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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...
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...
Room to Move: Redress Press Anthology of Women's Short Stories
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The Poet and the Murderer: A True Story of Verse, Violence and the Art of Forgery
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Landfall: a New Zealand Quarterly
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Sinbad the Sailor and Other Stories from the Arabian Nights
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Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition
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This Boy's Life
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Edmund White: the Burning World
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Teacher Man
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The Writing Life: from the award-winning author of Remembering Babylon
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Heretical Empiricism
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Stories to Read While Seated
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The Literary Larrikin: A Critical Biography of T.A.G. Hungerford
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The Life of Kingsley Amis
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The Orientalist: In Search of a Man caught between East and West
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Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
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Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers
Author: Mary Wellesley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'This book is an expression of love... Sublimely conceived and beautifully written' Gerard DeGroot, The Times 'Immersive, conversational and intensely visual'...
Sherlock Unlocked: Little-known Facts About the World's Greatest Detective
Author: Daniel Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Consulting detective Sherlock Holmes has been fascinating generations of readers, watchers and listeners for over 130 years, since he first appeared...
The Writing School: A memoir
Author: Miranda France Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'Both extremely funny and deeply sad, The Writing School examines how and why we tell our own stories. It's beautifully written...
The Shutter of Snow (Faber Editions): 'Extraordinary.' Lucy Ellmann
Author: Emily Holmes Coleman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 'Extraordinary. A fascinating and unexpected delight. Coleman shows howwomen might write if we were free - and how murderous we'd...
Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory
Author: Janet Malcolm Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 For decades, Janet Malcolm's books and dispatches for the New Yorker have poked and prodded at biographical convention, gesturing towards the...
Herself in Love: And Other Stories
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The Same Man: George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh in Love and War
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Harold Robbins: The Man Who Invented Sex
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Forger's Shadow: How Forgery Changed the Course of Literature
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The Joy of Bad Verse
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Lost, Stolen or Shredded: Stories of Missing Works of Art and Literature
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Amis & Son: Two Literary Generations
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A Long and Winding Road: Xavier Herbert's Literary Journey
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Wilderness
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The Universe Looks Down
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The Book of Lost Books
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Cassidy
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Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time
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Keepers of the Flame: Literary Estates and the Rise of Biography
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Arrested Voices: Resurrecting the Disappeared Writers of the Soviet Regime
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Janet Frame: Complete Autobiography
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Books That Saved My Life: Reading for Wisdom, Solace and Pleasure
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My Life in Middlemarch
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Anna Akhmatova: Poet and Prophet
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The Fiction:Glory: A Novel
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Political Works of Henry Lawson
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Shakespeare's Book: The Intertwined Lives Behind the First Folio
Author: Chris Laoutaris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 'A lively picture of multiple operators scrambling to steal a march on the competition . . . Lavishly detailed' Financial Times...