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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 69 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book A Guest at the Feast by Colm Toibin
    A Guest at the Feast - by Colm Toibin

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780241970614 | ISBN 10: 024197061x

    A Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it.  From the melancholy and amusement within the work of the writer John McGahern t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Strings of Fate: an Anthology of Stories, Poetry & Script by Various authors
    Strings of Fate: an Anthology of Stories, Poetry & Script - by Various authors

    £3.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781910580912 | ISBN 10: 1910580910

    Strings of Fate is an anthology of stories, poetry, and script revealing a tangled web of heartbreak, inner battles, self-growth, and adventure. The experiences these new writers bring to their work, woven like strings through these stories, invite y ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction by Neil Gaiman
    The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction - by Neil Gaiman

    £18.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781472282323 | ISBN 10: 1472282329

    A captivating collection of fiction from one of the world's most beloved writers, introduced with a foreword by Booker Prize-winning author, Marlon James.  With a writer as prolific as Neil Gaiman, where do you begin? Or how do you know what to t ... more

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  • Cover image of book New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent by Margaret Busby (Editor)
    New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent - by Margaret Busby (Editor)

    £20.00   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780241997000 | ISBN 10: 0241997003

    Showcasing the work of more than 200 women writers of African descent, this major international collection celebrates their contributions to literature and international culture.  Twenty-five years ago, Margaret Busby’s groundbreaking anthology ... more

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  • Cover image of book Test Signal: A Northern Anthology of New Writing by Nathan Connolly (Editor)
    Test Signal: A Northern Anthology of New Writing - by Nathan Connolly (Editor)

    £10.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781526630902 | ISBN 10: 1526630907

    A ground-breaking anthology of the best contemporary northern writing from Dead Ink and Bloomsbury, showcasing the wealth of literary talent in the North of England.  'Test Signal ... is testament to the fact that there is no singular prescri ... more

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  • Cover image of book Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack by Richard Ovenden
    Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack - by Richard Ovenden

    £10.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529378771 | ISBN 10: 152937877x

    An unforgettable 3,000-year-old journey - from Mesopotamian clay tablets trying to predict the future, to Tudor book-hunters and Nazi bonfires, and on into the dangers of our increasingly digital existence, Burning the Books shows how the preservatio ... more

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  • Cover image of book We Wrote in Symbols: Love and Lust by Arab Women Writers by Selma Dabbagh (Editor)
    We Wrote in Symbols: Love and Lust by Arab Women Writers - by Selma Dabbagh (Editor)

    £14.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780863563973 | ISBN 10: 086356397x

    It is a little-known secret that Arabic literature has a long tradition of erotic writing. Behind that secret lies another - that many of the writers are women.  We Wrote in Symbols celebrates the works of 75 of these female writers of Arab heri ... more

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  • Cover image of book This Is How We Come Back Stronger: Feminist Writers On Turning Crisis Into Change by The Deminist Book Society (Editors)
    This Is How We Come Back Stronger: Feminist Writers On Turning Crisis Into Change - by The Deminist Book Society (Editors)

    £14.99   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781911508984 | ISBN 10: 1911508989

    Feminist writers come together to respond to the crisis of 2020 in this uniquecollection of essays, interviews, and fiction.   Spring 2020. When everything changed.   As life around the world retreated behind closed doors, gend ... more

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  • Cover image of book Statesmanship: The Best of the New Statesman, 1913-2019 by Jason Cowley (Editor)
    Statesmanship: The Best of the New Statesman, 1913-2019 - by Jason Cowley (Editor)

    £10.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781474619271 | ISBN 10: 1474619274

    No British periodical or weekly magazine has a richer and more distinguished archive than the New Statesman, which has long been at the centre of British political and cultural life. If not quite at the centre, then at the most energetic, subversive ... more

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  • Cover image of book How to Spot a Fascist by Umberto Eco
    How to Spot a Fascist - by Umberto Eco

    £3.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781787302662 | ISBN 10: 1787302660

