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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “james ley”
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  • Wilf

    by James Ley ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    My story is about love… No, it's about loss… No, it's about love and loss and pain and loneliness… But it's funny!Calvin is going to completely revolutionise his life. Escape his abusive boyfriend, detonate his inner sex bomb, see (and shag) the world. Yes, he's going to change things, and everything will be wonderful, and he's going to be so happy. Definitely. Finally. Right?Together with Wilf, a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Love Song to Lavender Menace

    by James Ley ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    In 1982, two friends Bob and Sigrid opened their new radical lesbian, gay and feminist bookshop, 'Lavender Menace' on Edinburgh's Forth Street. On the eve of the shop's 5th birthday, sales assistants Paul and David take a look back at its origins, in this funny, moving play.Cast your mind back to 1982 - Margaret Thatcher sends the British Fleet to the Falklands, Channel 4 comes to the living room ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Critic in the Modern World

    Public Criticism from Samuel Johnson to James Wood

    by Dr. James Ley ...
    The Critic in the Modern World explores the work of six influential literary critics-Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt, Matthew Arnold, T.S. Eliot, Lionel Trilling and James Wood-each of whom occupies a distinct historical moment. It considers how these representative critics have constructed their public personae, the kinds of arguments they have used, and their core principles and philosophies ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Positive Stories for Negative Times, Volume 4

    Bold new plays co-created by young people and world-class artists

    by Ella Hickson, Hannah Low, Travis Alabanza, Mammalian Diving Reflex, James Ley ...
    Series series Plays for Young People
    Nominated for Community Award at The Stage Awards 2025Five powerful new plays by some of the most exciting artists working in the UK today – created with and for young people. Developed as part of Wonder Fools' international project Positive Stories for Negative Times, which has engaged over 11,000 young people across 24 countries including the UK, South Africa, India, USA, Canada, Italy and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Place/Culture/Representation

    Edited by James S. Duncan, David Ley ...
    Spatial and cultural analysis have recently found much common ground, focusing in particular on the nature of the city. Place/Culture/Representation brings together new and established voices involved in the reshaping of cultural geography.The authors argue that as we write our geographies we are not just representing some reality, we are creating meaning. Writing becomes as much about the author ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • The Australian Face

    Essays from the Sydney Review of Books

    Edited by James Ley, Catriona Menzies-Pike ...
    TheSydney Review of Booksis Australia's leading space for longform literary criticism. Now celebrating five years online, the SRB has published more than five hundred essays by almost two hundred writers. To mark this occasion,The Australian Facecollects some of the best essays published in the SRB on Australian fiction, poetry and non-fiction. The essays in this anthology are contributions to the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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    One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster

    by Sarah Krasnostein ...
    Winner of the Victorian Prize for Literature, Sarah Krasnostein's The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster is the fascinating biography of one of the people responsible for tidying up homes in the wake of natural—and unnatural—catastrophes and fatalities.Homicides and suicides, fires and floods, hoarders and addicts. When properties are ... Read more

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  • Beginning postcolonialism

    Second edition

    by John McLeod, Peter Barry ...
    Series series Beginnings
    Postcolonialism has become one of the most exciting, popular and stimulating fields of literary and cultural studies in recent years. Yet the variety of approaches, the range of debate and the critical vocabularies often used may make it challenging for new students to establish a firm foothold in this area. Beginning Postcolonialism is a vital resource for those taking undergraduate courses in ... Read more

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  • The Charming Predator

    The True Story of How I Fell in Love with and Married a Sociopathic Fraud

    by Lee Mackenzie ...
    She fell in love with him, they married and then she found out who he was: a conman who was determined to destroy her.The instant bestselling story of Lee Mackenzie, who was a capable and confident young woman, studying broadcast journalism and honing her skills of observation and objectivity. She was also a little unworldly, the product of a small, rural Western Canadian community where doors ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Heritage

    Critical Approaches

    by Rodney Harrison ...
    Historic sites, memorials, national parks, museums…we live in an age in which heritage is ever-present. But what does it mean to live amongst the spectral traces of the past, the heterogeneous piling up of historic materials in the present? How did heritage grow from the concern of a handful of enthusiasts and specialists in one part of the world to something which is considered to be universally ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Under the Harrow

    A Novel

    by Flynn Berry ...
    **"A thriller for fans of The Girl on the Train and Gone Girl...[with] a striking, original voice all Berry’s own.” —The New York Times Book ReviewThe riveting, Edgar Award-winning first novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Northern Spy and A Double Life**When Nora takes the train from London to visit her sister in the countryside, she expects to find her waiting at the station, or ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Empire Writes Back

    Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures

    by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin ...
    Series series New Accents
    The experience of colonization and the challenges of a post-colonial world have produced an explosion of new writing in English. This diverse and powerful body of literature has established a specific practice of post-colonial writing in cultures as various as India, Australia, the West Indies and Canada, and has challenged both the traditional canon and dominant ideas of literature and culture ... Read more

    $48.99 USD