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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 205 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Just Sayin
    Just Sayin': My Life In Words - by Malorie Blackman

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529118698 | ISBN 10: 1529118697

    'It's very candid, and movingly so.... Not only in Blackman a grafter- even more, and in the face of more, than we already knew. She's someone with whom you do not mess. Good on her. She's earned it' The Telegraph  Malorie Blackman is one of Brit ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius by Nick Hornby
    Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius - by Nick Hornby

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780241996478 | ISBN 10: 0241996473

    'A joyful examination of two artists from different centuries and the unlikely parallels in their life and work' Guardian  'An ardent fan letter from Hornby that makes you want to reread Great Expectations whilst listening to Sign o'the Times ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life by Ann Funder
    Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life - by Ann Funder

    £20.00   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780241482728 | ISBN 10: 0241482720

    THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER  A fitting tribute to the unsung work of women everywhere and the perfect Christmas gift!  'A marvellous book... I just loved it all, and have a permanently marked-up, dog-eared copy on my shelf for ... more

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  • Cover image of book CLR James: A Life Beyond the Boundaries by John L Williams
    CLR James: A Life Beyond the Boundaries - by John L Williams

    £14.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781472130129 | ISBN 10: 147213012x

    Historian, revolutionary and cricket writer, CLR James was one of the truly radical voices of the twentieth century. Born in Trinidad in the final days of the Victorian era, he debated with Trotsky, played cricket with Constantine, was published by L ... more

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  • Cover image of book Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography by Rob Wilkins
    Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography - by Rob Wilkins

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529176902 | ISBN 10: 1529176905

    WINNER OF THE 2023 LOCUS AWARD FOR NON-FICTION WINNER OF THE BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION   'Always readable, illuminating and honest. It made me miss the real Terry.' - Neil Gaiman   'Sometimes joyful ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Stasi Poetry Circle: The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold War by Philip Oltermann
    The Stasi Poetry Circle: The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold War - by Philip Oltermann

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780571331208 | ISBN 10: 0571331203

    The extraordinary true story of the Stasi’s poetry club: Stasiland and The Lives of Others crossed with Dead Poets Society.   Berlin, 1982. Morale is at rock bottom in East Germany as the spectre of an all-out nuclear war looms. The Ministry ... more

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  • Cover image of book Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami
    Novelist as a Vocation - by Haruki Murakami

    £18.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781911215387 | ISBN 10: 1911215388

    A unique look into the mind and craft of a master storyteller.  Haruki Murakami's myriad fans will be delighted by this unique look into the mind of a master storyteller. In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author and famo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas: The Two Dylans by K G Miles and Jeff Towns, with a Foreword by Cerys Matthews
    Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas: The Two Dylans - by K G Miles and Jeff Towns, with a Foreword by Cerys Matthews

    £14.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780857162328 | ISBN 10: 0857162322

    As the ultimate Rock ‘n’ Roll Poets, Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas represent two sides of the same coin. Bob Dylan made the music. Dylan Thomas lived the lifestyle. Both perfected the art of performed literature. Bringing together two of the foremos ... more

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  • Cover image of book Without Warning and Only Sometimes: Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood by Kit de Waal
    Without Warning and Only Sometimes: Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood - by Kit de Waal

    £16.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781472284839 | ISBN 10: 1472284836

    ‘Vivid and compelling and so moving... Kit’s depiction of her parents’ dynamic is both painful and comforting to read’ Marian Keyes  AS BROADCAST ON BBC RADIO 4  From the award-winning author of My Name is Leon comes a childhood mem ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Sand Life, My Pebble Life: A Memoir of a Childhood and the Sea by Ian McMillan
    My Sand Life, My Pebble Life: A Memoir of a Childhood and the Sea - by Ian McMillan

    £10.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781472982940 | ISBN 10: 1472982940

    My sand life, my pebble life. My life measured out in tides, coming in and going out. My life measured out in games of trying to spot the sea first. My life measured out in the delicious and indulgent sadness that comes from leaving a holiday cottage ... more

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  • Cover image of book House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries by Alan Bennett
    House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries - by Alan Bennett

    £6.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781800811928 | ISBN 10: 1800811926

    Reflections on Covid and confinement from the unparalleled pen of Alan Bennett.  4 March. HMQ pictured in the paper at an investiture wearing gloves, presumably as a precaution against Coronavirus. But not just gloves; these are almost gauntl ... more

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  • Cover image of book Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said by Timothy Brennan
    Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said - by Timothy Brennan

    £12.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781526614643 | ISBN 10: 1526614642

    **WINNER OF A PALESTINE BOOK AWARD 2021**  Drawing on extensive archival sources and hundreds of interviews, Timothy Brennan's Places of Mind is the first comprehensive biography of Said, one of the most controversial and celebrated intellect ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland
    My Autobiography of Carson McCullers - by Jenn Shapland

    £10.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780349015682 | ISBN 10: 0349015686

    FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD  ‘Fascinating and intimate’ OBSERVER  ‘Lucid, distilled, honest’ MAGGIE NELSON  ‘Gorgeous, symphonic, tender’ CARMEN MARIA MACHADO  How do you tell the real story of someone misremember ... more

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  • Cover image of book Real Estate by Deborah Levy
    Real Estate - by Deborah Levy

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780241977583 | ISBN 10: 0241977584

    From one of the great thinkers and writers of our time, comes the unmissable final instalment in Deborah Levy's critically acclaimed 'Living Autobiography'.  'I began to wonder what myself and all unwritten and unseen women would possess in t ... more

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  • Cover image of book After Agatha: Women Write Crime by Sally Cline
    After Agatha: Women Write Crime - by Sally Cline

    £16.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780857302328 | ISBN 10: 0857302329

    From Agatha Christie and Patricia Highsmith to Val McDermid and JK Rowling, After Agatha is an indispensable guide to women's crime writing over the last century and an exploration of why women read crime.  Spanning the 1930s to present day, Afte ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tastes of Honey: The Making of Shelagh Delaney and a Cultural Revolution by Selina Todd
    Tastes of Honey: The Making of Shelagh Delaney and a Cultural Revolution - by Selina Todd

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781784703486 | ISBN 10: 1784703486

    The ground-breaking, firebrand playwright who changed our cultural and social landscape and put working-class lives centre stage.   On 27 May 1958, A Taste of Honey opened in a small fringe theatre in London. Written by a nineteen-year-old bus dri ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Wanna Be Yours by John Cooper Clarke
    I Wanna Be Yours - by John Cooper Clarke

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781509896127 | ISBN 10: 1509896120

    This is a memoir as wry, funny, moving and vivid as its inimitable subject himself. This book will be a joy for both lifelong fans and for a whole new generation. John Cooper Clarke is a phenomenon: Poet Laureate of Punk, rock star, fashion icon, TV ... more

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  • Cover image of book Let
    Let's Do It: The Authorised Biography of Victoria Wood - by Jasper Rees

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781409184119 | ISBN 10: 1409184110

    'I was born with a warped sense of humour and when I was carried home from being born it was Coronation Day and so I was called Victoria but you are not supposed to know who wrote this anyway it is about time I unleashed my pent-up emotions in a bitt ... more

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  • Cover image of book Love Letters: Vita and Virginia by Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
    Love Letters: Vita and Virginia - by Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781784876722 | ISBN 10: 1784876720

    'I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone. I just miss you...'  At a dinner party in 1922, Virginia Woolf met the renowned author, arist ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell
    The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell's 1984 - by Dorian Lynskey

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781509890750 | ISBN 10: 1509890750

    Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2019 Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2020   George Orwell's 1984 has become a defining narrative of the modern world. Its cultural influence can be observed in so ... more

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  • Cover image of book Will by Will Self
    Will - by Will Self

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780141046402 | ISBN 10: 0141046406

    "'Darkly angelic prose... a joy to read, with the final part in particular recalling David Foster Wallace at his best"(Alex Preston, Observer) Will's mother's hokey homily, Waste not, want not... hisses in his ears as he oscillates furiously on th ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Name Is Why: A Memoir by Lemn Sissay
    My Name Is Why: A Memoir - by Lemn Sissay

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786892362 | ISBN 10: 1786892367

    How does a government steal a child and then imprison him? How does it keep it a secret? This story is how.  At the age of seventeen, after a childhood in a foster family followed by six years in care homes, Norman Greenwood was given his birth c ... more

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  • Cover image of book Letters from Tove by Tove Jansson, translated by Sarah Death
    Letters from Tove - by Tove Jansson, translated by Sarah Death

    £12.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781908745842 | ISBN 10: 1908745843

    Out of the thousands of letters Tove Jansson wrote a cache remains that she addressed to her family, her dearest confidantes, and her lovers, male and female. Into these she spilled her innermost thoughts, defended her ideals and revealed her heart. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Daemon Voices: Essays on Storytelling by Philip Pullman
    Daemon Voices: Essays on Storytelling - by Philip Pullman

    £10.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781910989548 | ISBN 10: 1910989541

    In over thirty essays, written over twenty years, one of the world’s great storytellers meditates on storytelling. Warm, funny, generous, entertaining and, above all, deeply considered, they offer thoughts on a wide variety of topics, including the ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Little History of Poetry by John Carey
    A Little History of Poetry - by John Carey

    £14.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780300232226 | ISBN 10: 0300232225

    A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature.  What is poetry? If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing langua ... more

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  • Cover image of book How Do You Want Me? by Ruby Wax
    How Do You Want Me? - by Ruby Wax

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529105001 | ISBN 10: 1529105005

    The autumn 2002 publication of Ruby Wax's memoirs was greeted with shock - and delighted acclaim. In the tradition of the best memoirs, such as The Moon's a Balloon and Billy, Ruby Wax revealed, surprised and captured the public more than was ever pr ... more

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  • Cover image of book James Joyce by Edna O
    James Joyce - by Edna O'Brien

