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A Year With C. S. Lewis: 365 Daily Readings from his Classic Works

A Year With C. S. Lewis: 365 Daily Readings from his Classic Works

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Cairn: 'A marvel of a book' Observer

Cairn: 'A marvel of a book' Observer

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'This marvel of a book is a profound meditation on the precariousness of the planet ... these pieces kept bringing tears to my eyes, catching me offguard ... it is...
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

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'I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into...
Venice: Tales Of The City

Venice: Tales Of The City

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First Intermissions: Twenty-one Great Operas Explored, Explained and Brought to Life from the Met

First Intermissions: Twenty-one Great Operas Explored, Explained and Brought to Life from the Met

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Wouldn't Take Nothing For My Journey Now

Wouldn't Take Nothing For My Journey Now

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The woman warrior who is armed with wit and courage will be among the first to celebrate victory' says Maya Angelou, bestselling author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD...
Calm the F**k Down

Calm the F**k Down

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The latest no-f**ks-given guide from New York Times bestselling author of the international sensation The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k , Get Your Sh*t Together , and You...
The End of the Golden Gate: Writers on Loving and (Sometimes) Leaving San Francisco

The End of the Golden Gate: Writers on Loving and (Sometimes) Leaving San Francisco

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Capturing an ever-changing San Francisco, 25 prolific writers tell their stories of living in one the most mesmerising cities in the world. The End of the Golden Gate is a...
Wouldn't Take Nothing For My Journey Now

Wouldn't Take Nothing For My Journey Now

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The woman warrior who is armed with wit and courage will be among the first to celebrate victory' says Maya Angelou, bestselling author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD...
Calm the F**k Down

Calm the F**k Down

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The latest no-f**ks-given guide from New York Times bestselling author of the international sensation The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k , Get Your Sh*t Together , and You...
Letters of Note: War

Letters of Note: War

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Mabo: Life of an Island Man

Mabo: Life of an Island Man

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Hearts in Atlantis

Hearts in Atlantis

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Rebellious Daughters

Rebellious Daughters

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Australia's Best Unknown Stories: and tales you thought you knew...

Australia's Best Unknown Stories: and tales you thought you knew...

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Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation

Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation

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Dead Girls

Dead Girls

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Tissue

Tissue

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'wide-ranging, defiant and impassioned' - Fiona Wright, author of The World Was Whole What does it mean to terminate a pregnancy? In Tissue, Madison Griffiths turns her keen eye to...
Mark Twain in Hawaii: Roughing it in the Sandwich Islands Hawaii in the 1860's

Mark Twain in Hawaii: Roughing it in the Sandwich Islands Hawaii in the 1860's

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The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020

The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020

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From the Booker-shortlisted author, a wild ride of an essay collection about living fast and free in a crowded world. From the Booker-shortlisted author of The Mars Room, a career-spanning...
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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How is AI changing the way we live and love? This is the hugely entertaining, eye-opening new book from the Sunday Times bestselling author. 'Joins the dots in a neglected...
Conversations with Goethe

Conversations with Goethe

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A witty introduction to the mind of Goethe, a classic in a new translation for the first time in 150 years Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was the world's most celebrated...
The Nibelungenlied

The Nibelungenlied

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A beautiful, skillfully crafted work of chivalric romance Written by an unknown author in the twelfth century, this powerful tale of murder and revenge reaches back to the earliest epochs...
Works On Paper: The Craft of Biography and Autobiography

Works On Paper: The Craft of Biography and Autobiography

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Michael Holroyd opens with a startling attack on biography, which is answered by two essays on the ethics and values of non-fiction writing. The book then examines the work of...
In the Land of the Cyclops: Essays

In the Land of the Cyclops: Essays

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A brilliantly wide-ranging essay collection from the author of My Struggle, spanning literature, philosophy, art and how our daily and creative lives intertwine. A brilliantly wide-ranging essay collection from the...
All the Things Left Unsaid: Confessions of Love and Regret

All the Things Left Unsaid: Confessions of Love and Regret

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NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'A beautiful book of great tenderness, love of life, and wisdom' JOSEPH O'CONNOR For almost fifty years, Michael Harding has been crafting words in a bid to...
The Germans and Europe: A Personal Frontline History

