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Complete Poetry, Translations & Selected Prose Bernard Spencer 9781852248918
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.80Bernard Spencer (1909-63) was a distinctive voice in 20th-century English poetry, and a central figure in the Personal Landscape group of wartime Cairo writers. He spent much of his life working for... -
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The Durrells of Corfu by Michael Haag 9781781257883 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.55The Durrell family are immortalised in Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals and its ITV adaptation, The Durrells. But what of the real life Durrells? Why did they go to Corfu in the first... -
The Isles of Greece John Lucas 9781906011161
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.45For travellers through the Aegean from Odysseus onwards, the Greek islands have proved to be places of beauty and enchantment, but also of violence, of love and death. "Isles of Greece" doesn't plot... -
Genius Loci: An Essay on the Meanings of Place by John Dixon
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £24.54For Romans, genius loci was literally 'the genius of the place', the presiding divinity who inhabited a site and gave it meaning; while we are less attuned to divinity today, we still sense that a... -
My Afterlife Guaranteed by Nanos Valaoritis 9780872862487
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68Full of wit and wonder, these prose poems, meditations, and narratives open onto rare and unexpected vistas of history and myth, language, and the art of writing. "...one of the most distinguished... -
The Gnostics by Jacques Lacarrière 9780872862432
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Gnostics have always sought to "know" rather than to accept dogma and doctrine, often to their peril. This inquiry into Gnosticism examines the character, history, and beliefs of a brave and vigorous... -
Alexandria: City of Memory by Michael Haag 9780300191127
Booksplease Price: £53.23A luminous portrait of the now-vanished cosmopolitan city and those who inhabited it during the first half of the 20th century This book is a literary, social, and political portrait of Alexandria... -
The Rilke of Ruth Speirs: New Poems, Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus, & Others: 2015 by Rainer Maria Rilke 9781909747128
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is universally recognized as among the most important twentieth-century German-language poets. Here, for the first time, are all the surviving translations of his... -
The Making of a Counter-Culture Icon: Henry MIller's Dostoevsky by Maria Bloshteyn 9780802092281
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £47.25At first glance, the works of Fedor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) do not appear to have much in common with those of the controversial American writer Henry Miller (1891-1980). However, the influencer of... -
Rhodes in Ancient Times: First Published in 1885, a revised edition with additional material by Cecil Torr 9780953992362
Booksplease Price: £16.52"Not the shadow of a smile disturbs the dry exposition of the scholarly Englishman [Cecil Torr] who has given us the best historical monograph on the island... Read him and you will see why..."... -
Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A cult modern classic, Tropic of Capricorn is as daring, frank and influential as Henry Miller first novel, Tropic of Cancer -- new to Penguin Modern Classics with a cover by Tracey EminA story of... -
To the Middle of Love Omar Sabbagh 9781910836507
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.49In his fourth full collection, Omar Sabbagh's finely tuned ear is increasingly acute to the nuances of love and life, belonging and exile. His voice is distinctive, sharp, intense and the cool turn... -
Via Negativa by Omar Sabbagh 9780993168239
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.76A novella exploring identity and interior landscape by a widely published Lebanese-British poet and critic.About the AuthorDr. Omar Sabbagh is a widely published poet and critic. His work has... -
George Seferis: Waiting for the Angel, A Biography by Roderick Beaton 9780300197563
Booksplease Price: £48.81The first biography in any language of one of the world's greatest modernist poets Poet, essayist, diarist, novelist, and diplomat, George Seferis brought about a revolution in the way people viewed... -
The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'Out of the sea, as if Homer himself had arranged it for me, the islands bobbed up, lonely, deserted, mysterious in the fading light'Enraptured by a young woman's account of the landscapes of Greece,... -
Gerald Durrell: The Authorised Biography by Douglas Botting 9780006387305
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.99The authorised biography of the great naturalist and conservationist Gerald Durrell, who died aged seventy in January 1995 in Jersey, where he founded the zoo he'd dreamed of as a small boy and... -
Henry James and Homo-Erotic Desire by John Bradley 9780312217648
Booksplease Price: £90.56Sheldon M. Novick has written an extensive biographical introduction. This is complimented by an essay documenting James's friendships with younger men, which includes quotations from unpublished... -
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Gerald Durrell: The Authorised Biography by Douglas Botting 9780006387305 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £2.41The authorised biography of the great naturalist and conservationist Gerald Durrell, who died aged seventy in January 1995 in Jersey, where he founded the zoo he'd dreamed of as a small boy and... -
Diplomacy and the Modern Novel: France, Britain, and the Mission of Literature by Isabelle Daunais
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £37.56Between 1900 and 1960, many writers in France and Britain either had parallel careers in diplomatic corps or frequented diplomatic circles: Paul Claudel, Albert Cohen, Lawrence Durrell, Graham... -
Pathways to a New Environmental Ethic: Decentering the Human Subject Steven E. Alford 9781476692944
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £33.98We are living through a time when the extinction of humanity itself looms on our generational horizon. While technological approaches to climate mitigation are admirable, our current ecological... -
