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The Softer Side of Hip Hop

14 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Poetic Reflections on Love, Family, and Relationships

By Laura Haskins-Bookser

£6.99 14 May 2008 Paperback Morning Glory Press Inc

Features a collection of poems. Partly based on experiences of the poet's friends and family, this collection paints portraits of such issues as alcoholism, adultery, and sexual abuse.

Me, Myself and I

09 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By L.N. Saleh

£6.99 09 May 2008 Paperback Troubador Publishing

An autobiographical book of poetry, documenting the author's life through infancy, childhood and political conflict.

Tristia

08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Osip Mandel'shtam

£5.99 08 May 2008 Paperback Green Integer

The great twentieth-century Russian poet's second volume of poetry, Tristia, explores myths of Orpheus and Eurydice in a brilliantly symbolic manner. This is one of the most important books of Russian poetry.

Breathturn

08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Paul Celan

£7.99 08 May 2008 Paperback Green Integer

Translated from the German by Pierre Joris-winner of the 2004 PEN Translation Award for Celan's "Lightduress"-the is the first of Celan's three major books of poetry before his death by suicide. Considered by many to be one of Celan's major writings, "Breathturn" brilliant reveals the "Wende" or turn of writing.

Conversations with the Family of the Grotesque

08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Louise Mary Stokes

£3.00 08 May 2008 Paperback Kates Hill Press

Allan Chace and Other Poems

08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By John Cornfield, Jr

£7.00 08 May 2008 Paperback Kates Hill Press

The Forts of Kimmy Sue Anne

08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Louise Mary Stokes

£3.00 08 May 2008 Pamphlet / Leaflet (Stapled / Folded) Kates Hill Press

Tummy Jones - Odebry Mon

08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Billy Spakemon

£3.00 08 May 2008 Pamphlet / Leaflet (Stapled / Folded) Kates Hill Press

Big pink umbrella : poems

08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By DuMars, Susan Millar.

£9.00 08 May 2008 Paperback Salmon Poetry, UK/Dufour Editions

Conflicted light : poems

08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Dancing Bear, J. P.

£9.00 08 May 2008 Paperback Salmon Poetry, UK/Dufour Editions

Reliquaries

08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Patten, Angela.

£10.96 08 May 2008 Paperback Salmon Poetry, UK/Dufour Editions

The Prophet and the Art of Peace

08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Kahlil Gibran's Timeless Wisdom

By Kahlil Gibran

£19.99 08 May 2008 Hardback Duncan Baird Publishers

"The Prophet", first published in 1923, is the story of a seer and his wisdom. This book presents "The Prophet and The Garden" of the Prophet, together with selections from the writer's other timeless philosophical and spiritual writings.

Selections from the "Canzoniere" and Other Works

08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Francesco Petrarch

£7.99 08 May 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

Civil War

08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Lucan

£9.99 08 May 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

Vita Nuova

08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Alighieri Dante

£7.99 08 May 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

The Love Poems

08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Ovid

£9.99 08 May 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

The elegant verse and subtle observation of the Amores, The Art of Love, and The Cures of Love made their author the talk of Rome. Ovid saw love as a game at which both sexes could play without getting hurt - as long as they stuck to his rules, but primarily he wrote these sparkling and often erotic poems to entertain, and after two thousand years they still give enormous pleasure.

Wavelengths

05 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Michael Longley

£45.00 05 May 2008 Hardback Enitharmon Press

Rediscovering African American Poetry

04 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By M. Blount

£9.95 04 May 2008 Paperback University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton

A Pathway Through the Seasons

03 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Rose Blakeley

£10.99 03 May 2008 Hardback Attitude Publishing

State of Exile

02 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Christina Peri Rossi

£10.99 02 May 2008 Paperback City Lights Books

Cristina Peri Rossi was born in Uruguay and is considered a leading light of the "Latin American Boom" generation. In 1972, after her work was banned under a repressive military regime, she left her country, moving to Spain.

