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The Rivals Of Dracula by Nick Rennison 9781843446323
Booksplease Price: $19.25Bram Stoker's Dracula, still the most famous of all vampire stories, was first published in 1897. But the bloodsucking Count was not the only member of the undead to bare his fangs in the literature... -
Death, Money and the Vultures (Routledge Revivals): Inheritance and Avarice 1660-1750 John Addy 9780415706773
Booksplease Price: $17.60By the latter half of the seventeenth century, the practice of drawing up a will had become commonplace, and people were increasingly encouraged to set down their final wishes in a 'last will and... -
Sherlock's Sisters: The British Female Detective, 1864-1913 by Joseph A. Kestner
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $55.57Sherlock's Sisters: The British Female Detective, 1864-1913 examines the fictional female detective in Victorian and Edwardian literature. This character, originating in the 1860s, configures a new... -
Locked-in Syndrome after Brain Damage: Living within my head Barbara Wilson 9781138700406
Booksplease Price: $42.94The newest title in the series Survivor Stories, this book tells the story of Paul Allen, a photographer who likes opera and was a good baritone singer. At the age of 56 he sustained a stroke that... -
Biotechnology: Between Commerce and Civil Society by Nico Stehr 9781138507708
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $59.25"While other books have addressed isolated aspects of recent developments in the biomedical sciences, Biotechnology: Between Commerce and Civil Society is the first book tgo engage with the full... -
Monstrous Media/Spectral Subjects: Imaging Gothic from the Nineteenth Century to the Present by Fred Botting 9780719089770
RRP: $116.10Booksplease Price: $84.95Monstrous media/spectral subjects explores the intersection of monsters, ghosts, representation and technology in Gothic texts from the nineteenth century to the present. It argues that emerging... -
Monstrous Media/Spectral Subjects: Imaging Gothic from the Nineteenth Century to the Present by Fred Botting
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $24.79Monstrous media/spectral subjects explores the intersection of monsters, ghosts, representation and technology in Gothic texts from the nineteenth century to the present. It argues that emerging... -
Morality and the Law in British Detective and Spy Fiction, 1880-1920 by Kate Morrison 9781476677194
RRP: $51.59Booksplease Price: $43.83Who decides what is right or wrong, ethical or immoral, just or unjust? In the world of crime and spy fiction between 1880 and 1920, the boundaries of the law were blurred and justice called into... -
Femininity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature and Society: From Dagger-Fans to Suffragettes by E. Godfrey 9780230300316
Booksplease Price: $60.29This exploration into the development of women's self-defence from 1850 to 1914 features major writers, including H.G. Wells, Elizabeth Robins and Richard Marsh, and encompasses an unusually... -
All the Things I Lied About by Katie Bonna 9781786821881
Booksplease Price: $17.13Would the world be a better place if we were all honest? Fringe First winner Katie Bonna is giving a TED talk on the science of lying. Well, that's not quite true. TED haven't actually asked her... -
Ink and Spirit: Literature and Spirituality by Stephen Platten 9781853113635
Booksplease Price: $15.83As suspicious as one often is of the other, literature and spirituality enjoy a rich and deep relationship. They have been inextricably linked since narrative and symbol first met in the earliest... -
Femininity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature and Society: From Dagger-Fans to Suffragettes by E. Godfrey 9781349336104
Booksplease Price: $59.70This exploration into the development of women's self-defence from 1850 to 1914 features major writers, including H.G. Wells, Elizabeth Robins and Richard Marsh, and encompasses an unusually... -
Writing London: Volume 3: Inventions of the City by Julian Wolfreys 9780230008953
Booksplease Price: $59.70This book stages a series of interventions and inventions of urban space between 1880 and 1930 in key literary texts of the period. Making sharp distinctions between modernity and modernism, the... -
Writing London: Volume 3: Inventions of the City by J. Wolfreys 9781349284399
Booksplease Price: $59.70This book stages a series of interventions and inventions of urban space between 1880 and 1930 in key literary texts of the period. Making sharp distinctions between modernity and modernism, the... -
Dirty Great Love Story by Katie Bonna
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $16.11Two hopeful, hapless romantics get drunk, get it on, and then get the hell away from each other. In her eyes, he's a mistake. A mistake who keeps turning up at parties. In his eyes, she's perfect... -
In Darkest London: The Gothic Cityscape in Victorian Literature by Jamieson Ridenhour 9780810887770
Booksplease Price: $97.79During the 19th century, London was a complex, vibrant, and multi-faceted city, the first true metropolis. As such, it contained within it a widely disparate array of worlds and cultures... -
Dark Entries by Robert Aickman
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.07'Reading Robert Aickman is like watching a magician work, and very often I'm not even sure what the trick was. All I know is that he did it beautifully.' Neil GaimanFor fans of the BBC's Inside... -
The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century by Eric J. Guignard
Booksplease Price: $17.92A chilling addition to the acclaimed Haunted Library of Horror Classics series, complete with annotations and extra materialsWithin a decade of the 1818 publication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein,... -
The American Imperial Gothic: Popular Culture, Empire, Violence by Johan Hoglund 9781138249103
RRP: $70.94Booksplease Price: $66.55The imagination of the early twenty-first century is catastrophic, with Hollywood blockbusters, novels, computer games, popular music, art and even political speeches all depicting a world consumed... -
British Detective Fiction, 1891-1901: The Successors to Sherlock Holmes by Clare Clarke 9781137595621
Booksplease Price: $72.39This book examines the developments in British serial detective fiction which took place in the seven years when Sherlock Holmes was dead. In December 1893, at the height of Sherlock's popularity... -
Why the Wheel Is Round: Muscles, Technology, and How We Make Things Move by Steven Vogel
Booksplease Price: $25.95There is no part of our bodies that fully rotates-be it a wrist or ankle or arm in a shoulder socket, we are made to twist only so far. And yet there is no more fundamental human invention than the...