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781474614450 | ISBN 10: 1474614450

    Edna O’Brien depicts James Joyce as a man hammered by Church, State and family, yet from such adversities he wrote works ‘to bestir the hearts of men and angels’.   The journey begins with Joyce the arrogant youth, his lofty courtship of No ... more

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  • Cover image of book William Blake Now: Why He Matters More Than Ever by John Higgs
    William Blake Now: Why He Matters More Than Ever - by John Higgs

    £5.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781474614337 | ISBN 10: 1474614337

    The visionary poet and painter William Blake is a constant presence throughout contemporary culture – from videogames to novels, from sporting events to political rallies and from horror films to designer fashion. Although he died nearly 200 years ... more

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  • Cover image of book Judith Kerr by Joanna Carey
    Judith Kerr - by Joanna Carey

    £18.95   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780500022153 | ISBN 10: 0500022151

    This volume in Thames and Hudson's Illustrators series showcases the work of the late Judith Kerr, one of the world's most beloved authors and illustrators.  Joanna Carey, who had unrestricted access to Judith Kerr and her archive, explores the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rebel Writers: The Accidental Feminists by Celia Brayfield
    Rebel Writers: The Accidental Feminists - by Celia Brayfield

    £19.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781448217496 | ISBN 10: 1448217490

    Shelagh Delaney • Edna O’Brien • Lynne Reid-Banks • Charlotte Bingham • Nell Dunn • Virginia Ironside • Margaret Forster   In London in 1958, a play by a 19-year-old redefined women's writing in Britain. It also began a movement ... more

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  • Cover image of book Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography by Eric Idle
    Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography - by Eric Idle

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781474610292 | ISBN 10: 1474610293

    From the ingenious comic performer, founding member of Monty Python, and creator of Spamalot, comes an absurdly funny memoir of unparalleled wit and heartfelt candour.  We know him best for his unforgettable roles on Monty Python - from the Flyin ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Will Never See the World Again by Ahmet Altan
    I Will Never See the World Again - by Ahmet Altan

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781783785155 | ISBN 10: 1783785152

    The destiny I put down in my novel has become mine. I am now under arrest like the hero I created years ago. I await the decision that will determine my future, just as he awaited his. I am unaware of my destiny, which has perhaps already been decide ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah: The Autobiography by Benjamin Zephaniah
    The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah: The Autobiography - by Benjamin Zephaniah

    £10.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781471168956 | ISBN 10: 1471168956

    *BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week*  Benjamin Zephaniah, who has travelled the world for his art and his humanitarianism, now tells the one story that encompasses it all: the story of his life.   In the early 1980s when punks and Rastas were on the ... more

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  • Cover image of book I
    I'm Not Here to Give a Speech - by Gabriel García Márquez

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780241360880 | ISBN 10: 0241360889

    Penguin presents I'm Not Here to Give a Speech, the complete speeches of Nobel laureate and beloved novelist Gabriel García Márquez collected and published in English for the first time.   Gabriel García Márquez has charmed generations of read ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Best Minds of My Generation: A Literary History of the Beats by Allen Ginsberg, Edited by Bill Morgan
    The Best Minds of My Generation: A Literary History of the Beats - by Allen Ginsberg, Edited by Bill Morgan

    £11.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780141399010 | ISBN 10: 0141399015

    A unique history of the Beats, in the words of the movement's most central member, Allen Ginsberg, based on a seminal series of his lectures   In 1977, twenty years after the publication of his landmark poem 'Howl' and Jack Kerouac's On the Road, ... more

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  • Cover image of book In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein by Fiona Sampson
    In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein - by Fiona Sampson

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781781255292 | ISBN 10: 1781255296

    Mary Shelley was brought up by her father in a house filled with radical thinkers, poets, philosophers and writers of the day. Aged sixteen, she eloped with Percy Bysshe Shelley, embarking on a relationship that was lived on the move across Britain a ... more

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  • Cover image of book So They Call You Pisher! A Memoir by Michael Rosen
    So They Call You Pisher! A Memoir - by Michael Rosen

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786633996 | ISBN 10: 178663399x

    The brilliant family memoir of the much-beloved poet and political campaigner.  In this hilarious, moving memoir, much-loved children’s poet and political campaigner Michael Rosen recalls the first twenty-three years of his life. He was born in ... more

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  • Cover image of book Devotion: Why I Write by Patti Smith
    Devotion: Why I Write - by Patti Smith

    £6.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780300240221 | ISBN 10: 0300240228

    From the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, an inspired exploration of the nature of creative invention.   A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic — its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomp ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Deaths of the Poets by Michael Symmons Roberts and Paul Farley
    The Deaths of the Poets - by Michael Symmons Roberts and Paul Farley

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780099581321 | ISBN 10: 0099581329

    From Chatterton’s Pre-Raphaelite demise to Keats’ death warrant in a smudge of arterial blood; from Dylan Thomas’s eighteen straight whiskies to Sylvia Plath’s desperate suicide in the gas oven of her Primrose Hill kitchen or John Berryman’ ... more

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  • Cover image of book After Kathy Acker: A Biography by Chris Kraus
    After Kathy Acker: A Biography - by Chris Kraus

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780141986654 | ISBN 10: 0141986654

    Rich girl, street punk, lost girl and icon ... scholar, stripper, victim and media-whore: The late Kathy Acker's legend and writings are wrapped in mythologies, created mostly by Acker herself. The media storm that surrounded Kathy Acker's books was ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Disappearance of Emile Zola: Love, Literature and the Dreyfus Case by Michael Rosen
    The Disappearance of Emile Zola: Love, Literature and the Dreyfus Case - by Michael Rosen

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780571312023 | ISBN 10: 0571312020

    It is the evening of 18 July 1898 and the world-renowned novelist Émile Zola is on the run. His crime? Taking on the highest powers in the land with his open letter ‘J’accuse’ and losing. Forced to leave Paris, with nothing but the clothes he ... more

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  • Cover image of book Logical Family: A Memoir by Armistead Maupin
    Logical Family: A Memoir - by Armistead Maupin

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784161040 | ISBN 10: 1784161047

    "A sweet, filthy peach of a memoir from a cultural explosion of a man."(Caitlin Moran) Born in the mid-twentieth century and raised in the heart of conservative North Carolina, Armistead Maupin lost his virginity to another man “on the very spot ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hard to Be a Saint in the City: The Spiritual Vision of the Beats by Robert Inchausti
    Hard to Be a Saint in the City: The Spiritual Vision of the Beats - by Robert Inchausti

    £13.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781611804171 | ISBN 10: 1611804175

    It’s been said that Jack Kerouac made it cool to be a thinking person seeking a spiritual experience. And there is no doubt that the writers he knew and inspired - iconic figures like Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Gary Snyder, and Michael M ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tove Jansson: Life, Art, Words: The Authorised Biography by Boel Westin
    Tove Jansson: Life, Art, Words: The Authorised Biography - by Boel Westin

    £14.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781908745569 | ISBN 10: 1908745568

    Translated from Swedish by Silvester Mazzarella.   The Finnish-Swedish writer and artist Tove Jansson achieved worldwide fame as the creator of the Moomin stories, written between 1945 and 1970 and still in print in more than twenty languages. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands by Stuart Hall
    Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands - by Stuart Hall

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780141984759 | ISBN 10: 0141984759

    'Sometimes I feel I was the last colonial'   This is the story, in his own words, of the extraordinary life of Stuart Hall: writer, thinker and one of the leading intellectual lights of his age. Growing up in a middle-class family in 1930s Jamaica ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beryl Bainbridge: Love by All Sorts of Means: A Biography by Brendan King
    Beryl Bainbridge: Love by All Sorts of Means: A Biography - by Brendan King

    £10.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781472947338 | ISBN 10: 1472947339

    Dame Beryl Bainbridge was one of the most popular and recognisable English novelists of her generation. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, and her critically acclaimed novels The Dressmaker (1973), The Bottle Factory Outing (1974), ... more

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  • Cover image of book Passage Across the Mersey by Robert Bhatia
    Passage Across the Mersey - by Robert Bhatia

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780008168889 | ISBN 10: 0008168881

    The remarkable story of Helen Forrester, author of Twopence to Cross the Mersey, and how she turned tragedy to triumph.  When Helen Forrester’s father went bankrupt in the 1930’s, she and her six siblings fell from a comfortable middle-clas ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography by Edmund Gordon
    The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography - by Edmund Gordon

    £10.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780099575726 | ISBN 10: 0099575728

    WINNER OF THE SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD   Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in The Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Financial Times, Spectator and Observer   Angela Carter’s life was as unconventional as anything in her fiction ... more

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  • Cover image of book Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems by Audre Lorde
    Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems - by Audre Lorde

    £12.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780995716223 | ISBN 10: 0995716226

    Audre Lorde (1934-1992) described herself as 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet'. Born in New York, she had her first poem published while still at school and her last the year she died of cancer. Her extraordinary belief in the power of language ... more

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  • Cover image of book In Gratitude by Jenny Diski
    In Gratitude - by Jenny Diski

    £10.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781408879948 | ISBN 10: 1408879948

    The future flashed before my eyes in all its pre-ordained banality. Embarrassment, at first, to the exclusion of all other feelings. But embarrassment curled at the edges with a weariness... I got a joke in. 'So - we'd better get cooking the meth,' ... more

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  • Cover image of book Light The Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process by Joe Fassler (Editor)
    Light The Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process - by Joe Fassler (Editor)

    £12.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780143130840 | ISBN 10: 0143130846

    A stunning masterclass on the creative process, the craft of writing, and the art of finding inspiration from Stephen King, Junot Díaz, Elizabeth Gilbert, Amy Tan, Khaled Hosseini, Roxane Gay, Neil Gaiman, and more of the most acclaimed writers at w ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers by Various writers, edited by Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates
    The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers - by Various writers, edited by Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates

