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Wodehouse: A Life
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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
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The Yellow Admiral
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Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life
Author: Brigitta Olubas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 The authorised biography of Shirley Hazzard, one of the greatest writers in the English language, author of The Transit of Venus...
Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949
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Author: Doris Lessing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 "I was born with skins too few. Or they were scrubbed off me by...robust and efficient hands." The experiences absorbed through...
Waka and Things, Waka as Things
Author: Edward Kamens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A challenging study offering a new perspective on classical Japanese poems and how they interact with and are part of material...
One Toss of the Dice: The Incredible Story of How a Poem Made Us Modern
Author: R. Howard Bloch (Yale University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The forerunner of our digital age, a French poem about a shipwreck published in 1897, with its mind-bending...
The Ancient Fable: An Introduction
Author: Niklas Holzberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 We are all familiar with the moralizing animal tales ascribed to Aesop. Described as fiction that conveys truths, fables can be...
Wild Haruki Chase: Reading Murakami Around the World
Author: Japan Foundation Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 For all Haruki Murakami fans, this is an investigation into the global popularity and translation of his books, which have appeared...
Roman Literary Culture: From Plautus to Macrobius
Author: Elaine Fantham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Scholars of ancient literature have often focused on the works and lives of major authors rather than on such questions as...
Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded, with Risible Rhymes: Volume Two
Author: Yusuf al-Shirbini Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 360 Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Yusuf al-Shirbini's Brains Confounded pits the "coarse" rural masses against the "refined" urban population. In Volume One,...
Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded: Volume One
Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Yusuf al-Shirbini's Brains Confounded pits the "coarse" rural masses against the "refined" urban population. In Volume One, al-Shirbini describes the three rural "types"-peasant cultivator, village man-of-religion,...
Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters
Author: Rosanna Warren (University of Chicago) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 720 Though less of a household name than his contemporaries in early twentieth century Paris, Jewish homosexual poet Max...
The Sword of Ambition: Bureaucratic Rivalry in Medieval Egypt
Author: 'Uthman ibn Ibrahim al-Nabulusi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 478 Patronage, power, and competition in the Sultan's court The Sword of Ambition opens a new window onto interreligious rivalry...
Kahlil Gibran: Beyond Borders
Author: Kahlil G. Gibran Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 A comprehensive illustrated biography of Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist, poet and author of the best-selling inspirational fiction The Prophet. Kahlil...
High Voltage Women: Breaking Barriers at Seattle City Light
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Lillian Hellman: The Image, The Woman
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Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Author: Jia Tolentino Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A Times book of the year A Guardian book of the year 'Magnificent'The Times 'Dazzling' New Statesman 'It filled me with...
Unquiet Soul: Biography of Charlotte Bronte
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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 Number of Pages: 336 The New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor uses the same skills to teach...
Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet
Author: Elaine Feinstein Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Ted Hughes is one of the greatest English poets of this century, yet his life was dogged by tragedy and controversy....
Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World
Author: Mark Aldridge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 From the very first book publication in 1920 to the recent film release of Death on the Nile, this investigation into...
The Life of a Long Distance Writer
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Literary Life and Other Curios
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Kennedy William : Riding the Yellow Trolley Car
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Fitzgerald, Scott (Literary Lives)
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Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable - Softcover
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The Countess from Kirribilli: The mysterious and free-spirited literary sensation who beguiled the world
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Miss Pickerell Goes Undersea
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A Literary Heritage
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The Forsyte Saga
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Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1954-2008
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: with Pearl and Sir Orfeo
Author: J. R. R. Tolkien Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 This smart new paperback edition contains the fully-reset text of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the...
The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators
Author: Martin Edwards Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 736 Winner of four major prizes for the best critical/biographical book related to crime fiction: the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity and H.R.F. Keating...
What If We Stopped Pretending?
Author: Jonathan Franzen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 The climate crisis is here. Our chance to stop it has come and gone, but this doesn't have to mean the...
I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys
Author: Miranda Seymour Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'An absolute belter of a biography' MARINA HYDE A Times Literary Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2022 An LA Times Best...
Dickens and Massachusetts: The Lasting Legacy of the Commonwealth Visits
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The Newspaper of Claremont Street
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The Australian Collection
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Enthusiasms
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The Secret Garden
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Greek Voices in Australia: A Tradition of Prose, Poetry and Drama
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The Mysterious William Shakespeare: The Myth and the Reality
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Princess Marie-José's Childrens Book
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The Priest of Love: A Life of D.H. Lawrence
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Rupert Adventure Book
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Round the World in Eighty Days
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The Novels of C.P. Snow: A Critical Introduction
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