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The Uncanny by Nicholas Royle
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.99This is the first book-length study of the uncanny, an important topic for contemporary thinking on literature, film, philosophy, psychoanalysis, feminism and queer history. Much of this importance... -
Quilt by Nicholas Royle 9780956251541
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956251541Author Nicholas RoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Myriad EditionsPublisher... -
Jacques Derrida by Nicholas Royle
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £83.78There are few figures more important in literary and critical theory than Jacques Derrida. Whether lauded or condemned, his writing has had far-reaching ramifications, and his work on deconstruction... -
Veering: A Theory of Literature by Nicholas Royle
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.61This book reflects on the figure of veering to form a new theory of literature. Contrary to a widespread sense that literature has become increasingly irrelevant to our culture and everyday life,... -
Mother: A Memoir by Nicholas Royle 9781912408573
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912408573Author Nicholas RoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Myriad EditionsPublisher... -
How To Read Shakespeare Nicholas Royle 9781862077300
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.39William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is perhaps the most famous as well as strangest and most inventive poet and dramatist of all time. Although dead for hundreds of years, he is everywhere - in books and... -
How to Read Shakespeare by Nicholas Royle 9780393328394
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £14.08Approaching the writing of major intellectuals, artists, and philosophers need no longer be daunting. How to Read is a new sort of introduction--a personal master class in reading--that brings you... -
Deconstructions: A User's Guide by Nicholas Royle 9780333717615
Booksplease Price: £40.79Deconstructions: A User's Guide is a new and unusual kind of book. At once a reference work and a series of inventive essays opening up new directions for deconstruction, it is intended as an... -
The Dummy: & Other Uncanny Stories by Nicholas Royle 9781783807659
Booksplease Price: £15.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783807659Author Nicholas RoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint The Swan River PressPublisher... -
The Best British Short Stories 2012 by Nicholas Royle
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.95The second in a brand-new series of annual anthologies, The Best British Short Stories 2012 reprints the cream of short fiction, by British writers, first published in 2011. These stories first... -
Best British Short Stories 2023 by Nicholas Royle 9781784632991
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.89Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year... -
Best British Short Stories 2025 Nicholas Royle 9781784633530
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.89Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year... -
The Best British Short Stories 2011 by Nicholas Royle 9781907773129
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.63Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover - or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year... -
Best British Short Stories 2021 Nicholas Royle 9781784632311
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its eleventh year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover - or, more accurately, by its title. This... -
Best British Short Stories 2026 Nicholas Royle 9781784633783
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.89Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year... -
Best British Short Stories 2020 by Nicholas Royle 9781784632359
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28The nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its tenth year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or, more accurately, by its title. This new series... -
Best British Short Stories 2024 Nicholas Royle 9781784633097
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.89The nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its fourteenth yearInspired by Giles Gordon and David Hughes’s Best Short Stories series, which ran to ten volumes between 1986 and... -
Best British Short Stories 2017 by Nicholas Royle 9781784631123
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.37The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its seventh year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover - or more accurately, by its title. This critically... -
White Spines: Confessions of a Book Collector Nicholas Royle 9781784632137
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28Editor's Choice, The BooksellerA mix of memoir and narrative non-fiction, White Spines is a book about Nicholas Royle's passion for Picador's fiction and non-fiction publishing from the 1970s to the... -
The Best British Short Stories 2013 by Nicholas Royle 9781907773471
Booksplease Price: £12.91The third in a series of annual anthologies, The Best British Short Stories 2013 reprints the cream of short fiction, by British writers, first published in 2012. These stories appeared in magazines... -
David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the Sun Machine by Nicholas Royle 9781526173652
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £61.91In this one-of-a-kind book, novelist and academic Nicholas Royle brings together two remarkably different creative figures: Enid Blyton and David Bowie. His exploration of their lives and work delves... -
David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the Sun Machine by Nicholas Royle 9781526173638
