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We're Alone: a Roxane Gay Book Club Pick, 2024

We're Alone: a Roxane Gay Book Club Pick, 2024

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'Danticat offers an invaluable primer to the Haitian American experience in all its inherited trauma. Arguably she does for the Haitian diaspora what Junot Diaz has done for Dominican Americans'...
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER PICKED BY THE SUNDAY TIMES , GUARDIAN , INDEPENDENT , IRISH TIMES , SPECTATOR , TLS , NEW STATESMAN , MAIL ON SUNDAY , I...
Life's Short, Talk Fast: 15 Writers on Why We Can't Stop Watching

Life's Short, Talk Fast: 15 Writers on Why We Can't Stop Watching

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Gilmore Girls hit our screens in 2000 and has been our autumn obsession ever since. There's a reason that Vogue calls it ' the quintessential autumn girl show' and that,...
A View from the Stars

A View from the Stars

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'We're mysterious aliens in the crowd. We jump like fleas from future to past and back again, and float like clouds of gas between nebulae; in a flash, we can...
Passions Of The Mind: Selected Writings

Passions Of The Mind: Selected Writings

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A selection reflecting the varied enthusiasms of A.S. Byatt, this work sweeps from the Romantics and Victorians to modern British writers, from the art of Van Gogh to the poems...
The Eagleton Reader

The Eagleton Reader

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This is the first collection of Terry Eagleton's work for the theatre - St Oscar, The White, the Gold and the Gangrene, Disappearances, and God's Locusts.
Meanjin Vol. 69, No. 4

Meanjin Vol. 69, No. 4

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This December, Meanjin turns seventy. As Australia s second oldest literary journal, it has helped our nation develop a cultural identity, critiqued that identity and, more recently, saw globalisation threaten...
Baroque and Rococo Pictorial Imagery: The 1758?1760 Hertel Edition of

Baroque and Rococo Pictorial Imagery: The 1758?1760 Hertel Edition of

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Great 1593 work codified and developed symbolism of baroque and rococo periods. This royalty-free volume reprints 200 plates from rare 18th-century edition, Hertel s Historiae et Allegoriae, with English translations...
Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream

Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream

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I was thinking; my mind was running at top speed, scanning and sorting my options. They ranged all the way from Dumb and Dangerous to Crazy, Evil, and utterly wrong...
Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope has often been termed the first truly professional poet in English. He had an acute awareness of traditions he had inherited and a clear vision of where he...
Odd Jobs

Odd Jobs

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The book titled Odd Jobs by the author John Updike. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Dateline Freedom: Revelations of an Unwilling Russian Exile

Dateline Freedom: Revelations of an Unwilling Russian Exile

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Vitali's fearless journalism made him a national hero in the USSR, as well as a sitting target for the criminals he has helped to convict. In this book he investigates...
The End of the End of the Earth

The End of the End of the Earth

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A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections In The End of the End of the Earth, which gathers essays and speeches...
An Irish Childhoods: An Anthology

An Irish Childhoods: An Anthology

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The book titled An Irish Childhoods: An Anthology by the author A. Norman Jeffares. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Somewhere Beyond: A Jessie Kesson Companion

Somewhere Beyond: A Jessie Kesson Companion

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This miscellany of Jessie Kesson's writings brings together a variety of her work in different genres, all focusing on childhood and adolescence.
On Being Different: What It Means to Be a Homosexual

On Being Different: What It Means to Be a Homosexual

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The groundbreaking work on being homosexual in America-available again only from Penguin Classics and with a new foreword by Dan Savage Originally published in 1971, Merle Miller'sOn Being Differentis a...
A Tramp Abroad

A Tramp Abroad

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Twain's account of travelling in Europe, A TRAMP ABROAD (1880), sparkles with the author's shrewd observations and highly opinionated comments on Old World culture, and showcases his unparalleled ability to...
Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour

Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour

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Flaubert's unforgettable memoirs of travels abroad At once a classic of travel literature and a penetrating portrait of a "sensibility on tour," Flaubert in Egypt wonderfully captures the young writer's...
Griffith Review 66: The Light Ascending

Griffith Review 66: The Light Ascending

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The Light Ascending features new work from Holly Ringland, Julienne van Loon, Mirandi Riwoe, Allanah Hunt, Krissy Kneen and Pat Hoffie, as well as inspiring new work from Australia's leading...
Nothing Compares to You: What Sinead O'Connor Means to Us

Nothing Compares to You: What Sinead O'Connor Means to Us

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An intimate and evocative celebration of the life and legacy of music and political icon Sinead O'Connor, featuring writers including Neko Case, Sinead Gleeson, Rayne Fisher-Quann, Porochista Khakpour, and more....
What My Father and I Don't Talk About: Sixteen Writers Break the

What My Father and I Don't Talk About: Sixteen Writers Break the

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A follow-up to the wildly successful What My Mother and I Don't Talk About, this "moving and deeply relatable" (Qian Julie Wang, New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Country...
Best American Essays 2002

Best American Essays 2002

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Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads...
Scripsi

Scripsi

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The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2025

The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2025

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"These stories remind us that food is not just fuel, nor is travel just movement," writes Bryant Terry in his introduction. "They are acts of remembrance, resistance, and connection." The...
The Best American Essays 2025

The Best American Essays 2025

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"The essay has taught me how to live," writes Jia Tolentino, this year's Best American Essays guest editor. In a time of escalating authoritarianism and disinformation, we turn to artists...
It Occurs to Me That I Am America: New Stories and Art

