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Myths & Legends by Jake Jackson
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.69Creation myths, quests, the eternal battle between good and evil, these are some of the classic tales that feed the ravenous beast of modern culture. For many the classical traditions of the Greeks... -
Indian Myths by Jake Jackson
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.15India, one of the great, ancient civilizations spawned a fascinating canon of myths and legends. With multiple gods, and a riot of colour and character this fantastic new book, Indian Myths, explores... -
Chinese Myths by Jake Jackson
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75River Gods, snake spirits, mountain and Immortals, Chinese mythology is alive with ancient passions. China's unique set of mythological tales are derived from its vast expanse, diverse culture and... -
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins 9781839641695
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $11.08A thrilling tale of mystery and crime from a master storyteller. A pacy tale from the original master of detective fiction Wilkie Collins. Transported from the temples of India to atmospheric... -
Scottish Myths by Jake Jackson
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.73Much of Scottish mythology was imported by settlers arriving from across the Irish Sea, and so Scottish mythology in large part shares its characters and tales with the mythology of Ireland, from the... -
Native American Myths by Jake Jackson
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.15Algonquins, Iroquois, Ojibwe, Cherokee - the myriad tribes of North America and their folktales are deeply fascinating because they are unique amongst the mythologies of the world. The tribes were... -
Norse Myths by Jake Jackson
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75The Vikings and their norse gods fought a constant battle with nature. Their landscape, with its stark mountains and long nights created a particularly rough mythology, with profound contrasts and... -
Greek & Roman Myths by Jake Jackson
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.15The classical gods of Rome uncoiled from the fertile imaginations of the ancient Greeks whose gods were passionate and violent, jealous of their powers and subject to both mighty outbursts of love... -
Polynesian Island Myths by Flame Tree Studio
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.15The Polynesian triangle covers Easter Island, Hawaii, New Zealand and the many isles in between. The legends of the region are based on the creation of land, fish, sea, valleys and the volcanic... -
East African Folk Tales by J K Jackson
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75Traditional stories bring a deeper understanding of the movement of peoples across East Africa. Common roots and differences between ancient peoples create a lively portrait with their fragile,... -
Alexander the Great: Epic and Legendary Leaders Alexandra F. Morris 9781839649943
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.91Alexander the Great died in 336 BCE, when he was only thirty-two. His military campaigns had swept across Ancient Greece, through Asia Minor, Arabia, Persia, Egypt and North Africa to North West... -
Animal Farm by George Orwell 9781839642395
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75With a new introduction by Professor John Sutherland, this edition takes a fresh look at one of the great works of the twentieth century. Animal Farm is a moral animal fable written to highlight... -
Persian Myths by J K Jackson
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75From such texts as the Shah Nameh (the Persian Book of Kings), Masnavi-e Ma'navi, the Anvar-i Suhayli fables and works by the great poet Nizami, come ancient tales of a civilization that once... -
Arthurian Myths by Jake Jackson
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.15Many medieval writers, especially from France and Wales, wrote stories about the great British leader that was King Arthur. Legends, folklore and myths from this period come together to paint a... -
Of One Blood: Or, The Hidden Self Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins 9781839647888
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.15A rip-roaring lost worlds thriller written in the early 1900s by a pioneering black writer of black fiction. The story of Reuel is fuelled by love, betrayal and a heavy undertow of the supernatural;... -
Celtic Myths by Jake Jackson
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75Populated by gods, High Kings, wilfull Queens, noble warriors, fairies, goblins and wizards, the Celtic myths are unsurpassed in their variety and power. This new book is a dazzling collection of the... -
West African Folk Tales by J.K. Jackson
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $8.29Tricksters and animals play an important role in West African folklore with stories that entertain but serve a moral purpose. Traditions and local tales revel in the antics of these characters: from... -
Viking Folk Tales by J.K. Jackson
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75Character-forming moral fables, Viking and Nordic folk and fairy tales take the magic of the natural world and combine it with the practical common sense of the everyday. Good folk are rewarded for... -
The Empty House, And Other Ghost Stories by Algernon Blackwood
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.15Algernon Blackwood, one of the founding fathers of modern ghost and horror stories, inspired generations of writers from H.P. Lovecraft to Shirley Jackson and our very own Ramsey Campbell... -
Blake; or The Huts of America Martin R. Delany 9781839649370
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.95New edition with a new introduction. Delany's tale of Blake, an escaped slave in the era before the US Civil War, depicts the harrowing detail of life under slavery and offers a call to action for... -
Irish Fairy Tales by Flame Tree Studio
