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Novelist as a Vocation: An exploration of a writer's life from the Sunday Times bestselling author

Novelist as a Vocation: An exploration of a writer's life from the Sunday Times bestselling author

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Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A unique look into the mind of a master storyteller. A unique look into the mind of a master storyteller. In...
Colombo: A Novel

Colombo: A Novel

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Geek Sublime: Writing Fiction, Coding Software

Geek Sublime: Writing Fiction, Coding Software

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The Secret Heart: Le Carre and Me: Tales From a Secret Love Affair

The Secret Heart: Le Carre and Me: Tales From a Secret Love Affair

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Author: Suleika Dawson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A Telegraph Book to Read for Autumn 2022 A Times Best Non-fiction Book for Autumn 2022 A Daily Mail Book of...
The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews

The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews

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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 Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews

The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews

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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

The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frost

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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...
Paradise Lost: A Humanist Approach

Paradise Lost: A Humanist Approach

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Fathers and Sons

Fathers and Sons

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Balzac's Horse and Other Stories

Balzac's Horse and Other Stories

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Up the Junction

Up the Junction

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The King's Man

The King's Man

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Bunyan Characters

Bunyan Characters

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Outlines of French Literature

Outlines of French Literature

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Late Harvest

Late Harvest

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Collected Essays

Collected Essays

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The Heptameron

The Heptameron

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The Book of Hrabal

The Book of Hrabal

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Villa Rubein

Villa Rubein

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The Victorian Popular Ballad

The Victorian Popular Ballad

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Moli�re and the Commonwealth of Letters

Moli�re and the Commonwealth of Letters

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Nothing but Grass and Wind: The Rutherfords of Canterbury (SIGNED)

Nothing but Grass and Wind: The Rutherfords of Canterbury (SIGNED)

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The Years

The Years

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Translating Myself and Others

Translating Myself and Others

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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...
Jane Austen, Early and Late

Jane Austen, Early and Late

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Author: Freya Johnston Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 A reexamination of Austen's unpublished writings that uncovers their continuity with her celebrated novels-and that challenges distinctions between her "early" and...
Dante

Dante

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Author: John Took Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 608 An authoritative and comprehensive intellectual biography of the author of the Divine Comedy. For all that has been written about the...
Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times

Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times

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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

Lives of Houses

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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 Mind in Exile: Thomas Mann in Princeton

The Mind in Exile: Thomas Mann in Princeton

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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

On Belonging and Not Belonging: Translation, Migration, Displacement

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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...
The Hungry Eye: Eating, Drinking, and European Culture from Rome to the Renaissance

The Hungry Eye: Eating, Drinking, and European Culture from Rome to the Renaissance

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Author: Leonard Barkan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 328 Eating and drinking can be aesthetic experiences as well as sensory ones. The Hungry Eye takes readers from antiquity to the...
Cheerfulness - A Literary and Cultural History

Cheerfulness - A Literary and Cultural History

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Author: Timothy Hampton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A timely story of a forgotten emotion Cheerfulness: A Literary and Cultural History tells a new story about the cultural imagination...
Prose Poetry: An Introduction

Prose Poetry: An Introduction

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Author: Paul Hetherington Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 344 Prose Poetry is the first book of its kind-an engaging and authoritative introduction to the history, development, and features of English-language...
Literature for a Changing Planet

Literature for a Changing Planet

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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

The Lives of Literature: Reading, Teaching, Knowing

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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

Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction

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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

First Person

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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...
Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread

Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread

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Author: Michiko Kakutani Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 **SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020** From renowned, Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic, Michiko Kakutani, comes an inspiring and gorgeously...
Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity

Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity

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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

Now Comes Good Sailing: Writers Reflect on Henry David Thoreau

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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

Worlds Elsewhere: Journeys Around Shakespeare's Globe

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Cast of Characters: Wolcott Gibbs, E. B. White, James Thurber, and the Golden Age of The New Yorker

Cast of Characters: Wolcott Gibbs, E. B. White, James Thurber, and the Golden Age of The New Yorker

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Puss in Books: Our best-loved writers on their best-loved cats

Puss in Books: Our best-loved writers on their best-loved cats

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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)

The Common Reader: First Series (Collins Classics)

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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...
A Marcus Clarke Reader

A Marcus Clarke Reader

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Now a Stranger

Now a Stranger

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Law and Crime

Law and Crime

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