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Post-Apocalyptic Culture: Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Twentieth-Century Novel by Teresa Heffernan
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.92In Post-Apocalyptic Culture, Teresa Heffernan poses the question: what is at stake in a world that no longer believes in the power of the end? Although popular discourse increasingly understands... -
A Voyage Around the Queen Craig Brown 9780008557522
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £17.84From one of the funniest writers of our time, the award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of One Two Three Four and Ma'am Darling turns his attention to Queen Elizabeth II in an...Qty in Cart: 0Price:RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £17.84Subtotal: -
Storied Cities: Literary Imaginings of Florence, Venice, and Rome by Michael L. Ross 9780313287176
Booksplease Price: £76.81The fabled cities of Italy--Florence, Venice, and Rome--have each acquired a distinctive tradition of literary representation involving characteristic, recurrent motifs and symbolic signatures. A... -
The Ice Age: poems by Paul Farley 9780330484534
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Paul Farley's debut collection, The Boy From the Chemist is Here to See You, was one of the most celebrated debuts of the nineties. The poems in The Ice Age are as engaged and engaging as ever, but... -
Hill of Doors by Robin Robertson 9781447231547
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22Charged with strangeness and beauty, Hill of Doors is a haunted and haunting book, where each successive poem seems a shape conjured from the shadows, and where the uncanny is made physically present... -
Colonialism and Homosexuality by Robert Aldrich
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.67Colonialism and Homosexuality is a thorough investigation of the connections of homosexuality and imperialism from the late 1800s - the era of 'new imperialism' - until the era of decolonization... -
Modernism and the Culture of Efficiency: Ideology and Fiction by Evelyn Cobley 9780802099570
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £45.70Modernism and the Culture of Efficiency engages with the idea of efficiency as it emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century. Evelyn Cobley's close readings of modernist British fiction by... -
Tuscan Spaces: Literary Constructions of Space by Silvia M. Ross
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.92An important locus for English-speaking writers, the region of Tuscany is also well represented in the Italian literary canon. In Tuscan Spaces, Silvia Ross focuses on constructions of Tuscany in... -
Sour Grapes by Dan Rhodes 9781785632921
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.67When the sleepy English village of Green Bottom hosts its first literary festival, the good, the bad and the ugly of the book world descend upon its leafy lanes. But the villagers are not prepared... -
On Being Ill by Virginia Woolf
RRP: £5.00Booksplease Price: £4.62'Novels, one would have thought, would have been devoted to influenza, epic poems to typhoid, odes to pneumonia, lyrics to toothache. But no - with a few exceptions - literature does its best to... -
The Handbook to the Bloomsbury Group by Derek Ryan 9781350143654
Booksplease Price: £38.80The Handbook to the Bloomsbury Group is the most comprehensive available survey of contemporary scholarship on the Bloomsbury Group - the set of influential writers, artists and thinkers whose... -
Erotic Stories Rowan Pelling 9781841596143
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.79A perfect gift of timeless erotic stories ranging from ancient Greek myth to modern stories of longing and lust. This beautifully jacketed Everyman's Library Pocket Classics hardcover anthology has a... -
Downriver by Sean O'Brien
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78While Downriver contains the English urban pastoral and hymns to the Northern deities for which Sean O'Brien is justly celebrated, the poet has always been more a singer than even his many admirers... -
Alan Hollinghurst: Writing Under the Influence by Michele Mendelssohn
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £79.50This groundbreaking, cross-generic collection is the first to consider the entire breadth of Alan Hollinghurst's Booker Prize-winning writing. Focused through the concept of influence, the volume... -
Love Poems by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Whether writing of longing or seduction, of passion, adultery, or simple, everyday acts of love, Carol Ann Duffy perfectly captures the truth of each experience. Love Poems contains some of her most... -
How To Read Shakespeare Nicholas Royle 9781862077300
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.39William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is perhaps the most famous as well as strangest and most inventive poet and dramatist of all time. Although dead for hundreds of years, he is everywhere - in books and... -
How Should One Read a Book? by Virginia Woolf 9781913724474
RRP: £5.00Booksplease Price: £4.62First delivered as a speech to schoolgirls in Kent in 1926, this enchanting short essay by the towering Modernist writer Virginia Woolf celebrates the importance of the written word. With a measured... -
Forms of Life: Character and Moral Imagination in the Novel by Martin Price 9780300180206
Booksplease Price: £38.84The novel contains imagined lives that achieve a kind of meaning and intensity our own lives do not. Out of the novelist's moral imagination-the breadth and depth of his awareness of human... -
Mr Phillips by John Lanchester
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31One warm July morning Mr Phillips climbs out of bed, leaving Mrs Phillips dozing. He prepares for his commute into the city - but this is no ordinary Wednesday. It is a day on which Mr Phillips will... -
Mayflies by Andrew O'Hagan 9780571273713
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'A stunning novel.' Graham Norton** Pre-order Andrew O'Hagan's new novel Caledonian Road now ** Winner of the Christopher Isherwood PrizeShortlisted for the Portico PrizeA Guardian, Spectator, Sunday... -
