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Ford Madox Brown: A Catalogue Raisonne Mary Bennett 9780300165913
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £108.58Ford Madox Brown (1821-1893) is known predominantly for his close association with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and for his masterpiece, The Last of England (1852-55), with its poignant imagery of... -
The Old Nurse's Stocking-Basket by Eleanor Farjeon 9780141368689
Booksplease Price: £9.10This is a timeless classic collection of bedtime fairytales by Eleanor Farjeon, with evocative line drawings by Edward Ardizzone.Every night when the children were tucked up in bed, the Old Nurse... -
The Fountain Light: Studies in Romanticism and Religion Essays in Honor of John L. Mahoney by Robert J. Barth 9780823222285
Booksplease Price: £83.93It has often been suggested that Romanticism of its very nature has affinities with religious quest and spiritual value. These new essays, written in honor of distinguished eighteenth-century and... -
Normalizing Mental Illness and Neurodiversity in Entertainment Media: Quieting the Madness by Malynnda Johnson
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This volume examines the shift toward positive and more accurate portrayals of mental illness in entertainment media, asking where these succeed and considering where more needs to be done. With... -
Brecht on Film by Bertolt Brecht 9780413725004
Booksplease Price: £47.74This volume gathers together, for the first time in English translation, Brecht's own writings on the new film and broadcast technologies that revolutionised arts and communication in the early part... -
Wordsworth's Reading 1800-1815 by Duncan Wu 9780521496742
Booksplease Price: £95.79Wordsworth's Reading 1800-1815, first published in 1996, lists all of the authors and (where possible) books known to have been read by William Wordsworth during the years which saw the composition... -
Wordsworth and the Art of Philosophical Travel by Mark Offord 9781107155589
Booksplease Price: £69.18At the heart of Wordsworth's concerns is the question of how travel - both foreign and everyday - might also become an adventure into philosophy itself. This is an art of travel both as an approach... -
Rounding the Human Corners by Linda Hogan 9781566892100
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £11.83In her first book of poetry since 1993’s groundbreaking The Book of Medicines, Linda Hogan locates the intimate connections between all living things and uncovers the layers that both protect and... -
Brecht Plays 8: The Antigone of Sophocles; The Days of the Commune; Turandot or the Whitewasher's Congress by Tom Kuhn 9780413773524
Booksplease Price: £26.60The latest volume in Methuen's Collected Brecht includes two plays previously untranslated into English Volume 8 of Brecht's collected plays contains his last completed plays, from the eight years... -
The Fountain Light: Studies in Romanticism and Religion Essays in Honor of John L. Mahoney by Robert J. Barth 9780823222292
Booksplease Price: £34.10It has often been suggested that Romanticism of its very nature has affinities with religious quest and spiritual value. These new essays, written in honor of distinguished eighteenth-century and... -
Byron and the Victorians by Andrew Elfenbein 9780521454520
Booksplease Price: £95.79This book is the first full-length study of Byron's influence on Victorian writers, concentrating on Carlyle, Emily Bronte, Tennyson, Bulwer Lytton, Disraeli, and Wilde. It has two emphases,... -
The Invention of the Countryside: Hunting, Walking and Ecology in English Literature, 1671-1831 by Donna Landry 9781349427291
Booksplease Price: £90.86Today's hunting debate began in the eighteenth century, when the idea of the countryside was being invented through the imaginative displacement of agricultural production in favour of country sports... -
The Bar Cart Bible: Everything You Need to Stock Your Home Bar and Make Delicious Classic Cocktails by Adams Media 9781507201169
Booksplease Price: £13.63The Recipe for the Perfect Bar Cart! Like with any good drink, the secret to creating a winning bar cart is to understand its components. The Bar Cart Bible breaks down these elements and provides... -
Wordsworth's Biblical Ghosts by Deeanne Westbrook 9780312240141
Booksplease Price: £46.74The Bible serves Wordsworth as a basis for his poetry and poetics, providing language, images, figures, and importantly, a paradigm of poetic genres. Working from three interrelated critical... -
NATO Reconsidered: Is the Atlantic Alliance Still in America's Interest? by Wesley B Truitt 9781440871382
Booksplease Price: £71.85Is NATO still in the best interest of the United States? This provocative work argues that the focus on NATO distracts the U.S. from the vital foreign policy challenges of the 21st century, most... -
Magic of Viral Energy: An Ancient Key to Happiness, Empowerment, and Purpose by Penelope Jean Hayes 9781642796087
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Want to find "your person," improve your wellbeing, and be successful at your passions?The Magic of Viral Energy (MOVE) offers a fun and compelling narrative told through true short stories. Its... -
The Retrieval of the Beautiful: Thinking Through Merleau-Ponty's Aesthetics by 9780810125667
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21In this elegant new study, Galen Johnson retrieves the concept of the beautiful through the framework of Merleau-Ponty's aesthetics. Although Merleau-Ponty seldom spoke directly of beauty, his... -
The Great British Sewing Bee by Tessa Evelegh 9781849492874 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £3.90The Great British Sewing Book will do for sewing what The Great British Bake Off has done for baking.Brought to you by the same production company, the TV series will be looking for the nation's best... -
The "Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui": v.6 by Bertolt Brecht
Booksplease Price: £13.26Described by Brecht as 'a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all', Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler - recast by Brecht into a small-time Chicago... -
A Good Indian Wife: A Novel by Anne Cherian 9780393335293
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86Handsome anesthesiologist Neel is sure he can resist his family's pleas that he marry a "good" Indian girl. With a girlfriend and a career back in San Francisco, the last thing Neel needs is an... -
