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Our Liverpool: Memories of Life in Disappearing Britain by Piers Dudgeon 9780755317165
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.88OUR LIVERPOOL is an oral history about the real Liverpool - about the city before its slick transformation to European City of Culture and about the spirit that remains at its heart. Here, at last,... -
Our Glasgow: Memories of Life in Disappearing Britain Piers Dudgeon 9780755317141
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26This oral history of Glasgow spans most of the last century - a time of economic downturn and eventual renewal, in which the many communities making up the city experienced upheavals that tore some... -
Oxford Reader's Companion to Conrad by Owen Knowles 9780198604211
Booksplease Price: £28.55'Scholarly, ambitious and scrupulous'. This is how the TLS recently described the Oxford Reader's Companion Series. In September 2000, the book which pioneered the series, The Oxford Reader's... -
Lewis Carroll and the Victorian Stage: Theatricals in a Quiet Life Richard Foulkes 9780367888305
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Author of the enduringly popular Alice books, mathematician, Anglican cleric, and pioneer photographer, Lewis Carroll maintained a lifelong enthusiasm for the theatre. Lewis Carroll and the Victorian... -
Dangerous Children: On Seven Novels and a Story by Professor Kenneth Gross
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £20.18Gross explores our complex fascination with uncanny children in works of fiction. Ranging from Victorian to modern works-Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio, Henry... -
Queens of Wonderland: A Novel by Gama Ray Martinez
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £19.50Enter through the looking glass into Queens of Wonderland, Book Two in the Defenders of Lore series, in which Knights of the Round Vanessa and Michael must follow Captain Hook into Wonderland... -
The Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction by Sandra Kemp 9780198605348
Booksplease Price: £31.75'This oozing, bulging wealth of the English upper and upper-middle classes.' This was how George Orwell saw the Edwardian period. What images do we see when we think of that era? Ladies munching... -
The Housekeeper's Tale: The Women Who Really Ran the English Country House Tessa Boase 9781781314104
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'I read the book with enormous appreciation. Tessa Boase brings all these long-ago housekeepers so movingly to life and her excitement in the research is palpable.' Fay Weldon: Novelist, playwright -... -
The Fairest of Them All: Snow White and 21 Tales of Mothers and Daughters by Maria Tatar
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £15.80"With her trademark brio and deep-tissue understanding, Maria Tatar opens the glass casket on this undying story, which retains its power to charm twenty-one times, and counting."-Gregory Maguire,... -
The Other Side of Never: Dark Tales from the World of Peter & Wendy by A.C. Wise
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.25Dark tales inspired by J. M. Barrie's classic stories of Neverland, Captain Hook, Tinkerbell, and of course Peter Pan, from some the masters of science-fiction, horror and fantasy including A. C... -
Incredible Journeys: Sunday Times Nature Book of the Year 2019 David Barrie 9781473656857
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78THE SUNDAY TIMES NATURE BOOK OF THE YEAR'A compelling investigation of navigation in the animal kingdom.' Mail on Sunday'David Barrie, who himself has sailed the oceans using a sextant, is passionate... -
Darger's Resources by Michael Moon
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Henry Darger (1892-1973) was a hospital janitor and an immensely productive artist and writer. In the first decades of adulthood, he wrote a 15,145-page fictional epic, In the Realms of the Unreal... -
Black and Blue: The Bruising Passion of Camera Lucida, La Jete, Sans soleil, and Hiroshima mon amour by Carol Mavor
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.75Audacious and genre-defying, Black and Blue is steeped in melancholy, in the feeling of being blue, or, rather, black and blue, with all the literality of bruised flesh. Roland Barthes and Marcel...