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Orwell: The New Life

Orwell: The New Life

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Author: D.J. Taylor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 608 Over seventy years since his premature death, George Orwell (1903-50) has become one of the most significant figures in western literature....
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

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

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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 Literary Larrikin: A Critical Biography of T.A.G. Hungerford

The Literary Larrikin: A Critical Biography of T.A.G. Hungerford

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Mistress'S Daughter: A Memoir

Mistress'S Daughter: A Memoir

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The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 2: 1923-1925

The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 2: 1923-1925

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The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry: with <i>The Lady Falkland:  Her Life</i>, by One of Her Daughters

The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry: with The Lady Falkland: Her Life, by One of Her Daughters

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Text, Theory, Space: Land, Literature and History in South Africa and Australia

Text, Theory, Space: Land, Literature and History in South Africa and Australia

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The Life of Kingsley Amis

The Life of Kingsley Amis

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The Orientalist: In Search of a Man caught between East and West

The Orientalist: In Search of a Man caught between East and West

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Small City Tales of Strangeness and Beauty

Small City Tales of Strangeness and Beauty

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The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 4: 1928-1929

The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 4: 1928-1929

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The Poem: Lyric, Sign, Metre

The Poem: Lyric, Sign, Metre

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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...
Heart of Darkness (Collins Classics)

Heart of Darkness (Collins Classics)

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Author: Joseph Conrad Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if...
The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II: Practical Cats and Further Verses

The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume II: Practical Cats and Further Verses

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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

Love Letters from Paris: the most enchanting read of 2021

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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

Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers

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The Secret Heart: Le Carre and Me: Tales From a Secret Love Affair

The Secret Heart: Le Carre and Me: Tales From a Secret Love Affair

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Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy, 1598-1642

Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy, 1598-1642

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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

The Heart of Things: On Memory and Lament

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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...
Sherlock Unlocked: Little-known Facts About the World's Greatest Detective

Sherlock Unlocked: Little-known Facts About the World's Greatest Detective

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Author: Daniel Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Consulting detective Sherlock Holmes has been fascinating generations of readers, watchers and listeners for over 130 years, since he first appeared...
And When Did You Last See Your Father?

And When Did You Last See Your Father?

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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

To Be or Not To Be: A Celebration of Shakespeare's 400-year Legacy

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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...
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by the bestselling author of JUST MY TYPE

All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by the bestselling author of JUST MY TYPE

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Author: Simon Garfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The encyclopaedia once shaped our understanding of the world. Created by thousands of scholars and the most obsessive of editors, adults...
The Writing School: A memoir

The Writing School: A memoir

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Author: Miranda France Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'Both extremely funny and deeply sad, The Writing School examines how and why we tell our own stories. It's beautifully written...
The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures

The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures

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Author: Paul Muldoon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The End of the Poem contains the fifteen lectures delivered by Paul Muldoon during his tenure as Oxford Professor of Poetry,...
The White Goddess

The White Goddess

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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...
Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World

Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World

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Author: Lyndall Gordon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 OUTSIDERS tells the stories of five novelists - Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner, Virginia Woolf - and their...
The Shutter of Snow (Faber Editions): 'Extraordinary.' Lucy Ellmann

The Shutter of Snow (Faber Editions): 'Extraordinary.' Lucy Ellmann

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Author: Emily Holmes Coleman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 'Extraordinary. A fascinating and unexpected delight. Coleman shows howwomen might write if we were free - and how murderous we'd...
A Moveable Feast

A Moveable Feast

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Author: Ernest Hemingway Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 'If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest...
Shelf Life: Writers on Books and Reading

Shelf Life: Writers on Books and Reading

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Author: Alex Johnson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 Books; reading, collecting and the physical housing of them has brought the book-lover joy - and stress - for centuries. Fascinated...
Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory

Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory

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Author: Janet Malcolm Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 For decades, Janet Malcolm's books and dispatches for the New Yorker have poked and prodded at biographical convention, gesturing towards the...
Harold Robbins: The Man Who Invented Sex

Harold Robbins: The Man Who Invented Sex

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Arthur Miller: A Playwright's Life and Works

Arthur Miller: A Playwright's Life and Works

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Forger's Shadow: How Forgery Changed the Course of Literature

Forger's Shadow: How Forgery Changed the Course of Literature

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The Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog

The Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog

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The Joy of Bad Verse

The Joy of Bad Verse

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The Secret Heart: John Le Carre: An Intimate Memoir

The Secret Heart: John Le Carre: An Intimate Memoir

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Little Constructions

Little Constructions

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Author: Anna Burns Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The second novel from Anna Burns, critically acclaimed author of the Man Booker winning novel, Milkman 'Brilliant ... I can't remember...
Writing the Nation: Patrick White and the Indigene

Writing the Nation: Patrick White and the Indigene

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William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams

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Victorian Literature and Culture

Victorian Literature and Culture

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Therapy Like Fish: New and Selected

Therapy Like Fish: New and Selected

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The World of Sherlock Holmes

The World of Sherlock Holmes

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The Romance of the Middle Ages

The Romance of the Middle Ages

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Remarkably Jane

Remarkably Jane

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Real Presences

Real Presences

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Nine Winning Habits of Successful Authors

Nine Winning Habits of Successful Authors

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Mr Isherwood Changes Trains

Mr Isherwood Changes Trains

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