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Abominations: Selected essays from a career of courting self-destruction

Abominations: Selected essays from a career of courting self-

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The first essay collection from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.'This trenchant, unrepentant collection reminds you that she's a brilliant writer... Order a copy in case she's...
Style and Substance: Why What We Wear Matters

Style and Substance: Why What We Wear Matters

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'Compelling' HARPER'S BAZAAR'Richly textured' GRAZIA'Completely riveting . . . an eclectic compendium of style, subversion and literary snippets . . . all about the magical meaning of clothes' CALENDAR MAGAZINEMaya...
The Protocols of the Elders of Sodom: And Other Essays

The Protocols of the Elders of Sodom: And Other Essays

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These provocative essays explore the links between literature, history and politics, through an examination of the work of Cervantes, Tolstoy, Proust, Musil, Roth, Platonov, Soltzhenitsyn, Grossman, Munif, Rushdie and others....
The Power of Nonviolent Resistance: Selected Writings

The Power of Nonviolent Resistance: Selected Writings

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In time for the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of his birth, a specially curated collection of Mahatma Gandhi's writings on nonviolent resistance and activism. A Penguin Classic In time...
Malled: My Unintentional Career in Retail

Malled: My Unintentional Career in Retail

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The Faber Book of Seductions

The Faber Book of Seductions

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London: City of Disappearances

London: City of Disappearances

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Superhero for Hire: True Stories From the Small Ads

Superhero for Hire: True Stories From the Small Ads

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Narrative of an Expedition from Tripoli in Barbary, to the Western Frontier of Egypt in 1817 (1822)

Narrative of an Expedition from Tripoli in Barbary, to the Western Frontier of Egypt in 1817 (1822)

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My Brother's Ashes are in a Sandwich Bag

My Brother's Ashes are in a Sandwich Bag

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Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism and Minding Other People's Business

Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism and Minding Other People's

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'Gay has an ability to blend the personal and political in a way that feels simultaneously gentle and brutal . . . you look at a cultural moment through Gay's...
Busted in New York & Other Essays: with an introduction by Zadie Smith

Busted in New York & Other Essays: with an introduction by Zadie Smith

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'[Pinckney] reveals himself to be a skilful chronicler of black experience in literary criticism, reportage and biography' The New York Times In these twenty-five essays, Darryl Pinckney has given us...
The Virago Book of the Joy of Shopping

The Virago Book of the Joy of Shopping

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Plays, Prose Writings And Poems

Plays, Prose Writings And Poems

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Effortlessly achieved, each revealing a different aspect of his brilliance, all of the plays, prose writings, and poems gathered here support Wilde's belief that entertainment provides the best kind of...
The Power of Nonviolent Resistance: Selected Writings

The Power of Nonviolent Resistance: Selected Writings

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In time for the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of his birth, a specially curated collection of Mahatma Gandhi's writings on nonviolent resistance and activism. A Penguin Classic In time...
The Book About Everything: Eighteen Artists, Writers and Thinkers on James Joyce's Ulysses

The Book About Everything: Eighteen Artists, Writers and Thinkers on

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To celebrate the centenary of the publication of Ulysses, the most important literary work of the twentieth century, eighteen artists, writers and thinkers respond to an episode each of the...
Best Wishes: The funny new book from the bestselling, much loved and eternally hopeful author of The Land Before Avocado and Flesh Wounds

Best Wishes: The funny new book from the bestselling, much loved and eternally hopeful author of The Land Before Avocado and Flesh Wounds

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Australia Through a Woman's Eyes

Australia Through a Woman's Eyes

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Childhood: An Anthology

Childhood: An Anthology

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Loss: An Anthology

Loss: An Anthology

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True Men As We Need Them: A Book Of Instruction For Men In The World (1888)

True Men As We Need Them: A Book Of Instruction For Men In The World (1888)

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The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left Handed Poems

The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left Handed Poems

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The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists

The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists

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The Adventure of Food: True Stories of Eating Everything

The Adventure of Food: True Stories of Eating Everything

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Impossible Owls: Essays from the Ends of the World

Impossible Owls: Essays from the Ends of the World

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Hilarious, nimble, and thoroughly illuminating' Colson Whitehead, author of The Underground Railroad'Recalls the work of John Jeremiah Sullivan and the late David Foster Wallace, with a dash...
The Queen Is Dead: The passionate and powerful bestselling book by critically acclaimed journalist and author of Talking to My Country and Australia Day

