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Poems and Prose by Christina G. Rossetti 9780192807151
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.45'The mystery of Life, the mystery Of Death, I see Darkly as in a glass...' Christina Rossetti (1830-94) is perhaps the most contradictory of the great Victorian poets. She writes of the... -
Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress by Thomas Nagel 9780197690888
RRP: £17.49Booksplease Price: £16.51This volume presents two closely related essays by Thomas Nagel: "Gut Feelings and Moral Knowledge" and "Moral Reality and Moral Progress." Both essays are concerned with moral epistemology and our... -
Re-using Manuscripts in Late Medieval England: Repairing, Recycling, Sharing by Hannah Ryley 9781914049224
Booksplease Price: £25.91Explores the practices and processes by which manuscripts were crafted, mended, protected, marked, gifted and shared. During the "long fifteenth century" (here, 1375-1530), the demand for books... -
The Mighty Goddess: World Myths Sally Pomme Clayton 9781837052493
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.41This stunning collection of myths is for adults, and brings together 52 goddess myths from across the globe: familiar, unknown, forgotten - spectacular! Pioneering storyteller Sally Pomme Clayton... -
Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France by Laurent Dubois 9780520259287
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £37.61When France both hosted and won the World Cup in 1998, the face of its star player, Zinedine Zidane, the son of Algerian immigrants, was projected onto the Arc de Triomphe. During the 2006 World Cup... -
The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, and Other Plays by Moliere
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.43'Why does he write those ghastly plays that the whole of Paris flocks to see? And why does he paint such lifelike portraits that everyone recognizes themselves?' Moliere, The Impromptu at Versailles ... -
My Life by Marc Chagall
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'As fresh, poignant and individual as his paintings' Lucy Beckett, TLS, Books of the Year 2018'Here is my soul. Look for me here; here I am, here are my pictures, my roots'Marc Chagall, one of the... -
Kansas in August Patrick Gale 9781472255563
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Patrick Gale's KANSAS IN AUGUST is a witty, warm novel of childhood and abandonment 'Modern, excellent and sympathetic' Stephen FryMusical-obsessed Hilary Metcalfe, abandoned by his lover Rufus on... -
Devolution in the United Kingdom by Vernon Bogdanor
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £14.89The issue of devolution has often been one for polemic rather than reasoned analysis. This book places recent developments in the United Kingdom in their historical context, examining political and... -
Twentieth Century Poetry: Selves and Situations by Peter Robinson 9780199273256
Booksplease Price: £79.50Peter Robinson's third book of literary criticism presents a sequence of chapters exploring ways that selves and situations interact and become imaginatively identified with each other in poems... -
Cities Divided: Politics and Religion in English Provincial Towns 1660-1722 by John Miller 9780199288397
Booksplease Price: £78.10The religious and political history of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England is typically written in terms of conflict and division. This was the period when party conflict -... -
Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France by Laurent Dubois 9780520269781
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.18When France both hosted and won the World Cup in 1998, the face of its star player, Zinedine Zidane, the son of Algerian immigrants, was projected onto the Arc de Triomphe. During the 2006 World Cup... -
St John's College Cambridge: A History Peter A Linehan 9781843836087
Booksplease Price: £70.33The first book to describe fully the foundations and development of St John's College Cambridge, highlighting the role its alumni have always played in the life of the nation. Within a generation... -
Notes on a Cuff and Other Stories: New Translation Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov 9781847493873
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05Begun in 1920 while Bulgakov was employed in a hospital in the remote Caucasian outpost of Vladikavkaz, and continued when he started working for a government literary department in Moscow, Notes on... -
No Trace Barry Maitland 9781905147717
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64This is an edge-of-your-seat Brock and Kolla mystery set within a radical artists' community in London where three children have been abducted in a matter of weeks. The most recent is six-year-old... -
Shakespeare in Jest by Indira Ghose 9780367322458
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.54Shakespeare in Jest draws fascinating parallels between Shakespeare's humour and contemporary humour. Indira Ghose argues that while many of Shakespeare's jokes no longer work for us, his humour was... -
Constitutional Futures: A History of the Next Ten Years by Robert Hazell 9780198298014
Booksplease Price: £37.35Tony Blair has described the government's programme of constitutional reform as `the most extensive package of constitutional change ever proposed'. It will transform the political landscape, in ways... -
How Plays Work: New and Revised edition by David Edgar 9781839040313
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78In How Plays Work, distinguished playwright David Edgar examines the mechanisms and techniques which dramatists throughout the ages have employed to structure their plays and to express their meaning... -
Daughters of the Bamboo Grove Barbara Demick 9781783787227
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38Double Purity tells the moving story of the reunification of two identical twins, the cultural divide between them as a result of the forced adoption of one twin by Chinese authorities, and the... -
Monkey Puzzle by Paula Gosling 9781509855063
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Winner of the CWA Golden Dagger for Best Crime NovelIntroducing Detective Lieutenant Jack Stryker. An obsessive, an oddball and - occasionally - a genius. Originally published in 1985, Monkey Puzzle... -
American Painting of the Nineteenth Century: Realism, Idealism, and the American Experience, With a New Preface by Barbara Novak 9780195309492
