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How Fiction Works James Wood 9781845950934
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $17.18Rediscover this deep, practical anatomy of the novel from 'the strongest ... literary critic we have' (New York Review of Books) in this new revised 10th anniversary edition.What do we mean when we... -
Love Speaks Its Name: Gay and Lesbian Love Poems J D McClatchy 9781841597454
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $17.20From Sappho to Shakespeare to Cole Porter - a marvellous and wide-ranging collection of classic gay and lesbian love poetry. The poets represented here include Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, Gertrude... -
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Constellation of Genius by Kevin Jackson 9780091930974 [USED COPY]
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $4.97Ezra Pound referred to 1922 as Year One of a new era. It was the year in which a skinny, shabby Irishman and a natty, quietly sinister American entered the cultural landscape, hell-bent on exploding... -
iGirl by Marina Carr
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.62I NeanderthalPrince of the PlainsI saw EdenIt wasn't muchI sawThe treeThe gatesRustyBut stillIntactI sawThe triple lockThe jack bootThe size of an oakI retreatedWiselyGod they WereUgly Marina Carr's... -
Memory, Trauma and the Spirited Life: Remembering and Identity by Gillian Burrell
RRP: $66.28Booksplease Price: $64.14Memory, Trauma and the Spirited Life offers a unique understanding of memory’s role in developing as a person, in navigating the course of life, and in mitigating emotional pain. This book develops... -
Aspects of Bloomsbury: Studies in Modern English Literary and Intellectual History by S. Rosenbaum 9780333720424
Booksplease Price: $176.59Much of the widespread interest in the Bloomsbury Group over the past quarter-century has been biographical, yet without the Group's works there would be little interest in their lives. The studies... -
Sciences of Modernism: Ethnography, Sexology, and Psychology by Paul Peppis 9781107042643
RRP: $183.30Booksplease Price: $166.26Sciences of Modernism examines key points of contact between British literature and the human sciences of ethnography, sexology and psychology at the dawn of the twentieth century. The book is... -
Reality, and Other Stories by John Lanchester
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.01'Sharp, humorous, satirical . . . a mind-bending collection.' TLSHousehold gizmos with a mind of their own.Constant cold calls from unknown numbers.And the creeping suspicion that none of this is... -
Mothering Modernity: Feminism, Modernism, and the Maternal Muse by Marylu Hill
RRP: $66.28Booksplease Price: $60.82This study examines the transformative relationship between Victorian mothers and their modern daughters in the works of six early British modernists (E. M. Forster, Dorothy Richardson, D.H... -
The Life to Come: And Other Stories E.M. Forster 9780241707647
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50A searing collection of E. M. Forster's short stories about forbidden sexuality and desire'Madness, isn't it? What can it matter to anyone else if you and I don't mind?'Exploratory, experimental and... -
E.M. Forster's A Passage to India: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook Peter Childs 9780415238229
RRP: $185.23Booksplease Price: $176.83E. M. Forster's most challenging work, A Passage to India has since 1924 provoked debate on topics from imperialism to modernism to ethnicity, sexuality and symbolism. This sourcebook introduces not... -
The Cambridge Companion to Gay and Lesbian Writing by Hugh Stevens 9780521888448
RRP: $152.10Booksplease Price: $145.53In the last two decades, lesbian and gay studies have transformed literary studies and developed into a vital and influential area for students and scholars. This Companion introduces readers to the... -
Haunting Modernity and the Gothic Presence in British Modernist Literature by Daniel Darvay 9783319326603
Booksplease Price: $91.14This book explores the complex relationship between British modernism and the Gothic tradition over several centuries of modern literary and cultural history. Illuminating the blind spots of Gothic... -
Railway Infrastructure and the Victorian Novel: From Platform to Plot via the Railroad by Nicola Kirkby 9781009295574
RRP: $175.50Booksplease Price: $159.35From 1830 onwards, railway infrastructure and novel infrastructure worked together to set nineteenth-century British society moving in new directions. At the same time, they introduced new periods of... -
The Country House Revisited: Variations on a Theme from Forster to Hollinghurst Tereza Topolovska 9788024636726
Booksplease Price: $29.02From Howard's End to Brideshead Revisited, this book explores the leitmotif of the English country house in twentieth- and twenty-first-century fiction, with a focus on the works of E. M. Forster,... -
A Passage to India (Signature Editions) by E.M. Forster 9781454962496
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $11.99E. M. Forster's novel of a friendship doomed by false accusations and racism set in British India, now repackaged for Union Square and Co.'s Signature Editions series. When Adela Quested and her... -
Christopher Isherwood Diaries Volume 1 by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $57.29In 1939 Christopher Isherwood and W. H. Auden emigrated together to the United States. In spare, luminous prose these diaries describe Isherwood's search for a new life in California; his work as a... -
Understanding a Photograph by John Berger
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50John Berger's writings on photography are some of the most original of the twentieth century. This selection contains many groundbreaking essays and previously uncollected pieces written for... -
Filming Forster: The Challenges of Adapting E.M. Forster's Novels for the Screen by Earl G. Ingersoll 9781611475173
Booksplease Price: $197.81Filming Forster focuses upon the challenges of producing film adaptations of five of E. M. Forster's novels. Rather than follow the older comparative approach, which typically damned the film for not... -
Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Histories by Diarmuid Hester 9780241528457