This collection of poems, written during her journey and the first period of her self-exile, was so personal that it remained unpublished for almost thirty years. It is accompanied here by two brilliant essays on exile, one by Peri Rossi and the other by translator Marilyn Buck, who is an American political prisoner, exiled in her own land.

Cristina Peri Rossi is the author of thirty-seven works, including The Ship of Fools.

Essential cinema : on the necessity of film canons

02 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

On the Necessity of Film Canons

By Rosenbaum, Jonathan.

£16.50 02 May 2008 Hardback Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

Explore the idea of - and the need for - a film canon. Though the idea may be unfashionable, particularly within the academy, this book argues that a canon of great and near-great films is vital if we are to understand film as an art. It is suitable for film students, film scholars, and film buffs.

Once Were Warriors: The Aftermath: The Controversy of Once Were Warriors in Aotearoa, New Zealand

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Martens, Emiel

£20.30 01 May 2008 Paperback Aksant Academic Publishers

Con Todo Mi Amor

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Malsinet, Aa

£8.21 01 May 2008 Hardback Urano

Poemas de Amor

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Gala, Antonio

£8.21 01 May 2008 Paperback Booket

Cross-border cultural production : economic runaway or globalization?

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Economic Runaway or Globalization?

By Janet Wasko, Mary Erickson

£67.95 01 May 2008 Hardback Cambria Pr, US

Under Human Species

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Luzi, Mario

£8.21 01 May 2008 Paperback Green Integer

Like Luzi's previous Green Integer title, "Earthly and Heavenly Journey of Simone Martini," "Under Human Species" reveals the poetic power of this Italian master, who has published numerous books of poetry and criticism.

Born in 1914, Mario Luzi is generally considered Italy's greatest living poet and one of the most outstanding literary figures of this century; he has been nominated several times for a Nobel Prize in Literature. He lives in Florence.

Growing Pains

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Ann Pilling

£4.00 01 May 2008 Pamphlet / Leaflet (Stapled / Folded) Smith/Doorstop Books

You've Been Great

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Padraig O'Morain

£4.00 01 May 2008 Pamphlet / Leaflet (Stapled / Folded) Smith/Doorstop Books

Boukhara

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Yvonne Green

£4.00 01 May 2008 Pamphlet / Leaflet (Stapled / Folded) Smith/Doorstop Books

The Half-mile-high Club

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Julia Deakin

£4.00 01 May 2008 Pamphlet / Leaflet (Stapled / Folded) Smith/Doorstop Books

Nearly the Happy Hour

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By D.A. Prince

£8.00 01 May 2008 Paperback HappenStance

Missing the Eclipse

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Joan Hewitt

£7.99 01 May 2008 Paperback Cinnamon Press

The China Watcher

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

and Other Observations from Alderley and Purley

By Stewart MacNally

£2.95 01 May 2008 Pamphlet / Leaflet (Stapled / Folded) AMCD (Publishers) Ltd

All Our Yesterdays

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Father Browne's Photographs of Children and Their Favourite Poems

By E.E. O'Donnell

£9.99 01 May 2008 Paperback Columba Press

The journals of Thomas Babington Macaulay, v.1-5

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859.

£450.00 01 May 2008 Hardback Pickering & Chatto Ltd, UK

Presents the candid diary of Thomas Macaulay, Victorian statesman, historian and author of "The History of England". This work shows how, spanning the period 1838 to 1859, the journal is the longest work from Macaulay's pen. It states that these unique manuscripts held at Trinity College, Cambridge, are most revealing of all his writings.

Out of the Fire of Hell

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Welsh Experience of the Great War 1914-1918 in Prose and Verse

By Alan Llwyd

£14.99 01 May 2008 Paperback Gomer Press

England

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Crouch, Tim.

£8.99 01 May 2008 Paperback Oberon Bks, UK

The grateful recipient of a heart transplant travels 4000 miles to thank the widow of the donor and to present her with a very special gift. But much more than a life has been lost.

