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The Singular Mark Twain: A Biography
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Capote: A Biography
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Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life
Author: Brigitta Olubas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 The authorised biography of Shirley Hazzard, one of the greatest writers in the English language, author of The Transit of Venus...
One Toss of the Dice: The Incredible Story of How a Poem Made Us Modern
Author: R. Howard Bloch (Yale University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The forerunner of our digital age, a French poem about a shipwreck published in 1897, with its mind-bending...
Roman Literary Culture: From Plautus to Macrobius
Author: Elaine Fantham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Scholars of ancient literature have often focused on the works and lives of major authors rather than on such questions as...
Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded, with Risible Rhymes: Volume Two
Author: Yusuf al-Shirbini Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 360 Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Yusuf al-Shirbini's Brains Confounded pits the "coarse" rural masses against the "refined" urban population. In Volume One,...
Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded: Volume One
Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Yusuf al-Shirbini's Brains Confounded pits the "coarse" rural masses against the "refined" urban population. In Volume One, al-Shirbini describes the three rural "types"-peasant cultivator, village man-of-religion,...
The Sword of Ambition: Bureaucratic Rivalry in Medieval Egypt
Author: 'Uthman ibn Ibrahim al-Nabulusi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 478 Patronage, power, and competition in the Sultan's court The Sword of Ambition opens a new window onto interreligious rivalry...
Lillian Hellman: The Image, The Woman
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The Illustrated Timeline of Western Literature: A Crash Course in Words and Pictures
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Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today...
Save me, Joe Louis
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Continent of Mystery: a Thematic History of Australian Crime Fiction
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Agatha Christie A to Z: The Essential Reference to Her Life and Writings
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The Countess from Kirribilli: The mysterious and free-spirited literary sensation who beguiled the world
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Shakespeare
Author: Bill Bryson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A new edition of bestselling author Bill Bryson's compelling and concise biography of William Shakespeare, to mark the 400th anniversary of...
A Literary Heritage
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I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys
Author: Miranda Seymour Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'An absolute belter of a biography' MARINA HYDE A Times Literary Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2022 An LA Times Best...
Truth and Beauty: A Friendship
Author: Ann Patchett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 From the bestselling author of The Dutch House, Commonwealth and Bel Canto, Winner of The Women's Prize for Fiction and the...
The Newspaper of Claremont Street
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Rupert Adventure Book
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Round the World in Eighty Days
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Two Little Savages
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Palimpsest: A Memoir
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The Call of the Tribe: Essays
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 In The Call of the Tribe, Mario Vargas Llosa surveys the readings that haveshaped the way he thinks and has...
A-Z of Great Writers
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A First Place, A
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Harvest
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Wow, No Thank You.: The #1 New York Times Bestseller
Author: Samantha Irby Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Staring down the barrel of her fortieth year, Samantha Irby is confronting the ways her life has changed since the days...
Above Capricorn
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This Rare Spirit: A Life of Charlotte Mew
Author: Julia Copus Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 'An exquisitely told account of the life of a half-forgotten London poet whose work was admired by Hardy, Sassoon and Virginia...
Shakespeare in a Divided America
Author: James Shapiro Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Excellent.' - New Statesman 'Outstanding.' - Irish Times 'Enthralling.' - Guardian 'Shapiro at his best.' - Daily Telegraph From the author...
See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticism, and Commentary
Author: Lorrie Moore Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'When in 1999 I began writing for The New York Review of Books ... my stance became that of the ingenuous...
Meaty
Author: Samantha Irby Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'This is an unforgettable book, the kind where the author unapologetically bares her heart and asks you to hold it tenderly,...
Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane
Author: Paul Auster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 800 'Exhilarating.' Joyce Carol Oates, Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year 'Sharp-eyed and revealing.' The New Yorker 'Brilliant . . ....
Guarded by Dragons: Encounters with Rare Books and Rare People
Author: Rick Gekoski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The Times Best Literary Non-fiction Books 2021 - 'a super yarn' 'Rick Gekoski's encyclopaedic knowledge of rare books is matched only...
The Heart of the Matter
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The Spirit of the Bush Fire Series Part 1
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The Mint Lawn
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A Tale Of Love And Darkness
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The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem
Author: Matthew Hollis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 The Waste Land is said to be the greatest poem of the age. It is thought to describe the moral decay...
The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures
Author: Paul Muldoon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The End of the Poem contains the fifteen lectures delivered by Paul Muldoon during his tenure as Oxford Professor of Poetry,...
Farther Away
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Beaumarchais in Seville: An Intermezzo
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Yours Truly: Women of Letters
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Callgirl
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Vera Brittain: A Life
Author: Mark Bostridge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 The definitive biography of Vera Brittain, acclaimed author of Testament of Youth. With a new introduction by Mark Bostridge. 'Riveting and...
The Age of Shakespeare
Author: Sir Frank Kermode Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Shakespeare made his unique contribution to British and world culture in the midst of Elizabeth's great reign. Here, the circumstances...