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Mad Muse: The Mental Illness Memoir in a Writer's Life and Work by Jeffrey Berman 9781789738100
Booksplease Price: £25.54Mental illness can often be the driving force behind creativity. This relationship is never more apparent than in the memoirs of writers who have lived, worked and created with a mental illness. Mad... -
The Secular Rabbi: Philip Rahv and Partisan Review by Doris Kadish
Booksplease Price: £119.01The Secular Rabbi is an intellectual biography of Philip Rahv, co-founder of Partisan Review, which T.S. Eliot called the best American literary periodical. It focuses on the ambivalent ties that... -
Personal Souths: Interviews from the Southern Quarterly by Douglas B. Chambers 9781617032905
Booksplease Price: £88.90Personal Souths, a collection of 20 interviews with famous southern writers, will mark the 50th anniversary of The Southern Quarterly, one of the oldest scholarly journals (founded in 1962) dedicated... -
The Secular Rabbi: Philip Rahv and Partisan Review by Doris Kadish 9781837641420
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £31.16The Secular Rabbi is an intellectual biography of Philip Rahv, co-founder of Partisan Review, which T.S. Eliot called the best American literary periodical. It focuses on the ambivalent ties that... -
Personal Souths: Interviews from the Southern Quarterly by Douglas B. Chambers 9781617032912
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Personal Souths, a collection of 20 interviews with famous southern writers, will mark the 50th anniversary of The Southern Quarterly, one of the oldest scholarly journals (founded in 1962) dedicated... -
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... -
Dog Eat Dog (film Tie-in) by Edward Bunker 9780857301147
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £3.39THREE MEN - TWO CONVICTIONS - ONE LAST SCORE - NO MORE CHANCES Carved from a lifetime of experience that runs the gamut from incarceration to liberation. DOG EAT DOG is the story of three men fresh... -
Bullies and Cowards: The West Point Hazing Scandal, 1898-1901 by Philip Leon 9780313312229
Booksplease Price: £75.81When Oscar Booze entered West Point in 1898, the older cadets decided that he did not conform to their image of what a cadet should be. After four months of constant torment, including a beating in... -
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9780521766203
Booksplease Price: £88.60This eighteenth and final volume in the Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald is a variorum edition of The Great Gatsby (1925), the author's masterpiece. The variorum text is based on... -
Biofiction: An Introduction by Michael Lackey
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.66Biofiction: An Introduction provides readers with the history, origins, evolution, and legitimization of biofiction, suggesting potential lines of inquiry, exploring criticisms of the literary form,... -
A History of Virginia Literature by Kevin J. Hayes 9781107057777
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £99.73A History of Virginia Literature chronicles a story that has been more than four hundred years in the making. It looks at the development of literary culture in Virginia from the founding of... -
Speaking of Sadness: Depression, Disconnection, and the Meanings of Illness, Updated and Expanded Edition by David A. Karp 9780190260965
RRP: £26.49Booksplease Price: £22.48Combining a scholar's care and thoroughness with searing personal insight, David A. Karp brings the private experience of depression into sharp relief, drawing on a remarkable series of intimate... -
Language: Vintage Minis by Xiaolu Guo
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.85Have you ever tried to learn another language? When Zhuang first arrives in London from China she feels like she is among an alien species. The city is disorientating, the people unfriendly, the... -
Sacred Groves and Ravaged Gardens: The Fiction of Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O'Connor by Louise Westling 9780820332024
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £29.07In Sacred Groves and Ravaged Gardens, Louise Westling explores how the complex, difficult roles of women in southern culture shaped the literary worlds of Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and Flannery... -
Percival Everett by Virgil Russell by Percival Everett 9781555976347
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £10.95A story inside a story inside a story. A man visits his aging father in a nursing home, where his father writes the novel he imagines his son would write. Or is it the novel that the son imagines his... -
The Immoderate Past: The Southern Writer and History by C. Hugh Holman 9780820333571
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £26.00The Immoderate Past deals with the southern writer's preoccupation with history, concentrating on representative novelists from three major periods. Finding the origins of this preoccupation in the... -
Portraits from Paris: School and Travel Remembered from the City of Light by Gavin Cologne-Brookes 9780807183953
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12Written between 2019 and 2024, Portraits from Paris is a novelized memoir of a boarding-school childhood in 1970s England, interspersed with journalistic sketches of cities as diverse as Montevideo,... -
The Paris Review Interviews: Vol. 4 Philip Gourevitch 9781847674494
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Since The Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest writers of our age. Here is the fourth collection of brilliant interviews to be gathered... -
Dangerous Art: On Moral Criticisms of Artwork by James Harold 9780197519769
RRP: £61.00Booksplease Price: £48.49Dangerous Art takes up the problem of judging works of art using moral standards. When we think that a work is racist, or morally dangerous, what do we mean? James Harold approaches the topic from... -
Let Not the Waves of the Sea by Simon Stephenson
Booksplease Price: £20.70LET NOT THE WAVES OF THE SEA is Simon Stephenson's account of his journey following the loss of his brother in the Indian Ocean tsunami. If it is a story of grief, it is also a story of hope and of... -
Cotton's Queer Relations: Same-sex Intimacy and the Literature of the Southern Plantation, 1936-1968 by Michael P. Bibler 9780813927923
