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Into the Wild by Thomas Docherty
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02One night Joe leaves his window open and with a swirl of leaves and a flap of feathers, the Wild invites him outside to explore the night-time city. Joe learns that animals and plants can thrive even... -
Universities at War by Thomas Docherty
Booksplease Price: £85.96"Docherty is not only is a brilliant critic of those forces that would like to transform higher education into an extension of the market-place... he is also a man of great moral and civic courage,... -
Aesthetic Democracy by Thomas Docherty
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Aesthetic Democracy argues that art and the aesthetic in general are the founding condition of the possibility of establishing social and political democracy. The book examines contemporary criticism... -
Literature and Capital by Thomas Docherty 9781350064645
Booksplease Price: £95.00Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Postmodernism: A Reader by Thomas Docherty 9780745012438
Booksplease Price: £61.65This reader provides a selection of articles and essays by leading figures in the postmodernism debate.About the AuthorThomas Docherty is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the... -
Moon Girl Thomas Docherty 9780192789570
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Leila loves bright colours but finds the shadows a little scary. That's until she meets Moon Girl. Together they go on a night-time adventure, painting moonlight in the darkness and discovering the... -
Literature and Capital by Thomas Docherty 9781350064638
Booksplease Price: £27.99Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
John Donne, Undone by Thomas Docherty
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.93Contemporary criticism of Donne has tended to ignore the historical culture and ideology that conditioned his writings, reinforcing the traditionally accepted model of the poet as a humanist of... -
The Horse That Jumped by Thomas Docherty 9781405299022
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.03A magical celebration of friendship - and the perfect bedtime story for every child who dreams of a horse of their own! Once there was a horse ..... -
English Question: Or Academic Freedoms by Thomas Docherty
Booksplease Price: £27.64To be or not to be free, that is the question, the English question, the question of what is academic English at the beginning of the 21st century. So argues Thomas Docherty in this new and important... -
Political English by Prof. Thomas Docherty 9781350101388
Booksplease Price: £28.57From post-truth politics to "no-platforming" on university campuses, the English language has been both a potent weapon and a crucial battlefield for our divided politics. In this important and... -
The Politics of Realism by Prof. Thomas Docherty 9781350228535
Booksplease Price: £102.21Addressing the controversial history of an aesthetic - Realism - whose central purpose is the negotiation of social, political, and material realities, this book examines the ways in which it engages... -
Confessions: The Philosophy of Transparency by Thomas Docherty 9781849666596
Booksplease Price: £113.11This book explores what is at stake in our confessional culture. Thomas Docherty examines confessional writings from Augustine to Montaigne and from Sylvia Plath to Derrida, arguing that through all... -
Political English by Prof. Thomas Docherty 9781350101395
Booksplease Price: £85.65From post-truth politics to "no-platforming" on university campuses, the English language has been both a potent weapon and a crucial battlefield for our divided politics. In this important and... -
The Politics of Realism by Prof. Thomas Docherty 9781350228573
Booksplease Price: £31.52Exploring the controversial history of an aesthetic - realism - this book examines the role that realism plays in the negotiation of social, political, and material realities from the mid-19th... -
Alterities: Criticism, History, Representation by Thomas Docherty 9780198183570
Booksplease Price: £62.90Alterities marks an advance to a new stage of critical theory. Dealing with literature from Shakespeare and Donne to Calvino, with philosophy from the medieval to the contemporary, with cinema from... -
English Question: Or Academic Freedoms by Thomas Docherty 9781845191320
Booksplease Price: £114.18To be or not to be free, that is the question, the English question, the question of what is academic English at the beginning of the 21st century. So argues Thomas Docherty in this new and important... -
Alterities: Criticism, History, Representation by Thomas Docherty 9780198183587
Booksplease Price: £32.53Alterities marks an advance to a new stage of critical theory. Dealing with literature from Shakespeare and Donne to Calvino, with philosophy from the medieval to the contemporary, with cinema from... -
Complicity: Criticism Between Collaboration and Commitment by Thomas Docherty 9781786601018
Booksplease Price: £112.13Complicity argues that all existing modes of cultural critique are regarded as legitimate and productive if and only if they are complicit with the very ideologies and values that the criticism sets... -
Complicity: Criticism Between Collaboration and Commitment by Thomas Docherty 9781786601025
Booksplease Price: £38.41Complicity argues that all existing modes of cultural critique are regarded as legitimate and productive if and only if they are complicit with the very ideologies and values that the criticism sets... -
Literature and The Contemporary: Fictions and Theories of the Present by Roger Luckhurst 9780582312043
Booksplease Price: £57.60At the end of the century, much criticism has become devoted to `last things': the end of history, the end of the subject, the end of the novel, the end, even, of the end. Literature and the... -
