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Pure Pleasure: A Guide to the 20th Century's Most Enjoyable Books
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Through a Crooked Lens: Through a Crooked Lens
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The Man Who Left Too Soon: The Biography of Stieg Larsson
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George Johnston
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Once A Jolly Swagman: The Ballad Of Waltzing Matilda
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In His Own Words: From Freedom to the Future
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House of Exile: The Lives and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger-Mann
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More Big Questions: Paul Davies in Conversation with Phillip Adams
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Spirits of Place: Five Famous Lives in Their English Landscape
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Dearest Munx
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A Voyage Round John Mortimer
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Books that Saved My Life: Reading for Wisdom, Solace and Pleasure
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Thoughtlines: Reflections of a Public Man
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Germaine Greer : Untamed Shrew: Untamed Shrew
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Alaska
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The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them
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The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them
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You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
Author: Zora Neale Hurston Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 'One of the greatest writers of our time.' Toni Morrison 'You Don't Know Us Negroes adds immeasurably to...
Making Waves: Essays
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Author: Mario Vargas Llosa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Spanning thirty years of writing, Making Waves traces the development of...
Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Author: Joan Didion Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Twelve early pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of Joan Didion....
The Rock Blaster
Author: Henning Mankell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 At 3 p.m. on a Saturday afternoon in 1911, Oskar Johansson is caught in a blast in an industrial...
Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography Through Essays
Author: Claire Messud Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Arranged in three parts, Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write opens with Claire's most personal...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Motherwell: A Girlhood
Author: Deborah Orr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Raw, compelling, wise and tender' Dolly Alderton 'MOTHERWELL is razor-sharp, fearless and wonderful' Adam Kay 'Utterly unflinching and staggeringly good, both...
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...
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...