    We are here to remember what happened and to declare solemnly that 'they' must never do it again. But who are 'they'?   How to Spot a Fascist is a selection of three thought-provoking essays on freedom and fascism, censorship and tolerance - ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Virago Book Of Women Travellers by Mary Morris (Editor), with Larry O
    The Virago Book Of Women Travellers - by Mary Morris (Editor), with Larry O'Connor

    £14.99   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780349013527 | ISBN 10: 0349013527

    Three hundred years of wanderlust are captured in this collection as women travel for peril or pleasure, whether to gaze into Persian gardens or imbibe the French countryside, to challenge the fierce Sahara or climb an impossible mountain.  The ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books by Hilary Mantel
    Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books - by Hilary Mantel

    £16.99   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780008429973 | ISBN 10: 0008429979

    A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the Light.  In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wro ... more

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  • Cover image of book AZADI: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction. by Arundhati Roy
    AZADI: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction. - by Arundhati Roy

    £6.00   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780241470022 | ISBN 10: 0241470021

    The chant of 'Azadi!' - Urdu for 'Freedom!' - is the slogan of the freedom struggle in Kashmir against what Kashmiris see as the Indian Occupation. Ironically, it also became the chant of millions on the streets of India against the project of Hindu ... more

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  • Cover image of book How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division by Elif Shafak
    How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division - by Elif Shafak

    £4.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781788165723 | ISBN 10: 1788165721

    It feels like the world is falling apart. So how do we keep hold of our optimism? How do we nurture the parts of ourselves that hope, trust and believe in something better? And how can we stay sane in this world of division?  In this beautifu ... more

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  • Cover image of book Intimations: Six Essays by Zadie Smith
    Intimations: Six Essays - by Zadie Smith

    £5.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780241492383 | ISBN 10: 0241492386

    "As well as offering a new guide to living in a wild, messy and unfair world, Smith provides a reminder that we can use this crisis to imagine a better one"(Evening Standard ) Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of ess ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pulp Idol Firsts 2020 by Various artists
    Pulp Idol Firsts 2020 - by Various artists

    £4.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781910580417 | ISBN 10: 1910580414

    Pulp Idol is an annual competition run in Liverpool since 2006 by Writing on the Wall - Liverpool's longest running writing and literary organisation. Many new talents have been discovered through the competition, providing publicity and pathways in ... more

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  • Cover image of book Europa28: Writing by Women on the Future of Europe by Sophie Hughes & Sarah Cleave (Editors)
    Europa28: Writing by Women on the Future of Europe - by Sophie Hughes & Sarah Cleave (Editors)

    £12.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781912697298 | ISBN 10: 1912697297

    Featuring Asja Bakić, Zsófia Bán, Annelies Beck, Silvia Bencivelli, Hilary Cottam, Lisa Dwan, Yvonne Hofstetter, Nora Ikstena, Maarja Kangro, Kapka Kassabova, Sofia Kouvelaki, Carine Krecké, Caroline Muscat, Nora Nadjarian, Ioana Nicolaie, Bronka ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations by Toni Morrison
    A Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations - by Toni Morrison

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529110883 | ISBN 10: 1529110882

    A vital new non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated and revered writers of our time.  ‘Word-work is sublime, she thinks, because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference—the way in wh ... more

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  • Cover image of book End Of The End Of The Earth: Essays by Jonathan Franzen
    End Of The End Of The Earth: Essays - by Jonathan Franzen

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780008299262 | ISBN 10: 0008299269

    A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections.  In The End of the End of the Earth, which gathers essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Jonathan Franzen returns ... more

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  • Cover image of book Incidental Inventions by Elena Ferrante, illustrated by Andrea Ucini
    Incidental Inventions - by Elena Ferrante, illustrated by Andrea Ucini

    £15.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781787701908 | ISBN 10: 1787701905

    “This is my last column, after a year that has scared and inspired me.”  With these words, Elena Ferrante, the bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend, bid farewell to her year-long collaboration with the Guardian. For a full year she p ... more

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  • Cover image of book What Happened? by Hanif Kureishi
    What Happened? - by Hanif Kureishi

    £16.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780571352050 | ISBN 10: 0571352057

