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CCEA GCSE History, Third Edition Finbar Madden 9781471889721
Booksplease Price: £35.22Exam board: CCEALevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2017First exam: Summer 2019Trust the experts to guide you through CCEA GCSE History with this bestselling Student Book, which... -
![Lucie Plays: v.1: "Progress", "Fashion", "Grace", "Gaucho" by Doug Lucie 9780413716903](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5359584/5436841/9780413716903__09165.1725108249.jpg?c=1 "Lucie Plays: v.1: "Progress", "Fashion", "Grace", "Gaucho" by Doug Lucie 9780413716903")
Lucie Plays: v.1: "Progress", "Fashion", "Grace", "Gaucho" by Doug Lucie 9780413716903
Booksplease Price: £24.63This collection includes four of the best plays from one of the leading playwrights of the 80s Progress: 'A small, anguished, hilarious masterpiece' Evening Standard; Fashion: 'One of the best plays... -
!["Fashion": WITH "Progress'", "Hard Feeling'"AND "Doing the Business" by Doug Lucie 9780413650900](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5348890/5426147/9780413650900__64708.1725079679.jpg?c=1 ""Fashion": WITH "Progress'", "Hard Feeling'"AND "Doing the Business" by Doug Lucie 9780413650900")
"Fashion": WITH "Progress'", "Hard Feeling'"AND "Doing the Business" by Doug Lucie 9780413650900
Booksplease Price: £20.95"Doug Lucie is perhaps the only young British dramatist with a truly distinctive voice and in Fashion, it is at its most splendidly scornful, bilious and charmless." Benedict Nightingale (The Times)... -
British Labouring-Class Nature Poetry, 1730-1837 by Bridget Keegan 9780230536968
Booksplease Price: £46.28This study shows how poets worked within and against the available forms of nature writing to challenge their place within physical, political, and cultural landscapes. Looking at the treatment of... -
The Broadview Anthology of British Literature Volume 4: The Age of Romanticism by Joseph Black
Booksplease Price: £51.19For the third edition of this volume a number of changes have been made. Author entries for James Macpherson and Thomas Moore have been added to the bound book, as have additional poems by Anna... -
Folklore by Tim Atkins 9781844718986
Booksplease Price: £10.29Stretching from Anglo-Saxon fragments, through the Shakespeare of Midsummer Night's Dream, the ecstatic lyrics of John Clare, elegiac minimalism of AE Houseman, and contemporary work of Geoffrey Hill... -
Constructing Coleridge: The Posthumous Life of the Author by Alan D. Vardy 9780230574809
Booksplease Price: £46.74Constructing Coleridge examines Coleridge's penchant for re-invention and carefully demonstrates how the Coleridge family editors followed his lead in constructing his posthumous reputation... -
British Labouring-Class Nature Poetry, 1730-1837 by Bridget Keegan 9781349358717
Booksplease Price: £46.28This study shows how poets worked within and against the available forms of nature writing to challenge their place within physical, political, and cultural landscapes. Looking at the treatment of... -
Town and Honest by D. C. Moore 9781408133019
Booksplease Price: £14.24"So here I am, homeless at home and half-gratified to feel that I can be happy anywhere" John Clare Inspired by the four-day journey made on foot by the legendary mad poet, John Clare, Town creates... -
Left Hand Writing Skills - Combined: A Comprehensive Scheme of Techniques and Practice for Left-Handers by Mark Stewart 9781869981839
Booksplease Price: £29.95This edition of the "Left Hand Writing Skills" combines all three stages in the "Left Hand Writing Skills" series. Altogether, the book contains 83 worksheets to help students through the phases of... -
Amorous Aesthetics: Intellectual Love in Romantic Poetry and Poetics, 1788-1853 by Seth T. Reno 9781800854697
RRP: £32.49Booksplease Price: £29.98Situated at the intersection of affect studies, ecocriticism, aesthetics, and Romantic studies, this book presents a genealogy of love in Romantic-era poetry, science, and philosophy. While feeling... -
Robert Bloomfield, Romanticism and the Poetry of Community Simon J. White 9780367887933
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19Robert Bloomfield, whom John Clare described as 'the most original poet of the age,' was a widely read and critically acclaimed poet throughout the first decade of the nineteenth century, and... -
Left Hand Writing Skills: Fabulous Fine Motor Practice: Book 1 by Mark Stewart
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £8.50The objectives of Book 1 are to establish good basic habits of paper positioning and pencil hold, and to develop the fine motor skills needed for accurate, consistent writing. The book takes the... -
Robert Bloomfield, Romanticism and the Poetry of Community Simon J. White 9780754657538
Booksplease Price: £119.06Robert Bloomfield, whom John Clare described as 'the most original poet of the age,' was a widely read and critically acclaimed poet throughout the first decade of the nineteenth century, and... -
Poetry Please: The Seasons by Various Poets
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95This new anthology of poems, favourites from the nation's longest-running and best-loved request programme for verse, moves with the seasons, following the turning year from John Clare's 'pale... -
Birdsong, Speech and Poetry: The Art of Composition in the Long Nineteenth Century by Francesca Mackenney
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.63In the long nineteenth century, scientists discovered striking similarities between how birds learn to sing and how children learn to speak. Tracing the 'science of birdsong' as it developed from the... -
The Ice Age: poems by Paul Farley 9780330484534
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Paul Farley's debut collection, The Boy From the Chemist is Here to See You, was one of the most celebrated debuts of the nineties. The poems in The Ice Age are as engaged and engaging as ever, but... -
The Elegance of Ferns: Portrait of a Botanical Marvel by Solvejg Nitzke 9781778403385
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38Discover the weirdly wonderful world of ferns—plants that outlived the dinosaurs, inspired a Victorian-era obsession, and continue to enchant us with their mathematical perfection and lush beauty... -
Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930 by Deborah Nord 9780231137041
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £85.37Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930, is the first book to explore fully the British obsession with Gypsies throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth. Deborah Epstein Nord... -
Rude Britannia Mina Gorji 9780415382779
