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When I Was A Child I Read Books

When I Was A Child I Read Books

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Author: Marilynne Robinson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Of Marilynne Robinson, Michael Arditti said that there is 'no contemporary novelist whose work I would rather read'. However she is...
Impossible Owls: Essays from the Ends of the World

Impossible Owls: Essays from the Ends of the World

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Hilarious, nimble, and thoroughly illuminating' Colson Whitehead, author of The Underground Railroad'Recalls the work of John Jeremiah Sullivan and the late David Foster Wallace, with a dash...
Oh, To Be a Painter!

Oh, To Be a Painter!

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Virgina Woolf's collection of writings on visual arts offer a whole new perspective on the revolutionary author.Despite wide interest in Woolf's writings, her circle, and her relationship with the visual...
Small Wonder: Author of Demon Copperhead, Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction

Small Wonder: Author of Demon Copperhead, Winner of the Women's Prize

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Whether she is contemplating the Grand Canyon, her vegetable garden, motherhood, adolescence, genetic engineering, TV watching, the history of civil rights, or the future of a nation founded on the...
Bear Woman: The brand-new memoir from one of Sweden's bestselling authors

Bear Woman: The brand-new memoir from one of Sweden's bestselling

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For readers of Rachel Cusk, Lisa Taddeo and the essays of Zadie Smith, Bear Woman is a beautifully wrought memoir from one of Sweden's bestselling authorsA beautifully written and astonishing...
People Who Lunch: On Work, Leisure, and Loose Living

People Who Lunch: On Work, Leisure, and Loose Living

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A riveting investigation of the utopian experiments attempting to resist the unrelenting demands of late-stage capitalism-only to end up living comfortably alongside itWhat do post-work politics, the cult of crypto,...
The Givenness Of Things

The Givenness Of Things

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Robinson has plumbed the depths of the human spirit in her trilogy of novels - Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead, Orange-Prize winning Home and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Lila - and...
The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

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THE VIEW FROM THE CHEAP SEATS draws together myriad non-fiction writing by international phenomenon and Sunday Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman. From Make Good Art, the speech that went viral,...
My Russia: War or Peace?

My Russia: War or Peace?

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In his timely new book, Mikhail Shishkin, argues that Russia is not a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma': we just don't know enough about it. So what...
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess

All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess

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TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2024NEW YORK TIMES' 100 MOST NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2024'Bracing and brilliant ... scintillating writing of breadth and power' Kate Kellaway, Observer'A radical and important...
No Judgement: On Being Critical

No Judgement: On Being Critical

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A brilliant and addictive collection of brand-new essays on modern culture - from 'the pre-eminent and most widely read critic of her generation' The Times Included as a 2024 highlight...
The Story Smuggler

The Story Smuggler

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'Some smuggle cigarettes, others alcohol - or weapons.Our contraband, being invisible, is more dangerous.Our contraband is undetectable by scanners.What we carry as concealed excess baggage is stories.'In this exquisite literary...
Oppositions: Selected Essays

Oppositions: Selected Essays

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'Mary Gaitskill is willing to think about the problematic with complexity and humanity, and without taking sides or engaging in all the fashionable moral hectoring that passes for serious thought...
The Black Joy Project

The Black Joy Project

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Featuring 117 full-color photos and eight breathtaking essays on a force that fuels Black life all around the globe, this is Humans of New York meets The Black Book"A patchwork...
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023

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Author: Carl ZimmerFormat: Paperback, 140mm x 210mm, 454g, 272 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2023 Award-winning writer, columnist, and journalists Carl Zimmer selects twenty science and nature essays that...
The Common Reader: Second Series (Collins Classics)

The Common Reader: Second Series (Collins Classics)

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Author: Virginia WoolfFormat: Paperback, 111mm x 178mm, 160g, 320 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The only advice, indeed,...
The Princess Diarist

The Princess Diarist

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Author: Carrie Fisher Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 The most talked about memoir is now available in paperback When Carrie Fisher discovered the journals she kept during the filming...
But Have You Read the Book?: 52 Literary Gems That Inspired Our Favorite Films

But Have You Read the Book?: 52 Literary Gems That Inspired Our Favorite Films

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Author: Kristen Lopez Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 For film buffs and literature lovers alike, Turner Classic Movies presents an essential guide to 52 cinema classics and the literary...
The Best American Short Stories 2023

The Best American Short Stories 2023

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Author: Min Jin Lee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A collection of the year's best short stories, selected by National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee and series editor...
The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath

The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath

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Author: Leslie Jamison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Addiction is seemingly inexplicable. From the outside, it can look like wilful, arrogant self-destruction; from the inside, it can feel as...
An Extra Pair of Hands: A story of caring and everyday acts of love

An Extra Pair of Hands: A story of caring and everyday acts of love

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Author: Kate Mosse Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 'Inspiring' - GUARDIAN 'Heartbreaking' - INDEPENDENT 'Beautiful' - MATT HAIG A Best Book for Summer in The Times, Guardian and The...
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves

Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves

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Author: Glory Edim Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'Required reading.' - Cosmopolitan 'This should be read as a sacred text. Here, you will bear witness to a perpetual salvation...
You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

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Author: Zora Neale Hurston Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 452 'One of the greatest writers of our time.' Toni Morrison 'You Don't Know Us Negroes adds immeasurably to our understanding...
Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis

Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis

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Author: Annie Proulx Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week 'Magnificent' Guardian 'Remarkable ... A compact classic!' Bill McKibben 'I learned something new...
GIRL: On Black Womanhood and Belonging

