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The Korean Kid: A Young Australian Pilot's Baptism of Fire in the Jet Fighter Age
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....
Roman Literary Culture: From Plautus to Macrobius
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...
The Western Front Diaries of Charles Bean
Author: Peter Burness Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 644 Australia's official First World War correspondent, Charles Bean, saw more of the Australian Imperial Force's actions and battles on the Western...
The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker
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,...
Loathe To Love You: From the bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis
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...
Jane Austen's Little Book of Wisdom: Words on Love, Life, Society and Literature
Author: Andrea Kirk Assaf Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Jane Austen's Little Book of Wisdom offers more than 300 bite-size quotes of inspiration and wisdom from one of the...
Guarded by Dragons: Encounters with Rare Books and Rare People
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...
Orwell: The New Life
Over seventy years since his premature death, George Orwell (1903-50) has become one of the most significant figures in western literature. His two dystopian masterpieces, Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen...
Breaking Bread with the Dead: Reading the Past in Search of a Tranquil Mind
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....
What to Read and Why
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,...
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...
Waka and Things, Waka as Things
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...
Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries
Author: Alan Rickman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 Alan Rickman remains one of the most beloved actors of all time across almost every genre, from his breakout role as...
House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries
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...
Immanuel
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...
Tales of the Celestial Kingdom
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...
You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
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...
Twenty-First-Century Tolkien: What Middle-Earth Means To Us Today
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...
The World of Bob Dylan
Author: Sean Latham (University of Tulsa) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 370 Bob Dylan has helped transform music, literature, pop culture, and even politics. The World of Bob Dylan chronicles...
The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict
Author: Andrew Pettegree Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 'Rich, authoritative and highly readable, Andrew Pettegree's tour de force will appeal to anyone for whom, whatever the circumstances, books are...
Guarded by Dragons: Encounters with Rare Books and Rare People
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...
migrs: French Words That Turned English
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...
Now Comes Good Sailing: Writers Reflect on Henry David Thoreau
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...
Where the Past Begins: Memory and Imagination
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
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...
This is the Canon: Decolonize Your Bookshelves in 50 Books
Author: Joan Anim-Addo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'A vital and timely introduction to some of the best books I've ever read. Perfectly curated and filled with brilliant literature'...
Witness
Author: Jamel Brinkley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'Brinkley's sentences are daggers' RAVEN LEILANI 'Extraordinary ... moving, compelling and virtuosic' OBSERVER 'A triumph' COLIN BARRETT An electric collection of...
Petrarch: Everywhere a Wanderer
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...
The Poet and the Publisher: The Case of Alexander Pope, Esq., of Twickenham versus Edmund Curll, Bookseller in Grub Street
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...
On Seamus Heaney
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...
The Call of the Tribe: Essays
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
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...
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...
Calm the F**k Down
Author: Sarah Knight Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The latest no-f**ks-given guide from July 2017 New York Times bestselling author of the international sensation The Life-Changing Magic of Not...
Lives of Houses
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
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...
Of This Our Country: Acclaimed Nigerian writers on the home, identity and culture they know
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
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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...
Antony and Cleopatra
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 302 For this updated edition, David Bevington has included in his introductory section a thorough consideration of recent critical and stage interpretations...
The Man in Black and Other Stories: includes the latest Ruth and Nelson story!
Author: Elly Griffiths Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Criminally clever' Daily Mail 'The perfect holiday treat' Guardian This collection of tales by the No...
The Archeologist and Selected Sea Stories
Translated into English for the first time, The Archeologist is a landmark of Greek national literature, and an important document in the history of archeology and classicism. Published for the...
Bookends: Collected Intros and Outros
Author: Michael Chabon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 A brilliant, idiosyncratic collection of introductions and afterwords (plus some liner notes) by New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize winning...
Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature
Author: Sarah Hart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'A hugely entertaining and well-written tour of the links between math and literature. Hart's lightness of touch and passion for both...
Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato's Republic
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
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...
In the Heart of the Country: A Novel
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...
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...
Clybourne Park
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Author: Bruce Norris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Clybourne Park spans two generations fifty years apart. In 1959, Russ and Bev are selling their desirable two-bedroom at a bargain...