Booksplease Price: £37.56In this distinguished work, which Hilton Kramer in The New York Times Book Review called "surely the best book ever written on the subject," Barbara Novak illuminates what is essentially American... -
The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker 9781783786381
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31The Mezzanine is the story of one man's lunch hour. Pondering life's littlest questions - why does one shoelace always wear out before the other? Whatever happened to the paper drinking straw - our... -
The Making of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by Daisy Hay
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.80'Invention ... does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos' - Mary Shelley In the 200 years since its first publication, the story of Frankenstein's creation during stormy days and... -
Truth: Ideas in Profile by Simon Blackburn
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Truth has always been a thorny topic. How does it work? Who decides what it is? And why is it seen as so important? In this lucid introduction to the topic, leading scholar Simon Blackburn describes... -
The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself by Dr. Andrew Pettegree
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.46The extraordinary history of news and its dissemination, from medieval pilgrim tales to the birth of the newspaper Long before the invention of printing, let alone the availability of a daily... -
A Dictionary of Hinduism by W. J. Johnson 9780198610250
Booksplease Price: £68.04Covering all the major Hindu practices, festivals, beliefs, gods, sacred sites, languages, and religious texts, this is the most comprehensive Hinduism dictionary of its kind. It contains 2,800... -
Fictions of Discourse: Reading Narrative Theory by Patrick O'Neill 9780802079480
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89The fundamental principle upon which contemporary narratology is constructed is that narrative is an essentially divided endeavour, involving the story (`what really happened') and the discourse... -
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Playing for Pizza by John Grisham 9780099519881 [USED COPY]
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £2.54Playing for Position Rick Dockery is an NFL quarterback who can't catch a break. One huge mistake makes him a national laughing stock overnight, and no team will touch him. Playing for... -
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Class War: A Teacher's Diary by Anonymous 9781785906879 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £3.11'Twenty-five years a teacher. I could have committed a double murder and been out by now.' Ever wondered what life is really like for today's teachers? Reasoning that it's either laugh or cry,... -
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Life According to Lubka by Laurie Graham 9781847245038 [USED COPY]
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £2.42Buzz Wexler is an old hand at the music PR business: Angry Belgians, Cheesy Boyz and Ear Waxx were all her babies. And for a woman who was forty last birthday she certainly keeps up the pace. But... -
The Fenian Ideal and Irish Nationalism, 1882-1916 by M. J. Kelly
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £92.48Demonstrates that separatist thinking in Ireland was crucial even when the political focus was on home rule. This book analyses Fenian influences on Irish nationalism between the Phoenix Park... -
Shakespeare in Jest Indira Ghose 9780367322465
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £110.39Shakespeare in Jest draws fascinating parallels between Shakespeare's humour and contemporary humour. Indira Ghose argues that while many of Shakespeare's jokes no longer work for us, his humour was... -
OST: A History of Nazi Germany's Forced Labour Camps by MEMORIAL
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £25.42Winner of the Jan Michalski Prize 2021 An Ostarbeiter was an 'Eastern Worker', rounded up by Nazi Germany from the captured territories in Central and Eastern Europe. By the end of the war, it is... -
The Landscape Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England by N. J. Higham
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £82.05The Anglo-Saxon period was crucial to the development of the English landscape, but is rarely studied. The essays here provide radical new interpretations of its development. Traditional opinion... -
Dreaming in Quantum and Other Stories by Lynda Clark 9781912054657
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.43From award-winning author Lynda Clark come sixteen engrossing stories weaving together elements of folklore, fantasy and speculative fiction, all of them in Clark's darkly humorous style. In... -
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Heart of Tango by Elia Barcelo 9781849164078 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £1.25Natalia is to be married to a German sailor much older than herself, but two days before the wedding she meets Diego, a mysterious young dancer, and they fall immediately in love. When he serenades... -
Essays in Appreciation by Christopher Ricks 9780192880840
Booksplease Price: £49.62The successor to the highly-praised collection of Christopher Rickss The Force of Poetry, this collection of critical essays still attends to poets and poetry: to John Donnes farewells to love,... -
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Personality: What makes you the way you are by Daniel Nettle 9780199211432 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.34Why are some people worriers, and others wanderers? Why do some people seem good at empathising, and others at controlling? We have something deep and consistent within us that determines the choices... -
The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.10'A nation without a national government is an awful spectacle.' In the winter of 1787-8 a series of eighty-five essays appeared in the New York press; the purpose of the essays was to persuade the... -
Adventuress: The Life and Loves of Lucy, Lady Houston by Teresa Crompton 9781803990200
Booksplease Price: £16.86In the 1930s Lady Lucy Houston was one of the richest women in England and a household name, notorious for her virulent criticisms of the government. But politics had been far from her mind when, as...