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The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984
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Author: Dorian Lynskey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 "Rich and compelling. . .Lynskey's account of the reach of 1984 is revelatory." --George Packer, The Atlantic An authoritative, wide-ranging, and...
Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Author: Joan Didion Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Twelve early pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of Joan Didion....
Literature Bargain Book Box 18 (18 Books)
Treat yourself to 18 exciting novels at an unbeatable price! Featuring acclaimed authors and award-winning works, this Literature Bargain Book Box 18 has something for every reader to enjoy....
The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World
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Author: Maya Jasanoff Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 "Enlightening, compassionate, superb" --John Le Carre Winner of the 2018 Cundhill History Prize A New York Times Book Review Notable Book...
Find Me: A TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Author: Andre Aciman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio's father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio,...
On Animals
Author: Susan Orlean Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'How we interact with animals has preoccupied philosophers, poets, and naturalists for ages,' writes Susan Orlean. Since the age...
You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
Author: Zora Neale Hurston Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 'One of the greatest writers of our time.' Toni Morrison 'You Don't Know Us Negroes adds immeasurably to...
The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym
Author: Paula Byrne Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 704 'Captures both Barbara and her writing so miraculously' JILLY COOPER Picked as a Book to Look Forward to in 2021 by...
Why Dante Matters: An Intelligent Person's Guide
Author: Professor John Took Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The year 2021 marks the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, a poet who, as T. S. Eliot...
Orwell's Roses
Author: Rebecca Solnit (Y) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'I loved this book... An exhilarating romp through Orwell's life and times' - Margaret Atwood Outside my work...
The Bad Boy of Athens: Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones
Author: Daniel Mendelsohn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace ... He writes about things so clearly...
Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life
Author: Brigitta Olubas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 The authorised biography of Shirley Hazzard, one of the greatest writers in the English language, author of The Transit of Venus...
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...
Mozart in Motion: His Work and His World in Pieces
Author: Patrick Mackie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Mozart holds a central, unwavering place in our culture, and his works are widely loved and listened to, often as much-loved...
Abominations: Selected essays from a career of courting self-destruction
Author: Lionel Shriver Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The first essay collection from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. 'This trenchant, unrepentant collection reminds...
The Secret Heart: John Le Carre: An Intimate Memoir
Author: Suleika Dawson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A Telegraph Book to Read for Autumn 2022 A Times Best Non-fiction Book for Autumn 2022 A Daily Mail Book of...
Impossible Owls: Essays from the Ends of the World
Author: Brian Phillips Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Hilarious, nimble, and thoroughly illuminating' Colson Whitehead, author of The Underground Railroad 'Recalls the work of John...
The Bookseller's Tale
Author: Martin Latham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A lively cultural history of the book from a charmingly idiosyncratic bookseller 'The right book has a neverendingness, and...
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne - Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022
Author: Katherine Rundell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing....
Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Author: Fiona Sampson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Beautifully told. It is high time Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Aurora Leigh were once again household names.' - Mail on Sunday...
I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys
Author: Miranda Seymour Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'An absolute belter of a biography' MARINA HYDE A Times Literary Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2022 An LA Times Best...
Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald
Author: Jonathan Bate Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A dazzling biography of two interwoven, tragic lives: John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald. 'Highly engaging ... Go now,...
Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time
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Author: Hilary Spurling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The author of the award-winning Matisse: A Life gives us the definitive biography of writer Anthony Powell--and takes us deep into...
L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated "Female Byron"
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Author: Lucasta Miller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A lost nineteenth-century literary life, brilliantly rediscovered--Letitia Elizabeth Landon, hailed as the female Byron; she changed English poetry; her novels, short...
The Fame Lunches
Author: Daphne Merkin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Daphne Merkin brings her signature combination of wit, candor, and penetrating intelligence to subjects that touch on every aspect of contemporary...
The Lives of the Saints: The Laureate Lectures
Author: Sebastian Barry Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 From A Long Long Way, his Booker shortlisted novel about the Irish soldiers who fought for Britain during the First World...
Shades of Grey - Signed and numbered edition
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Author: Jasper Fforde Format: Hardback Number of Pages: *SIGNED COPY* The New York Times bestseller hailed as “a rich brew of dystopic fantasy and deadpan goofiness” (The Washington Post) from...
Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker
Author: Alice Walker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 'These journals are a revelation, a road map and a gift to us all' TAYARI JONES, author of An American Marriage...
Gamelife: A Memoir
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Author: Michael W Clune (Case Western Reserve University, Ohio) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 In telling the story of his youth through seven computer games, critically acclaimed author Michael...
Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. Lawrence
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Author: Frances Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize An electrifying, revelatory new biography of D. H. Lawrence, with a focus on his...
House of Exile: The Lives and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger-Mann
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Author: Evelyn Juers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 In 1933, the author and political activist Heinrich Mann and his partner, Nelly Kroeger, fled Nazi Germany, finding refuge first in...
This Rare Spirit: A Life of Charlotte Mew
Author: Julia Copus Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The British poet Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) was regarded as one of the best poets of her age by fellow writers, including...
Breaking Bread with the Dead: Reading the Past in Search of a Tranquil Mind
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....
Of This Our Country: Acclaimed Nigerian writers on the home, identity and culture they know
Author: Format: Paperback / softback 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...
Silk Parachute: Essays
Author: John McPhee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 A WONDROUS NEW BOOK OF MCPHEE'S PROSE PIECES--IN MANY ASPECTS HIS MOST PERSONAL IN FOUR DECADES The brief, brilliant essay Silk...
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...
Kahlil Gibran: Beyond Borders
Author: Kahlil G. Gibran Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 A comprehensive illustrated biography of Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist, poet and author of the best-selling inspirational fiction The Prophet. Kahlil...
A Sultry Month: Scenes of London Literary Life in 1846: 'Sizzles and steams . . . Beautifully written.' (The Times)
Author: Francesca Wade Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Though she loved the heat she could do nothing but lie on the sofa and drink lemonade and read...
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,...
Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane
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Author: Paul Auster Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 800 A LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF 2021 Booker Prize-shortlisted and New York Times bestselling...
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...
Attention: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction
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Author: Professor of Political Science Joshua Cohen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 "Attention reveals a fresh, vital literary voice as it covers seemingly every imaginable...
Impossible Owls: Essays from the Ends of the World
Author: Brian Phillips Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Hilarious, nimble, and thoroughly illuminating' Colson Whitehead, author of The Underground Railroad 'Recalls the work of John...
Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir
Author: Marina Warner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. 'Wonderful - a brave, inventive, touching...
English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (Excluding Drama)
Author: C. S. Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 752 C. S. Lewis offers a magisterial take on the literature and poetry of one of the most consequential periods in...
There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness
Author: Carlo Rovelli Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 One of the most inspiring thinkers of our age transforms the way we think about the world with his reflections on...
Loud Black Girls: 20 Black Women Writers Ask: What's Next?
Author: Yomi Adegoke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 An important and timely anthology of black British writing, edited and curated by the authors of the highly acclaimed, ground-breaking Slay...
How to Read Now
Author: Elaine Castillo Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 An exploration and manifesto investigating the power of reading - and our potential to become radically better readers in the world....