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All great cities inspire great literature but no other city has so consistently stimulated the literary imagination as London. Over the centuries writer, poets, historians, artists, and simple observers have...

One of our most beloved and elemental fairy tales, in tellings from across the centuries and around the world--published to coincide with Disney's live-action 3D musical film Beauty and the...

As Stephen King will attest, the popularity of the occult in American literature has only grown since the days of Edgar Allan Poe. American Supernatural Tales celebrates the richness of...

Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners - the stories collected in this volume made Oscar Wilde's name as a writer of fiction, showing breathtaking dexterity in...

A suburban psychic's ominous warning. A conversation in Yuwaalaraay. A glimpse of a shameful hidden history. Alove that moves a mountain. In this unwavering follow-up to After Australia , 12...

Griffith Review 71: Remaking the Balance features essays, reportage, memoir, fiction and poetry that examine our relationship with resources both tangible and intangible, physical and personal. What we grow, eat,...

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) In honor of the hundredth anniversary of Evelyn Waugh's birth, four of the master's most wickedly scathing comedies are here brought together in one volume. "Black...

The meaning of consciousness, the mechanics of the mind and otherworldly transition or disrupted states - such as trance, sleep-walking, amnesia and locked-in syndrome - are perennially fascinating issues. The...

Nik Cohn on Bounce in New Orleans Richard Sennett: why he stopped playing in public Hugo Williams: Dr Feelgood Richard Williams: Frank Sinatra Philip Hensher: the accident that robbed him...

Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads...

Over the last 20 years, the author of this book had been sending out Christmas crackers - a commonplace selection of prose and poetry - to his friends instead of...

"The essay has taught me how to live," writes Jia Tolentino, this year's Best American Essays guest editor. In a time of escalating authoritarianism and disinformation, we turn to artists...

In time for the one-year anniversary of the Trump Inauguration and the Women's March, this provocative, unprecedented anthology features original short stories from thirty bestselling and award-winning authors-including Alice Walker,...

"Short stories can act like little tuning forks, helping us to clarify our own values," writes guest editor Celeste Ng. "In a time when our values are being tested daily,...

Of science fiction and fantasy, guest editor Nnedi Okorafor writes, "There are times when it feels like a box, but within it, technically, you can expect anything." The twenty stories...

'Our Songlines continue through our lived experiences. The strength, resilience, hope and love is heard and felt deeply within each of these stories. Our Elders share their culture and wisdom...

[untitled] is a short story anthology that promotes new and emerging talent from all over the world, and primarily Australia. Featuring Rhiannon Raphael, Fran Collings, Ashley Kalagian Blunt, Pamela Baker,...

Travel writing matters Explore the world through this beautiful collection of the finest travel writing published in British media in the 21st century - as judged by some of the...

Travel writing matters Explore the world through this beautiful collection of the finest travel writing published in British media in the 21st century - as judged by some of the...

'Captures moments in time like nothing else.' RICHARD E. GRANT 'Intimate . . . and rarely predictable.' MICHAEL PALIN 'Completely fascinating and inspiring. Completely addictive.' STEPHEN FRY 'A volume to...

Ever since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle delighted readers with the fictional genius detective, Sherlock Holmes, crime fiction has been plumbed by mystery writers everywhere. This volume of 12 stories spans...

The book titled Campbell's Kingdom/White South Duo by the author Hammond Innes. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Anthology of Crime Stories by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Passing of Starr Faithfull by the author Jonathan Goodman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Volume 66. No. 1 of Meanjin features Robert Dessaix, Leigh Redhead, Christina Stead, Henry Handel Richardson, and Matthew Flinders, among others.

Novelist, critic, lecturer, reviewer, man-about-conferences, David Lodge, as both analyst and practitioner, is one of our foremost experts in the forms of fiction. He is also an uncommonly sympathetic and...

The book titled A Literary Companion to Paris by the author Ian Littlewood. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

From seven masters of historical fiction-including New York Times bestseller Kate Quinn-comes a richly imagined anthology of stories which bring the epic tale of the Trojan War to life. Troy:...

The book titled The Royal Beasts and Other Works by the author William Empson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

"School", wrote Henry Green, "is no odder than the world outside, only more concentrated." It is also an experience that everyone has to undergo, and many people have left accounts...

Collected and annotated lyrics from one of music's most visionary bards, John Darnielle. A work of rapturous beauty, This Year- 365 songs annotated celebrates the creative life and the musical...

A powerful new anthology of feminist voices throughout history and from around the world The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing selects writing from across time and throughout the world, creating...

Beautifully produced and a perfect gift for travellers newly wedded or not - by turn funny, tender, acerbic and charming. Includes extracts from: Paul Bowles, Dorothy Sayers, D. H. Lawrence,...

John Carey is an acclaimed critic and editor of the bestselling The Faber Book of Science and The Faber Book of Reportage. In his spellbinding new anthology he charts the...

The book titled The Faber Book of Fevers and Frets by the author D. J. Enright. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Not Prince Hamlet: Literary and Theatrical Memoirs by the author Michael Meyer. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Over a thousand years of memoirs, reminiscences, and letters are represented in this collection of almost 500 literary anecdotes. Here we encounter those famous for their wit and eccentricity, such...

""Three Generations of Englishwomen V2"" is a historical book that was written by Janet Ross and published in 1888. The book is a collection of memoirs and correspondence from three...

The book titled Insights - Women in Quote: Women in Quote by the author Pamela Newland. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A beautiful collection of poems and readings to mark any occasion, including christenings, weddings and funerals those special occasions in life all need to be marked with words bigger and...

A captivating collection of women's writing - including everything from poetry, letters, novels, memoir, and journals - that celebrates the joy of being a woman. This glorious collection takes a...

A captivating collection of women's writing - including everything from poetry, letters, novels, memoir, and journals - that celebrates the joy of being a woman. This glorious collection takes a...

The book titled Humorous Stories by the author Henry Lawsson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The stories in this celebrated collection are about ordinary women, men and children. Unemployed, on the way back to prison, marriages in tatters, they confront their fates with hard-won optimism,...

Step into a world of enchantment with this captivating collection of prose and poetry, fact and fiction on myth and magic, folklore and faery. Bedside Companion to Folklore and Magic...

The book titled Theatre of Sleep: Anthology of Literary Dreams by the author Guido Almansi. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.