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How Proust Can Change Your Life
Author: Alain de Botton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 'Dazzling' John Updike'What a marvellous book this is... de Botton dissects what [Proust] had to say about friendship,...
A Moveable Feast
Author: Ernest Hemingway Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for...
Love Letters: Vita and Virginia
Author: Vita Sackville-West Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The radical, relatable, and playful love story between two extraordinary twentieth-century writers, revealed in selected letters and diary entries....
The Shelf
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Author: Phyllis Rose Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Can you have an Extreme Adventure in a library? Phyllis Rose casts herself into the wilds of an Upper East Side...
Why She Wrote: A Graphic History of the Lives, Inspiration, and Influence Behind the Pens of Classic Women Writers
Author: Hannah K. Chapman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In Why She Wrote, dive into the fascinating, unexpected, and inspiring stories behind the greatest women writers in the English...
The Fire Next Time
Author: James Baldwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 'We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation'...
A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction
Author: Terry Pratchett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Terry Pratchett in his own words - a collection of writing by the creator of Discworld, about his life,...
News from Nowhere and Other Writings
Author: William Morris Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Poet, pattern-designer, environmentalist and maker of fine books, William Morris (1834-96) was also a committed socialist and visionary writer,...
Aspects of the Novel
Author: E. M. Forster Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 E.M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel is an innovative and effusive treatise on a literary form that, at...
The Best American Essays 2022
Author: Alexander Chee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning writer Alexander Chee. Alexander Chee, an essayist of "virtuosity and power"...
In the Heart of the Country: A Novel
Author: J. M. Coetzee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A story told in prose as feverishly rich as William Faulkner's, In the Heart of the Country is...
In My Father's Court
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Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Like Isaac Bashevis Singer's fiction, this poignant memoir of his childhood in the household and rabbinical court of his father...
My Generation: Collected Nonfiction
Author: William Styron Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 656 Including significant previously uncollected material, My Generation is the definitive gathering of the fruits of this beloved writer's five decades of...
Little Faith
Author: Nickolas Butler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Lyle Hovde is at the onset of his golden years, living a mostly content life in rural Wisconsin with...
Orwell in Spain
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 An exhilarating collection of Orwell's writing on the Spanish Civil War The volume collects together Orwell's writings on his...
Orwell's England
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 All of Orwell's brilliant writing on England and Englishness collected in a single volume Much of George Orwell's best...
Why Read the Classics?
Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Why Read the Classics? is an elegant defence of the value of great literature by one of the finest...
Boy: Tales of Childhood
Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Boy is Roald Dahl's extraordinary glimpse into his childhood and early life. 'An autobiography is a book a person...
Not a Novel: Collected Writings and Reflections
Author: Jenny Erpenbeck (Y) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 Not a Novel gathers together the best of Jenny Erpenbeck's non-fiction. Drawing from her 25 years of thinking and writing,...
Not a Novel: Collected Writings and Reflections
Author: Jenny Erpenbeck (Y) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Not a Novel gathers together the best of Jenny Erpenbeck's non-fiction. Drawing from her 25 years of thinking and writing,...
Nicholas Nickleby
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 One of the touchstones of the English comic novel, the Penguin Classics edition of Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby is...
The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2022
Author: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A collection of the best science and nature articles written in 2021, selected by guest editor renowned marine biologist Dr....
The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators
Author: Martin Edwards Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 736 Nominated for the 2023 Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical book. In the first major history of crime fiction in fifty years,...
Voices of History: Speeches that Changed the World
Author: Simon Sebag Montefiore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 VOICES OF HISTORY celebrates the great speeches of world history and cultural life. In this exuberant collection, acclaimed historian Simon...
The Golden Flea
Author: Michael Rips Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 For decades the legendary Chelsea flea market sprawled over several blocks on the west side of Manhattan. Visitors would...
Texas
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Reasons to Stay Alive
Author: Matt Haig Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 What does it mean to feel truly alive? Aged 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no...
How Proust Can Change Your Life
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The Wine-Dark Sea
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Experience
Author: Martin Amis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'Martin Amis is a seriously good writer, and never on better form than now. Experience, the book of his...
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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12 Edmondstone Street
Author: David Malouf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 This remarkable book combines autobiography with a subtle, almost painterly sense of the ways in which the objects which...
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...
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...
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...
William Golding: The Man who Wrote Lord of the Flies
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The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life
Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The Sunday Times no. 1 memoir now in paperback The Pigeon Tunnel, John le Carre's memoir and his...
Common Ground: Issues That Should Bind and Not Divide Us
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Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings
Author: Reyna Grande Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 ""Wide-ranging yet consistently affecting, these pieces offer a crucial and inspired survey of the immigrant experience in America."" -Publishers Weekly "[These...
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...
Memoirs of Many in One
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Agamemnon's Kiss: Selected Essays
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The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History
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Lady Audley's Secret
Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Weathering critical scorn, Lady Audley's Secret quickly established Mary Elizabeth Braddon as the leading light of Victorian 'sensation'...
My Invented Country: A Memoir
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