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Hidden Possibilities: Essays in Honor of Muriel Spark by Robert E. Hosmer
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €29.61Described by David Lodge as "the most gifted and innovative writer of her generation," Muriel Spark had a literary career that spanned from the late 1940s until her death in 2006, and included poems,... -
The Times Great Women's Lives: A Celebration in Obituaries by Sue Corbett 9780750992558
Booksplease Price: €29.76This selection of Times obituaries from 1872 to 2014 revisits the lives of 125 women who have all, in their own way, played an important part in women's educational, professional, social, cultural... -
Feminist Alternatives: Irony and Fantasy in the Contemporary Novel by Women by Nancy A. Walker 9781604735765
Booksplease Price: €37.95The author contends that the novels of the period 1969--1988 served as a dialogue among women authors and their readers as they attempted to deal with dramatic alterations in attitudes toward career,... -
Life Writing and the End of Empire: Homecoming in Autobiographical Narratives by Dr Emma Parker 9781350353794
Booksplease Price: €108.75The dismantlement of the British Empire had a profound impact on many celebrated white Anglophone writers of the twentieth century, particularly those who were raised in former British colonial... -
Birdy by William Wharton 9780007457984
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.33An extraordinary story of war and friendship from one of America's most revered authors of the 20th Century. Two teenagers form an unlikely friendship in pre-War Philadelphia. Al is... -
From a Tiny Corner in the House of Fiction: Conversations with Iris Murdoch by Gillian Dooley 9781570034992
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €28.91From a Tiny Corner in the House of Fiction gathers into a single volume twenty-three interviews with the British novelist and philosopher Dame Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) by some of the last... -
London Stories by 9781841596167
RRP: €17.85Booksplease Price: €13.60London has the greatest literary tradition of any city in the world. Its roll-call of story-tellers includes cultural giants who changed the way the world thought about writing, like Shakespeare,... -
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The Story: Love: Great Short Stories for Women by Women by Victoria Hislop 9781781856642 [USED COPY]
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €2.93'Love is, of course, a central preoccupation of literature...' Victoria Hislop, bestselling author and champion of the short story, has chosen her favourite short stories by women writers. Here... -
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Woman's Hour: Words from Wise, Witty and Wonderful Women by Alison Maloney 9781785942426 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €2.34For the last 70 years, the guests of Woman's Hour have been entertaining listeners with their compelling combination of wit, warmth, insight and humour. Woman's Hour has interviewed many of the... -
The Story: 100 Great Short Stories Written by Women by Victoria Hislop
RRP: €21.42Booksplease Price: €17.45A special reissue from Head of Zeus's bestselling anthology collection of the best 100 short stories written by women, selected by Victoria Hislop, one of the nation's favourite novelists. Witty,... -
Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science by N. Katherine Hayles
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €19.60Hayles's point is that the almost simultaneous appearance of interest in complex systems across many disciplines physics, mathematics, biology, information theory, literature, literary theory signals... -
The British Novel of Ideas: George Eliot to Zadie Smith Rachel Potter 9781316514320
Booksplease Price: €96.07The novel of ideas is an important form that is both under-theorised and largely neglected in accounts of the development of the novel in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book sets out... -
Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara Ellah Wakatama Allfrey 9781408869024
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.64Africa has produced some of the best writing of the twentieth century from Chinua Achebe, Ayi Kwei Armah, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and the Nobel Laureates Wole Soyinka, Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee and... -
British and Irish Women Writers and the Women's Movement: Six Literary Voices of Their Times Jill Franks 9780786474080
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €29.98This study pairs selected Irish and British women novelists of three periods, relating their voices to the women's movements in their respective nations. In the first wave, nationalist and... -
History of English Literature, Volume 8: From the Late Inter-War Years to 2010 by Franco Marucci 9781789974027
RRP: €72.00Booksplease Price: €65.33For ordering the hardcover version of this book, please contact orders@peterlang.com (Retail Price: £100.00, $151.90). ‘Franco Marucci’s History of English Literature is unique in its field. There is... -
Stones of Bobello by Edwar Al-Kharrat 9780863565168
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.07Set in the small town called Tarrana in the Nile Delta in the 1930s, Stones of Bobello revolves around nine episodes in the life of a sensitive young Christian boy - a montage of philosophical,... -
Politics and the British Novel in the 1970s by J. Russell Perkin 9780228006244
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €29.46The 1970s in Britain saw a series of industrial disputes, a referendum on membership in the European Economic Community, conflict about issues of immigration and citizenship, and emergent... -
History of English Literature, Volume 8: From the Late Inter-War Years to 2010 by Franco Marucci 9781789974034
RRP: €72.00Booksplease Price: €65.33For ordering the hardcover version of this book, please contact orders@peterlang.com (Retail Price: £100.00, $151.90). ‘Franco Marucci’s History of English Literature is unique in its field. There is... -
The Poetics of Childhood Roni Natov 9780415979672
RRP: €79.72Booksplease Price: €73.53Children's literature provides a medium through which writers re-create or approximate the sensibility of a child. But what exactly is this sensibility, and how does it find creative expression in... -
The Arts and Sciences of Criticism David Fuller (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Durham) 9780198186397