    Comic, dark and insightful, What Happened? is Hanif Kureishi's new collection of essays and fiction.   No topic is too fringe or too mainstream for this insatiable—and much-loved—author. From social media to the ancient classics, from app ... more

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  • Cover image of book Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith
    Feel Free: Essays - by Zadie Smith

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780241971024 | ISBN 10: 0241971020

    The one and only Zadie Smith, prize-winning, bestselling author of Swing Time and White Teeth, is back with a second unmissable collection of essays   No subject is too fringe or too mainstream for the unstoppable Zadie Smith. From social media to ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rife: Twenty-One Stories from Britain
    Rife: Twenty-One Stories from Britain's Youth - by Nikesh Shukla and Sammy Jones (Editors)

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781783525768 | ISBN 10: 1783525762

    Young people in this country are facing a chasm of doubt and instability. Mental health problems are widespread, university fees are rising, job opportunities are drying up, and the prospect of ever owning a home is increasingly out of reach. But thi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Common People: An Anthology of Working-Class Writers by Kit de Waal (Editor)
    Common People: An Anthology of Working-Class Writers - by Kit de Waal (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781783527458 | ISBN 10: 1783527455

    Working-class stories are not always tales of the underprivileged and dispossessed.  Common People is a collection of essays, poems and memoir written in celebration, not apology: these are narratives rich in barbed humour, reflecting the dep ... more

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  • Cover image of book Postcards to Europe by Various authors
    Postcards to Europe - by Various authors

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781409177555 | ISBN 10: 1409177556

    From Paris to Prague, from the past to the present, authors and artists explore what Europe means to them - and us - in this unique collection.  In these pages you'll find personal letters, reminiscences, poetry, art and brand new fiction from s ... more

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  • Cover image of book Know Your Place: Essays on the Working Class by the Working Class by Nathan Connolly (Editor)
    Know Your Place: Essays on the Working Class by the Working Class - by Nathan Connolly (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781911585374 | ISBN 10: 1911585371

    "In July 2016, a little over a month after the Brexit vote, Nikesh Shukla, the man behind The Good Immigrant, tweeted:   Someone should do a Good Immigrant-style state of the nation book of essays by writers from working class backgrounds.  Ou ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dog
    The Dog's Last Walk (and Other Pieces) - by Howard Jacobson

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781408845127 | ISBN 10: 1408845121

    Week after week, for eighteen years, the Booker Prize-winning novelist Howard Jacobson wrote a weekly column for the Independent, reflecting in inimitable style on the sacred and the profane in turn, the frivolous and the serious, the deeply personal ... more

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  • Cover image of book Goodbye Europe: Writers and Artists Say Farewell by Various authors
    Goodbye Europe: Writers and Artists Say Farewell - by Various authors

    £20.00   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781409177548 | ISBN 10: 1409177548

    From Paris to Prague, from the past to the present, authors and artists say farewell in this unique collection.   In these pages you'll find personal letters, reminiscences, poetry, art and brand new fiction from some of the most talented and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Keeping On Keeping On by Alan Bennett
    Keeping On Keeping On - by Alan Bennett

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781781256503 | ISBN 10: 1781256500

    'I seem to have banged on this year rather more than usual. I make no apology for that, nor am I nervous that it will it make a jot of difference. I shall still be thought to be kindly, cosy and essentially harmless. I am in the pigeon-hole marked 'n ... more

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  • Cover image of book The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Non-Fiction by Neil Gaiman
    The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Non-Fiction - by Neil Gaiman

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781472208026 | ISBN 10: 1472208021

    A collection of speeches, articles, essays and introductions from Sunday Times bestselling author, commentator and craftsman Neil Gaiman.  The View from the Cheap Seats draws together myriad non-fiction writing by international phenomenon and Sun ... more

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  • Cover image of book Winter: An Anthology for the Changing Seasons by Melissa Harrison (Editor)
    Winter: An Anthology for the Changing Seasons - by Melissa Harrison (Editor)

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781783962525 | ISBN 10: 1783962526

    Winter is a withdrawal: quiet and dark and cold. But in the dim light frost shimmers, stars twinkle and hearths blaze as we come together to keep out the chill. In spite of the season, life persists: visiting birds fill our skies, familiar creatures ... more

