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Half a Life
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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...
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...
The Enigma of Arrival
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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...
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...
The Middle Passage: Impressions of Five Societies, British, French and Dutch, in the West Indies
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The Writer and the World: Essays
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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....
Magic Seeds
From V.S Naipaul - a spare, searing new novel about identity and idealism, and their ability to shape or destroy us. Willy Chandran - whom we first met in Half...
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...
Way in the World, A
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Literary Occasions
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Finding the Centre: Two Narratives
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Half a Life
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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 Turn in the South
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Magic Seeds
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Among the Believers: An Islamist Journey
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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...
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...
Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples
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The Loss of El Dorado: A Colonial History
At the centre of this extraordinary historical narrative are two linked themes: the grinding down of the aborigines during the long rivalries of the quest for El Dorado, the mythical...
India: A Million Mutinies Now
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The Masque Of Africa: Glimpses Of African Belief
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsIn his final work of travel writing, Nobel Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul embarks on an unflinching journey across...
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...
Empire Windrush: Reflections on 75 Years & More of the Black British Experience
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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...
Inner Workings
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Candor and Perversion: Literature, Education and the Arts
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Stet: an Editor's Life
Widely regarded as one of the best publisher/editors in London, Diana Athill helped over almost five decades to shape some of the finest books in modern literature. She edited (and...
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...
The Nigger Of The 'Narcissus'; Typhoon; The Shadow Line
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThree of Joseph Conrad's most celebrated novellas are gathered in this essential volume, each a masterclass...