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The Norns in Old Norse Mythology Karen Bek-Pedersen 9781780460352
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $57.15The nornir or norns were a group of female supernatural beings closely related to ideas about fate in Old Norse tradition. Karen Bek-Pedersen provides a thorough understanding of the role played by... -
The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century by Helen Graham
Booksplease Price: $43.05In Spain today the civil war remains 'the past that will not pass away'. The long shadow of the Second World War is now also bringing back centre frame its most disquieting aspects, revealing to a... -
Geology and Landscapes of Scotland Con Gillen 9781780460093
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $45.15The six hundred miles between the northernmost Shetland island and the Mull of Galloway in the South of Scotland contain some of the most interesting geology and most varied landscapes in Europe... -
Small Hands by Mona Arshi 9781781381816
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $13.84Winner of the 2015 Forward Prize for Best First Collection Mona Arshi's debut collection, 'Small Hands', introduces a brilliant and compelling new voice. At the centre of the book is the slow... -
Blood Child by Eleanor Rees 9781781381809
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $13.84In her third full-length collection 'Blood Child', Eleanor Rees hones and extends her startling use of language and imagery to enact the many aspects of change - fleeting, elusive or moored in a... -
My Dark Horses Jodie Hollander 9781786940049
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $13.84Set against the charms and vicissitudes of growing up in a family of musicians, Jodie Hollander's beautifully-structured and compelling debut follows the story of a daughter's maturing relationship... -
The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes Lieke Marsman 9781786942135
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $13.84In The Cancer Journals Audre Lorde wrote, 'I do not wish my anger and pain and fear about cancer to fossilise into yet another silence, not to rob me of whatever strength can lie at the core of this... -
Not All Mud and Scrums: Rugby Union Before Professionalism by Gordon Allan 9781898595199
Booksplease Price: $21.40A celebration of Rugby Union, based upon a sports journalist's recollections of 50 years of following the sport, before the game moved into its modern period, governed by money and media interests... -
Excursion Guide to the Geomorphology of the Howgill Fells Adrian Harvey 9781780460703
Booksplease Price: $45.85The Howgill Fells in Cumbria, represent one of the most erosionally active landscapes in Britain. The bedrock geology, folded Silurian mudstones, is not especially well seen. The direct effects of... -
Carnal Knowledge: Essays on the Flesh, Sex and Sexuality in Hispanic Letters and Films by Pamela Bacarisse 9781802078893
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $51.50Este libro es una coleccion de ensayos presentados en el Simposio de dos dias sobre Sexo y Sexualidad en el Cine y las Letras Hispanas que tendria lugar en la Universidad de Pittsburgh en abril de... -
Monstrous Adversary: The Life of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford by Alan H. Nelson 9780853236887
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $57.52The Elizabethan Court poet Edward de Vere has, since 1920, lived a notorious second, wholly illegitimate life as the putative author of the poems and plays of William Shakespeare. The work... -
Thomas Hardy and Religion: Theological Themes in Tess of the dUrbervilles and Jude the Obscure by Richard Franklin 9781789761405
Booksplease Price: $45.86The wellspring of Thomas Hardy and Religion is the recognition that Thomas Hardy's two late great novels, Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure, are dominated, respectively, by two religious... -
Orosius: Seven Books of History against the Pagans by Andrew Fear
Booksplease Price: $51.87This book is a new annotated translation of Orosius's Seven Books of History against the Pagans. Orosius's History, which begins with the creation and continues to his own day, was an immensely... -
What Fire by Alice Miller
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $13.84What Fire is about how to continue as catastrophe crawls in, when the climate crisis has its grip on everyone, the internet has been shut down, and the buildings are burning up. What happens when the... -
Birmingham: The Workshop of the World Professor Carl Chinn 9781781382479
Booksplease Price: $31.61Birmingham is a city with an extraordinarily diverse achievement in fields as varied as science, industry, politics, education, medicine, printing and the arts. Labels such as the 'first industrial... -
The Sense of Community in French Caribbean Fiction by Celia Britton 9781846315008
Booksplease Price: $33.09This book analyses the theme of community in seven French Caribbean novels in relation to the work of the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy. The islands' complex history means that community is a... -
UNITE History Volume 5 (1974-1992): The Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU): From Zenith to Nadir? Mary Davis 9781802078503
Booksplease Price: $12.73This volume traces the history of the TGWU from its zenith in the period of the Labour Government to its nadir in 1992. It easily divides itself into two distinct periods. The first from 1974-79 saw... -
William Blake by Steve Vine 9780746309803
Booksplease Price: $24.11William Blake was a revolutionary poet and artist: "I know myself both Poet & Painter", he wrote. In his paintings he created visionary images that challenge conventional perceptions; in his poetry... -
Sustenance for the Body & Soul: Food & Drink in Amerindian, Spanish & Latin American Worlds by Dr Debra D Andrist 9781789761306
Booksplease Price: $147.68The food-secure and/or privileged worldwide no longer eat and drink simply to maintain life itself. They have the advantage and choice to regard "sustenance" not just as fuel for the body/machine but... -
Slant Light Sarah Westcott 9781781382929
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $13.84In her first full-length collection, Sarah Westcott immerses the human self in the natural world, giving voice to a remarkable range of flora and fauna so often silenced or unheard. Here, the... -
