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The Price of Everything by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37This volume brings together two long poems. 'Lines of Desire' tells the story of an individual in crisis, under pressure from past and present events. 'Joe Soap' combines narrative and lyric forms to... -
The Customs House by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Andrew Motion's new book opens with a sequence of war poems (first published as the pamphlet Laurels and Donkeys, on Armstice Day 2010), drawing on soldiers' experiences of war from 1914 until... -
The Cinder Path by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Andrew Motion's new collection (his first since Public Property in 2002) offers a ground-breaking variety of lyrics, love poems and elegies, in which private domains of feeling infer other lives and... -
Here to Eternity by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37A rich spectrum of poetic voices - ancient and modern, new and familiar - arranged concentrically under different headings: Self, Home, Town, Work, Land, Love, Travel, War, Belief and Space. Each... -
The New World by Sir Andrew Motion 9780099583783
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.15THE END OF THE WORLDOR THE BEGINNING...On to the shores of Texas a raging sea coughs up two castaways: Jim and Natty, shipwrecked on their way home from Treasure Island.The Nightingale sunk, their... -
The Invention of Dr Cake by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.94What is the truth about the mysterious Dr Cake? Why, at his funeral, is there no name on the brass plate so ostentatiously screwed into his coffin-lid? Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate, has written a... -
Bedford Square: 5 by Sir Andrew Motion 9781908742063
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.73Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Ten War Poems Sir Andrew Motion 9781907598388
RRP: $9.31Booksplease Price: $7.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598388Author Sir Andrew MotionFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint < -
In the Blood: A Memoir of my Childhood by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65'A wonderful read.' Irish Times'Sad, gripping and powerful.' Margaret Drabble'Superbly clear, intimate and evocative.' New York TimesFrom the former poet laureate, Andrew Motion, In the Blood is an... -
A Herring Famine by Adam O'Riordan 9780701187972
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $10.05The poems of this dazzling second collection are of contradictory impulses: of abundance and famine, of absence and presence, of endings and new beginnings. Here again are the intelligent, elegant... -
Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin by Clive James 9781529028850
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92Erudite and entertaining in equal measure, Somewhere Becoming Rain is a love letter from the much-loved writer Clive James to one of the world's most cherished poets: Philip Larkin.'This is the... -
Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin by Clive James
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.05Erudite and entertaining in equal measure, Somewhere Becoming Rain is a love letter from the much-loved writer Clive James to one of the world's most cherished poets: Philip Larkin.'This is the... -
Study and Revise Literature Guide for AS/A-level: Pearson Edexcel Poems of the Decade by Richard Vardy
RRP: $18.09Booksplease Price: $17.19Exam Board: Pearson EdexcelLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: English literatureFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level)Enable students to achieve their best grade... -
Burning Man: The Ascent of DH Lawrence by Frances Wilson
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11**LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2021** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2021** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE** **FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PLUTARCH... -
Dancing By The Light of The Moon: Over 250 poems to read, relish and recite Gyles Brandreth 9781405944557
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Discover Dancing by the Light of the Moon, a collection of poetry to last you a lifetime - poems that will bring you joy, solace, celebration and love for every occasion'Gyles has discovered the... -
Gravel in my Shoe by John Fuller 9781784740412
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04'The only peace: to know my placeAnd what I now must do,Striding with the light full in my face,And gravel in my shoe.'Bright, elemental and as dexterously brilliant as ever, John Fuller's latest... -
The Bone Flowers by John Fuller 9781784741525
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92'When does a poem end?' In this rambunctious romp of a narrative poem, John Fuller taps out the rhythms of life against the riddle of time: from his story of opportunistic art-dealer Old Billy... -
A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28'Immensely powerful and is an extraordinary testament to the human desire for survival' Daily MailA harrowing and inspiring true story of a young boy's abusive childhood, from internationally... -
Monica Jones, Philip Larkin and Me: Her Life and Long Loves by John Sutherland
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75'A brilliant biography - John Sutherland has brought Monica Jones to life as she deserves.' Claire Tomalin'Eye-opening... in this account [Monica Jones] comes alive.' The Sunday TimesMonica Jones was... -
Poetry by Heart: A Treasury of Poems to Read Aloud by Julie Blake
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Familiar poems and almost unknown poems. Love poems and war poems. Funny poems and heartbroken poems. Poems that re-create the world we know and poems written on the dark side of the moon. Poetry by... -
William Barnes by William Barnes
