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I Sang for My Supper: Memories of a Food Writer

I Sang for My Supper: Memories of a Food Writer

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William Golding: The Man who Wrote Lord of the Flies

William Golding: The Man who Wrote Lord of the Flies

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Agent of Byzantium

Agent of Byzantium

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Faulks on Fiction

Faulks on Fiction

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Journals 1952 -2000

Journals 1952 -2000

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In His Own Words: From Freedom to the Future

In His Own Words: From Freedom to the Future

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A Cabinet Diary

A Cabinet Diary

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The Meaning of Recognition: New Essays 2001-2005

The Meaning of Recognition: New Essays 2001-2005

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Off down the Track: Racing & Other Yarns

Off down the Track: Racing & Other Yarns

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Talking into the Typewriter: Selected Letters (1973-1983)

Talking into the Typewriter: Selected Letters (1973-1983)

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Author! Author!: Tales of Australian Literary Life

Author! Author!: Tales of Australian Literary Life

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Thoughtlines: Reflections of a Public Man

Thoughtlines: Reflections of a Public Man

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Everything in Moderation

Everything in Moderation

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Author: Daniel Finkelstein Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 'I've never met Danny Finkelstein but I think I'm in love with him. His book is such good company - sane,...
Brief Lives

Brief Lives

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Of This Our Country: Acclaimed Nigerian writers on the home, identity and culture they know

Of This Our Country: Acclaimed Nigerian writers on the home, identity and culture they know

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Author: Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth. Many have tried, but most have concluded that it is impossible to capture...
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 / softback Number of Pages: 464 'One of the greatest writers of our time.' Toni Morrison 'You Don't Know Us Negroes adds immeasurably to...
Love, Henri: Letters on the Spiritual Life

Love, Henri: Letters on the Spiritual Life

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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...
A Tapestry of Jamaica: The Best of SkyWritings

A Tapestry of Jamaica: The Best of SkyWritings

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Author: Linda Gambrill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416
Making Waves: Essays

Making Waves: Essays

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Author: Mario Vargas Llosa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Spanning thirty years of writing, Making Waves traces the development of...
Creation: The True Story of Charles Darwin

Creation: The True Story of Charles Darwin

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Author: Randal Keynes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 In a chest of drawers bequeathed by his grandmother, Randal Keynes discovered a child s writing case, which had...
Bedford Square 2: New Writing from the Royal Holloway Creative Writing Programme

Bedford Square 2: New Writing from the Royal Holloway Creative Writing Programme

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Author: Andrew Motion Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 In 2004 Poet Laureate Andrew Motion established a brand new course at Royal Holloway, University of London. Set to...
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...
Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography Through Essays

Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography Through Essays

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Author: Claire Messud Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Arranged in three parts, Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write opens with Claire's most 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,...
Writers' Letters: Jane Austen to Chinua Achebe - The perfect Mother's Day gift

Writers' Letters: Jane Austen to Chinua Achebe - The perfect Mother's Day gift

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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...
Decline & Fall: Diaries 2005-2010

Decline & Fall: Diaries 2005-2010

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Author: Chris Mullin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 On the backbenches but still in the thick of it, Decline and Fall runs from Chris Mullin's sacking as...
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...
Vesper Flights: The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of H is for Hawk

Vesper Flights: The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of H is for Hawk

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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Man I Knew: The Amazing Comeback Story of George H.W. Bush's Post-Presidency

The Man I Knew: The Amazing Comeback Story of George H.W. Bush's Post-Presidency

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Author: Jean Becker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 As chief of staff, Jean Becker had a ringside seat to the never-boring story of George Herbert Walker Bush's life post-presidency,...
Portland Place, Secret Diary of a BBC Secretary

Portland Place, Secret Diary of a BBC Secretary

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Author, Sarah Shaw Format, Hardback Number of Pages, 304 Portland Place is the diary of Sarah Shaw for the year of 1971, which she recently uncovered whilst clearing out her...
Late Essays: 2006 - 2017

Late Essays: 2006 - 2017

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Author: J M Coetzee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A new collection of twenty-three literary essays from the Nobel Prize-winning author. J. M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of...
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...
Against Interpretation and Other Essays

Against Interpretation and Other Essays

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Author: Susan Sontag Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A series of provocative discussions on everything from individual authors to contemporary religious thinking, Against Interpretation and Other Essays...
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...
Essays

Essays

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Author: Michel Montaigne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Reflections by the creator of the essay form display the humane, skeptical, humorous, and honest views of Montaigne, revealing...
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,...
Splendours and Miseries: The Roy Strong Diaries, 1967-87

Splendours and Miseries: The Roy Strong Diaries, 1967-87

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Author: Roy Strong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 'The Alan Clark diaries of cultural politics' Sunday Times 'At every word a reputation dies' A. N. Wilson Roy...
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

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Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 80 From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about...
Is Heathcliff a Murderer?: Puzzles in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

Is Heathcliff a Murderer?: Puzzles in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

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Author: John Sutherland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Does Becky kill Jos at the end of Vanity Fair? Why does no one notice that Hetty is pregnant...
Life with a Capital L: Essays Chosen and Introduced by Geoff Dyer

Life with a Capital L: Essays Chosen and Introduced by Geoff Dyer

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Author: D H Lawrence Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 A selection of D H Lawrence's writings on art, morality and obscenity, edited & selected by Geoff Dyer....
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....
Places I've Taken My Body

Places I've Taken My Body

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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...
Notes of a Native Son

Notes of a Native Son

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Author: James Baldwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A breakthrough work of social and cultural criticism from one of the foremost intellectuals of his era Written during...
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...