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Shakespeare's Book: The Intertwined Lives Behind the First Folio
Author: Chris Laoutaris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 'A lively picture of multiple operators scrambling to steal a march on the competition . . . Lavishly detailed' Financial Times...
How Proust Can Change Your Life
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One Toss of the Dice: The Incredible Story of How a Poem Made Us Modern
Author: R. Howard Bloch (Yale University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The forerunner of our digital age, a French poem about a shipwreck published in 1897, with its mind-bending...
The Sword of Ambition: Bureaucratic Rivalry in Medieval Egypt
Author: 'Uthman ibn Ibrahim al-Nabulusi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 478 Patronage, power, and competition in the Sultan's court The Sword of Ambition opens a new window onto interreligious rivalry...
Books That Saved My Life: Reading for Wisdom, Solace and Pleasure
Author: Michael McGirr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A profound, funny and uplifting collection of reminiscences about a life in books Here are forty texts to read at some...
Orwell and the Dispossessed
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 An expansive collection of George Orwell's writing on the down and out The vivid, impassioned writings collected together in...
Classical Literary Criticism
Author: Penelope Murray Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The works collected in this volume have profoundly shaped the history of criticism in the Western world- they created...
Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War
Author: Duncan White Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 752 'White handles hefty quantities of research effortlessly, combining multiple biographies with a broader overview of the period. His energetic, anecdote-laden prose...
Troublesome Words
Author: Bill Bryson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 With Troublesome Words, bestselling writer Bill Bryson gives us a clear, concise and entertaining guide to the problems of...
Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature
Author: Sarah Hart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'A hugely entertaining and well-written tour of the links between math and literature. Hart's lightness of touch and passion for both...
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: with Pearl and Sir Orfeo
Author: J. R. R. Tolkien Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 This smart new paperback edition contains the fully-reset text of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the...
The Penguin Henry Lawson: Short Stories
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Fly Away Peter
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The Modern Library: 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950
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Is Heathcliff a Murderer?: Puzzles in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Author: John Sutherland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Does Becky kill Jos at the end of Vanity Fair? Why does no one notice that Hetty is pregnant...
My Reading Life: Adventures in the World of Books
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The Ancient Fable: An Introduction
Author: Niklas Holzberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 We are all familiar with the moralizing animal tales ascribed to Aesop. Described as fiction that conveys truths, fables can be...
The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators
Author: Martin Edwards Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 736 Winner of four major prizes for the best critical/biographical book related to crime fiction: the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity and H.R.F. Keating...
Euripides: Ion
Author: Laura Swift Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 "Euripides' Ion" is the story of a young man's search for his identity, and a woman's attempt to come...
Truth and Beauty: A Friendship
Author: Ann Patchett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 From the bestselling author of The Dutch House, Commonwealth and Bel Canto, Winner of The Women's Prize for Fiction and the...
Writing in the Dark: Bloomsbury, the Blitz and Horizon Magazine
Author: Will Loxley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 'An army of bitchy, backstabbing, rivalrous literary greats inhabit this energetic history... Loxley's voice is energetic and enthused' The Times 'I...
William Golding: The Man who Wrote Lord of the Flies
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Journeys from Scandinavia: Travelogues of Africa, Asia, and South America, 1840-2000
Author: Elisabeth Oxfeldt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 328 For all of the scholarship done on postcolonial literatures, little has been applied to Scandinavian writing. Yet, beginning with...
How to Read a Book
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Who's Who and What's What in Shakespeare: A Complete A-Z Reference Guide of 6000 Entries
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Guarded by Dragons: Encounters with Rare Books and Rare People
Author: Rick Gekoski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The Times Best Literary Non-fiction Books 2021 - 'a super yarn' 'Rick Gekoski's encyclopaedic knowledge of rare books is matched only...
The Dark Powers of Tolkien: An illustrated Exploration of Tolkien's Portrayal of Evil, and the Sources that Inspired his Work from Myth, Literature and History
Author: David Day Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 J.R.R. Tolkien's THE LORD OF THE RINGS, THE HOBBIT and THE SILMARILLION are some of the greatest tales of good versus...
Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers
Author: Mary Wellesley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'This book is an expression of love... Sublimely conceived and beautifully written' Gerard DeGroot, The Times 'Immersive, conversational and...
Guarded by Dragons: Encounters with Rare Books and Rare People
Author: Rick Gekoski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The Times Best Literary Non-fiction Books 2021 - 'a super yarn' 'Rick Gekoski's encyclopaedic knowledge of rare books is matched only...
Black and Female
Author: Tsitsi Dangarembga Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Being categorised as black and female does not constrain my writing. Writing assures me that I am more than merely blackness...
Seeking the Centre: The Australian Desert in Literature, Art and Film
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Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World
Author: Mark Aldridge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 From the very first book publication in 1920 to the recent film release of Death on the Nile, this investigation into...
Dorothy Hewett: Selected Critical Essays
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Memoirs of Many in One
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How to Read Poetry Like a Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse
Author: Thomas C Foster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 From the bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes this essential primer to reading poetry like...
The Oxford Literary History of Australia
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Egg
Author: Dr. Nicole Walker (Northern Arizona University, USA) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 168 Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary...
The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History
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My Invented Country: A Memoir
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Twenty-First-Century Tolkien: What Middle-Earth Means To Us Today
Author: Professor Nick Groom Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Ever since The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien was first published in 1937 the popularity of the vast, imaginative world he...
Woman in a Lampshade
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The Shelf
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Twenty-First-Century Tolkien: What Middle-Earth Means To Us Today
Author: Professor Nick Groom Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Ever since The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien was first published in 1937 the popularity of the vast, imaginative world he...
Wonderworks: Literary invention and the science of stories
Author: Angus Fletcher Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 Literature is a technology like any other. And the writers we revere - from Homer to Shakespeare, Austen to Ferrante -...
Leaving Home
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Words On Words: Quotations About Language And Languages
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"Tolkien's Gown" and Other Stories of Great Authors and Rare Books
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