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There are 189 books in this booklist
£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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£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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£20.00 hardback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781409184096 | ISBN 10: 1409184099
'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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£20.00 hardback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781509896103 | ISBN 10: 1509896104
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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781912559190 | ISBN 10: 1912559196
Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well being and walk away from every illness.” ~ Soren Aaby Kierkegaard
Duncan Minshull has always walked, and in the last twenty years has made use of it by wr ... more
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£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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£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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£18.99 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781784740825 | ISBN 10: 1784740829
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 ... more
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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£9.99 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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£9.99 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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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.
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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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