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For a Song and a Hundred Songs
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Lincoln and Whitman: Parallel Lives in Civil War Washington
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Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas
Author: Matthew HollisFormat: Paperback, 156mm x 233mm, 215g, 416 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2012Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now...
Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas
Author: Matthew HollisFormat: Paperback, 156mm x 233mm, 215g, 416 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2012Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now...
The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels
Author: Adam NicolsonFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 410g, 400 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2020SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2019'This is a book of wonders' Sunday Times'Spellbinding and intelligent'...
Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage
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Pepys and his Contemporaries
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Victor Hugo: A Biography
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Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life
Author: Brigitta OlubasFormat: Paperback, 126mm x 196mm, 500g, 576 pagesPublished: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, 2023Cosmopolitan, richly intelligent, beautiful, questing - Shirley Hazzard's writing reflects her life. The acclaim...
Orwell: A Man Of Our Time
Author: Richard Bradford (University of Ulster, UK) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 One of the most enduringly popular and controversial writers of the twentieth century, George Orwell's work is...
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
Author: Lauren ElkinFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 197mm, 321g, 368 pagesPublished: Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom, 2024A landmark feminist intervention- a dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and art - and...
You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
Author: Zora Neale Hurston Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 452 'One of the greatest writers of our time.' Toni Morrison 'You Don't Know Us Negroes adds immeasurably to our understanding...
Wild Hope
Author: Marisa Bate Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Retracing my mother's footsteps in search of women's freedom 1974. A 22-year-old Jacqui French stands for a photograph in...
Charles Darwin
Author: J. David Archibald Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 In 1859 Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species. In this bedrock of biology books Darwin carved a new...
Creative Writer's Sourcebook: 50 Great Authors & 175 Writing Exercises
Author: John Gillard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Explore the style and technique of the world's greatest writers in this compendium to be treasured by literature lovers. From Katherine...
The Green Lady: A Spirit, A Story, A Place
Author: Sally Bayley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 From the critically acclaimed author Sally Bayley, The Green Lady is a poignant, brilliant exploration of the relationships between children and...
Louis-Ferdinand Celine: Journeys to the Extreme
Author: Damian Catani Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Louis-Ferdinand Cline was one of the most innovative novelists of the twentieth century, and his influence both in his native France...
The Green Lady: A Spirit, A Story, A Place
Author: Sally Bayley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 From the critically acclaimed author Sally Bayley, The Green Lady is a poignant, brilliant exploration of the relationships between children and...
Dr. B.
Author: Daniel Birnbaum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The former director of the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm makes his literary debut with this dramatic and riveting novel...
The Man Within My Head: Graham Greene, My Father and Me
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Jane Austen, Early and Late
Author: Freya Johnston Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 A reexamination of Austen's unpublished writings that uncovers their continuity with her celebrated novels-and that challenges distinctions between her "early" and...
Dante
Author: John Took Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 608 An authoritative and comprehensive intellectual biography of the author of the Divine Comedy. For all that has been written about the...
Now Comes Good Sailing: Writers Reflect on Henry David Thoreau
Author: Andrew Blauner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 From twenty-seven of today's leading writers, an anthology of original pieces on the author of Walden Features essays by Jennifer Finney...
Dr. B.
Author: Daniel Birnbaum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The former director of the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm makes his literary debut with this dramatic and riveting novel...
Bookends: Collected Intros and Outros
Author: Michael Chabon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 A brilliant, idiosyncratic collection of introductions and afterwords (plus some liner notes) by New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize winning...
black girl, no magic: reflections on race and respectability
Author: Kimberly McIntosh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 In a complex world, who is allowed to be complicated? Who is entitled to a messy life full of triumphs, mistakes...
The Catch: Fishing for Ted Hughes
Author: Mark Wormald Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'An absolute gem . . . I was delightfully lost by the river throughout' Paul Whitehouse 'Marvellous . . . The...
The Catch: Fishing for Ted Hughes
Author: Mark Wormald Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'An absolute gem . . . I was delightfully lost by the river throughout' Paul Whitehouse 'Marvellous . . . The...
Life in Culture: Selected Letters of Lionel Trilling
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Author: Lionel Trilling Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 A great critic's quarrels with himself and others, as revealed in his correspondence In the mid-twentieth century, Lionel Trilling was America's...
Letters to Gil
Author: Malik Al Nasir Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'A searing, triumphant story. A testament to the tenacity of the human spirit as well as a beautiful ode to...
Masquerade: The Lives of Noel Coward
Author: Oliver Soden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 656 'This is the biography - truthful, sympathetic and thorough - that Coward deserves' DAILY TELEGRAPH The voice, the dressing-gown, the cigarette...
Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape and Home
Author: Alexander Wolff Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 In 2017, acclaimed journalist Alexander Wolff moved to Berlin to take up a long-deferred task: learning his family's history. His grandfather...
Sherlock Unlocked: Little-known Facts About the World's Greatest Detective
Author: Daniel Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Consulting detective Sherlock Holmes has been fascinating generations of readers, watchers and listeners for over 130 years, since he first appeared...
And When Did You Last See Your Father?
Author: Blake Morrison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 And when did you last see your father? Was it when they burnt the coffin? Put the lid on it? When...
J. M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing: Face-To-Face with Time
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The Kit-Cat Club: Friends Who Imagined a Nation
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The Crichel Boys: Scenes from England's Last Literary Salon
Author: Simon Fenwick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 In 1945, Eddy Sackville-West, Desmond Shawe-Taylor and Eardley Knollys - writers for the New Statesman and a National Trust administrator -...