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Emerald by Ruth Padel 9781784741075
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $14.02An elegy to a lost mother, Emerald is the moving new collection from prize-winning poet Ruth Padel'Here in deep earth, the blackblossom of mourning still sifting within meI remembered that emerald... -
Daughters of The Labyrinth Ruth Padel 9781472156396
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.52'An immersive novel, steeped in the history and folklore of Crete: transporting, historically informative story-telling' Sunday Times'A moving, superbly written exploration of a family with dark... -
Daughters of The Labyrinth Ruth Padel 9781472156389
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75'An immersive novel, steeped in the history and folklore of Crete: transporting, historically informative story-telling' Sunday Times'A moving, superbly written exploration of a family with dark... -
Darwin: A Life in Poems by Ruth Padel
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36In these extraordinary poems, using multiple viewpoints - from Darwin himself, to his beloved wife Emma, and even, at one point, the orangutang at London Zoo - Ruth Padel illuminates the development... -
The Soho Leopard by Ruth Padel 9780701176211
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Beautiful, disturbing and a pleasure to read, Ruth Padel's new poems are her most ambitious yet, adding animal legend and zoological science to her glitteringly imaginative canvas. With her gift for... -
Tigers In Red Weather by Ruth Padel
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $4.54When Ruth Padel saw an advert for a cheap break to India, she decided to visit what she had always wanted to see: tropical jungle and a wildlife sanctuary. Her impromptu trip was the start of a... -
Beethoven Variations: Poems on a Life by Ruth Padel
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $13.56From the author of the bestselling Darwin: A Life in Poems, Ruth Padel's new collection follows in the footsteps of one of the world's greatest composers, Beethoven, and investigates what his life... -
Where The Serpent Lives by Ruth Padel 9781408702024
Booksplease Price: $2.87Why is Rosamund so paralyzed by Tyler and his secrets? The whole world was once in love with her. Now, married to the dangerously charismatic Tyler, estranged from her conservationist father,... -
Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth Ruth Padel 9780701188160
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $14.02'Making is our defence against the dark...'Through images of conflict and craftsmanship, Ruth Padel's powerful new poems address the Middle East, tracing a quest for harmony in the midst of... -
Silent Letters of the Alphabet: Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures by Ruth Padel
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $9.89In this innovative series of public lectures at Newcastle University, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry to audiences drawn from both the city and the university... -
The Poem and the Journey: 60 Poems for the Journey of Life by Ruth Padel 9780099492948
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63Prize-winning poet Ruth Padel is renowned as a guide to understanding today's poetry. Her much-loved 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem introduced the contemporary poetry scene and discussed individual... -
We Are All From Somewhere Else: Migration and Survival in Poetry and Prose by Ruth Padel
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68*First published as The Mara Crossing, now with new and updated material*'A prodigy, a book of wonders. Wonder, pity and terror, the searing section of voices in transit coercing compassion - and... -
52 Ways Of Looking At A Poem: or How Reading Modern Poetry Can Change Your Life by Ruth Padel
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68Ever wondered about how to really interpret poetry? Puzzled about metre, rhyming and stanzas? Presented in language thoroughly accessible for all, poet and writer Ruth Padel demystifies poetic style,... -
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52 Ways Of Looking At A Poem: or How Reading Modern Poetry Can Change Your Life by Ruth Padel 9780099429159 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $2.93Ever wondered about how to really interpret poetry? Puzzled about metre, rhyming and stanzas? Presented in language thoroughly accessible for all, poet and writer Ruth Padel demystifies poetic style,... -
How Poetry Works by Phil Roberts 9780140285376
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71In this refreshing and inspiring book, Phil Roberts asserts that poetry, like music, is based on sound and so close attention should be paid to its rhythms and metrical patterns. He illustrates his... -
How Poetry Works by Phil Roberts 9780140285376 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $2.95In this refreshing and inspiring book, Phil Roberts asserts that poetry, like music, is based on sound and so close attention should be paid to its rhythms and metrical patterns. He illustrates his... -
New Poems Book Three by Charles Bukowski 9780753512623
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Charles Bukowski was one of America's best-known writers and one of its most influential and imitated poets. Although he published over 45 books of poetry, hundreds of his poems were kept by him and... -
Dove Release: New Flights and Voices by Zoe Brigley 9781905208135
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $10.75Poems by 60 poets involved in The Practice of Poetry course( students, tutors and visiting poets)at the University of Warwick from 2000 to 2010; poems arranged alphabetically, with an introduction by... -
The Sappho Companion by Margaret Reynolds 9780099738619
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63Born around 630BC on the Greek island of Lesbos, Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of ancient Greece, ironic and passionate, capturing the troubled depths of love. Her work survives... -
Stories from a Fractured City Tales of Two Londons by Claire Armistead
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $7.65London today is embattled as rarely before. In a city of enormous wealth, poverty is rampant. The burnt-out hulk of Grenfell Tower stands as an appalling reminder that inequality can be so acute as... -
