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Women's Writing in Exile by Angela Ingram 9780807842515
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £38.25Using a broad range of methodologies, the contributors examine the physical, sociopolitical, canonical, and psychological kinds of exile that women writers in Western culture have endured over the... -
Look At You Amanda Smyth 9781845235895
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Written with the empathy and the rigorous, taut prose of a Raymond Carver, this is a moving, sometimes shocking and sometimes funny account of a girl's growing up in a divided family, moving between... -
The Other Side of the Story: Structures and Strategies of Contemporary Feminist Narratives by Molly Hite
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91According to Molly Hite, a number of influential contemporary women novelists-notably Jean Rhys, Doris Lessing, Alice Walker, and Margaret Atwood-attempt innovations in narrative form that are more... -
The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature Alison Donnell (Nottingham Trent University, UK) 9780415120494
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.82The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature is an outstanding compilation of over seventy primary and secondary texts of writing from the Caribbean. Locating key writers within a specifically... -
Moving Through Modernity: Space and Geography in Modernism by Andrew Thacker
Booksplease Price: £23.54Discussion of space and geography has become common in contemporary literary and cultural studies, especially in the fields of postmodernism and postcolonialism. 'Moving Through Modernity' offers the... -
Dead Men's Wages by Lilian Pizzichini
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Scratch the surface of any family and you will find stories of intrigue, abuse and illegitimacy. It is just that, because of the nature of my grandfather's business, our secrets are more... -
The Existential Drinker by Steven Earnshaw
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £61.91Drinking to excess has been a striking problem for industrial and post-industrial societies - who is responsible when an individual opts for a slow suicide? The causes of such drinking have often... -
The Orchid House by Phyllis Shand Allfrey 9780993108624
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Three white sisters return to their Caribbean island home to find their family living in poverty and mental anguish. Each sister responds to the family's plight in different ways - seeking change... -
A Flying Fish Whispered by Elma Napier 9781845231026
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73When Teresa Craddock joins her brother Tommy on an island that is and isn't Dominica, she is in flight from life and the death of her fiance. On the island she finds a congenial new home and... -
Engagements with Postcolonial Literature and Theory Lorna Burns 9781032626635
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Engagements with Postcolonial Literature and Theory offers a detailed exploration of the debates, theories, texts, and themes that have shaped the evolution of postcolonial literary studies... -
Bront by Polly Teale
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42In 1845, Branwell Bronte returns home in disgrace, plagued by his addictions. As he descends into alcoholism and insanity, bringing chaos to the household, his sisters write - Polly Teale's... -
Music Night at the Apollo: A Memoir of Drifting by Lilian Pizzichini
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.89What you've got to understand is that here in Southall, everyone's up to something. In 2006, Lilian Pizzichini swaps life on dry land for a narrowboat on the Paddington arm of the Grand Union... -
Post-colonial Con-texts: Writing Back to the Canon by John Thieme 9780826454669
Booksplease Price: £33.49In recent years works such as Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, J.M. Coetzee's Foe and Peter Carey's Jack Maggs, which 'write back' to classic English texts, have attracted considerable attention as... -
The Politics of the Dreamscape by Seth Rogoff 9783030747985
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £109.57This book traces the intersection of dreams and power in order to analyze the complex ways representations of dreams and paradigms of dream interpretation reinforce and challenge authoritarian,... -
'Modernist' Women Writers and Narrative Art by Kathleen Wheeler 9780814792759
Booksplease Price: £90.57How does one capture the delightful irony of Edith Wharton's prose or the spare lyricism of Kate Chopin's? Kathleen Wheeler challenges the reader to experiment with a more imaginative method of... -
The Politics of the Dreamscape by Seth Rogoff 9783030747954
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £109.76This book traces the intersection of dreams and power in order to analyze the complex ways representations of dreams and paradigms of dream interpretation reinforce and challenge authoritarian,... -
The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath by Leslie Jamison 9781783781539
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Addiction is seemingly inexplicable. From the outside, it can look like wilful, arrogant self-destruction; from the inside, it can feel as inevitable and insistent as a heartbeat. It is possible to... -
The New Physiognomy: Face, Form, and Modern Expression by Rochelle Rives 9781421448381
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £20.87A fascinating new study of the face, form, and history of expression.Advances in facial recognition, artificial intelligence, and other technologies provoke urgent ethical questions about facial... -
Mothering Across Cultures: Postcolonial Representations by Angelita Dianne Reyes 9780816623532
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01A multifaceted exploration of memory, mothering, literature, and postcoloniality.Blending the personal and the historical, the practical and the theoretical, Angelita Reyes draws on a wide range of... -
Caribbean Autobiography: Cultural Identity and Self-Representation by Sandra Pouchet Paquet 9780299176945
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Despite the range and abundance of autobiographical writing from the Anglophone Caribbean, this book is the first to explore this literature fully. It covers works from the colonial era up to... -
