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A Modern Symposium by G. Lowes Dickinson 9781138957664
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £110.40First published in 1905, A Modern Symposium presents a record of a discussion between men at the Seekers club- a now extinct, but then famous, club for men prominent in politics or in the... -
200 Years of Britain's Railways in 15 Journeys Sherin Aminossehe 9781836004837
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £23.16Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine… E. M. Forster 2025 will be the 200th anniversary of the first public railway in... -
Anthem by Ayn Rand 9780141189611
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.15A powerful dystopian novel from a writer who experienced firsthand the dehumanising conditions of Soviet Russia, Ayn Rand's Anthem includes an introduction by Leonard Peikoff in Penguin Modern... -
Benjamin Britten: Billy Budd by Mervyn Cooke 9780521387507
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £20.41Billy Budd, based on Herman Melville's nautical allegory, is one of Britten's most challenging operas. This comprehensive guide considers the work from both literary and musical viewpoints... -
Nature by Carol Ann Duffy, DBE
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02One of the English language's best-loved living poets, in Nature Carol Ann Duffy presents us with her favourites among her poems on the natural world. Drawing on work written over four decades and... -
Edward Carpenter 1844-1929: Prophet of Human Fellowship by Chushichi Tsuzuki 9780521019590
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £39.21This is the first full-scale biography of Edward Carpenter, an 'eminent Victorian' who played an intriguing role in the revival of Socialism in Britain in the late nineteenth century. 'A worthy heir... -
Proteus - Studies in English Literature by D. S. Brewer 9781843842057
Booksplease Price: £31.89Derek Brewer, here on the brink of his long and successful career, takes a look at issues in English literature which were to remain of enduring interest to him. Lecturing in Japan at the time, a... -
Don't Look Now and Other Stories by Daphne Du Maurier
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74Collecting five stories of suspense, mystery and slow, creeping horror, Daphne Du Maurier's Don't Look Now and Other Stories includes an introduction by Susan Hill, author of The Woman in Black, in... -
Dirt in Victorian Literature and Culture: Writing Materiality by Sabine Schulting
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49Addressing the Victorian obsession with the sordid materiality of modern life, this book studies dirt in nineteenth-century English literature and the Victorian cultural imagination. Dirt litters... -
A Modern Symposium by G. Lowes Dickinson 9781138957817
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.28First published in 1905, A Modern Symposium presents a record of a discussion between men at the Seekers club- a now extinct, but then famous, club for men prominent in politics or in the... -
Alexandria: City of Memory by Michael Haag 9780300191127
Booksplease Price: £53.23A luminous portrait of the now-vanished cosmopolitan city and those who inhabited it during the first half of the 20th century This book is a literary, social, and political portrait of Alexandria... -
Public Places, Private Journeys: Ethnography, Entertainment and the Tourist Gaze by Ellen Strain 9780813531878
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £28.53In this globally interconnected planet, we are increasingly able to access exotic locales without ever actually seeing these places first-hand. Instead, what we perceive to be fresh cultural... -
The Letters of Sidney and Beatrice Webb: Volume 1, Apprenticeships 1873-1892 by Norman Mackenzie 9780521084956
Booksplease Price: £47.58The Webbs were a unique partnership. Their idea of 'the inevitability of gradualness' dominated the Fabian Society and Labour thinking for half a century, though their theory of political permeation... -
Modernism, Material Culture and the First World War by Cedric Van Dijck 9781399507875
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.99What did modernist writers make of the things of war? Often studied for its fascination with the shell-shocked mind, modernist literature is also packed with more tangible traces of the First World... -
Marina Carr: Plays 3: Sixteen Possible Glimpses; Phaedra Backwards; The Map of Argentina; Hecuba; Indigo by Marina Carr
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.57This third richly varied collection of plays by Marina Carr was published to coincide with the Royal Shakespeare Company's premiere of Hecuba at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in September... -
Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood 9780811220262
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.32On a train to Berlin in late 1930, William Bradshaw locks eyes with Arthur Norris, an irresistibly comical fellow Englishman wearing a rather obvious wig and nervous about producing his passport at... -
Caledonian Road: The Sunday Times bestseller Andrew O'Hagan 9780571381371
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'Extraordinary.' Marina Hyde'Pitch-perfect.' Observer'An utter joy to read.' Monica Ali'Majestic.' Independent'A masterpiece.' John Lanchester 'Addictively enjoyable.' Guardian'Sensational.' Irish... -
E.M. Forster: The Novels by Mike Edwards 9780333922545
Booksplease Price: £28.57E. M. Forster's writings have enjoyed remarkable popularity since the early years of the twentieth century. Their strongly visual quality, vividly evoking the English landscape as well as the more... -
Girl on an Altar by Marina Carr
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A sinister night.Evil and edge in the air.What are they celebrating?Clytemnestra's world is torn apart when Agamemnon sacrifices their daughter for the sake of war. Ten years later, the couple are... -
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson 9780140186550
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Anderson profoundly changed the American short story, transforming it from light, popular entertainment into literature of the highest quality. His art belonged as much to an oral as a written... -
