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What about the Baby? - Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction (Paperback): Alice McDermott What about the Baby? - Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction (Paperback)
Alice McDermott
R438 R362 Discovery Miles 3 620 Save R76 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Superman Is Jewish? - How Comic Book Superheroes Came to Serve Truth, Justice, and the Jewish-American Way (Paperback): Harry... Superman Is Jewish? - How Comic Book Superheroes Came to Serve Truth, Justice, and the Jewish-American Way (Paperback)
Harry Brod
R416 R344 Discovery Miles 3 440 Save R72 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The History of the Hobbit - One Volume Edition (Hardcover, Deluxe edition): J. R. R. Tolkien, John D Rateliff The History of the Hobbit - One Volume Edition (Hardcover, Deluxe edition)
J. R. R. Tolkien, John D Rateliff
R2,056 Discovery Miles 20 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Brand new deluxe edition of this definitive companion to The Hobbit, quarter-bound, stamped in gold foil with a unique design inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien's own artwork, featuring a ribbon marker and exclusive foldout poster, and housed in a matching custom-built slipcase. The Hobbit was first published on 21 September 1937. Like its sequel, The Lord of the Rings, it is a story that 'grew in the telling', and many characters and plot threads in the published text are quite different from the story J.R.R. Tolkien first wrote to read aloud to his young sons as one of their 'fireside reads'. Together in one volume, The History of the Hobbit presents the complete text of the unpublished manuscript of The Hobbit, accompanied by John Rateliff's lively and informative account of how the book came to be written and published. Recording the numerous changes made to the story both before and after publication, he examines - chapter by chapter - why those changes were made and how they reflect Tolkien's ever-growing concept of Middle-earth. As well as reproducing the original version of one of the world's most popular novels - both on its own merits and as the foundation for The Lord of the Rings - this book includes many little-known illustrations and draft maps for The Hobbit by Tolkien himself. Also featured are extensive commentaries on the dates of composition, how Tolkien's professional and early mythological writings influenced the story, the imaginary geography he created, and how Tolkien came to revise the book years after publication to accommodate events in The Lord of the Rings. Endorsed by Christopher Tolkien as a companion to his essential 12-volume The History of Middle-earth, this thoughtful and exhaustive examination of one of the most treasured stories in English literature offers fascinating new insights for those who have grown up with this enchanting tale, and will delight any who are about to enter Bilbo's round door for the first time.

Daily Rituals - How Great Minds Make Time, Find Inspiration, and Get to Work (Paperback): Mason Currey Daily Rituals - How Great Minds Make Time, Find Inspiration, and Get to Work (Paperback)
Mason Currey
R307 Discovery Miles 3 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'Utterly fascinating' Daisy Goodwin, Sunday Times Benjamin Franklin took daily naked air baths and Toulouse-Lautrec painted in brothels. Edith Sitwell worked in bed, and George Gershwin composed at the piano in pyjamas. Freud worked sixteen hours a day, but Gertrude Stein could never write for more than thirty minutes, and F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in gin-fuelled bursts - he believed alcohol was essential to his creative process. From Marx to Murakami and Beethoven to Bacon, Daily Rituals by Mason Currey presents the working routines of more than a hundred and sixty of the greatest philosophers, writers, composers and artists ever to have lived. Whether by amphetamines or alcohol, headstand or boxing, these people made time and got to work. Featuring photographs of writers and artists at work, and filled with fascinating insights on the mechanics of genius and entertaining stories of the personalities behind it, Daily Rituals is irresistibly addictive, and utterly inspiring.

A Jumble of Stories (Paperback): Katie Gray A Jumble of Stories (Paperback)
Katie Gray
R291 Discovery Miles 2 910 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A Jumble of Stories by Katie Gray is a compilation of eight individual short stories for a variety of audiences. The stories include: Case of Self Defence A warning to husbands who are not appreciative of their wives. Do you know what she gets up to during the day? Merry Little Christmas Even the most intelligent and apparently contented of of young ladies might discover there is more to life than they realise! All on a cold and frosty morning We all have a talent of which we might be unaware. One young lady unexpectedly realises hers. Christmas at Frederico's Something of a cautionary tale. Do as you would be Done By, or Be Done By as you Did! A Christmas Story Retirement does not have to be the end, there could be a whole new career just around the corner. Sally's Story If you think you can........... you might surprise yourself and attain much more than you might have hoped. Fairy Godmother She was just playing a part - or was she? What do you think I am Not someone with whom to be trifled - EVER!!

