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A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction
Author: Terry Pratchett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Terry Pratchett in his own words - a collection of writing by the creator of Discworld, about his life,...
Where My Feet Fall: Going for a Walk in Twenty Stories
Author: Duncan Minshull Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Where can a walk take you? It goes without saying, walking can connect us to our surroundings and free...
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Penguin Classics relaunch After reading Christmas Carol, the notoriously reculsive Thomas Carlyle was "seized with a perfect convulsion of...
Lost Worlds: What Have We Lost and Where Did it Go?
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In the Presence of Power: Court and Performance in the Pre-Modern Middle East
Author: Maurice A. Pomerantz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Insights into power, spectacle, and performance in the courts of Middle Eastern rulers In recent decades, scholars have produced much...
The Oxford Book of Exploration
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Accounts of China and India
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...
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023
Author: R. F Kuang Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 "Short stories have to accomplish a nearly impossible magic trick: to introduce a world often much stranger than our own...
Granta 115: The F-Word
Author: John Freeman (Editor, Granta magazine) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Women in the twenty-first century - from Kent to Accra - still live in a world...
Bedside Companion for Food Lovers: An anthology of literary morsels for every night of the year
Author: Jane McMorland Hunter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A mouthwatering anthology of food in literature, encompassing fiction and non-fiction, prose and poetry, and even a smattering of recipes,...
A Hundred and One Nights
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...
Granta 160: Conflict
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...
In Darfur: An Account of the Sultanate and Its People
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 Heart of Things: An Anthology of Memory and Lament
Author: Richard Holloway Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Richard Holloway is one of our most beloved public thinkers. As Bishop of Edinburgh and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church...
The Reason Why: Anthology of the Murderous Mind
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Great Australian Stories: Legends, yarns and tall tales
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Brave Enough: A Mini Instruction Manual for the Soul
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Granta 121: Best of Young Brazilian Novelists
Author: John Freeman (Editor, Granta magazine) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Since Granta's inaugural list of the Best of Young British Novelists in 1983 - featuring Salman Rushdie, Ian...
The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell
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Granta 158: In the Family
Author: Sigrid Rausing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 232 Granta 158: In the Family features Fatima Bhutto on her dog Coco, Chris Dennis on parenting, Charif Majdalani (tr. Ruth Diver)...
Xurt'an: The End of the World and Other Myths, Songs, Charms, and Chants by the Northern Lacandones of Naha'
Author: Suzanne Cook Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 536 Xurt'an (the end of the world) showcases the rich storytelling traditions of the northern Lacandones of Naha' through a collection of...
More Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience
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As We Wave You Goodbye: Australian Women and War
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The Wicked Wit of Oscar Wilde
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...
Dead Girls
Author: Nancy Lee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Subtly linked by the background narrative of a serial killer's arrest in Vancouver, the stories in this collection inhabit a dark,...
Literary Melbourne: A Celebration of Writing and Ideas
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Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War
Author: Matt Gallagher Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Fire and Forget includes the title story from Redeployment by Phil Klay, 2014 National Book Award Winner in FictionThese stories aren't...
Off down the Track: Racing & Other Yarns
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The Best American Science Writing 2009
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
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Furies: Stories of the Wicked, Wild and Untamed
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Greek and Latin Anthology - Part III Greek Epigrams and Sappho
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Two Centuries
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Granta 156: Interiors
Author: Sigrid Rausing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 248 This summer issue features fiction by Jesse Ball, Eva Freeman, OkwiriOduor, Tao Lin, Adam O'Fallon Price, Vanessa Onwuemezi, KathrynScanlan and Diane...
The Oxford Book of Letters
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Freeman's Power
Author: John Freeman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 From the voices of protesters to the encroachment of a new fascism, everywhere we look power is revealed. Spouse to spouse,...
Granta 81: Best Of Young British Novelists 3
Author: Granta Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 As with the first two Young British Novelists issues, Granta's 2003 list was compelling and prescient. The issue introduced readers to fiction...
Granta 154: I've Been Away for a While
Author: Sigrid Rausing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 This issue features Lindsey Hilsum, author of the award-winning In Extremis, on cholera in Hutu refugee camps; Ian Jack on the...
Freeman's Home: The Best New Writing on Home
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Author: John Freeman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The third literary anthology in the series that has been called 'ambitious' (O Magazine) and 'strikingly international' (Boston Globe), Freeman's: Home,...
The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
Author: Viet Nguyen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 In January 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping entry to the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries and...
The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
Author: Viet Nguyen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 In January 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping entry to the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries and...
Letters of Note: Sex
Author: Shaun Usher Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 In Letters of Note: Sex, Shaun Usher collects together some of the most noteworthy missives ever written on the subject, from...
Letters of Note: Dogs
Author: Shaun Usher Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 In Letters of Note: Dogs, Shaun Usher brings together a delightful collection of correspondence about our canine friends, featuring affectionate accounts...
Letters of Note: Grief
Author: Shaun Usher Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 In Letters of Note: Grief, Shaun Usher gathers together some of the most powerful messages about grief, from the heart-wrenching pain...
The Hey Nonny Handbook
Author: Julia Jeffries Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 This is a literary survival guide to the middle years for women with teenage children, elderly parents and husbands in crisis....
The Literary Companion to Medicine
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Letters of Note: Fathers
Author: Shaun Usher Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 In Letters of Note: Fathers, Shaun Usher collects together remarkable correspondence by and about fathers, including proud parental words of love,...
Letters of Note: Space
Author: Shaun Usher Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 In Letters of Note: Space, Shaun Usher brings together fascinating correspondence about the universe beyond our planet, containing hopeful thoughts about...