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £26.93Media commentators have noted a rising public tolerance to the use of rude or offensive words in modern English. John Lydon's obscene outburst on 'I'm a Celebrity...' only provoked a handful of... -
Writing St Guthlac: From the Medieval to the Modern Emma Nuding 9781843847892
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £71.37The first radically longitudinal study of a saint who had a significant cultural presence in early medieval England. What happens when the Life of a medieval Fenland hermit is read (and... -
The Mizzy by Paul Farley
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Paul Farley is now widely recognized as one of the leading English poets writing today. As usual it is impossible to summarize in terms of theme, as his interests are too various: there's an air of... -
Sisters and the English Household: Domesticity and Women's Autonomy in Nineteenth-Century English Literature by Anne D. Wallace 9781783088454
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £67.74Sisters and the English Household revalues unmarried adult sisters in nineteenthcentury English literature as positive figures of legal and economic autonomy representing productive labor in the... -
Selected Poems by Paul Farley 9781447220428
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37Paul Farley is now widely recognized as one of the leading English poets writing today. Selected Poems takes stock of a singular talent of great formal gifts: for readers new to his work, this is an... -
Romantic Things: A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud by Mary Jacobus
Booksplease Price: £26.68Our thoughts are shaped as much by what things make of us as by what we make of them. In Romantic Things, Mary Jacobus explores the world of objects and phenomena in nature as expressed in Romantic... -
Britain's Wild Flowers: A Treasury of Traditions, Superstitions, Remedies and Literature by Rosamond Richardson 9781909881921
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.88A fascinating look at the myths, folklore and botany behind over 70 British wildflowers. A fascinating look at the myths, folklore and botany behind... -
Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763-1813: A Native Artist by John Barrell 9780708325674
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.26Edward Pugh (1763-1813) was a Ruthin-born, Welsh-speaking artist and writer who produced compelling landscapes images of Denbighshire in particular and, more widely of North Wales, Monmouthshire and... -
Memorializing Animals during the Romantic Period by Chase Pielak 9780367880316
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Early nineteenth-century British literature is overpopulated with images of dead and deadly animals, as Chase Pielak observes in his study of animal encounters in the works of Charles and Mary Lamb,... -
Crisis and the US Avant-Garde: Poetry and Real Politics by Ben Hickman
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £90.60Presents a major revaluation of experimental poetry's social function in the US. In 1934, the Marxist and Modernist poet Louis Zukofsky was labelled a 'detached recorder of isolated events' by his... -
Last Things: Disastrous Form from Kant to Hujar by Jacques Khalip 9780823279555
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £20.89The arrival of the Anthropocene brings the suggestion that we are only now beginning to speculate on an inhuman world that is not for us, only now confronting fears and anxieties of ecological,... -
Romanticism and the Materiality of Nature: Economic Liberalization and Social Change in Nepal by Onno Oerlemans 9780802086976
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.08Given current environmental concerns, it is not surprising to find literary critics and theorists surveying the Romantic poets with ecological hindsight. In this timely study, Onno Oerlemans extends... -
Fictions and Fakes: Forging Romantic Authenticity, 1760-1845 by Margaret Russett 9780521123549
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £34.78British Romantic literature descends from a line of impostors, forgers and frauds. Through a series of case-studies - beginning with the golden age of forgery in the late eighteenth century and... -
Adrift on the Earth: Caribbean Romanticism and Geo-Poetics Kir Kuiken 9781503645981
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £82.90Kir Kuiken argues for the existence of a geo-poetic literary genre extending from the late eighteenth century to the present and addresses its legacies through works of European Romantic authors and... -
Adrift on the Earth: Caribbean Romanticism and Geo-Poetics Kir Kuiken 9781503646827
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89Kir Kuiken argues for the existence of a geo-poetic literary genre extending from the late eighteenth century to the present and addresses its legacies through works of European Romantic authors and... -
Crisis and the US Avant-Garde: Poetry and Real Politics by Ben Hickman 9781399567282
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.99Crisis and the US Avant-Garde charts the energies and tensions of avant-garde poetics and vanguard politics. Crisis and the US Avant-Garde examines the politics of poetry through the lens of crisis... -
The Redress of Poetry by Seamus Heaney 9780571175376
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.30These lectures were delivered by Seamus Heaney while he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. In the first of them, Heaney discusses and celebrates poetry's special ability to redress... -
Fictions and Fakes: Forging Romantic Authenticity, 1760-1845 by Margaret Russett 9780521850780
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £90.57British Romantic literature descends from a line of impostors, forgers and frauds. Through a series of case-studies - beginning with the golden age of forgery in the late eighteenth century and... -
Seeing Further Esther Kinsky 9781804271162
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23While travelling through the Great Alfoeld, the vast plain in south-eastern Hungary, Esther Kinsky stops in a small town near the Romanian border. Like many other things, the cinema, 'mozi' in... -
The Time by the Sea: Aldeburgh 1955-1958 by Dr. Ronald Blythe
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The Time by the Sea is about Ronald Blythe's life in Aldeburgh during the 1950s. He had originally come to the Suffolk coast as an aspiring young writer, but found himself drawn into Benjamin... -
Liberty against the Law: Some Seventeenth-Century Controversies by Christopher Hill
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32In this, the last book published during his lifetime, renowned historian of the English Revolution Christopher Hill uses the literary culture of the seventeenth century to explore the immense social...