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Fugitive Colours by Liz Lochhead
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91This stunning collection features never before published work along with poems written during her time as Scots Makar, and marks the end of her term as Scotland's Poet Laureate (2011-2016). Whether... -
Educating Agnes by Liz Lochhead
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.57A dark and wickedly funny farce about one man's twisted attempts to find a woman he can control completely. Adapted from Moliere's classic comedy The School for Wives by Liz Lochhead, 'Scotland's... -
Blood and Ice by Liz Lochhead
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.12Renowned poet and dramatist Liz Lochhead tells the story of Frankenstein's creation. Summer 1816. A house party on the shores of Lake Geneva. Eighteen-year-old Mary and her husband Percy Bysshe... -
Good Things by Liz Lochhead 9781854598547
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.12A bittersweet romantic comedy about finding love later in life, from 'Scotland's greatest living dramatist' Scotland on Sunday. Suddenly single and with the dreaded 'Big Five-0' staring her in the... -
Perfect Days by Liz Lochhead 9781854594372
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.12A funny, sad and truthful romantic comedy about beating the biological clock. Barbs Marshall is a celebrity hairdresser in Glasgow. She is successful and well off, but she is 39 years old and... -
A Memo for Spring: 50th Anniversary Edition by Liz Lochhead
RRP: $12.90Booksplease Price: $9.44This is an exclusive limited edition with a preface by Liz Lochhead and a new introduction by Ali Smith. Liz Lochhead is one of the leading poets writing in Britain today. This, her debut... -
Miseryguts & Tartuffe: Two plays by Moli re by Liz Lochhead 9781854596802
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Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off by Liz Lochhead
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86A modern classic about the bitter rivalry between Mary, Queen of Scots, and her cousin and fellow ruler, Elizabeth I of England - retold by Scotland's most popular playwright. 'Once upon a time,... -
Liz Lochhead's Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off by Margery McCulloch
RRP: $8.97Booksplease Price: $8.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948877391Author Dr. Margery Palmer McCullochFormat PaperbackPage Count 6 -
Other Worlds: An Anthology of Scottish Island Poems by Stewart Conn
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.44An island can be a source of escape or return, of solace or threat. In this anthology rich depictions of island flora and fauna sit alongside sightings of croft dwellers and ferry-lowpers... -
Anamnesis by Iona Lee 9781846976322
RRP: $12.90Booksplease Price: $9.44Iona Lee's debut collection charts the journey of the writer, artist and performer into adulthood. Written in a unique voice, Iona playfully toys with thematic devices in this entertaining... -
Its Colours They Are Fine Alan Spence 9781786892973
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43A classic of short fiction, Alan Spence's celebrated debut collection, first published in 1977, brings Glasgow to vibrant life and captures the spirit of the city as it teetered on the brink of... -
Medea by Euripides 9781839041150
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86'She's chucked out like an old coat that nae langer fits him...' Medea and Jason, clinging together as refugees in Corinth, have struggled to bring up their beloved offspring in this alien and... -
The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson 9780141023359 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $2.83The Testament of Gideon Mack is James Robertson's acclaimed novel exploring faith and belief.For Gideon Mack, faithless minister, unfaithful husband and troubled soul, the existence of God, let alone... -
Old World by Robert Crawford 9781787334564
RRP: $16.77Booksplease Price: $12.23Traversing the globe, Old World is a generous, playful collection about the issues facing our planet today, from a major Scots poet and biographer of T.S. Eliot'For intellectual range, emotional... -
Three Scottish Poets Edwin Morgan 9780862414009
RRP: $15.48Booksplease Price: $11.09MACCAIG * MORGAN * LOCHHEADThis book contains a selection of the finest work from three of Scotland's best-known and best-loved poets: Norman MacCaig, Edwin Morgan and Liz Lochhead. They have... -
Three Scottish Poets by Edwin Morgan 9780862414009 [USED COPY]
RRP: $15.48Booksplease Price: $3.46MACCAIG * MORGAN * LOCHHEADThis book contains a selection of the finest work from three of Scotland's best-known and best-loved poets: Norman MacCaig, Edwin Morgan and Liz Lochhead. They have... -
Scotland: Her Story: The Nation's History by the Women Who Lived It by Rosemary Goring
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Scotland's history has been told many times, but never exclusively by its women. This book takes a unique perspective on dramatic national events as well as ordinary life, as experienced by women... -
Dracula (stage version) by Bram Stoker
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62Acclaimed poet and playwright Liz Lochhead's Dracula stays refreshingly close to Bram Stoker's classic novel. Asked to adapt it by the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, she immersed herself in the... -
