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The Courage Consort Michel Faber 9781841955346
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35The Courage Consort, possibly the seventh best-known a cappella vocal ensemble in Britain, are given two weeks in a Belgian chateau to rehearse their latest commission, the monstrously complicated... -
Night by Edna O'Brien
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35The BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls trilogy begins in August 2019.Edna O'Brien's haunting spectre of a novel, Night, is narrated by one of her most memorable characters,... -
The French Dispatch by Wes Anderson
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.20THE FRENCH DISPATCH brings to life a collection of stories from the final issue of an American magazine published in a fictional 20th-century French city. It stars Bill Murray, Benicio del Toro,... -
Selected Poems by 9780571172856
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38T. S. Eliot spoke of his 'genius'; in 1935 W. B. Yeats wrote to him, 'I like you better than I like anybody else in the new generation.' This selection draws on six decades of writing, twenty volumes... -
Faberge's Eggs: One Man's Masterpieces and the End of an Empire by Toby Faber
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05This is the story of Faberge's Imperial Easter eggs - of their maker, of the tsars who commissioned them, of the middlemen who sold them and of the collectors who fell in love with them. It's a story... -
Beagle: From Darwin's Epic Voyage to the British Mission to Mars by Colin Pillinger 9780571223237
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $9.05Britain is going to Mars. Beagle 2 - a space lander shaped like a clam and no larger than a portable barbecue - is about to make history. Named after HMS Beagle, the ship in which Charles Darwin... -
'Tears Before Bedtime' and 'Weep No More' by Barbara Skelton 9780571248292
Booksplease Price: $38.20The expression 'femme fatale' could have been coined for Barbara Skelton. She had many admirers - Peter Quennell, Feliks Topolski, Cyril Connolly, King Farouk, George Weidenfeld, Derek Jackson, the... -
Katerina Brac by Christopher Reid 9780571210138
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.01The poems in this collection are presented as translations from the work of the eponymous Katerina Brac, who lives in a country, and writes in a language, that are never identified.'Reid's... -
How to Paint a Dead Man by Sarah Hall
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35A Booker-longlisted novel of art, absence, loss and passion, from Britain's most exciting contemporary writer. Moving between Italy and England, the lives of four people intertwine across half a... -
Martin Crimp Plays 1 by Martin Crimp 9780571203451
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $30.18This collection of early plays confirms Martin Crimp's reputation as one of the most original and exciting talents writing for the theatre today. It includes the plays Dealing with Clair, Play with... -
The Oresteia by Ted Hughes 9780571179961
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.84The Oresteia comprises three of the greatest plays of all time: Agamemnon, The Cheophori and The Eumenides. Concerned with the immediate aftermath of the Trojan War as it affects the accursed royal... -
The Castles on the Ground: The Anatomy of Suburbia by J. M. Richards 9780571281596
Booksplease Price: $27.87'There is the puzzle which it is the purpose of this book to try to elucidate. On the one hand, we have the alleged deficiencies of suburban taste; on the other we have the appeal it holds for... -
Froissart's Chronicles by mR John Jolliffe 9780571290222
Booksplease Price: $46.18The Chronicles of Jean Froissart (1337-1410) are universally acknowledged as the most vivid and faithful account of 14th century events and ideas. This medieval collector of intelligence travelled... -
Hoping It Might Be So: Poems 1974-2000 by Kit Wright 9780571243471
Booksplease Price: $34.06Hoping It Might Be So brings together all of Kit Wright's previous collections for adults as well as three dozen new poems. The collection, first published in 2000, was described by Christina... -
Writings from the Philokalia by E. Kadloubovsky 9780571163939
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $39.27This is a collection of texts written between the fourth and fourteenth centuries by spiritual masters of the Orthodox Christian tradition. First published in Greek in 1782, the writings were... -
Look, Stranger! by W. H. Auden
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.01Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each month, for the rest of the year. This will involve a new jacket... -
Selected Poems 1933-1993 by Gavin Ewart 9780571241958
Booksplease Price: $41.41'The most remarkable phenomenon of the English poetic scene during the last ten years or so has been the advent, or perhaps I should say the irruption, of Gavin Ewart' wrote Philip Larkin. Larkin was... -
The Burning Perch by Louis MacNeice
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each month, for the rest of the year. This will involve a new jacket... -
An Expert in Murder by Nicola Upson
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35An Expert in Murder is the first in a new series that features Golden Age crime writer Josephine Tey as its lead character, placing her in the richly-peopled world of 1930s theatre which formed the... -
The Return of the Jedi by George Lucas
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.40The most popular series of movies in the history of cinema, the Star Wars trilogy altered forever our notion of what the movies could do.Return of the Jedi is the trilogy's concluding section. With... -
The Valley by Elizabeth Clarke 9780571295890
Booksplease Price: $32.00The harshly magnificent landscape of the Elan Valley in Mid Wales was changed utterly in the late 1890s by a reservoir building project initiated by the Corporation of Birmingham in order to supply... -
The Sense of Movement by Thom Gunn
Booksplease Price: $19.38This second collection of Gunn's poetry was first published in 1957.About the AuthorThom Gunn was born in Gravesend, Kent in 1929. After National Service and a short time living in Paris, he enrolled... -
A Circle of Friends by Julian Mitchell 9780571304165
Booksplease Price: $27.87Julian Mitchell's fifth novel, first published in 1966, is the story of Martin Bannister, whose lonely bachelor life in Manhattan is transformed by a meeting with desirable redhead Henrietta Grigson... -
Spiritual Conferences by Frederick William Faber 9780461789393
Booksplease Price: $39.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461789393Author Frederick William FaberFormat PaperbackPage Count 456 -
A Choice of Shakespeare's Verse William Shakespeare 9780571233793
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70For this new edition, first published in 1971, Ted Hughes augmented his original selection of Shakespeare's poems and dramatic speeches and completely rewrote his accompanying essay, intending to... -
The Plough and the Stars by Sean O'Casey
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $16.07This educational edition, with the full play text and an introduction to the playwright, features a detailed analysis of the language, structure and characters of the play, and textual notes... -
Lord of the Flies by William Golding 9780571404100
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $18.46ONE OF THE BBC'S '100 NOVELS THAT CHANGED OUR WORLD''Exciting, relevant and thought provoking.' STEPHEN KING'One of my favourite books.' SUZANNE COLLINS'Exemplary.' IAN MCEWANWith an Introduction by... -
New Irish Short Stories by Joseph O'Connor
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Edited by Joseph O'Connor (author of Star of the Sea and Ghost Light) New Irish Short Stories is a stunning collection from a fascinating variety of writers, both new and established. Featuring,... -
The Royal Tenenbaums by Wes Anderson 9780571215454
Booksplease Price: $25.75The screenplay of the award-winning picture from the director Wes Anderson, at once tender and probing, mindful of New York and its special mixture of grit and glory.Reviews'The film of the year..... -
My Roman Year André Aciman 9780571385188
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $33.37Rome, 1964. As 13 year old André stands at the foot of the gangway to the ship, his mother fusses over their luggage - 32 suitcases, trunks and tea chests that contain their world. The ship will... -
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English Love Poems by John Betjeman 9780571070657 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $5.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorPoet and architectural critic, Sir John Betjeman was born in North London in 1906. He was taught by T S... -
The Philokalia Vol 5 by G.E.H. Palmer 9780571374649
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $30.20The Philokalia is a foundational collection of texts written between the fourth and the fifteenth centuries by spiritual masters of the Orthodox Christian tradition.First published in Greek in 1782,... -
Modern Greece: A Short History by The Hon. C.M. Woodhouse D.S.O.
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.70Acclaimed for its penetration, balance and insight, Modern Greece tells the story of Greece and the Greek people from the founding of Constantinople to the late twentieth century.'Very readable, very... -
The Difficulties of Romanism by George Stanley Faber 9780461562590
Booksplease Price: $39.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461562590Author George Stanley FaberFormat PaperbackPage Count 441Im -
Journals by Denton Welch 9780571282630
Booksplease Price: $36.77In the last eight years of his life - and he died when he was only thirty-three - Denton Welch wrote three novels, umpteen short stories, hundreds of poems, and - between 1942 and 1948, a profoundly... -
The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 4: 1928-1929 by Valerie Eliot
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $60.14Volume 4 of the letters of T. S. Eliot, which brings the poet, critic, editor and publisher into his forties, documents a period of anxious and fast-moving professional recovery and personal and... -
Selected Poems of Derek Walcott by Derek Walcott
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.40This new Selected Poems offers an ordered retrospective of the fertile career of Derek Walcott, spanning six decades and drawing on twelve collections. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in... -
Looking for the Perfect Beat: Remixing and Reshaping Hip-Hop, Rock and Rhythms by Arthur Baker 9780571387434
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE'Every chapter of Looking For The Perfect Beat is absolutely mesmerising' Buzz MagazineBeginning his career as a disco producer in the early 70s,... -
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By Heart: 101 Poems and How to Remember Them by Ted Hughes 9780571192632 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $6.13What has happened to the lost art of memorising poetry? Why do we no longer feel that it is necessary to know the most enduring, beautiful poems in the English language 'by heart'? In his... -
Napoleon Volume 2: The Spirit of the Age by Michael Broers
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $23.73'Masterly.' Daily Mail 'Stunning.' History Today'Magnificent.' Literary ReviewNapoleon's life reached its most extraordinary stage between 1805 and 1810. At war with Britain, Russia, and Austria, he...