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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...
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...
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
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
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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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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The Life of Kingsley Amis
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The Orientalist: In Search of a Man caught between East and West
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Small City Tales of Strangeness and Beauty
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