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About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time by Mark Currie
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £23.68Why have theorists approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect? Mark Currie argues that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future are vital for an understanding of... -
Everything Flows by Vasily Grossman 9780099519164
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'Everything Flows is as important a novel as anything written by Solzhenitsyn, and Robert Chandler's superb translation makes it a joy to read'Antony BeevorIvan Grigoryevich has been in the Gulag for... -
The Novel Now: Contemporary British Fiction Richard Bradford (University of Ulster, Coleraine) 9781405113861
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £32.02The Novel Now is an intelligent and engaging survey of contemporary British fiction. Discusses familiar names such as Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, and Angela Carter and compares them... -
Contemporary Capitalism, Crisis, and the Politics of Fiction: Literature Beyond Fordism by Roberto del Valle Alcala 9781032240015
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Contemporary Capitalism, Crisis, and the Politics of Fiction: Literature Beyond Fordism proposes a fresh approach to contemporary fictional engagements with the idea of crisis in capitalism and its... -
Contemporary Fiction and Science from Amis to McEwan: The Third Culture Novel by Rachel Holland 9783030163747
Booksplease Price: £70.88This book identifies, in contemporary fiction, a new type of novel at the interface of science and the humanities, working from the premise that a shift has taken place in the relations between the... -
The Contemporary British Novel by Philip Tew 9780826493200
Booksplease Price: £61.04"The Contemporary British Novel" is a lively, wide-ranging guide to the key issues in writing in Britain since the mid-1970s, including social change, gender, sexuality, class, history and ethnicity... -
Philosophers in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching by Steven M. Cahn 9781624667442
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £19.59In these essays, 24 of our most celebrated professors of philosophy address the problem of how to teach philosophy today: how to make philosophy interesting and relevant; how to bring classic texts... -
Positive Youth Development through Sport Nicholas L. Holt (University of Calgary, Canada) 9781032498713
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.14Cutting through the political rhetoric about the power of sport as a tool for social change and personal improvement, this book offers insight into how and why participating in sport can be good for... -
Prison Writing: A Collection of Fact, Fiction and Verse by Julian Broadhead 9781872870878
Booksplease Price: £16.22A collection of writings by prisoners and other people connected with prisons, from the United Kingdom and beyond, "Prison Writing" is now published annually in book form and continues to promote... -
The Gothic in Contemporary British Trauma Fiction by Ashlee Joyce 9783030267278
Booksplease Price: £70.88This book examines the intersection of trauma and the Gothic in six contemporary British novels: Martin Amis's London Fields, Margaret Drabble's The Gates of Ivory, Ian McEwan's Atonement, Pat... -
The Gothic in Contemporary British Trauma Fiction by Ashlee Joyce 9783030267308
Booksplease Price: £70.88This book examines the intersection of trauma and the Gothic in six contemporary British novels: Martin Amis's London Fields, Margaret Drabble's The Gates of Ivory, Ian McEwan's Atonement, Pat... -
The Drowned World by J. G. Ballard
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.63When London is lost beneath the rising tides, unconscious desires rush to the surface in this apocalyptic tale from the author of 'Crash' and 'Empire of the Sun', reissued here with a new... -
Among the Believers V.S. Naipaul 9781035039050
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99'This book investigates the Islamic revolution and tries to understand the fundamentalist zeal that has gripped the young in Iran and other Muslim countries . . . He is a modern master.' - Sunday... -
Contemporary British Fiction by Nick Bentley
Booksplease Price: £85.65This essential guide provides a comprehensive survey of the most important debates in the criticism and research of contemporary British fiction. Nick Bentley analyses the criticism surrounding a... -
When the Centre Fell Apart: The Treatment of September 11 in Selected Anglophone Narratives by Jessica Zeltner 9783631635346
Booksplease Price: £76.599/11 has found its way into fictional literature. This study analyses the treatment of 9/11 in Anglophone narratives differentiating between two perspectives: narratives dealing with the attacks from... -
Contemporary British Fiction by Nick Bentley 9781137009661
Booksplease Price: £28.88This essential guide provides a comprehensive survey of the most important debates in the criticism and research of contemporary British fiction. Nick Bentley analyses the criticism surrounding a... -
The Cove: A Cornish Haunting Beth Lynch 9781474606950
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A stunning literary memoir about the author's relationship with a cove in CornwallAbout the AuthorBeth Lynch grew up in Sussex. She holds a doctorate in seventeenth-century literature, and taught... -
Writers and Their Mothers by Dale Salwak 9783319885858
RRP: £19.50Booksplease Price: £15.85Ian McEwan, Margaret Drabble, Martin Amis, Rita Dove, Andrew Motion and Anthony Thwaite are among the twenty-two distinguished contributors of original essays to this landmark volume on the profound... -
The Art of Fiction: Illustrated from Classic and Modern Texts by David Lodge 9780140174922
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.80"The Art of Fiction" is essential, thoroughly entertaining reading for writers, students and anyone who wants to understand how literature works. The articles by David Lodge, which first appeared in... -
Afterlife and Narrative in Contemporary Fiction by Alice Bennett 9780230364240
Booksplease Price: £46.74Afterlife and Narrative explores why life after death is such a potent cultural concept today, and why it is such an attractive prospect for modern fiction. The book mines a rich vein of imagined... -