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer... -
Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas: Collected Poems : R S Thomas by R. S. Thomas
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59Published to mark the poet's 80th birthday, this collection confirms R. S. Thomas as our pre-eminent poet.'This is the book I've been waiting for' Ted HughesThe complete works of one of Britain's... -
Emma (Vintage Classics Austen Series) by Jane Austen
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.04Jane Austen's Emma is her masterpiece, mixing the sparkle of her early books with a deep sensibility' Observer Emma is young, rich and independent. She has decided not to get married and ... -
After Nature by W. G. Sebald 9780141003368
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65After Nature is the very first literary work by W. G. Sebald, author of Austerlitz'The greatest writer of our time' Peter CareyAfter Nature by W.G. Sebald, author of Austerlitz, is his first literary... -
A Girl in Winter by Philip Larkin
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Lose yourself in this tale of young love by the 'best-loved English poet of the past 100 years.' (Sunday Times)Katherine Lind is a refugee who has become a librarian in a wartime Northern town. One... -
Threads by William Henry Searle
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11-----------------------------'Touching and on occasion profoundly moving ... The connections and affinities that fill this book enliven, enlighten and delight.' STEPHEN FRY'Beautifully written and... -
John Keats by John Keats
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80John Keats (1795-1821) abandoned a career in medicine to write poetry, until his life was cut tragically short from tuberculosis at the age of twenty-five. By that time, he had published three... -
Jill by Philip Larkin
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65Michaelmas term, 1940. 18-year-old John Kemp has come down from Lancashire to Oxford University to begin his scholarship studying English. But when he invents an imaginary sister to win the attention... -
Branch-lines: Edward Thomas and Contemporary Poetry Lucy Newlyn 9781904634355
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $16.20'The one hundred and forty poems he wrote in the last two years of his life are a miracle. I can think of no body of work in English that is more mysterious.' - Michael Longley. When Edward Thomas... -
The Peregrine: 50th Anniversary Edition: Afterword by Robert Macfarlane by J. A. Baker
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.55Reissue of J. A. Baker's extraordinary classic of British nature writing, with an exclusive new afterword by Robert Macfarlane. J. A. Baker's extraordinary classic of British nature... -
Foolish Lessons In Life And Love by Penny Rudge
RRP: $4.01Booksplease Price: $3.71Taras clutched her hand and planted kisses all over it. 'Katya, I'll do anything. Anything at all, if you'll just give me another chance.' But can the hapless Taras win Katya's stubborn Russian... -
Betrumped: The Surprising History of 3000 Long-Lost, Exotic and Endangered Words by Edward Allhusen 9781445699080
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.70Words change: they immigrate and emigrate. They reflect changing fashions and roam across centuries. This book delves into their origins: Where do words come from? How do their meanings change? ... -
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Poem For The Day Two by Nicholas Albery 9780701173364 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $3.14Poem for the Day Two is a repeat of the formula which made Poem for the Day such a well-loved favourite. There are 366 poems (one for each day of the year, and one for leap years), to delight,... -
Poem For The Day Two by Nicholas Albery
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.18Poem for the Day Two is a repeat of the formula which made Poem for the Day such a well-loved favourite. There are 366 poems (one for each day of the year, and one for leap years), to delight,... -
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Siegfried Sassoon: The Making of a War Poet by Jean Moorcroft Wilson 9780715631218 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $3.31The definitive biography of one of the twentieth century's finest poets, Siegfried Sassoon combines material from The Making of a War Poet and The Journey from the Trenches, the two bestselling... -
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Over 100 poems on life and love Elizabeth Barrett Browning 9781786752123
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.83From the intense affection of 'How Do I Love Thee?' to the powerful social protest in 'The Cry of the Children', the lyrical beauty of Barrett Browning's poetry continues to fascinate modern readers... -
Beowulf by Seamus Heaney 9780571230419
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Beowulf, composed between the seventh and tenth century, is the elegaic narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel,... -
The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $34.06George Orwell's best-known novels, Animal Farm, describing a revolution that goes horribly wrong, and Nineteen Eighty-Four, portraying a world where human freedom has been crushed, are two of the ... -
House Mother Normal: A Geriatric Comedy by B. S. Johnson 9781447200383
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.78With an introduction by poet Andrew Motion. Eight residents in a home for the elderly sit down to dinner, along with the House Mother herself, and each takes it in turn to relay the proceedings of... -
John Betjeman Collected Poems John Betjeman 9780719568503
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59Collected Poems made publishing history when it first appeared, and has now sold more than two million copies, to an ever-growing readership. This newly expanded edition includes Betjeman's verse...