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Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CRITIC AND ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF NEGROLAND Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2022 Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize for Non-Fiction 2023 'This is one of...
Devolving English Literature
Questions the manner in which, since the 18th century, a supposed English cultural centre has controlled the way we read. The author interrogates the Anglocentricity of the subject "English literature",...
Still Alive: An Autobiographical Essay
Still Alive recounts the perilous odyssey of a renowned man of letters through the endless political crises of Eastern Europe in the mid-20th century. Jan Kott - Polish essayist and...
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
Taking in the jazz and blues icons whom Jefferson idolised as a child in the 1950s, ideas of what the female body could be - as incarnated by trailblazing Black...
Girl Logic: The Genius and the Absurdity
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From breakout stand-up comedian Iliza Shlesinger comes a subversively funny collection of essays and observations on the secret genius of irrational behavior. Have you ever been pissed because you're not...
The Book at War: How Reading Shaped Conflict and Conflict Shaped
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A "magisterial" ( Sunday Times ) history of how books were used in war across the twentieth century--both as weapons and as agents for peace We tend not to talk...
Sphere History of English Literature Volume 9: American Literature Since 1900
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On Tuesdays I'm a Buddhist: Expeditions in an in-between world where therapy ends and stories begin
Author: Michael Harding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 One day in the summer of 2016, Michael Harding's wife brought an unusual gift home from Warsaw. All of a sudden,...
Introducing Joyce: A Graphic Guide
Author: David Norris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 One of the most famous and influential novels of the 20th century, Joyce's Ulysses is often described as the most difficult...
The Thurber Letters: The Wit, Wisdom and Surprising Life of James Thurber
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The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them
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The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Lady Antonia Fraser Format:...