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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...
Of Gods and Men: 100 Stories from Ancient Greece and Rome
Author: Daisy Dunn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 552 A rigorously and imaginatively researched anthology of classical literature, bringing together one hundred stories from the rich diversity of the literary...
The Golden Age of Science Fiction: A Journey into Space with 1950s Radio, TV, Films, Comics and Books
Author: John Wade Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 John Wade grew up in the 1950s, a decade that has since been dubbed the golden age of science fiction ....
Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion
Author: Michelle Dean Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week 'This is such a great idea for a book, and Michelle Dean carries...
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...
The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells
Author: Sarah Churchwell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 The history America never wanted you to read. 'The narrative took my breath away' Philippe Sands 'An extraordinarily and shockingly powerful...
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...
Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature
Author: Anna Beer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 From the fourteenth century through to the present day, women who write have been understood as mad, undisciplined or dangerous. Female...
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...
The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells
Author: Sarah Churchwell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 Gone With the Wind, the myth of the Lost Cause and what they can tell us about American history and culture...
The Writers Game: Classic Authors
Author: Lesley Buckingham Format: Cards Number of Pages: 32 Searching for book lover gifts? Look no further than this beautifully illustrated top score card game. Who was more prolific, Charlotte...
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...
Jane Austen: Inspiring Lives
Author: Lauren Nixon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Jane Austen is the world's bestselling novelist 200 years after her death we seem to have a never-ending appetite for the...
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...
Doctor Faustus
Author: Christopher Marlowe Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 This fully re-edited, modernised play text is accompanied by commentary notes and an introduction written by Paul Menzer, guiding you through...
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....
Wrestling with the Angel: A Life of Janet Frame
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Author: Michael King Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 The first full-scale-and long-awaited-biography of Janet Frame, sometimes described as the "most distinguished woman writer in English.". Janet Frame, born in...
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....
My Judy Garland Life
Author: Susie Boyt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Fascinating and extraordinary, thrilling and poignant, MY JUDY GARLAND LIFE will speak to anyone who has ever nursed an obsession or...
Tocororo: A Cuban Tale
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179 Ways to Save a Novel
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Gender on the Divide: Dandy in Modernist Literature
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Mary Renault: A Biography
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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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Selected Letters
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A Christmas Carol (HarperCollins Children's Classics)
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 This beautiful HarperCollins Children's Classics edition of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol is the perfect addition to any bookshelf. It's Christmastime...
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 War of the Worlds (Collins Classics)
Author: H. G. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. "For a time I believed that...
Animal Farm and 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Two modern classics in one volume. George Orwell is one of the finest and most influential writers of the...
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...
Mary Poppins She Wrote: The extraordinary life of Australian writer P.L. Travers
Author: Valerie Lawson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Discover the true story behind the creation of the world's most beloved nanny, now appearing in Disney's Mary Poppins Returns. Mary...
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...
Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires: The Life of Patricia Highsmith
Author: Richard Bradford (University of Ulster, UK) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 NOMINATED FOR THE H.R.F. KEATING AWARD, 2022. 'My New Year's Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts,...
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...
Book Crush: For Kids and Teens--Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Interest
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George Orwell: The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters: v. 4: In Front of Your Nose, 1945-1950
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Antoine De St.Exupery: The Life and Death of the Little Prince
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So Many Books So Little Time
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A Legend of Holy Women: A Translation of Osbern Bokenham's Legends of Holy Women
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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...
Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy
Author: Dr Steven Powell (University of Liverpool, UK) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 THE TELEGRAPH'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR 2024 EDGAR ALLAN POE AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR...
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...