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What Writers Read: 35 Writers on their Favourite Book
Author: Pandora Sykes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Time and again, writers are asked the same questions about their favourite books: What are they? What's the book you wish...
The Book About Everything: Eighteen Artists, Writers and Thinkers on James Joyce's Ulysses
Author: Declan Kiberd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 To celebrate the centenary of the publication of Ulysses, the most important literary work of the twentieth century, eighteen artists, writers...
Mary Poppins She Wrote: The extraordinary life of Australian writer P.L. Travers
Author: Valerie Lawson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Discover the true story behind the creation of the world's most beloved nanny, now appearing in Disney's Mary Poppins Returns. Mary...
Marx's Literary Style
Author: Ludovico Silva Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 In Marx's Literary Style, the Venezuelan poet and philosopher Ludovico Silva argues that much of the confusion around Marx's work results...
King Henry IV Part 1: Third Series
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 David Scott Kastan lucidly explores the remarkable richness and the ambitious design of King Henry IV Part 1 and shows how...
Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires: The Life of Patricia Highsmith
Author: Richard Bradford (University of Ulster, UK) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 NOMINATED FOR THE H.R.F. KEATING AWARD, 2022. 'My New Year's Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts,...
Blurb Your Enthusiasm: A Cracking Compendium of Book Blurbs, Writing Tips, Literary Folklore and Publishing Secrets
Author: Louise Willder Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 It's good to judge a book by its cover. Drawing on her 25 years writing blurbs for Penguin books, Louise Willder...
A Short History of Queer Women
Author: Kirsty Loehr Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Female same-sex desire has been written out of history since, well, forever. Not anymore! From the first women's football team in...
Book Crush: For Kids and Teens--Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Interest
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George Orwell: The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters: v. 4: In Front of Your Nose, 1945-1950
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Antoine De St.Exupery: The Life and Death of the Little Prince
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So Many Books So Little Time
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A Legend of Holy Women: A Translation of Osbern Bokenham's Legends of Holy Women
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September 1, 1939: W. H. Auden and the Afterlife of a Poem
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Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature
Author: Anna Beer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'Essential reading.' Claire Tomalin Warned not to write - and certainly not to bite - these women put pen to paper...
Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy
Author: Dr Steven Powell (University of Liverpool, UK) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 THE TELEGRAPH'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR 2024 EDGAR ALLAN POE AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR...
The Stuff of Life
Author: Prof. Timothy Morton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 'An old teapot, used daily, can tell me more of my past than anything I recorded of it.' Sylvia Townsend...
The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky, a Crime and Its Punishment
Author: Kevin Birmingham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 From the acclaimed author of The Most Dangerous Book, the true story behind the creation of another masterpiece of world literature,...
Homer and His Iliad
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This Boy's Life
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Edmund White: the Burning World
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The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
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The Real Rule Of Four
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The Lady and Her Monsters: A Tale of Dissections, Real-Life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley's Masterpiece
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Teacher Man
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Somerset Maugham and the Maugham Dynasty
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Mockingbird Songs: My Friendship with Harper Lee
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Dr Johnson's Women
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The Poem: Lyric, Sign, Metre
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King Henry V
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Lover of Gardens, A
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Little Women: The Complete Novel, Featuring the Characters' Letters and Manuscripts, Written and Folded by Hand
Author: Barbara Heller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 360 For anyone who loves Little Women, or still cherishes the joy of letter writing, this book illuminates a favourite story in...
Why She Wrote: A Graphic History of the Lives, Inspiration, and Influence Behind the Pens of Classic Women Writers
Author: Hannah K. Chapman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In Why She Wrote, dive into the fascinating, unexpected, and inspiring stories behind the greatest women writers in the English...
Puss in Books: Our best-loved writers on their best-loved cats
Author: Paul Magrs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 A charming collection of quotes about cats from our favourite authors, accompanied by artwork in the trademark style of Paul Magrs...
A Peculiar Gift: Nineteenth Century Writings on Books for Children
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The Influence of Horace on the Chief English Poets of the 19th Century
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The Anatomy of Bibliomania (Two-Volume Set)
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Introduction to Literary Hermeneutics
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Author: Fiona Sampson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by...
Playing Jane Austen: Parlour Plays for Drawing-Room Performance
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The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Fantasy: The definitive illustrated guide
Author: David Pringle Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 This essential reference book details everything the novice needs to know about the genre and everything the well-read fan is calling...
The Writing School: A memoir
Author: Miranda France Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'Both extremely funny and deeply sad, The Writing School examines how and why we tell our own stories. It's beautifully written...
The Dark Powers of Tolkien: An illustrated Exploration of Tolkien's Portrayal of Evil, and the Sources that Inspired his Work from Myth, Literature and History
Author: David Day Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 J.R.R. Tolkien's THE LORD OF THE RINGS, THE HOBBIT and THE SILMARILLION are some of the greatest tales of good versus...
The Literary Larrikin: A Critical Biography of T.A.G. Hungerford
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Mistress'S Daughter: A Memoir
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The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 2: 1923-1925
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The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry: with The Lady Falkland: Her Life, by One of Her Daughters
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Text, Theory, Space: Land, Literature and History in South Africa and Australia
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