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Blood Feather by Patrick McGuinness
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $17.20In this intimate, confiding poetry collection, McGuinness shows how identity is layered, permeable, always in motion - how we are always actor and audience to ourselves'This is McGuinness's best... -
Jilted City by Patrick McGuinness
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $14.80The poems in "Jilted City" inhabit in-between-places, when a border is being crossed, a word is slipping into another language, when memory is translating loss. From 'Stations where the train doesn't... -
Real Oxford by Patrick McGuinness 9781781726204
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781726204Author Patrick McGuinnessFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry... -
The Made and the Found by Patrick McGuinness 9781910887172
Booksplease Price: $157.42The relationship between the made and the found is one of the most important themes in modern French literature. This collection of critical and creative writing explores how the interplay between... -
Europe in Poems: The Versopolis Anthology by Patrick McGuinness
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $17.45This anthology showcases sixty poets writing in twenty-five languages from countries across Europe. A feat of European intercultural exchange, it is also a fitting celebration of the Versopolis... -
Throw Me to the Wolves by Patrick McGuinness 9781529110609
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.66**WINNER OF THE ENCORE AWARD 2020** 'This is literary fiction as it should be: in stylish, surprising, lyrical sentences we are forced to confront the hidden power structures, public and private,... -
Poetry Review: Summer: 2013 by Patrick McGuinness 9781900771771
RRP: $17.45Booksplease Price: $15.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900771771Author Patrick McGuinnessFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Poetry SocietyPublisher... -
Other People's Countries: A Journey into Memory by Patrick McGuinness 9780099587033
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07Winner of the 2014 Duff Cooper PrizeWinner of the 2015 Welsh Book of the Year AwardShortlisted for the 2015 James Tait Black Memorial PrizeShortlisted for the 2015 PEN Ackerley prize Longlisted for... -
Symbolism, Decadence And The Fin De Siecle: French and European Perspectives by Patrick McGuinness 9780859896467
RRP: $146.25Booksplease Price: $131.92This is a comparative and interdisciplinary book exploring a variety of perspectives on the artistic culture of France, and its neighbours, in the period 1870-1914. Part One centres on France, and... -
Made and the Found: Essays, Prose and Poetry in Honour of Michael Sheringham by Patrick McGuinness 9781781883549
Booksplease Price: $23.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781883549Author Patrick McGuinnessFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint LegendaPublisher... -
Poetry and Radical Politics in fin de siecle France: From Anarchism to Action francaise by Patrick McGuinness
Booksplease Price: $73.07Poetry and Radical Politics in fin de siecle France explores the relations between poetry and politics in France in the last decade of the nineteenth century. The period covers the most important... -
The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 2: From Colette to Marie NDiaye by Patrick McGuinness 9780241462065
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $12.87'Beautiful and deep ... a sumptuous treat for any book lover' The Independent'Food for short story lovers everywhere' Irish Times*A major celebration of the French short story and Spectator Book of... -
The Art of Theatre: Word, Image and Performance in France and Belgium, c. 1830–1910 by Patrick McGuinness 9783034308267
Booksplease Price: $137.32This collection of essays explores the relationship between art, literature and the stage in France and Belgium in the period 1830-1910. It is the first book to bring together scholarship on this... -
The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 1: From Marguerite de Navarre to Marcel Proust by Patrick McGuinness 9780241462003
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $20.49'Beautiful and deep ... a sumptuous treat for any book lover' The Independent'Food for short story lovers everywhere' Irish Times*A major celebration of the French short story and Spectator Book of... -
Cooling Towers: A celebration of sculptural beauty, architectural legacy and industrial history Twentieth Century Twentieth Century Society 9781849949460
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $58.85A stirring large-format celebration of cooling towers, the monumental brutalist structures dotted around Britain that are relics of twentieth-century industrial history - and are about to disappear... -
Star 111 by Lutz Seiler 9781913505745
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.25Winner of the 2020 Leipzig Book Fair Prize Longlisted for the 2022 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger Shortlisted for the 2022 Prix Femina etranger #1 on the Spiegel Bestseller List November 1989... -
From Art Nouveau to Surrealism: European Modernity in the Making by Nathalie Aubert
Booksplease Price: $162.51This book explores an artistic culture, which produces the unclassifiable, as a rule. It presents Belgian artistic culture from the 1890s to the 1940s. The book examines the theme of doubleness and... -
Education and the State: International perspectives on a changing relationship by Carla Aubry 9781138290891
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $92.31In most countries in the world, school education is the business of the state. Even if forms and functions differ, the imparting of elementary knowledge is universally regarded as a public function... -
Pitch & Glint by Lutz Seiler 9781913505769
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.62On its original publication in 2000, Pitch & Glint was widely hailed as a landmark in German poetry. Rooted in Seiler's childhood home, an East German village brutally undermined by Soviet Russian... -
In Case of Loss by Lutz Seiler 9781913505783
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.62In Case of Loss gathers the best of Lutz Seiler's non-fiction from last twenty-five years, revealing his essays to be different to, but on a par with, his fiction and poetry. Seiler's beautifully... -