The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020 by Rachel Kushner
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15From the Booker-shortlisted author of The Mars Room, a career-spanning collection of spectacular essays about politics and culture.In The Hard Crowd, Rachel Kushner gathers a selection of her writing... -
The Contemporary British Novel by James Acheson
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.96Written by some of the world's finest contemporary literature specialists, the newly commissioned essays in this volume examine the work of more than twenty major British novelists: Peter Ackroyd,... -
Americana by Don DeLillo
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23His first novel, Don DeLillo's Americana passionately articulates the neurotic landscape of contemporary American life through a disintegrating embodiment of the American dream.Prosperous,... -
British Fiction of the 1990s by Nick Bentley
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69The 1990s proved to be a particularly rich and fascinating period for British fiction. This book presents a fresh perspective on the diverse writings that appeared over the decade, bringing together... -
The Contemporary British Novel Since 1980 by James Acheson 9781403974303
Booksplease Price: £46.28Written by some of the world's finest contemporary literature specialists, the specially commissioned essays in this volume examine the work of more than twenty major British novelists, including... -
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.49'Jane Austen is a genius, and Northanger Abbey is hugely underrated' Martin AmisWith its irrepressible heroine and playful literary games, Northanger Abbey is the most youthful and optimistic of Jane... -
Life without End - A Thought Experiment in Literature from Swift to Houellebecq by Karl S. Guthke
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75A groundbreaking study examining major literary treatments of the idea of earthly immortality, throwing into relief fascinating instances of human self-awareness over the past three hundred years. ... -
The 2000s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction by Nick Bentley 9781350005426
Booksplease Price: £31.31How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 2000s shape contemporary British fiction? The means of publishing, buying and reading fiction changed dramatically between 2000... -
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Number 11 by Jonathan Coe 9780670923793 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.92This is a novel about the hundreds of tiny connections between the public and private worlds and how they affect us all.It's about the legacy of war and the end of innocence.It's about how comedy and... -
Afterlife and Narrative in Contemporary Fiction by Alice Bennett 9781349349357
Booksplease Price: £46.74Afterlife and Narrative explores why life after death is such a potent cultural concept today, and why it is such an attractive prospect for modern fiction. The book mines a rich vein of imagined... -
The Contemporary British Novel Since 1980 by James Acheson 9781403974297
Booksplease Price: £46.28Written by some of the world's finest contemporary literature specialists, the specially commissioned essays in this volume examine the work of more than twenty major British novelists, including... -
Novelists in Interview by John Haffenden
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £35.44Originally published in 1985, fourteen foremost writers of fiction give detailed accounts of their writings in this absorbing collection by John Haffenden, whom The Sunday Times has applauded for... -
The Days of Judy B Rose Heiney 9781906021351
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16This is a book for anyone who has ever felt their life careering out of control. Clever, touching, disturbing, it will take you from laughter to tears and back again.About the AuthorRose Heiney is 24... -
Beat Punks by Victor Bockris 9780306809392
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.49Here, accompanied by dozens of unique photographs, are the very best of Victor Bockris's infamous interviews, essays, and observations on the stars of downtown Manhattan in the 1970s and 1980s. The... -
Franz Kafka Stories 1904-1924 by Franz Kafka 9780349106595
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02From the expressionism of his early prose pieces to his very last work, JOSEPHINE, these stories cover the full range of Kafka's writing career, culminating in THE METAMORPHOSIS, which Elias Canetti... -
Conversations with Ian McEwan by Ryan Roberts 9781604734195
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14Conversations with Ian McEwan collects sixteen interviews, conducted over three decades, with the British author of such highly praised novels as Enduring Love, Atonement, Saturday, and On Chesil... -
Off the Page: Writers Talk About Beginnings, Endings, and Everything In Between by Carole Burns 9780393330885
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £16.06How do writers approach a new novel? Do they start with plot, character, or theme? A. S. Byatt starts with color. E. L. Doctorow begins with an image. In Off the Page, authors tell us how they work,... -
The Lennon Companion by David Gutman 9780306812705
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.00John Lennon lives on. Forty years after the Beatles invaded America in 1964, and more than twenty years after Lennon's death, his work is perennially popular and continues to appeal across the... -
Conversations with Joseph Heller by Adam J. Sorkin 9781617036989
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12Spanning three decades of his literary career, from Catch-22 to comments on the Persian Gulf War, Conversations with Joseph Heller contains a selection of the most significant, informative, and... -
Contemporary Fiction, Celebrity Culture, and the Market for Modernism: Fictions of Celebrity by Carey Mickalites 9781350248564
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £89.65Arguing that contemporary celebrity authors like Zadie Smith, Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie, Eimear McBride and Anna Burns position their work and public personae within a...