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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...
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...
We Should All Be Feminists

We Should All Be Feminists

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Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 64 A personal and powerful essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah' and 'Half of a...
The Shelf

The Shelf

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Author: Phyllis Rose Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Can you have an Extreme Adventure in a library? Phyllis Rose casts herself into the wilds of an Upper East Side...
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 -...
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 Colossus of New York

The Colossus of New York

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Author: Colson Whitehead Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 In a dazzlingly original work of non-fiction, the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD recreates the exuberance, the...
Dashing for the Post: The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor

Dashing for the Post: The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor

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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 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'...
A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction

A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction

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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,...
Pictures from Italy

Pictures from Italy

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Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A delightful travelogue in the unique style of one of the greatest writers in the English language, the Penguin...
The Fame Lunches

The Fame Lunches

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Author: Daphne Merkin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Daphne Merkin brings her signature combination of wit, candor, and penetrating intelligence to subjects that touch on every aspect of contemporary...
Letters of Note: Space

Letters of Note: Space

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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...
Aspects of the Novel

Aspects of the Novel

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Author: E. M. Forster Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 E.M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel is an innovative and effusive treatise on a literary form that, at...
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...
Everywhere I Look

Everywhere I Look

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Author: Helen Garner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Everywhere I Look is a collection of essays, diary entries and true stories spanning more than fifteen years of...
News from Nowhere and Other Writings

News from Nowhere and Other Writings

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Author: William Morris Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Poet, pattern-designer, environmentalist and maker of fine books, William Morris (1834-96) was also a committed socialist and visionary writer,...
In My Father's Court

In My Father's Court

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Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Like Isaac Bashevis Singer's fiction, this poignant memoir of his childhood in the household and rabbinical court of his father...
The Jerilderie Letter

The Jerilderie Letter

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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

Poetics

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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....
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings

A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings

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Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Penguin Classics relaunch After reading Christmas Carol, the notoriously reculsive Thomas Carlyle was "seized with a perfect convulsion of...
Conversations of Socrates

Conversations of Socrates

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Author: Xenophon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 After the execution of Socrates in 399 BC, a number of his followers wrote dialogues featuring him as the protagonist...
The Annals of Imperial Rome

The Annals of Imperial Rome

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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...
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...
In God's Hands: The Spiritual Diaries of Pope St John Paul II

In God's Hands: The Spiritual Diaries of Pope St John Paul II

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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...
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...
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...
Orwell in Spain

Orwell in Spain

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Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 An exhilarating collection of Orwell's writing on the Spanish Civil War The volume collects together Orwell's writings on his...
Natural History

Natural History

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Author: John Healey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Pliny's Natural History is an astonishingly ambitious work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography to zoology....
Loud Black Girls: 20 Black Women Writers Ask: What's Next?

Loud Black Girls: 20 Black Women Writers Ask: What's Next?

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Author: Yomi Adegoke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 An important and timely anthology of black British writing, edited and curated by the authors of the highly acclaimed, ground-breaking Slay...
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...
The Golden Flea

The Golden Flea

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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...
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...
A Modest Proposal and Other Writings

A Modest Proposal and Other Writings

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Author: Jonathan Swift Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 'Pray what is Man but a topsy-turvy Creature?' To ease poverty in Ireland by eating the children of the...
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...
Six Memos for the Next Millennium

Six Memos for the Next Millennium

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Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 A new translation of Calvino's influential last work Italo Calvino was due to deliver the Charles Eliot Norton lectures...
Essays

Essays

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Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 These essays, reviews and articles illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this...
The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951

The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951

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Author: Lord John Julius Norwich Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 The long awaited and highly revealing diaries of the politician, diplomat, and socialite (married to Lady Diana Cooper) 'This...
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023

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Author: R. F Kuang Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 "Short stories have to accomplish a nearly impossible magic trick: to introduce a world often much stranger than our own...
Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time

Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time

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Dreaming Too Loud

Dreaming Too Loud

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Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology

Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology

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Author: Ellen Ullman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The never-more-necessary return of one of our most vital and eloquent voices on technology and culture, the author of the seminal...
Scenes and Apparitions: The Roy Strong Diaries 1988-2003

Scenes and Apparitions: The Roy Strong Diaries 1988-2003

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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 ......
Phaedrus

Phaedrus

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Author: Plato Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Phaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato's most profound and beautiful works. It takes the form of a dialogue...
How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness and Community in Times of Global Crises - The short essay that helped change the Covid-19 debate

How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness and Community in Times of Global Crises - The short essay that helped change the Covid-19 debate

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Author: Paolo Giordano Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 80 'The literature of the time after begins here' EVENING STANDARD 'A jolt of brevity and simplicity' THE TIMES 'In...
Essays

Essays

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Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 A collection of Orwell's major essays, in a stunning new cover look for his great works These essays, reviews...
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France,...