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L'Atalante by Marina Warner
Booksplease Price: $22.36L'Atalante is the work of French director Jean Vigo. It is a study of romantic love, told in a style influenced by surrealism, but still Vigo's own. This text is part of the 'BFI Film Classics'... -
Helen Chadwick by Marina Warner
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $17.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846382512Author Marina WarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint -
Paula Rego: Nursery Rhymes by Marina Warner
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $15.69The bold, distinctive style of Paula Rego's paintings has acquired for her not only an ever-increasing critical reputation but also an unusually large and enthusiastic following. Her be-ribboned... -
Fairy Tale: A Very Short Introduction by Marina Warner
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.01From wicked queens, beautiful princesses, elves, monsters, and goblins, to giants, glass slippers, poisoned apples, magic keys, and mirrors, the characters and images of fairy tales have cast a spell... -
Signs & Wonders: Essays on Literature and Culture by Marina Warner
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63Since the early 1970s, Marina Warner has been one of the most challenging, subtle and profound commentators on the culture of past and present, unravelling our webs of images, ideas and beliefs, and... -
Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir by Marina Warner
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.14A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. 'Wonderful - a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and... -
The Secret Commonwealth: Of Elves, Fauns, And Fairies by Marina Warner
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $12.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681373560Author Marina WarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint -
Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights by Marina Warner
RRP: $29.41Booksplease Price: $27.70Our foremost theorist of myth, fairytales, and folktales explores the magical realm of the imagination where carpets fly, objects speak, dreams reveal hidden truths, and genies grant prophetic wishes... -
Monuments And Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form by Marina Warner 9780099588818
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79'Why should Truth be a woman? Or Nature? Or Justice? Or Liberty? Not, certainly, because women have been more free, just, truthful, nor even (though this one has a double edge) more natural. Marina... -
Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir by Marina Warner 9780008347628
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $9.45A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. 'Wonderful - a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and... -
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Indigo Or Mapping The Waters by Marina Warner 9780099154518 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $3.14Inspired by The Tempest, Indigo traces the scars of colonialism across continents, family blood-lines and three centuries. Rich, sensual and magical in its use of myths and fairytales Indigo explores... -
Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale by Marina Warner
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.72From wicked queens, beautiful princesses, elves, monsters, and goblins to giants, glass slippers, poisoned apples, magic keys, and mirrors, the characters and images of fairy tales have cast a spell... -
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Murderers I Have Known by Marina Warner 9780099428374 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.39Like her award-winning novels, Marina Warner's stories conjure up mysteries and wonders in a physical world, treading a delicate, magical line between the natural and the supernatural, between... -
From The Beast To The Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers by Marina Warner 9780099479512 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $5.00Entrancing, multi-layered and as wittily subversive as fairy tales themselves, this beautifully illustrated work explores and illuminates the unfolding history of famous fairy tales and the contexts... -
Crow by Ted Hughes
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Crow was Ted Hughes's fourth book of poems for adults and a pivotal moment in his writing career. In it, he found both a structure and a persona that gave his vision a new power and coherence. A deep... -
The Book of Tbilisi: A City in Short Fiction by Gvantsa Jobava 9781910974315
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.83In the 26 years since Georgia declared independence from the Soviet Union, the country and its capital, Tbilisi, have endured unimaginable hardships: one coup d'etat, two wars with Russia, the cancer... -
Once Upon a Place: Forests, Caverns & Other Places of Transformation in Myths, Fairy Tales & Film Holly Bellebuono 9780738779379
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $17.38Popularized by Joseph Campbell, the hero's journey features narrative stages along which a person matures and transforms. But where heroes transform is just as important as what they do to get there... -
This Dark Country: Women Artists, Still Life and Intimacy in the Early Twentieth Century by Rebecca Birrell
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022 Longlisted for the William M B Berger Prize for British Art History 2022 Guardian Art Book of the Year 2021 A dazzling, boldly original... -
Between Worlds: Folktales of Britain & Ireland by Kevin Crossley-Holland 9781406383096
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75The definitive collection of British and Irish folktales from master storyteller and poet Kevin Crossley-Holland.Rich and strange, these eerie and magical folktales from across Britain and Ireland... -
We Wrote in Symbols: Love and Lust by Arab Women Writers by Selma Dabbagh
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07It is a little-known secret that Arabic literature has a long tradition of erotic writing. Behind that secret lies another - that many of the writers are women. We Wrote in Symbols celebrates the... -
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells 9780141439976
