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All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by the bestselling author of JUST MY TYPE
Author: Simon Garfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The encyclopaedia once shaped our understanding of the world. Created by thousands of scholars and the most obsessive of editors, adults...
Puss in Books: Our best-loved writers on their best-loved cats
Author: Paul Magrs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 A charming collection of quotes about cats from our favourite authors, accompanied by artwork in the trademark style of Paul Magrs...
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by the bestselling author of JUST MY TYPE
Author: Simon Garfield Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Witty and geekily eclectic' The Times An erudite and amusing exploration' Financial Times 'Full of jawdropping facts' Mail on Sunday 'Remarkable...
Doctor Faustus
Author: Christopher Marlowe Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 This fully re-edited, modernised play text is accompanied by commentary notes and an introduction written by Paul Menzer, guiding you through...
Bookshops
Author: Jorge Carrion Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Why do bookshops matter? How do they filter our ideas and literature? In this inventive and highly entertaining extended essay, Jorge...
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by the bestselling author of JUST MY TYPE
Author: Simon Garfield Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Witty and geekily eclectic' The Times An erudite and amusing exploration' Financial Times 'Full of jawdropping facts' Mail on Sunday 'Remarkable...
Literature for a Changing Planet
Author: Martin Puchner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Reading literature in a time of climate emergency can sometimes feel a bit like fiddling while Rome burns. Yet, at this...
Jonathan Swift
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Weatherland: Writers and Artists under English Skies
Author: Alexandra HarrisFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 410g, 432 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2016The story of English culture over a thousand years can be told as the...
Teachings from the Worldly Philosophy
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The Life and Strange Suprising Adventures of Daniel Defoe
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Byron: Life and Legend
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All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by the bestselling author of JUST MY TYPE
Author: Simon Garfield Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The encyclopaedia once shaped our understanding of the world. Created by thousands of scholars and the most obsessive of editors, a...
The Short Oxford History of English Literature
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Ben Jonson: A Life
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Coleridge: Darker Reflections
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Robert Burns: A superb collection from Scotland's finest lyrical poet
Author: Robert Burns Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 'Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!' Robert Burns Robert Burns, poet and...
The Outsider
Author: Colin WilsonFormat: Paperback, 131mm x 196mm, 236g, 336 pagesPublished: Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom, 2001Wilson rationalized the psychological dislocation so characteristic of Western creative thinking into a coherent theory...
The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading
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Pleasure of Thinking
Author: Wang XiaoboFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 170g, 224 pagesPublished: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2024The dazzling essays of the beloved, subversive Chinese writer Wang Xiaobo, a continual bestseller in...
The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End
Author: Katie Roiphe Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The last days of five great thinkers, writers and artists - as they come to terms with the reality of approaching...
Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City
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Time and Time Again
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The Duchess of Malfi and Other Plays
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A New Deal for New York
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World of Christopher Marlowe
Author: David Riggs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 This is the definitive book about the man who revolutionised English drama and English poetry - and was murdered in his...
Warrior's Words: A Quotation Book - From Sesostris III to Schwarzkopf, 1871 B.C.-1991 A.D.
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Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread
Author: Michiko Kakutani Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 **SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020** From renowned, Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic, Michiko Kakutani, comes an inspiring and gorgeously...
Worlds Elsewhere: Journeys Around Shakespeare's Globe
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Puss in Books: Our best-loved writers on their best-loved cats
Author: Paul Magrs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 A charming collection of quotes about cats from our favourite authors, accompanied by artwork in the trademark style of Paul Magrs...
Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion
Author: Michelle Dean Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week 'This is such a great idea for a book, and Michelle Dean carries...
The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry: with The Lady Falkland: Her Life, by One of Her Daughters
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Fanny Trollope
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Samuel Johnson: A Personal History
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