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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...
How To Read Montaigne
Author: Terence CaveFormat: Paperback, 130mm x 197mm, 105g, 112 pagesPublished: Granta Books, United Kingdom, 2007Montaigne (1533-92) is commonly regarded as an early modern sceptic, standing at the threshold of a...
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...
Literary Activists: Writer-intellectuals and Australian Public Life
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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 'Witty and geekily eclectic' The Times An erudite and amusing exploration' Financial Times 'Full of jawdropping facts' Mail on Sunday 'Remarkable...
Keep It Fake
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The Life of John Milton
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Greece: A Literary Guide for Travellers
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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...
Worlds Elsewhere: Journeys Around Shakespeare's Globe
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Warrior's Words: A Quotation Book - From Sesostris III to Schwarzkopf, 1871 B.C.-1991 A.D.
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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...
Spirit of Place: Artists, Writers and the British Landscape
Author: Susan OwensFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 580g, 352 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2021When we look at the landscape, what do we see? Do we experience the...
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...
Liberty Against the Law
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Shakespeare
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The Enchantment of English: Professing English Literatures in Australian Universities
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Milton: Everyman's Poetry
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The Practice of Writing
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White Noise: Text and Criticism
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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...
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...
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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Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City
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A New Deal for New York
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The Duchess of Malfi and Other Plays
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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...