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Graham Greene John Spurling 9781032871066
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.80Graham Greene is an immensely popular as well as powerful and idiosyncratic writer. His leading characters are murderers, spies, fugitives and outsiders and his most typical plot is that of the... -
Mirror For Monkeys by ,John Spurling 9780715653623
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.25Comedy is the imitation of life and the mirror of society... Beneath the rotting floorboards of a ruined house, an 18th-century memoir is discovered. It reveals the life story of William Congreve,... -
Shades of Heathcliff by John Spurling 9780714525181
RRP: £4.95Booksplease Price: £4.57Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Graham Greene John Spurling 9781032871073
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.81Graham Greene is an immensely popular as well as powerful and idiosyncratic writer. His leading characters are murderers, spies, fugitives and outsiders and his most typical plot is that of the... -
Arcadian Nights: Gods, Heroes and Monsters from Greek Myth by John Spurling
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.47Ancient as they are, the Greek myths still resonate at the core of our literature and culture, and may well reveal more about human nature and the world we have created than we like to believe. ... -
Arcadian Days: Gods, Women and Men from Greek Myth by John Spurling
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.47The Greek myths, refined by the great poets and playwrights of Ancient Greece, distil the essence of human life: its brief span, its pride, courage and insecurity, its anxious relationship with the... -
The Ten Thousand Things: Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction by John Spurling 9780715654941
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95In the turbulent final years of the Yuan Dynasty, Wang Meng is a minor bureaucrat in the government of the Mongol conquerors. He is also an extraordinarily gifted artist whose paintings capture the... -
Beckett: A Study of his Plays by John Fletcher 9781032746715
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £92.37First published in 1978, Beckett examines the plays of Beckett in the order in which they were written. The book affords a lively and fresh introduction to Beckett's theatre. Both authors stress that... -
Beckett: A Study of his Plays John Fletcher 9781032747675
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.81First published in 1978, Beckett examines the plays of Beckett in the order in which they were written. The book affords a lively and fresh introduction to Beckett's theatre. Both authors stress that... -
Beckett the Playwright John Fletcher 9780367747350
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £30.76This book, first published in 1985, stresses Beckett's success as an innovator in the theatre through a close reading and analysis of his plays. The differing backgrounds of the two authors enables... -
Rise And Fall Of The British Empire by Lawrence James 9780349106670
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE covers the history of British expansion overseas from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Narrative and analysis are interwoven with revealing... -
Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History by Giles Milton 9780340696767
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50THE 25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH A NEW FOREWORD FROM WILLIAM DALRYMPLE'A book to read, reread, then read again to your children' Independent on Sunday 'Once embarked upon the journey of the book,... -
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The Book Of The Heathen by Robert Edric 9780552999250 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £2.661897. In an isolated station in the Belgian Congo, an Englishman awaits trial for the murder of a native child. Imprisoned in a makeshift gaol, Nicholas Frere awaits the arrival of the Company's... -
The Optickal Illusion by Rachel Halliburton
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.15In The Optickal Illusion, Rachel Halliburton's meticulous recreation of Georgian society reveals the sordid details of a genuine scandal that deceived the British Royal Academy. Her debut novel... -
Boris Pasternak: A Literary Biography by Christopher Barnes 9780521520737
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £48.36This concluding volume of Christopher Barnes's acclaimed biography of the Russian poet and prose-writer Boris Pasternak covers the period from 1928 to his death, during which he wrote the famous Dr...