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The Promise of Rest by Reynolds Price 9780684825106
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.21In this stunning and fully independent conclusion to A Great Circle, Reynolds Price tells the complex, moving story of a man's return home to die of AIDS and of the unexpected effect that his arrival... -
Letter To A Man In The Fire: Does God Exist And Does He Care by Reynolds Price 9780684856278
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Does God Exist and Does He Care? In April 1997 Reynolds Price received an eloquent letter from a reader of his cancer memoir, A Whole New Life. The correspondent, a young medical student diagnosed... -
Blue Calhoun: A Novel by Reynolds Price 9780684867823
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.47"This starts with the happiest I ever was, though it brought down suffering on everybody near me. Short as it lasted and long ago, I've never laid it all out yet, not start to finish. But if I try... -
Creating Flannery O'Connor: Her Critics, Her Publishers, Her Readers by Daniel Moran 9780820349541
RRP: £45.95Booksplease Price: £28.41Flannery O'Connor may now be acknowledged as the "Great American Catholic Author," but this was not always the case. With Creating Flannery O'Connor, Daniel Moran explains how O'Connor attained that... -
Willnot by James Sallis 9781843446699
Booksplease Price: £14.24In the woods outside the town of Willnot, the remains of several people have been discovered, unnerving the community and unsettling Dr. Lamar Hale, the town's all-purpose general practitioner,... -
American Adam by R.W.B. Lewis 9780226476810
Booksplease Price: £24.80Intellectual history is viewed in this book as a series of "great conversations"-dramatic dialogues in which a culture's spokesmen wrestle with the leading questions of their times. In... -
Cather Among the Moderns by Janis P. Stout 9780817361235
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.21A masterful study by a preeminent scholar that situates Cather as a visionary practitioner of literary modernism Willa Cather is often pegged as a regionalist, a feminine and domestic writer, or a... -
Ghostwriter: Shakespeare, Literary Landmines, and an Eccentric Patron's Royal Obsession Lawrence Wells 9781496852434
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.78Part literary mystery, part an examination of what constitutes fiction versus reality, Ghostwriter is based on the true story of author Lawrence Wells, 45, hired by the University of Mississippi in... -
Haunted Property: Slavery and the Gothic by Sarah Gilbreath Ford 9781496829696
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £70.50At the heart of America's slave system was the legal definition of people as property. While property ownership is a cornerstone of the American dream, the status of enslaved people supplies a... -
Conversations with Jay Parini by Professor Michael Lackey 9781628460254
Booksplease Price: £99.43Jay Parini (b. 1948) is best known for his novel about Leo Tolstoy's last year, The Last Station, which has been translated into more than twenty-five languages and made into a Hollywood film. But he... -
Conversations with Jay Parini by Michael Lackey 9781496830784
Booksplease Price: £27.46Jay Parini (b. 1948) is best known for his novel about Leo Tolstoy's last year, The Last Station, which has been translated into more than twenty-five languages and made into a Hollywood film. But he... -
My Dear Mother: Stormy, Boastful, and Tender Letters by Distinguished Sons - from Dostoevsky to Elvis by Karen Elizabeth Gordan 9781565121218
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.00This fascinating collection of letters between sons and mothers offers an intimate and unexpected glimpse into the mind and heart of the artist. Here are letters by over fifty writers, painters, and... -
A Research Guide to Gothic Literature in English: Print and Electronic Sources by Sherri Brown 9781442277472
Booksplease Price: £87.23The Gothic began as a designation for barbarian tribes, was associated with the cathedrals of the High Middle Ages, was used to describe a marginalized literature in the late eighteenth century, and... -
The Paris Review Interviews by Philip Gourevitch 9780312363147
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312363147Author Philip GourevitchFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint -
Thousands of Broadways: Dreams and Nightmares of the American Small Town by Robert Pinsky 9780226669441
Booksplease Price: £17.77Broadway, the main street that runs through Robert Pinsky's hometown of Long Branch, New Jersey, was once like thousands of other main streets in small towns across the country. But for Pinsky, one... -
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Cold War Literary Cultures Greg Barnhisel 9781350304536
Booksplease Price: £43.33Adopting a unique historical approach to its subject and with a particular focus on the institutions involved in the creation, dissemination, and reception of literature, this handbook surveys the... -
Gay Faulkner: Uncovering a Homosexual Presence in Yoknapatawpha and Beyond by Phillip Gordon 9781496825988
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68The life and works of William Faulkner have generated numerous biographical studies exploring how Faulkner understood southern history, race, his relationship to art, and his place in the canons of... -
111 Places in New Orleans That You Must Not Miss Sally Asher 9783740823504
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.88111 Places in New Orleans That You Must Not Miss is your ultimate guide to uncovering the Crescent City's most unique and hidden gems. Beyond the jazz clubs and Mardi Gras parades, this book reveals... -
Christmas Stories from Mississippi Judy H. Tucker 9781496855664
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47How do you create Christmas spirit when the temperature refuses to dip below fifty degrees or when snow is a miracle that vanishes at sunrise? Held together by bonds of family, soil, and history,... -
Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe 9780743297318
Booksplease Price: £15.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743297318Author Thomas WolfeFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint < -
Faulkner's Short Fiction by James Ferguson 9781621903062
Booksplease Price: £23.03James Ferguson's comprehensive overview of William Faulkner's short fiction is a systematic study of this body of work, which Faulkner produced over a period of forty years. Based on his reading of... -
Haunted Property: Slavery and the Gothic by Sarah Gilbreath Ford 9781496829702
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48At the heart of America's slave system was the legal definition of people as property. While property ownership is a cornerstone of the American dream, the status of enslaved people supplies a... -
Radium of the Word: A Poetics of Materiality by Professor Craig Dworkin
Booksplease Price: £26.68With fresh insight and contemporary relevance, Radium of the Word argues that a study of the form of language yields meanings otherwise inaccessible through ordinary reading strategies. Attending to... -
August by Callan Wink
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.72After his parents' divorce, August struggles to start over again in a new town. And when a shocking act of violence pushes him off course, he is once more on the move: this time to rural Montana,... -
August by Callan Wink 9781847088109
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78August is an average twelve year old - he likes dogs and fishing, and doesn't even mind early morning chores on his family's farm. When his parents' marriage falls apart and he has to start over in a... -
Eudora Welty and Mystery: Hidden in Plain Sight by Jacob Agner 9781496842718
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Contributions by Jacob Agner, Sarah Gilbreath Ford, Katie Berry Frye, Michael Kreyling, Andrew B. Leiter, Rebecca Mark, Suzanne Marrs, Tom Nolan, Michael Pickard, Harriet Pollack, and Victoria... -
Ghost, Android, Animal: Trauma and Literature Beyond the Human by Tony M. Vinci
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £45.04Ghost, Android, Animal challenges the notion that trauma literature functions as a healing agent for victims of severe pain and loss by bringing trauma studies into the orbit of posthumanist thought... -
The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Rarely has emotional turbulence been so delicately conveyed' The New York TimesWith delicacy of perception and memory, humour and pathos, Carson McCullers spreads before us the three phases of a... -
In Search Of Lost Times Volume 1 by Terence Kilmartin
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.37In the opening volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator travels backwards in time in order to tell the story of a love affair that had taken place before his own birth. Swann's jealous love for... -
Radium of the Word: A Poetics of Materiality by Professor Craig Dworkin 9780226743424
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £88.55With fresh insight and contemporary relevance, Radium of the Word argues that a study of the form of language yields meanings otherwise inaccessible through ordinary reading strategies. Attending to... -
The Magus by John Fowles
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.67WITH AN AFTERWORD FROM THE AUTHOR 'A major work of mounting tensions in which the human mind is the guinea-pig... Mr Fowles has taken a big swing at a difficult subject and his hits are on the bull's... -
A Separate Peace by J. Knowles 9780684833668
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684833668Author J. KnowlesFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint -
Beautiful Antonio by Vitaliano Brancati
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Having spent some time in Rome, Antonio - the handsomest young man in Catania - returns to his native town with the reputation of being a playboy and with a long list of amorous adventures behind him... -
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Three book editors, jaded by reading far too many crackpot manuscripts on the mystic and the occult, are inspired by an extraordinary conspiracy story told to them by a strange colonel to have some... -
The Tree Climbing Cure: Finding Wellbeing in Trees in European and North American Literature and Art by Dr Andy Brown
Booksplease Price: £25.66Our relationship with trees is a lengthy, complex one. Since we first walked the earth we have, at various times, worshiped them, felled them and even talked to them. For many of us, though, our... -
A Passage To India by E. M. Forster 9781857150292
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, and feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the 'real India', they seek... -
Steven Soderbergh: Interviews, Revised & Updated by Anthony Kaufman 9781628462098
Booksplease Price: £105.05The long and prolific career of Steven Soderbergh (b. 1963) defies easy categorization. From his breakout beginnings in 1989 with sex, lies, and videotape to 2013, when he retired from big-screen... -
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India in Slow Motion by Mark Tully 9780140282085 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £2.57Mark Tully is incomparable. No one has a greater understanding of the passions, the contradictions, the humour, the tragedy and the staggering resilience that constitute India. In his long awaited... -
The World Made Straight by Ron Rash
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Summer in Madison County. Seventeen-year-old Travis Shelton cannot see a way out of his small town - until he discovers a grove of marijuana in the woods that could make him some serious money. But... -
Illuminations by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74Illuminations contains the most celebrated work of Walter Benjamin, one of the most original and influential thinkers of the 20th Century: 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction',...