GIRL: On Black Womanhood and Belonging

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Author: Kenya Hunt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'Powerful, intelligent and vital - one of the year's must-reads' Hannah Nathanson, Features Director, ELLE Featuring contributions from Candice Carty-Williams, Jessica...
Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Author: James Marcus Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 344 An engaging reassessment of the celebrated essayist and his relevance to contemporary readers More than two centuries after his birth, Ralph...
Risk!: 50 True Stories of the Bold Experiences that Define Us

Risk!: 50 True Stories of the Bold Experiences that Define Us

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Author: Kevin W. Allison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 PostSecret meets The Moth in creator of the outrageous Risk! podcast Kevin Allison's RISK!: True Stories People Never Thought They'd...
Haywire: The Best of Craig Brown

Haywire: The Best of Craig Brown

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Author: Craig Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 'Our greatest living satirist' Sunday Times 'The most screamingly funny living writer' Mail on Sunday From the bestselling and award-winning author...
Anthems We Love: 29 Iconic Artists on the Hit Songs That Shaped Our Lives

Anthems We Love: 29 Iconic Artists on the Hit Songs That Shaped Our Lives

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Author: Steve Baltin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 "Anthems We Love is not just a tale of artistic adventure, it's also a manual for artists and fans alike. There...
The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews

The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews

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Author: Adam Biles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Shakespeare and Company, Paris, is one of the world's most iconic and beautiful bookshops. Located on the banks of the Seine,...
London Perceived: A Portrait of The City

London Perceived: A Portrait of The City

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Author: V.S. Pritchett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 In unfailingly elegant prose, V. S. Pritchett provides a timeless distillation of the city of London and the London experience. He...
The Best Australian Science Writing 2023

The Best Australian Science Writing 2023

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Author: Donna Lu Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Should we alter animals' DNA to save them from extinction? What secrets will old ice reveal to us about the Earth's...
Some Answers Without Questions

Some Answers Without Questions

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Author: Lavinia Greenlaw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The place I went to when I could not speak was also where my voice came from. Part memoir, part manifesto,...
She's Nice Though: Essays on Being Bad at Being Good

She's Nice Though: Essays on Being Bad at Being Good

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Author: Mia Mercado Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 AN NPR BOOK-OF-THE-DAY * A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY STAFF PICK * A NYLON MUST-READ * A FORTUNE NEW BOOK TO READ IN...
Secret Voices: A Year of Women's Diaries

Secret Voices: A Year of Women's Diaries

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Author: Sarah Gristwood Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 A captivating collection of extracts from women's diaries, looking back over four centuries to discover how women's experience - of men...
Granta 81: Best Of Young British Novelists 3

Granta 81: Best Of Young British Novelists 3

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Author: Granta Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 As with the first two Young British Novelists issues, Granta's 2003 list was compelling and prescient. The issue introduced readers to fiction...
A Very Nice Rejection Letter: Diary of a Novelist

A Very Nice Rejection Letter: Diary of a Novelist

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Author: Chris Paling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'Like all good diarists Paling's musings are funny, tender and uncensored' Sunday Times 6 April 2007 Writing income for the year...
Halfway To Hollywood: Diaries 1980-1988 (Volume Two)

Halfway To Hollywood: Diaries 1980-1988 (Volume Two)

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Author: Michael Palin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 704 After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, The Pythons made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful...
This Woman's Work: Essays on Music

This Woman's Work: Essays on Music

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Author: Various Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 This Woman's Work: Essays on Music is edited by Kim Gordon and Sinead Gleeson and features contributors Anne Enright, Fatima Bhutto, Jenn...
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir

Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir

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Author: Margo Jefferson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Taking in the jazz and blues icons whom Jefferson idolised as a child in the 1950s, ideas of what the female...
Letters of Note: Dogs

Letters of Note: Dogs

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Author: Shaun Usher Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 In Letters of Note: Dogs, Shaun Usher brings together a delightful collection of correspondence about our canine friends, featuring affectionate accounts...
I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

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Author: Jessi Klein Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 An instant New York Times bestseller, I'll Show Myself Out is the eagerly anticipated second essay collection from Jessi...
Twelve Moons: A year under a shared sky

Twelve Moons: A year under a shared sky

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Author: Caro Giles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 TWELVE MOONS follows a year spent caught between the wild sea and the changing moon of the wide Northumberland skies. Caro...
Humor Me: An Anthology of Funny Contemporary Writing (Plus Some Great Old Stuff Too)

Humor Me: An Anthology of Funny Contemporary Writing (Plus Some Great Old Stuff Too)

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Author: Ian Frazier Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Selected and introduced by the incomparable Ian Frazier, Humor Me delivers a bumper crop of hilarity from the funniest writers at...
Where My Feet Fall: Going for a Walk in Twenty Stories

Where My Feet Fall: Going for a Walk in Twenty Stories

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Author: Duncan Minshull Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 The Independent Best Book for Walkers 2022 Where can a walk take you? It goes without saying, walking can connect us...
I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

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Author: Jessi Klein Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 An instant New York Times bestseller, I'll Show Myself Out is the eagerly anticipated second essay collection from Jessi Klein, author...
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

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Author: Jia Tolentino Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A Times book of the year A Guardian book of the year 'Magnificent'The Times 'Dazzling' New Statesman 'It filled me with...
Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

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Author: Maggie Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'Keep Moving speaks to you like an encouraging friend reminding you that you can feel and survive deep loss, sink into...