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Mrs. Dalloway by Virgina Woolf 9781513137162
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.47In the aftermath of the Great War, Clarissa Dalloway attempts to return to a sense of normalcy. Preparing for a party at her London home, she reflects on her life, remembers friends and family, and... -
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... -
Alison Watt: A Portrait Without Likeness: a conversation with the art of Allan Ramsay Julie Lawson 9781911054450
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.90A unique insight into the ways in which one of today's leading artists is inspired by great works of the past. In 16 emphatically modern new paintings, renowned artist, Alison Watt, responds to the... -
A Writer's Eye: Collected Book Reviews by Eudora Welty 9781604732610
Booksplease Price: £28.57Although she is eminent primarily as the prize-winning author of classic works of fiction, Eudora Welty is notable also as an astute literary critic. Her essays on the art of fiction and on the... -
Lurid & Cute by Adam Thirlwell
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05'I had this vision very clearly of a book in which I would record my total experience, and I knew how it should sound: with all the tones that no one ever admires, - the Gruesome, Tender, Needy,... -
The Joy of Walking: Selected Writings by Suzy Cripps
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.62Just like the best walks, The Joy of Walking takes you on a journey with lots to surprise and enjoy along the way. Through the best of classic writing, this inspiring anthology shows how the simple... -
The Winterling by Jez Butterworth
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.95'I like London. I like the pavements. I like to walk out my door and not sink up to my tits in primordial sludge.' A comedy thriller from the author of the Olivier Award-winning Jerusalem. West... -
Emma by Jane Austen 9780099511168
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37Discover the classic story behind the major new film'Jane Austen's Emma is her masterpiece, mixing the sparkle of her early books with a deep sensibility' Observer Emma is young, rich and independent... -
On The Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin
Booksplease Price: £6.03On the Black Hill is an elegantly written tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural Wales and never leave home. They till the rough soil and sleep in the same bed, touched only... -
Dream Sequence by Adam Foulds
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.89A novel about the brutality of fame and what happens when fandom turns to obsession, from the Booker-shortlisted author of The Quickening MazeHenry Banks, a brilliant, anxiously ambitious young actor... -
Lytton Strachey and the Search for Modern Sexual Identity: The Last Eminent Victorian Julie Anne Taddeo 9781560233596
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £25.52Examine Lytton Strachey's struggle to create a new homosexual identity and voice through his life and work!This study of Lytton Strachey, one of the neglected voices of early twentieth-century... -
After Troy by Glyn Maxwell 9781849430265
Booksplease Price: £14.45Troy is in ruins. Its men are dead. Its women are captives and the victorious Greeks are camped in the ashes preparing to sail home. Four quarrelling women drawn together by grief... Four exhausted... -
Roger Fry and Italian Art by Caroline Elam 9781912168088
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £98.45Roger Fry (1866-1934) is best known as a champion of Post-Impressionism and a pioneer of Modernist art criticism. But his fi rst love was early Italian painting, on which he became a recognized... -
Memoirs of a Midget by Walter de la Mare 9781846590665
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.08Miss M., a pretty and diminutive young woman with a passion for shells, fossils, flints, butterflies and stuffed animals, struggles to deal with her isolation from the rest of society due to her... -
Howards End by E. M. Forster
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37The Penguin English Library Edition of Howards End by E. M. Forster'The poor cannot always reach those whom they want to love, and they can hardly ever escape from those whom they love no longer. We... -
Anglo-English Attitudes by Geoff Dyer
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Anglo-English Attitudes brings together Geoff Dyer's best journalism and other writing from 1984-99. There are studied meditations on photographers (Robert Capa, William Gedney, Cartier-Bresson),... -
The Viceroy of Ouidah by Bruce Chatwin
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73In 1812, Francisco Manoel da Silva, escaping a life of poverty in Brazil, sailed to the African kingdom of Dahomey, determined to make his fortune in the slave trade. Armed with nothing but an iron... -
1948: A Critical and Creative Prequel to Orwell's 1984 Brian May 9781804132289
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.95Described as the most widely read and influential serious writer of the twentieth century, George Orwell remains relevant in our own era of contested media. He continues to attract a large readership... -
The Colour of Memory by Geoff Dyer 9780857862716
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'In the race to be first in describing the lost generation of the 1980s, Geoff Dyer in The Colour of Memory leads past the winning post. 'We're not lost,' one of his hero's friend's says, 'we're... -
Utz by Bruce Chatwin
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73As Seen on BBC Between the CoversThis is Chatwin's unforgettable novel of a man in war-torn Communist Prague, driven to protect his collection of porcelain figurines at any cost.Bruce Chatwin's... -
A Night Out with Robert Burns: The Greatest Poems by Robert Burns
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The Scottish poet Robert Burns has been idolised and eulogised. He has been sainted, painted, tarted-up and toasted. He is famous as the author of 'Auld Lang Syne', and he has long been the patron... -
Is A River Alive? Robert Macfarlane 9780241624814
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.77From celebrated writer Robert Macfarlane comes this brilliant, perspective-shifting new book - which answers a resounding yes to the question of its title.At its heart is a single, transformative... -
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When the Professor Got Stuck in the Snow by Dan Rhodes 9781910709016 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £1.97A laugh-out-loud satire on dogma, which tests the limits of freedom of expression. Everybody at the Women's Institute in the village of Upper Bottom is eagerly awaiting the arrival of a very... -
Front-Line Librarianship: Life on the Job for Today's Librarians by Robertson 9780081027295
RRP: £61.95Booksplease Price: £56.66Front-Line Librarianship: Life on the Job for Librarians presents a diverse range of observations, viewpoints and useful commentary on the current workplace experiences of librarians and their... -
What Am I Doing Here? by Bruce Chatwin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78In this collection of profiles, essays and travel stories, Chatwin takes us to Benin, where he is arrested as a mercenary during a coup; to Boston to meet an LSD guru who believes he is Christ; to... -
Parlour Song by Jez Butterworth
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.57A blackly hilarious exploration of deceit, paranoia and murderous desire, as the spirit of the Blues lands in leafy suburbia. Demolition expert Ned lives in a nice new house on a nice new estate... -
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin 9780099769910
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.90Bruce Chatwin provides a fascinating background to indigenous Australian life.The songlines are the invisible pathways that criss-cross Australia, tracks connecting communities and following ancient... -
Law, Literature, and the Transmission of Culture in England, 1837-1925 by Cathrine O. Frank 9781138260559
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £50.37Focusing on the last will and testament as a legal, literary, and cultural document, Cathrine O. Frank examines fiction of the Victorian and Edwardian eras alongside actual wills, legal manuals... -
Edgelands by Michael Symmons Roberts
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42The wilderness is much closer than you think. Passed through, negotiated, unnamed, unacknowledged: the edgelands - those familiar yet ignored spaces which are neither city nor countryside - have... -
The World to Come Robert Macfarlane 9781915569462
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.10Stunning picture book collaboration from bestselling author Robert Macfarlane, actor Johnny Flynn and illustrator Emily SuttonOn my way through the wood wound a thread through the dream... Take a... -
Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster 9780141441450
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05E.M. Forster's Where Angels Fear to Tread is amongst the greatest twentieth-century literary explorations of vice, virtue and the nature of prejudice, edited with notes by Oliver Stallybrass and an... -
A Boy in Winter Rachel Seiffert 9781844089994
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Early on a grey November morning in 1941, only weeks after the German invasion, a small Ukrainian town is overrun by the SS. Deft, spare and devastating, Rachel Seiffert's new novel tells of the... -
Deaths of the Poets by Michael Symmons Roberts 9780099581321
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54From Dylan Thomas's eighteen straight whiskies to Sylvia Plath's desperate suicide in the gas oven of her Primrose Hill kitchen; from Chatterton's Pre-Raphaelite demise to Keats' death warrant in a... -
In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
Booksplease Price: £6.03'The book that redefined travel writing' Guardian ... -
Europa by Sean O'Brien
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Europa, Sean O'Brien's ninth collection of poems, is a timely and necessary book. Europe is not a place we can choose to leave: it is also a shared heritage and an age-old state of being, a place... -
Georgian Bloomsbury: Volume 3: The Early Literary History of the Bloomsbury Group, 1910-1914 by S. Rosenbaum 9780333458242
Booksplease Price: £46.28Georgian Bloomsbury completes the literary history of Old Bloomsbury that began with Victorian Bloomsbury (1987) and continued with Edwardian Bloomsbury (1994). Covering the years between the First... -
Elizabeth von Arnim: Beyond the German Garden Isobel Maddison 9781032922867
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37In the first book-length treatment of Elizabeth von Arnim's fiction, Isobel Maddison examines her work in its historical and intellectual contexts, demonstrating that von Arnim's fine comic writing... -
The Night Creatures: Firefly Robert Macfarlane 9781917044523
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.32From two of the UK's best-known book makers, Robert Macfarlane and Luke Adam Hawker, comes a stunning picture book to ignite wonder in readers everywhere.In the darkness of December,Through the...