' IAIN SINCLAIR, author of London Orbital'Vividly celebrates Bowie as not just a chameleonic visionary, but a nomadic one, a creature informed by place... -
Spatial Politics in Contemporary London Literature: Writing Architecture and the Body by Laura Colombino 9781138547506
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.34This book analyses the spatial politics of a range of British novelists writing on London since the 1950s, emphasizing spatial representation as an embodied practice at the point where the... -
A Sleepwalk on the Severn by Alice Oswald 9780393355970
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.12A Sleepwalk on the Severn is a reflective, book-length poem in several registers, using dramatic dialogue. Ghostly, meditative, and characterized by Alice Oswald's signature sensitivity to nature,... -
Bold Ventures: Thirteen Tales of Architectural Tragedy Charlotte Van den Broeck 9781784743987
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.33'Bold Ventures resembles a pop version of Iain Sinclair's psychogeography or Out of Sheer Rage, Geoff Dyer's anti-biography of DH Lawrence' Olivia Laing, GUARDIAN'A marvel: a monument to human beings... -
Into the Night: A Year with the Police by Matt Lloyd-Rose 9781035004249
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.99As heard on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week.'Told with the verve and immediacy of a novel' - Iain SinclairA vividly told yet reflective account of a year as a volunteer police officer, examining the... -
Into the Night: A Year with the Police by Matt Lloyd-Rose 9781035004287
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02As heard on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week.'Told with the verve and immediacy of a novel' - Iain SinclairA vividly told yet reflective account of a year as a volunteer police officer, examining the... -
I'm working here: Collected Poems by Anna Mendelssohn 9781848617148
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £40.48Born near Manchester in 1948, Anna Mendelssohn authored poetry, fiction, drama, and life writing; she was also a visual artist, musician, and translator. From 1971 to 1977 she served time at Holloway... -
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The Wye Plays: The Back of Beyond and the Battle of the Crows by David Ian Rabey 9781841501154 [USED COPY]
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £3.16A first volume of plays by a startlingly ambitious and inventive dramatist. The Back of Beyond takes, as its starting point, the route of a sequel to King Lear, in which the surviving...