Stephen King's the Dark Tower Concordance (Paperback, Original ed.): Robin Furth Stephen King's the Dark Tower Concordance (Paperback, Original ed.)
Robin Furth; Contributions by Stephen King
R844 R717 Discovery Miles 7 170 Save R127 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Dark Tower series is the backbone of Stephen King's legendary career. Eight books and more than three thousand pages make up this bestselling fantasy epic. This revised and updated concordance, incorporating the 2012 Dark Tower novel The Wind Through the Keyhole, is the definitive encyclopedic reference book that provides readers with everything they need to navigate their way through the series. With hundreds of characters, Mid-World geography, High Speech lexicon, and extensive cross-references, this comprehensive handbook is essential for any Dark Tower fan.
Includes:
Characters and Genealogies
Magical Objects and Forces
Mid-World and Our World Places
Portals and Magical Places
Mid-, End-, and Our World Maps
Timeline for the Dark Tower Series
Mid-World Dialects
Mid-World Rhymes, Songs, and Prayers
Political and Cultural References
References to Stephen King's Own Work

A Game of Four (Paperback): Sue Evans A Game of Four (Paperback)
Sue Evans
R180 Discovery Miles 1 800 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A Game of Four ....Ralph Connor arrives at work one morning to find his world turned upside down by a sinister, cloaked character known as the Watcher, who claims to have kidnapped his wife and seems to mysteriously know his every move and deepest, most innermost secrets..... .....Ralph unwittingly becomes the key player in a deadly battle of wits with a psychopathic rival, whose sole obsession is to destroy the very core of his world, by any means....

Ryan's Journey - Book Three: 'Adulthood' (Paperback): John S Barnes Ryan's Journey - Book Three: 'Adulthood' (Paperback)
John S Barnes
R570 Discovery Miles 5 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Green on Snow (Paperback): Carol Lange Green on Snow (Paperback)
Carol Lange
R304 Discovery Miles 3 040 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Isandro has left his Spanish Andalucian village to search for his sister in Paris. There he meets members of the International Brigade and moves to Madrid to form a protest group against Franco's tyranny. The road ahead is long and hard and fraught with danger ... not least the rage that burns within him, ready to ignite in a political climate that demands a cool head...

Four Seasons in Japan - The new novel from the author of The Cat and The City (Hardcover): Nick Bradley Four Seasons in Japan - The new novel from the author of The Cat and The City (Hardcover)
Nick Bradley
R528 R433 Discovery Miles 4 330 Save R95 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Danish Kings and the Jomsvikings in the Greatest Saga of Olafr Tryggvason (Paperback): Olafur Halldorsson Danish Kings and the Jomsvikings in the Greatest Saga of Olafr Tryggvason (Paperback)
Olafur Halldorsson
R300 R268 Discovery Miles 2 680 Save R32 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Somewhere Towards the End - A Memoir (Paperback): Diana Athill Somewhere Towards the End - A Memoir (Paperback)
Diana Athill
R403 R330 Discovery Miles 3 300 Save R73 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Hailed as "a virtuoso exercise" (Sunday Telegraph), this book reflects candidly, sometimes with great humor, on the condition of being old. Charming readers, writers, and critics alike, the memoir won the Costa Award for Biography and made Athill, then ninety-one, a surprising literary star. Diana Athill was one of the great editors in British publishing. For more than five decades she edited the likes of V. S. Naipaul and Jean Rhys, for whom she was a confidante and caretaker. As a writer, Athill made her reputation for the frankness and precisely expressed wisdom of her memoirs. Writing in her ninety-first year, "entirely untamed about both old and new conventions" (Literary Review) and freed from any of the inhibitions that even she may have once had, Athill reflects candidly, and sometimes with great humor, on the condition of being old-the losses and occasionally the gains that age brings, the wisdom and fortitude required to face death. Distinguished by "remarkable intelligence...[and the] easy elegance of her prose" (Daily Telegraph), this short, well-crafted book, hailed as "a virtuoso exercise" (Sunday Telegraph) presents an inspiring work for those hoping to flourish in their later years.

