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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription, taped blurb in FEP. One of the twentieth century's most celebrated and...

Larkin's final collection of poems shows, as does all his best work, his ability to adapt contemporary speech rhythms and everyday vocabulary to subtle metrical patterns and poetic forms. Many...

Jill is Philip Larkin's first novel, originally published in 1946. A subtle and moving account of a young English undergraduate from the provinces, this portrait of Oxford during the war...

This entirely new edition brings together all of Philip Larkin's poems. In addition to those in Collected Poems (1988), and in the Early Poems and Juvenilia (2005), some unpublished pieces...

Author: Philip LarkinFormat: Paperback, 153mm x 234mm, 955g, 688 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2022Letters Home gives access to the last major archive of Larkin's writing to remain unpublished:...

For the first time, Faber publish a selection from the poetry of Philip Larkin. Drawing on Larkin's four collections and on his uncollected poems. Chosen by Martin Amis. 'Many poets...

These letters throw light on a more complex figure than most readers will probably be expecting. Whether addressing his literary friends, who included Barbara Pym, Kinglsey Amis and John Betjeman,...

This new edition of Larkin's poems for the first time presents his four published books, The North Ship, The Less Deceived, The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows in their original...

Letters Home gives access to the last major archive of Larkin's writing to remain unpublished: the letters to members of his family. These correspondences help tell the story of how...

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A new treasury of early verse. Philip Larkin was one of the most admired and loved English poets of the twentieth century. His Collected Poems has become essential reading on...

By comparing Larkin's work with that of his contemporaries, including Gunn, Enright, Amis and Wain, this study provides a novel approach for understanding and assessing the current state of English...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodA landmark in twentieth-century literary curation, The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse stands as one of the most celebrated and debated...

Author: Philip Larkin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'A Girl in Winter is a beautifully constructed, funny and profoundly sad book' Andrew MotionThis compelling story of Katherine Lind and...

Author: Ana Sampson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Could there be a more pleasant way to spend a warm afternoon than lazing under a tree reading poetry inspired by...

A classic collection; With extracts from The Hobbit, The Wind in the Willows, Black Beauty and Tom's Midnight Garden; poems by writers as diverse as John Milton, Roger McGough and...

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Andrew Motion has been close to the centres of British poetry for over fifty years. Sleeping on Islands is his clear-sighted and open-hearted account of this remarkable career. It takes...

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A collectible new Penguin Classics series- beautiful, slim, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets Songs of Innocence and Experience is one of the best-loved poetry collections of all time, an...

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Author: Hilary Spurling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The author of the award-winning Matisse: A Life gives us the definitive biography of writer Anthony Powell--and takes us deep into...

The Noise of a Fly is the first new collection from Douglas Dunn in sixteen years, and the first since he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in...

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To stand beneath Joyce's tower in Sandycove reading "Finnegan's Wake" and pretending that he got it; to sing "Wild Rover" and "Black Velvet Band" in a pub until someone paid...

John Sutherland has picked out over 100 biographies from the "Dictionary of National Biography" to create this lively anthology of a selection of the most prominent figures in British 20th-century...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of psychoanalysis, linguistics, and philosophy stands Jacques Lacan, the most provocative and influential...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew poets have captured the bittersweet ache of youth, mortality, and the English...

Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box A Booker longlisting, a Pulitzer winner in 1970s Harlem, a new Adichie, and Murakami in a deluxe gift edition. The range runs wide here. Shūsaku...

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A collection of more than 300 of Paul Kelly's favourite poems. Paul Kelly's songs are steeped in poetry. And now he has gathered from around the world the poems he...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn A Fine Anger, Neil Philip delivers a rigorous and illuminating critical study of one of Britain's most enigmatic and celebrated authors, Alan Garner, whose...

An edition of Sterne's gloriously warm-hearted pastiche of travel-writing When Yorick, the roving narrator of Sterne's innovative final novel, sets off for France on a whim, he produces no ordinary...

Their greatest fear was contaminating an ancient Antarctic lake, buried beneath the ice for millions of years. They little knew the catastrophe they were about to unleash. Welcome to the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe beloved Larkin family returns for one final, sun-drenched romp in A Little of What You Fancy, the...

'Mysterious, wondrous, captivating' Louis de Bernieres 'We need the courage to choose ourselves' W. H. Auden It's early summer when a young poet, Dora Fielding, moves to Helensburgh on the...

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Author: Emma Larkin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 An overlooked patch of jungle behind a Bangkok city slum resonates with the hopes, dreams and fears of the local community....

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few voices in English poetry carry the aching clarity of A. E....