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Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1954-2008
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I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys
Author: Miranda Seymour Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'An absolute belter of a biography' MARINA HYDE A Times Literary Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2022 An LA Times Best...
The Secret Garden
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Greek Voices in Australia: A Tradition of Prose, Poetry and Drama
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Round the World in Eighty Days
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The Avenel Companion to English and American Literature
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All the WorldÕs a Stage
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Two Little Savages
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Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Author: Joan Didion Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Twelve early pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of Joan Didion. Mostly drawn...
The Call of the Tribe: Essays
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 In The Call of the Tribe, Mario Vargas Llosa surveys the readings that haveshaped the way he thinks and has...
The Faber Book of Reportage
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The Total Library: Non-Fiction 1922-1986
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Above Capricorn
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This Rare Spirit: A Life of Charlotte Mew
Author: Julia Copus Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 'An exquisitely told account of the life of a half-forgotten London poet whose work was admired by Hardy, Sassoon and Virginia...
The Hyacinth Girl: T. S. Eliot's Hidden Muse
Author: Lyndall Gordon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 Among the greatest of poets, TS Eliot protected his privacy while publicly associated with three women: two wives and a church-going...
The Disappearance of Emile Zola: Love, Literature and the Dreyfus Case
Author: Michael Rosen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Pronounced guilty of libel and sentenced to a year in prison, novelist Emile Zola went on the run. Zola's crime had...
Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane
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James and Nora
Author: Edna O'Brien Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 It was June 10th, Barnacle Day. He saw her in Nassau Street and they stopped to talk. She thought his blue...
The Three Billy-Goats Gruff
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Compassing the Vaste Globe of the Earth: Studies in the History of the Hakluyt Society 1846-1996
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The Heart of the Matter
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The Spirit of the Bush Fire Series Part 1
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The Mint Lawn
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Virginia Woolf
Author: Nigel Nicolson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 'You cannot find peace by avoiding life' Virginia Woolf An intimate portrait of Virginia, the best-known and most influential Bloomsbury author...
Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life
Author: Brigitta Olubas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 The authorised biography of Shirley Hazzard, one of the greatest writers in the English language, author of The Transit of Venus...
The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem
Author: Matthew Hollis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 The Waste Land is said to be the greatest poem of the age. It is thought to describe the moral decay...
Not Far From Brideshead: Oxford Between the Wars
Author: Daisy Dunn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Oxford thought it was at war. And then it was. After the horrors of the First World War, Oxford looked like...
Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
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Farther Away
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Advertisements for Myself
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Yours Truly: Women of Letters
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In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers
Author: William Palmer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'Sympathetic and wonderfully perceptive . . . a heartbreaking read' NICK COHEN, Critic 'Wise, witty and empathetic . . . outstanding'...
Make It Scream, Make It Burn
Author: Leslie Jamison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'Intelligent, compassionate, and so fiercely, prodigiously brave. This is the essay at its creative, philosophical best' - Eleanor Catton, author of...
Souvenir
Author: Michael Bracewell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 'The best evocation I've read of London in the '80s' Neil Tennant 'I loved Souvenir . . . it rescued some...
The Hyacinth Girl: T. S. Eliot's Hidden Muse
Author: Lyndall Gordon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 The revealing of T. S. Eliot's hidden muse - Emily Hale, the Hyacinth Girl of the famous The Waste Land poem...
Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Author: Joan Didion Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 From one of our most iconic and influential writers: twelve pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the...
Orwell's Roses
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Not Far From Brideshead: Oxford Between the Wars
Author: Daisy Dunn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Oxford thought it was at war. And then it was. After the horrors of the First World War, Oxford looked like...
Homo Irrealis
Author: Andre Aciman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 In Homo Irrealis Andre Aciman explores what the present tense means to artists who cannot grasp the here and now. Irrealis...
Where the Past Begins: Memory and Imagination
Author: Amy Tan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 From New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir on her life as a writer, her childhood and the symbiotic...
Dickory Dock Annual 1982
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Wild Man of Letters
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The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
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Maps and Legends
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A Special India
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Mask or Face
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A Family Affair
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The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life: NOW A MAJOR APPLE TV MOTION PICTURE
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