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.67In this one-of-a-kind book, novelist and academic Nicholas Royle brings together two remarkably different creative figures: Enid Blyton and David Bowie. His exploration of their lives and work delves... -
HeLeNe Cixous: Dreamer, Realist, Analyst, Writing by Nicholas Royle 9781526140661
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £62.19This book provides a wide-ranging and up-to-date critical introduction to the writings of Helene Cixous (1937-), focusing on key motifs, such as dreams, the supernatural, literature, psychoanalysis,... -
HeLeNe Cixous: Dreamer, Realist, Analyst, Writing Nicholas Royle 9781526160454
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.54This book provides a wide-ranging and up-to-date critical introduction to the writings of Helene Cixous (1937-), focusing on key motifs, such as dreams, the supernatural, literature, psychoanalysis,... -
Shadow Lines: Searching For the Book Beyond the Shelf by Nicholas Royle 9781784633073
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.89The Bookseller Season Highlight for Spring/Summer 2024Nicholas Royle’s love of second-hand books and the ‘inclusions’ he finds inside them, their presence betrayed by ‘shadow lines’, is about making... -
Finders, Keepers: The Secret Life of Second-hand Books Nicholas Royle 9781784633417
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Season Highlight, Spring/Summer 2026 - The BooksellerFinders, Keepers tells the stories that hide between the lines of the second-hand books that fill the shelves of charity shops and second-hand... -
The Animal Question in Deconstruction by Lynn Turner
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £27.79This explores the political and poetic understanding of the deconstruction of the 'animal question'. Re-examining how we relate to other animals has far-reaching implications for how we think of... -
The Terrible Changes Joel Lane 9781914391118
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In midwinter, an aspiring politician finds himself suddenly deprived of human contact.Newcomers to a town are strangely reminiscent of people lost in a recent flood.Demonstrators on a peace march see... -
Revival: Writing the Bodies of Christ (2001): The Church from Carlyle to Derrida John Schad 9781138732964
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £33.23This title was first published in 2001. A volume of essays on the Pauline, ecclesiastical body of Christ -the church. It is, of course, not possible to separate completely one body of Christ from... -
Modernity by David Punter 9780333914564
Booksplease Price: £37.81This exciting volume in the Transitions series explores both history and contemporary ideas, pushing forward the boundaries of what we understand by 'modernity'. This book is distinguished from its... -
The One About The Sheep and Other Stories: ChipLitFest Short Story Winners 2016 - 2022: 2022 by Catherine Evans 9781739630508
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.94The sheep that's a good listener. The woman and the ice cream salesman. The young man who falls in love with a washing machine. That age old tale. Funny, macabre, heart-breaking, eerie,... -
Elizabeth Bowen and the Dissolution of the Novel: Still Lives by Andrew Bennett 9780333607602
Booksplease Price: £91.59Elizabeth Bowen and the Dissolution of the Novel argues that the Anglo- Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) is one of the most important, though undervalued, practitioner of the... -
Theorising Muriel Spark: Gender, Race, Deconstruction by Martin McQuillan 9780333794142
Booksplease Price: £46.28Theorizing Muriel Spark is the first serious attempt to engage the writing of Muriel Spark in a sustained theoretical reading. It has a particular emphasis on gender, psychoanalysis, postcolonial and... -
This Thing Called Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing by Andrew Bennett 9781032285849
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £20.38What is this thing called literature? Why study it? And how? Relating literature to topics such as dreams, politics, life, death, the ordinary and the uncanny, This Thing Called Literature... -
Theorising Muriel Spark: Gender, Race, Deconstruction by Martin McQuillan 9781349420087
Booksplease Price: £46.74Theorizing Muriel Spark is the first serious attempt to engage the writing of Muriel Spark in a sustained theoretical reading. It has a particular emphasis on gender, psychoanalysis, postcolonial and... -
Literature and the Telephone: Conversations on Poetics, Politics and Place Sarah Jackson 9781350269774
Booksplease Price: £30.54Literature and the Telephone explores the ways that the telephone taps into the operations of reading and writing, opening up our understanding of how, where and why literary communication takes... -
Deconstruction Reading Politics by Martin McQuillan 9780230536951
Booksplease Price: £46.74This collection of essays thinks through deconstruction's relation to politics by explicating the text of Derrida in relation to political examples. Neither 'deconstruction' nor 'reading' nor... -
Black Wings of Cthulhu (Volume Two) by S. T. Joshi
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.64Editor S.T. Joshi has assembled 18 brand-new stories of cosmic mayhem and terror, by Jason V. Brock, Rick Dakan, Jason C. Eckhardt, Brian Evenson, Tom Fletcher, Richard Gavin, Caitlin R. Kiernan,... -
Scenes of Intimacy: Reading, Writing and Theorizing Contemporary Literature by Jennifer Cooke 9781472587572
Booksplease Price: £40.79Scenes of Intimacy analyzes the representation of acts and relationships of intimacy in contemporary literature, the effect this has upon readers, and the ways these representations resonate with,... -
Literature and the Telephone: Conversations on Poetics, Politics and Place by Sarah Jackson 9781350259607
Booksplease Price: £98.79Literature and the Telephone explores the ways that the telephone taps into the operations of reading and writing, opening up our understanding of how, where and why literary communication takes...