Ethics and Aesthetics in European Modernist Literature: From the Sublime to the Uncanny by David R. Ellison 9780521806800
Booksplease Price: £99.43David Ellison's book is an investigation into the historical origins and textual practice of European literary Modernism. Ellison's study traces the origins of Modernism to the emergence of early... -
Loach on Loach: Updated edition Graham Fuller 9780571386062
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.32'A master of world cinema.' Cililan MurphySince the original publication of Loach on Loach in 1998, Ken Loach has completed fourteen full-length feature films. This substantial body of work includes... -
Jasmyn by Alex Bell
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40One day, without warning, Jasmyn's husband died.Since then, everything has been different.Wrapped up in her grief, Jasmyn is trapped in a world without colour, without flavour - without Liam. But... -
Byron and the Victorians by Andrew Elfenbein 9780521607087
Booksplease Price: £45.31This book is the first full-length study of Byron's influence on Victorian writers, concentrating on Carlyle, Emily Bronte, Tennyson, Bulwer Lytton, Disraeli, and Wilde. It has two emphases,... -
All The Right Circles by John Russell 9781644280423
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £6.71Fans of Pat Conroy will enjoy John Russell's long-awaited second novel, a rich, multi-generational story of money and morals, power and race, sex and sanity, set in a changing America. Jack Callahan... -
The Cowboy and the Dandy: Crossing Over from Romanticism to Rock and Roll by Perry Meisel 9780195118179
Booksplease Price: £98.37What is rock and roll and where does it come from? In this new study of music, literature, and culture, Perry Meisel shows how rock and roll joins both Romanticism and the blues tradition by testing... -
Urbanization and English Romantic Poetry by Stephen Tedeschi 9781108416092
Booksplease Price: £95.79Through an incisive analysis of the emerging debates surrounding urbanization in the Romantic period, together with close readings of poets including William Blake, William Wordsworth and Samuel... -
To Keep Love Blurry by Craig Morgan Teicher 9781934414934
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68"The brilliance of these poems is how they renovate not only poetry but language, without pretense, without the declaration of war, without summoning the ghost of Shakespeare in any but the most... -
Bertolt Brecht Journals, 1934-55 by Bertolt Brecht 9780413655103
Booksplease Price: £66.77"Those who dismiss Brecht as a yea-sayer to Stalinism are advised to read these journals and moderate their opinion." (Paul Bailey, Weekend Telegraph) Brecht's "Work Journals" cover the period from... -
Physiognomy and the Meaning of Expression in Nineteenth-Century Culture by Lucy Hartley 9780521792721
Booksplease Price: £99.43In Physiognomy and the Meaning of Expression in Nineteenth-Century Culture, first published in 2001, Lucy Hartley examines the emergence of physiognomy as a form of popular science. Physiognomy... -
The Complete Novels and Selected Writings of Amy Levy, 1861-89 by Amy Levy 9780813012001
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.72Amy Levy was a talented Anglo-Jewish writer who committed suicide in 1889 at the age of 28. During her brief career she published essays, short stories, three novels and three collections of poetry,... -
Bead on an Anthill: A Lakota Childhood by Delphine Red Shirt 9780803289765
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Bead on an Anthill is the story of a Lakota girl's experiences growing up in Nebraska and on the Pine Ridge Reservation in the 1960s and 1970s. Raised in a home without books, Delphine Red Shirt... -
The Good Soul of Szechuan by Bertolt Brecht 9781408109656
Booksplease Price: £13.64A programme text edition of Brecht's famous parable, this new translation by David Harrower was published to accompany the production at the Young Vic, London, in May 2008 and is based on a... -
Hitler's Personal Pilot: The Life and Times of Hans Baur by C. G. Sweeting 9781574884029
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.49Adolf Hitler trusted few men, but his faith in pilot Hans Baur never wavered. Baur, a decorated World War I flyer and one of Germany's leading commercial aviators of the 1920s, joined the fledgling... -
Conversations with Wilde: A Fictional Dialogue Based on Biographical Facts Merlin Holland 9781786782304
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12Renowned for his endlessly quotable pronouncements, Oscar Wilde cut a dashing figure in late Victorian London ... until his tragic downfall resulting from an ill-judged libel action. We remember him... -
Breathe: A Memoir of Motherhood, Grief, and Family Conflict by Kelly Kittel 9781938314780
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Kelly Kittel never questioned her Mayflower Society mantra-"Family is the most important thing"-until the day her fifteen-month-old son was run over by her sixteen-year-old niece. Nine months later,... -
The Spiritual History of Ice: Romanticism, Science and the Imagination by E. Wilson 9780230619715
Booksplease Price: £55.79At the end of the eighteenth century, scientists for the first time demonstrated what medieval and renaissance alchemists had long suspected; ice is not lifeless but vital, a crystalline revelation... -
The Poetic Way of Xie Lingyun: Literary Expression and the Natural World Ping Wang 9780295753737
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £31.27The father of Chinese landscape poetry in time and placeDuring the dark centuries between the fall of the Han dynasty in 220 CE and the golden age of reunified China under the Tang and Song dynasties... -
Brecht Collected Plays: 7: Visions of Simone Machard; Schweyk in the Second World War; Caucasian Chalk Circle; Duchess of Malfi by John Willett 9780413685902
Booksplease Price: £25.62Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht's plays in the English language. The seventh... -
The Shaanxi Opera: A Novel by Jia Pingwa
Booksplease Price: £16.98Winner of the Mao Dun Literature Prize. From one of China's most celebrated authors comes a masterful novel about modernity and tradition, love and obsession, and economic change and quixotic...