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $34.01'With originality and subtlety, Diarmuid Hester examines how the gay imagination deals with place and with displacement, allowing for mystery and a kind of magic' Colm Toibin'Hester is a fizzingly... -
The Bloomsbury Cookbook: Recipes for Life, Love and Art Jans Ondaatje Rolls 9780500297933
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $35.88An intimate and mouth-watering journey into the lives and cuisine of the Bloomsbury Group, featuring numerous unpublished recipes, beguiling quotations and original artworks. The Bloomsbury Group... -
Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope 9780140430868
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00The first novel in Anthony Trollope's 'Palliser' series, Can You Forgive Her? traces the fortunes of three very different women in an exploration of whether social obligations and personal happiness... -
Dream Sequence Adam Foulds 9781787330825
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.97Henry Banks, a brilliant but narcissistic young actor, is prepared to go to any length for a role, to capitalise on his successes in television drama by securing the lead in the latest film by a... -
The Red and the Black by Stendhal 9780140447644
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $17.94Charting the rise and fall of an ambitious young social climber in a cruel, monarchical society, Stendhal's The Red and the Black is translated with an introduction and notes by Roger Gard in Penguin... -
Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Histories by Diarmuid Hester 9780141998060
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00'With originality and subtlety, Diarmuid Hester examines how the gay imagination deals with place and with displacement, allowing for mystery and a kind of magic' Colm Toibin'Hester is a fizzingly... -
Personal Aspects of Jane Austen by Mary Augusta Austen-Leigh 9781108062015
Booksplease Price: $48.05Early in the twentieth century, public interest in Jane Austen (1775-1817) was considerable. Although the popularity of her work had remained modest in her lifetime, she was sufficiently well known... -
Ecocriticism in the Modernist Imagination: Forster, Woolf, and Auden by Kelly Elizabeth Sultzbach 9781107161412
RRP: $208.65Booksplease Price: $200.87Although modernism has traditionally been considered an art of cities, Ecocriticism in the Modernist Imagination claims a significant role for modernist texts in shaping environmental consciousness... -
Music and the Queer Body in English Literature at the Fin de Siècle by Fraser Riddell 9781108984584
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $43.62Drawing on an ambitious range of interdisciplinary material, including literature, musical treatises and theoretical texts, Music and the Queer Body explores the central place music held for emergent... -
E.M.Foster: Perils of Humanism by Frederick Campbell Crews 9780691623221
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $56.59Each of E. M. Forster's five novels-The Longest journey, Where Angels Fear to Tread, Room with a View. Howards End, and A Passage to India-is here analyzed within the framework of Forster's cultural... -
Aspects of Bloomsbury: Studies in Modern English Literary and Intellectual History by S. Rosenbaum 9780312213053
Booksplease Price: $176.59Much of the widespread interest in the Bloomsbury Group over the past quarter-century has been biographical, yet without the Group's works there would be little interest in their lives. The studies... -
Modernism and the Locations of Literary Heritage by Andrea Zemgulys 9780521889247
RRP: $117.00Booksplease Price: $112.73Modernist writers in the early twentieth century aimed to write in inventive and transformative ways, but they lived in places celebrated for their association with the achievements of past... -
A History of the Bloomsbury Group by Derek Ryan 9781009423663
Booksplease Price: $176.61A History of the Bloomsbury Group ranges more widely across the Bloomsbury group's interdisciplinary activities and international networks than any previous volume. From innovations in the literary... -
Science Fiction After 1900: From the Steam Man to the Stars by Brooks Landon
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $79.11First published in 2003. Brooks Landon analyses science fiction not as a set of rules for writers, but as a set of expectations for readers. He presents science fiction as a social phenomenon that... -
Broadcasting in the Modernist Era by Matthew Feldman 9781474275583
Booksplease Price: $78.74The era of literary modernism coincided with a dramatic expansion of broadcast media throughout Europe, which challenged avant-garde writers with new modes of writing and provided them with a global... -
Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25When Joel Knox's mother dies, he is sent into the exotic unknown of the Deep South to live with a father he has never seen. But once he gets there, everyone is curiously evasive when Joel asks to see... -
A Domestic Animal by Francis King 9781961341708
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.86"A compact, intricately patterned story of unrequited erotic obsession, focused on the relationship between a closeted English novelist and a beautiful Italian philosopher . . . Among the novel's... -
Staying On by Paul Scott
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61Tusker and Lily Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return 'home' when Tusker, once a Colonel in the British Army, retired, they chose instead to remain in the small hill town of Pangkot,... -
The Submission by Amy Waldman
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.66A jury gathers in Manhattan to select a memorial for the victims of a devastating terrorist attack. Their fraught deliberations complete, the jurors open the envelope containing the anonymous... -
Sincerity by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: $9.73Booksplease Price: $7.82Her final collection as Poet Laureate, a frank, disarming and deeply moving exploration of loss and remembrance in their many forms. Presented in a beautiful, foiled package, this will be the poetry... -
Utopianism, Modernism, and Literature in the Twentieth Century by N. Waddell 9781349347636
Booksplease Price: $90.25Utopianism, Modernism, and Literature in the Twentieth Century considers the links between utopianism and modernism in two ways: as an under-theorized nexus of aesthetic and political interactions;...