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Green Hills of Africa
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Hemingway's journal of a month on safari in East Africa. This is Hemingway's East African safari journal. 'All I wanted to do was get back to Africa' Green Hills of...
Jane Eyre
This Scholastic Classics edition of Charlotte Bronte's well-known romances is perfect for students and Bronte enthusiasts alike. One of the greatest gothic love stories of all time, Jane Eyre tells...
America's Literary Legends: The Lives and Burial Places of 50 Great
'America's Literary Legends' is a concise, yet truly distinctive and comprehensive review of 50 authors and poets who shaped American literature from the 1600s through the mid-twentieth century. Fully grounded...
Hadriana in All My Dreams
Set during Carnival in Haiti 1938, a young and beautiful woman named Hadriana drinks a mysterious potion on her wedding day and collapses at the altar. She is buried and...
The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive
In 2017 the Salvator Mundi was sold at auction for $450m. But is it a real da Vinci? In a thrilling narrative built on formidable research, Ben Lewis tracks the...
Rome and Rhetoric: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
Renaissance plays and poetry in England were saturated with the formal rhetorical twists that Latin education made familiar to audiences and readers. Yet a formally educated man like Ben Jonson...
Updating the Literary West
"Western writers," says Thomas J. Lyon in his epilogue to Updating the Literary West, "have grown up with the frontier myth but now find themselves in the early stages of...
The Very British Problems Quiz Book
What does 'custard and jelly' mean in cockney rhyming slang?Which biscuit has half of its name on top of the cooker and the other half on the door?And 25 million...
Edward Thomas: A Portrait
Edward Thomas 1878-1917, published author, critic, and essayist, died at 39, a casualty of World War I. At the suggestion of his friend Robert Frost, Thomas began to write poetry...
Soldiers: Great Stories of War and Peace
'A gripping new collection from Max Hastings that puts you at the heart of the battle ... Compelling' Daily Mail'An unmissable read' Sunday Times Soldiers is a very personal gathering...
German School Dictionary: Trusted support for learning (Collins School
The must-have Back to School German dictionary for Year 7.A pocket-sized German to English and English to German reference for secondary school students looking for a dictionary that is modern,...
Vocabulary and Grammar for the TOEFL iBT (R) Test (Collins English for
Master essential grammar, boost your vocabulary, and improve your TOEFL score! Fully updated to match the new test from July 2023, Collins Vocabulary and Grammar for the TOEFL iBT (R)...
First Spanish Dictionary: 500 first words for ages 5+ (Collins First
Bag the perfect KS1 Spanish dictionary this Back to School. An ideal first Spanish dictionary for kids aged 5+ and above, designed to introduce Spanish vocabulary to children in a...
Shakespeare's Book: The Intertwined Lives Behind the First Folio
'A lively picture of multiple operators scrambling to steal a march on the competition . . . Lavishly detailed'FINANCIAL TIMES 'This is Shakespearean scholarship at its best, brilliantly researched yet...
Apple of My Eye
'Utterly addictive. Compulsive, twisty, tense.' CLAIRE DOUGLAS, author of Local Girl MissingJust how far is a mother willing to go? When a mysterious note arrives for seven months pregnant nurse...
Bradford's Crossword Solver's Lists: More than 100,000 solutions for
Hundreds of word lists, arranged thematically, to help with solving cryptic and quick crossword clues. The lists are sorted alphabetically and by length, and provide an invaluable reference for all...
The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett: A Selective Bibliography of
A selectively comprehensive bibliography of the vast literature about Samuel Beckett's dramatic works, arranged for the efficient and convenient use of scholars on all levels.Charles A. Carpenter is Professor Emeritus...
Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature
From the Jazz Age through the Kennedy administration, Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) stood at the center of the American cultural scene. A champion of the young Ernest Hemingway, a loyal friend...
Water and Fire: The Myth of the Flood in Anglo-Saxon England
Noah's Flood is one of the Bible's most popular stories, and flood myths survive in many cultures today. This book presents the first comprehensive examination of the incorporation of the...
The Literary Vocation of Henry Adams
In the mid-1880s, Henry Adams committed himself to a posture that has since been associated with his name: neglected patrician, doomsayer, literary man whose bereavement at his wife's suicide confirmed...
John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation, and Tradition
New essays demonstrate Gower's mastery of the three languages of medieval England, and provide a thorough exploration of the voices he used and the discourses in which he participated. John...
A Ciceronian Sunburn: A Tudor Dialogue on Humanistic Rhetoric and
The poetry of Spenser, Sidney, and their contemporaries viewed as rhetorical discourse. ""A Ciceronian Sunburn"" reconsiders the complexion of Tudor poetics by demonstrating the ways in which poets and pedagogues...
