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Living in the Delta: New and Collected Poems by Landeg White 9781910409886
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.62Living 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: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.99'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... -
Complete Poetry, Translations & Selected Prose Bernard Spencer 9781852248918
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.80Bernard Spencer (1909-63) was a distinctive voice in 20th-century English poetry, and a central figure in the Personal Landscape group of wartime Cairo writers. He spent much of his life working for... -
Undertones of War by Edmund Blunden 9780198716617
Booksplease Price: £60.87Edmund Blunden (1896-1974) was one of the youngest of the war poets, enlisting straight from school to find himself in some of the Western Front's most notorious hot-spots. His prose memoir, written... -
Algernon Charles Swinburne: Selected Writings by Francis O'Gorman 9780198858775
RRP: £27.49Booksplease Price: £24.44This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students and readers a comprehensive selection of the work of Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909). This authoritative edition presents... -
Doggerland by Ben Smith
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.99'The Road meets Waiting for Godot: powerful, unforgettable, unique' Melissa Harrison, author of At Hawthorn Time. Doggerland is a superbly gripping... -
21st-Century Dylan: Late and Timely by Dr. Laurence Estanove 9781501371240
Booksplease Price: £33.84Bob Dylan has constantly reinvented the persona known as "Bob Dylan," renewing the performance possibilities inherent in his songs, from acoustic folk, to electric rock and a late, hybrid style which... -
From the Dugouts to the Trenches: Baseball during the Great War by Jim Leeke 9780803290723
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.072018 SABR Baseball Research Award Winner Baseball, like the rest of the country, changed dramatically when the United States entered World War I, and Jim Leeke brings these changes to life in From... -
Housman's Poems by John Bayley 9780198117636
Booksplease Price: £87.25Although Housman's three collections of poems, the third published posthumously, have remained popular, they have not received much serious critical attention. John Bayley makes good the omission in... -
There and Back Again: J R R Tolkien and the Origins of The Hobbit by Mark Atherton
Booksplease Price: £22.93'Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.' The prophetic words of Galadriel, addressed to Frodo as he prepared to travel from Lothlorien to Mordor to destroy the One Ring, are... -
A History of England in 25 Poems by Catherine Clarke 9780241765982
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.91A delightful, thoughtful and original new way to understand England's historyA Times Best Book of the Year 2025 A History Extra History Book of the Year 2025 'This is a marvellous idea, quite... -
There and Back Again: J R R Tolkien and the Origins of The Hobbit by Mark Atherton 9781780762463
Booksplease Price: £51.96'Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.' The prophetic words of Galadriel, addressed to Frodo as he prepared to travel from Lothlorien to Mordor to destroy the One Ring, are... -
The Island: W. H. Auden and the Last of Englishness Nicholas Jenkins 9780571239023
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.93Winner of the 2024 Warren-Brooks Award for Outstanding Literary CriticismWinner of the Northern California Book Award for General Nonfiction'The Island makes an outstanding contribution to our... -
Diary of a Bipolar Explorer by Lucy Newlyn 9781909930636
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.78In 2002 Lucy Newlyn found herself incarcerated in a mental hospital in Leeds. She had been sectioned under the Mental Health Act as a danger to herself and others during a psychotic episode after... -
Where Poppies Blow: The British Soldier, Nature, the Great War by John Lewis-Stempel
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Winner of the 2017 Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize for nature writingThe natural history of the Western Front during the First World War'If it weren't for the birds, what a hell it would be.'During... -
The Book You Need to Read to Write the Book You Want to Write: A Handbook for Fiction Writers by Sarah Burton 9781316513446
Booksplease Price: £45.31Have you ever wanted to write a novel or short story but didn't know where to start? If so, this is the book for you. It's the book for anyone, in fact, who wants to write to their full potential... -
The Book You Need to Read to Write the Book You Want to Write: A Handbook for Fiction Writers by Sarah Burton
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.35Have you ever wanted to write a novel or short story but didn't know where to start? If so, this is the book for you. It's the book for anyone, in fact, who wants to write to their full potential... -
Ingrained: The making of a craftsman by Callum Robinson 9781804992876
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.81WINNER OF THE INDIE BOOK AWARD 2025 FOR NON-FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITINGA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2024'Robinson's prose is humorous and macho, taking its lead from... -
Dust to Dust: A Memoir by Benjamin Busch 9780062014856
Booksplease Price: £11.78I knew very early that I was a solitary being. I longed for the elemental. As a child I was drawn into the wilderness, the reckless water of oceans, rivers, and rain, the snow and ice floes, the... -
The Island: War and Belonging in Auden’s England by Nicholas Jenkins 9780674025226
Booksplease Price: £33.55A groundbreaking reassessment of W. H. Auden's early life and poetry, shedding new light on his artistic development as well as on his shifting beliefs about political belonging in interwar England... -
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English Ian Hamilton 9780198661474
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £110.15This Companion is both an alphabetically arranged reference work and, in its sum, a history, a map of modern poetry in English. From the last decade of the century, it offers a survey of the terrain,... -
The Consolation of Nature: Spring in the Time of Coronavirus by Michael McCarthy
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S BEST NATURE BOOKS OF 2020SHORTLISTED FOR THE RICHARD JEFFERIES SOCIETY & WHITE HORSE BOOKSHOP LITERARY PRIZE'Lovely: full of fascinating detail and anecdote, but the undertow of... -
The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 1: 1886-1920 by Robert Frost 9780674057609
RRP: £41.95Booksplease Price: £35.72One of the acknowledged giants of twentieth-century American literature, Robert Frost was a public figure much celebrated in his day. Although his poetry reached a wide audience, the private...