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![The Archers Miscellany by Joanna Toye 9781846077548 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/4836391/4835623/9781846077548__32312.1721868065.jpg?c=1 "The Archers Miscellany by Joanna Toye 9781846077548 [USED COPY]")
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... -
Postcolonial Narrative and the Work of Mourning: J.M. Coetzee, Wilson Harris, and Toni Morrison by Sam Durrant 9780791459461
Booksplease Price: £33.43A cross-cultural analysis of the work of Coetzee, Harris and Morrison, demonstrating that the fundamental task of postcolonial narrative is the work of mourning.Sam Durrant's powerfully original book... -
Libra by Don DeLillo
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.81'Think of two parallel lines. One is the life of Lee H. Oswald. One is the conspiracy to kill the President. What bridges the space between them? What makes a connection inevitable? There is a third... -
Libra by Don DeLillo 9780141188225
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.81An unparalleled work of historical conjecture, ranging imaginatively over huge tracts of the American popular consciousness, Don DeLillo's Libra contains an introduction by the author in Penguin... -
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,... -
The Devil's Garden by Edward Docx
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40There is only one way in and there is only one way out: the river. One stifling afternoon, a mysterious supply boat docks at a research station deep in the jungle. To Dr Forle and his team of... -
Pity the Beast by Robin McLean
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.19Following in the footsteps of such chroniclers of American absurdity as Cormac McCarthy, Joy Williams, and Charles Portis, Robin McLean's Pity the Beast is a mind-melting feminist Western that pins a... -
Errancies of Desire: Monstrous Masculinities across the Atlantic by Vartan P. Messier 9780815637783
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £49.27Social commentators, psychologists, and journalists all point to the idea that in the new millennium, traditional masculinity is in crisis. In contemporary film and literature, this predicament is... -
Errancies of Desire: Monstrous Masculinities across the Atlantic by Vartan P. Messier 9780815637875
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Social commentators, psychologists, and journalists all point to the idea that in the new millennium, traditional masculinity is in crisis. In contemporary film and literature, this predicament is... -
The Persistence of Memory: A Novel by Tony Eprile 9780393327229
Booksplease Price: £18.69In this humane yet savagely witty portrait of apartheid South Africa in its waning years, Tony Eprile renders his homeland's turbulent past with striking clarity. The Baltimore Sun declared Eprile's... -
Ghostly Alterities. Spectrality and Contemporary Literatures in English by Bianca Del Villano 9783898217149
Booksplease Price: £26.82Ghostly Alterities analyses the meaning of ghostliness in con-temporary Anglophone novels - Patricia Grace's Baby No-Eyes (1998), Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987), J. M. Coetzee's Foe (1986), Vivienne... -
J.M. Coetzee's Revisions of the Human: Posthumanism and Narrative Form by Kai Wiegandt 9783030293086
RRP: £79.99Booksplease Price: £75.80"Kai Wiegandt's study offers a nuanced, thoroughgoing and deeply engaging account of novelist J.M. Coetzee's revision of our core ideas of the human-not least the human sense of uniqueness that we... -
Melancholia's Dog: Reflections on Our Animal Kinship by Alice A. Kuzniar
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.30Bred to provide human companionship, dogs eclipse all other species when it comes to reading the body language of people. Dog owners hunger for a complete rapport with their pets; in the dog the... -
Elusive Kinship: Disability and Human Rights in Postcolonial Literature by Christopher Krentz 9781439922217
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14Characters with disabilities are often marginalized in fiction, but many occupy central places in literature by celebrated authors like Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie, J. M. Coetzee, Anita Desai,... -
In Other Words: Transpositions of Philosophy in J.M. Coetzee's 'Jesus' Trilogy by Stephen Mulhall 9780192869715
RRP: £59.00Booksplease Price: £54.99J. M. Coetzee's 'Jesus' Trilogy extends and intensifies his long-term interest in engaging with a wide range of texts, themes and assumptions that help constitute the history of Western European... -
Tigers in Africa: Stalking the Past at the Cape of Good Hope by Carmel Schrire 9780813921297
Booksplease Price: £18.58This volume interweaves such diverse themes as colonial slavery and apartheid, human and carnivore evolution and science and romance, to show how we create the past and understand the present. It... -
The Cambridge Companion to the African Novel by F. Abiola Irele 9780521671682
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £25.43Africa'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... -
Just Literature: Philosophical Criticism and Justice by Tzachi Zamir
Booksplease Price: £60.08In Just Literature, Tzachi Zamir introduces the idea of 'philosophical criticism' as an innovative approach to interpreting literary texts. Throughout the book, Zamir uses the theme of justice as a... -
Animals in Our Days: A Book of Stories by Mohamed Makhzangi 9780815611486
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58Each story in Mohamed Makhzangi's unique collection Animals in Our Days features a different animal species and its fraught relationship with humans-water buffalo in a rural village gone mad from... -
Just Literature: Philosophical Criticism and Justice by Tzachi Zamir 9781032652757
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.54In Just Literature, Tzachi Zamir introduces the idea of 'philosophical criticism' as an innovative approach to interpreting literary texts. Throughout the book, Zamir uses the theme of justice as a... -
Plowswords: Literature and the Agricultural Trap from Shakespeare to Coetzee Cates Baldridge 9780813951638