    £16.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780143105992 | ISBN 10: 014310599x

    A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of African American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth century.   The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers is the most comprehensive ant ... more

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  • Cover image of book Orwell
    Orwell's Nose: A Pathological Biography - by John Sutherland

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781780238265 | ISBN 10: 1780238266

    In 2012 John Sutherland permanently lost his sense of smell. At about the same time he embarked on a re-reading of George Orwell’s works, and his lack of olfactory sense cast an entirely new light on the re-evaluation. What he now noticed was just ... more

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  • Cover image of book Known and Strange Things by Teju Cole
    Known and Strange Things - by Teju Cole

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571328062 | ISBN 10: 0571328067

    A blazingly intelligent first collection of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and Every Day Is for the Thief.  With these pieces on politics, photography, travel, history and literature – many of which have become viral sensatio ... more

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  • Cover image of book Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas
    Before Night Falls - by Reinaldo Arenas

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781781258682 | ISBN 10: 1781258686

    The heartbreaking memoir of artistic, sexual and political freedom in Castro's Cuba, with a new foreword by Garth Greenwell.  Reinaldo Arenas was born to a poverty-stricken family in rural Cuba. By the time of his death in New York four decades l ... more

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  • Cover image of book This Is Not a Border: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature by Various writers
    This Is Not a Border: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature - by Various writers

    £16.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781408884980 | ISBN 10: 1408884984

    The Palestine Festival of Literature was established in 2008. Bringing together writers from all corners of the globe, it aims to help Palestinians break the cultural siege imposed by the Israeli military occupation, to strengthen their artistic link ... more

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  • Cover image of book Questions of Travel: William Morris in Iceland by Lavinia Greenlaw
    Questions of Travel: William Morris in Iceland - by Lavinia Greenlaw

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781910749562 | ISBN 10: 1910749567

    The Victorian artist and activist William Morris travelled to Iceland in search of an answer to the problem of how to live. His intimate journals, written for a friend, unconsciously explore questions of travel, noting his reaction to the idea of lea ... more

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  • Cover image of book In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri
    In Other Words - by Jhumpa Lahiri

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781408866139 | ISBN 10: 1408866137

    In Other Words is a revelation. It is at heart a love story of a long and sometimes difficult courtship, and a passion that verges on obsession: that of a writer for another language. For Jhumpa Lahiri, that love was for Italian, which first captivat ... more

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  • Cover image of book Summer Before the Dark: Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth, Ostend 1936 by Volker Weidermann, translated by Carol Brown Janeway
    Summer Before the Dark: Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth, Ostend 1936 - by Volker Weidermann, translated by Carol Brown Janeway

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781782272977 | ISBN 10: 1782272976

    A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week   It's as if they're made for each other. Two men, both falling, but holding each other up for a time.   Ostend, 1936: the Belgian seaside town is playing host to a coterie of artists, intellectuals and madmen ... more

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  • Cover image of book Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London by Matthew Beaumont
    Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London - by Matthew Beaumont

    £11.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784783785 | ISBN 10: 1784783781

    A captivating literary portrait of the writers who explore the city at night, and the people they met.  “Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night,” wrote the poet Rupert Brooke. Before the age of electricity, the nighttime city ... more

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  • Cover image of book Theodor Geisel: A Portrait of the Man Who Became Dr. Seuss by Donald E. Pease
    Theodor Geisel: A Portrait of the Man Who Became Dr. Seuss - by Donald E. Pease

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780190614522 | ISBN 10: 0190614528

    Dr. Seuss's infectious rhymes, fanciful creatures, and roundabout plots not only changed the way children read but imagined the world. And to Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street, Green Eggs and Ham, The Cat and the Hat, these and other classics ha ... more

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  • Cover image of book Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer by Ngugi wa Thiong
    Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer - by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

    £14.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781846559891 | ISBN 10: 1846559898

    As a young student, internationally renowned author Ngugi wa Thiong’o found his voice as a playwright, journalist and novelist, writing his first, pivotal works just as the countries of East Africa were in the final throes of their independence str ... more

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  • Cover image of book Frantumaglia: An Author
    Frantumaglia: An Author's Journey Told Through Letters, Interviews, and Occasional Writings - by Elena Ferrante

    £16.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781609452926 | ISBN 10: 1609452925

    From the author of My Brilliant Friend.   This book invites readers into Elena Ferrante’s workshop. It offers a glimpse into the drawers of her writing desk, those drawers from which emerged her three early standalone novels and the four ins ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tove Jansson: Work and Love by Tuula Karjalainen
    Tove Jansson: Work and Love - by Tuula Karjalainen

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780141978826 | ISBN 10: 0141978821

    The definitive illustrated biography of one of the most unique and beloved children's authors of the 20th century, the creator of the Moomins.   Tove Jansson (1914-2001) led a long, colourful and productive life, impacting significantly the politi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies: The Life of Gore Vidal by Jay Parini
    Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies: The Life of Gore Vidal - by Jay Parini

    £10.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780349139401 | ISBN 10: 0349139407

    The definitive biography of one of the twentieth century's foremost thinkers and writers.  An intimate yet frank biography of Gore Vidal, one of the most accomplished, visible and controversial American novelists and cultural figures of the p ... more

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  • Cover image of book John Clare: The Trespasser by John Goodridge and R.K.R. Thornton
    John Clare: The Trespasser - by John Goodridge and R.K.R. Thornton

    £6.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781910170298 | ISBN 10: 1910170291

    John Clare was reputedly a solitary, shy man, at one with nature and the world around him. Although these authors have both published books which indicate otherwise, in this volume they focus on Clare as a difficult and transgressive figure. While he ... more

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  • Cover image of book Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson
    Furiously Happy - by Jenny Lawson

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781447238348 | ISBN 10: 1447238346

    For fans of David Sedaris, Tina Fey and Caitlin Moran comes the new book from Jenny Lawson, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Let's Pretend This Never Happened... In Let's Pretend This Never Happened, Jenny Lawson regaled readers with up ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy by J M Coetzee and Arabella Kurtz
    The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy - by J M Coetzee and Arabella Kurtz

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780099598220 | ISBN 10: 0099598221

    The Good Story is an exchange between a writer with a longstanding interest in moral psychology and a psychotherapist with a training in literary studies. J. M. Coetzee and Arabella Kurtz consider psychotherapy and its wider social context from diffe ... more

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  • Cover image of book John le Carre: The Biography by Adam Sisman
    John le Carre: The Biography - by Adam Sisman

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781408849460 | ISBN 10: 1408849461

    Over half a century since The Spy Who came in from the Cold made John le Carr a worldwide, bestselling sensation, David Cornwell, the man behind the pseudonym, remains an enigma. He has consistently quarried his life for his writing, and his novels ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS by Martin Duberman
    Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS - by Martin Duberman

    £14.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781620971925 | ISBN 10: 1620971925

    The Lambda Literary Awardwinning biography of two men fighting for their lives in the early days of the AIDS epidemic, from the celebrated historian. "A meticulously researched, nuanced, empathic and insightful portrait of two important artistic ... more

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  • Cover image of book On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sacks
    On the Move: A Life - by Oliver Sacks

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781447264064 | ISBN 10: 1447264061

    An impassioned, tender and joyous memoir by the author of Musicophilia and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: 'Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far' ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
    The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid - by Bill Bryson

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784161811 | ISBN 10: 1784161810

    Some say that the first hint that Bill Bryson was not of Planet Earth came when his mother sent him to school in lime-green Capri pants. Others think it all started with his discovery, at the age of six, of a woollen jersey of rare fineess. Across th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beryl Bainbridge: Love by All Sorts of Means: A Biography by Brendan King
    Beryl Bainbridge: Love by All Sorts of Means: A Biography - by Brendan King

    £25.00   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781472908537 | ISBN 10: 1472908538

    Dame Beryl Bainbridge was one of the most popular and recognisable English novelists of her generation. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, and her critically acclaimed novels The Dressmaker (1973), The Bottle Factory Outing (1974), ... more

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  • Cover image of book Gratitude by Oliver Sacks
    Gratitude - by Oliver Sacks

    £9.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781509822805 | ISBN 10: 1509822801

    Oliver Sacks died in August 2015 at his home in Greenwich Village, surrounded by his close friends and family. He was 82. He spent his final days doing what he loved: playing the piano, swimming, enjoying smoked salmon - and writing.  As Dr S ... more

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  • Cover image of book Long Time No See by Hannah Lowe
    Long Time No See - by Hannah Lowe

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781859643969 | ISBN 10: 1859643965

    Hannah Lowe's father "Chick", a half-Chinese, half-black Jamaican immigrant, worked long hours at night to support his family - except Chick was no ordinary working man. A legendary gambler, he would vanish into the shadows of East London to win at c ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography by Claire Harman
    Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography - by Claire Harman

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241964439 | ISBN 10: 0241964431

    Winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize "One of the most shamefully under-read great British authors of the past 100 years"(Sarah Waters) The poet Sylvia Townsend Warner rose to sudden fame with the publication of her classic feminist novel Lol ... more

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  • Cover image of book Percy Bysshe Shelley Poet and Revolutionary by Jacqueline Mulhallen
    Percy Bysshe Shelley Poet and Revolutionary - by Jacqueline Mulhallen

    £12.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780745334615 | ISBN 10: 074533461x

    Today, Percy Bysshe Shelley has memorials in Poets Corner in Westminster Abbey and at Oxford University. Most famous for poems such as 'To A Skylark', 'Ozymandias' and 'The Mask of Anarchy', he is considered a major Romantic poet with important new ... more

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  • Cover image of book Travelling to Work: Diaries 1988-1998 by Michael Palin
    Travelling to Work: Diaries 1988-1998 - by Michael Palin

    £12.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780225326 | ISBN 10: 1780225326

