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Strangers by Antonia White 9781844084203
Booksplease Price: $29.38With uncompromising clarity, in her careful, delicate prose, antonia White looks at the pains and joys of growing up, of falling in and out of love, the borderlands between love and loneliness,... -
Frost In May by Antonia White
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54'Frost in May is the unsurpassed novel of convent school life. This story of a clash between a determined young girl and an authoritarian regime is both perceptive and painfully emotional, convincing... -
Frost In May by Antonia White 9781844083787
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84Nanda Gray, the daughter of a Catholic convert, is nine when she is sent to the Convent of Five Wounds. Quick-witted, resilient and eager to please, she accepts this closed world where, with all the... -
As Once In May by Antonia White 9781844084180
Booksplease Price: $27.28Throughout her life, Antonia White struggled with a formidable writer's block: the FROST IN MAY quartet was thought to be her final achievement. Yet on her death, this extraordinary work - her... -
Beyond The Glass by Antonia White 9781844083688
Booksplease Price: $43.47Clara Batchelor is twenty-two. Her brief, doomed marriage to Archie over, she returns to live with her parents in the home of her childhood. She hopes for comfort but the devoutly Catholic household... -
The Lost Traveller by Antonia White 9781844083695
Booksplease Price: $43.47When Clara returns home from the convent of her childhood to begin life at a local girls' school, she is at a loss: although she has comparative freedom, she misses the discipline the nuns imposed... -
Antonia White and Manic-Depressive Illness by Patricia Moran
RRP: $220.50Booksplease Price: $199.52Rereads Antonia White's writing within the context of manic-depressive illnessMisdiagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia instead of what was bipolar or manic-depressive illness, Antonia White... -
Antonia White and Manic-Depressive Illness by Patricia Moran 9781474452519
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $58.36By contextualising White's life-writing and fiction within the contexts of manic-depression and narrative identity, Antonia White and Manic-Depressive Illness proposes a new model for reading White... -
Minka And Curdy: The enchanting story of a writer and her cats by Antonia White 9780349018478
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45One of the most enchanting books about cats ever written, Minka and Curdy describes the adventures - and misadventures - of two very different kittens.Victoria, a real tyrant of a cat, spent so many... -
Mossy Trotter Elizabeth Taylor 9780349005577
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84'It's always a treat to read Elizabeth Taylor. Mossy Trotter is a real gem. A delightfully mischievous boy living in those long-ago halcyon days when children played out all day, roaming commons,... -
Virginia Woolf And Vanessa Bell: A Very Close Conspiracy Jane Dunn 9781860498510
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05A moving and important book on the relationship between two remarkable sisters who jointly created the Bloomsbury Group'An outstanding work... one of the best books on Virginia Woolf to date'... -
Diary Poetics: Form and Style in Writers' Diaries, 1915-1962 by Anna Jackson 9781138883611
RRP: $125.98Booksplease Price: $111.91The diary is a genre that is often thought of as virtually formless, a "capacious hold-all" for the writer's thoughts, and as offering unmediated access to the diarist's true self. Focusing on the... -
The Garden Party and Other Stories by Lorna Sage
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.81Fifteen exquisite tales from one of the world'd greatest writers of the short storyInnovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these stories were written towards the end of Katherine... -
Mary Douglas: An Intellectual Biography by Richard Fardon 9780415040938
RRP: $104.98Booksplease Price: $95.61This is the first full length account of the life and ideas of Mary Douglas, the British social anthropologist whose publications span the second half of the twentieth century.Richard Fardon covers... -
The Winter Sun: Notes on a Vacation by Fanny Howe 9781555975203
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $20.33Fanny Howe's richly contemplative The Winter Sun is a collection of essays on childhood, language and meaning by one of America's most original contemporary poets. Through a collage of reflections on... -
The Poison at the Source: The Female Novel of Self-Development in the Early Twentieth Century by P. Brown 9780333482032
Booksplease Price: $190.18An examination of a number of English women novelists who portrayed the crises and conflicts in the development of the female consciousness as a response to the anomalies of the rapidly changing... -
The Gender of Modernism: A Critical Anthology by Bonnie Kime Scott
RRP: $92.40Booksplease Price: $78.92"This is the book we've been waiting for: a distinguished collection that demonstrates how revisions of Modernist definitions might proceed. . . . The Gender of Modernism . . . will be nothing less... -
Gigi and The Cat by Colette
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.34The famous tale by the trailblazing subject of major new film ColetteGIGI TRANSLATED BY ROGER SENHOUSE, THE CAT TRANSLATED BY ANTONIA WHITEGigi's days are filled with cigars, lobster, lace and... -
Queering the Gothic William Hughes 9780719078156
RRP: $189.00Booksplease Price: $138.29Queering 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... -
Queering the Gothic by Hughes William 9780719086434
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $41.03Queering 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... -
Rough Draft: The Modernist Diaries of Emily Holmes Coleman, 1929-1937 by Elizabeth Podnieks 9781611493764
Booksplease Price: $238.16Rough Draft: The Modernist Diaries of Emily Holmes Coleman, 1929-1937 is an edited selection, published here for the first time, of the diaries kept by American poet and novelist Coleman during her... -
