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The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Places that Inspired Middle-earth
Author: John Garth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 A lavishly illustrated exploration of the places that inspired and shaped the work of J.R.R. Tolkien, creator of Middle-earth. This new...
The Western Front Diaries of Charles Bean
Author: Peter Burness Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 644 Australia's official First World War correspondent, Charles Bean, saw more of the Australian Imperial Force's actions and battles on the Western...
Letters of Note: Grief
Author: Shaun Usher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 In Letters of Note: Grief, Shaun Usher gathers together some of the most powerful messages about grief, from the...
Sister Outsider
Author: Audre Lorde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde The woman's place of power within each...
Places I've Taken My Body
Author: Molly McCully Brown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Brown constellates the subjects that define her inside and out: a disabled and conspicuous body, a religious conversion, a missing...
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....
Everything I Know About Love: Now a Major BBC One Series
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
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...
Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries
Author: Alan Rickman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 Alan Rickman remains one of the most beloved actors of all time across almost every genre, from his breakout role as...
The Korean Kid: A Young Australian Pilot's Baptism of Fire in the Jet Fighter Age
Author: Rochelle Nicholls Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 340 A vicious civil conflict erupted on the Korean peninsula in 1950 and sucked 24 nations into a new round of fighting....
The Histories
Author: Herodotus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 The work that established the study of history in the western world, Herodotus's The Histories is a dazzling contemporary account...
Dear Mr Murray: Letters to a Gentleman Publisher
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....
Writers' Letters: Jane Austen to Chinua Achebe - The perfect Mother's Day gift
Author: Michael Bird Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Delve into the lives and work of some of the world's great writers with this intriguing collection of correspondence. There is...
The Cost of Living: Living Autobiography 2
Author: Deborah Levy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Dazzling, essential, unlike anything else published today - a memoir on modern womanhood, smashing through social expectations and making...
The Narrative of Trajan's Column
Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 When the last fire goes out, time too will be finished Taken from his Collection of Sand, these marvelous...
Dashing for the Post: The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor
Author: Patrick Leigh Fermor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A revelatory collection of letters written by the author of THE BROKEN ROAD. Handsome, spirited and erudite, Patrick...
The Civil War
Author: Julius Caesar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Caesar's own account of his struggle with Pompey over leadership of Republican Rome A military leader of legendary genius,...
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,...
The Diary Keepers: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times - World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It
Author: Nina Siegal Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Based on select writings from an exceptional Amsterdam archive containing more than two thousand Dutch diaries from World War II, The...
Strange Planet: Existence Chronicle - Now on Apple TV+
Author: Nathan W. Pyle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 The curiously relatable inhabitants of Strange Planet are at it once again! Illustrated with art from the Strange Planet collections,...
Letters of Note: Space
Author: Shaun Usher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 In Letters of Note: Space, Shaun Usher brings together fascinating correspondence about the universe beyond our planet, containing hopeful...
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"...
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...
The Jerilderie Letter
Author: Ned Kelly Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Introduced by Alex McDermott 'I have been wronged and my mother and four or five men lagged innocent and...
Poetics
Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Essential reading for all students of Greek theatre and literature, Aristotle's Poetics remains equally stimulating for anyone interested in literature....
The Annals of Imperial Rome
Author: Cornelius Tacitus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 His last work, regarded by many as the greatest work of contemporary scholarship, Tacitus' The Annals of Imperial Rome...
Love, Henri: Letters on the Spiritual Life
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...
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...
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...
The Confessions
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 Rousseau's autobiography, giving a unique insight into the mind and life of one of the greatest thinkers of the...
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....
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...
House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries
Author: Alan Bennett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 4 March. HMQ pictured in the paper at an investiture wearing gloves, presumably as a precaution against Coronavirus. But not just...
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,...
In God's Hands: The Spiritual Diaries of Pope St John Paul II
Author: Pope St John Paul II Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The spiritual diaries of Pope St John Paul II - published for the first time ever...
Vesper Flights: The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of H is for Hawk
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...
There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness
Author: Carlo Rovelli Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 One of the most inspiring thinkers of our age transforms the way we think about the world with his reflections on...
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,...
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...
The Windsor Diaries: A childhood with the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret
Author: Alathea Fitzalan Howard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 **SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **A...
Scenes and Apparitions: The Roy Strong Diaries 1988-2003
Author: Sir Roy Strong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 'Viper wit from the gardener, writer and Knight of exquisite taste' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Funny, barbed and moving ......
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...
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
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...
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...
Inner Workings
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: J. M. Coetzee Format:...
Long Players: Writers on the Albums That Shaped Them
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'...
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...