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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...
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 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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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...
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 Writer and the World: Essays
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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...
The Middle Passage: Impressions of Five Societies, British, French and Dutch, in the West Indies
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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...
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...
Literary Occasions
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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....
India: A Million Mutinies Now
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Finding the Centre: Two Narratives
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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...
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...
Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples
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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 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...
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...
Candor and Perversion: Literature, Education and the Arts
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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
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: J. M. Coetzee Format:...
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...