    The third volume of Michael Palin's celebrated diaries. Travelling to Work is a roller-coaster ride driven by the Palin hallmarks of curiosity and sense of adventure. Michael was not the BBC's first choice for the travel series Around the World i ... more

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  • Cover image of book Arguments Yard: Thirty Five Years of Ranting Verse and Thrash Mandola by Attila the Stockbroker
    Arguments Yard: Thirty Five Years of Ranting Verse and Thrash Mandola - by Attila the Stockbroker

    £14.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781909454309 | ISBN 10: 1909454303

    Launched into public consciousness by John Peel in the early 1980s, poet, musician, journalist and political activist Attila the Stockbroker has since spent thirty five years touring the world as a self-sustaining, one man DIY cottage industry. Havin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sappho by Page duBois
    Sappho - by Page duBois

    £12.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784533618 | ISBN 10: 1784533610

    Sappho has been constructed as many things: proto-feminist, lesbian icon and even - by the Victorians - chaste headmistress of a girls' finishing school. Yet ironically, as Page DuBois shows, the historical poet herself remains elusive. We know that ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Moth: This Is a True Story by Various writers, with an introduction by Neil Gaiman
    The Moth: This Is a True Story - by Various writers, with an introduction by Neil Gaiman

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781846689901 | ISBN 10: 1846689902

    Pull up an easy chair and settle into the most spell-binding collection of real stories you will ever read. Before television and radio, before penny paperbacks and mass literacy, people would gather on porches, on the steps outside their homes, ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Novel Cure: An A to Z of Literary Remedies by Susan Elderkin and Ella Berthoud
    The Novel Cure: An A to Z of Literary Remedies - by Susan Elderkin and Ella Berthoud

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780857864215 | ISBN 10: 0857864211

    Are you weary in Brain and Body? Do you desire a Positive Cure for your Pessimism? Do you require Bront to re-boot your Broken Heart? Do you despair of your Nose? Can Fielding open your Flood Gates? Or Pynchon purge your Paranoia? May we administer ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Frood: The Authorised & Very Official History of Douglas Adams by Jem Roberts
    The Frood: The Authorised & Very Official History of Douglas Adams - by Jem Roberts

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099590767 | ISBN 10: 009959076x

    As a wise ape once observed, space is big vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly so. However, if you look too closely at space, it becomes nothing but lumps of rock and sundry gases. Sometimes it's necessary to take a step back, and let a few billion year ... more

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  • Cover image of book Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love by James Booth
    Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love - by James Booth

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408851692 | ISBN 10: 1408851695

    Philip Larkin was that rare thing among poets: a household name in his own lifetime. Lines such as 'Never such innocence again' and 'Sexual intercourse began / In nineteen sixty-three' made him one of the most popular poets of the last century. &nbs ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff
    My Salinger Year - by Joanna Rakoff

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408833971 | ISBN 10: 1408833972

    At twenty-three, after leaving graduate school to pursue her dreams of becoming a poet, Joanna Rakoff moves to New York City and takes a job as assistant to the storied literary agent for J. D. Salinger. She spends her days in the plush, wood-panelle ... more

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  • Cover image of book Scout, Atticus & Boo: A Celebration of to Kill a Mockingbird by Mary McDonagh Murphy (Editor)
    Scout, Atticus & Boo: A Celebration of to Kill a Mockingbird - by Mary McDonagh Murphy (Editor)

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784753054 | ISBN 10: 178475305x

    "You come away from Murphys book with a renewed amazement at what Lee was able to achieve with a single perfect novel"(Entertainment Weekly) First published in 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird is not only a beloved classic, but also a touchstone in li ... more

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  • Cover image of book So, Anyway... The Autobiography by John Cleese
    So, Anyway... The Autobiography - by John Cleese

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099580089 | ISBN 10: 009958008x

    Candid and brilliantly funny, this is the story of how a tall, shy youth from Weston-super-Mare went on to become a self-confessed legend. En route, John Cleese describes his nerve-racking first public appearance, at St Peters Preparatory School at ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee by Marja Mills
    The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee - by Marja Mills

    £12.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780143127666 | ISBN 10: 0143127667

    To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the best loved novels of the twentieth century. Yet for the last fifty years, the novels celebrated author, Harper Lee, known to her friends as Nelle, has said almost nothing on the record.   But in 2001, Nell ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Essential Ginsberg by Allen Ginsberg
    The Essential Ginsberg - by Allen Ginsberg

    £12.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780141398990 | ISBN 10: 014139899x

    Visionary poet Allen Ginsberg was one of the most influential cultural and literary figures of the 20th century, his face and political causes familiar to millions who had never even read his poetry. And yet he is a figure that remains little underst ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books That Inspired Them by Antonia Fraser (Editor)
    The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books That Inspired Them - by Antonia Fraser (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408859629 | ISBN 10: 1408859629

    In this delightful collection forty acclaimed writers explain what first made them interested in literature, what inspired them to read and what makes them continue to do so. First published in 1992 in hardback only, original contributors include Mar ... more

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  • Cover image of book Six Stories and an Essay by Andrea Levy
    Six Stories and an Essay - by Andrea Levy

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781472222695 | ISBN 10: 1472222695

    A superb collection of writing from multi-award-winning, million-copy bestseller Andrea Levy.  Andrea Levy, author of the Man Booker shortlisted novel THE LONG SONG and the prize-winning, million-copy bestseller SMALL ISLAND, draws together a r ... more

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  • Cover image of book More Fool Me by Stephen Fry
    More Fool Me - by Stephen Fry

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781405918831 | ISBN 10: 1405918837

    Stephen Fry invites readers to take a glimpse at his life story in the unputdownable More Fool Me.  'Oh dear I am an arse. I expect there'll be what I believe is called an "intervention" soon. I keep picturing it. All my friends bearing dow ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Greatest Need: The Creative Life and Troubled Times of Lily Tobias by Jasmine Donahaye
    The Greatest Need: The Creative Life and Troubled Times of Lily Tobias - by Jasmine Donahaye

    £10.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781909983236 | ISBN 10: 1909983233

    he first full biography of Lily Tobias (1887-1984) a Jewish writer from Wales: a courageous, idealistic woman who wrote compellingly about Jewish life and experience in the 20th century.   Daughter of Polish immigrant parents, Lily Tobias grew ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Flaneur by Edmund White
    The Flaneur - by Edmund White

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408864760 | ISBN 10: 1408864762

    A flneur is a stroller, a loiterer, someone who ambles without apparent purpose but is secretly attuned to the history of the streets he walks - and is in covert search of adventure, aesthetic or erotic.  Acclaimed writer Edmund White, who live ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hotel Florida: Truth, Love and Death in the Spanish Civil War by Amanda Vaill
    Hotel Florida: Truth, Love and Death in the Spanish Civil War - by Amanda Vaill

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408833896 | ISBN 10: 1408833891

    Amid the rubble of a city blasted by a civil war that many fear will cross borders and engulf Europe, the Hotel Florida on Madrid's chic Gran Via has become a haven for foreign journalists and writers. It is here that six people meet and find their l ... more

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  • Cover image of book Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris by Edmund White
    Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris - by Edmund White

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408837764 | ISBN 10: 1408837765

    Edmund White was forty-three years old when he moved to Paris in 1983. He spoke no French and knew just two people in the entire city, but soon discovered the anxieties and pleasures of mastering a new culture. White fell passionately in love with Pa ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dreams of the Good Life: The Life of Flora Thompson and the Creation of Lark Rise to Candleford by Richard Mabey
    Dreams of the Good Life: The Life of Flora Thompson and the Creation of Lark Rise to Candleford - by Richard Mabey

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780141044811 | ISBN 10: 0141044810

    While the Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy, Flora Thompson's much-loved portrait of life in the English countryside, has inspired a hit television series, relatively little is known about the author herself.   In this highly original book, b ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Boy in the Book by Nathan Penlington
    The Boy in the Book - by Nathan Penlington

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780755365708 | ISBN 10: 0755365704

    As a boy, Nathan Penlington had loved 'Choose Your Own Adventures', the bestselling phenomenon of the 1980s which thrust the reader into the role of main character and compelled them to make decisions and direct the flow of the story.   When N ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce
    The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses - by Kevin Birmingham

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784080730 | ISBN 10: 178408073x

    THE SUNDAY TIMES LITERARY NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014.   THE ECONOMIST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014.   For more than a decade, the book now considered the most important novel in the English language was illegal to sell, advertise or im ... more

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  • Cover image of book Writing Home by Alan Bennett
    Writing Home - by Alan Bennett

    £12.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780571315727 | ISBN 10: 0571315720

    A wonderfully entertaining collection of Alan Bennett's prose writings. Bringing together his diaries for 1980-1995, and the journal he kept during the production of Forty Years On, which starred John Gielgud, the book also includes accounts of his ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Theft / My Conman by Hanif Kureishi
    A Theft / My Conman - by Hanif Kureishi

    £4.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780571323197 | ISBN 10: 0571323197

    'I was beginning to love my thief, a man I barely knew, but whom I had trusted and even liked, and who had taken my savings, amongst many other crimes.' A bravura piece of very personal reportage by Hanif Kureishi about the man who stole his life ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
    The Faraway Nearby - by Rebecca Solnit

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781847085122 | ISBN 10: 1847085121

    Gifts come in many guises.   One summer, Rebecca Solnit was bequeathed three boxes of ripening apricots, which lay, mountainous, on her bedroom floor - a windfall, a riddle, an emergency to be dealt with. The fruit came from a neglected tree ... more

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  • Cover image of book Walking the Literary Landscape: 20 Classic Walks for Book-Lovers in Northern England by Ian Hamilton & Diane Roberts
    Walking the Literary Landscape: 20 Classic Walks for Book-Lovers in Northern England - by Ian Hamilton & Diane Roberts

    £12.95   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781906148782 | ISBN 10: 1906148783