About Tryphena - Hardy and His Young Cousin (Paperback): Nicholas Hillyard About Tryphena - Hardy and His Young Cousin (Paperback)
Nicholas Hillyard
R310 Discovery Miles 3 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

About Tryphena is a scholarly re-examination of the evidence about Thomas Hardy and his young cousin Tryphena Sparks. It establishes the exact date of the cousins' affair and clears away some of the deliberate obfuscations of Hardy's autobiography so that the importance of that affair in Hardy's start as both novelist and poet becomes clear for the first time.

Seldom Disappointed - A Memoir (Paperback, 1st Perennial ed): Tony Hillerman Seldom Disappointed - A Memoir (Paperback, 1st Perennial ed)
Tony Hillerman
R457 R382 Discovery Miles 3 820 Save R75 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this affectionate and unvarnished recollection of his past, Tony Hillerman looks at seventy-six years spent getting from hard-times farm boy to bestselling author. Using the gifts of a talented novelist and reporter, Hillerman draws brilliant portrait not just of his life, but of the world around him.

Novel Ideas - Mapping Textual Analysis within the Novel (Paperback): Chris Daniels Novel Ideas - Mapping Textual Analysis within the Novel (Paperback)
Chris Daniels
R285 Discovery Miles 2 850 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Novel Ideas explores meaning within novels with the aid of block diagrams. Written without jargon the book takes in a wide range of sometimes complex novels written over a period in excess of 200 years by British, Commonwealth, French, American, and Russian authors. These novels also take on important issues of their day that, in most cases, pursue points still relevant in today's world. Such as this can easily be seen by comparing the work of Mary Wollstonecraft in the 1790s with those that followed such as Kate Chopin and even Katherine Mansfield in the 1920s. The idea is to then reduce the content of the essays in question to a still more manageable level by containing the points raised therein on single page block diagrams. What this form of block diagram does is to give students a more easily retained visual representation of an essay that might comprise of over twelve thousand words relating to complex issues raised in the novels. It also allows students to compare and contrast similarities and differences across the novels chosen, a question frequently asked of students throughout most literature courses and under exam conditions. Other authors' works discussed are Eliot, Zola, Hardy, Flaubert, James, Conrad, De Laclose and Turgenev. If students were to operate this system for themselves it could also help by consolidating literary points brought up throughout the year. In other words this methodology can be used as a template and need not only apply to the novels dealt with here. Although primarily of use to students throughout a literary degree course the same system could be employed by students on A-level courses as an aid to disciplining their approach to this wide and often complex subject.

Murder in His Eyes - Sherlock Holmes and Panoptic Power (Paperback): Michael Plakotaris Murder in His Eyes - Sherlock Holmes and Panoptic Power (Paperback)
Michael Plakotaris
R350 Discovery Miles 3 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This study of Sherlock Holmes and panoptic power will intrigue both fans of the Holmes canon and anyone interested in the history of crime literature and how such a character has captured the imagination of countless generations. Dr Michael Plakotaris has succeeded in bringing together the most authoritative works on the matter to create a revealing insight into one of the most prominent figures of English literature. From comparisons between Holmes and his creator to studies of his Nietzschean personality, his panoptic-semiotic modus operandi and his successful relationship with Watson, we begin to understand the components used that created this astounding success in Victorian literature.

Louisa Stuart Costello - A Nineteenth-Century Writing Life (Hardcover): Clare Broome Saunders Louisa Stuart Costello - A Nineteenth-Century Writing Life (Hardcover)
Clare Broome Saunders
R3,204 Discovery Miles 32 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Louisa Stuart Costello (1799-1870) was a critically acclaimed poet, novelist, travel writer, historian, and artist. Here, Broom Saunders provides a wealth of extracts from her diverse writings, a rich source of information about the pioneering career of a professional woman writer, and insight into a nineteenth-century writing life.

