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A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37On his travels through the wild mountainous terrain of the Caucasus, the narrator of A Hero of Our Time chances upon the veteran soldier and storyteller Maxim Maximych, who relates to him the dubious... -
Adventures of the Spirit: The Older Woman in the Works of Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, and Other Contemporary Women Writers by Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis 9780814210642
RRP: £87.95Booksplease Price: £78.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814210642Author Phyllis Sternberg PerrakisFormat HardbackPage Count 321 -
The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem by Julie Phillips 9780393088595
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.41What does it mean to create, not in "a room of one's own" but in a domestic space? Do children and genius rule each other out? In The Baby on the Fire Escape, award-winning biographer Julie Phillips... -
British Experimental Women's Fiction, 1945-1975: Slipping Through the Labels by Andrew Radford 9783030727680
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £109.76This book scrutinizes a range of relatively overlooked post-WWII British women writers who sought to demonstrate that narrative prose fiction offered rich possibilities for aesthetic innovation. What... -
British Experimental Women's Fiction, 1945-1975: Slipping Through the Labels by Andrew Radford 9783030727659
RRP: £119.99Booksplease Price: £112.12This book scrutinizes a range of relatively overlooked post-WWII British women writers who sought to demonstrate that narrative prose fiction offered rich possibilities for aesthetic innovation. What... -
Empire's Son, Empire's Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah Nile Green 9781324002413
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £20.99Claiming to come from Afghanistan, Ikbal and Idries Shah convinced spies, poets, orientalists, diplomats, occultists, hippies and even a prime minister that they held the keys to understanding the... -
The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem by Julie Phillips
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.38What does it mean to create, not in "a room of one's own" but in a domestic space? Do children and genius rule each other out? In The Baby on the Fire Escape, award-winning biographer Julie Phillips... -
Free Woman by Lara Feigel
Booksplease Price: £11.78'A fascinating mix of literary criticism, cultural history and memoir ... Highly enjoyable' Sunday Times How might we live more freely, and will we be happier or lonelier if we do? Rereading The... -
Literature and Institutions of Welfare Dr Jess Cotton 9781843847311
Booksplease Price: £30.43Perspectives on the ways in which welfarist ideology has underpinned the teaching, reading and production of literature from the 1930s to the present. The welfare state in Britain established a... -
The Abandoners: Of Mothers and Monsters Begoña Gómez Urzaiz 9780008656072
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.79'The best kind of book: the one you didn't know you were craving until it appeared ... self-interrogative, intricately perceptive. I absolutely inhaled it' JIA TOLENTINO ... -
The Abandoners: Of Mothers and Monsters Begoña Gómez Urzaiz 9780008656119
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780008656119Author Begona Gomez UrzaizFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Impr -
Reading Women's Worlds from Christine de Pizan to Doris Lessing: A Guide to Six Centuries of Women Writers Imagining Rooms of Their Own by S. Jansen 9780230110663
Booksplease Price: £46.74In this work, Jansen explores a recurring theme in writing by women: the dream of finding or creating a private and secluded retreat from the world of men. These imagined "women's worlds" may be... -
The Cruft of Fiction: Mega-Novels and the Science of Paying Attention by David Letzler
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £39.50A 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title What is the strange appeal of big books? The mega-novel, a genre of erudite tomes with encyclopedic scope, has attracted wildly varied responses, from... -
Reading Women's Worlds from Christine de Pizan to Doris Lessing: A Guide to Six Centuries of Women Writers Imagining Rooms of Their Own by S. Jansen 9781137386229
Booksplease Price: £46.28In this work, Jansen explores a recurring theme in writing by women: the dream of finding or creating a private and secluded retreat from the world of men. These imagined "women's worlds" may be... -
The Book of Not by Tsitsi Dangarembga
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THIS MOURNABLE BODY and NERVOUS CONDITIONSONE OF THE BBC'S 100 WOMEN FOR 2020As Zimbabwe emerges into independence, Tambudzai Sigauke embarks on her second... -
Life Writing and the End of Empire: Homecoming in Autobiographical Narratives Emma Parker 9781350353831
Booksplease Price: £30.84The dismantlement of the British Empire had a profound impact on many celebrated white Anglophone writers of the twentieth century, particularly those who were raised in former British colonial... -
The Inheritors by William Golding
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.81Hunt, trek, and feast among Neanderthals in this stunning novel by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, introduced by Ben Okri.This was a different voice; not the voice of the... -
Great Writers and the Cats who Owned Them Susannah Fullerton 9781851246540
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.39Throughout history, cats and writers have bonded together in a magical combination of comfort, companionship and inspiration. The famous authors featured here range from Samuel Johnson, whose cat... -
The Healer and The Healed: An Exploration into the Analyst-Analysand Patterning in Doris Lessing'sSelf Representational Novels andAutobiographies by Sajeesh S 9788193593042
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788193593042Author Sajeesh SFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint -
Motherhood and Creativity in Contemporary Self-Life Writing: Writers and Mothers Alice Braun 9781032609836
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This book aims to study the representation of motherhood in self-life writing by English-speaking authors. It highlights the particular issues women writers are faced with when they try to combine... -
