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Joseph Conrad: A Biography
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Jane Austen's Little Book of Wisdom: Words on Love, Life, Society and Literature
Author: Andrea Kirk Assaf Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Jane Austen's Little Book of Wisdom offers more than 300 bite-size quotes of inspiration and wisdom from one of the...
How to Read a Book
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Life After Truth
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Thomas Campion
Author: Charles Simic Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by...
The Triumph of Time
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In Search of J.D. Salinger
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On Tuesdays I'm a Buddhist: Expeditions in an in-between world where therapy ends and stories begin
Author: Michael Harding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 One day in the summer of 2016, Michael Harding's wife brought an unusual gift home from Warsaw. All of a sudden,...
Looking Back: Playwrights at the Royal Court, 1956-2006
Author: Harriet Devine Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A captivating collection of new interviews by Harriet Devine, the daughter of the first Artistic Director of the Royal Court, George...
George Herbert
Author: George Herbert Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 George Herbert (1593-1633) was educated at Trinity College Cambridge, where he was Public Orator, 1619-27. After taking orders, he accepted the...
Guarded by Dragons: Encounters with Rare Books and Rare People
Author: Rick Gekoski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 The Times Best Literary Non-fiction Books 2021 - 'a super yarn' 'Rick Gekoski's encyclopaedic knowledge of rare books is matched only...
Flash House
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Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers
Author: Mary Wellesley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'This book is an expression of love... Sublimely conceived and beautifully written' Gerard DeGroot, The Times 'Immersive, conversational and...
Christina Stead
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Unauthorized Pleasures: Accounts of Victorian Erotic Experience
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The Hedgehog And The Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History
Author: Isaiah Berlin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Isaiah Berlin's classic essay on Tolstoy - an exciting new edition with new criticism and a foreword. 'The fox knows many...
The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators
Author: Martin Edwards Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 736 Nominated for the 2023 Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical book. In the first major history of crime fiction in fifty years,...
Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World
Author: Mark Aldridge Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 From the very first book publication in 1920 to the recent film release of Death on the Nile, this...
Reading Columbus
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Jack Lindsay Reader
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Mighty Opposites: From Dichotomies to Differences in the Comparative Study of China
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Far-fetched Facts: Literature of Travel and the Idea of the South Seas
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Twenty Poems That Could Save America And Other Essays
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Author: Tony Hoagland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 230 Twenty Poems That Could Save America presents insightful essays on the craft of poetry and a bold conversation about the role...
Uncommon Carriers
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Sphere History of Literature: v. 4: Dryden to Johnson
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Borderline
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Chaucer A to Z
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The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature
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Agent of Byzantium
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Texas
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The Rock Blaster
Author: Henning Mankell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 At 3 p.m. on a Saturday afternoon in 1911, Oskar Johansson is caught in a blast in an industrial...
Words & Pictures: Writers, Artists and a Peculiarly British Tradition
Author: Jenny Uglow Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 As children, learning to read, we look first at the illustrations - but how do these tell their stories...
The Fragments of my Father: A Memoir of Madness, Love and Family Secrets
Author: Sam Mills Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR In the vein of the Costa-winning Dadland, with the biographical elements of...
Read the Classics: The Books that Nurtured Human Thought
Author: Matt Doucet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Take a stroll through some of the most influential pieces of literature of all time with Read the Classics. From Aristotle...
What Happened?
Author: Hanif Kureishi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 'No one else casts such a shrewd and gimlet eye on contemporary life.' - William Boyd Comic, dark and insightful, What...
Shakespeare in a Divided America
Author: James Shapiro Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'Excellent.' - New Statesman 'Outstanding.' - Irish Times 'Enthralling.' - Guardian 'Shapiro at his best.' - Daily Telegraph From...
Troublesome Words
Author: Bill Bryson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 With Troublesome Words, bestselling writer Bill Bryson gives us a clear, concise and entertaining guide to the problems of...
Raising Demons
Author: Shirley Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 In the uproarious sequel to Life Among the Savages, the author of The Haunting of Hill House confronts the...
The Foucault Reader
Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 An introduction to the work of Michel Foucault, including detailed excerpts from all of his major works The Foucault...
The Trouble With Being Born
Author: E. M. Cioran Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Darkly comic aphorisms on time, mortality and human relationships from one of the twentieth century's great philosophers 'Not...
The Pearl: Popular Penguins
Author: John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 100 When Kino, an Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the Pearl of the world' he believes that his life will be magically...
How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor: A Smart, Irreverent Guide to Biography, History, Journalism, Blogs, and Everything in Between
Author: Thomas C. Foster Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor uses the same skills...
The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Places that Inspired Middle-earth
Author: John Garth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 A lavishly illustrated exploration of the places that inspired and shaped the work of J.R.R. Tolkien, creator of Middle-earth. This new...
The Woodlanders
Author: Thomas Hardy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 When country-girl Grace Melbury returns home from her middle-class school she feels she has risen above her suitor, the...
The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frost
Author: Harold Bloom Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1008 "To read Bloom's insights here is to bask in the emanation of genius. As entertaining and erudite as his...
Essays
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 These essays, reviews and articles illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this...
Journeys from Scandinavia: Travelogues of Africa, Asia, and South America, 1840-2000
Author: Elisabeth Oxfeldt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 328 For all of the scholarship done on postcolonial literatures, little has been applied to Scandinavian writing. Yet, beginning with...
Letters of Peter Abelard, Beyond the Personal
Author: Peter Abelard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The Romantic Tale of Peter Abelard and Heloise has been widely known for centuries. The legend relates in part...