    Literature and a love of the English countryside are natural companions. Walking the Literary Landscape brings the two together in a collection of 20 circular routes in the north of England, all between 3 and 9 miles (5 and 15 kilometres) in length. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mad Girl
    Mad Girl's Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted - by Andrew Wilson

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780857205896 | ISBN 10: 0857205897

    On 25 February 1956, twenty-three-year-old Sylvia Plath walked into a party and immediately spotted Ted Hughes. The sensational aspects of the Plath-Hughes relationship have dominated the cultural landscape to such an extent that their story has take ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pink Triangle: The Feuds and Private Lives of Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote... by Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince
    Pink Triangle: The Feuds and Private Lives of Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote... - by Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince

    £15.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781936003372 | ISBN 10: 1936003376

    One hot summer night in 1945, three young American writers, each an enfant terrible, came together in a stuffy Manhattan apartment for the first time. Each member of this pink triangle was on the dawn of world fame Tennessee Williams for A Streetca ... more

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  • Cover image of book Meeting the Devil: A Book of Memoir by The London Review of Books, with a preface by Alan Bennett
    Meeting the Devil: A Book of Memoir - by The London Review of Books, with a preface by Alan Bennett

    £12.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780099592327 | ISBN 10: 0099592320

    Autobiography has been an essential element of the London Review of Books since its founding in 1979. This volume collects many outstanding pieces of memoir that first appeared in the LRBs pages.   Here, Lorna Sage remembers growing up with h ... more

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  • Cover image of book I
    I'm Not Here to Give a Speech - by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

    £9.99   hardback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780241184264 | ISBN 10: 0241184266

    For the first time, the speeches of prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez are translated into English and published together in a collected edition.   The pieces span Marquez's entire life: from his earliest days, speaking as a teenager ... more

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  • Cover image of book Life, Love and the Archers: Recollections, Reviews and Other Prose by Wendy Cope
    Life, Love and the Archers: Recollections, Reviews and Other Prose - by Wendy Cope

    £16.99   hardback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781444795363 | ISBN 10: 1444795368

    Wendy Cope has long been one of the nation's best-loved poets, with her sharp eye for human foibles and wry sense of humour. For the first time, Life, Love and the Archers brings together the best of her prose - recollections, reviews and essays from ... more

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  • Cover image of book Boyhood Island: My Struggle, Book 3 by Karl Ove Knausgaard
    Boyhood Island: My Struggle, Book 3 - by Karl Ove Knausgaard

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780099581499 | ISBN 10: 0099581493

    Childhood is exhilarating and terrifying. For the young Karl Ove, new houses, classes and friends are met with manic excitement and creeping dread. Adults occupy godlike positions of power, benevolent in the case of his doting mother, tyrannical in t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel Garca Mrquez
    Living to Tell the Tale - by Gabriel Garca Mrquez

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780241968772 | ISBN 10: 0241968771

    In Living to Tell the Tale Gabriel Garca Mrquez winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude recounts his personal experience of returning to the house in which he grew up and the memories that this ... more

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  • Cover image of book Becoming a Londoner by David Plante
    Becoming a Londoner - by David Plante

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781408840115 | ISBN 10: 1408840111

    Nikos and I live together as lovers, as everyone knows, and we seem to be accepted because it's known that we are lovers. In fact, we are, according to the law, criminals in our making love with each other, but it is as if the laws don't apply. It is ... more

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  • Cover image of book Springfield Road by Salena Godden
    Springfield Road - by Salena Godden

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781783520558 | ISBN 10: 1783520558

    I came here to begin a new story, but maybe all my stories begin with this one story this love story, this ghost story... Springfield Road is a journey into childhood. My childhood, maybe your childhood too. I set out to capture a snapshot of ... more

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  • Cover image of book Spike Milligan: Man of Letters by Spike Milligan
    Spike Milligan: Man of Letters - by Spike Milligan

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780241966921 | ISBN 10: 0241966922

    Spike Milligan's letters contain some of the best material he ever wrote...  Collected here for the first time are the funniest, rudest and most revealing of them - most of which have never been seen before - from one of the greatest comics ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dylan Thomas: A Centenary Celebration by Hannah Ellis
    Dylan Thomas: A Centenary Celebration - by Hannah Ellis

    £20.00   hardback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781472903099 | ISBN 10: 1472903099

    Dylan Thomas: A Centenary Celebration is a unique collection of specially commissioned essays celebrating the poet's life and work one hundred years after his birth in 1914. Edited by his granddaughter, Hannah Ellis, who introduces each section by th ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Parallel Life by Bonnie Greer
    A Parallel Life - by Bonnie Greer

    £14.99   hardback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781909807624 | ISBN 10: 1909807621

    Standing on the corner of Michigan Avenue, in the middle of the biggest blizzard of the decade and at the height of the rush hour, I yelled into the driving snow and howling Arctic wind: OK! After playing the role of good daughter, great sister, best ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Society of the Crossed Keys: Selections from the Writings of Stefan Zweig by Stefan Zweig, selected by Wes Anderson
    The Society of the Crossed Keys: Selections from the Writings of Stefan Zweig - by Stefan Zweig, selected by Wes Anderson

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781782271079 | ISBN 10: 1782271074

    "I had never heard of Zweig until six or seven years ago, as all the books began to come back into print, and I more or less by chance bought a copy of Beware of Pity. I immediately loved this book, his one, big, great novel and suddenly there were ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Fort of Nine Towers by Qais Akbar Omar
    A Fort of Nine Towers - by Qais Akbar Omar

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781447221753 | ISBN 10: 1447221753

    With all the emotional power of The Kite Runner, this is the very first true life account of growing up in Afghanistan, by a writer who still lives in Kabul. Qais Akbar Omars young life coincided with one of the most convulsive decades in Afghan h ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage of the 1980s by Kurt Vonnegut
    Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage of the 1980s - by Kurt Vonnegut

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780099583479 | ISBN 10: 009958347x

    A collection of autobiographical writings by the most zanily imaginative and brilliantly barking commentator of the post-war era.  This is the second volume of Vonneguts autobiographical writings a collage of his own life story, snipped up a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie
    Joseph Anton - by Salman Rushdie

    £12.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780099563440 | ISBN 10: 0099563444

    A frank and compelling account of one of the most extraordinary stories in recent history, from the author of Midnights Children.   From the author of The Satanic Verses and Midnights Children, which was awarded the Best of the Booker Prize ... more

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  • Cover image of book Oscar Wilde and His Circle by Simon Callow
    Oscar Wilde and His Circle - by Simon Callow

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781855144781 | ISBN 10: 1855144786

    One of literature's most flamboyant and witty personalities, the much-quoted Oscar Wilde captivated and scandalised late nineteenth-century society in Europe and America.   Wilde was a pioneer of celebrity, whose friends and contemporaries in ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Death in the Family: My Struggle, Book 1 by Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated by Don Bartlett
    A Death in the Family: My Struggle, Book 1 - by Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated by Don Bartlett

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780099555162 | ISBN 10: 0099555166

    A searingly honest, addictive and controversial read from the international sensation and bestseller, Karl Ove Knausgaard. "It's unbelievable. I just read 200 pages of it and I need the next volume like crack. It's completely blown my mind"(Zadie ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Man In Love: My Struggle, Book 2 by Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated by Don Bartlett
    A Man In Love: My Struggle, Book 2 - by Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated by Don Bartlett

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780099555179 | ISBN 10: 0099555174

    An electrifying honest and autobiographical love story from the international sensation and bestseller, Karl Ove Knausgaard.   Longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2014   This is a book about leaving your wife and eve ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dickens and the Workhouse: Oliver Twist and the London Poor by Ruth Richardson
    Dickens and the Workhouse: Oliver Twist and the London Poor - by Ruth Richardson

    £11.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780199681280 | ISBN 10: 0199681287

    The recent discovery that as a young man Charles Dickens lived only a few doors from a major London workhouse made headlines worldwide, and the campaign to save the workhouse from demolition caught the public imagination.   Internationally, t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Liberation: Diaries, Vol 3 by Christopher Isherwood
    Liberation: Diaries, Vol 3 - by Christopher Isherwood

    £16.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780099575474 | ISBN 10: 0099575477

    Hilarious and often deeply moving, the final volume of Christopher Isherwood's extraordinary diaries chronicles the 1970s, with a preface by Edmund White.  In this final volume of Christopher Isherwood's diaries, capstone of a million-word mast ... more

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  • Cover image of book Inventing the Enemy by Umberto Eco
    Inventing the Enemy - by Umberto Eco

    £10.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780099553946 | ISBN 10: 0099553945

    A collection of timely essays by the internationally acclaimed and bestselling essayist, philosopher, literary critic and author of The Name of the Rose and The Prague Cemetery. Inventing the Enemy covers a wide range of topics on which Umberto E ... more

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  • Cover image of book Artful by Ali Smith
    Artful - by Ali Smith

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780241959572 | ISBN 10: 0241959578

    Originally four lectures given by Ali Smith at Oxford University, Artful is a tidal wave of ideas in four thematically organised bursts of thought: 'On Time', 'On Form', 'On Edge' and 'On Offer and On Reflection'.   Refusing to be tied dow ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wilfred Owen by Jon Stallworthy
    Wilfred Owen - by Jon Stallworthy

    £18.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781845952044 | ISBN 10: 1845952049

    A revised and updated edition of Jon Stallworthy's prize-winning and classic biography of the great World War One poet, Wilfred Owen.  Of all the poets of the First World War, Wilfred Owen most fires the imagination today. This biography is mor ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rub Out the Words: Letters 1959-1974 by William E. Burroughs
    Rub Out the Words: Letters 1959-1974 - by William E. Burroughs

    £12.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780141189802 | ISBN 10: 0141189800

    These letters cover the activities of Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac in the years that gave birth to the Beat Generation.  Written mostly to Ginsberg or Kerouac, the letters provide a rare glimpse into Burroughs's psyche, revealing ... more

