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The Public Value of the Humanities by Jonathan Bate 9781849660624
Booksplease Price: £34.47This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.Recession is a time for asking fundamental questions about value... -
Unriddling the World: Fifty Wonder Tales Hugh Lupton 9781806770168
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.72Stories are living things. They are viral. They enter us through our eyes and our ears and they take up residence inside us.Unriddling the World is a collection of fifty traditional narratives -... -
PHANTOM GANG by Ciaran O'Rourke 9781838201845
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £14.13With lyric grace and meditative clarity, Phantom Gang offers a daring dissection of civilizational violence in a variety of contexts from the intimate atavisms and inequalities of Irish history to... -
Earth Prayers: Encounters in Poetry with the Natural World by Carol Ann Duffy, DBE 9781035048151
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26One hundred poems on the beauty and fragility of the natural world, collated by former Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, Carol Ann Duffy.The wonders of nature have inspired poets for centuries,... -
Plagiarism and Literary Property in the Romantic Period by Tilar J. Mazzeo 9780812239676
Booksplease Price: £64.80In a series of articles published in Tait's Magazine in 1834, Thomas DeQuincey catalogued four potential instances of plagiarism in the work of his friend and literary competitor Samuel Taylor... -
Blythe Spirit: The Remarkable Life of Ronald Blythe Ian Collins 9781399819060
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.68'An intimate and insightful portrait of the peerless observer of rural life' RICHARD MABEY'Moving, candid, vivid, it is all that we could hope for in a memoir of this unique and treasured writer'... -
Hard Feelings by Doug Lucie 9781472529046
Booksplease Price: £14.82We're supposed to be having a party. It's s'posed to be fun. This is my house, and when I say everybody have fun, then everybody have fun.Thatcher's Britain - Brixton, 1981. As tensions mount on the... -
The Joy of Walking: Selected Writings by Suzy Cripps
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.62Just like the best walks, The Joy of Walking takes you on a journey with lots to surprise and enjoy along the way. Through the best of classic writing, this inspiring anthology shows how the simple... -
Silent Music by Julian Wolfreys 9781909470415
Booksplease Price: £12.50Like many a younger sibling, the 1970s seldom gets the attention lavished on its predecessor decade - the glamorous, daring, revolutionary '60s. Like a somewhat reserved maiden aunt, the Isle of... -
At the Yeoman's House by Ronald Blythe 9781904634881
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.85What happens in an old farmhouse when the farmers have left? Perhaps only a poet-historian-storyteller can say. These traditional work centres were established centuries ago, sometimes in the village... -
A Mind Apart: Poems of Melancholy, Madness, and Addiction by Mark S Bauer 9780195336412
Booksplease Price: £31.75"Much madness is divinest sense," wrote Emily Dickinson, "And much sense the starkest madness." The idea that poetry and madness are deeply intertwined, and that madness sometimes leads to the most... -
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A Brush with Nature: 25 Years of Personal Reflections on Nature by Richard Mabey 9781846079139 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: £3.00Described as 'Britain's greatest living nature writer', Richard Mabey has revealed his passion for the natural world in eloquent stories for "BBC Wildlife Magazine". This definitive collection brings... -
The Genius of Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26With an introduction by Simon CallowJudgements about the quality of works of art begin in opinion. But for the last two hundred years only the wilfully perverse (and Tolstoy) have denied the validity... -
Natural Mechanical by J O Morgan 9781909585522
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.33Handicapped at school by his dyslexia and facing the strap at home, Rocky seeks out his own education from the fields and streams around him on the Isle of Skye. He develops an instinctive talent for... -
Provincials: Postcards from the Peripheries by Sumana Roy 9780300266139
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.55From the acclaimed author of How I Became a Tree, an enchanting and joyous exploration of life and creativity at the geographical edges of the modern world "A striking mix of memoir and literary... -
Grove by Esther Kinsky 9781913097288
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23An unnamed narrator, recently bereaved, travels to Olevano, a small village south-east of Rome. It is winter, and from her temporary residence on a hill between village and cemetery, she embarks on... -
Romantic Revelations: Visions of Post-Apocalyptic Life and Hope in the Anthropocene by Chris Washington 9781487504502
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £38.33Romantic Revelations shows that the nonhuman is fundamental to Romanticism's political responses to climatic catastrophes. Exploring what he calls "post-apocalyptic Romanticism," Chris Washington... -
Ecology and the Literature of the British Left: The Red and the Green by H. Gustav Klaus
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £55.84Premised on the belief that a social and an ecological agenda are compatible, this collection offers readings in the ecology of left and radical writing from the Romantic period to the present. While... -
Where the Nights Are Twice as Long: Love Letters of Canadian Poets by David Eso 9780864923844
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.83Under the covers of Where the Nights Are Twice as Long: Love Letters of Canadian Poets, David Eso and Jeanette Lynes collect letters and epistolary poems from more than 120 Canadian poets, including... -
Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story Caroline Lucas 9781804941591
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A visionary book' Philip Pullman'Essential and magnificent' George Monbiot'Deft and wonderfully poetic' Grace BlakeleyThe right have hijacked Englishness. Can it be... -
