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My Life and Travels: An Anthology

My Life and Travels: An Anthology

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An anthology of writings and photographs celebrating the outstanding contribution of one of the country's most distinguished and enduring travel writers, and the century's greatest living explorer. At the age...
Sad Happens: A Celebration of Tears

Sad Happens: A Celebration of Tears

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A beautifully illustrated, celebratory anthology exploring sadness-and the transformative power of tears. When was the last time you cried? Was it because you were sad? Or happy? Overwhelmed, or frustrated?...
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 Scandal of the Century: And Other Writings

The Scandal of the Century: And Other Writings

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"The articles and columns in The Scandal of the Century demonstrate that his forthright, lightly ironical voice just seemed to be there, right from the start . . . He's...
Homer: Odyssey Books VI-VIII

Homer: Odyssey Books VI-VIII

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This is the first self-contained edition of Books VI-VIII of the Odyssey--the account of Odysseus' time among the Phaeacians, and a popular introduction to Homer. While not neglecting matters of...
Griffith Review 74: Escape Routes

Griffith Review 74: Escape Routes

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Sometimes, we all need to get away... Griffith Review 74: Escape Routes plots the course of our daydreams, our transformations and our jailbreaks. It takes us across borders and through...
Kiss Me, Chudleigh

Kiss Me, Chudleigh

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Auberon Waugh has been compared to Jonathan Swift. He was an outrageous satirist who slaughtered whole herds of sacred cows and turned people's heartfelt convictions on their heads. The best...
Along the Western Road: Bush Stories and Ballads

Along the Western Road: Bush Stories and Ballads

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The book titled Along the Western Road: Bush Stories and Ballads by the author Lindsey. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The National Trust: The Next Hundred Years

The National Trust: The Next Hundred Years

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This is a collection of essays in celebration of the Trust's centenary. The wide range of subjects embraced by the Trust (conservation, preservation, education, access for leisure, archaeology, natural history,...
When You Are Engulfed in Flames

When You Are Engulfed in Flames

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"David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art," ( The Christian Science Monitor ) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever...
An Asian at My Table

An Asian at My Table

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This is a collection of new and previously published articles written by Raybon Kan. It brings together a collection of pieces from columns featured in the 'Sunday Star Times' and...
Unto This Last and Other Writings

Unto This Last and Other Writings

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Reissue First and foremost an outcry against injustice and inhumanity, Unto this Last is also a closely argued assault on the science of political economy, which dominated the Victorian period....
The Collected Works of Jo Ann Beard: 'The literary world's best kept

The Collected Works of Jo Ann Beard: 'The literary world's best kept

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Weaving a complex tapestry drawn from interviews, anecdotes, moments from Beard's own life, and sheer imagination, these extraordinary pieces embody the hospitality of spectacular writing: they are spaces you fall...
A Kind of Confession: The writer's private world

A Kind of Confession: The writer's private world

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIME MINISTER'S LITERARY AWARDS A Kind of Confession is a secret look into Alex Miller's writing life, spanning sixty years of creativity and inspiration. As a young...
Folly Journal 003

Folly Journal 003

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Folly exists because good literature should turn you on a little. Intellectually, emotionally - sometimes viscerally. We're not here to bore you. We're here to dazzle you, disturb you, make...
At Helpston: Meetings with John Clare

At Helpston: Meetings with John Clare

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These essays, many of them presidential addresses to the John Clare Society, form a unique series of `meetings' between the Northamptonshire labourer who became England's finest nature poet and our...
Divine Landscapes

Divine Landscapes

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The book titled Divine Landscapes. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Literature, Travel, and Colonial Writing in the English Renaissance,

Literature, Travel, and Colonial Writing in the English Renaissance,

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What was the purpose of representing foreign lands for writers in the English Renaissance? This innovative and wide-ranging study argues that writers often used their works as vehicles to reflect...
Griffith Review 26: Stories for Today

Griffith Review 26: Stories for Today

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Stories for Today , a special summer fiction edition, presents a fresh and candid reinterpretation of the Australian character, with stories from the writers who are making an impact at...
Ways of Life: On Places, Painters and Poets

Ways of Life: On Places, Painters and Poets

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Andrew Motion was appointed Poet Laureate in 1999, but alongside his work as a poet he also had a significant career as a prize-winning biographer and an illuminating critic. Ways...
Granta 51: Big Men (And L.A. Women)

Granta 51: Big Men (And L.A. Women)

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Big as in substantial, powerful, famous; men as in weak, wicked, and notorious. Gitta Sereny on Albert Speer, the tyrant as survivor; Caroline Alexander on the classical tyrant, Hastings Banda;...
But You Seemed So Happy: A Marriage, in Pieces and Bits

But You Seemed So Happy: A Marriage, in Pieces and Bits

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In this tender, funny, and sharp companion to her acclaimed memoir-in-essays Amateur Hour , Kimberly Harrington explores and confronts marriage, divorce, and the ways love, loss, and longing shape a...
English Voices: Lives, Landscapes, Laments

English Voices: Lives, Landscapes, Laments

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'A sheer delight' Times Literary Supplement Ferdinand Mount has spent many years writing articles, columns and reviews for prestigious magazines, newspapers and journals. Whether reviewing great published works by some...
Arabian Nights Entertainments

