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The Romantics by Pankaj Mishra
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR'If you buy one literary novel this year, make sure it's this' THE TIMES'The Romantics looks to Flaubert's Sentimental Education, to E.M. Forster, to Turgenev... -
Music and Identity in Postcolonial British South-Asian Literature by Christin Hoene
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.80This book examines the role of music in British-South Asian postcolonial literature, asking how music relates to the construction of postcolonial identity. It focuses on novels that explore the... -
Queer Disappearance in Modern and Contemporary Fiction by Benjamin Bateman
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £73.35Queer Disappearance in Modern and Contemporary Fiction breaks with appearance-based models of queer performativity and argues for the experiential richness and political potentials of recessive... -
But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz Geoff Dyer 9780857864024
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Lester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too-small bicycle; Thelonius Monk creating his own private language on the piano... In eight... -
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'My first intimation of the possibilities of fiction' Zadie SmithMore than a love story, A Room with a View is a penetrating social comedy and a brilliant study of contrasts - in values, social... -
Once Again Assembled Here by Sean O'Brien 9781447219712
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.15Stephen Maxwell has just retired from a lifetime spent teaching history at his alma mater. As he writes the official history of Blake's, a minor public school steeped in military tradition, he also... -
Paris Trance: A Romance Geoff Dyer 9780857864055
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95In Paris, two couples form an intimacy that will change their lives forever. As they discover the clubs and cafes of the eleventh arrondissement, the four become inseparable, united by deeply held... -
Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf 9781913724122
RRP: £5.00Booksplease Price: £4.60First published in 1921 as part of her ground-breaking short-story collection Monday or Tuesday, Kew Gardens follows the thoughts of a set of characters walking past a flower bed in the royal botanic... -
Seven Angels by Glyn Maxwell 9781849430791
Booksplease Price: £12.85Seven angels have fallen through space and time for so long, they have forgotten why. Coming to rest on a desert landscape, they imagine the creation of a legendary garden that once flourished there... -
Howards End E M Forster 9781444720747
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.82NOW A MAJOR BBC ONE DRAMA STARRING HAYLEY ATWELL AND MATTHEW MACFADYENIn spring of 1905 in England, a brief romance between Helen Schlegel and Paul Wilcox ends badly, their two very different... -
Friends and Apostles: The Correspondence of Rupert Brooke and James Strachey, 1905-1914 by Keith Hale 9780300192308
Booksplease Price: £35.22The correspondence between the poet Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) and his friend James Strachey, later the primary English translator of the works of Sigmund Freud, appears in print here for the first... -
Margins of Desire: The Suburbs in Fiction and Culture 1880-1925 by Lynne Hapgood 9780719059711
Booksplease Price: £23.54Margins of Desire' turns the critical spotlight on the London suburbs by showing how the expanding city created new literary locations, genres and themes between 1880 and 1925. Drawing on a wide... -
Howards End by E. M. Forster 9780141182131
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42A meticulously-observed drama of class warfare, E.M. Forster's Howards End explores the conflict inherent within English society, unveiling the character of a nation as never before. This Penguin... -
Gay Novels of Britain, Ireland and the Commonwealth, 1881-1981: A Reader's Guide by Drewey Wayne Gunn 9780786497249
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.19While American gay fiction has received considerable scholarly attention, little has been given to developments in other English-speaking countries. This survey catalogs 254 novels and novellas by... -
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster 9780241214992
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Exploring issues of colonialism, faith and the limits of comprehension, E.M. Forster's A Passage to India is published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. When Adela Quested and her elderly... -
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 9780099511557
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.68'I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way'Discover the beloved story of sisters, love and society that launched Jane Austen's... -
The Wind in the Willows by Glyn Maxwell 9781783199600
Booksplease Price: £14.79'There's nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as messing about in boats.'A spot of spring cleaning on a sunny English riverbank - so begins the adventures of four beloved friends... -
Travel, Modernism and Modernity by Robert Burden
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80Focusing on the significance of travel in Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, Henry James, and Edith Wharton, Robert Burden shows how travel enabled a new consciousness of mobility and... -
It Says Here by Sean O'Brien
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02It Says Here is Sean O'Brien's follow-up to his celebrated collection Europa, and has a vision as rich and wide-ranging as its predecessor. Set against shorter, ruthlessly focused pieces - vicious... -
The Novels by Bruce Chatwin
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £15.91A collected edition of Bruce Chatwin's acclaimed, captivating novels - On the Black Hill, Utz and The Viceroy of Ouidah - with an introduction by Hanya YanagiharaWhile Bruce Chatwin is best known as... -
