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The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul
Patrick French has been granted unique access to V.S. Naipaul's private papers and his personal recollections. With great feeling for Naipaul's formidable body of work, he has produced a luminous...
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...
Half a Life
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Miguel Street
An astonishing novel about hope, despair, poverty and laughter. V.S. Naipaul's first written novel, already displaying his humour, endless inventiveness and imaginative brilliance, won the Somerset Maugham Award on its...
Reading and Writing
I was eleven, no more, when the wish came to me to be a writer; and then very soon it was a settled ambition. But for the young V. S....
The Mimic Men
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom one of the twentieth century's most unflinching literary voices comes The Mimic Men, a searing portrait of displacement, political disillusionment, and the fractured...
Guerrillas
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet against the smouldering backdrop of a Caribbean island teetering on the edge of political collapse, Guerrillas is...
The Writer and the World: Essays
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The Loss Of El Dorado
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the heart of The Loss of El Dorado lies one of history's most seductive and devastating myths — the...
The Enigma of Arrival
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Literary Occasions
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Magic Seeds
From V S Naipaul - a spare, searing novel about identity and idealism, and their ability to shape or destroy us.Willy Chandra - whom we first met in Half a...
Among the Believers: An Islamist Journey
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A Bend In The River
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of a newly independent African nation, where the jungle presses against the edges of a...
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...
Finding the Centre: Two Narratives
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A Turn in the South
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Way in the World, A
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Half a Life
A devastatingly moving and often very funny novel from a masterful voice. In a corner of India untouched by anti-colonial agitation Willy Chandran's father stood at odds with the world...
Half a Life
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The Middle Passage: Impressions of Five Societies, British, French and Dutch, in the West Indies
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Magic Seeds
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Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples
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India: A Million Mutinies Now
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North of South: An African Journey
In the 1970s Shiva Naipaul travelled to Africa, visiting Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia for several months. Through his experiences, the places he visited and his various encounters, he aimed to...
Beyond The Dragon's Mouth: Stories & Pieces
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A writer of rare precision and unflinching...
Empire Windrush: Reflections on 75 Years & More of the Black British Experience
Author: Onyekachi Wambu Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 In June 1948, the SS Empire Windrush docked in Tilbury, carrying with it the hopes and dreams of hundreds of young...
Candor and Perversion: Literature, Education and the Arts
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Secondhand Biography & Memoir Bargain Book Box SP2919
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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...
Authors
This book examines the opinions and influences, idiosyncrasies and personalities of writers as diverse as Shakespeare and Kingsley Amis, Cervantes and Milan Kundera. Professor Miller discusses and defends the profession...
A Turkish View Of Gallipoli: Çanakkale
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew battles of the First World War have been chronicled with such ferocity of conviction as the campaign at Gallipoli — yet history has...
Imphal 1944: The Japanese invasion of India
A highly illustrated account of the decisive battle of Imphal during World War II, where the attempted Japanese invasion of India was turned back in its largest land defeat of...
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Waterstones and TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR A SPECTATOR and History Today BOOK OF THE YEAR A revolutionary new history of the diffusion...
Islamic Carpets From The Joseph V Mcmullan Collection
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA treasure trove for connoisseurs and scholars alike, Islamic Carpets from the Joseph V McMullan Collection presents one...
Ripples of Battle: How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight,
From one of the most respected military historians working today, an illuminating and brilliantly written exploration of war's profound impact -- social and cultural as well as military -- on...
"Neill! Neill! Orange Peel!"
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in the history of modern education have provoked as much admiration, controversy, and passionate debate as Alexander Sutherland Neill, and this autobiography...
The Snobol4 Programming Language
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of linguistics and computer science stands SNOBOL4, one of the most powerful string-processing...
Inside the Stargazer's Palace: The Transformation of Science in
Enter the mysterious world of sixteenth-century science, where astronomers and alchemists shared laboratories... 'There is magic in these pages.' Daisy Dunn, author of The Missing Thread In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus...