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My Country's Hair Turned White Dilawar Karadaghi 9781911469742
RRP: $16.80Booksplease Price: $13.82Dilawar Karadaghi is one of the most important contemporary Kurdish poets and his work is marked by the long years of persecution, marginalization and struggle that are part of the Kurdish experience... -
Yellow Tulips: Poems 1968-2011 by James Fenton
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Winner of both the Queen's Gold Medal and the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, James Fenton has given readers some of the most memorable lyric verse of the past decades, from the formal skill that... -
Centroeuropa by Rahul Bery 9781913512392
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84'Our lives do not start entirely with our births.' Prussia, the early 19th century. As he attempts to bury his recently deceased wife, Redo Hauptshammer uncovers the frozen body of a uniformed... -
The Press Freedom Myth by Jonathan Heawood 9781785905445
RRP: $21.00Booksplease Price: $16.25What does press freedom mean in a digital age? Do we have to live with fake news, hate speech and surveillance? Can we deal with these threats without bringing about the end of an open society? In... -
The True Height of the Ear by Iain Galbraith 9781911469308
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.83In this masterful first book of original poems, Iain Galbraith explores how people's actions and experiences shape not only their own lives but the world around them. His poems are full of sharp... -
A. E. Housman: The Critical Heritage Philip Gardner 9781032888163
RRP: $67.18Booksplease Price: $62.56First published in 1992, A. E. Housman: The Critical Heritage brings together the most important and significant critical response to the poetry of A.E. Housman from the time of his writing to 1951... -
Get Your Money Right: Understanding your money and making it work for you by Emmanuel Asuquo 9780008584368
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $24.99Learning about money does not have to be boring, but it is REALLY important, especially as we battle through the current cost of living crisis. GET A MONEY MINDSET * BUILD GOOD... -
Dylan Thomas: The Collected Letters Volume 2: 1939-1953 by Dylan Thomas
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.58Dylan Thomas's letters bring the fascinating and tempestuous poet and his times to life in a way that no biography can.The letters begin in the poet's schooldays and end just before his death in New... -
Dylan Thomas: The Collected Letters Volume 1: 1931-1939 Dylan Thomas 9781474607995
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $30.56Dylan Thomas's letters bring the fascinating and tempestuous poet and his times to life in a way that no biography can.The letters begin in the poet's schooldays and end just before his death in New... -
John W. Thompson - Psychiatrist in the Shadow of the Holocaust by Paul J. Weindling 9781580464604
RRP: $69.28Booksplease Price: $64.49John W. Thompson: Psychiatrist in the Shadow of the Holocaust is the biography of a doctor whose revulsion at Nazi human experiments prompted him to seek a humane basis for physician-patient... -
Today the Struggle: Literature and Politics in England during the Spanish Civil War by Katharine Bail Hoskins 9780292768888
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.76Many writers, from Aristophanes to Joseph Heller, have written about politics. But at certain periods in history, often at times of conflict and turmoil, writers have consciously used their literary... -
The Kingdom by Jane Draycott 9781800172593
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.80The Kingdom of Jane Draycott's fifth collection is clearly a world we know, altered a little by Draycott's distinctive, prismatic lyricism, whose loving attention to place and our moment is skewed in... -
Arshile Gorky: 1904 1948 by Arshile Gorky 9783906915340
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $67.94Armenian-American artist Arshile Gorky (c. 1904 48) made his first mature works in New York City in the mid-1920s, by which point the traumatic history of the 20th century had already made him a... -
The True Height of the Ear by Iain Galbraith
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.39In this masterful first book of original poems, Iain Galbraith explores how people's actions and experiences shape not only their own lives but the world around them. His poems are full of sharp... -
The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction John Sutherland 9781408203903
Booksplease Price: $89.17With over 900 biographical entries, more than 600 novels synopsized, and a wealth of background material on the publishers, reviewers and readers of the age the Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction... -
Keith Douglas, 1920-1944: A Biography by Dr Desmond Graham 9780571254156
Booksplease Price: $46.07Keith Douglas was almost certainly the greatest poet of the Second World War. He was killed in Normandy three days after D-Day. He was only twenty-four. His short life was one of contradictions: the... -
James Joyce by Richard Ellmann
RRP: $68.23Booksplease Price: $52.90Richard Ellmann has revised and expanded his definitive work on Joyce's life to include newly discovered primary material, including details of a failed love affair, a limerick about Samuel Beckett,... -
A Teen's Guide to Modern Manners Sam Norman 9781472151452
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54There's little that's been written yetConcerning teenage etiquette,So as a sort of useful guideSome gruesome cases lie insideOf teenagers who lost their wayAnd ultimately had to pay.You'll read about... -
The Acts of Oblivion by Paul Batchelor 9781800171992
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.80The 'Acts of Oblivion' were a series of seventeenth-century laws enacted by both Parliamentarian and Royalist factions. Whatever their ends - pardoning revolutionary deeds, or expunging revolutionary... -
The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 9: 1939-1941 by T. S. Eliot
RRP: $126.00Booksplease Price: $87.28This volume covers the production of Eliot's play The Family Reunion; the publication of The Idea of a Christian Society; and the joyous versifying of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. After... -