World Views: Metageographies of Modernist Fiction by Jon Hegglund 9780199796106
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £53.48Early in the twentieth century, many novelists and geographers were attempting a similar undertaking: to connect everyday human experience to the large, unseen structures that formed the planet... -
Capital by John Lanchester
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.90** From the author of The Wall **'Effortlessly brilliant . . . hugely moving and outrageously funny.' Observer'A treat to read.' The Times'The great London novel of the twenty-first century.' New... -
Uncle Rudolf by Paul Bailey 9781841157597
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.49The haunting new novel from Paul Bailey, whose work has been short-listed twice for the Booker Prize. At the age of seventy, Andrew Peters looks back across the years to remember life with... -
In Patagonia: (Vintage Voyages) by Bruce Chatwin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.42Chatwin's brilliantly unique record of his adventures in Patagonia and the fascinating people he meets along the way. Beautifully written and full of wonderful descriptions and intriguing tales, In... -
Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence 9780099511786
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT FISKSeven Pillars of Wisdom is an unusual and rich work. It encompasses an account of the Arab Revolt against the Turks during the First World War alongside general... -
Frances Partridge: The Biography by Anne Chisholm 9780753826997
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Frances Partridge: the last survivor of the Bloomsbury group - the authorised biography.Frances Partridge was one of the great British diarists of the 20th century. She became part of the Bloomsbury... -
The Countess from Kirribilli: The mysterious and free-spirited literary sensation who beguiled the world by Joyce Morgan
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.62She was 'amused, cynical, ironic, loving, gay, ferocious, cold, ardent but never gentle'. She was a whirlwind. She created around her the atmosphere of a Court at which her friends were either in... -
Critical Essays by Ford Madox Ford 9780814727331
Booksplease Price: £90.87Critical Essays showcases a critic whom Ezra Pound called in 1914, "the best critic in England, one might say the only critic of any importance." This volume provides access to the best of Ford Madox... -
Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho by Sappho
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.85More or less 150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of what is present Turkey. Little remains today of her writings, which are said to have filled... -
The Ongoing Moment: A Book About Photographs Geoff Dyer 9780857864017
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Great photographs change the way we see the world. The Ongoing Moment changes the way we look at both. With characteristic perversity and trademark originality, The Ongoing Moment is Dyer's unique... -
Collected Poems by Dennis O'Driscoll 9781784105112
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.67In this career-defining book, the poems of Dennis O'Driscoll are gathered together for the first time. Beginning with Kist in 1982 and ending with the posthumous Update in 2014, the selection was... -
Sour Grapes by Dan Rhodes 9781785633058
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Dan Rhodes is a true original' - Hilary Mantel 'I read this novel right through the day I got my hands on it, laughing like a banshee.' - David Sexton, Sunday Times When the sleepy English... -
Wittgenstein and Modernist Fiction: The Language of Acknowledgment by Greg Chase 9781839980633
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.17The early decades of the twentieth century were a period of major economic and cultural upheaval across Europe and America. Scholars have typically held that novelists responded to these shifts by... -
Literary Second Cities by Jason Finch 9783319627182
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book brings together geographers and literary scholars in a series of engagements near the boundaries of their disciplines. In urban studies, disproportionate attention has been given to a small... -
The Wound of Mortality: Fear, Denial, and Acceptance of Death by Salman Akhtar 9780765706997
Booksplease Price: £91.39Death is a much avoided topic. Literature on mourning exists, but it focuses chiefly upon the death of others. The inevitable psychic impact of one's own mortality is not optimally covered either in... -
Rhythm in the Novel by E. K. Brown 9781442652408
Booksplease Price: £19.71The Alexander Lectures for 1949-50. In his Preface, Professor Brown says, "Isolating a single element or group of elements in the novel, and considering it in unreal separation from all the other... -
How to Disappear by Amanda Dalton 9781852245009
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £8.20How to Disappear shines a torch into the dark corners and finds a world inhabited by the missing and the dead, by monsters and wounded beasts, discarded dreams and the memories of strangers - a trawl... -
C.P. Cavafy in the English and American Literary Scenes: Authorising the Other Foteini Dimirouli 9780198851431
RRP: £77.00Booksplease Price: £70.98C.P. Cavafy in the English and American Literary Scenes: Authorizing the Other explores the global reputation of the Greek-Alexandrian poet C.P. Cavafy in relation to literary networks of the... -
The Search Geoff Dyer 9780857862730
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Walker is at a party where he meets Rachel. Two days later she turns up at his apartment. However, it's not Walker she wants but her husband Malory, who has gone missing. She asks Walker to find him... -
Eva Trout by Elizabeth Bowen
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY TESSA HADLEYImposing, rich, unloved and with a genius for unreality; Eva Trout has a 'capacity for making trouble, attracting trouble, strewing trouble around her' that is...