Sport and Monstrosity in Science Fiction (Paperback): Derek J Thiess Sport and Monstrosity in Science Fiction (Paperback)
Derek J Thiess
R831 Discovery Miles 8 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Sport and Monstrosity in Science Fiction examines fantastic representations of sport in science fiction, both cataloguing this almost entirely unexamined literary tradition and arguing that the reason for its neglect reflects a more widespread social suspicion of the athletic body as monstrous. Combining scholarship of monstrosity with a biopolitically focused philosophy of embodiment, this work plumbs the depths of our abjection of the athletic body and challenges us to reconsider sport as an intersectional space. In this latter endeavour it contradicts the image presented by both the most dystopian films such as Deathrace and Rollerball as well as social criticism of sport that limits its focus to an essentially violent masculinity. The book traces an alternative tradition of sport sf through authors as diverse as Arthur C. Clarke, Steven Barnes, and Joan Slonczewski, exploring the way the intersectional categories of gender, race, and age in these works are negotiated in, for example, a solar wind sailing race or futuristic anti-gravity boxing. These complex athletic bodies display the social mobility that sport allows and challenge us to acknowledge our own monstrously animal bodies and our place in a "cycle of living and dying."

I Used to Live Here Once - The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys (Paperback): Miranda Seymour I Used to Live Here Once - The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys (Paperback)
Miranda Seymour
R252 Discovery Miles 2 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'An absolute belter of a biography' MARINA HYDE A Times Literary Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2022 An LA Times Best Book of the Year 2022 An intimate, revealing and profoundly moving biography of Jean Rhys, acclaimed author of Wide Sargasso Sea. An obsessive and troubled genius, Jean Rhys is one of the most compelling and unnerving writers of the twentieth century. Memories of a conflicted Caribbean childhood haunt the four fictions that Rhys wrote during her extraordinary years as an exile in 1920s Paris and later in England. Rhys's experiences of heartbreak, poverty, notoriety, breakdowns and even imprisonment all became grist for her writing, forming an iconic 'Rhys woman' whose personality - vulnerable, witty, watchful and angry - was often mistaken, and still is, for a self-portrait. Many details of Rhys's life emerge from her memoir, Smile Please and the stories she wrote throughout her long and challenging career. But it's a shock to discover that no biographer - until now - has researched the crucial seventeen years that Rhys spent living on the remote Caribbean island of Dominica; the island which haunted Rhys's mind and her work for the rest of her life. Luminous and penetrating, Seymour's biography reveals a proud and fiercely independent artist, one who experienced tragedy and extreme poverty, alcohol and drug dependency, romantic and sexual turmoil - and yet was never a victim. I Used to Live Here Once enables one of our most excitingly intuitive biographers to uncover the hidden truth about a fascinatingly elusive woman. The figure who emerges for Seymour is powerful, cultured, self-mocking, self-absorbed, unpredictable and often darkly funny. Persuasive, surprising and compassionate, this unforgettable biography brings Jean Rhys to life as never before.

Books to Die for - The World's Greatest Mystery Writers on the World's Greatest Mystery Novels (Paperback): John... Books to Die for - The World's Greatest Mystery Writers on the World's Greatest Mystery Novels (Paperback)
John Connolly, Declan Burke
R539 R458 Discovery Miles 4 580 Save R81 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The world's greatest mystery writers on the world's greatest mystery novels:

Michael Connelly on "The Little Sister ." . .

Kathy Reichs on "The Silence of the Lambs . . ."

Mark Billingham on "The Maltese Falcon . . ."

Ian Rankin on "I Was Dora Suarez . . ."

With so many mystery novels to choose among, and so many new titles appearing each year, where should a reader start? What are the classics of the genre? Which are the hidden gems?

In the most ambitious anthology of its kind yet attempted, the world's leading mystery writers have come together to champion the greatest mystery novels ever written. In a series of personal essays that often reveal as much about the authors and their own work as they do about the books that they love, 119 authors from 20 countries have created a guide that will be indispensable for generations of readers and writers. From Agatha Christie to Lee Child, from Edgar Allan Poe to P. D. James, from Sherlock Holmes to Hannibal Lecter and Philip Marlowe to Lord Peter Wimsey, "Books to Die For "brings together the cream of the mystery world for a feast of reading pleasure, a treasure trove for those new to the genre and for those who believe that there is nothing new left to discover. This is the one essential book for every reader who has ever finished a mystery novel and thought . . .

"I want more "

"*** "

"Why does the mystery novel enjoy such enduring appeal? There is no simple answer. It has a distinctive capacity for subtle social commentary, a concern with the disparity between law and justice, and a passion for order, however compromised. Even in the vision of the darkest of mystery writers, it provides us with a glimpse of the world as it might be, a world in which good men and women do not stand idly by and allow the worst aspects of human nature to triumph without opposition. It can touch upon all these facets while still entertaining the reader."