Brexit and Literature: Critical and Cultural Responses Robert Eaglestone 9780815376699
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Brexit is a political, economic and administrative event: and it is a cultural one, too. In Brexit and Literature, Robert Eaglestone brings together a diverse range of literary scholars, writers and... -
Shame and Modern Writing by Barry Sheils
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79Shame and Modern Writing seeks to uncover the presence of shame in and across a vast array of modern writing modalities. This interdisciplinary volume includes essays from distinguished and emergent... -
Bombs and Blackberries: A World War Two Play Julia Donaldson 9781444938906
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.54Perfect for schools - both for class reading as well as performance. A short black and white illustrated play set in World War Two written by Julia Donaldson, author of the modern classic The... -
The Bee Who Loved Words by Helen Docherty 9780241450680
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.88Our words have POWER!And no one understands this more than Persephone the bee.Astronaut and telescopeRhinoceros; kaleidoscopePterodactyl; saxophonePomegranate; xylophone!Hermione, The Queen Bee,... -
Superwolf PB by Helen Docherty 9780702324383
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.24Can a wolf really be a superhero? Luna is a little wolf with a big ambition: she's determined to be a superhero! There's just one problem. All the other animals... -
Polly and the Puffin: Book 1 by Jenny Colgan
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.54Meet Polly and her puffin Neil in the debut children's book from Sunday Times bestselling novelist, Jenny Colgan. Illustrated throughout and with recipes, activities and rhymes in addition to the... -
The Snorgh and the Sailor (NE) by Will Buckingham 9780702318450
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £4.93A poignant and witty story about an unlikely friendship; a surprising journey - and the discovery that we can all do the most amazing things, if we only dare to. ... -
Bataille by Fred Botting 9780333914618
Booksplease Price: £39.39One of the most profound thinkers of the twentieth century, Georges Bataille has only recently come to prominence in the Anglophone academy, partly through the influence of post-structuralism. Once... -
Deconstruction Reading Politics by Martin McQuillan 9780230536951
Booksplease Price: £46.28This collection of essays thinks through deconstruction's relation to politics by explicating the text of Derrida in relation to political examples. Neither 'deconstruction' nor 'reading' nor... -
The Origins of Deconstruction by Martin McQuillan 9780230581906
Booksplease Price: £46.28In these essays, a range of leading scholars seek both to investigate the historical, institutional and philosophical origins of deconstruction and to think through the problem of the idea of origin... -
Pirate Nell's Tale to Tell: A Storybook Adventure by Helen Docherty 9781728261614
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.54From the author/illustrator team behind The Snatchabook comes a book-filled adventure on the high seas!Nell is finally a pirate! And she has her trusty Pirate's Almanac to help her sail the seas,... -
The Hare-Shaped Hole by John Dougherty
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16"A beautiful, gentle, rhyming exploration of grief and mourning." - Joe Coelho, Waterstones Children's LaureateThe Hare-Shaped Hole is a beautiful, touching and poignant picture book that gently... -
The Bear-Shaped Hole John Dougherty 9780711296602
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16Discover a heartwarming story that will help children understand and prepare for a loss.Gerda and Orlo are bear best friends. When Gerda was there, Orlo always had time. For a game or a story, a joke... -
The Green-Fingered Witch Helen Docherty 9780008408619
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.34A funny rhyming story from an exciting new author and illustrator team. Perfect for Halloween! When Cress starts Witch School, she soon finds out she's not like the other pupils. Her... -
The Bear-Shaped Hole by John Dougherty 9780711296619
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.53A beautiful companion title to the critically acclaimed The Hare-Shaped Hole, The Bear-Shaped Hole is a profound, heart-warming story that helps children understand and prepare for loss. Gerda and... -
Follow the Swallow Julia Donaldson 9780008670320
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.88A delightfully funny story about friendship and seasonal change from the Queen of Picture Books, Julia Donaldson. Chack the blackbird and Apollo the swallow are... -
Blue Baboon Finds Her Tune by Helen Docherty
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.68From the author/illustrator team behind The Snatchabook comes a music-filled journey to bedtime."Orange moon,blue baboon.Blue baboonspies bassoon."Blue baboon is eager to play the bassoon with her... -
Mood: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, New Theories by Birgit Breidenbach
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Mood is a phenomenon whose study is inherently interdisciplinary. While it has remained resistant to theorisation, it nonetheless has a substantial influence on art, politics and society. Since its... -
The Big Book of Julia Donaldson Stories by Julia Donaldson 9780008826758
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.50'Every night at bedtime, millions of children - pyjamas on, teeth reluctantly brushed - curl up to read or listen to a Donaldson story.' - Guardian ...