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Occupant by Jane Draycott
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.11Following 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... -
Pearl by Jane Draycott 9781784106591
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.11Jane 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: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.11A 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: $28.54Booksplease Price: $21.30The 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... -
Over by Jane Draycott 9781903039922
RRP: $23.68Booksplease Price: $18.06"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,... -
Christina the Astonishing by Jane Draycott 9781915048004
RRP: $28.56Booksplease Price: $21.32Saint 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... -
Night Tree by Jane Draycott 9781903039724
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $21.30This 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... -
Fulvia: How she broke all the rules in Ancient Rome by Jane Draycott 9781805463658
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.13The 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... -
Cleopatra's Daughter: Egyptian Princess, Roman Prisoner, African Queen by Jane Draycott 9781800244825
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $17.92Cleopatra 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 9780300288605
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $33.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780300288605Author Jane DraycottFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint -
Answerlands Joseph Minden 9781800175174
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $22.90Answerlands 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: $47.60Booksplease Price: $36.89Creative 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 by Dr Owen Rees 9781526653734
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $36.44'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: $59.50Booksplease Price: $42.08'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: $23.68Booksplease Price: $18.06Taking 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... -
Aphrodisia: Women, Sex and Pleasure in the Classical World by Jean Menzies 9781800963214
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $31.96'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: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.11Longlisted 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... -
In Winter Light by Philippe Jaccottet 9781909747999
RRP: $28.56Booksplease Price: $21.32'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... -
The Multiverse by Andrew Wynn Owen 9781784105624
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.11The 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... -
The Wilderness Party A.B. Jackson 9781780372600
RRP: $23.68Booksplease Price: $17.56With its flighty parables and skewed morality tales, The Wilderness Party is an unforgettable record of turbulent times. These are poems of finely-wrought musicality, bristling energy and playful... -
Woman's Lore: 4,000 Years of Sirens, Serpents and Succubi by Sarah Clegg 9781803280288
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.40Shortlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown Award 2023The history of a demonic tradition that was stolen from women - and then won back again.'Remarkable work... Extraordinary, meticulous detail'... -
Earth on Fire and other poems: A bilingual edition by Rene Noyau 9781909747852
RRP: $28.56Booksplease Price: $21.32Joseph Rene Noyau (1911-84) was a Creolophone and Francophone Mauritian writer and poet who wrote under a number of pseudonyms including Jean Erenne which he used for the poems in this collection... -
Bycatch Caroline Smith 9781916760288
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $21.30In Bycatch, a new collection by the Ted Hughes Prize shortlisted-poet Caroline Smith, the poems ask where personhood is when memory and language are gone. They capture the faltering years of a life... -
A Bright Acoustic Philip Gross 9781780373683
RRP: $23.68Booksplease Price: $17.56In these restlessly exploratory poems and sequences, the space between things is never empty, but alive with messages. Utterly physical even when it is at its most enquiring, Philip Gross's latest... -
Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire Sarah E Bond 9780300288599
Booksplease Price: $33.13Historian Sarah E. Bond retells the traditional story of Ancient Rome, revealing how groups of ancient workers unified, connected, and protested as they helped build an empire A New Yorker Best... -
A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women Emma Southon 9780861548323
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.14Rome as you've never seen it before - brazenly unconventional, badly behaved and ever so feminine. 'Hugely entertaining and illuminating' -Elodie Harper, author of The Wolf Den A WATERSTONES... -
A Portable Cosmos: Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, Scientific Wonder of the Ancient World by Alexander Jones
RRP: $142.80Booksplease Price: $111.27In 1901 divers salvaging antiquities from a Hellenistic shipwreck serendipitously recovered the shattered and corroded remains of an ancient Greek gear-driven device, now known as the Antikythera... -
A Portable Cosmos: Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, Scientific Wonder of the Ancient World by Alexander Jones 9780190931490
RRP: $58.29Booksplease Price: $47.48From the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Terracotta Army, ancient artifacts have long fascinated the modern world. However, the importance of some discoveries is not always immediately understood. This was... -
Her Birth by Rebecca Goss 9781847772381
RRP: $23.68Booksplease Price: $18.06Shortlisted for the 2013 Forward Prize for Best Collection Shortlisted for the 2015 Warwick Prize for Writing Selected for Next Generation Poets 2014 ...