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Selected Poems by John Dryden 9780140439144
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54A new and comprehensive selection of Dryden's poetry, revealing him as a master of theatricality, ventriloquism, and unmistakable originality. Brought together here are many of the poems from his... -
Renaissance Women Poets by Aemilia Lanyer
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Whitney's two volumes of verse miscellany, 'Sweet Nosegay' (1573) and 'The Copy of a Letter' (1567), were part of a literary trend of combining classical and Biblical references with popular and... -
Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce Colm Toibin 9780241354421
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.59An intimate study of three of Ireland's greatest writers from one of its best-loved contemporary voices, Colm Toibin__________________In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Toibin takes three of... -
The Last Polar Bears by Harry Horse
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.39Grandfather is off on an expedition to the North Pole to find the Last Polar Bears and with him goes Roo - a dog of character and strong views. The intrepid explorers set sail on the good ship... -
Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A classic novel of post-war Europe, haunting and timelessly beautiful'The greatest writer of our time' Peter CareyIn 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and... -
The Stolen Lake by Joan Aiken
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.63Dido Twite, heroine of Black Hearts in Battersea and Nightbirds on Nantucket, is on her wildest adventure yet. On her way back to London aboard the Thrush, Dido and crew are summoned to the aid of... -
Mrs Pepperpot To The Rescue by Alf Proysen
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.63Mrs Pepperpot is as busy as always, and mindful that she is likely to shrink to the size of a Pepperpot at any time. She doesn't know when or where it might happen but she can be sure she'll have an... -
On Grief And Reason: Essays by Joseph Brodsky
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51In this richly diverse collection of essays, Joseph Brodsky casts a reflective eye on his experiences of early life in Russia and exile in America. With dazzling erudition, he explores subjects as... -
The Complete Plays by Christopher Marlowe
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Marlowe's seven plays dramatise the fatal lure of potent forces, whether religious, occult or erotic. In the victories of Tamburlaine, Faustus's encounters with the demonic, the irreverence of... -
The Robbers and Wallenstein by Friedrich Schiller
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) was one of the most influential of all playwrights, the author of deeply moving dramas that explored human fears, desires and ideals. Written at the age of twenty-one,... -
Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson 9780141354958
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.37One of the best-loved animal stories of our time."Twilight over meadow and water, the eve-star shining above the hill, and Old Nog the heron crying kra-a-ark! as his slow dark wings carried him down... -
Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems 1964-2001 by W. G. Sebald 9780141044866
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47A stunningly beautiful selection of poetry by W. G. Sebald.'The greatest writer of our time' Peter CareyAcross the Land and the Water brings together poems from throughout W. G. Sebald's life as well... -
Ephemeron by Fiona Benson
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82**SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE****SHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE**The poems in Ephemeron deal with the short-lived and transitory - whether it's the brief, urgent lives of the... -
Electra and Other Plays by Sophocles
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Demonstrating Sophocles' aptitude for humanising figures from Greek myth and transforming simple fables into complex high tragedy, Electra and Other Plays is translated by David Raeburn with an... -
Selected Poems by Thomas Hardy
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Although best remembered today for his novels, Thomas Hardy thought of himself as a poet forced by circumstance to write fiction for a living. This generous selection of nearly two hundred poems... -
The Silver Boy by Kristina Ohlsson
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.63They thought ghosts didn't exist . . .But when Aladdin's parents discover food is being stolen from their restaurant, he and his friends decide to investigate.Soon, Aladdin notices a strange boy -... -
The Selected Poems of Cavafy by C. P. Cavafy
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.19C. P. Cavafy is one of the most singular and poignant voices of twentieth-century European poetry, conjuring a magical interior world through lyrical evocations of remembered passions, imagined... -
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners by John Bunyan 9780140432800
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Composed and published while John Bunyan (1628-1688) was in prison for his religious principles, Grace Abounding is an extraordinary spiritual autobiography. It was written in an age when religious... -
Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai by Robert Bickers 9780141011950
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78'This is a biography of a nobody that offers a window into an otherwise closed world. It is a life which manages to touch us all...' Empire Made MeShanghai in the wake of the First World War was one... -
Voices In The Park by Anthony Browne
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.63Four different voices tell their own versions of the same walk in the park. The radically different perspectives give a fascinating depth to this simple story which explores many of the author's key... -
Angelo Quentin Blake 9781849410465
