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How Novels Work by John Mullan
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.28Never has contemporary fiction been more widely discussed and passionately analysed; recent years have seen a huge growth in the number of reading groups and in the interest of a non-academic... -
The Artful Dickens: The Tricks and Ploys of the Great Novelist by John Mullan
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €10.10'This is a marvellous, endlessly illuminating book ... It doesn't go on the shelf alongside other critics; it goes on the shelf alongside Dickens' Howard Jacobson ___________________ Discover the... -
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RRP: €38.99Booksplease Price: €4.34Never has contemporary fiction been more widely discussed and passionately analysed; recent years have seen a huge growth in the number of reading groups and in the interest of a non-academic... -
Release the Bats: A Pocket Guide to Writing Your Way Out Of It by DBC Pierre
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08A guide to writing fiction by the Booker Prize-winning author of Vernon God Little.Part biography, part reflection and part practical guide, Release the Bats explores the mysteries of why and how we... -
What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved by Professor of English John Mullan 9781620400425
RRP: €22.80Booksplease Price: €15.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620400425Author Fellow John MullanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprin -
Modernism: A Guide to European Literature 1890-1930 by James Walter McFarlane
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €14.92An exploration of the ideas, groupings and the social tensions that shaped the transformation of life caused by the changes of modernity in art, science, politics and philosophyBook InformationISBN... -
Serious Noticing: Selected Essays by James Wood
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €13.69The selected essays of James Wood - our greatest living literary critic and author of How Fiction Works'James Wood is a close reader of genius... By turns luscious and muscular, committed and... -
Letters to a Writer of Colour by Deepa Anappara
Booksplease Price: €18.28Filled with empathy and wisdom, personal experiences and creative inspiration, this is a vital collection of essays on the power of literature and the craft of writing from an international array of... -
How Fiction Works James Wood 9781845950934
RRP: €14.39Booksplease Price: €11.35Rediscover this deep, practical anatomy of the novel from 'the strongest ... literary critic we have' (New York Review of Books) in this new revised 10th anniversary edition.What do we mean when we... -
Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08Jane Austen is the definitive biography of one of Britain's best-loved novelists, from the acclaimed author of Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, Charles Dickens: A Life and The Invisible Woman'As... -
The Lives of the Poets: A Selection by Samuel Johnson 9780199226740
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €13.50'If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life, he must represent it really as it was.' In the last of his major writings, Samuel Johnson... -
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 9780198807452
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €14.14"Pray, pray be composed," cried Elinor, "and do not betray what you feel to every body present. Perhaps he has not observed you yet." For Elinor Dashwood, sensible and sensitive, and her romantic,... -
The Novel Cure: An A to Z of Literary Remedies by Ella Berthoud
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08Mumsnet 'Best Books for Christmas 2016''Ideal for anyone who has ever wondered what on earth to read next' SJ WATSON'Witty, engaging and informative. The sort of book you choose for a friend and end... -
'I Love Me County': Waterford Sporting Stories Cian Manning 9781803992556
RRP: €24.00Booksplease Price: €17.40Waterford, the Gentle County, can boast a proud sporting tradition that is as long as it is unusual. Ireland's oldest city has witnessed many trends, from blood sports like bull-baiting in... -
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 9780198793359
RRP: €7.19Booksplease Price: €6.00'Pray, pray be composed,' cried Elinor, 'and do not betray what you feel to every body present. Perhaps he has not observed you yet.' For Elinor Dashwood, sensible and sensitive, and her romantic,... -
Emma by Jane Austen 9780198837756
RRP: €8.39Booksplease Price: €6.52'I wonder what will become of her!' So speculate the friends and neighbours of Emma Woodhouse, the lovely, lively, wilful,and fallible heroine of Jane Austen's fourth published novel. Confident... -
Milton: Paradise Lost by John Milton 9781405832786
Booksplease Price: €55.98First published in 1968, Alastair Fowler's annotated edition of Paradise Lost is acknowledged as the most authoritative guide to this major work. It is the only recent edition of Paradise Lost to be... -
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 9780141439822
