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Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

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Author: Jia Tolentino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A Times book of the year A Guardian book of the year 'Magnificent'The Times 'Dazzling' New Statesman 'It filled...
Everything I Know About Love: Now a Major BBC One Series

Everything I Know About Love: Now a Major BBC One Series

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Author: Dolly Alderton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The wildly funny Sunday Times bestseller about growing up and navigating all kinds of love along the way When...
Artists' Letters: Leonardo da Vinci to David Hockney

Artists' Letters: Leonardo da Vinci to David Hockney

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Author: Michael Bird Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Artists' Letters is a treasure trove of carefully selected letters written by great artists, providing the reader with a unique insight...
Making Waves: Essays

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...
Dear Mr Murray: Letters to a Gentleman Publisher

Dear Mr Murray: Letters to a Gentleman Publisher

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Author: David McClay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The publishing house of John Murray was founded in Fleet Street in 1768 and remained a family firm over seven generations....
Wind, Sand and Stars

Wind, Sand and Stars

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Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Both a gripping tale of adventure and a poetic meditation, Antoine de Saint Exupery's Wind, Sand and Stars...
Love, Henri: Letters on the Spiritual Life

Love, Henri: Letters on the Spiritual Life

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Author: Henri J. M. Nouwen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'When I write I think deeply about my friends, I pray for them, I tell them my emotions and...
Why Read the Classics?

Why Read the Classics?

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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...
Vesper Flights: The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of H is for Hawk

Vesper Flights: The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of H is for Hawk

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Author: Helen Macdonald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 From the bestselling author of H is for Hawk comes a transcendent collection of essays about the natural world...
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020

Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020

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Author: Salman Rushdie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A collection of the finest essays by the 'Best of the Booker' winner, following on from his much-acclaimed STEP...
Italian Journey 1786-1788

Italian Journey 1786-1788

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Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 In 1786, when he was already the acknowledged leader of the Sturm und Drang literary movement, Goethe...
On the Good Life

On the Good Life

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Author: Cicero Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 For the great Roman orator and statesman Cicero, 'the good life' was at once a life of contentment and one...
Selected Political Speeches

Selected Political Speeches

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Author: Cicero Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Amid the corruption and power struggles of the collapse of the Roman Republic, Cicero (106-43BC) produced some of the most...
Culture and Anarchy and Other Selected Prose

Culture and Anarchy and Other Selected Prose

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Author: Matthew Arnold Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Poet, education reformer, social theorist and passionate critic of Victorian England, Matthew Arnold condemned an industrial society in 'bondage...
Long Players: Writers on the Albums That Shaped Them

Long Players: Writers on the Albums That Shaped Them

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Author: Tom Gatti (Culture Editor) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'A captivating mix of memoir and music writing' IRISH TIMES 'A richly textured snapshot survey of artists on art'...
Granta 115: The F-Word

Granta 115: The F-Word

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Author: John Freeman (Editor, Granta magazine) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Women in the twenty-first century - from Kent to Accra - still live in a world...
The Sixteen Satires

The Sixteen Satires

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Author: Juvenal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. AD 55-138) captures the splendour, the squalor and the sheer energy of...
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo

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Author: George Saunders Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER PICKED BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT, IRISH TIMES, SPECTATOR, TLS, NEW STATESMAN AND EVENING STANDARD...
Pessoa: An Experimental Life

Pessoa: An Experimental Life

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Author: Richard Zenith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 1088 A monumental biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest and most enigmatic writers 'A completely superb and magisterial life of...
A Tapestry of Jamaica: The Best of SkyWritings

A Tapestry of Jamaica: The Best of SkyWritings

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Author: Linda Gambrill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416
Bedford Square 2: New Writing from the Royal Holloway Creative Writing Programme

Bedford Square 2: New Writing from the Royal Holloway Creative Writing Programme

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Author: Andrew Motion Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 In 2004 Poet Laureate Andrew Motion established a brand new course at Royal Holloway, University of London. Set to...
The Unnamable Present

The Unnamable Present

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Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A concise, yet wide-ranging inquiry into the roots of modernity and the turmoil of the present day. Tourists, terrorists,...