Written to be performed in art galleries, ENGLAND tells a compelling story for our times - a disturbing tale of transactions and translations, of culture and commerce, of one thing being placed inside another without thought for the consequences. Presented by two guides, it is a tour to the end of the world.

Woman in red

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Goudge, Eileen.

£4.39 01 May 2008 Hardback Vanguard Press, US/Perseus Books Group

Bestselling author Goudge presents a powerful story of love, redemption, and the things one woman will do to overcome the buried secrets of her past.

Undercover

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Brown, Laurinda D.

£4.39 01 May 2008 Hardback Simon & Schuster

Reflections in Poetry

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Gavurin, Edward

£10.99 01 May 2008 Paperback Wheatmark

The Hands of Day

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Neruda, Pablo

£9.34 01 May 2008 Paperback Copper Canyon Press

If every month were June

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Bender, Tony, 1958-

£13.71 01 May 2008 Hardback Fulcrum Publ

If every month were June

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Bender, Tony, 1958-

£8.21 01 May 2008 Hardback Fulcrum Publ

Between cup and lip

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Manson, Peter.

£8.24 01 May 2008 Paperback Miami Univ Pr

Gone with the wind : a novel

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949.

£4.94 01 May 2008 Hardback Pocket Bks

Beloved by generations of fans, Mitchell's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the Civil War and its aftermath--the basis of one of the most famous films of all time--is back in this stunning new package with a new Preface by bestselling author Pat Conroy.

Fox's earth

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Siddons, Anne Rivers.

£4.39 01 May 2008 Hardback Pocket Bks

A woman rises out of poverty to rule a family dynasty, in this extravagant Southern tale of greed and manipulation by a "New York Times"-bestselling author.

Seal Woman

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Eggerz, Solveig

£10.96 01 May 2008 Paperback Ghost Road Press

Beyond Borders

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Anthea Dove

£5.00 01 May 2008 Paperback Diane Gilder

The Triumph of Love

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Irene Hoggan

£3.99 01 May 2008 Paperback Irene Therese Hoggan

Which Shade of Blue?

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Selection of Persian and English Poems

By Shirin Razavian

£7.00 01 May 2008 Paperback ASA Publications

Glass Orchards and the Serene Smiles of a Wine-drunk-Buddha High on a Quiet

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Poems

By John D. Robinson

£5.00 01 May 2008 Paperback Holy&intoxicated Publications

Only in the Sun

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Selected Poems of William Wantling 1964-74

By William Wantling

£30.00 01 May 2008 Hardback Tangerine Press

The Magnolia

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Richard Lambert

£5.50 01 May 2008 Paperback The Rialto

Love Poems

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Douglas George Duncan Clark

£8.00 01 May 2008 Paperback Benjamin Press

The Springfield reformation : the Simpsons, Christianity, and American culture

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

"The Simpsons", Christianity, and American Culture

By Heit, Jamey.

£40.00 01 May 2008 Hardback Continuum Intl Publ Grp

Initially shunned by many in the Christian community when it made its television debut, after four hundred (and counting) episodes, and a feature-length film, few can deny that "The Simpsons" exhibits an astute understanding of Christianity in American culture. This book explores the theological voice of "The Simpsons".

Ladies of the western : selected interviews

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Fitzgerald, Michael G.

£21.95 01 May 2008 Hardback McFarland & Co Inc

This work features interviews with 51 leading ladies who starred in B-westerns, A-westerns, and television westerns. They talk candidly about their careers and the many difficulties that went along with their jobs.

Quick, before the music stops

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Carlson, Janet.

£10.96 01 May 2008 Hardback Doubleday

Based on a popular piece she wrote for "O, The Oprah Magazine," this book is Carlson's exuberant story of how dance helped her find her footing as a woman.

