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On the Good Life

On the Good Life

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Author: Cicero Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 For the great Roman orator and statesman Cicero, 'the good life' was at once a life of contentment and one...
The Book of the Courtier

The Book of the Courtier

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Author: Baldesar Castiglione Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 In The Book of the Courtier (1528), Baldesar Castiglione, a diplomat and Papal Nuncio to Rome, sets out to...
Six Memos for the Next Millennium

Six Memos for the Next Millennium

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Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 A new translation of Calvino's influential last work Italo Calvino was due to deliver the Charles Eliot Norton lectures...
Essays

Essays

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Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 These essays, reviews and articles illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this...
The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951

The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951

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Author: Lord John Julius Norwich Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 The long awaited and highly revealing diaries of the politician, diplomat, and socialite (married to Lady Diana Cooper) 'This...
Accounts of China and India

Accounts of China and India

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Author: Abu Zayd al-Sirafi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 124 The ninth and tenth centuries witnessed the establishment of a substantial network of maritime trade across the Indian Ocean, providing...
A Hundred and One Nights

A Hundred and One Nights

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Author: Bruce Fudge Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A luminous translation of Arabic tales of enchantment and wonder Translated into English for the very first time, A Hundred and...
Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time

Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time

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Having and Being Had

Having and Being Had

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Author: Eula Biss Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A timely and arresting new look at affluence by a consistently surprising writer. "My adult life can be divided into two...
The End of the Golden Gate: Writers on Loving and (Sometimes) Leaving San Francisco

The End of the Golden Gate: Writers on Loving and (Sometimes) Leaving San Francisco

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Author: Gary Kamiya Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Capturing an ever-changing San Francisco, 25 prolific writers tell their stories of living in one the most mesmerising cities in the...
The Windsor Diaries: A childhood with the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret

The Windsor Diaries: A childhood with the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret

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Author: Alathea Fitzalan Howard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 **SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **A...
Dreaming Too Loud

Dreaming Too Loud

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Literary Melbourne: A Celebration of Writing and Ideas

Literary Melbourne: A Celebration of Writing and Ideas

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The Oxford Book of Exploration

The Oxford Book of Exploration

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The Needle's Eye: Passing Through Youth

The Needle's Eye: Passing Through Youth

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Author: Fanny Howe Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 A meditation on time, violence, and chance by "one of America's most dazzling poets" (O, The Oprah Magazine) Fanny Howe's The...
Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology

Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology

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Author: Ellen Ullman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The never-more-necessary return of one of our most vital and eloquent voices on technology and culture, the author of the seminal...
How Proust Can Change Your Life

How Proust Can Change Your Life

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Texas

Texas

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England Your England: Notes on a Nation

England Your England: Notes on a Nation

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Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Ranging from an expedition down a coal mine to a chastening experience of colonial rule in Burma, and from...
Scenes and Apparitions: The Roy Strong Diaries 1988-2003

Scenes and Apparitions: The Roy Strong Diaries 1988-2003

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Author: Sir Roy Strong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 'Viper wit from the gardener, writer and Knight of exquisite taste' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Funny, barbed and moving ......
Experience

Experience

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Author: Martin Amis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'Martin Amis is a seriously good writer, and never on better form than now. Experience, the book of his...
Between Eternities: and Other Writings

Between Eternities: and Other Writings

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Author: Javier Marias Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 An exhilarating, far-ranging collection of non-fiction writing from the internationally acclaimed author of A Heart So White and The...
Citizen: An American Lyric

Citizen: An American Lyric

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Author: Claudia Rankine Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The critically acclaimed exploration of mounting racial aggressions in 21st century daily life and in the media In this...
Essays

Essays

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Author: Michel Montaigne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Reflections by the creator of the essay form display the humane, skeptical, humorous, and honest views of Montaigne, revealing...
The Keillor Reader: Looking Back at Forty Years of Stories: Where Did They All Come From?

The Keillor Reader: Looking Back at Forty Years of Stories: Where Did They All Come From?

