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William and Dorothy Wordsworth: 'All in each other' by Lucy Newlyn
RRP: $34.11Booksplease Price: $29.33William Wordsworth's creative collaboration with his 'beloved Sister' spanned nearly fifty years, from their first reunion in 1787 until her premature decline in 1835. Rumours of incest have... -
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins 9780198819394
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.10Who, in the name of wonder, had taken the Moonstone out of Miss Rachel's drawer? A celebrated Indian yellow diamond is first stolen from India, then vanishes from a Yorkshire country house. Who... -
The Murder at Redmire Hall by J.R. Ellis 9781503904941
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.10An impossible murder behind a locked door. Can DCI Oldroyd find the key to the mystery? Lord Redmire's gambling habit has placed him in serious debt. Determined to salvage his fortune by putting... -
The Nidderdale Murders by J. R. Ellis
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $16.65In a Yorkshire Dales village everyone has a motive for murder-except the killer. A retired judge is shot dead outside the Dog and Gun inn in the remote Yorkshire village of Niddersgill. There's a... -
Andrew Crozier Reader by Andrew Crozier 9781847771001
RRP: $36.95Booksplease Price: $27.85Andrew Crozier (1943-2008) was a poet, and an energiser of poetry. A champion of work excluded from the familiar canon, he brought to the English literary landscape of the 1960s and 70s an engagement... -
Tome: Studies in Medieval Celtic History and Law in Honour of Thomas Charles-Edwards Fiona Edmonds 9781843836612
RRP: $185.25Booksplease Price: $177.61Significant contributions on Celtic history, law, archaeology and literature. Thomas Charles-Edwards, the distinguished scholar of medieval Britain and Ireland, has made important contributions to... -
The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem by Matthew Hollis 9780571297214
Booksplease Price: $29.21** Chosen as a New Statesman, Financial Times, Observer and Sunday Times Book of the Year **A riveting account of the making of T. S. Eliot's celebrated poem The Waste Land on its centenary.'A... -
The Well at Morning: Selected Poems, 1925 1971 by Reynek, Bohuslav
RRP: $40.95Booksplease Price: $37.15Springtide A chaffinch in a tree of cherry sings merrily spring's introit. Its blazing bobble dwells in leaves, alive, and swells in scarlet. The flowers are flares of white. The chaffinch has gone... -
The Royal Baths Murder by J. R. Ellis 9781542015424
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $17.45A murdered crime writer. An idyllic Yorkshire town. Can DCI Oldroyd separate fact from fiction? A famous writer is found murdered at the Victorian baths in the Yorkshire town of Harrogate. In a... -
The Brewery Murders by J. R. Ellis 9781542031394
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $16.95An award-winning beer worth killing for. Can DCI Oldroyd find the killer before last orders? Steeped in a history of award-winning Yorkshire ale, the town of Markham boasts not one but two... -
Some Desperate Glory: The First World War the Poets Knew by Max Egremont 9781447242000
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $24.41While the First World War devastated Europe, it inspired profound poetry - words in which the atmosphere and landscape of battle are evoked perhaps more vividly than anywhere else. The poets - many... -
Our Selves/Our Past: Psychological Approaches to American History by Robert J. Brugger 9780801823824
Booksplease Price: $57.27More concerned than ever with questions of theory and method in their work, contemporary historians find themselves turning to other disciplines for the ideas that help them piece together the puzzle... -
The Otley Murders J. R. Ellis 9781662515910
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.10He was supposed to be gone forever. Now he's back.Ten years ago, DCI Oldroyd was the only person who could see the monster hiding behind Adam Blake's charm. Oldroyd proved that Blake was a deadly... -
The Railway Murders by J. R. Ellis
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $16.95A puzzling locked-room mystery that puts someone Oldroyd loves in terrible danger... When a film shoot on Wharfedale's vintage railway turns into a grisly crime scene, DCI Oldroyd's idyllic visit... -
Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $17.24There was a power of endurance about her, and a courage that was almost awful. Did Lady Mason forge a codicil to her husband's will, allowing Orley Farm to pass to her son or not? Orley Farm... -
Modern Irish and Scottish Poetry by Peter MacKay
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $106.39The comparative study of the literatures of Ireland and Scotland has emerged as a distinct and buoyant field in recent years. This collection of new essays offers the first sustained comparison of... -
The Canal Murders by J. R. Ellis 9781662515897
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.10Life moves at a slower pace on the canals. But death always comes when you least expect it.The last thing DS Stephanie Johnson and DS Andy Carter expected during their much-needed canal holiday was a... -
Ancestral Lines by Jeremy Hooker 9781848615083
RRP: $21.35Booksplease Price: $20.03Ancestral Lines is a sequence of poems about 'the river of desire' that flows through the lives of a family. In these poems Jeremy Hooker recalls his parents and grandparents, and an elusive great... -
Strong Words W. N. Herbert 9781852245153
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06Poetry has never been so rigorous and diverse, nor has its audience been so numerous and engaged. Strong words? Not if the poets are right. As Ezra Pound wrote: 'You would think anyone wanting to... -
Hampshire: through writers' eyes Alastair Langlands 9781780600987
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $17.75Those who know the downs and chalk streams of Hampshire are quietly fortunate but rarely boastful. So it is fascinating to rediscover this home county, on the eastern edge of Wessex, as a place of... -
Earth House Matthew Hollis 9781780376226
