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Related category: Poetry & Writing

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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 15 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader by Mark Hodkinson
    No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader - by Mark Hodkinson

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781838850012 | ISBN 10: 1838850015

    This love letter to reading is a philosophical take on why we read and collect books, told through a working-class lens.  Mark Hodkinson grew up among the terrace houses of Rochdale in a house with just one book. His dad kept it on top of a wardr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers by Emma Smith
    Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers - by Emma Smith

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780141991931 | ISBN 10: 0141991933

    'A fascinating journey into our relationship with the physical book...I lost count of the times I exclaimed with delight when I read a nugget of information I hadn't encountered before' Val McDermid, The Times  Most of what we say about books is ... more

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  • Cover image of book Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives by Helen Taylor
    Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives - by Helen Taylor

    £10.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780198827696 | ISBN 10: 0198827695

    Ian McEwan once said, 'When women stop reading, the novel will be dead.' This book explains how precious fiction is to contemporary women readers, and how they draw on it to tell the stories of their lives. Female readers are key to the future of fic ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Gifts of Reading: Essays on the Joys of Reading, Giving and Receiving Books by Various authors, Curated by Jennie Orchard
    The Gifts of Reading: Essays on the Joys of Reading, Giving and Receiving Books - by Various authors, Curated by Jennie Orchard

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781474624930 | ISBN 10: 1474624936

    With contributions by: William Boyd, Candice Carty-Williams, Imtiaz Dharker, Roddy Doyle, Pico Iyer, Robert Macfarlane, Andy Miller, Jackie Morris, Jan Morris, Sisonke Msimang, Dina Nayeri, Chigozie Obioma, Michael Ondaatje, David Pilling, Max Porter ... more

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  • Cover image of book How Poetry Can Change Your Heart by Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley
    How Poetry Can Change Your Heart - by Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley

    £8.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781452171807 | ISBN 10: 1452171807

    Poetry can transform: How can a poem transform a life? Could poetry change the world? In How Poetry Can Change Your Heart, spoken-word stars Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley roll out the welcome mat and prove that poetry is for everyone.  • Wheth ... more

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  • Cover image of book Why You Should Read Children
    Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise - by Katherine Rundell

    £5.00   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781526610072 | ISBN 10: 1526610078

    Katherine Rundell – Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and prize-winning author of five novels for children – explores how children's books ignite, and can re-ignite, the imagination; how children's fiction, with its unabashed emotion and playf ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading by Lucy Mangan
    Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading - by Lucy Mangan

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781784709228 | ISBN 10: 1784709220

    When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up different worlds and cast new light on this one.   She was whisked away to Narnia – and Kirrin Island – and Wonderland. She ventured down rabbit holes and womble burrows ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Republic of Imagination by Azar Nafisi
    The Republic of Imagination - by Azar Nafisi

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099558934 | ISBN 10: 0099558939

    From the author of the bestselling memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran comes a powerful and passionate case for the vital role of fiction today.   Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran ... 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 How to be a Heroine: Or, What I
    How to be a Heroine: Or, What I've Learned from Reading Too Much - by Samantha Ellis

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780099575566 | ISBN 10: 0099575566

    Cathy Earnshaw or Jane Eyre? Petrova or Posy? Scarlett or Melanie? Lace or Valley of the Dolls?   On a pilgrimage to Wuthering Heights, Samantha Ellis found herself arguing with her best friend about which heroine was best: Jane Eyre or Cathy Ea ... more

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  • Cover image of book An Everywhere: A Little Book About Reading by Heather Reyes
    An Everywhere: A Little Book About Reading - by Heather Reyes

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780992636401 | ISBN 10: 099263640x

    "I have so much enjoyed An Everywhere. It is a brilliant travel guide to the city of books: the city we hold within us, and the one we share with all its other citizens. I love Heather's passion for reading and the blend of erudition and intimacy tha ... more

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  • Cover image of book When I Was a Child I Read Books by Marilynne Robinson
    When I Was a Child I Read Books - by Marilynne Robinson

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781844087723 | ISBN 10: 1844087727

    From the author of the magnificent, award-winning novels Gilead and Home comes this, a collection of wonderful, heart-warming essays about reading.   Of Marilynne Robinson, Michael Arditti said that there is 'no contemporary novelist whose wor ... more

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  • Cover image of book Read This Next: And Discover Your 500 New Favourite Books by Sandra Newman and Howard Mittlemark
    Read This Next: And Discover Your 500 New Favourite Books - by Sandra Newman and Howard Mittlemark

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781846143724 | ISBN 10: 1846143721

    In 2009 it was How NOT to Write a Novel ('A hilarious, wickedly observed and deeply useful guide' Observer). In 2010 it's Read This Next - Sandra Newman and Howard Mittlemark have written the perfect book for anyone who has ever struggled to choose w ... more

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  • Cover image of book You
    You've GOT to Read This Book! 55 People Tell the Story of the Book That Changed Their Life - by Jack Canfield

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780060891756 | ISBN 10: 0060891750

    There's nothing better than a book you can't put down - or better yet, a book you'll never forget. This book puts the power of transformational reading into your hands.  Jack Canfield, cocreator of the bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul series, an ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Rights of the Reader by Daniel Pennac, illustrated by Quentin Blake
    The Rights of the Reader - by Daniel Pennac, illustrated by Quentin Blake

    £7.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781406300918 | ISBN 10: 1406300918

    Humane, humorous and deeply felt, this is a unique book about reading.  The Rights of the Reader, which has sold over a million copies in France, grew from celebrated French writer Daniel Pennac's experiences of teaching in "challenging" school ... more

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