The Green Avenue: The Life and Writings of Forrest Reid, 1875-1947 by Brian Taylor 9780521135634
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £39.21Forrest Reid's books were never commercial successes, and many have fallen out of print. Yet he has been called 'the first Ulster novelist of European status', and he continues to attract a small and... -
The Great Debate about Art by Roy Harris 9780984201006
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.50In this lucid and insightful essay, renowned linguist Roy Harris reflects on the early nineteenth-century doctrine of 'art for art's sake'. Attacked by Proudhon and Nietzsche, but defended by... -
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.69The New York Times bestseller'Achingly stylish'Guardian'Irresistible'Daily Telegraph'Impossibly glamorous'The Times'Fabulous'Observer'Gripping'Sunday TimesThe unforgettable debut by the bestselling... -
Elegies by Carol Ann Duffy, DBE
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In Elegies Carol Ann Duffy, one of the English language's best-loved living poets arrays from her own archives, in chronological order, her favourites among her poems on death, grief and loss,... -
The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia 1880-1939 by John Carey
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99Professor John Carey shows how early twentieth-century intellectuals imagined the 'masses' as semi-human swarms, drugged by popular newspapers and cinema, and ripe for extermination. Exposing the... -
Politics by Carol Ann Duffy, DBE
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In Politics, Carol Ann Duffy, one of the English language's best-loved living poets presents from her own archives, in chronological order, her favourites among her poems on the theme of politics and... -
New Selected Poems: 1984-2004 by Carol Ann Duffy 9781447206422
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Carol Ann Duffy is the most humane and accessible poet of our time' Rose Tremain, Guardian New Selected Poems contains poems chosen by Carol Ann Duffy from her first six acclaimed collections, from... -
Ibsen's Selected Plays by Henrik Ibsen 9780393924046
Booksplease Price: £18.65The Norton Critical Edition includes five major plays spanning Ibsen's long career in recent translations by Brian Johnston (Peer Gynt, The Wild Duck, and The Master Builder) and Brian Johnston and... -
Anzac Sonata: New and Selected Poems by Jon Stallworthy 9780393304220
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £14.11This volume, Stallworthy's seventh collection, typifies the way in which his best work mingles a graphically personal element with a strong sense of responsibility. "The fullest, most representative... -
Institutional Character: Collectivity, Individuality, and the Modernist Novel by Robert Higney 9780813948607
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48How do our institutions shape us, and how do we shape them? From the late nineteenth-century era of high imperialism to the rise of the British welfare state in the mid-twentieth century, the concept... -
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 9780393264869
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £11.39This edition includes a newly edited text based on the 1902 edition. Textual History and Editing Principles provides an overview of the controversies and ambiguities surrounding Heart of Darkness... -
The Horned God: Weird Tales of the Great God Pan by Michael Wheatley 9780712354967
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'...and then the music was so loud, so beautiful that I couldn't think of anything else. I was completely lost to the music, enveloped by melody which was part of Pan.' In 1894, Arthur Machen's... -
Institutional Character: Collectivity, Individuality, and the Modernist Novel by Robert Higney 9780813948591
Booksplease Price: £85.04How do our institutions shape us, and how do we shape them? From the late nineteenth-century era of high imperialism to the rise of the British welfare state in the mid-twentieth century, the concept... -
Criminal Law and the Modernist Novel: Experience on Trial by Rex Ferguson 9781107012974
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.69The realist novel and the modern criminal trial both came to fruition in the nineteenth century. Each places a premium on the author's or trial lawyer's ability to reconstruct reality, reflecting... -
Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-garde: War, Civilization, Modernity by Christine Froula 9780231134453
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.32Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde traces the dynamic emergence of Woolf's art and thought against Bloomsbury's public thinking about Europe's future in a period marked by two world wars... -
Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times by Professor Aaron Sachs
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.60Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in BiographyA double portrait of two of America's most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them-and their uncanny... -
The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue by W. H. Auden
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.94When it was first published in 1947, The Age of Anxiety--W. H. Auden's last, longest, and most ambitious book-length poem--immediately struck a powerful chord, capturing the imagination of the... -
New and Collected Poems for Children by Carol Ann Duffy
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'In the world of British poetry, Carol Ann Duffy is a superstar.' (Guardian) This stellar edition of her poems brings together work from her four award-winning collections for children, and sprinkles... -
Among Communists Sinéad Morrissey 9781800174061
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.95The first Communist memoir from Northern Ireland, set against a backdrop of the vanished culture of Belfast Communism, from the winner of the T.S. Eliot and Forward Prizes.About the AuthorSinead... -
Queering the Gothic William Hughes 9780719078156
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £65.85Queering the Gothic is the first multi-authored book concerned with the developing interface between Gothic criticism and queer theory. Considering a range of Gothic texts produced between the...