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.66A critical examination of the 'agricultural trap' in literature For thousands of years, agriculture and civilization were essentially synonymous. The superiority of farming over the unsettled,... -
Reading Coetzee by Elizabeth MacFarlane 9789042037014
Booksplease Price: £66.56Just as J. M. Coetzee’s post-2003 books present essays and narrative alongside one another, this book engages with its ideas through both critical and creative writing. Reading Coetzee interleaves... -
The Collected Stories of Joseph Roth by Joseph Roth 9780393323795
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.44Appearing in English for the first time, The Collected Stories of Joseph Roth includes seventeen novellas and stories that echo the intensity and achievement of his greatest novel, The Radetzky March... -
Plowswords: Literature and the Agricultural Trap from Shakespeare to Coetzee Cates Baldridge 9780813951621
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £74.27A critical examination of the 'agricultural trap' in literature For thousands of years, agriculture and civilization were essentially synonymous. The superiority of farming over the unsettled,... -
Imagination and the Contemporary Novel by John J. Su 9781107006775
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £81.72Imagination 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... -
Engagements with Postcolonial Literature and Theory Lorna Burns 9781032626635
Booksplease Price: £45.30Engagements with Postcolonial Literature and Theory offers a detailed exploration of the debates, theories, texts, and themes that have shaped the evolution of postcolonial literary studies... -
The Cambridge Companion to World Literature by Ben Etherington
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.92The Cambridge Companion to World Literature introduces the significant ideas and practices of world literary studies. It provides a lucid and accessible account of the fundamental issues and concepts... -
The Islander: A Biography of Halldor Laxness by Halldor Gudmundsson 9781529433739
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.60"An enthralling, heartening study of a man of unflagging interest in life" Independent"A thoroughly researched biography" New York Review of Books"Provides readers of English with a perfect... -
Robert Walser: A Companion by Samuel Frederick 9780810137127
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Interest in the Swiss modernist writer Robert Walser (1878-1956) has widened thanks to high praise from intellectuals such as Susan Sontag, W. G. Sebald, and J. M. Coetzee, and an increasing number... -
Animal Liberation Now by Peter Singer 9781529925548
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46The definitive case for radically rethinking humanity's relationship with other animals - for the good of us all. 'The book that had the most impact on me' JANE GOODALL'Probably the single most... -
The Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose: Moral Essays on the Poet's Calling Mary Kinzie 9780226437361
Booksplease Price: £30.43The role of the poet, Mary Kinzie writes, is to engage the most profound subjects with the utmost in expressive clarity. The role of the critic is to follow the poet, word for word, into the arena... -
The Art of Astonishment: Reflections on Gifts and Grace by Professor or Dr. Alice Brittan 9781501383571
Booksplease Price: £91.39Part literary history, part personal memoir, Alice Brittan's beautifully written The Art of Astonishment explores the rich intellectual, religious, and philosophical history of the gift and tells the... -
Postcolonial Literary Studies: The First Thirty Years by Robert P. Marzec 9781421400181
RRP: £66.00Booksplease Price: £48.44Internationally recognized for its superior scholarship, Modern Fiction Studies was one of the first journals to publish articles on postcolonial studies. Since postcolonialism's inception, scholars... -
One-Way Street: And Other Writings by Walter Benjamin 9781839761652
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.15Walter Benjamin is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic intellectual figures of this century. Not only was he a thinker who made an enormous impact with his critical and philosophical writings,... -
Why Vegan? by Peter Singer
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02'So the only question is: do animals other than man suffer?'One of the great moral philosophers of the modern age, Peter Singer asks unflinching questions about how we should live our lives. The... -
Garden Plots: The Politics and Poetics of Gardens by Shelley Saguaro 9781138258785
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £52.44Shelley Saguaro's unique book illustrates the persistent presence of gardens in literature. Gardens in fiction do not simply represent a familiar theme, Saguaro contends, but are bound up with wider... -
Corporal Compassion: Animal Ethics and Philosophy of Body by Ralph Acampora 9780822963233
RRP: £44.95Booksplease Price: £42.05Most approaches to animal ethics ground the moral standing of nonhumans in some appeal to their capacities for intelligent autonomy or mental sentience. Corporal Compassion emphasizes the phenomenal... -
The Figure of the Animal in Modern and Contemporary Poetry by Michael Malay 9783030099794
Booksplease Price: £80.72This book argues that there are deep connections between 'poetic' thinking and the sensitive recognition of creaturely others. It explores this proposition in relation to four poets: Marianne Moore,... -
The Autofictional: Approaches, Affordances, Forms Alexandra Effe 9783030784423
Booksplease Price: £36.44This open access book offers innovative and wide-ranging responses to the continuously flourishing literary phenomenon of autofiction. The book shows the insights that are gained in the shift from... -
English in Language Shift: The History, Structure and Sociolinguistics of South African Indian English by Rajend Mesthrie 9780521026499
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £39.21Rajend Mesthrie examines the rise of a new variety of English among Indian migrant workers indentured on the plantations of Natal in South Africa. Considering the historical background to, and...