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For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
Author: Nathan Englander Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Ruchama, a wigmaker from an ultra-orthodox Brooklyn enclave, journeys into Manhattan for inspiration, frequenting a newsstand where she flips through forbidden...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
From the up-and-coming young American writer who has contributed to McSweeney's and written for THE NEW YORKER comes a masterful collection of short stories that has already received rave reviews...
The Ministry of Special Cases
Author: Nathan Englander Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Buenos Aires, 1970s. Kaddish Poznan chips the names off gravestones for a living, removing traces of disreputable ancestors for their more...
Kaddish.com
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The celebrated Pulitzer finalist and prize-winning author of Dinner at the Center of the Earth and What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank delivers his best work...
The Best American Short Stories 2012
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The Best American Series(R) First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects...
The Senator's Wife
Love came late to Meri, but in a rush: she met Nathan at thirty-six, he moved in a month later, and they married a month after that. Now they are...
Nottingham
Nathan Makaryk's debut novel is a gripping historical epic - full of action, intrigue and adventure - and a fascinating retelling of the Robin Hood legend. Nottingham mixes history and...
Sea Change
Author: Alix Nathan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'Unsettling and strange, Sea Change cements Nathan's reputation as one of our most interesting historical novelists.' - The Times 'I'll be...
Once Upon a Raven's Nest: a life on Exmoor in an epoch of change
'This is a rich, beautiful and deeply moving book' GEORGE MONBIOT'I loved this book' CLOVER STROUDOnce Upon a Raven's Nest is the story of a working class man, one Thomas...
Exit Ghost
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Dickens the Enchanter: Inside the Explosive Imagination of the Great
'Dickensian is a language, not an adjective. Conrad speaks it fluently.' -- Spectator World 'Marvellous... the best book on Dickens since G.K. Chesterton's. -- A. N. Wilson, The Oldie A...
Echoing Greens: How Cricket Shaped the English Imagination
The importance of cricket to England has been immortalised in the art and literature of a thousand years. For countless artists and writers across the centuries, the culture and aesthetics...
The Voice that Thunders
A collection of writings by the author of the 2022 Booker Prize-shortlisted Treacle Walker 'His work has a symphonic quality unique in fiction' THE TIMES 'The autobiography of one of...
God's Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution
The classic life of Cromwell by one of Britain's great radical historians A nuanced biography of Oliver Cromwell, breaking down Cromwell's life into different parts- fenland farmer and humble backbencher;...
How to Lose a Lord in Ten Days
'Sophie Irwin is an exciting and original voice. She's a must-buy author for me' Taylor Jenkins Reid 'I simply couldn't put this book down. Joyous, hilarious and full of sparkling...
The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English
A gripping, extraordinary account of England in an era of revolutionary turmoil Within the English revolution of the mid-seventeenth century which resulted in the triumph of the protestant ethic -...
The Voice that Thunders
A collection of writings by the author of the 2022 Booker Prize-shortlisted Treacle Walker 'His work has a symphonic quality unique in fiction' THE TIMES 'The autobiography of one of...
English Collusion and the Norman Conquest
The reality of war, in any period, is its totality. Warfare affects everyone in a society. Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive analysis of eleventh century warfare as...
Henry I: King of England and Duke of Normandy
This first comprehensive biography of Henry I, the youngest son of William the Conqueror and an elusive figure for historians, offers a rich and compelling account of his tumultuous life...
An Olive Grove in Ends: The dazzling debut novel about love, faith and
ONE OF THE OBSERVER 'S 10 MUST-READ DEBUT NOVELISTS OF 2022 A GUARDIAN NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2022 WINNER: HAWTHORNDEN PRIZE 2023; SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD 2023; SOHO HOUSE BREAKTHROUGH WRITER...
The Angels of Englemere Wood: The uplifting and inspiring true story
The uplifting true story of a London children's home dispatched to rural England during the Blitz, the Lady in Waiting who opened up her home, and the matron who changed...
The Brothers York: An English Tragedy
The gripping new history of a dynasty that seized the English throne - then tore itself apart It is 1461 and England is crippled by civil war. One freezing morning,...
Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire and Peterborough
The varied architecture of this east Midland area ranges from the Norman glory of Peterborough cathedral and notable Early English churches to many fine Elizabethan and Jacobean mansions. The finest...
Sarum: 30th anniversary edition of the bestselling novel of England
The towering story of five families through 100 centuries of turmoil, tyranny, passion and prosperity. __________________________ THE BESTSELLING HISTORICAL NOVEL ***now with a new introduction from Edward Rutherfurd*** The towering...
English Vision, An: Traditional Architecture and Decoration for Today
Pentreath is renowned as one of the foremost designers of new traditional buildings and country houses in the world. In celebration of his London-based firm's twentieth anniversary, Pentreath presents his...
From Script to Stage in Early Modern England
This collection brings together a group of distinguished and original theatre historians engaged in rethinking the nature of early modern theatre history as a discipline. Whether focusing on the relation...
English Pastoral: An Inheritance - The Sunday Times bestseller from
A poetic, practical, raw and almost miraculously detailed picture of an ancient way of life struggling to survive and to be reborn - New Statesman As a boy, James Rebanks's...
Mad Dogs and Englishmen
Discover Sir Ranulph Twistelton-Wykham-Fiennes s personal expedition to trace his extraordinary family through history. From Charlemagne himself a direct ancestor of the author to the count who very nearly persuaded...
Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper
Author: Alexandra HarrisFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 450g, 416 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2023An award-winning study of England's unique and peculiarly insular variant of modernism. While the...
Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper
Author: Alexandra HarrisFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 450g, 416 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2023An award-winning study of England's unique and peculiarly insular variant of modernism. While the...
Henry VIII: The Decline and Fall of a Tyrant
'Hutchinson brilliantly conveys the atmosphere of terror...a gripping narrative' DAILY MAIL ' A brilliantly readable account of Henry's last years' SUNDAY TIMES ' Vivid and shocking' BOOKSELLER The Tudors retained...
The Gathering Storm: the brand-new Morland Dynasty novel in the
The eagerly-awaited return to the acclaimed Morland Dynasty series, and the 100th novel by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles England, 1936 The reign of Edward VIII has begun, but danger for the monarchy...
Seeds of a Different Eden: Chinese Gardening Ideas and a New English
This is an original investigation into the transference of intellectual principles of natural beauty across cultures and disciplines.""Seeds of a Different Eden"" is a path breaking multidisciplinary study of the...
The Business Community of Seventeenth-Century England
This uniquely comprehensive study explores all aspects of the English business community as it developed between 1590 and 1720. Drawing largely on material in private papers, Richard Grassby describes and...
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
A NEW EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CLARE MACKINTOSH THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'An utter delight' Sarah Winman 'Quirky, moving and beautifully written' Paula Hawkins 'Vibrant and funny' Guardian Summer,...