The Unloved

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Nathaneal Williams

£2.99 01 May 2008 Paperback Arthur H.Stockwell Ltd

The Lost Leader

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Mick Imlah

£9.99 01 May 2008 Paperback Faber and Faber

A collection of poems that take the most over-worn of Scottish myths as their apparent starting points: Saint Columba and the medieval wizard Michael Scot; the Wallace and the Bruce; Queen Mary and John Knox; the Bonnie Prince, Robert Burns and Walter Scott; the Scots Greys and Gordon Highlanders; and, whisky, Clydeside, football.

Hot nights, dark desires

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Bradley, Eden.

£7.14 01 May 2008 Hardback Bantam Books

Abeng : a novel

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Cliff, Michelle.

£7.99 01 May 2008 Hardback Penguin Group (USA)

A lyrical coming-of-age story and a provocative retelling of the colonial history of Jamaica
Originally published in 1984, this critically acclaimed novel is the story of Clare Savage, a light-skinned, twelve-year-old, middle-class girl growing up in Jamaica in the 1950s. As she tries to find her own identity and place in her culture, Clare carries the burden of her mixed heritage. There are the Maroons, who used the conch shellathe "abeng"ato pass messages as they fought against their English enslavers. And there is her white great-great-grandfather, Judge Savage, who burned his hundred slaves on the eve of their emancipation. In Clareas struggle to reconcile the conflicting legacies of her own personal lineage, esteemed Caribbean author Michelle Cliff dramatically confronts the cultural and psychological violence inflicted upon the island and its people by colonialism.

Boomsday : a novel

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Buckley, Christopher, 1952-

£7.69 01 May 2008 Hardback Grand Central Publ, US

A charismatic 29-year-old blogger incites massive political turmoil when she politely suggests that Baby Boomers be given government incentives to kill themselves by age 75. Her modest proposal catches fire with millions of her outraged peers and an ambitious Senator.

Scream for me

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Rose, Karen.

£13.99 01 May 2008 Hardback Grand Central Publ, US

"New York Times"-bestselling author Karen Rose delivers a heart-stopping suspense novel that opens with Special Agent Daniel Vartanian searching for the perpetrator of multiple killings that mimic a 13-year-old murder in this sequel to "Die for Me." Grand Central Publishing

Queen of a Rainy Country

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Poems

By Linda Pastan

£8.99 01 May 2008 Paperback W W Norton & Co Ltd

A collection from a poet recognised for her "unfailing mastery of her medium".

How to really stink at golf

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Foxworthy, Jeff.

£8.79 01 May 2008 Hardback Random House

"New York Times"-bestselling author Foxworthy and comedy writer Hartt offer ahilarious, illustrated guide to making sure everyone's golf game stays as badas possible.

The crimson portrait : a novel

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Shields, Jody.

£7.69 01 May 2008 Hardback Little Brown & Co

Crossed bones : a novel

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Johnson, Jane, 1960-

£14.26 01 May 2008 Hardback Crown Publishers

For readers of Sarah Dunant and Elizabeth Kostovea comes a smart, page-turning epic about the Barbary pirates, the uncanny link between two fascinating women of different eras, and their equally engrossing love stories.

I still have it-- I just can't remember where I put it : confessions of a fiftysomething

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Rudner, Rita.

£12.64 01 May 2008 Hardback Crown Publishers

Rudner--comedienne and bestselling author of "Naked Beneath My Clothes"--tackles the inevitabilities of growing older in her own hilarious, knowing way.

The case for literature

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Xingjian, Gao.

£8.79 01 May 2008 Hardback Yale U Pr

It's not necessarily not the truth

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Pressly, Jaime.

£13.71 01 May 2008 Hardback William Morrow & Co

Yes, you're pregnant, but what about me?

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Nealon, Kevin, 1953-

£14.99 01 May 2008 Hardback William Morrow & Co

As one of the longest-running cast members in the history of "Saturday Night Live", the author was known for his sketches such as "Hanz and Franz," "The Subliminal Man" and his role as anchor on the famed "Weekend Update."

The monk upstairs : a novel

01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Farrington, Tim.

