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The Black Interior
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Author: Elizabeth Alexander Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 221 Legendary poet Elizabeth Alexander turns her finely-honed sensibilities to the subject of blackness and the interior world of the modern African-American....
House of Exile: The Lives and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger-Mann
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Author: Evelyn Juers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 In 1933, the author and political activist Heinrich Mann and his partner, Nelly Kroeger, fled Nazi Germany, finding refuge first in...
Attention: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction
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Author: Professor of Political Science Joshua Cohen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 "Attention reveals a fresh, vital literary voice as it covers seemingly every imaginable...
Bibliophile: Diverse Spines
Author: Jamise Harper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 It's time to diversify your reading list. This richly illustrated and vastly inclusive collection uplifts the works of authors who are...
Young Eliot: From St. Louis to the Waste Land
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Author: Robert Crawford (University of St Andrews) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 A groundbreaking new biography of one of the twentieth century's most important poets On the fiftieth anniversary...
The Tummy Trilogy: American Fried / Alice, Let's Eat / Third Helpings
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Author: Calvin Trillin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 In the 1970s, Calvin Trillin informed America that its most glorious food was not to be found at the pretentious restaurants...
Patrick White: A Life
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In Full View
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Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Author: Fiona Sampson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Beautifully told. It is high time Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Aurora Leigh were once again household names.' - Mail on Sunday...
In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
Author: Elena Ferrante Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 'Elena Ferrante has established herself as the foremost writer in Italy - and the world.' - The Sunday Times A delightful...
Night Beat: Shadow History of Rock and Roll
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Impossible Owls: Essays from the Ends of the World
Author: Brian Phillips Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Hilarious, nimble, and thoroughly illuminating' Colson Whitehead, author of The Underground Railroad 'Recalls the work of John...
Love Unknown: The Life and Worlds of Elizabeth Bishop
Author: Thomas Travisano Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 1 An illuminating new biography of one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop's friend James...
My One True Love
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On Sledge and Horseback to Outcast Siberian Lepers
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Adultery And Other Diversions
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An Illustrated Treasury
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The Man Who Left Too Soon: The Biography of Stieg Larsson
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Granta 70: Australia
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Tete-a-Tete: The Lives and Loves of Simone de Beauvoir & Jean-Paul Sartre
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The Road to Middlemarch: My Life with George Eliot
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The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul
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A Voyage Round John Mortimer
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Thoughtlines: Reflections of a Public Man
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Of This Our Country: Acclaimed Nigerian writers on the home, identity and culture they know
Author: Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth. Many have tried, but most have concluded that it is impossible to capture...
You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
Author: Zora Neale Hurston Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 'One of the greatest writers of our time.' Toni Morrison 'You Don't Know Us Negroes adds immeasurably to...
Making Waves: Essays
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Author: Mario Vargas Llosa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Spanning thirty years of writing, Making Waves traces the development of...
Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography Through Essays
Author: Claire Messud Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Arranged in three parts, Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write opens with Claire's most personal...
The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker
Author: Jelani Cobb Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 A collection of the New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in America, including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison,...
This Rare Spirit: A Life of Charlotte Mew
Author: Julia Copus Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The British poet Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) was regarded as one of the best poets of her age by fellow writers, including...
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...
Breaking Bread with the Dead: Reading the Past in Search of a Tranquil Mind
Author: Alan Jacobs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Should we still bother with the supposedly great works of past ages? Aristotle believed that men were naturally superior to women....
There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness
Author: Carlo Rovelli Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 One of the most inspiring thinkers of our age transforms the way we think about the world with his reflections on...
Mao's Last Dancer
Author: Li Cunxin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Before you can fly, you have to be free. A new edition of the phenomenal international bestseller. From bitter...
The Bad Boy of Athens: Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones
Author: Daniel Mendelsohn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace ... He writes about things so clearly...
Gold (slipcase edition) - Chris Cleave
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Author: Chris Cleave Format: Hardback in Slipcase Number of Pages: A heart-pounding novel about the extremes to which people will go for success, from the bestselling author of Little Bee.In the tradition...