Arabian Nights Entertainments

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No other edition offers extensive textual apparatus such as explanatory notes, plot summaries, particularly vital as stories are complex and interwoven. The Sultan Schahriar's misguided resolution to shelter himself from...
The Last Day of a Condemned Man

The Last Day of a Condemned Man

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A man vilified by society and condemned to death for his crime wakes every morning knowing that this day might be his last. With the hope for release his only...
Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer

Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer

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An irreverent and charming collection of deeply personal essays about the joys of low pop culture and bad taste, exploring coming of age in the 2000s in the age of...
On Disruption

On Disruption

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The internet has shaken the foundations of life: public and private lives are wrought by the 24-hour, seven-day-a-week news cycle that means no one is ever off duty. On Disruption...
On Doubt

On Doubt

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Her classic personal essay carries a message about the value of truth, scrutiny and accountability-a much-needed, pocket-sized antidote to fake news. Donald Trump, the post-truth world and the instability of...
Thin Places: Essays from in Between

Thin Places: Essays from in Between

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A Los Angeles Times Bestseller A Lit Hub Chicago Review Ms. Magazine March pick A Lambda Literary Most Anticipated Book In this perceptive and provocative essay collection, an award-winning writer...
Vesper Flights: The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of H is

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

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From the bestselling author of H is for Hawk comes a transcendent collection of essays about the natural world **THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** 'Thrilling dispatches from a vanishing world' Observer...
The Meaning of Life: Letters from Extraordinary People and their Answer to Life's Biggest Question

The Meaning of Life: Letters from Extraordinary People and their Answer to Life's Biggest Question

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Author: James Bailey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 James Bailey was unemployed, heartbroken, and questioning his purpose on the planet. In desperate search of an answer, he decided to...
The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2024

The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2024

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A collection of the year's top food and travel writing, selected by the trailblazing New York Times bestselling author and Emmy-nominated host of Taste the Nation and Top Chef Padma...
Why Read: Selected Writings 2001 - 2021

Why Read: Selected Writings 2001 - 2021

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'Will Self may not be the last modernist at work but at the moment he's the mostfascinating of the tradition's torch bearers.' - New York From one of the most...
All the Things Left Unsaid: Confessions of Love and Regret

All the Things Left Unsaid: Confessions of Love and Regret

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'Powerful and profound' Deirdre Purcell 'A beautiful book of great tenderness, love of life, and wisdom learned the tough way' Joseph O'Connor For almost fifty years, Michael Harding has been...
OXFORD TYPE THE BEST OF ISIS

OXFORD TYPE THE BEST OF ISIS

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The book titled OXFORD TYPE THE BEST OF ISIS by the author Unknown. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
George Orwell's Elephant & Other Essays

George Orwell's Elephant & Other Essays

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In his new collection of essays Subhash Jaireth traverses the globe in an exploration of the personal and collective memory held within natural and built landscapes. His roving curiosity takes...
The Call of the Tribe: Essays

The Call of the Tribe: Essays

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In The Call of the Tribe , Mario Vargas Llosa surveys the readings that haveshaped the way he thinks and has viewed the world over the past fifty years.The Nobel...
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess

All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess

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'I loved her ruthless, impatient thinking, her ferocious attention' Adam Thirlwell, New Statesman Books of the Year 2025 From one of the most talented young thinkers in the US, a...
John Laws' Book of Irreverent Logic

John Laws' Book of Irreverent Logic

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This is a book of the thoughts, philosophies, humour and favourite sayings of Australia's most listended to talk radio commentator, John Laws. A selection of the best from his popular...
The Memory Chalet

The Memory Chalet

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A collection of stirring, poignant personal essays from Tony Judt, one of our leading historians. It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a...
The Queer Bible

The Queer Bible

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'We stand on the shoulders of giants. Now we learn their names.' A powerful, joyous, stunningly illustrated collection of essays by queer icons about the LGBTQ+ trailblazers throughout history who...
Dispatches from the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives

Dispatches from the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives

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For the last three decades Gary Younge has had a ringside seat during the biggest events and with the most significant personalities to impact the black diaspora: accompanying Nelson Mandela...
The White Review Anthology

The White Review Anthology

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The book titled The White Review Anthology by the author Jacques Testard. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Gilmore Girls: The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge: The Official Guide

Gilmore Girls: The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge: The Official Guide

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Welcome to the ultimate TBR list! With meticulously researched book descriptions and hundreds of guided prompts and reading tips, The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge is an officially licensed, one-of-a-kind fan's...
Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An

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

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'A profound book about the intrication of literature and life, about the modest, miraculous ways art helps us to live' Garth Greenwell 'I can think of few writers capable of...
The Metropolitan Critic

The Metropolitan Critic

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The Metropolitan Critic was Clive James's first book. Originally published in 1974, by Faber, it is a collection of thirty-seven pieces from his initial period as a literary journalist. He...
The Metamorphoses

The Metamorphoses

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"Golding makes Ovid both dreamy and robust. Here we can listen to the English language as it moves confidently into the highest eloquence" - Tom Paulin Bringing together a series...