Booksplease Price: €69.58This collection reflects on developments in criticism which bear on a debate between different modes of knowledge: a science model and its place in the university versus other ways of conceiving... -
Student Companion to Ernest Hemingway by Lisa Tyler 9780313310560
Booksplease Price: €52.10The fully-lived, yet tragically ended life of Ernest Hemingway has attracted nearly as much attention as his extensive canon of writings. This critical study introduces students to both the man and... -
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The Story: Life: Great Short Stories for Women by Women by Victoria Hislop 9781781856666 [USED COPY]
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €3.19'Life provides infinite shades of light and dark...' Victoria Hislop, bestselling author and champion of the short story, has chosen her favourite short stories by women writers. Here are... -
Stranger Shores by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.66J. M. Coetzee is, without question, one of the world's greatest novelists. This volume gathers together for the first time in book form twenty-nine pieces on books, writing, photography and the 1995... -
The Obsolete Empire: Untimely Belonging in Twentieth-Century British Literature by Philip Tsang 9781421441351
RRP: €89.85Booksplease Price: €65.13Modernist literature at the end of the British empire challenges conventional notions of homeland, heritage, and community. The waning British empire left behind an abundance of material relics and... -
The Obsolete Empire: Untimely Belonging in Twentieth-Century British Literature by Philip Tsang 9781421441368
RRP: €34.51Booksplease Price: €26.47Modernist literature at the end of the British empire challenges conventional notions of homeland, heritage, and community. The waning British empire left behind an abundance of material relics and... -
Apocalypse in Crisis: Fiction from 'The War of the Worlds' to 'Dead Astronauts' Christopher Palmer 9781835538043
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €47.49Apocalypse is traditional and familiar, and it is an actual threat; it is feared, desired, and banal. Apocalypse in Crisis discusses fictions from the 1940s to the present, examining shifts in the... -
The Twinkling of an Eye (The Brian Aldiss Collection) Brian Aldiss 9780007482580
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €18.37Writer, soldier, bookseller, father: Brian Aldiss has earned many titles in his life. In the Twinkling of an Eye is a candid, vivid and charming look at the stories behind this distinctive writer of... -
Three Women of Herat: Afghanistan 1973-77 Veronica Doubleday 9781780601977
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.28In 1973, the Afghans still had a King who ruled from a palace in Kabul with his own resident court of musicians when Veronica set up home in Herat. This Afghan city sat close to the Persian frontier... -
Isaiah Berlin: A Life by Michael Ignatieff
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98Isaiah Berlin was one of the great public intellectuals of his time. A magnetic speaker and beacon of liberal philosophy, he gained first-hand experience of some of the pivotal events of the... -
It All Tastes of Farewell: Diaries, 1964–1970 by Brigitte Reimann 9781803092270
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €22.37Continuing where Reimann's earlier book of diaries, I Have No Regrets, left off, in 1964, this volume is a compelling and frank account of one woman’s life and loves in 1960s East Germany.It All... -
Childhood in the Contemporary English Novel by Sandra Dinter 9781032401102
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €51.27Since the 1980s novels about childhood for adults have been a booming genre within the contemporary British literary market. Childhood in the Contemporary English Novel offers the first comprehensive... -
Feminism and the Postmodern Impulse: Post-World War II Fiction by Magali Cornier Michael 9780791430163
Booksplease Price: €31.02Michael analyzes the intersections between feminist politics and postmodern aesthetics as demonstrated in recent Anglo-American fiction. While much has been written on various aspects of... -
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Property: Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction by Valerie Martin 9780349117324 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €2.23WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2003Manon Gaudet is unhappily married to the owner of a Louisiana sugar plantation. She misses her family and longs for the vibrant lifestyle of her native New... -
Conversations with Rita Dove by Earl G. Ingersoll 9781578065509
Booksplease Price: €32.68In 1993, Rita Dove (b. 1952) became the nation's youngest and first female African American Poet Laureate. This collection of interviews offers a fascinating portrait of her. Having published over a... -
Property: Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction by Valerie Martin 9780349117324
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2003Manon Gaudet is unhappily married to the owner of a Louisiana sugar plantation. She misses her family and longs for the vibrant lifestyle of her native New... -
Romantic Presences in the Twentieth Century by Mark Sandy
RRP: €66.63Booksplease Price: €62.40Concerned with the intermingled thematic and formal preoccupations of Romantic thought and literary practice in works by twentieth-century British, Irish, and American artists, this collection... -
Mysteries: Classic Edition by Knut Hamsun
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.28'Knut Hamsun founded the modernist and postmodernist novel at once' writes James Wood in his introduction to this seminal work by a Nobel Prize-winning writer who has been recognised as one of the... -
Martin Amis by Nick Bentley 9780746311783
Booksplease Price: €25.31Martin Amis is one of the most important and distinctive writers of the last thirty years and his work continues to provoke controversy and debate. From his first novel, The Rachel Papers (1973) to... -
Writing and Reality: A Study of Modern British Diary Fiction by Andrew Hassam 9780313285400
Booksplease Price: €91.05The diary format has long been utilized by novelists as a means of imparting reality to fiction. This volume analyzes the forms of diary fiction employed by a range of British writers in the... -
The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950 by Carmen Callil 9781849016766
Booksplease Price: €24.63For Colm Toibin and Carmen Callil there is no difference between literary and commercial writing - there is only the good novel: engrossing, inspirational, compelling. In their selection of the best...