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The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker
Author: Jelani Cobb Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 A collection of the New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in America, including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison,...
The Gilded Chalet: Travels through Literary Switzerland
Author: Padraig Rooney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 In the summer of 1816 paparazzi trained their telescopes on the goings on of poets Byron and Shelley -...
This Rare Spirit: A Life of Charlotte Mew
Author: Julia Copus Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The British poet Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) was regarded as one of the best poets of her age by fellow writers, including...
Jane Austen's Universal Truths: Wisdom and witticisms from her writings
Author: Susan Hart-Byers Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Well-known for her humour, Jane Austen's Universal Truths is a collection of some of Austen's most choice and wry observations. Featuring...
The Mystery of Charles Dickens
Author: A. N. Wilson (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A Book of the Year in The Times & Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Spectator, Irish Times and...
The Little Book of Jane Austen: A Witty Collection of Universally Acknowledged Truths
Author: Orange Hippo! Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen never goes out of style. Jane Austen's much-loved novels vividly describe 19th-century...
The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths, and Their Year of Marvels
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Author: Adam Nicolson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Brimming with poetry, art, and nature writing--Wordsworth and Coleridge as you've never seen them before June 1797 to September 1798 is...
A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes
Author: Rodrigo Garcia Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 "This is a beautiful farewell to two extraordinary people. It enthralled and moved me, and it will move and enthrall anyone...
Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir
Author: Marina Warner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. 'Wonderful - a brave,...
Strange Antics: A History of Seduction
Author: Clement Knox Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 When is seduction about more than just sex? In this brilliantly original history, Clement Knox explores these questions as...
The William H. Gass Reader
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Author: William H Gass Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 928 Throughout his career, William Gass relentlessly pushed at the boundaries of language, celebrating the music of the sentence and the...
Late Essays: 2006 - 2017
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Author: J M Coetzee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A new collection of twenty-three literary essays from the Nobel Prize-winning author. J. M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of...
The Disappearance of Emile Zola: Love, Literature, and the Dreyfus Case
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Author: Michael Rosen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 It is the evening of July 18, 1898 and the world-renowned novelist Emile Zola is on the run. His crime? Taking...
Jacob's Room is Full of Books: A Year of Reading
Author: Susan Hill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 When we spend so much of our time immersed in books, who's to say where reading ends and living...
The Innocent Reader: Reflections on Reading and Writing
Author: Debra Adelaide Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Books are impractical companions and housemates: they are heavy when you are travelling, and in the home take up...
Breaking Bread with the Dead: Reading the Past in Search of a Tranquil Mind
Author: Alan Jacobs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Should we still bother with the supposedly great works of past ages? Aristotle believed that men were naturally superior to women....
Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars
Author: Francesca Wade Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 'Outstanding. I'll be recommending this all year.' - Sarah Bakewell 'A beautiful and deeply moving book.' - Sally Rooney...
Scenes and Apparitions: The Roy Strong Diaries 1988-2003
Author: Sir Roy Strong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 'Viper wit from the gardener, writer and Knight of exquisite taste' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Funny, barbed and moving ......
The Bad Boy of Athens: Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones
Author: Daniel Mendelsohn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace ... He writes about things so clearly...
William Shakespeare: A Companion Guide to His Life & Achievements
Author: Gill Davies Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 360 William Shakespeare was born April 1564 and died 23 April 1616, four hundred years ago. Today the bard from Queen Elizabeth's...
Emigres: French Words That Turned English
Author: Richard Scholar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 English has borrowed more words from French than from any other modern foreign language. French words and phrases-such as...
Mr. Penrose: The Journal of Penrose, Seaman
Author: William Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Long neglected as the first American novel, Mr. Penrose narrates the adventures of a British youth who flees an...
What to Read and Why
Author: Francine Prose Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 In this brilliant collection, the follow-up to her New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer, the distinguished novelist, literary critic,...
Gold (slipcase edition) - Chris Cleave
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Author: Chris Cleave Format: Hardback in Slipcase Number of Pages: A heart-pounding novel about the extremes to which people will go for success, from the bestselling author of Little Bee.In the tradition...
On Seamus Heaney
Author: Roy Foster Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 A vivid and original account of one of Ireland's greatest poets by an acclaimed Irish historian and literary biographer The most...
Journeys from Scandinavia: Travelogues of Africa, Asia, and South America, 1840-2000
Author: Elisabeth Oxfeldt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 328 For all of the scholarship done on postcolonial literatures, little has been applied to Scandinavian writing. Yet, beginning with...
Letters of Peter Abelard, Beyond the Personal
Author: Peter Abelard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The Romantic Tale of Peter Abelard and Heloise has been widely known for centuries. The legend relates in part...
Euripides: Ion
Author: Laura Swift Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 "Euripides' Ion" is the story of a young man's search for his identity, and a woman's attempt to come...
Crusoe's Secret: The Aesthetics of Dissent
Author: Tom Paulin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Comprised of pieces spanning five centuries, Crusoe's Secret explores the culture of English dissent, whether through canonical works -...
How to Read Sade
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Author: John Phillips Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Approaching the writing of major intellectuals, artists, and philosophers need no longer be daunting. How to Read is a...
Little Boy
Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Little Boy was quite lost. He had no idea who he was or where he had come from ... Grown Boy...
A Tranquil Star Stories
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Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 These seventeen stories, first published in Italian between 1949 and 1986, demonstrate Levi's extraordinary range, taking the reader from...