The Queen Is Dead: The passionate and powerful bestselling book by

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The latest critically acclaimed bestseller from Stan Grant, leading journalist and author of Talking to My Country and Australia Day, The Queen is Dead is an extraordinary and powerful call...
The Discovery and Conquest of Peru

The Discovery and Conquest of Peru

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Dazzled by the sight of the vast treasures being unloaded at Seville's docks in 1537, Pedro de Cieza de Leun decided to join the Spanish effort in the New World,...
Beyond the Hero: Classic Stories of Men in Search of Soul

Beyond the Hero: Classic Stories of Men in Search of Soul

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Oh, To Be a Painter!

Oh, To Be a Painter!

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Virgina Woolf's collection of writings on visual arts offer a whole new perspective on the revolutionary author.Despite wide interest in Woolf's writings, her circle, and her relationship with the visual...
Three Dads Walking: 300 Miles of Hope

Three Dads Walking: 300 Miles of Hope

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Melbourne Subjective - An Anthology of Contemporary Melbourne Writing

Melbourne Subjective - An Anthology of Contemporary Melbourne Writing

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Pen Is Mightier Than the Sword: Skoob Pacifica Anthology No.2

Pen Is Mightier Than the Sword: Skoob Pacifica Anthology No.2

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Meet Me at the Museum: Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2018

Meet Me at the Museum: Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2018

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The Illustrated Christmas Cracker

The Illustrated Christmas Cracker

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Wild Minds

Wild Minds

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Small Wonder: Author of Demon Copperhead, Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction

Small Wonder: Author of Demon Copperhead, Winner of the Women's Prize

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Whether she is contemplating the Grand Canyon, her vegetable garden, motherhood, adolescence, genetic engineering, TV watching, the history of civil rights, or the future of a nation founded on the...
Cristina and Her Double: Selected Essays

Cristina and Her Double: Selected Essays

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Simon Schama in defence of the essay in the age of Twitter writes: 'The self-propulsion of a ranging intelligence is the dynamo that drives a powerful essay; the headlong gallop...
Granta 165: Deutschland

Granta 165: Deutschland

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The autumn issue of Granta will include fiction by Judith Hermann and Clemens Meyer (tr. Katy Derbyshire) and essays by Lauren Oyler, Lutz Seiler (tr. Martyn Crucefix) and Peter Richter....
Bear Woman: The brand-new memoir from one of Sweden's bestselling authors

Bear Woman: The brand-new memoir from one of Sweden's bestselling

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For readers of Rachel Cusk, Lisa Taddeo and the essays of Zadie Smith, Bear Woman is a beautifully wrought memoir from one of Sweden's bestselling authorsA beautifully written and astonishing...
People Who Lunch: On Work, Leisure, and Loose Living

People Who Lunch: On Work, Leisure, and Loose Living

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A riveting investigation of the utopian experiments attempting to resist the unrelenting demands of late-stage capitalism-only to end up living comfortably alongside itWhat do post-work politics, the cult of crypto,...
The Givenness Of Things

The Givenness Of Things

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Robinson has plumbed the depths of the human spirit in her trilogy of novels - Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead, Orange-Prize winning Home and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Lila - and...
The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

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THE VIEW FROM THE CHEAP SEATS draws together myriad non-fiction writing by international phenomenon and Sunday Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman. From Make Good Art, the speech that went viral,...
The Celestial Realm: SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY INDEPENDENT NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR IRISH BOOK AWARDS

The Celestial Realm: SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY INDEPENDENT NEWCOMER

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"Phil doesn't like physical affection. She doesn't love you because you don't exist. She doesn't care if you have something important coming up. A busy week, a daunting appointment, a...
Letters to my Fanny

Letters to my Fanny

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Generation Lockdown Writes: A collection of winning entries from the 'Generation Lockdown Writes' competition

Generation Lockdown Writes: A collection of winning entries from the

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April 2020: the country is deep in the first lockdown as a result of coronavirus. Young people are left rootless, without school or friends and isolated at home. In this...
Granta: 46: Crime

Granta: 46: Crime

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The Princess Diarist

The Princess Diarist

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Campfire Tales...Ghosts, Ghosties and Long-legged Beasties

Campfire Tales...Ghosts, Ghosties and Long-legged Beasties

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