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Occupant by Jane Draycott
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Following the success of her T. S. Eliot Prize-nominated Over and award-winning translation of the medieval Pearl, Jane Draycott returns with her fourth collection of poems, The Occupant. With a... -
Over by Jane Draycott 9781903039922
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.59"Over", Jane Draycott's third book, takes its title from a sequence of twenty-six poems based on the international phonetic alphabet: Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta - In these and other pieces,... -
Pearl by Jane Draycott 9781784106591
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Jane Draycott's translation of Pearl reissued as a Carcanet Classic. A Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation. In a dream landscape radiant with jewels, a father sees his lost daughter on... -
Tideway Jane Draycott 9781915048011
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61A long-awaited re-issue, beautifully redesigned, of Jane Draycott's 'Tideway', a mesmeric sequence of poems about London's working river in a time of transition, with paintings by Peter Hay... -
The Kingdom by Jane Draycott 9781800172593
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.95The Kingdom of Jane Draycott's fifth collection is clearly a world we know, altered a little by Draycott's distinctive, prismatic lyricism, whose loving attention to place and our moment is skewed in... -
Prostheses in Antiquity by Jane Draycott
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Today, a prosthesis is an artificial device that replaces a missing body part, generally designed and assembled according to the individual's appearance and functional needs with a view to being both... -
Night Tree by Jane Draycott 9781903039724
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.95This collection travels many paths and by-ways, beside some of which lie burning cars, or a young man speechless on a forest floor, or girls lost far from home. And there is a lighthouse...Travellers... -
Christina the Astonishing by Jane Draycott 9781915048004
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.96Saint Christina the Astonishing was born into a poor Belgian family in 1150. She 'died' aged 22 but at her requiem she rose from her coffin and flew away like a bird, wanting to escape the smell of... -
Women in Classical Video Games by Jane Draycott 9781350241923
Booksplease Price: £31.52Despite the prevalence of video games set in or inspired by classical antiquity, the medium has to date remained markedly understudied in the disciplines of classics and ancient history, with the... -
Approaches to Healing in Roman Egypt by Jane Draycott 9781407310145
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £25.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781407310145Author Jane DraycottFormat PaperbackPage Count 117Imprint -
Women in Historical and Archaeological Video Games by Jane Draycott 9783111356624
RRP: £27.50Booksplease Price: £26.77This volume focuses on the depiction of women in video games set in historical periods or archaeological contexts, explores the tension between historical and archaeological accuracy and... -
Women in Classical Video Games by Dr Jane Draycott 9781350241916
Booksplease Price: £116.38Despite the prevalence of video games set in or inspired by classical antiquity, the medium has to date remained markedly understudied in the disciplines of classics and ancient history, with the... -
Prosthetics and Assistive Technology in Ancient Greece and Rome by Jane Draycott
Booksplease Price: £82.70This is the first comprehensive study of prosthetics and assistive technology in classical antiquity, integrating literary, documentary, archaeological, and bioarchaeological evidence to provide as... -
Women in Historical and Archaeological Video Games by Jane Draycott 9783110724196
RRP: £95.50Booksplease Price: £68.71This volume focuses on the depiction of women in video games set in historical periods or archaeological contexts, explores the tension between historical and archaeological accuracy and... -
Prosthetics and Assistive Technology in Ancient Greece and Rome by Jane Draycott 9781009168403
Booksplease Price: £24.63This is the first comprehensive study of prosthetics and assistive technology in classical antiquity, integrating literary, documentary, archaeological, and bioarchaeological evidence to provide as... -
Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome by Jane Draycott 9780300288605
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780300288605Author Jane DraycottFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint -
Bodies of Evidence: Ancient Anatomical Votives Past, Present and Future by Jane Draycott 9780367595579
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Dedicating objects to the divine was a central component of both Greek and Roman religion. Some of the most conspicuous offerings were shaped like parts of the internal or external human body:... -
Fulvia: How she broke all the rules in Ancient Rome Jane Draycott 9781805461937
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38The charismatic Fulvia amassed a degree of military and political power that was unprecedented for a woman in Ancient Rome. Married three times to men who moved in powerful circles, including Marc... -
Fulvia: How she broke all the rules in Ancient Rome by Jane Draycott 9781805463658
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.08The charismatic Fulvia amassed a degree of military and political power that was unprecedented for a woman in Ancient Rome. Married three times to men who moved in powerful circles, including Marc... -
Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome by Jane Draycott 9781805461951
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Cleopatra's Daughter: Egyptian Princess, Roman Prisoner, African Queen by Jane Draycott 9781800244825