Black and White Sands: A Bohemian Life in the Colonial Caribbean by Elma Napier
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28"A woman I won't forget ... a book that people will love." Diana Athill, Jean Rhys' publisher and award-winning biographer."My aunt's love of Dominica and its people is as freshly painted as if it... -
'Modernist' Women Writers and Narrative Art by Kathleen Wheeler 9780814792766
Booksplease Price: £28.57How does one capture the delightful irony of Edith Wharton's prose or the spare lyricism of Kate Chopin's? Kathleen Wheeler challenges the reader to experiment with a more imaginative method of... -
Speak, Silence: In Search of W. G. Sebald by Carole Angier
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16A SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'The best biography I have read in years' Philippe Sands 'Spectacular' Observer 'A remarkable portrait' Guardian W. G. Sebald was one... -
Speak, Silence: In Search of W. G. Sebald by Carole Angier 9781526634795
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.12A SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'The best biography I have read in years' Philippe Sands 'Spectacular' Observer 'A remarkable portrait' Guardian W. G. Sebald was one... -
Wilfred Bion and Literary Criticism by Naomi Wynter-Vincent
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £32.38Wilfred Bion and Literary Criticism introduces the work of the British psychoanalyst, Wilfred Bion (1897-1979), and the immense potential of his ideas for thinking about literature, creative process,... -
The Continental Affair by Christine Mangan 9781915798046
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43With gorgeous prose, European glamour, and an expansive wanderlust, Christine Mangan's The Continental Affair is a fast-paced, Agatha Christie-esque caper packed full of romance and suspense.'Reads... -
Caribbean Women Writers: Fiction in English by Mary Conde 9780333637692
Booksplease Price: £37.25Caribbean Women Writers is a collection of scholarly articles on the fiction of selected Caribbean women writers from Antigua, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad. It... -
Ethics and Nostalgia in the Contemporary Novel by John J. Su 9780521123808
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £40.09Images of loss and yearning played a crucial role in literary texts written in the later part of the twentieth century. Despite deep cultural differences, novelists from Africa, the Caribbean, Great... -
Rewriting the Victorians: Modes of Literary Engagement with the 19th Century by Andrea Kirchknopf 9780786471348
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59The 19th century has become especially relevant for the present--as one can see from, for example, large-scale adaptations of written works, as well as the explosion of commodities and even... -
Ethics and Nostalgia in the Contemporary Novel by John J. Su 9780521854405
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.69Images of loss and yearning played a crucial role in literary texts written in the later part of the twentieth century. Despite deep cultural differences, novelists from Africa, the Caribbean, Great... -
Global Wallace: David Foster Wallace and World Literature by Lucas Thompson 9781501342707
Booksplease Price: £37.42David Foster Wallace is invariably seen as an emphatically American figure. Lucas Thompson challenges this consensus, arguing that Wallace's investments in various international literary traditions... -
Paris Stories by Shaun Whiteside
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.43In the eighteenth century, Laurence Sterne explores the temptations of the French capital in a teasing study of foreign mores and Restif de la Bretonne provides an eye-witness account of the... -
Shaken and Stirred: Intoxicating Stories by Diana Secker Tesdell
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15In this lively collection, wine snobs receive their comeuppance at the hands of Roald Dahl and Edgar Allan Poe; innocents over-imbibe in tales by Jack London and Alice Munro; riotous partying exacts... -
Modernist Voyages: Colonial Women Writers in London, 1890-1945 by Anna Snaith 9781316638002
Booksplease Price: £32.12London's literary and cultural scene fostered newly configured forms of feminist anticolonialism during the modernist period. Through their writing in and about the imperial metropolis, colonial... -
A Biocultural Approach to Literary Theory and Interpretation by Nancy Easterlin 9781421404721
RRP: £59.00Booksplease Price: £55.64Combining cognitive and evolutionary research with traditional humanist methods, Nancy Easterlin demonstrates how a biocultural perspective in theory and criticism opens up new possibilities for... -
Snow on the Cane Fields: Women’s Writing and Creole Subjectivity by Judith Raiskin 9780816623013
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £38.33Snow on the Cane Fields was first published in 1995. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the... -
House/Garden/Nation: Space, Gender, and Ethnicity in Post-Colonial Latin American Literatures by Women by Iliana Yamileth Rodriguez 9780822314653
Booksplease Price: £31.30How ironic, the author thought on learning of the Sandinista’s electoral defeat, that at its death the Revolutionary State left Woman, Violeta Chamorro, located at the center. The election signaled... -
Ford Madox Ford, Modernist Magazines and Editing by Jason Harding 9789042030558
Booksplease Price: £95.69The controversial British writer Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) is increasingly recognized as a major presence in early twentieth-century literature. This series of International Ford Madox Ford Studies... -
Love for an Island: The Collected Poems of Phyllis Shand Allfrey by Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.94There is renewed interest in Phyllis Shand Allfrey, author (the Orchid House) and politician from Dominica. Allfrey died in 1986 - her poetry neglected and little known. Her work is now being... -
I Want to Talk to You: And Other Conversations Diana Evans 9781784744243
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.07I am sitting in bed next to Mariah Carey. She’s wearing a pair of tiny boxer shorts and a belly-airing vest. “You can lie down if you want”, she says. “I mean it’s fine, be comfortable, “ so I lean...