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Romance in Marseille by Claude McKay
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23While stowed away on a transatlantic freighter, Lafala is discovered and locked away in an icy-cold closet, resulting in the loss of his frostbitten legs. When his successful lawsuit against the... -
Barley Patch Gerald Murnane 9781916751149
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60Published in Australia in 2009, Barley Patch was Murnane's first book in fourteen years, written after a period in which he had thought he would never write fiction again. The book begins with the... -
Taduno's Song by Odafe Atogun 9781782118053
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Burning with magic and loss, exile and return, beauty and heartache, Taduno's Song is a colossal epic, disguised as a small novel' MARLON JAMES, Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History Of... -
Taduno's Song by Odafe Atogun
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £3.39The day a stained brown envelope arrives from Taduno's homeland, he knows that the time has come to return from exile. Back in Nigeria, Taduno discovers that his community no longer recognises him,... -
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Taduno's Song by Odafe Atogun 9781782118053 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.39'Burning with magic and loss, exile and return, beauty and heartache, Taduno's Song is a colossal epic, disguised as a small novel' MARLON JAMES, Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History Of... -
Reading Coetzee's Women by Sue Kossew 9783030197797
Booksplease Price: £92.21This is the first book to focus entirely on the under-researched but crucial topic of women in the work of J. M. Coetzee, generally regarded as one of the world's most significant living writers. The... -
Re-Imagining the Limits of the Human by Patrycja Austin 9783631780541
RRP: £45.95Booksplease Price: £41.58The essays collected in this book touch upon-from a variety of perspectives-the question of how the understanding of what is human has changed in the twenty-first century. The authors, exploring the... -
The Cambridge Companion to Ian McEwan by Dominic Head 9781108480338
Booksplease Price: £82.70This Companion showcases the best scholarship on Ian McEwan's work, and offers a comprehensive demonstration of his importance in the canon of international contemporary fiction. The whole career is... -
Reading Coetzee's Women by Sue Kossew 9783030197766
Booksplease Price: £90.03This is the first book to focus entirely on the under-researched but crucial topic of women in the work of J. M. Coetzee, generally regarded as one of the world's most significant living writers. The... -
Hermeneutics as Politics: Second Edition by Robert B. Pippin 9780300099874
Booksplease Price: £27.47Hermeneutics as Politics, perhaps the most important critique of post-modern thought ever written, is here reissued in a special fifteenth anniversary edition. In a new foreword, Robert B. Pippin... -
Dirt Road by James Kelman 9781782118251
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99Shortlisted for Saltire Fiction Book of the Year 2016'A celebration of what it is to be human' SpectatorMurdo, a teenager obsessed with music, dreams of a life beyond home. His recently widowed dad,... -
The Cambridge Companion to the African Novel by F. Abiola Irele 9780521855600
Booksplease Price: £51.51Africa's strong tradition of storytelling has long been an expression of an oral narrative culture. African writers such as Amos Tutuola, Naguib Mahfouz, Wole Soyinka and J. M. Coetzee have adapted... -
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Dinner with Mugabe: The Untold Story of a Freedom Fighter Who Became a Tyrant by Heidi Holland 9780141040790 [USED COPY]
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £2.19This penetrating, timely portrait of Robert Mugabe is the psychobiography of a man whose once brilliant career has ruined Zimbabwe and cast shame on the African continent. Heidi Holland's tireless... -
Faces and Masks of Ugliness in Literary Narratives by Ryszard W. Wolny 9783631645451
RRP: £34.60Booksplease Price: £31.80This collection of essays deals primarily with the idea of ugliness as represented in a variety of literary narratives in English. Shakespeare's Caliban and his depiction in The Tempest and its... -
Dinner with Mugabe: The Untold Story of a Freedom Fighter Who Became a Tyrant by Heidi Holland
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.23This penetrating, timely portrait of Robert Mugabe is the psychobiography of a man whose once brilliant career has ruined Zimbabwe and cast shame on the African continent. Heidi Holland's tireless... -
The Ethics of Exile: Colonialism in the Fictions of Charles Brockden Brown and J.M. Coetzee by Timothy F. Strode 9780415867245
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98The book investigates the problem of how narrative, normally conceived of temporally, encodes its relation to space, especially the territorial space that is the subject of colonial possession and... -
Postcolonial Narrative and the Work of Mourning: J.M. Coetzee, Wilson Harris, and Toni Morrison by Sam Durrant 9780791459454
RRP: £72.50Booksplease Price: £69.61Sam Durrant's powerfully original book compares the ways in which the novels of J. M. Coetzee, Wilson Harris, and Toni Morrison memorialize the traumatic histories of racial oppression that continue... -
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Memories Of A Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy 9780099283454 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £1.82Blending memories and family myths, Mary McCarthy takes us back to the twenties, when she was orphaned in a world of relations as colourful, potent and mysterious as the Catholic religion. There... -
Cultured Violence: Narrative, Social Suffering, and Engendering Human Rights in Contemporary South Africa by Rosemary Jolly 9781846318733
Booksplease Price: £29.41Cultured Violence explores contemporary South African culture as a test case for the achievement of democracy by constitutional means in the wake of prolonged and violent conflict. The book... -
Modernist Crisis and the Pedagogy of Form: Woolf, Delany, and Coetzee at the Limits of Fiction by Dr. Matthew Cheney 9781501355912
Booksplease Price: £102.21What is the role of the author in times of crisis? Modernist Crisis and the Pedagogy of Form examines how Virginia Woolf, Samuel R. Delany, and J. M. Coetzee developed literary strategies in common... -