The Germans and Europe: A Personal Frontline History

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Wild Ducks Flying Backward

Wild Ducks Flying Backward

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This work is a collection of non-fiction essays and short fiction, many in print for the first time ever. Subjects range from an ode to redheads, kissing, Diane Keaton, Leonard...
The Grand Tour of William Beckford

The Grand Tour of William Beckford

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A Romantic Hero

A Romantic Hero

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Doing Politics: Writing on Public Life

Doing Politics: Writing on Public Life

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Since the 1980s Judith Brett has been helping to shape Australians' conversations about politics, bringing a historian's eye to contemporary issues and probing the psychology of our prime ministers. Her...
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: Popular Penguins

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: Popular Penguins

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Describing the surreal hallucinations, insomnia and nightmarish visions he experienced while consuming daily large amounts of laudanum, Thomas De Quincey's legendary account of the pleasures and pains of opium forged...
The Histories

The Histories

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One of the masterpieces of classical literature, the Histories describes how a small and quarrelsome band of Greek city states united to repel the might of the Persian empire. But...
Gorgias

Gorgias

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A revised edition of a classic translation, with completely new editorial material Taking the form of a dialogue between Socrates, Gorgias, Polus and Callicles, GORGIAS debates perennial questions about the...
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise

The Letters of Abelard and Heloise

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A completely revised edition of a respected & much-loved translation by Betty Radice The story of Abelard and Heloise remains one of the world's most celebrated and tragic love affairs....
Njal's Saga

Njal's Saga

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New edition of one of the most powerful of the Icelandic prose sagas Written in the thirteenth century, Njal's Saga is a story that explores perennial human problems-from failed marriages...
Democracy in America: And Two Essays on America

Democracy in America: And Two Essays on America

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Unique to this edition is a translation of Tocqueville's other American writings-Two Weeks in the Wilderness and The Excursion to Lake Oneida. In 1831 Tocqueville set out from post-revolutionary France...
The Saga of the Volsungs: The Norse Epic of Sigurd the Dragon Slayer

The Saga of the Volsungs: The Norse Epic of Sigurd the Dragon Slayer

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A tale of princely jealousy and vengeance, the Saga has been an inspiration for Wagner and J.R.R. Tolkien Based on Viking Age poems, The Saga of the Volsungs combines mythology,...
On the Good Life

On the Good Life

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Cicero's reflections upon the way to a live a good life For the great Roman orator and statesman Cicero, 'the good life' was at once a life of contentment and...
The Complete Essays

The Complete Essays

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The range of topics and the careful consideration given to them by Montaigne is unsurpassed; he studies humanity through poetry, love and ectasy - but also through cannibalism and war-horses...
My Country: Stories, Essays and Speeches

My Country: Stories, Essays and Speeches

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Stories, essays and speeches from one of Australia's foremost writers and thinkers David Marr is the rarest of breeds- one of Australia's most unflinching, forensic reporters of political controversy, and...
The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World

The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World

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Drawn from more than two decades of pathbreaking writing, the iconic and bestselling David Graeber's most important essays and interviews. \"The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it...
The Total Library: Non-Fiction 1922-1986

The Total Library: Non-Fiction 1922-1986

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Though best known in the English speaking world for his short fictions and poems, Borges is revered in Latin America equally as an immensely prolific and beguiling writer of non-fiction...
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

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In these groundbreaking studies, Sontag strips away the myths that surround the two most stigmatized diseases of our time Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor in 1978, while suffering from breast...
Styles of Radical Will

Styles of Radical Will

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Susan Sontag's second collection of groundbreaking essays, new to Penguin Modern Classics This collection of essays contains some of the most important pieces of criticism of the twentieth century, including...
A Capote Reader

A Capote Reader

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Truman Capote began writing when he was eight and became one of America's most versatile and gifted authors.A Capote Readercontains much of his published work- his dazzling fiction, includingBreakfast at...
Essays

Essays

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These essays, reviews and articles illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who created a unique literary manner from...
Guide to Greece: Central Greece

Guide to Greece: Central Greece

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Still used as a guide to classical Greece even today this remains one of the most influential travel books ever written. Written in the second century AD by a Greek...