Aphra Behn by S.J. Wiseman 9780746309650
Booksplease Price: $27.44During a writing career from the Restoration (1660) to the so-called Glorious Revolution (1688-9) Aphra Behn was prolific in all the commercial genres of her time and treated the most controversial... -
Theophilus of Edessa’s Chronicle and the Circulation of Historical Knowledge in Late Antiquity and Early Islam by Robert G. Hoyland
Booksplease Price: $45.85Theophilus of Edessa was an astrologer in the court of the Muslim caliphs from the 750s to the 780s, a time when their capital, Baghdad, was a thriving cosmopolitan centre of culture and trade and... -
Merseypride: Essays in Liverpool Exceptionalism by John Belchem 9781846310102
Booksplease Price: $45.85Once the second city of empire, now descended by seemingly irreversible economic and demographic decline into European Union Objective One status, Liverpool defies historical categorization. Located... -
Posthuman: Consciousness & Pathic Engagement by Mauro Maldonato 9781845197131
Booksplease Price: $43.55Emerging at the margins of science fiction the concept of posthuman has become the most potent and pervasive movement of contemporary culture. From science to ethics, from philosophy to art, from... -
A Perfect Mirror by Sarah Corbett
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.73Walking, getting lost, and finding that home is half way between refuge and a place to look out from at the unsettling and unsettled world, are the dominant themes in Sarah Corbett's fifth collection... -
Chinua Achebe Nahem Yousaf 9780746308851
Booksplease Price: $27.44This literary study is an exploration and a celebration of a writer who for the last half century has been at the forefront of modern African writing. Since the publication of Things Fall Apart in... -
Olive Senior by Denise DeCaires Narain 9780746310991
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $18.37This book offers the first sustained and comprehensive discussion of the Jamaican writer, Olive Senior's extensive oeuvre, including poetry, short stories and socio-cultural writings published from... -
Politics in a Glass Case: Feminism, Exhibition Cultures and Curatorial Transgressions by Angela Dimitrakaki 9781781381700
RRP: $45.14Booksplease Price: $42.58What happens to art when feminism grips the curatorial imagination? How do sexual politics become realised as exhibits? Is the struggle against gender discrimination compatible with the aspirations... -
And She Was: A Verse-Novel by Sarah Corbett 9781781381793
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $13.84A soul's journey through the night, a missing woman: time and narrative bend and interlock across a play of poetic forms and voices to make one story of love and loss. In And She Was Corbett combines... -
Nowhere Nearer by Alice Miller 9781786941022
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $13.84Poetry Book Society Recommendation, Summer 2018. Is nowhere a place we can get closer to? In her compelling second collection, Alice Miller tackles the circularity of thought, the company of the... -
Public Sculpture of Sussex by Jill Seddon 9781781381250
RRP: $112.88Booksplease Price: $16.00This is the seventeenth volume in the series the Public Sculpture of Britain, part of the PMSA National Recording Project, which will eventually cover the whole of the country. The introduction... -
The Boke of Gostely Grace: The Middle English Translation: A Critical Edition from Oxford, MS Bodley 220 Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa 9781835537466
RRP: $51.59Booksplease Price: $51.48The Boke of Gostely Grace is the anonymous Middle English version of the Liber specialis gratiae by the German visionary Mechthild of Hackeborn (1241–1298). The original Liber, compiled at the... -
The Time Machines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Pulp Magazines from the Beginning to 1950 by Mike Ashley 9780853238652
Booksplease Price: $47.87Originally conceived as a trilogy, this is the first of five volumes that chart the history of the science fiction magazine from the earliest days to the present. This first volume looks at the... -
Sir Walter Scott by Harriet Harvey Wood 9780746308134
Booksplease Price: $27.44Providing a brief account of the life of Sir Walter Scott, this text charts his development as a poet and novelist, and justifies his claims to attention as a major 19th century novelist and a... -
The Rhythm and the Tide: Liverpool, The La's and Ever After by Mike Badger 9781781382585
Booksplease Price: $30.57Liverpool in the 1980s. With prospects for the city's youth bleak, a scheme for unemployed musicians commenced, inadvertently shaping the future for members of Cast, Space, the Lightning Seeds and... -
An Army of Tribes: British Army Cohesion, Deviancy and Murder in Northern Ireland Edward Burke 9781786941039
Booksplease Price: $46.23This is the first such study of Operation Banner, the British Army's campaign in Northern Ireland. Drawing upon extensive interviews with former soldiers, primary archival sources including... -
Every Little Sound by Ruby Robinson 9781781382912
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $13.84Shortlisted for the 2016 Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the 2016 T S Eliot Prize for Best Collection. Drawing from neuroscience on the idea of 'internal gain', an internal volume control... -
Leaving the North: Migration and Memory, Northern Ireland 1921-2011 by Johanne Devlin Trew 9781781383063
Booksplease Price: $37.20Leaving the North is the first book that provides a comprehensive survey of Northern Ireland migration since 1921. Based largely on the personal memories of emigrants who left Northern Ireland from... -
Transformations: The Story of the Science Fiction Magazines from 1950 to 1970 by Mike Ashley 9780853237792
Booksplease Price: $39.33This is the second of three volumes which chart the history of the science fiction magazine from the earliest days to the present. The first volume Time Machines traced the development of the sf... -
As You Like it by Penny Gay 9780746309100
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $6.79One of the best loved of Shakespeare's 'middle comedies', As You Like It has rarely been out of the theatrical repertoire. Centring on the cross-dressed figure of Rosalind, the play both celebrates...