Animal Fables after Darwin: Literature, Speciesism, and Metaphor by Chris Danta 9781108428200
Booksplease Price: £99.43The ancient form of the animal fable, in which the characteristics of humans and animals are playfully and educationally intertwined, took on a wholly new meaning after Darwin's theory of evolution... -
Face by Cecile Pineda 9781609403454
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £10.39When it was first published in 1985, Face met with critical acclaim and established Cecile Pineda among the very first Latina writers in the United States to be published by a major New York house... -
Creaturely Forms in Contemporary Literature: Narrating the War Against Animals by Dominic O'Key 9781350189676
Booksplease Price: £31.52We are living through a period of planetary crisis, a time in which the mass production and consumption of some animals is made possible by the mass extinction of many others. What is the role of... -
Imagination and the Contemporary Novel by John J. Su 9781107645974
Booksplease Price: £43.34Imagination and the Contemporary Novel examines the global preoccupation with the imagination among literary authors with ties to former colonies of the British Empire since the 1960s. John Su draws... -
Modernist Crisis and the Pedagogy of Form: Woolf, Delany, and Coetzee at the Limits of Fiction by Dr. Matthew Cheney 9781501373169
Booksplease Price: £34.84What is the role of the author in times of crisis? Modernist Crisis and the Pedagogy of Form examines how Virginia Woolf, Samuel R. Delany, and J. M. Coetzee developed literary strategies in common... -
The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction by Dr. David James 9781107012523
Booksplease Price: £99.73An engagement with the continued importance of modernism is vital for building a nuanced account of the development of the novel after 1945. Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars... -
Libra by Don DeLillo 9780141041995
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.47Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. Friday, November 22, 1963. 12.30 PM.Shots ring out. A president dies. And a nation is plunged into psychosis. Don DeLillo's extraordinary Libra is a brilliant reimagining... -
Staying On by Paul Scott
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Tusker and Lily Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return 'home' when Tusker, once a Colonel in the British Army, retired, they chose instead to remain in the small hill town of Pangkot,... -
Approaches to Teaching Coetzee's 'Disgrace' and Other Works by Laura Wright 9781603291392
Booksplease Price: £31.33The novels of the South African writer J. M. Coetzee won him global recognition and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. His work offers substantial pedagogical richness and challenges. Coetzee... -
Damned to Fame: the Life of Samuel Beckett by James Knowlson 9780747531692
Booksplease Price: £20.99_______________ 'A triumph of scholarship and sympathy... one of the great post-war biographies' - Independent 'A landmark in scholarly criticism... Knowlson is the world's largest Beckett... -
Twenty-First-Century Fiction: A Critical Introduction by Peter Boxall 9780521187299
Booksplease Price: £26.61The widespread use of electronic communication at the dawn of the twenty-first century has created a global context for our interactions, transforming the ways we relate to the world and to one... -
Creaturely Forms in Contemporary Literature: Narrating the War Against Animals by Dominic O'Key 9781350189621
Booksplease Price: £95.49Through close readings of works by W. G. Sebald, J. M. Coetzee and Mahasweta Devi, this book explores how contemporary authors are rethinking the relations between humans and other animals in an age... -
Ishq And Mushq by Priya Basil 9780552773843
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16'Take off your clothes I want to see you' Karam said.Just a few words, spoken like a caress made Sarna start wondering. Where did he learn such new and passionate techniques?When Sarna Singh leaves... -
The Death of Jesus by J.M. Coetzee
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12The luminous new novel from 'one of the best writers of our time', double Booker Prize winner J. M. Coetzee.'Full of truth, tearfully moving to read... Brilliant' Evening StandardSimon and David - a... -
Beyond the Ancient Quarrel: Literature, Philosophy, and J.M. Coetzee by Patrick Hayes 9780198805281
Booksplease Price: £100.23In Plato's Republic, Socrates spoke of an 'ancient quarrel between literature and philosophy' which he offered to resolve once and for all by banning the poets from his ideal city. Few philosophers... -
Twenty-First-Century Fiction: A Critical Introduction by Peter Boxall 9781107006911
Booksplease Price: £82.70The widespread use of electronic communication at the dawn of the twenty-first century has created a global context for our interactions, transforming the ways we relate to the world and to one... -
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"Wooden Man"?: Masculinities in the Work of J.M. Coetzee ("Boyhood", "Youth" and "Summertime") by Daniel Matias 9781433138065
RRP: £90.40Booksplease Price: £79.85This book addresses the representation of masculinities in the work of J. M. Coetzee, with a particular focus on the writer's trilogy: Boyhood (1997), Youth (2002) and Summertime (2009)... -
Personal Identity and Literature by Patrick Colm Hogan
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19In Personal Identity and Literature, Hogan examines what makes an individual a particular, unique self. He draws on cognitive and affective science as well as literary works - from Walt Whitman and... -
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The Archers Miscellany by Joanna Toye 9781846077548 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.25The first official trivia collection from Britain's best-loved radio drama. Have you ever wondered about the attractions at Ambridge fetes? Puzzled over who the winners were at the Flower and... -
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov 9781857151886
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.74An autobiographical volume which recounts the story of Nabokov's first forty years up to his departure from Europe for America at the outset of World War Two. It tells of his emergence as a writer,...