A Year of Scottish Poems by Gaby Morgan
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95A Year of Scottish Poems is a glorious collection of 366 poems to keep you company for every day of the year.Reflecting the changing seasons, landscape and history of Scotland and her people and... -
Inside & Out: The Art of Christian Small by Gerda Stevenson
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $19.32Christian Small lived and painted in West Linton for over 60 years. Her work was of remarkable quality and range in many different media. Her choice of subjects was wonderfully imaginative: pears on... -
Christmas Poems U. A. Fanthorpe 9781900564137
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97Features Christmas poems from a range of years, in a range of styles.About the AuthorBorn in Kent in 1929, U. A. Fanthorpe was Head of English at Cheltenham Ladies' College, and then 'became a... -
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century British and Irish Women's Poetry by Jane Dowson 9780521197854
Booksplease Price: $83.62This Companion provides new ways of reading a wide range of influential women's poetry. Leading international scholars offer insights on a century of writers, drawing out the special function of... -
#UntitledTwo: Neu! Reekie! by Kevin Williamson 9781846973536
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91This anthology promises more of the up-and-coming and established names in British poetry, who have all shared the Neu! Reekie! bill. Many of the works are new, many are favourites read at the... -
She is Fierce: Brave, Bold and Beautiful Poems by Women by Ana Sampson
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35A stunning gift book containing 150 bold, brave and beautiful poems by women - from classic, well loved poets to innovative and bold modern voices. From suffragettes to school girls, from spoken word... -
The Story of Scotland: Inspired by the Great Tapestry of Scotland by Allan Burnett 9781780277134
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43The brainchild of bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith, historian Alistair Moffat and artist Andrew Crummy, the Great Tapestry of Scotland is an outstanding celebration of 420 million years of... -
Happy Meal by Tabby Lamb
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.62'Maybe gender is like life? And like time too? In that it doesn't actually exist, and yet our world revolves around the expectations we put on it.' Starting in the quaint days of dial-up and MSN,... -
Making the Wedding Dress Jackie Wills 9781784633844
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35Wills gives readers the exceptional at the heart of daily life, invites us to suspend disbelief, enable the surreal.She begins Making the Wedding Dress with a quote from a handbook on sewing and asks... -
It Never Happened: State Terror in Eight Easy Stages by Torben Betts 9781786827777
Booksplease Price: $15.83It Never Happened (or State Terror in Eight Easy Stages) eavesdrops on eight different periods from the past: two soldiers reflect on the prospect of imminent death caused by their government's... -
Glasgow: The Autobiography by Alan Taylor
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Glasgow: The Autobiography tells the story of the fabled, former Second City of the British Empire from its origins as a bucolic village on the rivers Kelvin and Clyde, through the tumult of the... -
Arts of Resistance: Poets, Portraits and Landscapes of Modern Scotand by Alexander Moffat 9781906817183
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.66Arts of Resistance is an original exploration that extends beyond the arts into the context of politics and political change. In three wide-ranging exchanges prompted by American blues singer Linda... -
Dirt by William Letford
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.82There are all types of bodies.If you're lucky you'll find someone whose skinis a canvas for the story of your life.Write well. Take care of the heartbeat behind it. Billy Letford's Dirt revels in the... -
Mother India at Home: Recipes Pictures Stories by Monir Mohamed
RRP: $34.83Booksplease Price: $26.77Mother India at Westminster Terrace in Glasgow, has been an institution since 1996 and specialises in dishes such as ginger and green chilli fish pakora, seasoned Scottish haddock with Puy lentils,... -
The Cat Prince: & Other Poems by Michael Pedersen
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95WINNER of the 2023 Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Best Poetry Collection'Pedersen bends words like no-one else. There's a naughtiness, an innocence and surprising vulnerability in this collection... -
Theatre in Scotland: A Field of Dreams by Joyce McMillan
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.20'She has, to my knowledge, an almost unblemished record in never having failed to spot a great new play...' Philip Howard, from his Foreword Joyce McMillan has been writing about theatre in... -
Where Memories Go: Why dementia changes everything - as heard on BBC R4 Book of the Week Sally Magnusson 9781444751819
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.75'A fine book' The Sunday Times 'Powerful' Guardian 'Wonderful' The Telegraph'Moving, funny, warm' Mail on Sunday'Brave, compassionate, tender and honest' Metro'This book began as an attempt to hold...