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William Shakespeare: A Companion Guide to His Life & Achievements

William Shakespeare: A Companion Guide to His Life & Achievements

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Author: Gill Davies Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 360 William Shakespeare was born April 1564 and died 23 April 1616, four hundred years ago. Today the bard from Queen Elizabeth's...
The Korean Kid: A Young Australian Pilot's Baptism of Fire in the Jet  Fighter Age

The Korean Kid: A Young Australian Pilot's Baptism of Fire in the Jet Fighter Age

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Author: Rochelle Nicholls Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 340 A vicious civil conflict erupted on the Korean peninsula in 1950 and sucked 24 nations into a new round of fighting....
Beowulf: Volume 46

Beowulf: Volume 46

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Author: Alan Jacobs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Should we still bother with the supposedly great works of past ages? Aristotle believed that men were naturally superior to women....
Jane Austen's Universal Truths: Wisdom and witticisms from her writings

Jane Austen's Universal Truths: Wisdom and witticisms from her writings

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Author: Susan Hart-Byers Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 The enduring appeal of Jane Austen's fiction is captured in this pocket-sized collection of quotations taken from her celebrated works. The...
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Author: Twain Mark Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The story of a young hobo and an escaped slave who set off to find freedom, journeying by raft down...
The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker

The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker

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Author: Jelani Cobb Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 A collection of the New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in America, including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison,...
Roman Literary Culture: From Plautus to Macrobius

Roman Literary Culture: From Plautus to Macrobius

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Author: Elaine Fantham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Scholars of ancient literature have often focused on the works and lives of major authors rather than on such questions as...
Guarded by Dragons: Encounters with Rare Books and Rare People

Guarded by Dragons: Encounters with Rare Books and Rare People

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Author: Rick Gekoski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Rick Gekoski has been traversing the rocky terrain of the rare book trade for over fifty years. The treasure...
Writers' Letters: Jane Austen to Chinua Achebe

Writers' Letters: Jane Austen to Chinua Achebe

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Author: Michael Bird Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Delve into the lives and work of some of the world's great writers with this intriguing collection of correspondence. There is...
Breaking Bread with the Dead: Reading the Past in Search of a Tranquil Mind

Breaking Bread with the Dead: Reading the Past in Search of a Tranquil Mind

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Author: Ros Barber Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 The bestselling 30-Second... series takes a revolutionary approach to learning about those subjects you feel you should really understand....
The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths, and Their Year of Marvels

The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths, and Their Year of Marvels

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Author: Adam Nicolson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Brimming with poetry, art, and nature writing--Wordsworth and Coleridge as you've never seen them before June 1797 to September 1798 is...
What to Read and Why

What to Read and Why

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Author: Francine Prose Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 In this brilliant collection, the follow-up to her New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer, the distinguished novelist, literary critic,...
House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries

House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries

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Author: Alan Bennett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 4 March. HMQ pictured in the paper at an investiture wearing gloves, presumably as a precaution against Coronavirus. But not just...
Waka and Things, Waka as Things

Waka and Things, Waka as Things

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Author: Edward Kamens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A challenging study offering a new perspective on classical Japanese poems and how they interact with and are part of material...
You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

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Author: Zora Neale Hurston Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 'One of the greatest writers of our time.' Toni Morrison 'You Don't Know Us Negroes adds immeasurably to our understanding...
The Best of Me

The Best of Me

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Author: David Sedaris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 "Genius... It is miraculous to read these pieces... You must read The Best of Me." --Andrew Sean Greer, New York Times...
Shakespeare for Grown-ups: Everything you Need to Know about the Bard

Shakespeare for Grown-ups: Everything you Need to Know about the Bard

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Author: Elizabeth Foley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Does your shaky knowledge of Shakespeare put you to shame? The only guide to the great bard you will ever need...
Loathe To Love You: From the bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis

Loathe To Love You: From the bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis

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Author: Ali Hazelwood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Three irresistible short stories by the global phenomenon Ali Hazelwood, now available together in paperback for the first time, with an...
Where the Past Begins: Memory and Imagination

Where the Past Begins: Memory and Imagination

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Author: Amy Tan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 From New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir on her life as a writer, her childhood and the symbiotic...
Impossible Owls: Essays from the Ends of the World

Impossible Owls: Essays from the Ends of the World

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Author: Brian Phillips Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Hilarious, nimble, and thoroughly illuminating' Colson Whitehead, author of The Underground Railroad 'Recalls the work...
The Waltz of Reason: The Entanglement of Mathematics and Philosophy

The Waltz of Reason: The Entanglement of Mathematics and Philosophy

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Author: Karl Sigmund Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 "Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here," Plato warned would-be philosophers. Mathematician Karl Sigmund agrees. In The Waltz of Reason,...
migrs: French Words That Turned English

migrs: French Words That Turned English

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Author: Richard Scholar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 English has borrowed more words from French than from any other modern foreign language. French words and phrases-such as a la...
The Call of the Tribe: Essays

The Call of the Tribe: Essays

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Author: Mario Vargas Llosa Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 In The Call of the Tribe, Mario Vargas Llosa surveys the readings that haveshaped the way he thinks and has...
Guarded by Dragons: Encounters with Rare Books and Rare People

Guarded by Dragons: Encounters with Rare Books and Rare People

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Author: Rick Gekoski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 The Times Best Literary Non-fiction Books 2021 - 'a super yarn' 'Rick Gekoski's encyclopaedic knowledge of rare books is matched only...
Twenty-First-Century Tolkien: What Middle-Earth Means To Us Today

