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The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century by Helen Graham
Booksplease Price: $70.08In 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... -
Orosius: Seven Books of History against the Pagans by Andrew Fear
Booksplease Price: $84.44This 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... -
A Perfect Mirror by Sarah Corbett
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.09Walking, 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... -
Birmingham: The Workshop of the World Professor Carl Chinn 9781781382479
Booksplease Price: $51.45Birmingham 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... -
Chinua Achebe Nahem Yousaf 9780746308851
Booksplease Price: $44.67This 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... -
Small Hands by Mona Arshi 9781781381816
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $22.53Winner 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... -
Aphra Behn by S.J. Wiseman 9780746309650
Booksplease Price: $44.67During 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... -
Politics in a Glass Case: Feminism, Exhibition Cultures and Curatorial Transgressions by Angela Dimitrakaki 9781781381700
RRP: $73.48Booksplease Price: $69.32What 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... -
My Dark Horses Jodie Hollander 9781786940049
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $22.53Set 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... -
'Miserable Conflict and Confusion': The Irish Question and the British National Press, 1916-1922 Erin Kate Scheopner 9781836243977
Booksplease Price: $74.63This book investigates the way the British national press covered Ireland and the 'Irish question' from the aftermath of the Easter Rising in 1916 to the ratification of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in... -
Labour and the Caucus: Working-Class Radicalism and Organised Liberalism in England, 1868–1888 by James Owen 9781802078220
Booksplease Price: $74.63Labour and the Caucus provides a new, innovative pre-history of the Labour party. In the two decades following the Second Reform Act there was a sustained and concerted campaign for working-class... -
Wahhabism and the Rise of the House of Saud by Dr. Tarik K Firro 9781845199906
Booksplease Price: $74.66This book examines the role of Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Wahhab (1703-1792) and his successors in reconsolidating the religious principles of Wahhabism. It explains the role of the Saudi princes in... -
Thomas Hardy and Religion: Theological Themes in Tess of the dUrbervilles and Jude the Obscure by Richard Franklin 9781789761405
Booksplease Price: $74.66The 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... -
Geology and Landscapes of Scotland Con Gillen 9781780460093
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $73.50The 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... -
What Fire by Alice Miller
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $22.53What 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... -
Slant Light Sarah Westcott 9781781382929
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $22.53In 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... -
Olive Senior by Denise DeCaires Narain 9780746310991
RRP: $39.25Booksplease Price: $29.90This 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... -
And She Was: A Verse-Novel by Sarah Corbett 9781781381793
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $22.53A 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: $23.08Booksplease Price: $22.53Poetry 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... -
The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes Lieke Marsman 9781786942135
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $22.53In 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: $34.84A 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... -
Carnal Knowledge: Essays on the Flesh, Sex and Sexuality in Hispanic Letters and Films by Pamela Bacarisse 9781802078893
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $83.83Este 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... -
William Blake by Steve Vine 9780746309803
Booksplease Price: $39.25William 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... -
The Time Machines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Pulp Magazines from the Beginning to 1950 by Mike Ashley 9780853238652
Booksplease Price: $77.93Originally 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: $44.67Providing 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... -
Sustenance for the Body & Soul: Food & Drink in Amerindian, Spanish & Latin American Worlds by Dr Debra D Andrist 9781789761306
Booksplease Price: $240.41The 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... -
The Golden Thread: Irish Women Playwrights, Volumes 1 & 2 by David Clare 9781802073713
Booksplease Price: $127.18Sold as a multi-volume set - the individual volumes are also available for purchase. This two-volume edited collection illuminates the valuable counter-canon of Irish women's playwriting with... -
Local Interest Emily Hasler 9781802078145
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $22.53Situated where salt and freshwater meet, where floods and fields ‘mingle parts’, Emily Hasler’s second collection exposes the dailiness of disaster to chart the constantly shifting courses of rivers... -
Viking Kings of Britain and Ireland: The Dynasty of Ivarr to A.D. 1014 Clare Downham 9781906716066
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $93.66Vikings plagued the coasts of Ireland and Britain in the 790s. By the mid-ninth century vikings had established a number of settlements in Ireland and Britain and had become heavily involved with... -
The Road to Madrid: Diary of Donald Gallie, Member of the Scottish Medical Aid Unit, Serving in the Spanish Civil War, SeptemberDecember 1936 by Nina Stevens
Booksplease Price: $52.56When a failed right-wing military coup provoked civil war in Spain, in July 1936, the Spanish government made a worldwide plea for help. In Britain, Aid Spanish Committees sprang up nationwide... -
Leaving the North: Migration and Memory, Northern Ireland 1921-2011 by Johanne Devlin Trew 9781781383063
Booksplease Price: $60.56Leaving 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... -
As You Like it by Penny Gay 9780746309100
RRP: $39.25Booksplease Price: $11.05One 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... -
V.S. Naipaul by Suman Gupta 9780746308974
Booksplease Price: $69.91In this comprehensive study Suman Gupta provides a critical evaluation of the work of V.S. Naipaul up to the present, analysing his ideological and artistic development over five decades within the...Qty in Cart: 0Price:Booksplease Price: $69.91Subtotal: -
Women Poets of the 19th Century by Emma Mason 9780746311134
Booksplease Price: $165.48This title illuminates the importance of the inter-relationship between emotion and religion in women's poetry of the Romantic and Victorian eras.About the AuthorEmma Mason is Lecturer in Nineteenth... -
Samuel Johnson by Liz Bellamy 9780746311318
Booksplease Price: $44.67A study of Johnson's work in relation to contemporary anxieties over language and genre.About the AuthorLiz Bellamy is Research Associate in the Literature Department of the Open University. She... -
W. S. Graham: Speaking Towards You by Ralph Pite 9780853235798
Booksplease Price: $65.44Graham's work was published by T. S. Eliot in the 1940s and 50s, but as a major post-war poet, his work has received astonishingly little critical attention given its prestige and influence. This... -
Shashi Deshpande by Amrita Bhalla 9780746309476
Booksplease Price: $44.67A critical analysis of foremost Indian novelist Shashi Deshpande. It places Deshpande's works in the context of the complexities in the construction of Indian women by examining the specific... -
Fictional Labor: Ethics and Cultural Production in the Digital Economy Jiewon Baek 9781836244363
Booksplease Price: $74.63This book advocates for the ethically formative labor that fiction accomplishes. As a force of production, the fictional labor of literature and the visual arts shapes the formation of collective... -
Utopias in Latin America: Past and Present by Juan Pro 9781845199821
RRP: $83.90Booksplease Price: $83.77In an age in which fears about the future predominate (in the form of dystopias, ecological catastrophes and terrifying Sci-Fi scenarios), utopia is reappearing as the bearer of hope for the fate of... -
Telling it Slant: Critical Approaches to Helen Oyeyemi 9781789760743
Booksplease Price: $74.66This collection develops a body of research around critically acclaimed author Helen Oyeyemi, putting her in dialogue with other contemporary writers and tracing her relationship with other works and...