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After A Funeral by Diana Athill
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31This is the story of how and why a talented writer came to take his own life. When Diana Athill met the man she calls Didi, an Egyptian in exile, she fell in love instantly and out of love just... -
The Chandelier Clarice Lispector 9780241371343
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Clarice Lispector's masterly second novel, now available in English for the first time'She found the best clay that one could desire: white, supple, sticky, cold ... She would get a clear and tender... -
Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things that Matter by Diana Athill
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31What matters in the end? In the final years of life, which memories stand out? Writing from her retirement home in Highgate, London, as she approaches her 100th year, Diana Athill recalls in... -
Instead of a Letter Diana Athill (Y) 9781783787432
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Despite her family's ailing finances, Diana Athill's childhood - spent in a lovely house in Norfolk - was blissful. In 1932, she fell in love with Paul: an undergraduate who tutored her younger... -
Difference In View: Women And Modernism by Gabriele Griffin
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.66This collection of essays challenges conceptions of "high" modernism, its preoccupation with style at the expense of issues such as race, class and gender, and its exclusive focus both on... -
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A Florence Diary by Diana Athill 9781783783168 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.84In August 1947, Diana Athill travelled to Florence by the Golden Arrow train for a two-week holiday with her good friend Pen. In this playful diary of that trip, Athill recorded her observations and... -
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Instead Of A Letter by Diana Athill 9781847084286 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £4.81Diana Athill's childhood was idyllic, brought up in the Norfolk countryside. Aged only fifteen, she fell in love with a young undergraduate. They travelled to Oxford, engaged to be married. Then... -
The Old Slave and the Mastiff: The gripping story of a plantation slave's desperate escape by Patrick Chamoiseau
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A profoundly unsettling story of a plantation slave's desperate escape into a rainforest beyond human control, with his master and a ferocious dog on his heels. This flight to freedom takes them on... -
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Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things that Matter by Diana Athill 9781783782543 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.54Several years ago, Diana Athill accepted that she could no longer live entirely independently, and moved to a retirement home in Highgate. There, she found herself released from the daily anxieties... -
Selected Poems by William Yeats
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31W.B. Yeats's Selected Poems is edited with an introduction and notes by Timothy Webb in Penguin Modern Classics.Few have lived their ideas so passionately and nobly as W.B. Yeats in his love affairs,... -
Instead of a Book: Letters to a Friend by Diana Athill 9781847084897
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £66.89Written in an even more vivid and direct style than her celebrated memoirs, Diana Athill's letters to the American poet Edward Field reveal a sharply intelligent woman with a brilliant sense of... -
Katherine Mansfield: A Literary Life by Angela Smith 9780333618783
Booksplease Price: £90.56In a letter, Katherine Mansfield writes: 'I hate the sort of licence that English people give themselves - to spread over and flop and roll about. I feel as fastidious as though I write with acid'... -
Katherine Mansfield: A Literary Life by Angela Smith 9780333618776
Booksplease Price: £90.56In a letter, Katherine Mansfield writes: 'I hate the sort of licence that English people give themselves - to spread over and flop and roll about. I feel as fastidious as though I write with acid'... -
The Brontes by Patricia Ingham 9780582327276
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £59.09The novels of Charlotte and Emily Bronte have become canonical texts for the application of twentieth century literary and cultural theory. Along with the work of their sister, Anne, their texts are... -
Travel and Modernist Literature: Sacred and Ethical Journeys by Alexandra Peat 9781138868847
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.29Through close readings of works from Henry James to W. E. B. Du Bois, and from Virginia Woolf to Jean Rhys, this book discusses how fictional travelers negotiate and adapt various tropes of travel... -
The Creation of Half-Broken People by Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu 9781487013271
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £17.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487013271Author Siphiwe Gloria NdlovuFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint House of Anansi Press... -
Tides by Sara Freeman
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.50A compelling, compact novel about a woman who walks out of her life and washes up in an out-of-season seaside town - from a powerful new Canadian-British voice After a sudden, devastating loss,... -
Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Albinus - rich, married middle-aged and respectable - is an art critic and aspiring filmmaker who lusts after the coquettish young cinema usherette Margot. Gradually he seduces her and convinces... -
Time, Space, and Place in Charlotte Bronte by Diane Long Hoeveler 9780367880927
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80Organized thematically around the themes of time, space, and place, this collection examines Charlotte Bronte in relationship to her own historical context and to her later critical reception, takes... -
The Swimmers by Marian Womack
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.64"A richly imagined eco-gothic tale." - The Guardian "Exquisitely realised." - The Times After the ravages of the Green Winter, Earth is a place of deep jungles and monstrous animals. The last... -