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.15Fairy stories, especially from the rich tradition of Ireland where the supernatural grew from the legends of the Celts, are the magic stories of everyday folk seeking solutions to the challenges of... -
The Tale of Beowulf: Epic Stories, Ancient Traditions J.K. Jackson 9781839649929
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.15Beowulf is an epic poem probably written in the 900s CE. It tells of events 600 years before in vivid detail, where the hero Beowulf is entreated to help a king defend his halls against the monster... -
Cyrus the Great: Epic and Legendary Leaders Ian Macgregor Morris 9781839649950
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.15Cyrus the Great created the first Persian Empire in the 500s BCE, and sealed his pre-eminence as one of the greatest founders of empire. He conquered all major civilizations in his region and his... -
Darkwater W.E.B. Du Bois 9781839649363
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.95A new edition with a new introduction, Du Bois' radical text is a rare statement of values formed around the vision of a collective life, where the humanity of black women and men is treated with... -
The Four Branches of the Mabinogi: Epic Stories, Ancient Traditions by J.K. Jackson
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.15The ancient Mabinogi is a great world literature, and fascinating Celtic mythology. Centuries of oral storytelling worked up its intricate art, delighting every generation of all ages. The Guest... -
Queen Cleopatra Lindsay Powell 9781804178157
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75Cleopatra had the rare distinction of connecting three great cultures. She was born of an ancient Greek dynasty that stretched back to the time of Alexander the Great, and as the last Pharaoh of... -
Chinese Ghost Stories Flame Tree Studio (Literature and Science) 9781804177983
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75A delightful collection of Chinese ghost stories such as The Spirit of the Wu-Lian Mountain, The Spirits of the Yellow River, The Talking Silver Foxes, The Constable, The Dangerous Reward,... -
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 9781787556195
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $8.24Against the backdrop of seventeenth-century New England, Hester Prynne is branded with an 'A' to mark her adultery and the strict condemnation of the Puritan community. As Hester's crimes define her... -
Classic Ghost Stories Lisa Tuttle 9781804177990
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75A selection of mysterious and intriguing tales from the shadows, featuring M.R. James, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Edith Wharton and Algernon Blackwood, with F. Marion Crawford's The Doll's Ghost and... -
Japanese Myths by Jake Jackson
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.15Japan's mythology is alive with gods, spirits and monsters. It draws on Buddhist and Shinto traditions to explain the nature of the world of the island of Japan, and the heavenly status of the long... -
Icelandic Folktales J.K. Jackson 9781804178164
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75Icelandic folktales are the close cousins of Viking fairy stories, although perhaps a little darker in their tone, but they share many of the same themes of innocence and trickery, triumph of good... -
Haunted House Stories Hester Fox 9781804175934
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75A finger-tip tingling selection of ghostly capers from E.F. Benson, Algernon Blackwood, Dick Donovan, H.D. Everett, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, William Hope Hodgson, W.W. Jacobs, M.R. James, Bram... -
American Ghost Stories Brett Riley 9781804172391
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.15Settling in for a night of spine-chilling entertainment? Here's a gripping collection of classic American ghost tales by authors such as Edgar Allan Poe ('The Masque of the Red Death'), Francis Bret... -
Myths of Babylon by Jake Jackson
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.15Babylonian myths, inherited in Mesopotamia from Sumeria, influenced by the ancient Assyrians represent a pinnacle of human achievement in the period around 1800 BC. Here we find humankind battling... -
Serbian Folktales by J.K. Jackson 9781804177839
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75Stories of the Serbian people are both poetic and strident, reflecting their proud heritage as Southern Slavs, who, in the years after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, swept South, taking over... -
Egyptian Myths by Jake Jackson
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.15The Myths of Ancient Egypt are tied intimately to the presence and natural rhythms of the Nile. With their inventive mythology, the Egyptians explained the effects of famine, harvest, floods and... -
Ramses the Great Charlotte Booth 9781804177181
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75Regarded as the greatest of all Pharaohs, Ramses II reigned at the height of Ancient Egypt's power and influence. He led military campaigns with his father from a young age, married at 15, eventually... -
Tristan and Isolde J.K. Jackson 9781804178171
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75Alongside Gawain and the Green Knight and Beowulf, Tristan and Isolde's tale of doomed love is a classic medieval story whose themes of love, betrayal, honour and courage have weathered the test of... -
Hannibal of Carthage Lindsay Powell 9781804173305
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.15With a new introduction, comes the story of Hannibal, often regarded as a successor to the mantle of Alexander the Great, at a time when Carthage, in North Africa, and Rome were rivals for land and... -
The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 9781787556201
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.15A mysterious tale of crime, witchcraft and the supernatural. The House of the Seven Gables is a gloomy New England mansion, reeking of past sins and malevolent threats. The Pyncheon family that lives...