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02Finally breaking through heterosexual cliches of flirtatious belles and cavaliers, sinister black rapists and lusty 'Jezebels', ""Cotton's Queer Relations"" exposes the queer dynamics embedded in... -
The Subject of Holocaust Fiction by Emily Miller Budick 9780253016263
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £52.39Fictional representations of horrific events run the risk of undercutting efforts to verify historical knowledge and may heighten our ability to respond intellectually and ethically to human... -
One Friday in April: A Story of Suicide and Survival by Donald Antrim 9781324005568
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.99As the sun lowered in the sky one Friday afternoon in April 2006, acclaimed author Donald Antrim found himself on the roof of his Brooklyn apartment building, afraid for his life. In this moving... -
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald 9780521890472
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.57This first edition ever published of Trimalchio, an early and complete version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby now appears in paperback. Fitzgerald wrote the novel as... -
Baldwin, Styron and Me Mlikah Abdelmoumen 9781771966269
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26An unlikely literary friendship from the past sheds light on the radicalization of public debate around identity, race, and censorship.In 1961, James Baldwin spent several months in William Styron's... -
The Subject of Holocaust Fiction by Emily Miller Budick
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14Fictional representations of horrific events run the risk of undercutting efforts to verify historical knowledge and may heighten our ability to respond intellectually and ethically to human... -
Not Heaven but Paradise Michael Mewshaw 9781609531522
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.63The son of a Spanish mother and an American father who claimed to have worked for the CIA, Paul Stewart lives in his family home, a carmen in the Albaicin district of Granada. The house, which... -
Fictional Characters, Real Problems: The Search for Ethical Content in Literature by Garry L. Hagberg 9780198715719
Booksplease Price: £112.65Literature is a complex and multifaceted expression of our humanity of a kind that is instructively resistant to simplification; reduction to a single element that would constitute literature's... -
Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo and Me by Ellen Forney
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.41Shortly before her thirtieth birthday, Forney was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Suffering from (but enjoying) extreme mania, and terrified that medication would cause her to lose creativity, she... -
The Oxford Book of the American South: Testimony, Memory, and Fiction by Edward L. Ayers 9780195124934
RRP: £25.49Booksplease Price: £18.48The Oxford Book of the American South resonates with the words of black people and white, women and men, the powerless as well as the powerful. The collection presents the most telling fiction and... -
Philip Roth: The Biography by Blake Bailey
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.54'Superlative... definitive and genuinely gripping' SUNDAY TIMES'Utterly engrossing' EVENING STANDARD'Compulsively readable... Beautifully written... Definitive' OBSERVER Appointed by Philip Roth and... -
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50 Psychology Classics: Who We Are, How We Think, What We Do by Tom Butler-Bowdon 9781857883862 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.53In a journey spanning 50 books, hundreds of ideas and over a century, 50 Psychology Classics looks at some of the most intriguing questions relating to what motivates us, what makes us feel and act... -
Novel Sounds: Southern Fiction in the Age of Rock and Roll by Florence Dore
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.57The 1950s witnessed both the birth of both rock and roll and the creation of Southern literature as we know it. Around the time that Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley put their electric spin on Southern... -
STRAY DOGS by Richard John Parfitt
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64Turner is a high school dropout newly arrived in Toronto. After taking a job selling dictionaries for a local grifter named Romeo Silva, the day goes wrong and Turner gets into a fight with a biker... -
Speaking of Sadness: Depression, Disconnection, and the Meanings of Illness by David A. Karp 9780195094862
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £40.87Speaking of Sadness explores depression as a human experience, not just as a disease. Each of the pieces of the depression puzzle is examined, including interactions with family and friends,... -
A Mood Apart: Depression, Mania, and Other Afflictions of the Self by Peter Whybrow
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50When first published in 1997 this ground-breaking work on the science of mood both redefined the field and,with compassion, understanding, and scientific rigor,made it accessible to those who would... -
Novel Sounds: Southern Fiction in the Age of Rock and Roll by Florence Dore 9780231185226
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £78.51The 1950s witnessed both the birth of both rock and roll and the creation of Southern literature as we know it. Around the time that Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley put their electric spin on Southern... -
Nat Turner: A Slave Rebellion in History and Memory by Kenneth S. Greenberg 9780195177565
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.30Nat Turner's name rings through American history with a force all its own. Leader of the most important slave rebellion on these shores, variously viewed as a murderer of unarmed women and children,... -
Admitting the Holocaust: Collected Essays by Lawrence L. Langer 9780195106480
RRP: £12.49Booksplease Price: £9.70In the face of the Holocaust, writes Lawrence L. Langer, our age clings to the stable relics of faded eras, as if ideas like natural innocence, innate dignity, the inviolable spirit, and the triumph... -
Bieganski: The Brute Polak Stereotype in Polish-Jewish Relations and American Popular Culture by Danusha V. Goska 9781936235155
Booksplease Price: £75.50Winner of the 2010 Halecki Award for Outstanding Book on the Polish Experience in America In this study, Goska exposes one stereotype of Poles and other Eastern Europeans. In the...