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $16.34In Earth House, Matthew Hollis evokes the landscape, language and ecology of the isles of Britain and Ireland to explore how our most intimate moments have resonance in the wider cycle of life... -
Poetry Pharmacy: Becoming Deborah Alma 9781035061495
RRP: $19.50Booksplease Price: $14.43This beautiful pocket-sized hardback gift book contains carefully curated prescriptions in verse compiled by Deborah Alma, the founder of the Poetry Pharmacy. Life is lived with feeling - and these... -
A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year Jane McMorland Hunter 9781837330454
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $33.29A classic Batsford poetry collection, now reissued with a stunning new cover.A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year is a glorious collection of 366 poems that celebrate nature and the changing... -
The Rural Tradition: A Study of the Non-Fiction Prose Writers of the English Countryside by William J Keith
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $48.28'There is probably no single quality or characteristic - besides love of the countryside - that must inevitably distinguish a rural writer,' notes W.J. Keith. However, 'what distinguishes rural... -
A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year by Jane McMorland-Hunter 9781849945004
RRP: $48.65Booksplease Price: $35.39365 poems celebrating nature and the changing seasons. This is the perfect bedside companion for any nature or poetry fan, featuring famous odes from big-name poets alongside unsung poems from... -
Poetry Pharmacy - Comfort Deb Alma 9781035061433
RRP: $19.50Booksplease Price: $14.43This beautiful pocket-sized hardback gift book contains carefully curated prescriptions in verse compiled by Deborah Alma, the founder of the Poetry Pharmacy. Life is lived with feeling - and these... -
Walking, Landscape and Environment David Borthwick 9781032400952
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $82.37Walking, Landscape and Environment explores walking as a method of research and practice in the humanities and creative arts, emerging from a recent surge of growth in urban and rural walking. This... -
The Book of the Barn Owl by Sally Coulthard 9781803289335
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $13.63Few of us know what goes on after dark, underneath the moon. Sally Coulthard shines a light on the barn owl, one of the most mesmerising and elusive icons of the countryside. 'Fascinating insights... -
Selected Poems 1965-2018 by Jeremy Hooker 9781848617070
RRP: $29.15Booksplease Price: $27.96This volume draws on over 50 years of poetry written by a poet who stands a little askew to the dominant modes in Britain: an Englishman in Wales, and an English poet with a decided admiration for... -
Post-Qualitative Research and Innovative Methodologies by Matthew K. E. Thomas 9781350215146
Booksplease Price: $67.22This book explores the possibilities of the relationships between theory and method as enacted in post-qualitative research. The contributors, based in Australia, Canada, the UK and USA, use theory... -
The Silence by John Greening 9781784107475
Booksplease Price: $31.02The long title poem of John Greening's The Silence is a meditation on Jean Sibelius and the thirty years he spent grappling with an eighth symphony, which in the end he probably burned. The poem is... -
Modern English War Poetry by Tim Kendall 9780199562022
Booksplease Price: $87.81Tim Kendall's study offers the fullest account to date of a tradition of modern English war poetry. Stretching from the Boer War to the present day, it focuses on many of the twentieth-century's... -
Accompanied Voices: Poets on Composers: From Thomas Tallis to Arvo Part John Greening (Royalty Account) 9781783270156
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $34.09Accompanied Voices is a unique book: not only is it a highly readable anthology of some of the most memorable and accessible international writing about classical music, but also a moving commentary... -
Ink on the Tracks: Rock and Roll Writing Dr Adrian Grafe 9798765101995
Booksplease Price: $59.55This book embraces the multiplicity of forms of writing inspired by rock and roll.Exploring a diverse range of formats including rock autobiography and gender, race and class in American rock... -
Modern English War Poetry by Tim Kendall 9780199276769
Booksplease Price: $228.97Tim Kendall's study offers the fullest account to date of a tradition of modern English war poetry. Stretching from the Boer War to the present day, it focuses on many of the twentieth-century's... -
Consorting with Angels: Essays on Modern Women Poets by Deryn Rees-Jones 9781852243920
RRP: $21.35Booksplease Price: $15.60In this pioneering critical study, Deryn Rees-Jones discusses the work of some of the major women poets of the last hundred years, showing how they have explored what it has meant to be a woman poet... -
Modern Women Poets by Deryn Rees-Jones
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $27.79"Modern Women Poets" is the companion anthology to Deryn Rees-Jones's pioneering critical study, "Consorting with Angels: Essays on Modern Women Poets". While its selections illuminate and illustrate... -
The Uncommon Reader: A Life of Edward Garnett by Helen Smith 9780224081818
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $44.34THE SUNDAY TIMES LITERATURE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017Over a career spanning nearly fifty years Edward Garnett - editor, critic and publisher's reader - would become one of the most influential men in... -
Living in the Delta: New and Collected Poems by Landeg White 9781910409886
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $24.61Living in the Delta, Landeg White's Collected and New Poems, brings together work from nine previous collections. Welsh by birth, White is a citizen of the world, having lived and written and taught... -
Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All That (1895-1929) Dr Jean Moorcroft Wilson 9781399426305
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $25.33'An exemplary biography' -- Sunday Times'Commanding' - Observer'Diligent and insightful' - The TimesThis revelatory biography of Robert Graves re-examines his position as a major First World War...