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Richard Ford, who is among the very finest of American novelists and story writers, edited and introduced the first Granta Book of the American Short Story, which Granta published in...

Secondhand Biography & Memoir Bargain Book Box SP2919 A wide-ranging memoir and biography box — major literary lives of Faulkner, Eudora Welty, and Archibald MacLeish; Naipaul's India: A Million Mutinies...

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AS HEARD ON RADIO 4 WOMAN'S HOUR ' Captivating ... a brilliant many-layered social history of women's ambition and a rapidly changing New York' Observer 'A fascinating look at a...

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The short story is one of the most varied and exciting genres in American literature. This collection brings together many of its finest examples from the early nineteenth century to...

Longlisted for the 2015 Miles Franklin Literary Award From the headland, we look across to the lighthouse on Seal Island where Mr Hammett has to take the gas bottle to...

Primarily a jazz critic, Gary Giddins is also keenly interested in cinema and modern American literature, and this book brings together over thirty of his most perceptive pieces. There are...

One of America's finest crime writers in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time Lew Archer, world-weary private investigator, is hired by Larry and Irene Chalmers when they suspect that...

From the longest-running, most influential book review in America, here is its best, funniest, strangest, and most memorable coverage over the past 125 years. A "delightful" (Vanity Fair) collection from...

One of America's finest crime writers in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time Twenty years ago, Anthony Galton vanished, along with his streetwise bride and several thousand dollars of...

One of America's finest crime writers in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time When Maude Slocum - beautiful, frightened and angry - comes to Lew Archer's office with a...

One of America's finest crime writers in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time When a chance encounter makes him a witness to the abduction of a child, private detective...

**Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024** Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we...

Inspired by real-life makers Ada Lovelace and Marie Curie, this beloved #1 bestseller champions STEM, girl power and women scientists in a rollicking celebration of curiosity, the power perseverance, and...

A collection of contemporary one-act plays by 44 established writers: Koko Abe, Edward Albee, Amiri Baraka, Jane Bowles, Richard Ford, David Hare, Vaclav Havel, Gert Hoffman, Adrienne Kennedy, David Mamet,...

kokoro [n.] intelligent heart, feeling mind One year. Two devastating losses. Three sacred Japanese mountains. A major life transition, a heart full of grief and a revelation that changes everything....

Writing in the Foreword, Jonathan Young, Editor of The Field, says: 'Field readers always have the solution to a problem, whether it's a pattern for kiltsocks (Patons No 3285) or...

One of America's finest crime writers in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time Private detective Lew Archer has better things to do than take on an investigation for Alex...

With a third of Australians born and around half with one parent born overseas, migration stories are a crucial part of our national experience. In her verse novel, Ask No...

A wonderful collection of 366 curious questions asked by children from around the world, based on the award-winning podcast by Molly Oldfield. How much bamboo can a giant panda eat?...

Author: Lavinia Greenlaw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The place I went to when I could not speak was also where my voice came from. Part memoir, part manifesto,...

Author: Helen De Cruz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 232 A philosopher explores the transformative role of wonder and awe in an uncertain world Wonder and awe lie at the...

"In a world stupefied by quick fixes and easy answers, Elizabeth Weingarten delivers a smart and urgent wake-up call."-Daniel H. Pink "An interesting, insightful, and surprisingly reassuring read."-Adam Grant, #1...

Part biography, part self-help, an original, funny and moving portrait of Montaigne, Renaissance nobleman and essayist. How to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to...

Too often, we don't find out what's truly on others' hearts and minds because we don't know how to ask the right questions in the right ways. Co-founder of Transcend...

Millions of readers have come to value the Conversations with God series by Neale Donald Walsch, which has now been translated into twenty-six languages. Many thousands of those readers have...

Author: Sue Whiting Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 A very hungry fox in search of food stumbles into one wrong fairytale after another trying to flee some very high-profile...

Author: Walter JamesBinding: HardbackPublished: THE HAWTHORN PRESS, 1972Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerA landmark of Australian memoir and social commentary, Ants in...

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In his latest comic crime caper, Dortmunder is hired to steal a bone, but not any old bone . . . Dortmunder has a job offer. He's been hired by...

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Why is the sea salty? How far away is space? Why can't I tickle myself? Why can't we live forever? Children ask the most interesting and challenging questions. But how...

Collaborative Inquiry in Practice is an invitation and guide for people interested in pursuing a more imaginative and holistic approach to human inquiry. The reader is guided step-by-step through the...

A very hungry fox in search of food stumbles into one wrong fairytale after another trying to flee some very high-profile fairytale characters, eventually giving Henny Penny the fright of...

**Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024** Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we...

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Welty's incisive, deeply evocative tales capture the sultry, close atmosphere of small-town life in the American Deep South First published in 1949, THE GOLDEN APPLES is an acutely observed, richly...

A collection of questions and their various answers from the readers of The Guardian, such as: is it true that goldfish have a memory span of five seconds? When were...

Author: New Scientist Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Introduced by Jim Al-Khalili Could you surf down an erupting volcano? Why do zebras have stripes? Are you breathing the same...