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Angela Carter by Lorna Sage 9780746311455
RRP: $39.25Booksplease Price: $38.01Although much of Carter's work is considered part of the contemporary canon, its true strangeness is still only partially understood. Lorna Sage argues that one key to a better understanding of... -
Bad Blood by Lorna Sage 9780062080240
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $28.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062080240Author Lorna SageFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher... -
Doris Lessing by Lorna Sage 9780367336646
RRP: $73.48Booksplease Price: $68.00Doris Lessing was one of the most impressive, prolific and vital of twentieth century writers. Her fiction is obsessed with the workings of cultural change and she radically extended the novel's... -
Doris Lessing by Lorna Sage 9780367336639
Booksplease Price: $191.29Doris Lessing was one of the most impressive, prolific and vital of twentieth century writers. Her fiction is obsessed with the workings of cultural change and she radically extended the novel's... -
Bad Blood: A Memoir Lorna Sage 9781841150437
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.5520th Anniversary Edition with an introduction by Frances Wilson From a childhood of gothic proportions, through teenage pregnancy in the 1960s, Lorna Sage vividly and wittily... -
The Garden Party and Other Stories by Lorna Sage
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.81Fifteen exquisite tales from one of the world'd greatest writers of the short storyInnovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these stories were written towards the end of Katherine... -
The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English by Lorna Sage 9780521668132
Booksplease Price: $69.97This Guide aims to consolidate and epitomise the re-reading of women's writing that has gone on in the last twenty-five years. This is an opportunity for stock-taking - a timely project, when so much... -
Essays On The Art Of Angela Carter: Flesh and the Mirror by Lorna Sage
RRP: $10.48Booksplease Price: $8.42Go out and get Carter. Get all her fiction, all her fact.' Ali Smith This distinguished volume of essays commemorates the work of Angela Carter. Here her fellow writers, along with an impressive... -
Women in the House of Fiction: Post-War Women Novelists by Lorna Sage 9780333286357
Booksplease Price: $85.66The novel was once upon a time the genre women felt at home in. This wide- ranging and detailed study of contemporary novelists explores the forms of nostalgia (shared by many feminist critics) for a... -
The Only Girl in the World: A Memoir by Maude Julien
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $13.67For readers of Damaged and Running with Scissors, a chilling exploration of psychological control that ends with a glorious escape. Maude still remembers the sound of the gate being locked... -
Chopsy: Resistance Tales of a Working-Class Woman Maya Jordan 9780715656136
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Chopsy is a memoir like no other - a gut-wrenchingly powerful, yet frequently funny account of a life spent defying the prejudice and inequality faced by working-class women. Maya Jordan's... -
A House Full of Daughters by Juliet Nicolson 9780099598039
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.54One woman's investigation into the nature of memory, the past, and above all, love. All families have their myths and Juliet Nicolson's was no different: her flamenco dancing great-great-grandmother... -
The Mighty Franks: A Memoir by Michael Frank
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.20A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE 2018 JQ WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE ... -
Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings by Jane Yeh
RRP: $79.78Booksplease Price: $76.00Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings provides a complete creative writing course: from ways to jump-start your writing and inspire your creativity, right through to presenting your work to... -
Identity and Form in Contemporary Literature by Ana Maria Sanchez-Arce 9781138547971
RRP: $111.28Booksplease Price: $100.38This ambitious and wide-ranging essay collection analyses how identity and form intersect in twentieth- and twenty-first century literature. It revises and deconstructs the binary oppositions... -
The Infernal Desires of Angela Carter: Fiction, Femininity, Feminism by Joseph Bristow 9780582291911
RRP: $104.98Booksplease Price: $103.24Drawing on many aspects of contemporary feminist theory, this lively collection of essays assesses Angela Carter's polemical fictions of desire. Carter, renowned for her irreverent wit, was one of... -
Angela Carter: Surrealist, Psychologist, Moral Pornographer Scott Dimovitz 9780367140298
RRP: $104.98Booksplease Price: $94.98Contributing to the conversation regarding Angela Carter's problematic relationship with what she viewed as the interrelated traditions of surrealism and psychoanalysis, Scott Dimovitz explores the... -
Iris Murdoch by Richard Todd
Booksplease Price: $151.07Originally published in 1984, Iris Murdoch, widely regarded as one of the major British novelists of her generation at the time, was undoubtedly one of the most popular and prolific, having published... -
Food and Femininity in Twentieth-Century British Women's Fiction by Andrea Adolph
RRP: $77.68Booksplease Price: $71.59In her feminist intervention into the ways in which British women novelists explore and challenge the limitations of the mind-body binary historically linked to constructions of femininity, Andrea... -
Religion and Society in Twentieth-Century Britain by Callum G. Brown 9780582472891
RRP: $104.98Booksplease Price: $103.24During the twentieth century, Britain turned from one of the most deeply religious nations of the world into one of the most secularised nations. This book provides the first comprehensive account of... -
Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus: A Routledge Study Guide by Helen Stoddart 9780415350129
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $80.58A highly original and influential work of modern British literature, Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus combines a fantastically creative plot with a strong political undertone. The result is an... -