Rocket and Lightship: Essays on Literature and Ideas by Adam Kirsch 9780393243468
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.15Adam Kirsch has been described as "elegant and astute-[a] critic of the very first order" (The New York Times). In Rocket and Lightship he examines the work and life of writers past and present, from... -
Alan Hollinghurst: Writing Under the Influence by Michele Mendelssohn 9781526134288
Booksplease Price: £23.54This groundbreaking, cross-generic collection is the first to consider the entire breadth of Alan Hollinghurst's Booker Prize-winning writing. Focused through the concept of influence, the volume... -
Critical Theory and Dystopia by Patricia McManus 9781526139757
Booksplease Price: £20.46Critical theory and dystopia offers a uniquely rich study of dystopian fiction, drawing on the insights of critical theory. Asking what ideological work these dark imaginings perform, the book... -
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Glyn Maxwell
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.05A new version, from award-winning poet Glyn Maxwell, of Robert Louis Stevenson's Gothic masterpiece. A decent man finds himself stalked and confronted by his own evil alter-ego.A decent man finds... -
Fictions of India: Narrative and Power Peter Morey 9780748611812
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £29.50Fictions of India explores the relation of narrative technique to issues of power in the work of selected writers dealing with India. It examines the imperial context in which the writers operate and... -
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 9781913724726
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.33First published in 1925, set 'one Wednesday in mid-June', Mrs Dalloway charts the lives of several characters across a day in London. While Clarissa Dalloway goes about preparing for a high-society... -
The Illuminations by Andrew O'Hagan
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.81How much do we keep from the people we love? Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? Can we learn from the past or must we forget it? Standing one evening at the window of her house by the sea,... -
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Mayflies by Andrew O'Hagan 9780571273713 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £4.11'A stunning novel.' Graham Norton** Pre-order Andrew O'Hagan's new novel Caledonian Road now ** Winner of the Christopher Isherwood PrizeShortlisted for the Portico PrizeA Guardian, Spectator, Sunday... -
Selected Prose Works 9780472050956
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £17.08"A timely and significant supplement to C. P. Cavafy's poetic canon, the Selected Prose Works, eloquently translated and meticulously annotated by Peter Jeffreys, allows readers yet another creative... -
Literary Research and British Modernism: Strategies and Sources by Alison M. Lewis 9780810869011
Booksplease Price: £61.04Focusing on work produced between 1880 and 1945, Literary Research and British Modernism: Strategies and Sources provides scholars with the necessary methods and tools for studying the literature of... -
Siegfried Sassoon: The Making of a War Poet, A biography (1886-1918) by Jean Moorcroft Wilson 9780415973847
Booksplease Price: £42.85Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), soldier, poet, and witness to a century of war, is an icon of the twentieth century; Jean Moorcroft Wilson is the leading authority on him. In this two-volume... -
Glyn Maxwell: Plays One by Glyn Maxwell 9781840025903
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £23.24A history, a legend, a rumour - three stories drawn from the shadows of England..."The Lifeblood" depicts the last days of Mary Queen of Scots, as four men weave about her a web of love and hatred;... -
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf 9781913724009
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.65In October 1928 Virginia Woolf was asked to deliver speeches at Newnham and Girton Colleges on the subject of 'Women and Fiction'; she spoke about her conviction that 'a woman must have money and a... -
Donald Windham: A Bio-Bibliography by Bruce Kellner 9780313268571
Booksplease Price: £35.84Bruce Kellner worked directly from the collection of often-overlooked novelist Donald Windham to produce this reference work. Entries on books, pamphlets, articles and criticism provided a... -
Glyn Maxwell: Plays Two by Glyn Maxwell 9781840026153
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £18.80Glyn Maxwell's "Plays One" saw this internationally-renowned poet's historical plays collected together for the first time. In "Plays Two", the settings are highly contemporary, and the plays are... -
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9781857150841
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.08This autobiography includes the record of a sexual and spiritual quest, exploring the deepest recesses of the author's mind while narrating the farcical comedy of errors which was his life. P.N... -
The Missing of the Somme Geoff Dyer 9781782119265
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The Missing of the Somme has become a classic meditation upon war and remembrance. It weaves a network of myth and memory, photos and films, poetry and sculptures, graveyards and ceremonies that... -
Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It Geoff Dyer 9780857864062
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95From Amsterdam to Cambodia, from Rome to Indonesia, from New Orleans to Libya, and from Detroit to Ko Pha-Ngan, Geoff Dyer finds himself both floundering about in a sea of grievances and finding... -
Fragrant Harbour by John Lanchester
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'It's Hong Kong,' she said. 'Heung gong. Fragrant harbour.'Fragrant Harbour is the story of four people whose intertwined lives span Asia's last seventy years. Tom Stewart leaves England to seek his... -
Thomas Hardy: Interviews and Recollections by James Gibson 9780333247884
Booksplease Price: £45.31Hardy was an unknown architect in 1870, a famous novelist by 1895, and acknowledged as a great novelist, poet and epic-dramatist when he died in 1928. With fame came a never-ending stream of friends...