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The Fourth Pig by Naomi Mitchison 9780691191447
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.00An 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 Blood of the Martyrs by Naomi Mitchison 9780862411923
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £9.88Introduced by Donald Smith. Set in Rome during Nero's reign of terror, The Blood of the Martyrs is a disciplined historical novel tracing the destruction of one cell of the early church. With a cast... -
Naomi Mitchison: A Biography by Jill Benton 9780044408628
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780044408628Author Jill BentonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint -
Essays and Journalism, Volume 6: Politics by Naomi Mitchison 9781849210157
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £23.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849210157Author Naomi MitchisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 476Imprint -
Among You Taking Notes... Naomi Mitchison 9781399602518
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50'As in a good novel, the people, their feelings and reactions are instantly recognisable and as fresh and immediate today as they were then' GUARDIAN'She writes vividly and movingly' DAILY... -
Naomi Mitchison: A Writer in Time by James Purdon 9781474494755
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £19.03As a novelist, feminist, socialist, activist, travel-writer, and diarist, Naomi Mitchison is one of Scotland's most important yet understudied twentieth-century writers. This volume showcases the... -
Essays and Journalism, Volume 5: Abroad by Naomi Mitchison 9781849210140
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £23.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849210140Author Naomi MitchisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 518Imprint -
Essays and Journalism, Volume 3: Scotland by Naomi Mitchison 9781849210126
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £23.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849210126Author Naomi MitchisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 506Imprint -
Essays and Journalism, Volume 4: Botswana by Naomi Mitchison 9781849210133
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £23.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849210133Author Naomi MitchisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 498Imprint -
Essays and Journalism, Volume 7: Education, Literature and Philosophy by Naomi Mitchison 9781849210164
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £23.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849210164Author Naomi MitchisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 538Imprint -
Essays and Journalism, Volume 1: The Early Years, and Reminiscing by Naomi Mitchison 9781849210102
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £23.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849210102Author Naomi MitchisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 486Imprint -
Travel Light: 'Read it now' (Ursula K. Le Guin) by Naomi Mitchison 9780349020549
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A REDISCOVERED FANTASY CLASSIC - INTRODUCED BY SAMANTHA SHANNON'Read it now' URSULA K. LE GUIN'Quiet and thoughtful, playful and wayward, rich with exquisite worldbuilding detail. I only wish - as an... -
Mitchison's Ghosts: Supernatural Elements in the Scottish Fiction of Naomi Mitchison by Moira Burgess 9781846220197
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.81This groundbreaking book, an important contribution to Naomi Mitchison criticism,examines three novels,The Bull Calves (1947), The Big House (1950) and Lobsters on the Agenda (1952),and a selection... -
The 1920s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction Tamás Bényei 9781350433434
Booksplease Price: £102.51The particularity of 1920s British fiction has become obscured by an academic focus on modernism. This book takes a fresh approach to the decade by examining both canonical writers such as Virginia... -
Babies In Bottles by Susan M. Squier 9780813521176
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.12There is a forgotten history to our current debates over reproductive technology - one interweaving literature and science, profoundly gendered, filled with choices and struggles. We pay a price when... -
Women's Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology by Jane Dowson
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Where were the women of the so-called `Auden Generation'?During this era of rapidly changing gender roles,social values and world politics,women produced a rich variety of poetry.But until now their... -
Men and Women Writers of the 1930s: The Dangerous Flood of History by Janet Montefiore
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79Men and Women Writers of the 1930s is a searching critique of the issues of memory and gender during this dynamic decade. Montefiore asks two principle questions; what part does memory play in the... -
The Enemy: A Biography of Wyndham Lewis by Jeffrey Meyers
RRP: £91.99Booksplease Price: £90.68Originally published in 1980 and nominated for the Duff Cooper Prize, this was the first biography of Wyndham Lewis and was based on extensive archival research and interviews. It narrates Lewis'... -
Outspoken Women: An Anthology of Women's Writing on Sex, 1870-1969 Lesley A. Hall (Wellcome Institute, London, UK) 9780415253727
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Studying a broader period than its contemporaries, this comprehensive study reveals a neglected tradition of British women's writing from the Victorian era to the sexual revolution of the 1960s... -
Women, Modernism and British Poetry, 1910-1939: Resisting Femininity by Jane Dowson
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £52.44Primarily a literary history, Women, Modernism and British Poetry, 1910-1939 provides a timely discussion of individual women poets who have become, or are becoming, well-known as their works are... -
The Enemy: A Biography of Wyndham Lewis Jeffrey Meyers 9781032118703
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.49Originally published in 1980 and nominated for the Duff Cooper Prize, this was the first biography of Wyndham Lewis and was based on extensive archival research and interviews. It narrates Lewis'... -