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.58'The father of science fiction' GuardianThe Time Machine is the first and greatest modern portrayal of time-travel. It sees a Victorian scientist propel himself into the year 802,701 AD, when he is... -
Building Babel Suniti Namjoshi 9781875559565
RRP: $20.03Booksplease Price: $14.23Every retelling of a myth is a reworking of it. Every hearing or reading of a myth is a recreation of it. It is only when we engage with a myth that it resonates, becomes charged and recharged with... -
Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales by Angela Carter
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59Once upon a time fairy tales weren't meant just for children, and neither is Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales. This stunning collection contains lyrical tales, bloody tales and hilariously funny... -
The Fourth Pig by Naomi Mitchison 9780691191447
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.76An enchanting collection that introduces the author and activist Naomi Mitchison to a new generation of readersThe Fourth Pig, originally published in 1936, is a wide-ranging collection of fairy... -
The Cat's Tales: Feline Fairy Tales and Folklore by Charlie Creed 9781783968374
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.09Once upon a time, the enchanting creature that is the cat infiltrated our lives - and our folklore. Cats have a long association with the supernatural - from being worshipped as gods in ancient... -
The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood 9781853817229
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75By the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias GraceZenia is beautiful, smart and greedy, by turns manipulative and vulnerable, needy and ruthless; a man's dream and a woman''s nightmare. She is also... -
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The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood 9781853817229 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $3.22By the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias GraceZenia is beautiful, smart and greedy, by turns manipulative and vulnerable, needy and ruthless; a man's dream and a woman''s nightmare. She is also... -
The Four Marys: A Quartet of Contemporary Folk Tales Jean Rafferty 9781908643575
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.94Longisted for the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered prize 2015 "Powerful stories." - Marina Warner. Obsession, longing, deceit and even murder feature in this quartet of provocative novellas, which gives a... -
Danny's Blog/El blog de Daniel by Stephen Rabley
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $6.61Is this the end of the road for the orangutan reserve at Pumai? Who will stop logger Brad Coram from taking over and destroying everything? Danny has a plan. Find out if he wins - in Spanish and... -
Astonishing Art with Recycled Rubbish: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! by Susan Martineau
Booksplease Price: $2.87Oi! That's not rubbish, that's art! Recycle loads of gruesome materials to make astonishing works of art. From turning onion skins into an Onion Fish to making jewellery from egg shells, these tried... -
Danny's Blog/Le blog de Danny by Stephen Rabley
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $6.61Is this the end of the road for the orangutan reserve at Pumai? Who will stop logger Brad Coram from taking over and destroying everything? Danny has a plan. Find out if he wins - in French and... -
The Penguin Book of Oulipo: Queneau, Perec, Calvino and the Adventure of Form by Philip Terry
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.08A TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'Lovers of word games and literary puzzles will relish this indispensable anthology' The Guardian 'At times, you simply have to stand back in... -
Sometimes I Think, Sometimes I Am by Sara Fanelli 9781854377289
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.50Award-winning artist and illustrator Sara Fanelli is one of the world's foremost illustrators, renowned for her experimental techniques that have spawned many imitators. Her unique contribution to... -
Things I Don't Want to Know by Deborah Levy
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28The first in Deborah Levy's essential three-part 'Living Autobiography' on writing and womanhood. 'Unmissable. Like chancing upon an oasis, you want to drink it slowly . . . Subtle, unpredictable,... -
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You Can Draw Monsters: a Step-by-step Guide to Drawing Monstrous Beasts by Martin Ursell 9781902915265 [USED COPY]
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $3.39Frighten your friends, scare your sister and bother your brother with your brilliant drawings of monsters, using the wonderful tips included in this book.About the AuthorI have illustrated many books... -
Goja: An Autobiographical Myth by Suniti Namjoshi 9781875559978
RRP: $20.03Booksplease Price: $13.45I had thought once that I felt most at home in a plane in mid-air, but that isn't true. I belong to India and to the West. Both belong to me and both reject me. I have to make sense of what has been... -
One Man's Justice by Akira Yoshimura
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.37Hiroshima and Nagasaki have been destroyed. Japan is in ruins and occupied by the Americans. Takuya, an ex-officer in the Imperial Army, has returned to his native village only to learn that the... -
Tales from Shakespeare by Charles Lamb 9780141441627
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80As children, Charles and Mary Lamb took great delight in exploring their benefactor's extensive library; as adults they began writing children's books together that also appealed to all generations... -
Fantasy: Realms of Imagination by Tanya Kirk
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $29.61'Fantasy, we know, from the oldest stories in the oldest languages, has always been with us.' - Neil Gaiman, 'Preface' Fantasy is an expansive genre, encompassing sprawling epics, ancient... -
Shalimar by Davina Quinlivan 9781908213907
RRP: $21.44Booksplease Price: $16.72In her mid-twenties, shortly before her father's death, Davina Quinlivan moved from her family home in west London to begin a transitory life in the countryside: here she felt restless and rootless,...