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  • Cover image of book Virginia Woolf by Alexandra Harris
    Virginia Woolf - by Alexandra Harris

    £9.95   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780500290866 | ISBN 10: 0500290865

    This gripping new account offers an ideal introduction to both the life and work of Virginia Woolf. It considers each of Woolfs novels in context, traces the contentious course of her afterlife, and shows why, seventy years after her death, Virgin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Camp David by David Walliams
    Camp David - by David Walliams

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780241957721 | ISBN 10: 0241957729

    It's time to get serious with Britain's favourite funny man - Camp David, by David Walliams.   David Walliams has been the camp aide to the Prime Minister, the rubbish transvestite and the long-suffering wheelchair pusher for an able-bodied ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Expo Files: Articles by the Crusading Journalist by Stieg Larsson, edited by Daniel Poohl, translated Laurie Thompson
    The Expo Files: Articles by the Crusading Journalist - by Stieg Larsson, edited by Daniel Poohl, translated Laurie Thompson

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780857387066 | ISBN 10: 0857387065

    With an introduction by Tariq Ali. Now almost exclusively known as the author of the bestselling Trilogy, as a professional journalist Stieg Larsson was an untiring crusader for democracy and equality. As a reporter and editor-in-chief on th ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Red Sweet Wine of Youth: The Brave and Brief Lives of the War Poets by Nicholas Murray
    The Red Sweet Wine of Youth: The Brave and Brief Lives of the War Poets - by Nicholas Murray

    £12.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780349121437 | ISBN 10: 0349121435

    A group portrait of the poets of the First World War, seen in their full historical, military and biographical context, out now in paperback.  The poetry that emerged from the trenches of WWI is a remarkable body of work, at once political mani ... more

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  • Cover image of book Arguably by Christopher Hitchens
    Arguably - by Christopher Hitchens

    £20.00   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780857892584 | ISBN 10: 0857892584

    'As soon as we abandon our own reason', wrote Bertrand Russell, 'and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles.'  For over forty years, Christopher Hitchens has proclaimed truth where others have spun falsehood and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Under a Canvas Sky: Living Outside Gormenghast by Clare Peake
    Under a Canvas Sky: Living Outside Gormenghast - by Clare Peake

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781780333854 | ISBN 10: 1780333854

    A moving memoir from Mervyn Peake's daughter.   Clare Peake, daughter of the celebrated writer and artist Mervyn Peake, tells the story of her parents' romance and her own happy and bohemian childhood.  Mervyn Peake was born in Ch ... more

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  • Cover image of book London Peculiar And Other Nonfiction by Michael Moorcock, introduction by Iain Sinclair, edited by Allan Kausch
    London Peculiar And Other Nonfiction - by Michael Moorcock, introduction by Iain Sinclair, edited by Allan Kausch

    £12.50   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781854251060 | ISBN 10: 1854251066

    Michael Moorcock personally selects the best of his published, unpublished and uncensored essays, articles, reviews and opinions covering a wide range of subjects: books, films, politics, reminiscences of old friends and attacks on new foes. These wr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stieg: From Activist to Author by Jan-Erik Pettersson, translated by Tom Geddes
    Stieg: From Activist to Author - by Jan-Erik Pettersson, translated by Tom Geddes

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781849165013 | ISBN 10: 1849165017

    Until the posthumous publication of the Millennium Trilogy, Stieg Larsson was probably best known for his commitment to left-wing causes, and his tireless work as an anti-fascist activist. Horrified by the rise of far-right extremism in Sweden, he th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dickens and the Workhouse: Oliver Twist and the London Poor by Ruth Richardson
    Dickens and the Workhouse: Oliver Twist and the London Poor - by Ruth Richardson

    £16.99   hardback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780199645886 | ISBN 10: 0199645884

    The recent discovery that as a young man Charles Dickens lived only a few doors from a major London workhouse made headlines worldwide, and the campaign to save the workhouse from demolition caught the public imagination.   Internationall ... more

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  • Cover image of book Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin
    Charles Dickens: A Life - by Claire Tomalin

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780141036939 | ISBN 10: 0141036931

    Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonically hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter of liberal social causes, but most of all a great novelist - the creator of characters who live immortall ... more

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  • Cover image of book Why be Happy When You Could be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
    Why be Happy When You Could be Normal? - by Jeanette Winterson

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099556091 | ISBN 10: 009955609x

    The shocking, heart-breaking - and often very funny - true story behind Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.   In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published. It tells the story of a young girl adopted b ... more

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  • Cover image of book Point to Point Navigation by Gore Vidal
    Point to Point Navigation - by Gore Vidal

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780349139104 | ISBN 10: 0349139105

    Point to Point Navigation refers to a form of navigation Gore Vidal resorted to as a first mate in the navy during World War II. As he says, 'As I was writing this account of my life and times since Palimpsest, I felt as if I were again dealing with ... more

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  • Cover image of book And The Bridge Is Love by Faye Moskowitz
    And The Bridge Is Love - by Faye Moskowitz

    £11.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781558617704 | ISBN 10: 1558617701

    FP brings back into print a literary gem.   Personal essays by a great Jewish American writer. "Bridges the gap between humor and despair, past and present, Jew and gentile, to reveal its authors simple humanity, deeply rooted in her u ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Lineup: The World
    The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives - by Otto Penzler (Editor)

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781849165228 | ISBN 10: 184916522x

    The great recurring characters in the mystery series we love become like old friends. Our favourite cops and sleuths earn our respect and we follow their antics with baited breath from one instalment to the next. But where do some of the most fascina ... more

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  • Cover image of book Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica by Philip Larkin, edited by Anthony Thwaite
    Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica - by Philip Larkin, edited by Anthony Thwaite

    £12.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780571239108 | ISBN 10: 0571239102

    Philip Larkin met Monica Jones at University College, Leicester, in Autumn 1946, when they were both twenty-four; he was the newly appointed assistant librarian and she was an English lecturer. In 1950 Larkin moved to Belfast, and thence to Hull, whi ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Memory Chalet by Tony Judt
    The Memory Chalet - by Tony Judt

    £10.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099555599 | ISBN 10: 009955559x

    A collection of stirring, poignant personal essays from Tony Judt, one of our leading historians. "It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an ... more

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  • Cover image of book And Crocodiles are Hungry at Night by Jack Mapanje
    And Crocodiles are Hungry at Night - by Jack Mapanje

    £12.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780956240170 | ISBN 10: 0956240178

    This book is a powerful contribution to the genre of the prison memoir in Africa. Jack Mapanje presents a moving account of a poets imprisonment by the state, his struggle to probe the hidden motives for his arrest, his attempt to provide an unforge ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Animal Life by Maggie Gee
    My Animal Life - by Maggie Gee

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781846590900 | ISBN 10: 1846590906

    Our lives are so short, a breath, half a breath,  And each of us has a journey to make...   Maggie Gee's journey started in a small family in post-war Britain, when love, ambition and good behaviour looked very different.  At ... more

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  • Cover image of book OxTravels: Meetings with Remarkable Travel Writers by Various authors, introduced by Michael Palin
    OxTravels: Meetings with Remarkable Travel Writers - by Various authors, introduced by Michael Palin

    £10.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781846684968 | ISBN 10: 184668496x

    OxTravels is a collection of travel writing, which will act as a focus for the Oxfam Bookfest in 2011 donated by world class travel writers.   You have to go back to the 1980s and Granta's bestselling travel issue to find a book that com ... more

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  • Cover image of book William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary (2nd revised edition) by E.P. Thompson
    William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary (2nd revised edition) - by E.P. Thompson

    £20.00   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780850366808 | ISBN 10: 0850366801

    William Morris the great 19th century craftsman, architect, designer, poet and writer remains a monumental figure whose influence resonates powerfully today. As an intellectual (and author of the seminal utopian News From Nowhere), his concern wi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hitch 22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens
    Hitch 22: A Memoir - by Christopher Hitchens

    £11.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781843549222 | ISBN 10: 1843549220

    The acid, hilarious, confessional, provocative bestselling memoirs of our greatest contrarian, and the author of God Is Not Great.   In this long-awaited and candid memoir, Hitchens re-traces the footsteps of his life to date, from his ch ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wrestling with the Left: The Making of Ralph Ellison
    Wrestling with the Left: The Making of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man - by Barbara Foley

    £23.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780822348290 | ISBN 10: 0822348292

    In Wrestling with the Left, Barbara Foley presents a penetrating analysis of the creation of Invisible Man. In the process she sheds new light not only on Ralph Ellisons celebrated novel but also on his early radicalism and the relationship between ... more

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  • Cover image of book Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon
    Manhood for Amateurs - by Michael Chabon

    £10.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780007150410 | ISBN 10: 0007150415

    Michael Chabon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and The Yiddish Policemen's Union, offers his first major work of non-fiction, an autobiographical narrative as inventive, beautiful and powerful as his novels. ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
    The Hare with Amber Eyes - by Edmund de Waal

    £10.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099539551 | ISBN 10: 0099539551

    The history of a family through 264 objects - set against a turbulent century - from an acclaimed writer and potter. 264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox: potter Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encounter ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Fry Chronicles: A Memoir by Stephen Fry
    The Fry Chronicles: A Memoir - by Stephen Fry

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780141039800 | ISBN 10: 0141039809

    Thirteen years ago, Moab is my Washpot, Stephen Fry's autobiography of his early years, was published to rave reviews and was a huge bestseller. In those thirteen years since, Stephen Fry has moved into a completely new stratosphere, both as a public ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Brontes by Juliet Barker
    The Brontes - by Juliet Barker

    £16.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780349122427 | ISBN 10: 0349122423

    The story of the tragic Bronte family is familiar to everyone: we all know about the half-mad, repressive father, the drunken, drug-addicted wastrel of a brother, wild romantic Emily, unrequited Anne and 'poor Charlotte'. Or do we? These stereotypes ... more