--From the introduction of "Books to Die For"

The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien - The Places that Inspired Middle-earth (Paperback): John Garth The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien - The Places that Inspired Middle-earth (Paperback)
John Garth
R398 Discovery Miles 3 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Every page brings forth the elegiac tone of JRR Tolkien's work... It is a beautiful book, including many wonderful pictures by Tolkien himself... Garth's book made me realise the impact that Tolkien has had on my life." The Times A lavishly illustrated exploration of the places that inspired and shaped the work of J.R.R. Tolkien, creator of Middle-earth. This new book from renowned expert John Garth takes us to the places that inspired J.R.R. Tolkien to create his fictional locations in The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and other classic works. Featuring more than 100 images, it includes Tolkien's own illustrations, contributions from other artists, archive images, maps and spectacular present-day photographs. Inspirational locations range across Great Britain - particularly Tolkien's beloved West Midlands and Oxford - but also overseas to all points of the compass. Sources are located for Hobbiton, the elven valley of Rivendell, the Glittering Caves of Helm's Deep, and many other key spots in Middle-earth, as well as for its mountain scenery, forests, rivers, lakes and shorelands. A rich interplay is revealed between Tolkien's personal travels, his wide reading and his deep scholarship as an Oxford professor. Garth uses his own profound knowledge of Tolkien's life and work to uncover the extraordinary processes of invention, to debunk popular misconceptions about the inspirations for Middle-earth, and to put forward strong new claims of his own. Organised by theme, The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien is an illustrated journey into the life and imagination of one of the world's best-loved authors, an exploration of the relationship between worlds real and fantastical, and an inspiration for anyone who wants to follow in Tolkien's footsteps.

Sherlock Holmes (Hardcover, Revised edition): Nick Utechin Sherlock Holmes (Hardcover, Revised edition)
Nick Utechin
R306 R205 Discovery Miles 2 050 Save R101 (33%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Ever since Arthur Conan Doyle created the pipe-smoking, deer stalkered character, Sherlock Holmes, he has become a part of popular culture for generations, and here every aspect of the legendary detective is investigated. Brimming with strange and amusing facts, Sherlock Holmes explores this timeless character and the continuation of impact it has had on audiences today. Brief, accessible and entertaining pieces on a wide variety of subjects makes it the perfect book to dip in to. The amazing and extraordinary facts series presents interesting, surprising and little-known facts and stories about a wide-range of topics which are guaranteed to inform, absorb and entertain in equal measure.

Dumbledore - The Life and Lies of Hogwarts's Renowned Headmaster: An Unofficial Exploration (Hardcover): Irvin Khaytman Dumbledore - The Life and Lies of Hogwarts's Renowned Headmaster: An Unofficial Exploration (Hardcover)
Irvin Khaytman
R325 Discovery Miles 3 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Leitrim Observed - A Biography of John McGahern (Hardcover): Aubrey Malone Leitrim Observed - A Biography of John McGahern (Hardcover)
Aubrey Malone
R605 Discovery Miles 6 050 Ships in 9 - 15 working days
After Human - A Critical History of the Human in Science Fiction from Shelley to Le Guin (Hardcover): Thomas Connolly After Human - A Critical History of the Human in Science Fiction from Shelley to Le Guin (Hardcover)
Thomas Connolly
R3,763 Discovery Miles 37 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Shortlisted for the British Fantasy Awards (Non-Fiction) 2022 Shortlisted for the Locus Science Fiction Foundation Non-Fiction Award 2022 SF has long been understood as a literature of radical potential, capable of imagining entirely new worlds and ways of being. Yet SF has been slow to embrace posthumanist ideas about the human subject. The human of the SF tradition is instead a liminal being, caught somewhere between the transcendent 'Man' of classical humanism and the subversive 'cyborg' of posthumanist thought. This study offers a critical history of the 'human' in SF. By examining a range of SF works from 1818 to the 1970s, it seeks to answer some key questions: What role does technology play in defining what it means to be-or not to be-human? How do these writers understand the relationship between humanity and the rest of nature? And how can we use SF to re-examine our ethical position towards the non-human world and move to more egalitarian understandings of the human subject?

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