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83A marvellous story about helping each other out, from the nation's favourite illustrator, Quentin Blake.Angelo and his family travel round the country playing music, singing songs and performing... -
The Zoo of the New: A Book of Exceptional Poems from Sappho to Paul Muldoon by Nick Laird
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'So open it anywhere, then anywhere, then anywhere again. We're sure it won't be long before you find a poem that brings you smack into the newness and strangeness of the living present, just as it... -
Ruby Tanya by Robert Swindells
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78This is a contemporary tale about two friends - one of whom, Asra, is an asylum seeker from an unnamed Eastern European country. The other, Ruby Tanya, is the daughter of a local man who is... -
Medea by Euripides 9780099511779
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49THE ACCLAIMED TRANSLATION BY ROBIN ROBERTSON (FORWARD PRIZE, MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLIST 2018)Euripides' Medea, the brutally powerful ancient Greek tragedy that reverberates down the centuries, has... -
Chaucer: Brief Lives by Peter Ackroyd 9780099287483
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Geoffrey Chaucer has some claim to being the greatest poet in the English language. Yet he has also been considered to be an invisible poet, self-depreciating and ironic, leaving only the breath of... -
Selected Poems by Stevie Smith 9780141186559
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Stevie Smith was one of the few modern poets to reach a wide general audience. Bizarre, witty, sad, sometimes caustic, her poems impart a zest for life, and reveal her unique eye for the marvels of... -
Orlando: The Illustrated Edition Virginia Woolf 9780571395682
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43Virginia Woolf's dazzling, time-defying novel of love, identity and transformation, brought to life with breathtaking interior art by Varvara Alay.Different though the sexes are, they intermix. In... -
Selected Poems by Michael Rosen 9780141024554
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Michael Rosen's Selected Poems is a wonderfully moving sequence of prose poems extracted from his acclaimed autobiographical triptych, Carrying the Elephant, This is Not My Nose and In the Colonie... -
Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived by Penelope Lively
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95This autobiography is about growing up in Egypt. It is also an investigation into childhood perception in which the author uses herself and her memories as an insight into how children see and know... -
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Penguin's Poems by Heart by Laura Barber 9780141191775 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £1.98Learning by heart is the best way to experience a poem, but the method has fallen from favour as part of the educational system. This small collection of the best English poems offers the reader the... -
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Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear 9780141003108 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £4.70'Potter's marvellous voice, captured in letters and journals, comes through loud and clear ... Lear gives us much to consider about this unfamiliar and remarkable woman' Daily TelegraphBeatrix... -
Poems and Prose by Gerard Hopkins
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Dazzling in its prosodic innovations, such as the 'sprung rhythm' he pioneered, and wide-ranging in its complexity and metaphysical interest. The Penguin Classics edition of Gerard Manley Hopkins's... -
Idylls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Tennyson had a life-long interest in the legend of King Arthur and after the huge success of his poem 'Morte d'Arthur' he built on the theme with this series of twelve poems, written in two periods... -
Undying: A Love Story by Michel Faber
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23How can you say goodbye to the love of your life?In Undying Michel Faber honours the memory of his wife, who died after a six-year battle with cancer. Bright, tragic and candid, these poems are an... -
Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices by Dylan Thomas 9781784878900
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12'It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black...'Under Milk Wood tells the story of a Welsh village during one spring day. It is populated by some of the best-loved... -
Love Visions by Geoffrey Chaucer 9780140444087
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Spanning Chaucer's working life, these four poems build on the medieval convention of 'love visions' - poems inspired by dreams, woven into rich allegories about the rituals and emotions of courtly... -
New Poems Book Four by Charles Bukowski 9780753510360
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Charles Bukowski was one of America's best-known writers and one of its most influential and imitated poets. His slum upbringing, his succession of menial jobs and his experience of gritty urban... -
Animal Poems by John Hollander
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15This is a collection of classic animal poems. The poems include: Robert Burns's "To a Mouse"; Ted Hughes's "Hawk Roosting"; Christopher Smart's "My Cat Jeoffry"; and e.e. cummings's... -
The Magic of What's There by David Morley
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61In his bold new collection, David Morley, winner of the Ted Hughes Award, casts off the worlds of myth and magical fable to focus on the fiercely personal. `Love teaches you how to mind / And how to... -
The Poetry of Birds: edited by Simon Armitage and Tim Dee by Simon Armitage
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51A STUNNING COLLECTION OF POEMS CURATED BY THE NEW POET LAUREATE AND THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FOUR FIELDS___________________________'Some of the most ethereal verse ever written' Sunday Telegraph 'A...