Leaving Before the Rains Come Alexandra Fuller 9781784700591
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.54The sequel to the bestselling Don't Let's Go to the Dogs TonightBorn in England and uprooted to southern Africa as a toddler by her parents, Alexandra Fuller experienced a unique upbringing - both... -
The Terrible by Yrsa Daley-Ward
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23**WINNER of the 2019 PEN Ackerley Prize**'A major literary talent . . . speaks about the power and powerlessness that young women are subject to in a wholly fresh, clear-eyed way . . . you'll find it... -
Go the Way Your Blood Beats Emmett de Monterey 9780241995785
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.68AN EXTRAORDINARILY MOVING AND ORIGINAL MEMOIR OF GROWING UP GAY AND DISABLED IN 1980S LONDONSHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2023 When Emmett de Monterey is eighteen months... -
Go the Way Your Blood Beats by Emmett de Monterey
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $28.08AN EXTRAORDINARILY MOVING AND ORIGINAL MEMOIR OF GROWING UP GAY AND DISABLED IN 1980s LONDONSHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2023 When Emmett de Monterey is eighteen months... -
The Cure for Sleep: A book with the power to change your life by Tanya Shadrick 9781474618090
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $13.46'Moving and inspiring, courageous and true: real art. Just reading her is pleasure' Amy Liptrot, author of The OutrunWhat happens when you realise that you must change your life?When - after years of... -
Two Serious Ladies: With an introduction by Naoise Dolan Jane Bowles 9781474620406
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54'My favourite book. I can't think of a modern novel that seems more likely to become a classic' Tennessee Williams'The book I give as a gift . . . It feels like giving someone an exotic fruit' Sheila... -
Sins of My Father: A Guardian Book of the Year 2022 – A Daughter, a Cult, a Wild Unravelling by Lily Dunn
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54'An extraordinary story' CLOVER STROUD'Astonishing and valuable' THE SPECTATOR'Beautifully written' DAILY MAIL'Intensely gripping . . . as brutal and funny as it is raw and candid' VIV GROSKOP'As... -
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Delicacy: A memoir about cake and death by Katy Wix 9781472261205 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $11.45'Mesmerising . . . an extraordinary piece of writing.' - The i paper'A book that has the rare quality of being both poetic and accessible . . . missing Delicacy would be a huge mistake.' - Guardian'A... -
Granta 41: Biography 9780140140521
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $33.73Why do biographies remain so popular? "Granta 41" presents a special collection of biographies organized around a single idea - how do you tell the story of a life?. Also in this issue is the... -
The Passion Of New Eve Angela Carter 9780860683414
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.84'Her Imagination was one of the most dazzling this century' MARINA WALKER, INDEPENDENT 'The way to Carter's visionary and lurid world' THE TIMES'The darting, lyrical pen of Angela Carter, mistress of... -
Delicacy: A memoir about cake and death by Katy Wix
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45'Mesmerising . . . an extraordinary piece of writing.' - The i paper'A book that has the rare quality of being both poetic and accessible . . . missing Delicacy would be a huge mistake.' - Guardian'A... -
The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter 9781844085231
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45'The boldest of English women writers' LORNA SAGE 'Her writing is pyrotechnic - fuelled with ideas, packed with images and spangling the night with her starry language' OBSERVER 'She can glide from... -
The Arts of Angela Carter: A Cabinet of Curiosities by Marie Mulvey-Roberts 9781526136770
RRP: $189.00Booksplease Price: $166.95This book aims to give new insights into the multifarious worlds of Angela Carter and to re-assess her impact and importance for the twenty-first century. It brings together leading Carter scholars... -
The Arts of Angela Carter: A Cabinet of Curiosities by Marie Mulvey-Roberts
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $49.43This book aims to give new insights into the multifarious worlds of Angela Carter and to re-assess her impact and importance for the twenty-first century. It brings together leading Carter scholars... -
Grub Street and the Ivory Tower: Literary Journalism and Literary Scholarship from Fielding to the Internet by Bridget Bennett 9780198184126
Booksplease Price: $52.14Literary criticism has been called a story of reading. In what conditions have the best critical stories been told? From Jenny Uglow's account of literary journalism in the world of Henry Fielding to... -
The Mind Made Flesh: Essays from the Frontiers of Psychology and Evolution by Nicholas Humphrey 9780192802279
Booksplease Price: $64.89Nicholas Humphrey's writings about the evolution of the mind have done much to set the agenda for contemporary psychology. Here, in a series of riveting essays, he invites us to 'take another look'... -
Dead Men's Wages by Lilian Pizzichini
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.54Scratch the surface of any family and you will find stories of intrigue, abuse and illegitimacy. It is just that, because of the nature of my grandfather's business, our secrets are more... -
Body of Work: 40 Years of Creative Writing at UEA by Giles Foden 9780956186980
RRP: $58.80Booksplease Price: $44.63'A book celebrating a remarkably successful programme and rife with examples of valuable craft and life lessons' - Peter Ho Davies, The GuardianAn essential companion for young writers facing the... -
The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84'The boldest of English women writers' LORNA SAGE 'Her writing is pyrotechnic - fuelled with ideas, packed with images and spangling the night with her starry language' OBSERVER 'She can glide from...