£7.66 01 May 2008 Hardback Harper One, US/HarperCollins

Returning with the same cast of characters introduced in "The Monk Downstairs," this is a witty and irresistible love story about what happens when God is the other woman.

The Sonnets

30 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By William Shakespeare

£6.50 30 Apr 2008 Paperback Foundation Books

The Poems

30 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By William Shakespeare

£4.99 30 Apr 2008 Paperback Foundation Books

Features one of the classic works in English literature.

Gitanjali

30 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Rabindranath Tagore

£2.99 30 Apr 2008 Paperback Full Circle Publishing Ltd

In the Event of Darkness

30 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Broken Music and Wounded Verse

By Jonathon M. Cronin

£9.95 30 Apr 2008 Paperback Living Time Media International

Aizu Yaichi and the City of Nara

30 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Poetic Guide to an Ancient Capital

By Michael F. Marra

£35.00 30 Apr 2008 Hardback Global Oriental Ltd

Contains 259 poems by Aizu Yaichi (1881-1956) - the Japanese aesthetician and poet who put Nara back on the cultural map in the first half of the twentieth century - includes a selection of colour photographs of Nara's main architectural monuments and landmarks to complement the poetry.

Talkin' 'bout My Generation West Midlands Poets

30 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Allison Jones

£15.99 30 Apr 2008 Paperback Young Writers

Selected Poems

30 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Gulzar

£11.99 30 Apr 2008 Hardback Penguin Books

Presents a bilingual selection poetry in Urdu.

Third Day

27 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

New and Selected Poems

By Grey Gowrie

£20.00 27 Apr 2008 Hardback Carcanet Press Ltd

A selection from the poems Grey Gowrie has written since 1958. This work draws on the best part of a year spent in hospital when the author, dying of a virus on the heart, was jolted back to life and writing by the surgical gift of a heart from a living donor.

The Whisky Muse

25 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Scotch Whisky in Poem and Song

By Robin Laing

£9.99 25 Apr 2008 Paperback Luath Press Ltd

A collection of poems and songs on the subject of whisky. It reflects both the pleasures of imbibing this spirit, and the unfortunate consequences of overindulgence.

Footprints and Fingerprints

25 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Lindiwe Mabuza

£8.95 25 Apr 2008 Paperback Pan Macmillan South Africa

Faeries Hither!

25 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By S.E. Archer

£5.99 25 Apr 2008 Hardback Arthur H.Stockwell Ltd

The Palace of Oblivion

24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Peter Davidson

£9.95 24 Apr 2008 Paperback Carcanet Press Ltd

Baroque in its extravagance of language, in its delight in the bizarre and the prodigious, this collection presents a cabinet of curiosities, a world of ruined palaces, ghostly gardens and the fragile marvels of a secret past. It ends with a group of elegies and epistles concerned with place and history in northern Scotland.

A Delight Cascading

24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Geoffrey Riley

£7.99 24 Apr 2008 Hardback Book Guild Ltd

The Runner of Little Races

21 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Ray Diamond

£6.99 21 Apr 2008 Paperback Black Box Publications

The Night You Come the Day We Kiss

21 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Collection of Poetry and Art Created with Love

By Wendy Paterson

£5.00 21 Apr 2008 Paperback Gemini Nation

The Atlantic Forest

18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By George Gunn

£8.99 18 Apr 2008 Paperback Two Ravens Press

A poetry collection by Caithness poet, George Gunn.

Sixteen After Ten

18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

£6.50 18 Apr 2008 Paperback School of English, Trinity College Dublin

Cheers Mate I'll Give it a Go

18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Ray Chapman

£4.99 18 Apr 2008 Paperback Arthur H.Stockwell Ltd

Shergar and Other Friends

17 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

An Anthology of Horseracing Poetry

By Jim Anderson

£6.99 17 Apr 2008 Paperback SportsBooks Ltd

Bloodshot Monochrome

17 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Patience Agbabi

£8.99 17 Apr 2008 Paperback Canongate Books Ltd

Offers a snapshot of twenty-first-century Britain. This book features the sonnet, and covers various subjects ranging from love to sex, family to race and from writing to film noir.

