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The Nature of Middle-earth

The Nature of Middle-earth

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Author: J. R. R. Tolkien Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 First ever publication of J.R.R. Tolkien's final writings on Middle-earth, covering a wide range of subjects and perfect for...
Sister Outsider

Sister Outsider

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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...
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...
Love Letters: Vita and Virginia

Love Letters: Vita and Virginia

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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....
The Collected Dorothy Parker

The Collected Dorothy Parker

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Author: Dorothy Parker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 Dorothy Parker, more than any of her contemporaries, captured the spirit of the Jazz Age in her poetry and...
The Decay of Lying

The Decay of Lying

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Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life' The Decay of Lying includes two of Wilde's most comprehensive...
Postcards to Europe: The unique must-have collection

Postcards to Europe: The unique must-have collection

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Author: Various Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 From Paris to Prague, from the past to the present, authors and artists explore what Europe means to them -...
Real Estate

Real Estate

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Author: Deborah Levy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Fearless and essential - the highly anticipated final instalment in Deborah Levy's critically acclaimed 'Living Autobiography' Following the international...
The Histories

The Histories

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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...
The Cost of Living: Living Autobiography 2

The Cost of Living: Living Autobiography 2

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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 Fire Next Time

The Fire Next Time

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Author: James Baldwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 'We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation'...
The Civil War

The Civil War

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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,...
The Narrative of Trajan's Column

The Narrative of Trajan's Column

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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...
A History of My Brief Body

A History of My Brief Body

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Author: Billy-Ray Belcourt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Dazzling collection of personal essays from internationally acclaimed First Nations Canadian writer Billy-Ray Belcourt, who mines his own personal...
The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker

The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker

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Author: Jelani Cobb Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 A collection of the New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in America, including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison,...
Boy: Tales of Childhood

Boy: Tales of Childhood

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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

Orwell's England

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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

The Confessions

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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...
Nicholas Nickleby

Nicholas Nickleby

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Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 One of the touchstones of the English comic novel, the Penguin Classics edition of Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby is...
Committed Writings

Committed Writings

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Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A collection that includes some of Camus' most brilliant political writing This volume contains some of Camus' most powerful...
Shooting an Elephant

Shooting an Elephant

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Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A landmark collection of Orwell's writings, with a new Introduction by Jeremy Paxman 'Shooting an Elephant' is Orwell's searing...
The Book of the Courtier

The Book of the Courtier

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Author: Baldesar Castiglione Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 In The Book of the Courtier (1528), Baldesar Castiglione, a diplomat and Papal Nuncio to Rome, sets out to...
Experience

Experience

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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...
Between Eternities: and Other Writings

Between Eternities: and Other Writings

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Author: Javier Marias Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 An exhilarating, far-ranging collection of non-fiction writing from the internationally acclaimed author of A Heart So White and The...
Citizen: An American Lyric

Citizen: An American Lyric

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Author: Claudia Rankine Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The critically acclaimed exploration of mounting racial aggressions in 21st century daily life and in the media In this...
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...
Love

Love

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Author: Stendhal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A timeless treatise on the unique power of human emotion, Stendhal's Love is translated by Gilbert and Suzanne Sale with...
Species of Spaces and Other Pieces

Species of Spaces and Other Pieces

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Author: Georges Perec Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Georges Perec (1936-82), author of the novel Life- A User's Manual, was one of the most surprising and enjoyable...
12 Edmondstone Street

12 Edmondstone Street

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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...
The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life

The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life

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Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The Sunday Times no. 1 memoir now in paperback The Pigeon Tunnel, John le Carre's memoir and his...
12 Bytes: How artificial intelligence will change the way we live and love

12 Bytes: How artificial intelligence will change the way we live and love

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Author: Jeanette Winterson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 *A 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK IN THE GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES AND EVENING STANDARD* Twelve bytes. Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny...
De Profundis and Other Prison Writings

De Profundis and Other Prison Writings

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Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A new selection of the powerful and moving letters and poems Wilde wrote in prison, edited with an introduction...
Desperate Remedies

Desperate Remedies

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Author: Thomas Hardy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Hardy described Desperate Remedies as a tale of 'mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity'. Cytherea has taken a position...
Vintage Roger: Letters from the POW Years

Vintage Roger: Letters from the POW Years

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Author: Roger Mortimer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 'I think prison has done me very little harm and some good. I am now far better read, far less smug...