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Lives of Houses
Author: Kate Kennedy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A group of notable writers - including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow - celebrate...
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
A landmark feminist intervention- a dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and art - and how we think about them. 'Destined to become a new classic' Chris Kraus A...
Guarded by Dragons: Encounters with Rare Books and Rare People
Author: Rick Gekoski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Rick Gekoski has been traversing the rocky terrain of the rare book trade for over fifty years. The treasure he seeks...
How Proust Can Change Your Life
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Twelfth Night (No Fear Shakespeare): Volume 8
Author: SparkNotes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of Twelfth Night on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the...
One Toss of the Dice: The Incredible Story of How a Poem Made Us Modern
Author: R. Howard Bloch (Yale University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The forerunner of our digital age, a French poem about a shipwreck published in 1897, with its mind-bending...
Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity
Author: Joseph Farrell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A major new interpretation of Vergil's epic poem as a struggle between two incompatible versions of the Homeric heroThis compelling book...
Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded, with Risible Rhymes: Volume Two
Author: Yusuf al-Shirbini Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 360 Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Yusuf al-Shirbini's Brains Confounded pits the "coarse" rural masses against the "refined" urban population. In Volume One,...
Create Dangerously
Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry 'To create today is to create...
Finding Eliza: Power and Colonial Storytelling: First Nations Classics
Now included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction by Fiona Foley, Finding Eliza is a vital Indigenous perspective on colonial storytelling. Aboriginal lawyer, writer and filmmaker Larissa...
Two Lives
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: Vikram Seth Format: Hardback...
Christina Stead
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My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein: A Fiction
'In one short and sly book after another, Levy writes about characters navigating swerves of history and sexuality, and the social and personal rootlessness that accompanies both' Atlantic Who was...
How Fiction Works
A deep, practical anatomy of the novel from 'the strongest ... literary critic we have' (New York Review of Books) Rediscover this deep, practical anatomy of the novel from 'the...
Dante's Divine Comedy: A Biography
Written during his exile from Florence in the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy describes the poet's travels through hell, purgatory, and paradise, exploring the state of the human soul...
Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship
An insightful exploration that unveils the lesser-known dimensions of this legendary writer and her legacy, revealing the cultural icon's profound impact as a visionary editor who helped define an important...
The Merchant of Venice
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Suppose a Sentence
Suppose a Sentence is a critical and personal reflection on the art of the sentence in literature. It is both an experiment in the attentive form of the essay -...
Relic
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Every culture, every religion, every era has enshrined otherwise regular objects with a...
The Poison Principle: A Memoir About Family Secrets And Literary Poisonings
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Author: Gail BellBinding: PaperbackPublisher: Picador, 2001Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe memoir The Poison...
89 Words followed by Prague, A Disappearing Poem
89 Words, published in 1985, is an expanded version of the dictionary of sorts that readers encountered in The Art of the Novel, and comprises a fascinating and rigorous interrogation...
Esenin: A Life
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good, pages appear clean and intact. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Binding appears sound with no loose pages noted. A...
The Graces: The Extraordinary Untold Lives of Women at the Restoration
'Impressively original and ingenious . . . Brings the talented women of the Restoration Court gracefully to life' OPHELIA FIELD, author of The Favourite A spellbinding work of history that...
Affinities
In Affinities, Brian Dillon explores images and artists he is drawn to or loves, and tries to analyse the attraction. What do we mean when we claim affinity with an...
Books - A Manifesto: Or, How to Build a Library
This is a book about books, about the subversive power of reading and the strange, enduring magic of books as objects. Ever since childhood, books have been at the centre...
Love In A Dark Time: Gay Lives From Wilde To Almodóvar
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