Mediating Moms: Mothers in Popular Culture by Elizabeth Podnieks 9780773539808
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $55.90In recent decades, popular culture - from television and film to newspapers, magazines, and best-selling fiction - has focused an enormous amount of attention on mothers. Through feminist,... -
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Mediating Moms: Mothers in Popular Culture by Elizabeth Podnieks 9780773539808 [USED COPY]
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $15.58In recent decades, popular culture - from television and film to newspapers, magazines, and best-selling fiction - has focused an enormous amount of attention on mothers. Through feminist,... -
The Dry Wood by Caryll Houselander
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.75In the English-speaking world, the Catholic Literary Revival is typically associated with the work of G. K. Chesterton/Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene. But in fact the Revival's most... -
Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary by Marina Warner 9780198718789
Booksplease Price: $48.87This unique study of the cult of the Virgin Mary offers a way of thinking about the interrelations of Catholicism and ideas of ideal femininity over the longue duree. An ambitious history of the... -
Textual Mothers/Maternal Texts: Motherhood in Contemporary Womenas Literatures by Elizabeth Podnieks
Booksplease Price: $76.55Textual Mothers/Maternal Texts focuses on mothers as subjects and as writers who produce auto/biography, fiction, and poetry about maternity. International contributors examine the mother without... -
The Beautiful Visit by Elizabeth Jane Howard 9781447272205
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54As the First World War takes hold, a young girl comes of age in a troubled London. Capturing the longing, excitement and poignant comedy of adolescence, The Beautiful Visit is the debut novel from... -
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston 9780349010335
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL NOVELS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY'This novel is a packet of surprises as we have no idea what's going to happen next' GUARDIAN'One of the greatest writers of our time' TONI... -
Read My Heart: Dorothy Osborne and Sir William Temple, A Love Story in the Age of Revolution by Jane Dunn 9780007182213
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $21.88From the bestselling author of 'Elizabeth and Mary', the remarkable love story of Dorothy Osborne and Sir William Temple, set against the turbulence and romance of 17th-century England. ... -
The Return Of The Soldier by Rebecca West
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54'Spellbinding . . . Probably her best fiction' - Sunday TimesThe soldier returns from the front to the three women who love him. His wife, Kitty, with her cold, moonlight beauty, and his devoted... -
Faces In The Water by Janet Frame 9780349011141
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54'One of the most impressive accounts of madness to be found in literature' ANITA BROOKNER'Lyrical, touching and deeply entertaining' JOHN MORTIMER, OBSERVER'Any one of her books could be published... -
The Weather In The Streets by Rosamond Lehmann
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE BRITISH WRITERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY'With brilliant dialogue and intense passages of elation and despair, The Weather in the Streets takes you on the rollercoaster of... -
Complete Short Stories Elizabeth Taylor 9781844088409
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.63Elizabeth Taylor is finally being recognised as an important British author: one of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth - Sarah WatersElizabeth Taylor, highly acclaimed author of classic... -
Deep Water: A Virago Modern Classic by Patricia Highsmith 9780349010328
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84'If I really don't like somebody, I kill him . . . You remember Malcolm McRae, don't you?'Melinda Van Allen is beautiful, headstrong and sexy. Unfortunately for Vic Van Allen, she is his wife. Their... -
Night Thoughts: The Surreal Life of the Poet David Gascoyne by Robert Fraser 9780199558148
Booksplease Price: $138.03The poet David Gascoyne (1916-2001) led a life as surreal as his early poems. At eighteen he drafted the manifesto of the English Surrealist Group and at nineteen he published what remains an... -
Memento Mori by Muriel Spark 9780349010342
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84Remember you must die.Dame Lettie Colston is the first of her circle to receive insinuating anonymous phone calls. Neither she, nor her friends, wish to be reminded of their mortality, and their... -
A View Of The Harbour: A Virago Modern Classic by Elizabeth Taylor 9780349010304
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54INTRODUCED BY SARAH WATERS'Every one of her books is a treat and this is my favourite, because of its wonderful cast of characters, and because of the deftness with which Taylor's narrative moves... -
The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy 9780349010373
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $13.73'One of the best novels about growing up fast' GUARDIAN 'One falls for Sally Jay Gorce from a great height from the first sentence' OBSERVER'Scandalous and entertaining . . . Both funny and true'... -
Heartburn by Nora Ephron
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84A BESTSELLING NOVEL AND MAJOR FILM STARRING MERYL STREEP AND JACK NICHOLSON'I have bought more copies of this book to give to people, in a frenzy of enthusiasm, than any other . . . Heartburn is the... -
The Diary: The Epic of Everyday Life by Batsheva Ben-Amos 9780253046987
RRP: $159.60Booksplease Price: $131.40The diary as a genre is found in all literate societies, and these autobiographical accounts are written by persons of all ranks and positions. The Diary offers an exploration of the form in its...