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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... -
The Poem and the Journey: 60 Poems for the Journey of Life by Ruth Padel 9780099492948
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.35Prize-winning poet Ruth Padel is renowned as a guide to understanding today's poetry. Her much-loved 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem introduced the contemporary poetry scene and discussed individual... -
Every Wrong Direction: An Emigre's Memoir by Dan Burt
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £24.54Every 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... -
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Excuse Me - Learning About Politeness by Brian Moses 9780750221382 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £2.54Deals with politeness, looking at situations where children may be rude or badly-behaved. The book encourages courtesy towards others in situations such as on the bus and at mealtimes. It shows how... -
What to Look for in Winter by Candia McWilliam 9780099539537
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Candia McWilliam had just joined the judging panel of the Man Booker Prize for fiction in 2006 when she started to lose her sight. The gradual onset of blindness seemed especially cruel to someone... -
These Silent Mansions: A life in graveyards by Jean Sprackland
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'A refreshingly original meditation... I wish I had written it myself' Literary ReviewGraveyards are oases: places of escape, peace and reflection. Liminal sites of commemoration, where the past is... -
Spark's Satire: Aiding and Abetting: The Abbess of Crewe: Robinson Muriel Spark 9781782117674
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.51From a fraudulent psychiatrist grappling with two equally fraudulent clients in Aiding and Abetting, to the dirty dealings of The Abbess of Crewe's band of corrupt nuns, to the three plane crash... -
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Discover the number one bestselling phenomenon that is a powerful and profound mediation on grief expressed through the trials of training a goshawk.**WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR**** WINNER... -
My Sour-Sweet Days: George Herbert's Poems Through Lent by Mark Oakley
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64George Herbert is one of the great 17th century poet-priests. His poems embrace every shade of the spiritual life, from love and closeness, to anger and despair, to reconciliation and hope. And his... -
Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry: Hardy to Mahon by Michael O'Neill 9780631215103
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £29.46Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry 'This authoritative yet accessible book carries the reader deep into the rewards of modern poetry. O'Neill and Callaghan combine their own subtly informed... -
Magnum Contact Sheets by Kristen Lubben 9780500292914
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £33.33Few photography books can lay claim to being truly groundbreaking. The first edition of Magnum Contact Sheets was one of them. This exceptional book, presented here in a new, accessible format for... -
Beowulf by Seamus Heaney 9780393320978
Booksplease Price: £10.27Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel... -
Woman Much Missed: Thomas Hardy, Emma Hardy, and Poetry by Mark Ford 9780192886804
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £23.75Woman Much Missed is the first book-length study of the many poems (over 150) that Thomas Hardy composed in the wake of the death of his first wife Emma in November of 1912. Mark Ford uses these... -
The House of Shadows by Kate Williams 9781409139966
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £2.55'Brilliant - a passionate and poignant story of a glittering family on the precipice of a vanished world' Lisa HiltonA family destroyed by war. A secret that could change everything.Celia De Witt is... -
The Ancient Guide to Modern Life by Natalie Haynes
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.64It's time for us to re-examine the past. Our lives are infinitely richer if we take the time to look at what the Greeks and Romans have given us in politics and law, religion and philosophy and... -
A Concise Companion to Postwar British and Irish Poetry Nigel Alderman (Mount Holyoke College, USA) 9781405129244
RRP: £93.95Booksplease Price: £83.21This volume introduces students to the most important figures, movements and trends in post-war British and Irish poetry. An historical overview and critical introduction to the poetry published in... -
Life Under Water by Maura Dooley 9781852248178
Booksplease Price: £8.95Maura Dooley's poetry is remarkable for embracing both lyricism and political consciousness, for its fusion of head and heart. These qualities have won her wide acclaim. Helen Dunmore (in "Poetry... -
Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World by Leah Broad
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.80*WINNER OF THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY STORYTELLING AWARD**SHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2023*The lives, loves, adventures and trailblazing musical careers of four... -
Black and Female by Tsitsi Dangarembga
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'A woman's defiant fight to write.' ObserverBeing categorised as black and female does not constrain my writing. Writing assures me that I am more the merely blackness and femaleness. Writing assures... -
Natural Mechanical by J O Morgan 9781909585522
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.33Handicapped at school by his dyslexia and facing the strap at home, Rocky seeks out his own education from the fields and streams around him on the Isle of Skye. He develops an instinctive talent for... -