The Tragedy of the Templars: The Rise and Fall of the Crusader States Michael Haag 9781846684517
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49In 1187, nearly a century after the victorious First Crusade, Saladin captured Jerusalem. The Templars, headquartered on the Temple Mount, were driven from the city along with the Frankish population... -
Psychoanalytic and Cultural Aspects of Trauma and the Holocaust: Between Postmemory and Postmemorial Work Rony Alfandary (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) 9781032228891
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £31.52Psychoanalytic and Cultural Aspects of Trauma and the Holocaust presents interdisciplinary postmemorial endeavors of second-, third- and fourth-generation Holocaust survivors living in Israel and in... -
Whatever Happened to Margo? by Margaret Durrell
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.03*With a foreword from Gerald Durrell* In 1947, returning to the UK with two young children to support, Margaret Durrell starts a boarding house in Bournemouth. But any hopes of respectability are... -
Rhodes in Modern Times: First Published in 1887, a revised edition with additional material, including a prologue by Elias Kollias by Cecil Torr 9780953992324
Booksplease Price: £16.22Cecil Torr's 19th-century studies of Rhodes, in the Greek Dodecanese, off the coast of Asia Minor, were the first and most authoritative English guides to the island's multi-layered history: nothing... -
Disarming Words: Empire and the Seductions of Translation in Egypt by Shaden M. Tageldin 9780520265523
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £34.73In a book that radically challenges conventional understandings of the dynamics of cultural imperialism, Shaden M. Tageldin unravels the complex relationship between translation and seduction in the... -
Alexandria: A History and Guide by E.M. Forster
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.99With a novelist's pen, Forster brings to life the fabled, romantic city of Alexander the Great, capital of Graeco-Roman Egypt, beacon of light and culture symbolised by the Pharos, where the doomed... -
Conversations with Graham Swift by Donald P. Kaczvinsky 9781496828460
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Conversations with Graham Swift is the first collection of interviews conducted with the author of the Booker Prize-winning novel Last Orders. Beginning in 1985 with Swift's arrival in New York to... -
An Alexandria Anthology: Travel Writing Through the Centuries Michael Haag 9789774166723
Booksplease Price: £13.26Founded by Alexander the Great over 2,300 years ago, Alexandria has belonged both to the Mediterranean and to Egypt, a luxuriant out-planting of Europe on the coast of Africa, but also a city of the... -
Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch by Henry Miller
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.09In his great triptych "The Millennium," Bosch used oranges and other fruits to symbolize the delights of Paradise. Whence Henry Miller's title for this, one of his most appealing books; first... -
Remember To Remember by Henry Miller 9780811201131
Booksplease Price: £20.71This collection of stories and essays takes its title from a long prose reverie in which Henry Miller, after his return to the United States, thinks back to the happy years of middle life which he... -
The Novel of the Future by Anais Nin
Booksplease Price: £13.19In The Novel of the Future, Anais Nin explores the act of creation-in film, art, and dance as well as literature-to chart a new direction for the young artist struggling against what she perceived as... -
For Echo by Omar Sabbagh 9781788641487
Booksplease Price: £14.64A thought-provoking collection that delves into the depths of human emotions, relationships, and the power of language and art, often depicting a sense of longing, loss, and the search for meaning... -
Reading Fiona Sampson: A Study in Contemporary Poetry and Poetics by Omar Sabbagh 9781839984532
Booksplease Price: £25.71This book-length study of an eminent, distinguished and influential poet and contemporary woman of letters integrates analysis and a honed interpretation of the near-total gamut of the oeuvre to-date... -
The Foreign Woman in British Literature: Exotics, Aliens, and Outsiders by Marilyn Demarest Button 9780313309281
Booksplease Price: £76.51While England has been strengthened by a proud isolationism, she has simultaneously been enriched by the economic, social, and political complexities that have emerged as people of different ethnic... -
PN Review 277 by Michael Schmidt 9781800174207
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61The May-June 2024 issue. Since we started as Poetry Nation, a twice yearly hardback, in 1973, we've been publishing new poetry, rediscoveries, commentary, literary essays, interviews and reviews from... -
Approaches to Teaching the Works of C. P. Cavafy Peter Jeffreys 9781603296519
Booksplease Price: £31.33A gay poet-historian writing from and about the edges of empiresKnown as a preeminent poet of queer male desire, C. P. Cavafy lived most of his life as part of the Greek minority community in... -
Approaches to Teaching the Works of C. P. Cavafy by Peter Jeffreys 9781603296502
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £69.61A gay poet-historian writing from and about the edges of empiresKnown as a preeminent poet of queer male desire, C. P. Cavafy lived most of his life as part of the Greek minority community in... -
C.P. Cavafy in the English and American Literary Scenes: Authorising the Other Foteini Dimirouli 9780198851431
RRP: £77.00Booksplease Price: £70.98C.P. Cavafy in the English and American Literary Scenes: Authorizing the Other explores the global reputation of the Greek-Alexandrian poet C.P. Cavafy in relation to literary networks of the... -
The Concept of Community: Readings with Interpretations by Scott Greer
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37"Community" is a basic concept, perhaps the basic concept, in social science and in social philosophy. Its meanings are many and varied, yet it is pre-eminent in discussions of man and his world. The... -
Imagining Yugoslavia in Mid-Century British and Irish Writing Guy Woodward 9780198973423
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £89.54During the Second World War, Britain was both strategically and imaginatively invested in Yugoslavia. The Balkan state was celebrated and idealized in home front propaganda as a site of resistance, a...