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Paperback. Teenagers Muna and Iqra catch the same school bus. They were both born in Somalia but their backgrounds are very different. What they share is a painful secret. Tracking the urgent issue of FGM in Britain, this play reveals the price some girls pay to become women. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 197 x 8. Weight in Grams: 94.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571329632
ISBN
9780571329632
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Hardcover. Num Pages: 180 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DC; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 385.
Publisher
AIAA
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Edition
2005th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403948519
ISBN
9781403948519
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.52

Hardcover. Aeschylus (ca 525-456 BCE), the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world's great art forms, witnessed the establishment of democracy at Athens and fought against the Persians at Marathon. This third volume collects the major fragments of lost Aeschylean plays. Editor(s): Sommerstein, Alan H. Translator(s): Sommerstein, Alan H. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DB; DD; DSBB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 169 x 114 x 17. Weight in Grams: 288.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674996298
ISBN
9780674996298
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 32.96

Paperback. Contains essays that reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) - known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky - as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel. This work features four selections from "Voprosy literatury i estetiki", published in Moscow in 1975. Editor(s): Holquist, Michael. Translator(s): Emerson, Caryl. Series: University of Texas Press Slavic Series. Num Pages: 477 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 147 x 26. Weight in Grams: 640.
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Number of pages
477
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292715349
ISBN
9780292715349
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.45

Paperback. A collection of poems about regeneration, recuperation, reclamation and retreat, in which the poet reflects on visits, both literal and virtual, to remote parts of Greece, Andalucia and Southern India. Num Pages: 94 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 8. Weight in Grams: 140.
Publisher
Arc Publications United Kingdom
Number of pages
94
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904614388
ISBN
9781904614388
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. Used Copy But Remains Readable
Condition
Used, Good
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Pocket Books
Publication date
1979
SKU
KDK0014990
ISBN
9780671823887
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A new play from the Platform initiative, which comprises big-cast plays with predominantly female casts, written specifically for youth performers. Num Pages: 87 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 102.
Publisher
Nick Hern Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848425026
ISBN
9781848425026
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.61

Paperback. This book, now available in paperback, unravels politics from theatre in order to propose a new means to politicize performance. Performance analyses ranging from child actors, animals and objects to reflections on the theatre work of Societas Raffaello Sanzio, Forced Entertainment and Goat Island combine to offer a critique of performance studies. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 364 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; DSBH; DSG; HPN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 218 x 137 x 8. Weight in Grams: 466.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
364
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
2009th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230235243
ISBN
9780230235243
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 118.89
€ 114.64

Paperback. "The Blind Stitch" is a book which is sewn together with two main conceits. One is the leper conceit, which is the stitching of personal and public suffering and inescapable complicity; the other is the varied line of stitches, seen and unseen, that connect our private and public lives. Series: Oxford Poets S. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. Weight in Grams: 85. 8vo .Some minor shelfwear otherwise a good copy. Signed and inscribed by the Author
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
OxfordPoets
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
Unknown
SKU
KEX0280725
ISBN
9781903039045
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 15.00

Paperback. Shakespeare's habits of imitation revisit the practices of humanist pedagogy only to reveal significant contradictions at the heart of sixteenth-century masculinity. Num Pages: 208 pages, 3 Illus. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 316.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812223712
ISBN
9780812223712
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. Enable students to achieve their best grade in AS/A-level English Literature with this year-round course companion; designed to instil in-depth textual understanding as students read, analyse and revise Othello throughout the course. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KLR; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 192 x 358 x 7. Weight in Grams: 266.
Publisher
Hodder Education
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781471853920
ISBN
9781471853920
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.08

Paperback. Fleur Adcock is one of Britain's leading poets. Her second new collection since Poems 1960-2000 - which won her the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry - has poems on insects, family and ancestors. Num Pages: 80 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 216 x 5. Weight in Grams: 134.
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781852249731
ISBN
9781852249731
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.48

Paperback. Poet, education reformer, social theorist and passionate critic of Victorian England condemned an industrial society in 'bondage to machinery' and argued instead that the wonder and joy of culture - in particular the 'sweetness and light' of classical civilization - were essential to human life. This book deals with his works. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; JFC; JPFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 368.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141396248
ISBN
9780141396248
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Paperback. Anais Nin, the diarist, novelist, and provocateur, occupied a singular space in twentieth-century culture, not only as a literary figure and voice of female sexual liberation but as a celebrity and symbol of shifting social mores in postwar America. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 228 x 21. Weight in Grams: 418.
Publisher
Swallow Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804011761
ISBN
9780804011761
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. This volume, available in paperback for the first time, focuses on women's literary history in Britain between 700 and 1500. It brings to the fore a wide range of women's literary activity undertaken in Latin, Welsh and Anglo-Norman alongside that of the English vernacular, demanding a rethinking of the traditions of 'writing' itself. Editor(s): McAvoy, Liz Herbert; Watt, Diane. Series: History of British Women's Writing. Num Pages: 298 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 216 x 21. Weight in Grams: 382.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
2012th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137517951
ISBN
9781137517951
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.61

Hardcover. This reprint (with updated 'Suggestions for Further Reading') of the Houghton Mifflin edition makes David Bevington's classic anthology of medieval drama available again at an affordable price. Editor(s): Bevington, David. Num Pages: 1104 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DD; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 199 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1664.
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
1104
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
First Edition Thus
Condition
New
SKU
V9781603848381
ISBN
9781603848381
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.71
€ 57.46

Hardcover. Who is A. N. Dyer? For fans of 'The Art of Fielding' and 'Wonder Boys' - this is the panoramic, deeply affecting story of an iconic novelist and the heartbreaking truths that fiction can hide. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 159 x 51. Weight in Grams: 802. Fine copy in dust wrapper. DW and page edges showing minor shelfwear, remains in very good condition
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
SKU
KSG0009200
ISBN
9780007552795
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. e single-volume edition of Osborne's two autobiographical works, "A Better Class of Person: 1929-1956" and "Almost a Gentleman: 1955-1966". The book also contains a review of the former by Alan Bennett entitled "Bad John", and David Hare's eulogy delivered at Osborne's memorial service in 1995. Num Pages: 624 pages, 32pp b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 2ACG; BGA; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 196 x 132 x 50. Weight in Grams: 535.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571196494
ISBN
9780571196494
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 18.41

Paperback. Melbourne, the late 1940s. A young conservative Australian poet named Christopher Chubb decides to teach his country a lesson about pretension and authenticity. Choosing as his target the most avant-garde of the literary magazines, he submits for publication the entire oeuvre of one Bob McCorkle, a working-class poet. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 127 x 19. Weight in Grams: 210.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
Main - Re-issue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571216208
ISBN
9780571216208
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.30

Paperback.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
Main - Poet to Poet
Condition
New
SKU
9780571207152
ISBN
9780571207152
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. 118pp. Selected by Derek Mahon
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
Main - Poet to Poet
SKU
KHS1029782
ISBN
9780571207152
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 11.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. William Blake (1757-1827) is one of the great figures in literature, by turns poet, artist and visionary. This work includes the texts of the early prose tracts, "All Religions are One" and "There is No Natural Religion". It contains a representation of Blake's most significant paintings and designs. Series: Longman Annotated English Poets. Num Pages: 960 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 52. Weight in Grams: 1186.
Publisher
Longman
Number of pages
976
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
3rd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405832809
ISBN
9781405832809
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.12

Paperback. Unique report on the major archaeological dig at Shakespeare's Stratford-upon-Avon home and the implications for the Shakespearian biography. Num Pages: 272 pages, 29 colour illustrations, 128 black & white illustrations, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 13. Weight in Grams: 470.
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781526106490
ISBN
9781526106490
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.25

Paperback. Caryl Churchill's Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, set during the English Civil War, tells the story of the men and women who went into battle for the soul of England. Passionate, moving and provocative, it speaks of the revolution we never had and the legacy it left behind. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 19. Weight in Grams: 100.
Publisher
Nick Hern Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848424852
ISBN
9781848424852
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

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