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Here to Eternity by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91A rich spectrum of poetic voices - ancient and modern, new and familiar - arranged concentrically under different headings: Self, Home, Town, Work, Land, Love, Travel, War, Belief and Space. Each... -
Essex Clay by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.33Andrew Motion's prose memoir In the Blood (2006) was widely acclaimed, praised as an act of magical retrieval and a hymn to familial love. Now, over a decade later and after moving to live and work... -
Philip Larkin by Sir Andrew Motion
Booksplease Price: $75.41Philip Larkin is recognised as one of the most important writers to have emerged in Britain since the Second World War. First published in 1982, Andrew Motion's study begins with an account of... -
The Cinder Path by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Andrew Motion's new collection (his first since Public Property in 2002) offers a ground-breaking variety of lyrics, love poems and elegies, in which private domains of feeling infer other lives and... -
The Price of Everything by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91This volume brings together two long poems. 'Lines of Desire' tells the story of an individual in crisis, under pressure from past and present events. 'Joe Soap' combines narrative and lyric forms to... -
The Customs House by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Andrew Motion's new book opens with a sequence of war poems (first published as the pamphlet Laurels and Donkeys, on Armstice Day 2010), drawing on soldiers' experiences of war from 1914 until... -
The Invention of Dr Cake by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60What is the truth about the mysterious Dr Cake? Why, at his funeral, is there no name on the brass plate so ostentatiously screwed into his coffin-lid? Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate, has written a... -
The New World by Sir Andrew Motion 9780099583783
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.81THE END OF THE WORLDOR THE BEGINNING...On to the shores of Texas a raging sea coughs up two castaways: Jim and Natty, shipwrecked on their way home from Treasure Island.The Nightingale sunk, their... -
Ten War Poems Sir Andrew Motion 9781907598388
RRP: $8.97Booksplease Price: $7.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598388Author Sir Andrew MotionFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint < -
The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kit by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $17.85'Families are societies in miniature.'The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kit won a Somerset Maugham Award in 1987. A lesson in the fragility of fame, it tells the tragic story of three generations:... -
Bedford Square: 5 by Sir Andrew Motion 9781908742063
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.33Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
In the Blood: A Memoir of my Childhood by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26'A wonderful read.' Irish Times'Sad, gripping and powerful.' Margaret Drabble'Superbly clear, intimate and evocative.' New York TimesFrom the former poet laureate, Andrew Motion, In the Blood is an... -
Silver: Return to Treasure Island by Sir Andrew Motion 9780099552659
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $13.49Think of the fortune waiting for you...July, 1802. Young Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver's daughter, Natty, set off in the footsteps of their fathers.The lure of hidden treasure and the thrill of... -
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Selected Poems of Andrew Motion by Sir Andrew Motion 9780571195046 [USED COPY]
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Poetry by Heart: A Treasury of Poems to Read Aloud by Julie Blake 9780241275979 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $3.47Familiar poems and almost unknown poems. Love poems and war poems. Funny poems and heartbroken poems. Poems that re-create the world we know and poems written on the dark side of the moon. Poetry by... -
Poetry by Heart: A Treasury of Poems to Read Aloud by Julie Blake
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56Familiar poems and almost unknown poems. Love poems and war poems. Funny poems and heartbroken poems. Poems that re-create the world we know and poems written on the dark side of the moon. Poetry by... -
Threads by William Henry Searle
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62-----------------------------'Touching and on occasion profoundly moving ... The connections and affinities that fill this book enliven, enlighten and delight.' STEPHEN FRY'Beautifully written and... -
William Barnes by William Barnes
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer... -
What You Didn't Miss: A Book of Literary Parodies as Featured in Private Eye by D. J. Taylor 9781780336886
RRP: $3.86Booksplease Price: $3.57Since the late 1990s, Private Eye's 'What You Didn't Miss' column has trained a vigilant lens on some of the great literary reputations of our age. Highlights of this bumper selection include Martin... -
Only Remembered by Michael Morpurgo
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.81Published to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, this beautiful anthology collects favourite extracts, poems and images from some of the UK's leading cultural, political and... -
Every Wrong Direction by Dan Burt
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $19.32Every Wrong Direction recreates and dissects the bitter education of Dan Burt, an American emigre who never found a home in America. It begins in the row homes of Jewish immigrants and working-class... -
Grandpa’s Dear Old Girl Felicity Fair Thompson 9781068253799
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $11.08Millie's grandpa Big Frank has been the lighthouse keeper all his life, but when Jack-o-the-lamp comes to the island to automate the light, Millie is worried. What will her grandpa do now... -
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Whatever it is, I Don't Like it: The Best of Howard Jacobson by Howard Jacobson 9781408810309 [USED COPY]
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $3.13It takes a particular kind of man to want an embroidered polo player astride his left nipple. Occasionally, when I am tired and emotional, or consumed with self-dislike, I try to imagine myself as... -
My Sour-Sweet Days: George Herbert's Poems Through Lent by Mark Oakley
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.15George Herbert is one of the great 17th century poet-priests. His poems embrace every shade of the spiritual life, from love and closeness, to anger and despair, to reconciliation and hope. And his... -
The Happy Hedgerow by Elena Mannion 9781999639891
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35Nestled in the countryside, lies a barley field surrounded by hedgerows and woods. Old Oak stands amidst his own beloved hedgerow, which teems with contented wildlife. One day the farmer decides to... -
Final Chapters: Writings About the End of Life by Roger Kirkpatrick
Booksplease Price: $19.20"The milkman cried when I told him you were dead.'Last night,' I said, 'Mark died.'"This collection brings together 30 short stories and poems about dying and bereavement. Written by mothers,... -
Grandpa's Dear Old Girl by Felicity Fair Thompson 9781999728380
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $4.32Millie's grandpa Big Frank is the Lighthouse Keeper and from it he can see everything. When Jack-o-the-Lamp comes to the island to automate the light, Millie is very worried. What will her grandpa...