Waiting for the Hatching of a Cockerel

17 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Neo-epic Song

£11.99 17 Apr 2008 Paperback Africa Research & Publications

Hoping it Might Be So: Poems 1974-2000

17 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Kit Wright

£15.00 17 Apr 2008 Paperback Faber and Faber

A collection of poems, which range from ribald to grief-stricken, elegiac to rambunctious.

The Pocket Book of Poems and Songs for the Open Air

17 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Edward Thomas

£14.00 17 Apr 2008 Paperback Faber and Faber

A collection of works of Yeats, de la Mare, T Sturge Moore, Masefield, Noyes, Davies and Housman.

Not Love Perhaps: Selected Poems

17 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By A. S. J. Tessimond

£10.00 17 Apr 2008 Paperback Faber and Faber

A selection of poems including "The Man in the Bowler Hat", "Black Monday Lovesong", "Song in a saloon bar", "Cats 11" and "Not Love Perhaps".

Selected Poems 1933-1993

17 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Gavin Ewart

£15.00 17 Apr 2008 Paperback Faber and Faber

A selection of poems of the author who was a prolific poet and his verse reflected a bawdy wit and an irrepressible sense of humor.

The Broken Word

17 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Adam Foulds

£9.00 17 Apr 2008 Paperback Vintage

Tom has returned to his family's farm in Kenya for the summer vacation between school and university when he is swept up by the events of the Mau Mau uprising. This poetic sequence illuminates a period in British colonial history.

Oscar Wilde - The Major Works

17 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Oscar Wilde

£11.99 17 Apr 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Wilde's poetry and prose short stories, plays, critical dialogues and his only novel - to give the essence of his work and thinking.

Oxford take off in Japanese. (2nd ed.)

17 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Oxford Dictionaries

£26.99 17 Apr 2008 Hardback Oxford U Pr, N Y

Oxford Take Off In Japanese provides you with an innovative way of learning Japanese. A clearly laid-out coursebook and audio content available as mp3 download and on CD give you the flexibility to learn in your own time, while at home or on the move.

Oxford take off in Greek. (2nd ed.)

17 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Oxford Dictionaries

£26.99 17 Apr 2008 Hardback Oxford U Pr, N Y

Oxford Take Off In Greek provides you with an innovative way of learning modern Greek. A clearly laid-out coursebook and audio content available as mp3 download and on CD give you the flexibility to learn in your own time, while at home or on the move.

Gold dust

15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Modern Arabic Novel

By Al-Koni, Ibrahim.

£10.95 15 Apr 2008 Hardback Am Univ Cairo Pr, UA

Tells the story of the brotherhood between man and beast, the thread of companionship that is all the difference between life and death in the desert. This book is about the fight to endure in a world of limitless and waterless wastes, and a parable of the struggle to survive in the most dangerous landscape of all: human society.

Cell block five

15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Modern Arabic Novel

By al-Azzawi, Fadhil.

£10.95 15 Apr 2008 Hardback Am Univ Cairo Pr, UA

Being plucked from a Baghdad cafe and deposited in a cell block for political prisoners is a wakeup call for Aziz, the novel's hero and narrator, a young man who has been living on automatic pilot - as if he were a guest visiting his own life - and he is finally forced to come to terms with the flawed world we inhabit and shape.

Hunger

15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Modern Arabic Novel

By El-Bisatie, Mohamed.

£10.95 15 Apr 2008 Hardback Am Univ Cairo Pr, UA

Set in the Egyptian countryside, this novel's central theme is hunger: the hunger of not knowing where one's next meal is coming from, and the universal hunger for sex and love. It deals with a family - Zagholoul the layabout father, Sakeena the long-suffering wife, and two young boys.