Howards End by E. M. Forster 9781857150254
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41The story of a house and two sisters, Howards End is also a subtle meditation on national, sexual and social identities. Half German by birth and middle-class English by upbringing, Helen and... -
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford 9781857150209
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46This is the story of fatal attraction and its consequences. The American narrator's highly-strung wife falls for his bluff, inarticulate English friend. Retrospectively piecing the story together,... -
Neo-Georgian Fiction: Reimagining the Eighteenth Century in the Contemporary Historical Novel Jakub Lipski 9781032003894
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.97This book contributes to the development of contemporary historical fiction studies by analysing neo-Georgian fiction, which, unlike neo-Victorian fiction, has so far received little critical... -
Make Believe: A True Story by Diana Athill
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Following a turbulent upbringing, a history of addiction and a committal to an asylum, the teachings of Malcolm X changed Hakim Jamal's life. He became an eloquent, rousing spokesperson for the... -
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 9780141393391
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.39One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'A stunning new clothbound edition of Mary Shelley's infamous work of horror fiction, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These... -
Dubliners by James Joyce 9780141182452
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42James Joyce's Dubliners is an enthralling collection of modernist short stories which create a vivid picture of the day-to-day experience of Dublin life. This Penguin Classics edition includes notes... -
Neo-Georgian Fiction: Reimagining the Eighteenth Century in the Contemporary Historical Novel by Jakub Lipski 9780367430146
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.51This book contributes to the development of contemporary historical fiction studies by analysing neo-Georgian fiction, which, unlike neo-Victorian fiction, has so far received little critical... -
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad 9781857151237
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.94This is the only novel that Conrad set in London, and it communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894. Verloc, (a... -
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05Thomas Mann's first great novel, written at the age of 25, is an epic study of decadence among the merchant families of Hamburg at the end of the nineteenth century. The novel is based on Mann's own... -
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Angels And Insects by A. S. Byatt 9780099224310 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.97Like A.S. Byatt's Booker Prize-winning novel, Possession, these two mesmerising novellas are set in the nineteenth century. In Morpho Eugenia, an explorer realises that the behaviour of the people... -
Ulysses: Annotated Students' Edition by James Joyce
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £20.89For Joyce, literature 'is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man'. Written between 1914 and 1921, Ulysses has survived bowdlerization, legal action and bitter controversy. An undisputed... -
Wave Me Goodbye: Stories of the Second World War by Anne Boston
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Fascinating . . . a poignant book . . . an unusual and absolutely authentic view of those convulsive years' OBSERVER 'Each story in Wave Me Goodbye is a relic of the Second World War' SUNDAY TIMES... -
The Regime of the Brother: After the Patriarchy by Juliet Flower MacCannell
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37The Regime of the Brother is one of the first attempts to challenge modernity on its own terms. Using the work of Lacan, Kristeva and Freud, Juliet MacCannell confronts the failure of modernity to... -
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 9780143122494
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51A Christmas Carol has had an enduring influence on the way we think about the traditions of Christmas ever since it was first published in December 1843. Dickens's story of solitary miser Ebenezer... -
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.97At the Tabard Inn in Southwark, a jovial group of pilgrims assembles, including an unscrupulous Pardoner, a noble-minded Knight, a ribald Miller, the lusty Wife of Bath, and Chaucer himself. As they... -
Angels And Insects by A. S. Byatt
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Like A.S. Byatt's Booker Prize-winning novel, Possession, these two mesmerising novellas are set in the nineteenth century. In Morpho Eugenia, an explorer realises that the behaviour of the people... -
Caribbean Literature in English Louis James 9780582493544
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £92.46Caribbean Literature in English places its subject in its precise regional context. The `Caribbean', generally considered as one area, is highly discrete in its topography, race and languages,... -
Jane Eyre's Fairytale Legacy at Home and Abroad: Constructions and Deconstructions of National Identity by Dr. Abigail L. Heiniger
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80Exploring the literary microcosm inspired by Bronte's debut novel, Jane Eyre's Fairytale Legacy at Home and Abroad focuses on the nationalistic stakes of the mythic and fairytale paradigms that were... -
The Pictorial Third: An Essay Into Intermedial Criticism by Liliane Louvel 9780367666552
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.51The Pictorial Third: An Essay into Intermedial Criticism examines the extent to which poetry intertwines with painting and the visual at large, and studies the singular relationship established... -
A Malgudi Omnibus by R K Narayan 9780749396046
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Discover one of India's most valued and adored twentieth-century novelists, including his novel Swami and Friends.Here are three of R. K. Narayan's most famous and best loved novels: Swami and...