ReadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2025

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John Blades Author

John Blades has lectured in English Literature at the universities of Leeds and Durham, UK.

Robert Browning: The Poems cover

Robert Browning: The Poems

John Blades - Hardback

£70.00

Shakespeare: The Sonnets cover

Shakespeare: The Sonnets

John Blades - Hardback

£70.00

How to Study James Joyce cover

How to Study James Joyce

John Blades - Paperback

£29.99

Shakespeare: The Histories cover

Shakespeare: The Histories

John Blades - Paperback

£24.99

John Keats cover

John Keats

John Blades - Paperback

£23.99

Wordsworth and Coleridge cover

Wordsworth and Coleridge

John Blades - Paperback

£24.99

Robert Browning: The Poems cover

Robert Browning: The Poems

John Blades - Paperback

£24.99