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The Vampire: A New History by Nick Groom
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.99An authoritative new history of the vampire, two hundred years after it first appeared on the literary scene Published to mark the bicentenary of John Polidori's publication of The Vampyre, Nick... -
The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction by Nick Groom
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73The Gothic is wildly diverse. It can refer to ecclesiastical architecture, supernatural fiction, cult horror films, and a distinctive style of rock music. It has influenced political theorists and... -
Introducing Shakespeare: A Graphic Guide by Nick Groom
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £5.89Shakespeare's absolute pre-eminence is simply unparalleled. His plays pack theatres and provide Hollywood with block-buster scripts; his works inspire mountains of scholarship and criticism every... -
The Union Jack: The Story of the British Flag by Nick Groom
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.59Known the world over as a symbol of the United Kingdom, the Union Jack is an intricate construction based on the crosses of St George, St Andrew and St Patrick. Nick Groom traces its long and... -
The Seasons: A Celebration of the English Year by Nick Groom 9781848871625
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award and runner-up for Countryfile Book of the Year. For millennia, the passing seasons and their rhythms have marked our progress through the year. But... -
Twenty-First-Century Tolkien: What Middle-Earth Means To Us Today by Professor Nick Groom 9781838957001
Booksplease Price: £10.62'Fascinating.... Wonderfully exhilarating.' Mail on SundayFinalist for The Tolkien Society Best Book AwardAn engaging, original and radical reassessment of J.R.R. Tolkien, revealing how his visionary... -
The Brief Life of Flowers Fiona Stafford 9781473686373
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The beauty of flowers is well known, inspiring creative minds from Botticelli to Beatrix Potter. But they've also played a key part in forming the past, and may shape our future.Roses and thistles... -
The Penguin Book of Witches by Katherine Howe
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £5.99A chilling, truly authoritative anthology of real-life accounts of witches, from medieval Europe through colonial AmericaFrom a manual for witch hunters written by King James himself in 1597, to... -
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The Penguin Dictionary of Critical Theory by David Macey 9780140513691 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.35Accessing the huge selection of critical theory can be an intimidating experience. This acclaimed dictionary is an invaluable introduction to the theories and theorists in the field and will prove an... -
The English Year by Steve Roud
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43This enthralling book will take you, month-by-month, day-by-day, through all the festivities of English life. From national celebrations such as New Year's Eve to regional customs such as the Padstow... -
The Penguin Dictionary of Critical Theory by David Macey
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Accessing the huge selection of critical theory can be an intimidating experience. This acclaimed dictionary is an invaluable introduction to the theories and theorists in the field and will prove an... -
Doing Applied Linguistics: A guide for students by Nicholas Groom
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £34.09Doing Applied Linguistics provides a concise, lively and accessible introduction to the field of applied linguistics for readers who have little or no prior knowledge of the subject. The book... -
Doing Applied Linguistics: A guide for students by Nicholas Groom 9780415566414
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £111.35Doing Applied Linguistics provides a concise, lively and accessible introduction to the field of applied linguistics for readers who have little or no prior knowledge of the subject. The book... -
The Victorians and the Eighteenth Century: Reassessing the Tradition by Francis O'Gorman 9781138263611
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £44.79Disrupting the common assumption that the Victorians regarded their eighteenth-century predecessors with little interest or with disdain, the essays in The Victorians and the Eighteenth Century... -
The Vampire: An Edinburgh Companion by William Hughes 9781474432474
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £77.96The Vampire: An Edinburgh Companion examines the recurrent figure of the vampire from its folkloric origins, through eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gothic literature, to those twentieth- and... -
The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story by Horace Walpole
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.79'Look, my lord! See heaven itself declares against your impious intentions!' The Castle of Otranto (1764) is the first supernatural English novel and one of the most influential works of Gothic... -
Frankenstein: or `The Modern Prometheus': The 1818 Text by Mary Shelley
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.53By the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window-shutters, I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his... -
Frankenstein: or `The Modern Prometheus': The 1818 Text by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.18By the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window-shutters, I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his... -
Oscar Wilde's Chatterton: Literary History, Romanticism, and the Art of Forgery by Joseph Bristow 9780300208306
Booksplease Price: £68.73In Oscar Wilde's Chatterton, Joseph Bristow and Rebecca N. Mitchell explore Wilde's fascination with the eighteenth-century forger Thomas Chatterton, who tragically took his life at the age of... -
The Italian by Ann Radcliffe
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.01'Among his associates no one loved him, many disliked him, and more feared him.' Father Schedoni is enlisted by the imperious Marchesa di Vivaldi to prevent her son from marrying the beautiful... -
English Romantic Writers and the West Country by N. Roe
Booksplease Price: £48.60Long confounded with a monolithic British entity or misrepresented as 'Lakers' and 'Cockneys', the diverse regional forms of 'English Romanticism' are ripe for reassessment. Ranging west of a line... -
The Monk by Matthew Lewis
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.87'He was deaf to the murmurs of conscience, and resolved to satisfy his desires at any price.' The Monk (1796) is a sensational story of temptation and depravity, a masterpiece of Gothic fiction... -
Plagiarism in Early Modern England by Paulina Kewes 9780333998410
Booksplease Price: £46.28What Is plagiarism? How was it understood and judged in early modern England? This interdisciplinary study sets out at once to theorize and historicise plagiarism. The first part launches a vigorous... -
Thomas Chatterton and Neglected Genius, 1760-1830 by Daniel Cook 9781349461769
Booksplease Price: £46.28Long before Wordsworth etherealized him as 'the marvellous Boy / The sleepless Soul that perished in its pride', Thomas Chatterton was touted as the 'second Shakespeare' by eighteenth-century... -
Dark Sound: Feminine Voices in Sonic Shadow by D Ferrett 9781501325793
Booksplease Price: £33.49Dark sound carries the dense cultural weight of darkness; it is the undertow of music that embodies melancholy, desire, grief, violence, rage, pain, loss and longing. Compelling and unnerving, dark... -
Miscellanies by Henry Fielding, Esq: Volume Three by Henry Fielding 9780198182757
Booksplease Price: £98.07Volume Three of Henry Fielding's Miscellanies, first published as a three-volume set in 1743, consists in its entirety of a major work of fiction, The history of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan... -
Gothic: An Illustrated History by Professor Roger Luckhurst 9780691229164
Booksplease Price: £33.45A richly illustrated history of the Gothic across a wide range of media, including architecture, literature, and filmThe word Gothic conjures associations with the dark and melancholy, the weird and... -
Plagiarism in Early Modern England by P. Kewes 9781349667260
Booksplease Price: £46.28What Is plagiarism? How was it understood and judged in early modern England? This interdisciplinary study sets out at once to theorize and historicise plagiarism. The first part launches a vigorous... -
Coastal Works: Cultures of the Atlantic Edge by Nicholas Allen 9780198795155
Booksplease Price: £94.19In all the complex cultural history of the islands of Britain and Ireland the idea of the coast as a significant representative space is critical. For many important artists coastal space has figured... -
Time's Anvil: England, Archaeology and the Imagination Richard Morris 9781780222448
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.65A personal and lyrical rediscovery of the history of England through archaeology and the imagination.History thrives on stories. TIME'S ANVIL explores archaeology's influence on what such stories...