It Occurs to Me That I Am America: New Stories and Art

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In time for the one-year anniversary of the Trump Inauguration and the Women's March, this provocative, unprecedented anthology features original short stories from thirty bestselling and award-winning authors-including Alice Walker,...
Thoughts From the Ice-Drinker's Studio: Essays on China and the World

Thoughts From the Ice-Drinker's Studio: Essays on China and the World

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Daring essays on democracy, history and the nation state by one of China's leading twentieth-century intellectuals The power, anger and fluency of Liang Qichao's writings make him one of the...
Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

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'Keep Moving speaks to you like an encouraging friend reminding you that you can feel and survive deep loss, sink into life's deep beauty and constantly make yourself new' Glennon...
Lifeform: from the bestselling author of Little Weirds

Lifeform: from the bestselling author of Little Weirds

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From actor, comedian, co-creator of Marcel the Shell , and New York Times bestselling author of Little Weirds Jenny Slate, a wild, soulful, hilarious collection of genre-bending essays depicting the...
Transcendence for Beginners

Transcendence for Beginners

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In Transcendence for Beginners, Clare Carlisle examines life writing and philosophy across certain European and Indian traditions, exploring questions of childhood and mortality, art and religion, beauty and loss. Informed...
The Tower

The Tower

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Once upon a time, there was a tower on a hill, beyond the dark trees, somewhere north. An octagonal tower on two levels: glass upstairs and stone below, beneath a...
Pigeonholed: Creative Freedom as an Act of Resistance

Pigeonholed: Creative Freedom as an Act of Resistance

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'Responsible but not beholden; substantial as well as symbolic; sympathetic but not pandering; political but not proscriptive: there's not an awful lot of wiggle room there, but it's the space...
Known and Strange Things

Known and Strange Things

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A blazingly intelligent first collection of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and Every Day Is for the Thief. With these pieces on politics, photography, travel, history and...
The Soul Of London

The Soul Of London

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In The Soul of London (1905) Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) gives a vivid impression of the excitement and challenge of the greatest city of modern times.In its evocation of the...
Women and Fiction: Manuscript Version of "Room of One's Own"

Women and Fiction: Manuscript Version of "Room of One's Own"

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After Virginia Woolf's death most of the manuscript of "Women and Fiction" was given by Leonard Woolf to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, where, until its rediscovery by the author, it...
Dispatches from the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives

Dispatches from the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives

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BY THE WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR JOURNALISM 2023 *Includes additional material* A powerful collection of journalism on race, racism and black life and death from one of the...
Festival Days

Festival Days

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A New York Times Notable Book A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A Boston Globe and LitHub Best Book of the Year When "The Fourth State of Matter,"...
Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings

Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings

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Extraordinary essays from one of the century's finest writers WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MICHAEL MOORCOCK Angela Carter was one of the most important and influential writers of our time- a...
The Hour of the Predator: Encounters with the Autocrats and Tech

The Hour of the Predator: Encounters with the Autocrats and Tech

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Giuliano Da Empoli's The Hour of the Predator is a timely and incisive examination of the shifting power dynamics in global politics, where traditional governments find themselves increasingly outmatched by...
What Just Happened?!: Dispatches from Turbulent Times (The Sunday

What Just Happened?!: Dispatches from Turbulent Times (The Sunday

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Relive the delusional fever-dream of the modern era. 'Thank f*ck for Marina Hyde: the most lethal, vital, screamingly funny truth-teller of our time.' - PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE...
On Friendship

On Friendship

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If we are lucky, in our lives, our friendships will be rich and varied. They will be shared with those with two legs, with four legs, with whiskers or clean...
89 Words followed by Prague, A Disappearing Poem

89 Words followed by Prague, A Disappearing Poem

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89 Words, published in 1985, is an expanded version of the dictionary of sorts that readers encountered in The Art of the Novel, and comprises a fascinating and rigorous interrogation...
Another Sky: Voices of Conscience from Around the World

Another Sky: Voices of Conscience from Around the World

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This collection of writing from prison, including autobiography, letters and poems, will include new pieces by Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the National League for Democracy currently under 'protective...
The Everyday and Everydayness: Two Works Series Vol. 3

The Everyday and Everydayness: Two Works Series Vol. 3

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'The character of the everyday has always been repetitive and veiled by obsession and fear', wrote Henri Lefebvre in 1987. Drawing on his mid-twentieth century 'critique of everyday life', a...
Andras Szanto: Imagining the Future Museum: 21 Dialogues with

Andras Szanto: Imagining the Future Museum: 21 Dialogues with

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Following on the widely-read The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues , which explored how museums are changing through conversations with today's generation of museum directors, New York-based author and...
The West - An insider's tales. A romping reporter in Perth's innocent

The West - An insider's tales. A romping reporter in Perth's innocent

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Tony's pieces are an absolute tonic. That's because Tony himself is full of such palpable energy, empathy, a relentless ear for hilarity and irony, and most importantly boundless curiosity. The...
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir

Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir

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Taking in the jazz and blues icons whom Jefferson idolised as a child in the 1950s, ideas of what the female body could be - as incarnated by trailblazing Black...
Meanjin Vol.67 No.3

Meanjin Vol.67 No.3

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The September edition of Meanjin includes Georgia Blain on life-writing, Joseph Pearson on Don Watson's American Journeys in light of the USA primaries, and Mel Campbell on buying a leather...