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  • Cover image of book Orwell: Life and Art by Jeffrey Meyers
    Orwell: Life and Art - by Jeffrey Meyers

    £20.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780252077463 | ISBN 10: 0252077466

    A preeminent Orwell scholar's lifetime of work on the icon of modern literature. This remarkable volume collects, for the first time, essays representing more than four decades of scholarship by one of the world's leading authorities on Georg ... more

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  • Cover image of book The South Bank Show: Final Cut by Melvyn Bragg
    The South Bank Show: Final Cut - by Melvyn Bragg

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781444705539 | ISBN 10: 1444705539

    What drives a musician to write extraordinary songs? How do writers create their worlds? How does an actor achieve greatness?  For over thirty years of The South Bank Show, Melvyn Bragg has interviewed many of the greatest cultural icons ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Ballad of John Clare by Hugh Lupton
    The Ballad of John Clare - by Hugh Lupton

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781907650000 | ISBN 10: 1907650008

    A bitter-sweet tale which evokes both the splendour and the harshness of life in rural England at the beginning of the 19th century and deals with the events which would lead to tragedy for the peasant poet. It is novel which will have a universal ap ... more

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  • Cover image of book Small Memories by Jos Saramago, translated by Margaret Jull Costa
    Small Memories - by Jos Saramago, translated by Margaret Jull Costa

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099520481 | ISBN 10: 0099520486

    A delightful insight into the formation of an artist who would become one of the world's most respected writers.  Let yourself be led by the child you were. The Book of Exhortations  Born in Portugal in 1922 in the tiny village ... more

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  • Cover image of book Life Class: The Selected Memoirs of Diana Athill by Diana Athill
    Life Class: The Selected Memoirs of Diana Athill - by Diana Athill

    £12.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781847081469 | ISBN 10: 1847081460

    Diana Athill, born in 1917, made her reputation as a writer with the candour of her memoirs; through her commitment, in her words, 'to understand, to be aware, to touch the truth'.   In a celebration of her life and writing, Life Class brings ... more

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  • Cover image of book Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar by Colm Tibn
    Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar - by Colm Tibn

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780330491389 | ISBN 10: 0330491385

    In this perceptive and rich collection of essays Tibn investigates the lives as well as the work of homosexual writers and artists of the nineteenth and twentieth century. In Love in a Dark Time, Colm Tibn looks at the life and work of some ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Warrior
    A Warrior's Life: A Biography of Paulo Coelho - by Fernando Morais

    £12.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780007281404 | ISBN 10: 0007281404

    Paulo Coelho is a worldwide phenomenon. At a time when he is coming up to the fantastic achievement of 100 million copies sold worldwide across all his books, his fans will be delighted with the first ever official biography of Paulo, an in-depth loo ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet
    My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century - by Adina Hoffman

    £16.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780300164275 | ISBN 10: 0300164270

    Beautifully written, and composed with a novelist's eye for detail, this book tells the story of an exceptional man and the culture from which he emerged.   Taha Muhammad Ali was born in 1931 in the Galilee village of Saffuriyya and was force ... more

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  • Cover image of book In Tangier by Mohamed Choukri
    In Tangier - by Mohamed Choukri

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781846590610 | ISBN 10: 1846590612

    Tangier, 'the most extraordinary and mysterious city in the world,' according to Mohamed Choukri, was a haven for many Western writers in the early twentieth century. Paul Bowles, Jean Genet and Tennessee Williams all spent time there, and each was b ... more

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  • Cover image of book Between the Sheets: The Literary Liaisons of Nine 20th-Century Women Writers by Lesley McDowell
    Between the Sheets: The Literary Liaisons of Nine 20th-Century Women Writers - by Lesley McDowell

    £16.99   hardback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780715639092 | ISBN 10: 0715639099

    Why did a gifted writer like Sylvia Plath stumble into a marriage that drove her to suicide? Why did Hilda Doolittle want to marry Ezra Pound when she was attracted to women? Why did Simone De Beauvoir pimp for Jean-Paul Satre? The list of the damage ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Fork in the Road by Andr Brink
    A Fork in the Road - by Andr Brink

    £12.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099527039 | ISBN 10: 0099527030

    The memoir of one of South Africa's best-loved novelists.  Andr Brink grew up in the deep interior of South Africa, as his magistrate father moved from one dusty dorp to the next. With searing honesty he describes his conflicting experiences ... more

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  • Cover image of book An Angel at My Table by Janet Frame
    An Angel at My Table - by Janet Frame

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781844086238 | ISBN 10: 1844086232

    After being misdiagnosed with schizophrenia as a young woman, Janet Frame spent several years in psychiatric institutions. She escaped undergoing a lobotomy when it was discovered that she had just won a national literary prize. She then went on to b ... more

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  • Cover image of book Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands by Michael Chabon
    Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands - by Michael Chabon

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780007289875 | ISBN 10: 0007289871

    A collection of essays on books and why they matter, by the Pulitzer-award winning writer of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and The Yiddish Policeman's Union.   Michael Chabon's sparkling book of nonfiction is a love song in 16 p ... more

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  • Cover image of book Because You Died: Poetry and Prose of the First World War and After by Vera Brittain, edited and introduced by Mark Bostridge
    Because You Died: Poetry and Prose of the First World War and After - by Vera Brittain, edited and introduced by Mark Bostridge

    £8.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781844084142 | ISBN 10: 1844084140

    Perhaps some day the sun will shine again,And I shall see that still the skies are blue,And feel once more I do not live in vain,Although bereft of You...So wrote twenty-two-year-old Vera Brittain, mouring the loss of her fiance Roland Leighton on t ... more

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  • Cover image of book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
    What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - by Haruki Murakami

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099526155 | ISBN 10: 0099526158

    The first, fascinating insight into the life of this internationally bestselling writer.  In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he'd completed a solo course from Athe ... more

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  • Cover image of book Gertrude and Alice by Diana Souhami
    Gertrude and Alice - by Diana Souhami

    £12.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781848851481 | ISBN 10: 1848851480

    Gertrude Stein and Alice Babette Toklas met on Sunday 8 September 1907, in Paris. From that day on they were together, until Gertrude's death on Saturday 27 July 1946.   This title presents story of their remarkable life together, of the path ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Beats: A Graphic History by Text and art by Harvey Pekar and Ed Piskor, edited by Paul Buhle
    The Beats: A Graphic History - by Text and art by Harvey Pekar and Ed Piskor, edited by Paul Buhle

    £12.00   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780285638587 | ISBN 10: 0285638580

    During World War Two a group of friends in New York would begin a cultural revolution. Over the following decades Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs would write their own masterpieces but taken together, as the Beats, they would al ... more

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  • Cover image of book So Bright and Delicate: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne by John Keats, with an introduction by Jane Campion
    So Bright and Delicate: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne - by John Keats, with an introduction by Jane Campion

    £7.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780141442471 | ISBN 10: 0141442476

    John Keats died aged just twenty-five. He left behind some of the most exquisite and moving verse and love letters ever written, inspired by his great love for Fanny Brawne.   Although they knew each other for just a few short years and spent ... more

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  • Cover image of book Strangers in the House: Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine by Raja Shehadeh
    Strangers in the House: Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine - by Raja Shehadeh

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781846682506 | ISBN 10: 1846682509

    An extraordinary and moving memoir by the award-winning author of Palestinian Walks - updated with a new foreword.  Raja Shehadeh was born into a successful Palestinian family with a beautiful house overlooking the Mediterranean. When the sta ... more

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  • Cover image of book A River Dies of Thirst: Diaries by Mahmoud Darwish
    A River Dies of Thirst: Diaries - by Mahmoud Darwish

    £10.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780863566349 | ISBN 10: 0863566340

    Mahmoud Darwish is one of the most acclaimed contemporary poets in the Arab world, and is often cited as the poetic voice of the Palestinian people.   During the summer of 2006, Darwish was in Ramallah. He recorded his observations and feelin ... more

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  • Cover image of book Leviathan, or The Whale by Philip Hoare
    Leviathan, or The Whale - by Philip Hoare

    £12.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780007230143 | ISBN 10: 0007230141

    The story of a mans obsession with whales, which takes him on a personal, historical and biographical journey from his childhood to his fascination with Moby-Dick and his excursions whale-watching. All his life, Philip Hoare has been obsessed ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Beat Generation: A Beginner
    The Beat Generation: A Beginner's Guide - by Christopher Gair

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781851685424 | ISBN 10: 1851685421

    The Beat Generation were a revolutionary group of American writers in the late 50s and early 60s who fused an open approach to literature with a bohemian lifestyle. Immortalized through Kerouacs On the Road and Ginsbergs Howl, their relaxed, gritty ... more

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  • Cover image of book P.S. Further Thoughts from a Lifetime of Listening by Studs Terkel
    P.S. Further Thoughts from a Lifetime of Listening - by Studs Terkel

    £11.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781595584236 | ISBN 10: 1595584234

    Millions of Studs Terkel fans have come to know the prizewinning oral historian through his landmark books The Good War, Hard Times, Working, Will the Circle Be Unbroken?, and many others. Few people realize, however, that much of Studss best work ... more

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  • Cover image of book King of Shadows by Aaron Shurin
    King of Shadows - by Aaron Shurin

    £12.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780872864900 | ISBN 10: 0872864901

    King of Shadows assembles twenty-one highly charged personal essays circling around the author's gay and literary life in San Francisco, a poet's excursion through identity, sensibility, and the dangerous joy of living in the open."King of Shadows is ... more

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  • Cover image of book For the Islands I Sing: An Autobiography by George Mackay Brown
    For the Islands I Sing: An Autobiography - by George Mackay Brown

    £7.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781846970832 | ISBN 10: 1846970830