The Housemaid's Daughter Barbara Mutch 9780755392124
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.00Duty and love collide on the arid plains of central South Africa. Previously released as 'Karoo Plainsong' this is a fully revised debut novel.Cathleen Harrington leaves her home in Ireland in 1919... -
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga 9780571368129
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THIS MOURNABLE BODY, ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 WOMEN FOR 2020 'UNFORGETTABLE' Alice Walker 'THIS IS THE BOOK WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR' Doris Lessing 'A UNIQUE... -
Quite Literally: Problem Words and How to use Them by Wynford Hicks
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79This is a guide to English usage for readers and writers, professional and amateur, established and aspiring, formal trainees and those trying to break in; students of English, both language and... -
Apocalyptic Patterns in Twentieth-Century Fiction by David Leigh
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £60.24David J. Leigh explores the innovative influences of the Book of Revelation and ideas of an end time on fiction of the twentieth century, and probes philosophical, political, and theological issues... -
Social Texts and Context: Literature and Social Psychology Jonathan Potter 9781032575179
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £29.49First published in 1984, Social Texts and Context illustrates the ways in which familiar psychological concepts - femininity, the environment, groups, the self - are constructed in discourse. Novels... -
Apocalyptic Patterns in Twentieth-Century Fiction by David J. Leigh
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £20.45David J. Leigh explores the innovative influences of the Book of Revelation and ideas of an end time on fiction of the twentieth century, and probes philosophical, political, and theological issues... -
Bleak Liberalism by Amanda Anderson
Booksplease Price: £27.62Why is liberalism so often dismissed by thinkers from both the left and the right? To those calling for wholesale transformation or claiming a monopoly on "realistic" conceptions of humanity,... -
Dissolve Nikki Gemmell 9780733650635
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Every woman on Earth should read it' Caroline Overington, Weekend AustralianHaving lived through the humiliation and bewildering complexity of heartbreak in her twenties, Nikki Gemmell eventually... -
Social Texts and Context: Literature and Social Psychology by Jonathan Potter 9781032575131
Booksplease Price: £110.39First published in 1984, Social Texts and Context illustrates the ways in which familiar psychological concepts - femininity, the environment, groups, the self - are constructed in discourse. Novels... -
Where No Man has Gone Before: Essays on Women and Science Fiction Lucie Armitt 9780415752268
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £57.54How do women writers use science fiction to challenge assumptions about the genre and its representations of women?To what extent is the increasing number of women writing science fiction... -
A Partisan View: Five Decades in the Politics of Literature by William Phillips
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49Since its founding in 1937, "Partisan Review" has been one of the most important and culturally influential journals in America. Under the legendary editorship of William Phillips and Philip Rahv,... -
The Novel Today: A Critical Guide to the British Novel 1970-1989 by Allan Massie 9780582004078
Booksplease Price: £47.29This is a survey of contemporary British fiction. Focussing primarily on the distinctive achievement and personality of each writer, the author also discusses the contribution of British fiction to... -
The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them by Antonia Fraser
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.99The inspiration for the annual Pleasure of Reading Prize A charming and revealing collection of essays from some of our best-loved writers about the pleasures of reading, with royalties donated to... -
The Adventures Of Augie March by Saul Bellow 9781857152159
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.73The fictional autobiography of a rumbustious adventurer and poker-player who sets off his native Chicago in the spirit of a latter-day Columbus to rediscover the world-and more especially,... -
Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £12.49***BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK***'Funny, lively and convivial... how rare and nourishing this sort of roaming thought is and what a joy to read' MEGAN NOLAN, SUNDAY TIMES'An exhilarating,... -
James Merrill Poems James Merrill 9781841598086
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49James Merrill once called his poetic works 'chronicles of love and loss', and in twenty books written over four decades he used the details of his life - comic and haunting, exotic and domestic - to... -
Postcolonial Nostalgias: Writing, Representation and Memory Dennis Walder 9780415628297
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59This book offers an original and informed critique of a widespread, yet often misunderstood, condition - nostalgia, a pervasive human emotion connecting people across national, historical, and... -
Feminism and Contemporary Women Writers: Rethinking Subjectivity by Radha Chakravarty
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98This book attempts to deal with the problem of literary subjectivity in theory and practice. The works of six contemporary women writers - Doris Lessing, Anita Desai, Mahasweta Devi, Buchi Emecheta,... -
Translating Women: Different Voices and New Horizons by Luise von Flotow 9780367595937
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This book focuses on women and translation in cultures 'across other horizons' well beyond the European or Anglo-American centres. Drawing on transnational feminist connections, its editors have... -
Tastes of Honey: The Making of Shelagh Delaney and a Cultural Revolution by Professor Selina Todd 9781784703486
Booksplease Price: £13.16'A sympathetic and perceptive account of a fine writer at a critical moment in our cultural life' KEN LOACHOn 27 May 1958, A Taste of Honey opened in a small fringe theatre in London. Written by a...