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Clear Light by Alan Spence
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.77Clear Light contains 150 haiku bursting with Alan Spence's characteristic verve and wit. Mythic and mesmerising, inspiring and hilarious, these poems shed clear light on the delights, hardships,... -
Sailmaker Plus by Alan Spence
Booksplease Price: €14.17Exam Board: SQALevel: National 5Subject: EnglishFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Sailmaker Plus offers the full text of the widely popular drama text, Sailmaker, by award-winning... -
Scottish Samurai: Thomas Blake Glover, 1838-1911 by Alexander McKay
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.61Thomas Glover arrived in Nagasaki in 1859, just as Japan was opening to the West. Within a few years he had played a crucial part in the overthrow of the Tokugawa Shogunate, providing the rebels with... -
The Pure Land by Alan Spence 9781841959597
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.54The year is 1858. Thomas Glover is a gutsy eighteen-year-old who grasps the chance of escape to foreign lands and takes a posting as a trader in Japan. Within ten years he amasses a great fortune,... -
Seasons Of The Heart by Alan Spence 9781841950525
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.77This is Spence's first book of poetry since "Glasgow Zen". In this collection he evokes the essence of the seasons with this cycle of haiku.'One of Scotland's most accomplished literary talents' The... -
Glasgow Zen by Alan Spence 9781841952932
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.77A superb new collection of haiku and other short poetic forms on the theme of Glasgow - its people, landscape, culture. As always, Spence is uniquely illuminating, witty and delightful. Incorporating... -
Night Boat Alan Spence 9780857868541
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08On the side of a mountain, in eighteenth century Japan, sits a man in perfect stillness as the summit erupts, spitting fire and molten rock onto the land around him. The man is Hakuin. He will become... -
Justification: A Guide for the Perplexed by Alan Spence 9780567077516
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Its Colours They Are Fine Alan Spence 9781786892973
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.77A classic of short fiction, Alan Spence's celebrated debut collection, first published in 1977, brings Glasgow to vibrant life and captures the spirit of the city as it teetered on the brink of... -
The Promise of Peace: A Unified Theory of Atonement by Alan Spence 9780567031181
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Alan Spence's Its Colours They are Fine and Way to Go by John Burns
RRP: €8.34Booksplease Price: €8.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906841027Author John BurnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint -
The Changeling by Robin Jenkins
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.77Thirteen-year-old Tom Curdie, the product of a Glasgow slum, is on probation for theft. His teachers admit that he is clever, but only one, Charlie Forbes, sees something in Tom and his seemingly... -
Mister Timeless Blyth: A Biographical Novel: R.H. Blyth's Life of Zen and Haiku, Bridging East and West by Alan Spence
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €16.30Lovers of Haiku, Zen and Japan will find this novel truly inspiring!An extraordinary man at a crucial time and place."In Mister Timeless Blyth, writer Alan Spence has created a fascinating (auto)... -
Scottish Set Text Guide: Sailmaker for National 5 English David Thomas 9781510468306
Booksplease Price: €9.00Exam Board: SQALevel: National 5Subject: EnglishFirst teaching: September 2017First exams: Summer 2018Understand, analyse, evaluate, succeed. This study and revision guide takes you through every... -
A Glasgow Trilogy: The Boy Who Wanted Peace; Grace and Miss Partridge; Mr Alfred M. A. George Friel 9780862418854
RRP: €24.00Booksplease Price: €18.29Distinguished by irony, compassion and the author's own dry wit, these three novels paint a memorable picture of life in the streets, schools and tenements of Glasgow in the 1950s and 60s. With a...