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The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013
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Author: Derek Walcott Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 A collection spanning the whole of Derek Walcott's celebrated, inimitable, essential career He gives us more than himself or 'a world';...
The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013
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A collection spanning the whole of Derek Walcott's celebrated, inimitable, essential career "He gives us more than himself or 'a world'; he gives us a sense of infinity embodied in...
The Owl and the Nightingale
Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry In this 'graceful, elegant translation' (Guardian), Poet Laureate Simon Armitage communicates the energy and humour of the Middle English tale with all...
The Poetry Handbook
The Poetry Handbook is a lucid and practical guide to the poet's craft. There are chapters on metre, form, layout, lineation, punctuation, rhyme, diction, syntax, history, biography, and gender, as...
The Owl and the Nightingale
SHORTLISTED FOR THE DEREK WALCOTT PRIZE FOR POETRY 'It is the current Poet Laureate who has done the most to bring medieval poetry to contemporary audiences . . . in...
The Oxford Guide to Contemporary World Literature
Keeping track of contemporary writing can be difficult. What are the recent developments in Chinese or Israeli fiction? What has happened to poetry in Russia since the fall of Communism?...
Losing the Plot
Driven by a deep-seated desire to understand his mother's life before he was born, Derek Owusu offers a powerful imagining of her journey. As she moves from Ghana to the...
A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling
An astonishingly candid book from the Nobel Laureate about what has shaped his interpretation of literature and the world. For the "serious traveller", one who is fully engaged with the...
Waiting for the Past: Poems
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A new collection of poems from Les Murray that renews and transforms the contemporary world through language In Waiting for the Past, Les Murray employs his molten sense of language...
Daniel Deronda
George Eliot's last novel is a richly textured portrait of British society and the Jewish experience within it As Daniel Deronda opens, Gwendolen Harleth is poised at the roulette-table, prepared...
A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling
Over the course of his astonishing fifty-year career, V.S. Naipaul's writing has been characterized by a commitment to truth that gives his work a unique luminosity and brilliance. In "A...
The Great Modern Poets: An anthology of the essential poets and poetry
An essential introduction to the most significant poems and their works since 1900 Reproduced within this collection are some of the greatest poems of the 20th century, featuring works from...
Wicked Intentions: Number 1 in series
A man controlled by his desires . . .Infamous for his wild, sensual needs, Lazarus Huntington, Lord Caire, is searching for a savage killer in St. Giles, London's most notorious...
Get it Kicked!: The Battle for the Soul of English Football
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'It's difficult to change what's in your blood, in your body, all the history of playing that way, and you change it for what? It's analysis the English people have...
Liberty Faber Poetry Diary 2026
The Faber Poetry list, originally founded in the 1920s, was shaped by the taste of T. S. Eliot, who was its guiding light for nearly forty years. Each passing decade...
Poems to Fall in Love With
In Poems to Fall in Love With Chris Riddell has selected and illustrated his very favourite classic and modern poems about love. This gorgeously illustrated collection celebrates love in all...
100 Prized Poems: Twenty-five years of the Forward Books
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Author: William Sieghart Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'The Forward Prizes have turned a spotlight on contemporary poetry which is both searching and glamorous' Carol Ann Duffy 100 Prized...
Faber Poetry Diary 2026
The Faber Poetry list, originally founded in the 1920s, was shaped by the taste of T. S. Eliot, who was its guiding light for nearly forty years. Each passing decade...
Daniel Deronda
George Eliot's final novel, 'Daniel Deronda' (1876), follows the intertwining lives of the beautiful but spoiled and selfish Gwendolene Harleth and the selfless yet alienated Daniel Deronda, as they search...
Losing the Plot
Author: Derek Owusu Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Driven by a deep-seated desire to understand his mother's life before he was born, Derek Owusu offers a powerful imagining of...
English Politics In The Early Eighteenth Century
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Author: Robert WalcottBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 1956Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Yellowing to end pages and dust jacket and tears on...
Daniel Deronda
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Losing the Plot
DEREK OWUSU NAMED GRANTA'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE - FICTION 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE...
Losing the Plot
DEREK OWUSU NAMED GRANTA'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE - FICTION 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE...
The Hot Seat
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Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality
Derek Parfit (1942-2017) is the most famous philosopher most people have never heard of. Widely regarded as one of the greatest moral thinkers of the past hundred years, Parfit was...
The Hot Seat: Autobiography
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The Facts About A Theatre Company: Featuring The Prospect Company; Introduction By Derek Jacobi
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Author: Peter LewisBinding: HardbackPublished: G. Whizzard Publications Ltd., 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Previous owner incription title pageThis insightful theatrical history, The Facts About A Theatre...
Derek Jones' Country Book
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Author: Derek JonesBinding: HardbackPublished: David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1975Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Previous owner inscription front end pageDerek Jones’ Country Book...
Goshawk Squadron
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Flittermouse
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsFlittermouse by Derek Kartun presents a gripping narrative of espionage and intrigue. The story chronicles the perilous journey of a...
I, Said The Spy
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Author: Derek LambertBinding: HardbackPublished: HERON BOOKS, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsIn the gripping Cold War thriller I, Said The Spy, Derek Lambert plunges readers into a world of international...
Demon Road (The Demon Road Trilogy, Book 1)
THE EPIC NEW THRILLER BEGINS.The creator of the number one bestselling SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT series returns with the story of a girl on the run from everything she loves... and the...