Whores of Babylon: Catholicism, Gender, and Seventeenth-Century Print
In Whores of Babylon, Frances E. Dolan offers a perceptive study of the central role that Catholics and Catholicism played in early modern English law, literature, and politics. She contends...
Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was the greatest writer in a Britain that ruled the largest empire the world has known, yet he was always a controversial figure, as deeply hated as...
Nein!: Standing up to Hitler 1935-1944
From bestselling and prize-winning author Paddy Ashdown, a revelatory new history of German opposition to Hitler.'Ashdown has a great gift for narrative history. He unearths little known stories and places...
The Joy Of English: 100 Illuminating Conversations about the English
This is a pencil-sharp book about English for anyone who ever needs to write. In an easy-to-read style, it offers accessible and constructive advice to help you improve your English...
The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English
A 'delightfully eccentric' (Daily Mail) day in the life of unusual, beautiful and forgotten English words.The Horologicon (or book of hours) gives you the most extraordinary words in the English...
The Very British Problems Quiz Book
What does 'custard and jelly' mean in cockney rhyming slang?Which biscuit has half of its name on top of the cooker and the other half on the door?And 25 million...
The Boy Who Fell into a Book
Rockfist Slim's enemies have just plunged him into yet another desperate situation when Kevin has to close his detective book and go to sleep. But his own adventure is only...
Dublin Palms
The palm trees give the street a holiday atmosphere. There must be something in the soil they like. They have straight leaves that get a bit ragged, with split ends....
Book Of Shakespearian Useless Info
This book commemorates the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death on 23 April 1616.Everyone knows that the only book we buy more often than a work of Shakespeare is the...
Through the Leopard's Gaze
In her captivating memoir Through the Leopard's Gaze, Njambi McGrath details the harrowing circumstances of her life as a young girl in Kenya, who one fateful night was beaten to...
Reading Champion: The Three Little Rats: Independent Reading Orange 6
This story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute...
The Chosen: who pays the price of a writer's fame?
'A delicate novel, finely judged and full of insight' Hilary MantelSHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA GOLD CROWN AWARD 2023One Wednesday morning in...
The Hotel Room Mix-Up
Two weddings, three hotel reservations gone awry...and one weekend in Cornwall they'll never forget! When the similarities between Ella Swift and Callum Smith's last names lead to a hotel...
Bradford's Crossword Solver's Lists: More than 100,000 solutions for
Hundreds of word lists, arranged thematically, to help with solving cryptic and quick crossword clues. The lists are sorted alphabetically and by length, and provide an invaluable reference for all...
Collins Jamaican School Dictionary
The home of trusted Jamaican dictionaries and thesauruses for school use.Collins Jamaican School Dictionary has been specially developed in association with teachers in Jamaica to ensure it meets the needs...
The War Diaries: World War II Written by the People Who Lived Through
Based on select writings from an exceptional Amsterdam archive containing more than two thousand Dutch diaries from World War II, The War Diaries illuminates a part of history we haven't...
Shakespeare: The World as a Stage
Bill Bryson's biography of William Shakespeare unravels the superstitions, academic discoveries and myths surrounding the life of our greatest poet and playwright. Ever since he took the theatre of Elizabethan...
French Essential Dictionary and Grammar: Two books in one (Collins
The home of trusted French dictionaries for everyday language learning An up-to-date French to English and English to French dictionary with a practical, user-friendly grammar guide, all in one handy...
Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses
A Book of the Year in The Times, Guardian, Independent, New Statesman, Bookseller and at Waterstones'He understands only the women he invents - the others not at all' Thomas Hardy...
School Dictionary and Thesaurus: Trusted support for learning (Collins
The must-have Back to School dictionary and thesaurus for Year 7.The English School Dictionary and Thesaurus is the perfect English reference tool for all students aged 11+ (KS3). In a...
Ian Fleming: The man who created James Bond
The definitive biography of author Ian FlemingIan Fleming's life was just as dramatic as that of his fictional creation, James Bond 007. Andrew Lycett's direct access to Fleming's family, friends...
Reading Champion: Puss in Boots and Kitty: Independent Reading
This story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute...
Reading Champion: Tom and the Gingerbread Man: Independent Reading
This story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute...
Correct English: The classic practical reference guide to using spoken
This classic book by Brian Phythian has been updated and simplified to make it accessible and relevant to today's readers. Never has the ability to express yourself well - in...
Reading Champion: Little Red Riding Hood and her Dog: Independent
This story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute...