Philip Larkin; Philip Larkin A collection of poems from "The North Ship", "The Whitsun Weddings" and "High Windows". Delivery: To home, business or free to our stores. Click for more info. | £16.99 | £11.89 | 30% |  Despatched in 1 business day. |   Add to Basket | Click & Collect:Order now to collect from 11am tomorrow. In stock items only. Click for more info. | £16.99 | £14.44 | 15% |  Currently out of stock in all stores. | Stores - out of stock | New & Used:Our marketplace sellers will deliver to your chosen address. Click for more info. | | | | Currently unavailable | Currently unavailable |
| Alan Bennett Whether appreciating the simple pleasures of nature, or commenting on religion, politics or the arts, Allan Bennettt's observations in his dairies are incisive, funny, and yet always meaningful. This work... |
Jackie Kay; Jackie Kay From the moment when, as a little girl, she realises that her skin is a different colour from that of her beloved mum and dad, to the tracing and finding... | The British Library What is science fiction? Are science fiction writers under-appreciated compared to literary novelists? These and other questions are discussed by major writers including Isaac Asimov, Douglas Adams, Brian Aldiss, J... |
Bloomsbury Group; British Library... The Bloomsbury Group remains of great public interest for its influence on art,literature and politics in the first half of the 20th century. This title offers a collection of BBC... | Seamus Heaney; Seamus Heaney Presents the poem about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, being exhausted by it and having to live on, physically and psychically exposed, in that exhausted aftermath. This title reveals psychological... |
Karen Armstrong; Sandra Burr In this concise yet compelling investigation into the history of myth Karen Armstrong takes us from the Palaeolithic period right up to the 'Great Western Transformation' of the last 500... Delivery:To home, business or free to our stores. Click for more info. | £15.31 | £10.72 | 30% | Despatched in 1 business day. | Add to Basket | Click & Collect:Order now to collect from 11am tomorrow. In stock items only. Click for more info. | £15.31 | £13.01 | 15% | Currently out of stock in all stores. | Stores - out of stock | New & Used:Our marketplace sellers will deliver to your chosen address. Click for more info. | | | | Currently unavailable | Currently unavailable |
| Geoffrey Chaucer; Richard Bebb; ... Features two sections from Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" presented in Old English in performances by the actor Richard Bebb and advised by the leading scholar on Chaucerian pronunciation, Professor Derek Brewer. |
Thomas Hardy; Robert Powell; Martin... Michael Henchard has ascended in Casterbridge to become a successful businessman and the town mayor. However his deceitful ways alienate many of his allies, and he soon finds himself ousted... | Alan Bennett Part of "Untold Stories", a collection of prose by Allen Bennett, this work contains two reminiscences from Bennett's life and an essay on the class system. It describes an incident... |
John Betjeman In the tones of Sir John himself, this autobiography in verse captures the voice of the late Poet Laureate. From his earliest boyhood memories of Highgate and Archibald, his old... | S. Beckett John Tydeman, for many years head of BBC Radio Drama, takes a fresh look at one of the milestones in Western drama. This title follows the acclaimed recordings of Beckett's... |
Katherine Mansfield; Susannah... | Edmund Spenser; John Moffatt Dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I, "The Faerie Queene" combines dramatic narratives of adventure with episodes of pageantry. At the same time, the poet, Spenser is expounding between Truth and Error. |
Paul Willcott Includes three CDs. | William Shakespeare; David Timson;... Retells the stories from Shakespeare's plays. This volume 2 includes key plays such as "Julius Caesar", "The Merchant of Venice", and "Henry IV", all texts which regularly appear on the... |