The Letters of Wyndham Lewis by W. K. Rose
RRP: £91.99Booksplease Price: £90.68Originally published in 1963 and edited by an authority on Wyndham Lewis (whom he also knew personally) this volume made available for the first time over 500 letters of Wyndham Lewis, who for half a... -
Writings on Irish Folklore, Legend and Myth by W. B. Yeats 9780140180015
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.79This collection brings together all of W. B. Yeats's published prose writings on Irish folklore, legend and myth, with pieces on subjects including ghosts, kidnappers, fairies, ancient tribes,... -
The Letters of Wyndham Lewis by W. K. Rose 9781032118925
Booksplease Price: £31.99Originally published in 1963 and edited by an authority on Wyndham Lewis (whom he also knew personally) this volume made available for the first time over 500 letters of Wyndham Lewis, who for half a... -
Scottish Literature: An Introduction by Alan Riach
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.59What do we mean by 'Scottish literature'? Why does it matter? How do we engage with it? Bringing infectious enthusiasm and a lifetime's experience to bear on this multi-faceted literary nation, Alan... -
The Woman's Historical Novel: British Women Writers, 1900-2000 by Diana Wallace 9781403903228
Booksplease Price: £46.28The historical novel has been one of the most important forms of women's reading and writing in the twentieth century, yet it has been consistently under-rated and critically neglected. In the first... -
Political and Social Issues in British Women's Fiction, 1928-1968 by E. Maslen 9780333729533
Booksplease Price: £46.28In Political and Social Issues in British Women's Fiction, 1928-1968 , Elizabeth Maslen reassesses fiction written by women between the granting of universal franchise and the advent of new-wave... -
Wyndham Lewis and the Cultures of Modernity by Professor Andrzej Gasiorek 9781138379602
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Making a strong case for a revaluation of Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), this collection argues that significant aspects of Lewis's writing, painting, and thinking have not yet received the attention... -
The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Women's Writing by Glenda Norquay
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £30.23This book explores the richness of women's contribution to Scottish literature. By combining historical spread with a thematic structure, this volume explores the ways in which gender has shaped... -
Jessie Kesson: Writing Her Life by Isobel Murray 9781849210805
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.34Jessie Kesson is forever associated with her first novel, the fictionalised autobiography of her early years, The White Bird Passes. Born illegitimate in a Workhouse and raised in an Elgin slum, she... -
Mary Elizabeth Haldane: A Record of a Hundred Years (1825-1925) by Mary Elizabeth Haldane 9781849210300
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £12.62Mary Elizabeth Haldane was Naomi Mitchison's paternal grandmother ('Granniema'). Like her granddaughter, she lived to be a centenarian, raised a large family, exhibited varied talents and died... -
Chaos Of The Night: Women's Poetry and Verse from the Second World War by Catherine Reilly 9781844082247
Booksplease Price: £15.23Unshaken world!/Another day of light/After the human/Chaos of the night' With these words - a vivid mingling of hope and despair - Frances Cornford protested against the terrible brutality of war... -
Studies in Medievalism XIII - Postmodern Medievalisms by Richard Utz
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Studies of texts from the late middle ages to the contemporary moment, together they indicate, broadly, directions both in postmodern studies and studies in medievalism. Bringing together... -
Friends and Kindred: Memoirs of Louisa Kathleen Haldane by Louisa Kathleen Haldane 9781904999997
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £14.34Louisa 'Maya' Haldane was the widow of physiologist John Scott Haldane, and the mother of J. B. S. Haldane and Naomi Mitchison. In these memoirs she gives a remarkably detailed account of the life of... -
Imagining the Pagan Past: Gods and Goddesses in Literature and History since the Dark Ages by Marion Gibson
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Imagining the Pagan Past explores stories of Britain's pagan history. These tales have been characterised by gods and fairies, folklore and magic. They have had an uncomfortable relationship with the... -
'The Map of All My Youth': Early Works, Friends, and Influences by Katherine Bucknell 9780198129646
Booksplease Price: £70.65This is the first volume in a new series on the work of the poet W. H. Auden. The volume contains a large amount of Unpublished material by Auden, notably six poems written in German in the early... -
Utopianism, Modernism, and Literature in the Twentieth Century by Ms. Alice Reeve-Tucker 9780230358935
Booksplease Price: £46.74Utopianism, Modernism, and Literature in the Twentieth Century considers the links between utopianism and modernism in two ways: as an under-theorized nexus of aesthetic and political interactions;... -
Utopianism, Modernism, and Literature in the Twentieth Century by N. Waddell 9781349347636
Booksplease Price: £46.28Utopianism, Modernism, and Literature in the Twentieth Century considers the links between utopianism and modernism in two ways: as an under-theorized nexus of aesthetic and political interactions;... -
The South Side: Three Glasgow Novellas by Moira Burgess 9781849210843
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £16.06The south side isn't just a location, a neighbourhood, an area on a city map. In these brilliantly perceptive novellas, all set in Glasgow, it stands for the flip-side of the psyche, the darkness... -
Speak, Adam by Moira Burgess 9781904999638
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £16.06Speak, Adam, formerly published as A Rumour of Strangers in 1987, is the second novel by the literary historian, Moira Burgess. Returning to her former home area of Argyll, Speak, Adam is set in the...