RRP: €9.59Booksplease Price: €9.13'Robinson Crusoe has a universal appeal, a story that goes right to the core of existence' Simon ArmitageDaniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, regarded by many to be first novel in English, is also the... -
Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson 9780199536498
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.84'Pamela under the Notion of being a Virtuous Modest Girl will be introduced into all Familes,and when she gets there, what Scenes does she represent? Why a fine young Gentleman endeavouring to... -
Sir Walter Ralegh: The Renaissance Man and His Roles by Stephen Greenblatt 9781324106371
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €17.69Exposing the tensions and contradictions of Renaissance England, Stephen Greenblatt presents Sir Walter Ralegh as a symbol of his age-focusing on his lifelong attempt to fashion his own identity as a... -
Great Writers and the Cats who Owned Them Susannah Fullerton 9781851246540
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €17.27Throughout history, cats and writers have bonded together in a magical combination of comfort, companionship and inspiration. The famous authors featured here range from Samuel Johnson, whose cat... -
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe 9780140433135
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.54Daniel Defoe's bawdy tale of a woman's struggle for independence and redemption, Moll Flanders is edited with an introduction and notes by David Blewett in Penguin Classics.Born in Newgate prison and... -
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The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe 9780140433135 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €2.68Daniel Defoe's bawdy tale of a woman's struggle for independence and redemption, Moll Flanders is edited with an introduction and notes by David Blewett in Penguin Classics.Born in Newgate prison and... -
First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing ... and Life. by Joe Moran
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €10.31A STYLE GUIDE BY STEALTH - HOW ANYONE CAN WRITE WELL (AND FULLY ENJOY GOOD WRITING)'Joe Moran is a wonderfully sharp writer, calm, precise and quietly comical' Craig BrownAdvanced maths has no... -
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The Keys To The Street by Ruth Rendell 9780099184324 [USED COPY]
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €2.87Mary Jago donates her bone marrow to save the life of a complete stranger; a generous act of kindness that culminates in a violent break-up with her brutish boyfriend.Moving to the affluent edge of... -
The Country and the City by Raymond Williams
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.35Taking inspiration from classic authors from Jane Austen to Thomas Hardy, Williams shines a light on our society's changing views of the rural and industrial landscapes in which we work and live.Our... -
Surviving the Sand: My Family's Struggle to Farm the Pasco Desert by Helen Lingscheit Heavirland 9781638640042
Booksplease Price: €20.15Dad's eyes danced. His grin held happiness...hope. 'We're home!' he announced. Mom stared out the pickup window. Silent. Lifeless...Tufts of skinny grass and small grayish green bushes surrounded us... -
If Not Critical by Eric Griffiths
Booksplease Price: €49.38Eric Griffiths delivered hundreds of lectures at the Faculty of English in Cambridge, yet his lectures were never turned into books. If Not Critical brings together ten lectures, published here for... -
Reading Lessons: The books we read at school, the conversations they spark and why they matter Carol Atherton 9780241629505
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08An English teacher's love letter to reading and the many ways literature can make us, and our lives, better.How can a Victorian poem help teenagers understand YouTube misogyny? Can Jane Eyre... -
Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears by Thomas Dixon 9780199676064
RRP: €18.59Booksplease Price: €15.32There is a persistent myth about the British: that we are a nation of stoics, with stiff upper lips, repressed emotions, and inactive lachrymal glands. Weeping Britannia - the first history of crying... -
The Lost Books of Jane Austen by Janine Barchas 9781421431598
RRP: €32.40Booksplease Price: €26.00Hardcore bibliography meets Antiques Roadshow in an illustrated exploration of the role that cheap reprints played in Jane Austen's literary celebrity-and in changing the larger book world itself... -
Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival by Stephen Greenblatt 9781324134213
Booksplease Price: €14.50In repressive Elizabethan England, artists are frightened into dull conventionality; foreigners are suspect; popular entertainment largely consists of coarse spectacles, animal fights, and hangings... -
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The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton 9781847084323 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €2.89WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 'A breathtakingly ambitious mystery... As beautiful as it is triumphant' Daily Mail An astonishing, epic story of promise, deceit and desperation in New Zealand's...