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99Cleopatra Selene, daughter of Cleopatra VII of Egypt and Mark Antony, was the only member of the Ptolemaic dynasty to survive after her parents were defeated by the future Roman emperor Augustus at... -
Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome by Jane Draycott 9780300278040
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780300278040Author Jane DraycottFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint -
Roman Domestic Medical Practice in Central Italy: From the Middle Republic to the Early Empire by Jane Draycott 9781032178325
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Roman Domestic Medical Practice in Central Italy examines the roles that the home, the garden and the members of the household (freeborn, freed and slave) played in the acquisition and maintenance of... -
Stanley Spencer Poems: An Anthology by Peter Robinson 9781909747272
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Sir Stanley Spencer (1891-1959) was undoubtedly one of the most admired and influential English painters of the twentieth century. Cookham was a major influence on both his life and painting and his... -
PN Review 254 by Michael Schmidt
Booksplease Price: £8.84The July-August 2020 issue. Robyn Marsack celebrates Edwin Morgan's centenary. Frederic Raphael's polemic about the pandemic. Kirsty Gunn on Lockdown. Interviews with the great American poet Douglas... -
One Thousand Suns: MPT No. 2: 2016 by Sasha Dugdale 9781910485118
RRP: £7.00Booksplease Price: £5.98MPT's summer issue 'One Thousand Suns' focuses on poetry from African languages, with a selection of new translations of Senegalese poet Mama Seck Mbacke, Beninese Agnes Agboton and an interview with... -
Answerlands Joseph Minden 9781800175174
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Answerlands is the place children go in their minds when looking for a correct answer without really thinking. It is also a fairy-tale world of quest, resolution and dissolution, glimpsed in a... -
Creative Writing: Writers on Writing by Amal Chatterjee 9781907076114
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.50Creative Writing: Writers on Writing anthologises original literary work by eight contemporary authors; Amal Chatterjee, Colm Breathnach, Fred D'Aguiar, Jane Draycott, Philip Gross, Kathryn Heyman,... -
The Far Edges of the Known World: A New History of the Ancient Past Dr Owen Rees 9781526653789
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53'A journey of discovery that never fails to be engaging . . . A natural storyteller' Helen King, author of Immaculate Forms'A blast of fresh air, presenting a perspective on cultural history that is... -
The Far Edges of the Known World: A New History of the Ancient Past by Dr Owen Rees 9781526653734
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.31'A journey of discovery that never fails to be engaging . . . A natural storyteller' Helen King, author of Immaculate Forms'A blast of fresh air, presenting a perspective on cultural history that is... -
Servus: How Slavery Made the Roman Empire by Emma Southon 9781399741255
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.68'A much-needed corrective to centuries of obfuscations and misunderstandings. Servus is a challenging read yet a simultaneously sensitive and even entertaining one, striking that peculiar balance... -
Taking Mesopotamia by Jenny Lewis 9781906188115
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.59Taking Mesopotamia was originally inspired by Jenny Lewis's search for her lost father - the young South Wales Borderer who fought in the ill-fated Mesopotamian campaign of World War I. Through... -
Chaotic Good Isabelle Baafi 9780571390953
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A piercing debut about how we are made, how we get lost and how we find new selves.Framed by the story of escape from a toxic marriage, Chaotic Good focuses on the incremental ways in which power... -
Aphrodisia: Women, Sex and Pleasure in the Classical World by Jean Menzies 9781800963207
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25'Offers fascinating insights into women's worlds and desires in Greco-Roman antiquity and beyond.'Emily Hauser, Sunday Times bestselling author of Mythica'A wonderfully witty and insightful look at... -
Aphrodisia: Women, Sex and Pleasure in the Classical World by Jean Menzies 9781800963214
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.43'Offers fascinating insights into women's worlds and desires in Greco-Roman antiquity and beyond.'Emily Hauser, Sunday Times bestselling author of Mythica'A wonderfully witty and insightful look at... -
A Map Towards Fluency by Lisa Kelly 9781784108403
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61Longlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize 2021. A Map Towards Fluency, Lisa Kelly's first collection, considers words, the power they impart, the power their absence withholds... -
A Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the Healing Arts of Greece and Rome by J. C. McKeown
RRP: £16.49Booksplease Price: £14.01There are few disciplines as exciting and forward-looking as medicine. Unfortunately, however, many modern practitioners have rather lost sight of the origins of their discipline. A Cabinet of... -
In Winter Light by Philippe Jaccottet 9781909747999
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.96'A la lumiere d'hiver' (1977) is a central work in the writing of the Swiss French poet Philippe Jaccottet (1925-2021). Written in middle age, it forms a bridge between the poet's intricate early... -
A Cultural History of Hair in Antiquity by Professor Mary Harlow
Booksplease Price: £35.35"A thick, tangled and deliciously idiosyncratic history of hair." Times Literary Supplement Hair, or lack of it, is one the most significant identifiers of individuals in any society. In... -
The Multiverse by Andrew Wynn Owen 9781784105624
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61The Multiverse, Andrew Wynn Owen's first book of poems, sings of science, philosophy, and religion, testing the emotional valences of each. It sings in a variety of strictly observed metres and with...