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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...
Ocean of Story: Uncollected Stories of Christina Stead
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Ginsberg: A Biography
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How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor: A Smart, Irreverent Guide to Biography, History, Journalism, Blogs, and Everything in Between
Author: Thomas C Foster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor uses the same skills to teach...
Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded, with Risible Rhymes: Volume Two
Author: Yusuf al-Shirbini Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 360 Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Yusuf al-Shirbini's Brains Confounded pits the "coarse" rural masses against the "refined" urban population. In Volume One,...
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...
Flash House
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Forger's Shadow: How Forgery Changed the Course of Literature
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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...
The Shelf
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Doctor
Author: Dr. Andrew Bomback (Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, USA) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the...
Dorothy Hewett: Selected Critical Essays
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Crusoe's Secret: The Aesthetics of Dissent
Author: Tom Paulin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Comprised of pieces spanning five centuries, Crusoe's Secret explores the culture of English dissent, whether through canonical works -...
Literary Landscapes: Great Britain and Ireland
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First Person
Author: Richard Flanagan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Flanagan's best work to date.' - Readings Magazine What is the truth? In this blistering story of a ghost writer haunted...
Chekhov
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Peter Porter
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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...
Primo Levi: Tragedy of an Optimist
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The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare
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Woman in a Lampshade
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The Almond Picker
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Title Deeds: the Hidden Stories Behind 50 Books
Author: Gary Dexter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 292 In this entertaining collection of literary anecdotage, based on the popular Sunday Telegraph column, Gary Dexter reveals the intriguing stories behind...
The Fiction:Glory: A Novel
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The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge
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Little Faith
Author: Nickolas Butler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Lyle Hovde is at the onset of his golden years, living a mostly content life in rural Wisconsin with his wife,...
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English
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Life Lessons from Literature
Author: Joseph Piercy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 'I read a book one day and my whole life was changed' ... So confesses the narrator of Orhan Pamuk's novel...
Poor Naked Wretches: Shakespeare's Working People
Author: Stephen Unwin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Was Shakespeare a snob? Poor Naked Wretches challenges the idea that our greatest writer despised working people, and shows that he...
Annals of Australian Literature
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The Wife of Bath: A Biography
Author: Marion Turner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 344 Ever since her triumphant debut in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognisably real woman...
Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science
Author: Renee Bergland Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 440 A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of nature. Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin...
The Western Canon
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The Tempest
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Works on Paper
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Women of Will: Following the Feminine in Shakespeare's Plays
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How to Read Literature
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The World Republic of Letters
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Arts of Impoverishment: Beckett, Rothko, Resnais
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Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic
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Searching for Juliet: The Lives and Deaths of Shakespeare's First
'Invigorating ... engaging ... thrilling' Samantha Ellis, GUARDIAN'An astonishing tour-de-force . . . Juliet has found the biographer she deserves' Marion TurnerA cultural, historical, and literary exploration of the birth,...
Ghost Season
With supreme skill and reverence, capturing shards, stillness and chaos, Fatin Abbas delivers a novel that gallops close and parallel to current events in Sudan.A dynamic, beautifully orchestrated debut novel...
The Demidenko Debate
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Literary Links: Celebrating the Literary Relationship Between Australia and Britain
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Oppositions: Selected Essays
'Mary Gaitskill is willing to think about the problematic with complexity and humanity, and without taking sides or engaging in all the fashionable moral hectoring that passes for serious thought...
Oppositions: Selected Essays
'Mary Gaitskill is willing to think about the problematic with complexity and humanity, and without taking sides or engaging in all the fashionable moral hectoring that passes for serious thought...
Essays On The Art Of Angela Carter: Flesh and the Mirror
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As the Crow Flies
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