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Shakespeare's Face
Author: Stephanie Nolen
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Number of Pages: 352
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Shakespeare's Other Son?: William Davenant, Playwright, Civil War Gun Runner and Restoration Theatre Manager
Author: R E Pritchard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Sir William Davenant (1606-1668) was in his time widely known as 'Davenant the Poet'. The son of an Oxford vintner...
Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon
Author: Mark McGurl Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 As the story goes: Jeff Bezos left a lucrative job to start something new in Seattle only after a deeply affecting...
Culture and Politics: Class, Writing, Socialism
Author: Raymond Williams Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Raymond Williams was a pioneering scholar of cultural and society, and one of the outstanding intellectuals of the twentieth century. In...
The Tomb of Oedipus: Why Greek Tragedies Were not Tragic
Author: William Marx Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 If Greek tragedies are meant to be so tragic, why do they so often end so well? Here starts the story...
An A-Z of Jane Austen
Author: Michael Greaney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 168 Jane Austen's richly textured worlds have enchanted readers for centuries and this neatly organised, playful book provides Austen enthusiasts and students...
Doll
Author: Maria Teresa Hart (Executive Editor, TripAdvisor, Independent Journalist, USA) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives...
Macbeth
Author: Prof. Eric Rasmussen (USA) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's great drama of ambition, desire and guilt....
How Poetry Can Change Your Heart
Author: Megan Falley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 Was poetry something you dreaded in school? Have you secretly scribbled it in the margins of notebooks? Has it changed your...
Books for Living: a reader's guide to life
Author: Will Schwalbe Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 From the author of the international bestseller THE END OF YOUR LIFE BOOK CLUB, an inspiring and magical exploration of the...
About Kane
Author: Graham Saunders Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 In About Kane, Graham Saunders offers an important study of one of the most controversial and talented playwrights of recent times....
Tocororo: A Cuban Tale
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Gender on the Divide: Dandy in Modernist Literature
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Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition
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Woman Against Her Sex: A Critique of Nawal El-Saadawi - With a Reply by Nawal El-Saadawi
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Wuthering Heights (Collins Classics)
Author: Emily Bronte Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Is Mr. Heathcliff a man? If so, is he mad?...
The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge
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What Writers Read: 35 Writers on their Favourite Book
Author: Pandora Sykes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Time and again, writers are asked the same questions about their favourite books: What are they? What's the book you wish...
The Book About Everything: Eighteen Artists, Writers and Thinkers on James Joyce's Ulysses
Author: Declan Kiberd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 To celebrate the centenary of the publication of Ulysses, the most important literary work of the twentieth century, eighteen artists, writers...
King Henry IV Part 1: Third Series
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 David Scott Kastan lucidly explores the remarkable richness and the ambitious design of King Henry IV Part 1 and shows how...
Blurb Your Enthusiasm: A Cracking Compendium of Book Blurbs, Writing Tips, Literary Folklore and Publishing Secrets
Author: Louise Willder Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 It's good to judge a book by its cover. Drawing on her 25 years writing blurbs for Penguin books, Louise Willder...
So Many Books So Little Time
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September 1, 1939: W. H. Auden and the Afterlife of a Poem
Author: Ian Sansom Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 This is a book about a poet, about a poem, about a city, and about a world at a point of...
The Stuff of Life
Author: Prof. Timothy Morton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 'An old teapot, used daily, can tell me more of my past than anything I recorded of it.' Sylvia Townsend...
The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky, a Crime and Its Punishment
Author: Kevin Birmingham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 From the acclaimed author of The Most Dangerous Book, the true story behind the creation of another masterpiece of world literature,...
The Real Rule Of Four
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The Lady and Her Monsters: A Tale of Dissections, Real-Life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley's Masterpiece
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The Poem: Lyric, Sign, Metre
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King Henry V
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Lover of Gardens, A
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Why She Wrote: A Graphic History of the Lives, Inspiration, and Influence Behind the Pens of Classic Women Writers
Author: Hannah K. Chapman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In Why She Wrote, dive into the fascinating, unexpected, and inspiring stories behind the greatest women writers in the English...
A Vertical Art: Oxford Lectures
Author: Simon Armitage Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 376 '[Armitage] blended his down-to-earth, often flippant demeanor with a brilliantly understated, original and captivating address, which never strayed into pretentiousness or...
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Author: Fiona Sampson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by...
The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Fantasy: The definitive illustrated guide
Author: David Pringle Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 This essential reference book details everything the novice needs to know about the genre and everything the well-read fan is calling...
The Dark Powers of Tolkien: An illustrated Exploration of Tolkien's Portrayal of Evil, and the Sources that Inspired his Work from Myth, Literature and History
Author: David Day Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 J.R.R. Tolkien's THE LORD OF THE RINGS, THE HOBBIT and THE SILMARILLION are some of the greatest tales of good versus...
The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 2: 1923-1925
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Text, Theory, Space: Land, Literature and History in South Africa and Australia
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Small City Tales of Strangeness and Beauty
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Guarded by Dragons: Encounters with Rare Books and Rare People
Author: Rick Gekoski Format: Paperback 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...
The Poem: Lyric, Sign, Metre
Author: Don Paterson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 752 The Poem attempts to answer several questions: what is a poem? In what way is its use of language distinct? What...
The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II: Practical Cats and Further Verses
Author: T. S. Eliot Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 688 This critical edition establishes a new text of the Collected Poems 1909-1962, rectifying accidental omissions and errors. As well as...
Love Letters from Paris: the most enchanting read of 2021
Author: Nicolas Barreau Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'Enchanting. Reading Barreau is like having me-time with your best friend' NINA GEORGE, author of THE LITTLE PARIS BOOKSHOP 'Heart-breaking ....
Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers
Author: Mary Wellesley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'This book is an expression of love... Sublimely conceived and beautifully written' Gerard DeGroot, The Times 'Immersive, conversational and intensely visual'...
Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy, 1598-1642
Author: Jean E. Howard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Arguing that the commercial stage depended on the unprecedented demographic growth and commercial vibrancy of London to fuel its own...
The Heart of Things: On Memory and Lament
Author: Richard Holloway Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Richard Holloway is one of our most beloved public thinkers. Throughout his life he has turned to poets and writers to...
And When Did You Last See Your Father?
Author: Blake Morrison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 And when did you last see your father? Was it when they burnt the coffin? Put the lid on it? When...
To Be or Not To Be: A Celebration of Shakespeare's 400-year Legacy
Author: Liz Evers Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The works of William Shakespeare have been a permanent feature on school curricula for years, and almost everybody can boast even...
The White Goddess
Author: Robert Graves Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 This labyrinthine and extraordinary book, first published fifty years ago, was the outcome of Graves's vast reading and curious research into...