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An Irish Voice: The Quest for Peace

An Irish Voice: The Quest for Peace

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In 1992, while unable to get an American Visa, Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams was invited to write a series of columns for the "Irish Voice" newspaper and the "Irish...
The Best Australian Essays: A Ten-Year Collection

The Best Australian Essays: A Ten-Year Collection

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The best of the best . . . This essential book takes a decade of Best Australian Essays and selects the cream of the crop. These are the pieces that...
Talking About a Revolution

Talking About a Revolution

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With her trademark optimism, sass, boldness and search for answers, across a collection of new and revisited essays, Yassmin Abdel-Magied explores resistance, transformation, and revolution. Yassmin Abdel-Magied started out a...
The Loss of El Dorado: A Colonial History

The Loss of El Dorado: A Colonial History

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A passionate and vivid recreation of the history of Trinidad The Loss of El Dorado exposes the barbaric cruelties of slavery and torture and their consequences on all strata of...
One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko

One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko

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With the incisive pen of a newspaperman and the compassionate soul of a poet, Mike Royko was a Chicago institution who became, in Jimmy Breslin's words, "the best journalist of...
Too Hot to Handle: Story of the Race for Cold Fusion

Too Hot to Handle: Story of the Race for Cold Fusion

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The extraordinary story of the Pons and Fleischmann "discovery" of cold fusion in Salt Lake City in 1988, the enormous world-wide media excitement their announcement generated, and the military, political...
The Happy Life: The Search of Contentment in the Modern World:

The Happy Life: The Search of Contentment in the Modern World:

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In the first Quarterly Essay for 2011, David Malouf returns to one of the most fundamental questions and gives it a modern twist- what makes for a happy life? With...
Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire

Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire

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Examines every aspect of government, attending a political convention, the presidential election and inauguration, Congress, the Supreme Court and a small town meeting in New Hampshire. He examines the budget,...
Rugby Head

Rugby Head

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A man. A game. A life. A shambles. In this brutally honest, hilarious and forensic examination of both himself and the game he loves, Greg Bruce tells the story of...
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

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A Times book of the year A Guardian book of the year 'Magnificent' The Times 'Dazzling' New Statesman 'It filled me with hope' Zadie Smith We are living in the...
Griffith Review 77: Real Cool World

Griffith Review 77: Real Cool World

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Griffith Review 77: Real Cool World explores Antarctica as both a place and a canvas for imagination. This vast, dry continent drives much of our global weather, a litmus test...
The Way We are

The Way We are

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From the author of "Much Depends on Dinner" and "The Rituals of Dinner" comes a collection of essays in which Visser, a self-described "anthropologist of everyday life", analyzes the patterns...
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 this volume with a startling attack on biography, which is answered by two essays on the ethics and values of non-fiction writing. The book then goes on...
Imagined Selves: Imagined Corners: Mrs Ritchie: Mrs Grundy in

Imagined Selves: Imagined Corners: Mrs Ritchie: Mrs Grundy in

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This volume gathers together some of the real and the imagined lives of Willa Muir, one of the finest and fiercest intellectuals of her generation. Her writing is rich with...
The Fran Lebowitz Reader: The Sunday Times Bestseller

The Fran Lebowitz Reader: The Sunday Times Bestseller

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Acerbic, wisecracking and hilarious, this is the definitive essay collection from New York legend and satirist, Fran Lebowitz, star of Martin Scorsese's hit Netflix series, Pretend It's a City. 'The...
The Rise of Rome: Bks. 1-5

The Rise of Rome: Bks. 1-5

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'the fates ordained the founding of this great city and the beginning of the world's mightiest empire, second only to the power of the gods' Romulus and Remus, the rape...
Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and

Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and

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" "Wide-ranging yet consistently affecting, these pieces offer a crucial and inspired survey of the immigrant experience in America." " - Publishers Weekly "[These contributions] touch on so many different...
black girl, no magic: reflections on race and respectability

black girl, no magic: reflections on race and respectability

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'This book is a glowing achievement by one of the best essayists of her generation' Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff 'Witty, fresh and full of life' Liv Little 'I can't recommend more highly......
You're Embarrassing Yourself

You're Embarrassing Yourself

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'I laughed, I cried and then I laughed again' LENA DUNHAM 'Smart and funny ... reminds me of the best of Nora Ephron' GUARDIAN Writer, actor, and director Desiree Akhavan...
Dear Eddie: God, Turtles and Letters About Mum

Dear Eddie: God, Turtles and Letters About Mum

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Living with Saints

Living with Saints

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The Best American Nonrequired Reading

The Best American Nonrequired Reading

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Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog

Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog

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Scenes and Apparitions: The Roy Strong Diaries 1988-2003

Scenes and Apparitions: The Roy Strong Diaries 1988-2003

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Leaves from My Library: An English Anthology

Leaves from My Library: An English Anthology

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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...
4am: Answers to the conundrums that keep you up at night . Advice from Ask Shameless

4am: Answers to the conundrums that keep you up at night . Advice from Ask Shameless

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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...
East Side Voices: Essays celebrating East and Southeast Asian identity

East Side Voices: Essays celebrating East and Southeast Asian identity

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' A dazzling and joyous celebration ' i-D 'A wonderful book - so timely and much needed. I loved the collection and I hope everyone will read it' Elif Shafak...
Calm the F**k Down

Calm the F**k Down

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Mabo: Life of an Island Man

Mabo: Life of an Island Man

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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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Bibliophile: Diverse Spines

Bibliophile: Diverse Spines

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It's time to diversify your reading list. This richly illustrated and vastly inclusive collection uplifts the works of authors who are often underrepresented in the literary world. Using their keen...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Bluets: AS SEEN ON BBC2'S BETWEEN THE COVERS

Bluets: AS SEEN ON BBC2'S BETWEEN THE COVERS

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Maggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation - Olivia Laing A Guardian Book...