A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems: The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman by A. E. Housman
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A.E. Housman was one of the best-loved poets of his day, and A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems is a collection of poems whose elegant simplicity of form belies their hidden complexities. This Penguin... -
A Cranic of Ordinaries Eliza O'Toole 9781848619272
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62This cranic, or skull, of ordinaries is a landscape well-known to poet Eliza O'Toole who has long tramped the Stour Valley on the Suffolk-Essex border with her dog Fin, nose-down tail-up, urging her... -
A History of Ancient Britain Neil Oliver 9780753828861
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Who were the first Britons, and what sort of world did they occupy? In A History of Ancient Britain, much-loved historian Neil Oliver turns a spotlight on the very beginnings of the story of Britain;... -
Lives of Houses by Hermione Lee 9780691193663
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.35A group of notable writers-including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow-celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists,... -
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A History of Ancient Britain by Neil Oliver 9780753828861 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.42Who were the first Britons, and what sort of world did they occupy? In A History of Ancient Britain, much-loved historian Neil Oliver turns a spotlight on the very beginnings of the story of Britain;... -
The Oxford English Literary History: Volume 2: 1350-1547: Reform and Cultural Revolution by James Simpson 9780199265534
Booksplease Price: £61.00Heralding a new era in literary studies, the Oxford English Literary History breaks the mould of traditional approaches to the canon by focusing on the contexts in which the authors wrote and how... -
The Oxford English Literary History: Volume 8: 1830-1880: The Victorians by Phillip Davis 9780199269204
Booksplease Price: £50.93Inaugurating a major new series, successor to the Oxford History of English Literature but excitingly new in its emphasis on 'literary history', this volume covers the flowering of Victorian... -
Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies by Dewey W. Hall 9781498518017
Booksplease Price: £112.43Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies is unique due to its rare assemblage of essays, which has not appeared within an edited collection before. Romantic Ecocriticism is distinct because the... -
Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies by Dewey W. Hall 9781498518031
Booksplease Price: £51.20Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies is unique due to its rare assemblage of essays, which has not appeared within an edited collection before. Romantic Ecocriticism is distinct because the... -
The Fens: Discovering England's Ancient Depths Francis Pryor 9781788547093
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. 'Francis Pryor brings the magic of the Fens to life in a deeply personal and utterly enthralling way' TONY ROBINSON. 'Pryor feels the land rather than simply... -
Forget Me Not: The Rise of the British Literary Annual, 1823-1835 by Katherine D. Harris 9780821421369
Booksplease Price: £73.16By November 1822, the British reading public had already voraciously consumed both Walter Scott's expensive novels and Rudolf Ackermann's exquisite lithographs. The next decade, referred to by some... -
Doggerland by Ben Smith
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.99'The Road meets Waiting for Godot: powerful, unforgettable, unique' Melissa Harrison, author of At Hawthorn Time. Doggerland is a superbly gripping... -
Wild Romanticism by Markus Poetzsch 9780367753511
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Wild Romanticism consolidates contemporary thinking about conceptions of the wild in British and European Romanticism, clarifying the emergence of wilderness as a cultural, symbolic, and ecological... -
The Oxford English Literary History: Volume 2: 1350-1547: Reform and Cultural Revolution by James Simpson 9780198182610
Booksplease Price: £59.27Heralding a new era in literary studies, the Oxford English Literary History breaks the mould of traditional approaches to the canon by focusing on the contexts in which the authors wrote and how... -
Blythe Spirit: The Remarkable Life of Ronald Blythe by Ian Collins 9781399819091
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50'Moving, candid, vivid, it is all that we could hope for in a memoir of this unique and treasured writer' ROWAN WILLIAMS'An unusually intimate and affectionate portrait' PATRICK BARKHAM, GUARDIAN'As... -
Francis: A Life in Songs by Ann Wroe
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74**LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2019****SHORTLISTED FOR THE CATHOLIC HERALD BOOK AWARDS 2019**A life of St Francis in verseThroughout her career Ann Wroe has constantly confounded... -
Love Set You Going: Poems of the Heart by Janet Morley
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50'Love set you going'. The opening words of Sylvia Plath's poem for her newborn daughter are true of each one of us. Love is fundamental to our being, our growth, our development and our happiness... -
An Everyday Life of the English Working Class: Work, Self and Sociability in the Early Nineteenth Century by Carolyn Steedman 9781107046214
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.99This book concerns two men, a stockingmaker and a magistrate, who both lived in a small English village at the turn of the nineteenth century. It focuses on Joseph Woolley the stockingmaker, on his... -
On Flirtation by Adam Phillips 9780674634404
Booksplease Price: £28.11People tend to flirt only with serious things--madness, disaster, other people's affections. So is flirtation dangerous, exploiting the ambiguity of promises to sabotage our cherished notions of... -
The Wryneck: Biology, Behaviour, Conservation and Symbolism of Jynx torquilla by Gerard Gorman
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.39This book considers the natural history and cultural symbolism of a most unusual woodpecker - a species that neither excavates nest holes in trees, nor bores into wood to find insect prey. The...