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The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews
Author: Adam Biles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Shakespeare and Company, Paris, is one of the world's most iconic and beautiful bookshops. Located on the banks of the Seine,...
The Worlds of Sherlock Holmes: The Inspiration Behind the World's Greatest Detective
Author: Andrew Lycett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Questing was Sherlock Holmes's business. He famously adopted the latest forensic techniques, channelled the Victorian passion for enquiry, kept abreast of...
100 Books that Changed the World
Author: Scott Christianson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A chronological survey of the world's most influential books. Many books have become classics, must-reads or overnight publishing sensations, but how...
The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews
Author: Adam Biles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Shakespeare and Company, Paris, is one of the world's most iconic and beautiful bookshops. Located on the banks of the Seine,...
The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frost
Author: Harold Bloom Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 1008 This comprehensive anthology attempts to give the common reader possession of six centuries of great British and American poetry. The book...
Fathers and Sons
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Late Harvest
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The Heptameron
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The Book of Hrabal
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Villa Rubein
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The Victorian Popular Ballad
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Nothing but Grass and Wind: The Rutherfords of Canterbury (SIGNED)
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Translating Myself and Others
Author: Jhumpa Lahiri Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 216 Translating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prizewinning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects...
Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times
Author: Professor Aaron Sachs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 472 Up from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important writers in American history-the novelist and...
Lives of Houses
Author: Kate Kennedy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A group of notable writers - including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow - celebrate...
The Iliad
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The Mind in Exile: Thomas Mann in Princeton
Author: Stanley Corngold Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 280 A unique look at Thomas Mann's intellectual and political transformation during the crucial years of his exile in the United States....
On Belonging and Not Belonging: Translation, Migration, Displacement
Author: Mary Jacobus Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 On Belonging and Not Belonging provides a sophisticated exploration of how themes of translation, migration, and displacement shape an astonishing range...
Literature for a Changing Planet
Author: Martin Puchner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Reading literature in a time of climate emergency can sometimes feel a bit like fiddling while Rome burns. Yet, at this...
The Lives of Literature: Reading, Teaching, Knowing
Author: Arnold Weinstein Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Why do we read literature? For Arnold Weinstein, the answer is clear: literature allows us to become someone else. Literature changes...
Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction
Author: Talia Schaffer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 In Communities of Care, Talia Schaffer explores Victorian fictional representations of care communities, small voluntary groups that coalesce around someone in...
First Person
Author: Richard Flanagan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Flanagan's best work to date.' - Readings Magazine What is the truth? In this blistering story of a ghost writer haunted...
Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity
Author: Joseph Farrell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A major new interpretation of Vergil's epic poem as a struggle between two incompatible versions of the Homeric heroThis compelling book...
Now Comes Good Sailing: Writers Reflect on Henry David Thoreau
Author: Andrew Blauner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 From twenty-seven of today's leading writers, an anthology of original pieces on the author of Walden Features essays by Jennifer Finney...
Worlds Elsewhere: Journeys Around Shakespeare's Globe
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Puss in Books: Our best-loved writers on their best-loved cats
Author: Paul Magrs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 A charming collection of quotes about cats from our favourite authors, accompanied by artwork in the trademark style of Paul Magrs...
The Common Reader: First Series (Collins Classics)
Author: H. G. Wells Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'A good essay must have this permanent quality...
Lawson
Author: Grantlee Kieza Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 The extraordinary rise, devastating fall and enduring legacy of an Australian icon Henry Lawson captured the heart and soul of Australia...
The Ladies of Missalonghi
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Landfall: a New Zealand Quarterly
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Fisher's Ghost and other essays
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Sinbad the Sailor and Other Stories from the Arabian Nights
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In Praise of Newspapers
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Particular Pleasure: Being a Personal Record of Some Varied Arts and Many Different Artists
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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...
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...
Bookends: Collected Intros and Outros
Author: Michael Chabon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 A brilliant, idiosyncratic collection of introductions and afterwords (plus some liner notes) by New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize winning...
The Catch: Fishing for Ted Hughes
Author: Mark Wormald Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'An absolute gem . . . I was delightfully lost by the river throughout' Paul Whitehouse 'Marvellous . . . The...
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...
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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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...
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...
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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This Boy's Life
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Life in Culture: Selected Letters of Lionel Trilling
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Author: Lionel Trilling Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 A great critic's quarrels with himself and others, as revealed in his correspondence In the mid-twentieth century, Lionel Trilling was America's...