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What Writers Read: 35 Writers on their Favourite Book

What Writers Read: 35 Writers on their Favourite Book

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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

The Book About Everything: Eighteen Artists, Writers and Thinkers on James Joyce's Ulysses

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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

Mary Poppins She Wrote: The extraordinary life of Australian writer P.L. Travers

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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

Marx's Literary Style

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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

King Henry IV Part 1: Third Series

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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

Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires: The Life of Patricia Highsmith

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Blurb Your Enthusiasm: A Cracking Compendium of Book Blurbs, Writing Tips, Literary Folklore and Publishing Secrets

Blurb Your Enthusiasm: A Cracking Compendium of Book Blurbs, Writing Tips, Literary Folklore and Publishing Secrets

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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...
Book Crush: For Kids and Teens--Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Interest

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

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

Antoine De St.Exupery: The Life and Death of the Little Prince

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So Many Books So Little Time

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

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

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

Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature

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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

Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy

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The Stuff of Life

The Stuff of Life

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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

The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky, a Crime and Its Punishment

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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

Homer and His Iliad

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Author: Robin Lane Fox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 A thrilling study of the greatest of all epic poems, by one of the world's leading classicists Homer's Iliad is...
This Boy's Life

This Boy's Life

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Edmund White: the Burning World

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

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

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

Teacher Man

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Somerset Maugham and the Maugham Dynasty

Somerset Maugham and the Maugham Dynasty

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Mockingbird Songs: My Friendship with Harper Lee

Mockingbird Songs: My Friendship with Harper Lee

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Dr Johnson's Women

Dr Johnson's Women

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The Poem: Lyric, Sign, Metre

The Poem: Lyric, Sign, Metre

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King Henry V

King Henry V

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Lover of Gardens, A

Lover of Gardens, A

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Little Women: The Complete Novel, Featuring the Characters' Letters and Manuscripts, Written and Folded by Hand

Little Women: The Complete Novel, Featuring the Characters' Letters and Manuscripts, Written and Folded by Hand

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Why She Wrote: A Graphic History of the Lives, Inspiration, and Influence Behind the Pens of Classic Women Writers

Why She Wrote: A Graphic History of the Lives, Inspiration, and Influence Behind the Pens of Classic Women Writers

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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

Puss in Books: Our best-loved writers on their best-loved cats

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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...
The Influence of Horace on the Chief English Poets of the 19th Century

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

Introduction to Literary Hermeneutics

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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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

Playing Jane Austen: Parlour Plays for Drawing-Room Performance

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Author: Rosina Filippi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 0 The grasping social climber, the tiresome neighbour, the spirited heroine, the most unsuitable of suitors, and, of course, the perfect love...
The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Fantasy: The definitive illustrated guide

The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Fantasy: The definitive illustrated guide

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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

The Writing School: A memoir

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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

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

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The Literary Larrikin: A Critical Biography of T.A.G. Hungerford

The Literary Larrikin: A Critical Biography of T.A.G. Hungerford

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The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 2: 1923-1925

The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 2: 1923-1925

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The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry: with <i>The Lady Falkland:  Her Life</i>, by One of Her Daughters

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

Text, Theory, Space: Land, Literature and History in South Africa and Australia

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The Life of Kingsley Amis

The Life of Kingsley Amis

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The Orientalist: In Search of a Man caught between East and West

The Orientalist: In Search of a Man caught between East and West

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Small City Tales of Strangeness and Beauty

Small City Tales of Strangeness and Beauty

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