Beneath the Skin: Love Letters to the Body by Great Writers by Ned Beauman
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.75'These essays lift back the skin to reveal something secret and precious, articulating private truths and distilling sensation into language ... this collection is a timely, triumphant celebration of... -
French Poetry: From Medieval to Modern Times by Collectif
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $17.20From the troubadours of the Middle Ages to the titans of modern poetry, from Rabelais and Ronsard to Jacques Reda and Yves Bonnefoy, French Poetry offers English-speaking readers a one-volume... -
Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25Infamous as the inspiration for the novel which slowly corrupts Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray, Joris-Karl Huysmans' Against Nature (A Rebours) is translated by Robert Baldick with an introduction by... -
PN Review 276 by Michael Schmidt 9781800174191
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.84The March-April 2024 issue. Since we started as Poetry Nation, a twice yearly hardback, in 1973, we've been publishing new poetry, rediscoveries, commentary, literary essays, interviews and reviews... -
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: (riverrun editions) by James Joyce 9781529424393
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man begins with one of the most arresting opening sentences in literature' Patrick McGuinness, from his Preface.A Portrait first appeared in instalments in the... -
Ulysses by James Joyce 9781529405538
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $7.35'It is not that Ulysses excludes us; it is, rather, that it includes us in ways that no other work prepares us for. The question is not 'what is a novel?', but what can a novel be? Ulysses is the... -
Dubliners: (riverrun editions) by James Joyce 9781529424331
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64'Like an artist working an empty sky into a busy cityscape, or an empty chair into a crowded family portrait, Joyce creates spaces where the reader is left to themselves' Patrick McGuinness, from his... -
The Conquest of Plassans by Emile Zola
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $13.67'Abbe Faujas has arrived!' The arrival of Abbe Faujas in the provincial town of Plassans has profound consequences for the community, and for the family of Francois Mouret in particular. Faujas... -
Against Theatre: Creative Destructions on the Modernist Stage by Alan L. Ackerman 9780230537453
Booksplease Price: $91.14Against Theatre shows that the most prominent writers of modern drama shared a radical rejection of the theatre as they knew it. Together with designers, composers and film makers, they plotted to... -
The Alvarez Generation: Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Peter Porter by William Wootten
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $55.65This book is the biography of a taste in poetry and its consequences. During the 1950s and 1960s, a generation of poets appeared who would eschew the restrained manner of Movement poets such as... -
The Alvarez Generation: Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Peter Porter by William Wootten 9781781381632
Booksplease Price: $77.61This book is the biography of a taste in poetry and its consequences. During the 1950s and 1960s, a generation of poets appeared who would eschew the restrained manner of Movement poets such as... -
Impossible Loves by Dario Jaramillo
Booksplease Price: $40.46Shortlisted for The Premio Valle Inclan Award for Spanish Translation 2020. In his poems Dario Jaramillo relentlessly interrogates time, ecstatically celebrates life lived, and mourns its... -
Against the Grain: The Poetics of Non-Normative Masculinity in Decadent French Literature by Mathew Rickard 9781800791756
RRP: $75.95Booksplease Price: $69.32Is it really a man's world? At a time when masculinity is being challenged, this book explores the links between reading and writing and how they have historically been associated with masculine... -
Of Saints and Miracles by Manuel Astur 9781908670717
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06Marcelino lives alone on his parents' farm, set deep in the beautiful but impoverished countryside of northern Spain. It's the place where he grew up, the place where he doted on his beloved baby... -
Voices and Visions: Interviews with the Contemporary English-Language Poets of Wales by Kathryn Gray 9783034319713
RRP: $129.77Booksplease Price: $115.67Voices and Visions: Interviews with the Contemporary English-Language Poets of Wales captures the perspectives of key Anglophone Welsh and Wales-associated poets who have emerged in the wake of... -
The Slasher and the Vampire as Role Models Ian Gregson 9781788640688
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $12.48A recipient of an Eric Gregory Award as a young poet, Ian Gregson's debut collection, Call Centre Love Song went on to be shortlisted for a Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Described by Carol... -
New Poetries V: An Anthology by Michael Schmidt 9781847771315
Booksplease Price: $30.71For two decades "New Poetries" has been a proving-ground for new poets in English from around the world. Here readers first encountered, in generous selections, work by, among others, Caroline Bird,... -
Schedule of Unrest: Selected Poems by John Wilkinson 9781907773747
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.03Schedule of Unrest selects from John Wilkinson's collections of poetry published from 1974 to 2008. A growing readership is seeking ways into an impassioned and beautiful body of writing. The... -
Everyday Life: Theories and Practices from Surrealism to the Present by Michael Sheringham 9780199273959
Booksplease Price: $208.67In the last twenty years the concept of the quotidien, or the everyday, has been prominent in contemporary French culture and in British and American cultural studies. This book provides the first... -
Everyday Life: Theories and Practices from Surrealism to the Present by Michael Sheringham 9780199566983
Booksplease Price: $128.17In the last twenty years the concept of the quotidien , or the everyday, has been prominent in contemporary French culture and in British and American cultural studies. This book provides the first...