    George Mackay Brown was born the youngest child of a poor family in Stromness; his mother was a beautiful Gaelic-speaking woman, his father, a wit and singer, who also doubled as a postman and tailor.  Orkney was profoundly important to Macka ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dockers and Detectives by Ken Worpole
    Dockers and Detectives - by Ken Worpole

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781905512379 | ISBN 10: 1905512376

    Ken's first book, Dockers and Detectives, has now been re-published by Five Leaves Press. This early study of twentieth-century working class reading and writing in Britain helped revive a number of literary reputations, such as those of Alexander Ba ... more

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  • Cover image of book How I Write: The Secret Life of Authors by Edited by Dan Crowe
    How I Write: The Secret Life of Authors - by Edited by Dan Crowe

    £10.00   hardback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780847829422 | ISBN 10: 0847829421

    Have you ever wondered about the creative process of your favorite authors? Ever wondered who loves money more than life? What doors do the secret keys unlock? What old lady wears fur jackets? Who needs to punch a boxing ball before work?  With ... more

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  • Cover image of book Noam Chomsky - Critical Lives by Wolfgang B. Sperlich
    Noam Chomsky - Critical Lives - by Wolfgang B. Sperlich

    £11.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781861892690 | ISBN 10: 1861892691

    'The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.'  This declaration by Noam Chomsky exemplifies the uncompromising radicalism that has long defined his life and work. A linguist, ph ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
    The Year of Magical Thinking - by Joan Didion

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780007216857 | ISBN 10: 0007216858

    Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill. At first they thought it was flu, then pneumonia, then complete sceptic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life sup ... more

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  • Cover image of book Said and Done: The Autobiography by Roger McGough
    Said and Done: The Autobiography - by Roger McGough

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780099478751 | ISBN 10: 0099478757

    Roger McGough is one of Britain's best-loved poets, whose humour, distinctive voice, and sharp eye for the idiosyncrasies of everyday life, have made him a household name both as a poet and a broadcaster. 1967 saw not only the publication of The Mer ... more

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  • Cover image of book Baghdad Burning: Volume 2 by Riverbend
    Baghdad Burning: Volume 2 - by Riverbend

    £7.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780714531335 | ISBN 10: 0714531332

    'Suddenly, the house was filled with strange men, yelling out orders and stomping into rooms. It was chaotic. We could see flashing lights in the garden and lights coming from the hallways. I could hear Ammoo S. talking loudly outside telling them hi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Untold Stories by Alan Bennett
    Untold Stories - by Alan Bennett

    £12.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780571228317 | ISBN 10: 0571228313

    Alan Bennett's first collection of prose since Writing Home takes in all his major writings over the last ten years. The title piece is a poignant family memoir with an account of the marriage of his parents, the lives and deaths of his aunts, and t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Istanbul: Memories of a City by Orhan Pamuk
    Istanbul: Memories of a City - by Orhan Pamuk

    £10.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780571218332 | ISBN 10: 0571218334

    Turkey's greatest living novelist guides us through the monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets and waterways of Istanbul - the city of his birth and the home of his imagination."An extraordinary and transcendentally be ... more

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  • Cover image of book Memoir by John McGahern
    Memoir - by John McGahern

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780571228119 | ISBN 10: 0571228119

    This is the story of John McGahern's childhood; of his mother's death, his father's anger and bafflement, and his own discovery of literature."Long before Frank McCourt made an entire industry out of twinkly eyed accounts of the povery and institutio ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wild Women and Books: Bibliophiles, Bluestockings, and Prolific Pens by Brenda Knight
    Wild Women and Books: Bibliophiles, Bluestockings, and Prolific Pens - by Brenda Knight

    £14.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781573242714 | ISBN 10: 1573242713

    Wild Women and Books is a celebration of perhaps the most revered and radical women writers of history. Beginning with the first recorded writer of either gender to date, Enheduanna of Sumeria, and ending with acclaimed authors of today, including To ... more

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  • Cover image of book The People on the Street: A Writer
    The People on the Street: A Writer's View of Israel - by Linda Grant

    £11.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781844082544 | ISBN 10: 1844082547

    One block of a Tel Aviv street is the starting point for this highly acclaimed writer's exploration of the inner dynamics of Israelis - not the government and its policies, but the people themselves, in all their variety. Iraqi shopkeepers, teenage s ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz
    A Tale of Love and Darkness - by Amos Oz

    £9.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780099450030 | ISBN 10: 0099450038

    The author takes us on a seductive journey through his childhood and adolescence in Israel, along Jerusalem's war-torn streets in the 1940s and 50s, into his Russian immigrant parents' infernal marriage. Caught in the middle is one small boy with th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Outwitting History: How a Young Man Rescued a Million Books and Saved a Vanishing Civilisation by Aaron Lansky
    Outwitting History: How a Young Man Rescued a Million Books and Saved a Vanishing Civilisation - by Aaron Lansky

    £12.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780285637528 | ISBN 10: 0285637525

    In 1980, an entire body of Jewish literature - the physical remnant of Yiddish culture - was on the verge of extinction. Previous volumes that had survived Hitler and Stalin were being passed down from older generations of Jewish immigrants to their ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Ear At His Heart: Reading My Father by Hanif Kureishi
    My Ear At His Heart: Reading My Father - by Hanif Kureishi

    £7.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780571224043 | ISBN 10: 0571224040

    Hanif Kureishi offers a remarkable insight into the birth of a writer - himself - through this memoir that conjures up a family story of how he found his own literary calling from the ashes of his father's attempts to be a writer. The wellspring of ... more

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  • Cover image of book Giving Up the Ghost by Hilary Mantel
    Giving Up the Ghost - by Hilary Mantel

    £8.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780007142729 | ISBN 10: 0007142722

    From one of Britain's finest authors, a wry, shocking and beautifully-written memoir of childhood, ghosts (real and metaphorical), illness and family.   Giving up the Ghost is award-winning novelist Hilary Mantel's uniquely unusual five-part ... more

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  • Cover image of book Kafka: A Very Short Introduction by Ritchie Robertson
    Kafka: A Very Short Introduction - by Ritchie Robertson

    £7.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780192804556 | ISBN 10: 0192804553

    "When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous insect..." (Franz Kafka) So begins Franz Kafka's most famous story Metamorphosis (1883-1924) - which is among the most intriguing an ... more

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  • Cover image of book Moab is My Washpot by Stephen Fry
    Moab is My Washpot - by Stephen Fry

    £9.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780099457046 | ISBN 10: 0099457040

    "Stephen Fry is one of the great originals- This autobiography of his first twenty years is a pleasure to read, mixing outrageous acts with sensible opinions in bewildering confusion- That so much outward charm, self-awareness and intellect should ex ... more

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  • Cover image of book Memoirs by Pablo Neruda
    Memoirs - by Pablo Neruda

    £12.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780285648111 | ISBN 10: 028564811x

    Not only was Pablo Neruda one of the twentieth century's greatest poets but his life was an integral part of the history of the century. Pablo Neruda was born the son of a railway-worker and Memoirs opens with a lyrical evocation of his childhood in ... more

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  • Cover image of book 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
    84 Charing Cross Road - by Helene Hanff

    £8.99   paperback   (2002) - ISBN 13: 9781860498503 | ISBN 10: 1860498507

    The true story of the 20-year correspondence between Helene Hanff, an American writer living in New York, and Frank Doel, the Manager of Messrs Marks and Co., a bookshop in London's Charing Cross Road. The story is told in the couple's letters. "This ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Freedom Writers Diary by The Freedom Writers, with Erin Gruwell
    The Freedom Writers Diary - by The Freedom Writers, with Erin Gruwell

    £12.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780385494229 | ISBN 10: 038549422x

    Shocked by the teenage violence she witnessed during the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, Erin Gruwell became a teacher at a high school rampant with hostility and racial intolerance. For many of these students whose ranks included substance abus ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hyperscapes in the Poetry of Frank OHara: Difference, Homosexuality, Topography by Smith, Hazel
    Hyperscapes in the Poetry of Frank OHara: Difference, Homosexuality, Topography - by Smith, Hazel

    £18.50   paperback   (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780853235057 | ISBN 10: 0853235058

    Frank OHaras poetry evokes a specific era and location: New York in the fifties and early sixties. This is a pre-computer age of typewritten manuscripts, small shops and lunch hours: it is also an age of gay repression, accelerating consumerism and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Out of Place: A Memoir by Edward Said
    Out of Place: A Memoir - by Edward Said

    £9.99   paperback   (2000) - ISBN 13: 9781862073708 | ISBN 10: 1862073708

    Born in Jerusalem in 1935, Edward Said spent much of his youth in Cairo and Lebanon. Out of Place is an act of emotional archaeology of that time, bringing to life people and places many of which no longer exist. In this unstintingly candid memoir - ... more

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  • Cover image of book Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
    Girl, Interrupted - by Susanna Kaysen

    £8.99   paperback   (2000) - ISBN 13: 9781860497926 | ISBN 10: 1860497926

    In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, 18-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital to be treated for depression. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psyc ... more

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  • Cover image of book Gather Together in My Name by Maya Angelou
    Gather Together in My Name - by Maya Angelou

    £9.99   paperback   (1985) - ISBN 13: 9781844085026 | ISBN 10: 1844085023

    Maya Angelou's volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, a ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - by Maya Angelou

    £9.99   paperback   (1984) - ISBN 13: 9780860685111 | ISBN 10: 086068511x

    Maya Angelou's six volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, jo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sappho: Poems and Fragments by Balmer, Josephine. (translator)
    Sappho: Poems and Fragments - by Balmer, Josephine. (translator)

    £9.95   paperback   (1984) - ISBN 13: 9781852242015 | ISBN 10: 1852242019

    The Greek poet Sappho was one of the greatest poets in classical literature. Her lyric poetry is among the finest ever written, and although little of her work has survived and little is known about her, she is regarded not just as one of the greates ... more

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