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I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry
Author: Halsey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Grammy Award-nominated, platinum-selling musician Halsey is heralded as one of the most compelling voices of her generation. In I Would Leave Me...
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...
Mates: The Friendship that Sustained Henry Lawson
Author: Dr Gregory Bryan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Henry Lawson gave voice to a uniquely Australian identity and much of the Australian ethos of mateship was...
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...
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...
Splendours and Miseries: The Roy Strong Diaries, 1967-87
Author: Roy Strong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 'The Alan Clark diaries of cultural politics' Sunday Times 'At every word a reputation dies' A. N. Wilson Roy...
Little Faith
Author: Nickolas Butler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Lyle Hovde is at the onset of his golden years, living a mostly content life in rural Wisconsin with...
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....
Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape and Home
Author: Alexander Wolff (author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 In 2017, acclaimed journalist Alexander Wolff moved to Berlin to take up a long-deferred task: learning his family's history. His...
Lines in the Sand: Collected Journalism
Author: Adrian Gill Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'By miles the most brilliant journalist of our age' Lynn Barber 'A golden writer' Andrew Marr A. A. Gill was rightly...
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 ......
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...
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...
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...
Worlds Elsewhere
Author: Andrew Dickson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Anti-apartheid activist, Bollywood screenwriter, Nazi pin-up, hero of the Wild West- this is Shakespeare as you have never seen him before....
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...