Old Masters in Marrakesh James Debens 9781068495847
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Max Marwell is caught between running his global art business and dealing with his own past and that of the Jewish people. Born and raised in Linz, Austria, the hometown of Hitler and Eichmann, he is... -
Blood Knots: Of Fathers, Friendship and Fishing Luke Jennings 9781848871335
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23As a child in the 1960s, Luke Jennings was fascinated by the rivers and lakes around his Sussex home. Beneath their surfaces, it seemed to him, waited alien and mysterious worlds. With library books... -
Midlife Mind: Literature and the Art of Ageing by Ben Hutchinson
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £24.24The meaning of life is a common concern, but what is the meaning of midlife? With the help of illustrious writers such as Dante, Montaigne, Beauvoir, Goethe, and Beckett, The Midlife Mind sets out to... -
Spark's Europe: Not to Disturb: The Takeover: The Only Problem Muriel Spark 9781782117650
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95From the grimly gothic Not to Disturb to the razor-sharp dissection of manners The Takeover and the mordantly brilliant The Only Problem, in a panoramic sweep taking in the shores of the Italian... -
Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95An autobiographical work that describes firsthand the great tectonic shifts in English society following the First World War, Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That is a matchless evocation of the Great... -
Let's Celebrate!: Festival Poems from Around the World Debjani Chatterjee 9781847804792
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40This exciting anthology of poems celebrates festivals all over the world. From Chinese New Year to Carnival, from Thanksgiving to Holi, and from Purnima to Diwali.This book of poetry includes... -
Midsummer Nights: Tales from the Opera:: with Kate Atkinson, Sebastian Barry, Ali Smith & more by Jeanette Winterson
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In celebration of the Glyndebourne Festival, Jeanette Winterson has brought together some of the best loved and most critically acclaimed authors writing today to pen stories inspired by opera... -
Quartet: How Four Women Challenged the Musical World by Leah Broad 9780571366118
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £8.99*WINNER OF THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY STORYTELLING AWARD**SHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2023*The lives, loves, adventures and trailblazing musical careers of four... -
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Swimming with My Father by Tim Jeal 9780571221011 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £1.92'Exquisitely written and wonderfully readable - There are tears, laughter and filial tenderness on every page of Tim Jeal's perfect gem of a book.' Val Hennessy, Daily MailAn exquisite and moving... -
Starborn by Lucy Hounsom
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Shortlisted for the 2016 David Gemmell Morningstar Award for Best Debut Death and destruction will bar her way. . . Kyndra's fate holds betrayal and salvation, but the journey starts in her small... -
Forever Today: A Memoir Of Love And Amnesia by Deborah Wearing
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Clive Wearing has one of the most extreme cases of amnesia ever known. In 1985, a virus completely destroyed a part of his brain essential for memory, leaving him trapped in a limbo of the constant... -
The New Oxford Book of Sixteenth-Century Verse by Emrys Jones 9780199561339
RRP: £27.49Booksplease Price: £24.40The sixteenth century has long been acknowledged the 'Golden Age' of English verse - with such names as Shakespeare, Donne, and Spenser to its credit it could hardly be otherwise. Yet this anthology,... -
Dylan's Visions of Sin Christopher Ricks 9780857862013
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.55'I consider myself a poet first and a musician second''It ain't the melodies that're important man, it's the words'There is no shortage of books about Bob Dylan. This one, however, is unique in its... -
Out of the Cage: The Art of Isabel Rawsthorne by Carol Jacobi
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.10"I love this book! Brilliant biography of the...utterly fascinating artist Isabel Rawsthorne" Jennifer Higgie "Every page is gripping, fascinating, forcefully and excitingly written, and sad."... -
Song of the Huntress: A captivating folkloric fantasy of treachery, loyalty and lost love by Lucy Holland 9781529077407
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.19FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SISTERSONG'Lucy Holland's lyrical prose and powerful storytelling will lure you in' Jennifer Saint, author of AriadneA must-read for fans of Circe, Song of the Huntress... -
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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes 9780007149537 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.40Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books, Richard Holmes's dazzling portrait of the age of great scientific discovery is a groundbreaking... -
Collected Poems by Michael Longley
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74Michael Longley has been called 'one of the finest lyric poets of our time'. In assembling the work of forty years, his Collected Poems displays a brilliantly sustained achievement whose depth,... -
The Double Life of Bob Dylan Volume 2: 1966-2021: ‘Far away from Myself’ Clinton Heylin 9781529923797
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £20.25In 2016 it was announced that Bob Dylan had sold his personal archive to the George Kaiser Foundation in Tulsa, Oklahoma, reportedly for $22 million. As the boxes started to arrive, the Foundation...