Border Lines: Poems of Migration by Mihaela Moscaliuc
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $11.82Poets from around the world give eloquent voice to the trials, hopes, rewards and losses of migration.Each year, millions join the ranks of intrepid migrants who have reshaped societies throughout... -
After Before by Jemma Wayne 9781909878846
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $9.06`Rich, haunted, gripping, painful and beautifully entwined' Ruth Padel `A powerful novel. Its characters will haunt you long after their stories have been told.' Naomi Gryn "That was the day... -
Heavenly Life: Selected Poems by Ramsey Nasr 9780954966690
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.40Shortlisted for the 2011 Popescu Prize for Poetry Translated from a European Language into English, run by the Poetry Society.Foreword by Ruth Padel and introduced by Victor Schiferli."With this... -
The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling by David Gilmour
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08'Superb, beautifully written, touching and occasionally very funny' Andrew RobertsDavid Gilmour's superb biography of Rudyard Kipling is the first to show how the life and work of the great writer... -
Tramp in Flames by Paul Farley 9780330440073
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92Following the exceptional acclaim for his first two books, Farley might have been forgiven for resting on his laurels with his 'difficult third' - but Tramp in Flames instead finds him driving his... -
Barefoot at the Lake by Bruce Fogle 9781912836086
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Year after year the family returns to the lake. The children, barefoot and free, explore its sun-drenched wilderness... The summer Bruce turns ten seems, at first, like any other: swimming out to the... -
Sappho Through English Poetry by Sappho 9780856462733
Booksplease Price: $12.50The poetry of Sappho, who was born around 620 BC and lived on the Greek island of Lesbos, has inspired and fascinated readers and poets for two and a half thousand years. Today, as in antiquity, she... -
New Selected Poems: Eavan Boland by Eavan Boland 9781847772411
RRP: $17.35Booksplease Price: $12.86New Selected Poems includes the key poems of Eavan Boland's career to date, from New Territory (1967) to Domestic Violence (2007), concluding with a selection of new poems. Developing her work... -
The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie 9780099766018
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68'The first great rock 'n' roll novel in the English language' The Times On Valentine's Day, 1989, Vina Apsara, a famous and much-loved singer, disappears in a devastating earthquake. Her lover, the... -
Another Gulmohar Tree by Aamer Hussein 9781846590566
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $7.42Usman is visiting post-war London from Pakistan when he meets a young aspiring artist called Lydia who has, like himself, come out of an unhappy marriage. Just as the lonely strangers' friendship... -
Trouble Came to the Turnip by Caroline Bird 9781857548877
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $10.17Following "Looking Through Letterboxes", her first collection (2002), Caroline Bird was acclaimed as a vivid and precocious new talent. "Trouble Came to the Turnip" confirms her originality as she... -
Butterfly's Shadow by Lee Langley 9780099542179
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Lee Langley's bewitching story of lost hope and thwarted love opens where Puccini's opera ends; with Madame Butterfly - Cho-Cho-San - handing over her beloved son to his American father before... -
Rebel Without Applause by Lemn Sissay
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Lemn Sissay's poems are laid into the streets of downtown Manchester, feature on the side of a public house in the same city and have been emblazoned on a central London bus route. He has been... -
You Are Here: A Brief Guide to the World by Nicholas Crane
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.75One word binds us all: geography. We are all geographers, human beings who care about the places we think of as 'home' - our habitat. And yet we have lost touch with the connection between our... -
You Are Here: A Brief Guide to the World by Nicholas Crane 9781474608299
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $5.37One word binds us all: geography. We are all geographers, human beings who care about the places we think of as 'home' - our habitat. And yet we have lost touch with the connection between our... -
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The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie 9780099766018 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.23'The first great rock 'n' roll novel in the English language' The Times On Valentine's Day, 1989, Vina Apsara, a famous and much-loved singer, disappears in a devastating earthquake. Her lover, the... -
Black Moon by Matthew Sweeney 9780224080927
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $11.82Negotiating the borders and hinterlands of Central and Eastern Europe - with occasional coracle trips or forays to Antarctica for a round of golf - the homesick flaneur surveys the surrounding... -
Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson 9781784879020
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $8.29This is a volcanic journey into the soul of a winged red monster named Geryon. It is queer coming-of-age love story, a Greek myth retold, and a modern classic.Tormented as a boy by his brother,... -
At Home In The World: A Life With J D Salinger by Joyce Maynard 9781862300415
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71In 1972, Joyce Maynard, an undergraduate at Yale, wrote an article for the New York Times Magazine called 'An Eighteen Year Old Looks Back on Life'. Among the hundreds of letters she received as a... -
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The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy 9780330372220 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $2.65That saying? Behind every famous man ...? From Mrs Midas to Queen Kong, from Elvis's twin sister to Pygmalion's bride, they're all here, in Carol Ann Duffy's inspired and inspirational collection,...