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Author: Garrison Keillor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Stories, monologues, and essays by Garrison Keillor, founder and host of A Prairie Home Companion The first retrospective from...
Phaedrus

Phaedrus

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Author: Plato Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Phaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato's most profound and beautiful works. It takes the form of a dialogue...
Granta 145: Ghosts

Granta 145: Ghosts

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Author: Sigrid Rausing Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Margaret Atwood, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Julian Barnes, Roberto Bolano, Jeffrey Eugenides, Nadine Gordimer, Nick Hornby, Kazuo Ishiguro, Han Kang,...
How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness and Community in Times of Global Crises - The short essay that helped change the Covid-19 debate

How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness and Community in Times of Global Crises - The short essay that helped change the Covid-19 debate

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Author: Paolo Giordano Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 80 'The literature of the time after begins here' EVENING STANDARD 'A jolt of brevity and simplicity' THE TIMES 'In...
Essays

Essays

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Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 A collection of Orwell's major essays, in a stunning new cover look for his great works These essays, reviews...
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France,...
Maxims and Reflections

Maxims and Reflections

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Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Throughout his long, hectic and astonishingly varied life, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) would jot down his...
Italian Journey 1786-1788

Italian Journey 1786-1788

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Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 In 1786, when he was already the acknowledged leader of the Sturm und Drang literary movement, Goethe...
Guide to Greece: Central Greece

Guide to Greece: Central Greece

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Author: Pausanias Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 Written in the second century AD by a Greek traveller for a predominantly Roman audience, Pausanias' Guide to Greece is...
Selected Political Speeches

Selected Political Speeches

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Author: Cicero Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Amid the corruption and power struggles of the collapse of the Roman Republic, Cicero (106-43BC) produced some of the most...
Culture and Anarchy and Other Selected Prose

Culture and Anarchy and Other Selected Prose

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Author: Matthew Arnold Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Poet, education reformer, social theorist and passionate critic of Victorian England, Matthew Arnold condemned an industrial society in 'bondage...
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise

The Letters of Abelard and Heloise

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Author: Peter Abelard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The story of Abelard and Heloise remains one of the world's most celebrated and tragic love affairs. Through their...
Granta 160: Conflict

Granta 160: Conflict

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Author: Sigrid Rausing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 232 From Nobel laureates to debut novelists, international translations to investigative journalism, each issue of Granta turns the attention of the world's...
The Ancient Fable: An Introduction

The Ancient Fable: An Introduction

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Author: Niklas Holzberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 We are all familiar with the moralizing animal tales ascribed to Aesop. Described as fiction that conveys truths, fables can be...
In Darfur: An Account of the Sultanate and Its People

In Darfur: An Account of the Sultanate and Its People

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Author: Muhammad al-Tunisi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 430 A merchant's remarkable travel account of an African kingdom Muhammad al-Tunisi (d. 1274/1857) belonged to a family of Tunisian merchants trading...
The Wicked Wit of Oscar Wilde

The Wicked Wit of Oscar Wilde

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Author: Maria Leach Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 A celebration of the virtuoso of well-turned phrases and the master of the studied insult with this collection of his most...
The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators

The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators

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Author: Martin Edwards Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 736 Winner of four major prizes for the best critical/biographical book related to crime fiction: the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity and H.R.F. Keating...
Let Me Tell You What I Mean

Let Me Tell You What I Mean

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Author: Joan Didion Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Twelve early pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of Joan Didion. Mostly drawn...
Homo Irrealis

Homo Irrealis

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Author: Andre Aciman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 In Homo Irrealis Andre Aciman explores what the present tense means to artists who cannot grasp the here and now. Irrealis...
The Gifts of Reading

The Gifts of Reading

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Author: Robert Macfarlane Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 With contributions by: William Boyd, Candice Carty-Williams, Imtiaz Dharker, Roddy Doyle, Pico Iyer, Robert Macfarlane, Andy Miller, Jackie Morris, Jan Morris,...
The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker

The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker

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Author: Jelani Cobb Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 848 A collection of the New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in America, including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates,...
Common Ground: Issues That Should Bind and Not Divide Us

Common Ground: Issues That Should Bind and Not Divide Us

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Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings

Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings

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Author: Reyna Grande Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 ""Wide-ranging yet consistently affecting, these pieces offer a crucial and inspired survey of the immigrant experience in America."" -Publishers Weekly "[These...
Kiss Me, Chudleigh

Kiss Me, Chudleigh

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Author: William Cook Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Auberon Waugh has been compared to Jonathan Swift. He was an outrageous satirist who slaughtered whole herds of sacred cows and...