Twenty-First-Century Tolkien: What Middle-Earth Means To Us Today

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Author: Professor Nick Groom Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Ever since The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien was first published in 1937 the popularity of the vast, imaginative world he...
My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety

My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety

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Author: Georgia Pritchett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Multi-award-winning television writer and producer Georgia Pritchett knows a thing or two about anxiety. From worrying about the monsters under her...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading

What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading

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Author: Leah Price Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Around 2000, people began to believe that books were on verge of extinction. Their obsolescence, in turn, was expected to doom...
Guarded by Dragons: Encounters with Rare Books and Rare People

Guarded by Dragons: Encounters with Rare Books and Rare People

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Author: Rick Gekoski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The Times Best Literary Non-fiction Books 2021 - 'a super yarn' 'Rick Gekoski's encyclopaedic knowledge of rare books is matched only...
The Poet and the Publisher: The Case of Alexander Pope, Esq., of Twickenham versus Edmund Curll, Bookseller in Grub Street

The Poet and the Publisher: The Case of Alexander Pope, Esq., of Twickenham versus Edmund Curll, Bookseller in Grub Street

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Author: Pat Rogers Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 The quarrel between the poet Alexander Pope and the publisher Edmund Curll has long been a notorious episode in the history...
the princess saves herself in this one

the princess saves herself in this one

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Author: Amanda Lovelace Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 From Amanda Lovelace, a poetry collection in four parts: the princess, the damsel, the queen, and you. The first three sections...
Tales of the Celestial Kingdom

Tales of the Celestial Kingdom

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Author: Sue Lynn Tan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 A TOP FIVE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER! Return to the realm of gods and legends, magic and romance. Praise for the...
Now Comes Good Sailing: Writers Reflect on Henry David Thoreau

Now Comes Good Sailing: Writers Reflect on Henry David Thoreau

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Author: Andrew Blauner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 From twenty-seven of today's leading writers, an anthology of original pieces on the author of Walden Features essays by Jennifer Finney...
Lives of Houses

Lives of Houses

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Author: Kate Kennedy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A group of notable writers - including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow - celebrate...
The Lives of Literature: Reading, Teaching, Knowing

The Lives of Literature: Reading, Teaching, Knowing

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Author: Arnold Weinstein Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Why do we read literature? For Arnold Weinstein, the answer is clear: literature allows us to become someone else. Literature changes...
Goodfellas

Goodfellas

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Author: Martin Scorsese Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 'As far back as I can remember, I've always wanted to be a gangster.' Henry Hill had always been a part...
Of This Our Country: Acclaimed Nigerian writers on the home, identity and culture they know

Of This Our Country: Acclaimed Nigerian writers on the home, identity and culture they know

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Author: 0 Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth. Many have tried, but most have concluded that it is impossible to capture the...
Making Waves: Essays

Making Waves: Essays

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Author: Mario Vargas Llosa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Spanning thirty years of writing, Making Waves traces the development of...
The Disappearance of Emile Zola: Love, Literature, and the Dreyfus Case

The Disappearance of Emile Zola: Love, Literature, and the Dreyfus Case

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Author: Michael Rosen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 It is the evening of July 18, 1898 and the world-renowned novelist Emile Zola is on the run. His crime? Taking...
Immanuel

Immanuel

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Author: Matthew McNaught Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 248 In Immanuel, winner of the inaugural Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize Matthew McNaught explores his upbringing in an evangelical Christian community in...
Petrarch: Everywhere a Wanderer

Petrarch: Everywhere a Wanderer

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Author: Christopher S. Celenza Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Born in Tuscany in 1304, Italian poet Francesco Petrarca is widely considered one of the fathers of the modern Italian...
On Seamus Heaney

On Seamus Heaney

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Author: Roy Foster Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 The Tablet, Best Books of the Year Open Magazine's Best Books of 2020 A vivid and original account of one of...
Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato's Republic

Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato's Republic

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Author: Claudia Baracchi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 264 Although Plato's Republic is perhaps the most influential text in the history of Western philosophy, Claudia Baracchi finds that the work...
One Toss of the Dice: The Incredible Story of How a Poem Made Us Modern

One Toss of the Dice: The Incredible Story of How a Poem Made Us Modern

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Author: R. Howard Bloch (Yale University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The forerunner of our digital age, a French poem about a shipwreck published in 1897, with its mind-bending...
The Tangle

The Tangle

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Author: Justin Robertson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'A writer of fierce and vivid imagination. The Tangle, like Holdstock's classic Mythago Wood and Catlin's The Voorh, taps the deep...
Writing in the Dark: Bloomsbury, the Blitz and Horizon Magazine

Writing in the Dark: Bloomsbury, the Blitz and Horizon Magazine

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Author: Will Loxley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 'An army of bitchy, backstabbing, rivalrous literary greats inhabit this energetic history... Loxley's voice is energetic and enthused' The Times 'I...
In the Heart of the Country: A Novel

In the Heart of the Country: A Novel

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Author: J. M. Coetzee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A story told in prose as feverishly rich as William Faulkner's, In the Heart of the Country is...
How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness and Community in Times of Global Crises - The short essay that helped change the Covid-19 debate

How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness and Community in Times of Global Crises - The short essay that helped change the Covid-19 debate

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Author: Paolo Giordano Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 80 'The literature of the time after begins here' EVENING STANDARD 'A jolt of brevity and simplicity' THE TIMES 'In...
Bland Fanatics: Liberals, Race, and Empire

Bland Fanatics: Liberals, Race, and Empire

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Author: Pankaj Mishra Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A wide-ranging, controversial collection of critical essays on the political mania plaguing the West by one of the most important public...