Starting Over by Denise Welch 9781509893607
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $26.29Denise Welch has always been open about her life, and has refused to let media intrusions and lies slow her down. But now, as she starts a whole new chapter in her life, she wants to set the record... -
Lions and Shadows by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.12WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JAMES FENTONSubtitled 'An education in the twenties', this work blends autobiography and fiction to describe the inner life of a writer evolving from precocious public... -
Fixing Global Finance by Martin Wolf 9780801895739
RRP: $54.50Booksplease Price: $52.88Since 2008, when Fixing Global Finance was first published, the collapse of the housing and credit bubbles of the 2000s has crippled the world's economy. In this updated edition, Financial Times... -
'The Map of All My Youth': Early Works, Friends, and Influences by Katherine Bucknell 9780198129646
Booksplease Price: $147.40This is the first volume in a new series on the work of the poet W. H. Auden. The volume contains a large amount of Unpublished material by Auden, notably six poems written in German in the early... -
Goethe, Kant, and Hegel: Discovering the Mind Walter Kaufmann 9780887383700
RRP: $104.98Booksplease Price: $94.98This immensely readable and absorbing book - the first of a three-volume series on understanding the human mind - concentrates on three major figures who have changed our image of human beings... -
Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood 9780811220248
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $21.19First published in 1934, Goodbye to Berlin has been popularized on stage and screen by Julie Harris in I Am a Camera and Liza Minelli in Cabaret. Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin:... -
The Profligate Colonial: How the US Exported Austerity to the Philippines Lisandro E. Claudio 9781501784071
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $63.08In The Profligate Colonial, Lisandro E. Claudio reveals how austerity, long before it became a buzzword of modern technocracy, was a tool of US empire. Austerity is often praised as prudence in hard... -
Perspectives on Intellectual Capital Bernard Marr 9780750677998
RRP: $199.48Booksplease Price: $175.94Perspectives on Intellectual Capital bridges the disciplinary gaps and facilitates knowledge transfer across disciplines, featuring views on intellectual capital from the fields of accounting,... -
Modernism and the New Spain: Britain, Cosmopolitan Europe, and Literary History by Gayle Rogers
Booksplease Price: $73.58Assembling works in a variety of genres, Gayle Rogers reconstructs an archive of cross-cultural exchanges to reveal the mutual constitution of two modernist movements -- one in Britain, the other in... -
Selected Letters of William Empson by John Haffenden 9780199539864
Booksplease Price: $99.31This edited collection of letters by William Empson (1906-1984), one of the foremost writers and literary critics of the twentieth century, ranges across the entirety of his career. Parts of the... -
Love Lucian: The Letters of Lucian Freud 1939-1954 by David Dawson
RRP: $136.50Booksplease Price: $96.08A Times Best Art Book of 2022Reproductions of the young Lucian Freud's letters alongside insightful context and commentary reveal the foundations of the artist's personality and creative practice. ... -
A Life in Letters by George Orwell 9781846553554
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $31.61George Orwell was a tireless and lively correspondent. He communicated with family members, friends and newspapers, figures such as Henry Miller, Cyril Connolly, Stephen Spender and Arthur Koestler,... -
Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $16.25'Brilliant and disturbing' Stephen Spender, New York Review of BooksThe classic work on 'the banality of evil', and a journalistic masterpieceHannah Arendt's stunning and unnverving report on the... -
Reading F. T. Prince by Will May
RRP: $73.48Booksplease Price: $69.11F.T. Prince (1912-2003) is now emerging as one of the most distinctive voices of twentieth-century Anglophone poetry. Born in South Africa, he came to England in the 1930s, where he studied alongside... -
Selected Letters Of Edith Sitwell by Dame Edith Sitwell 9781844085088
Booksplease Price: $54.45Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) was, through four decades, the most prominent and celebrated woman poet in Britain. Among the notable admirers of her work were Siegfried Sassoon, WB Yeats and Gertrude... -
In Parenthesis by David Jones 9780571259809
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $29.25In Parenthesis was first published in London in 1937. I am proud to share the responsibility for that first publication. On reading the book in typescript I was deeply moved. I then regarded it, and... -
Tales from the Fatherland: Two Dads, One Adoption and the Meaning of Parenthood Ben Fergusson 9781408714294
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.38A pause. 'Ah, Herr Fergusson. It's Frau Schwenk.' Our social worker, I now understood. 'Thank you for getting back to me. I'm calling because we have a little boy, four weeks old, who needs a family... -
Animal Farm by George Orwell 9781839642395
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.24With a new introduction by Professor John Sutherland, this edition takes a fresh look at one of the great works of the twentieth century. Animal Farm is a moral animal fable written to highlight... -
Floating the Woods by Ken Cockburn 9781912147335
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.01The collection includes alphabet, calendar, list and found poems, as well as a sequence conceived as a 'variable construction', with one of many possible versions presented here. Many of the poems... -
The Orchid Trilogy: The Military Orchid, A Mine of Serpents, The Goose Cathedral by Jocelyn Brooke 9781509855797
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $32.49A disarming, lyrical hybrid of fiction and autobiography, this forgotten masterpiece of post-war English fiction follows a small boy through his First World War childhood and teenage years on the...