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Keats by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.68First published in 1997, Keats was the first major biography of this tragic hero of Romanticism for some thirty years, and it differs from its predecessors in important respects. The outline of the... -
The Cinder Path by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Andrew 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... -
Peace Talks by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The second half of Andrew Motion's new collection returns to the sequence begun in Laurels and Donkeys, completing a body of work recognised by the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award in 2014. These... -
Philip Larkin by Sir Andrew Motion
Booksplease Price: £58.46Philip 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... -
Here to Eternity by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Andrew 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... -
Love in a Life by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Love in a Life, Andrew Motion's sixth volume of poetry, marks a conspicuous development in the work of the founder of the modern Narrative School. Directness and a new colloquialism are wedded to... -
The Price of Everything by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23This 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... -
Salt Water by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Salt Water is Andrew Motion's most ambitious collection, yet also his most accessible. The first part refines the narrative and lyric skills for which he is well-known, combining intense personal... -
The Customs House by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Andrew 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... -
Public Property by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Public Property was Andrew Motion's first collection of poetry after being appointed Poet Laureate. In it, he negotiates the very space of poetry, moving between private and public realms, pondering... -
The Invention of Dr Cake by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67What 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... -
Randomly Moving Particles by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Randomly Moving Particles is built from two long poems that form its opening and close, connected by three shorter pieces. The title poem, in a kaleidoscope of compelling scenes, engages with... -
The New World by Sir Andrew Motion 9780099583783
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83THE 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... -
Gravity Archives Sir Andrew Motion 9780571395972
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23From the former Poet Laureate, a remarkable contemplation of departure and return.Andrew Motion's new collection gives a moving account of the friction and interplay between past and present. In the... -
The Lamberts: George, Constant and Kit by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.84'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:... -
In the Blood: A Memoir of my Childhood by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'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... -
Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.68Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life won the Whitbread Award for Biography in 1993 and was championed as 'an exemplary biography of its kind' (The Times). With a new introduction written by the author,... -
Sleeping on Islands: A Life in Poetry by Sir Andrew Motion
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.50Andrew Motion has been close to the centres of British poetry for over fifty years.Sleeping on Islands is his clear-sighted and open-hearted account of this remarkable career. It takes us from scenes... -
Randomly Moving Particles by Sir Andrew Motion 9780571352081
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Randomly Moving Particles is built from two long poems that form its opening and close, connected by three shorter pieces. The title poem, in a kaleidoscope of compelling scenes, engages with... -
Ten War Poems Sir Andrew Motion 9781907598388
RRP: £6.95Booksplease Price: £5.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907598388Author Sir Andrew MotionFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint < -
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Keats by Sir Andrew Motion 9780571172283 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £3.82Keats is the first major biography of this tragic hero of romanticism for some thirty years, and it differs from its predecessors in important respects. The outline of the story is well known - has... -
Bedford Square: 5 by Sir Andrew Motion 9781908742063
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.01Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Sleeping on Islands: A Life in Poetry by Sir Andrew Motion 9780571375301
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Andrew Motion has been close to the centres of British poetry for over fifty years.Sleeping on Islands is his clear-sighted and open-hearted account of this remarkable career. It takes us from scenes... -
Silver: Return to Treasure Island by Sir Andrew Motion 9780099552659
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.46Think 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... -
New and Selected Poems 1977–2022 by Sir Andrew Motion 9780571338559
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51This comprehensive edition draws on Andrew Motion's distinguished body of work from Secret Narratives (1983) to his most recent volume, Randomly Moving Particles (2020), and includes a substantial... -
Poetry by Heart: A Treasury of Poems to Read Aloud by Julie Blake
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Familiar 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... -
The Things Between Us - Living Words: Anthology 1 - Words and Poems of People Experiencing Dementia by Julia Miranda 9781905565245
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £16.06'This is an important collection of witnessings to an important subject, and valuable for what it addresses, as well as the way it addresses.' Sir Andrew Motion 'This is poetry from a place where we... -
Threads by William Henry Searle
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78-----------------------------'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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31In 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: £2.99Booksplease Price: £2.77Since 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: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83Published 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: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.98Every 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: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.59Millie'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: £18.99Booksplease Price: £2.43It 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... -
Every Wrong Direction: An Emigre's Memoir by Dan Burt
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £24.54Every 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... -
My Sour-Sweet Days: George Herbert's Poems Through Lent by Mark Oakley
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64George 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... -
How to Build Houses and Save the Countryside Shaun Spiers 9781447339991
Booksplease Price: £12.24England has a housing crisis. We need to build many more new homes to house our growing population, but house building is controversial, particularly when it involves the loss of countryside. ... -
First Person Sorrowful Ko Un 9781852249533
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82Ko Un has long been a living legend in Korea, both as a poet and as a person. Allen Ginsberg once wrote, 'Ko Un is a magnificent poet, combination of Buddhist cognoscenti, passionate political... -
The Happy Hedgerow by Elena Mannion 9781999639891
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Nestled 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...