Read real Japanese essays : contemporary writings by popular authors

15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Contemporary Writings by Popular Authors

By Janet Ashby

£13.99 15 Apr 2008 Paperback Kodansha Intl/Oxford U Pr, N Y

Il "miraggio" di Alceo : fr.140 v.

15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Marzullo, Benedettol.

£47.25 15 Apr 2008 Hardback Walter de Gruyter

Aegypten lesbar machen - die Idassische Konservierung/Restaurierung von Papyri und neuere Vergahren

15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Internationalen Workshops der Papyrusrestauratoren (1st : 2006 : Leipzig)

£55.49 15 Apr 2008 Hardback Walter de Gruyter

Nomina : poems

15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Volkman, Karen.

£11.54 15 Apr 2008 Hardback B O A Editions Ltd/Consortium Bk Sales Dst

Jewish literature and history : an interdisciplinary conversation

15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

£19.23 15 Apr 2008 Hardback C D L Pr

Unspoiled Air

15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Kaisa Ullsvik Miller

£10.50 15 Apr 2008 Paperback Fence Magazine Inc, Division of Fence Books,US

Offers reader's the unrecognized need for a gentle and daily massaging of profanely innocuous, even corporate language into deliverable spiritual meaning.

Rogue Hemlocks

15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Carl Martin

£10.50 15 Apr 2008 Paperback Fence Magazine Inc, Division of Fence Books,US

A collection of poems, which engage Romantic tropes such as Vision, Beauty, and the Self cheek-by-jowl with a Pop madness and a Modern despair, all in a high cadence that is winkingly isolate, and productive.

19 Names for Our Band

15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Jibade-Khalil Huffman

£10.50 15 Apr 2008 Paperback Fence Magazine Inc, Division of Fence Books,US

Deals with those of the youth culture in as much as when we are young we are closer to home, to origin, to the primal disjunctions supplied by our gaps/leaps in understanding.

Michelangelo Antonioni : interviews

15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Cardullo, Bert

£27.47 15 Apr 2008 Hardback U Pr Mississippi

Collected interviews with the acclaimed Italian director of L'avventura, La notte, Blow Up, and Zabriskie Point.

Splinterville

15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Hudder, Cliff, 1957-

£10.50 15 Apr 2008 Paperback Texas Review Pr/Texas A & M Univ Pr

Near starvation in Northern Georgia, Confederate private Henry Wallace of Hood's Texas Brigade accidentally ingests psychotropic mushrooms before marching into the second day of the Battle of Chickamauga, but lives to tell about it in a long (forty-one-foot) letter to his dead comrade's father. Or does he?

Oakland, Jack London, and me

15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Williamson, Eric Miles.

£17.50 15 Apr 2008 Paperback Texas Review Pr/Texas A & M Univ Pr

Examines the life and work of Jack London and also the author's life and attitudes toward the poor, toward London, Oakland, culture and literature.

Little criminals

15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Kerrigan, Gene.

£9.31 15 Apr 2008 Paperback Europa Editions, US/Consortium Bk Sales Dst

Set in modern Dublin, "Little Criminals" is a story that bristles with tension and expectation, a story about what happens to the fragile things--friendship, love, and compassion--when all rules are broken.

Red Audrey and the roping

15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Malone, Jill.

£8.21 15 Apr 2008 Paperback Bywater Books, US/Consortium Bk Sales Dst

Code of the debater

15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Snider, Alfred C.

£13.71 15 Apr 2008 Paperback Intl Debate Educ Assn/Central European Univ Pr

Provides a practical introduction to policy debate for beginners and a quick reference for expeienced debaters. Sections present background on policy debate and debate tournaments; the basics of policy debate, including how to present and attack cases, deal with stock issues and disadvantages, and develop counterplans; and the role and responsibilities of each debater. Code of the Debater also helps debaters develop important skills: speaking, cross-examining, flowing, organizing; analyzing evidence, and briefing. Each section includes exercises to help users put abstract ideas into practice.