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  • Cover image of book Seeing Things As They Are: Selected Journalism and Other Writings by George Orwell
    Seeing Things As They Are: Selected Journalism and Other Writings - by George Orwell

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780141984230 | ISBN 10: 0141984236

    An enlightening anthology of George Orwell's journalism and non-fiction writing, showing his genius across a wide variety of genres. Selected by leading expert Peter Davison.  Famous for his novels and essays, Orwell remains one of our very b ... more

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  • Cover image of book And Yet... Essays by Christopher Hitchens
    And Yet... Essays - by Christopher Hitchens

    £10.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781782394587 | ISBN 10: 1782394583

    Christopher Hitchens was an unparalleled, prolific writer, who raised the polemical essay to a new art form, over a lifetime of thinking and debating the defining issues of our times. As an essayist he contributed to the New Statesman, Atlantic Month ... more

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  • Cover image of book Love + Hate: Stories and Essays by Hanif Kureishi
    Love + Hate: Stories and Essays - by Hanif Kureishi

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780571319701 | ISBN 10: 057131970x

    Hate skews reality even more than love.   In the story of a Pakistani woman who has begun a new life in Paris, an essay about the writing of Kureishi's acclaimed film Le Week-End, and an account of Kafka's relationship with his father, readers ... more

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  • Cover image of book Life from Elsewhere: Journeys Through World Literature by Various authors
    Life from Elsewhere: Journeys Through World Literature - by Various authors

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781782271895 | ISBN 10: 1782271899

    Writers in Translation, established in 2005 and supported by Bloomberg and Arts Council England, champions the best literature from around the world.  To mark the programme's tenth anniversary, ten leading writers from around the world, many of ... more

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  • Cover image of book Desert Songs of the Night: 1500 Years of Arabic Literature by Various authors
    Desert Songs of the Night: 1500 Years of Arabic Literature - by Various authors

    £12.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780863561757 | ISBN 10: 0863561756

    A unique and extraordinary collection, Desert Songs of the Night presents some of the finest poetry and prose by Arab writers, from the Arab East to Andalusia, over the last 1,500 years.  From the mystical imagery of the Qur'an and the colour ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction by Terry Pratchett
    A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction - by Terry Pratchett

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780552167727 | ISBN 10: 055216772x

    Terry Pratchett has earned a place in the hearts of readers the world over with his bestselling Discworld series but in recent years he has become equally well-known and respected as an outspoken campaigner for causes including Alzheimers research ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Way of Being Free by Ben Okri
    A Way of Being Free - by Ben Okri

    £6.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784082567 | ISBN 10: 1784082562

    From Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri: twelve of his most controversial non-fiction pieces form this collection on the theme of freedom.   Ranging from the personal to the analytical, covering subjects such as art, politics, storytelling and creat ... 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 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 Radio Benjamin by Walter Benjamin, edited by Lecia Rosenthal
    Radio Benjamin - by Walter Benjamin, edited by Lecia Rosenthal

    £20.00   hardback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781781685754 | ISBN 10: 1781685754

    This collection of the legendary thinkers radio broadcasts brings together some of his most accessible and fascinating thinking. Walter Benjamin was fascinated by the impact of new technology on culture, an interest that extended beyond his renown ... more

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  • Cover image of book Things Written Randomly in Doubt by Allan Cameron
    Things Written Randomly in Doubt - by Allan Cameron

    £9.95   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781908251275 | ISBN 10: 1908251271

    A work in three parts, Things Written Randomly in Doubt starts with aphorisms in 'How Not to Be a Ruminant', shifts to essays in 'Weights and Counterweights', and concludes with poetry in 'By the Metre'. Some arguments appear in more than one section ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Dylan Thomas Treasury: Under Milk Wood, Poems, Stories and Broadcasts by Dylan Thomas, selected by Walford Davies
    A Dylan Thomas Treasury: Under Milk Wood, Poems, Stories and Broadcasts - by Dylan Thomas, selected by Walford Davies

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781780227269 | ISBN 10: 1780227264

    An exclusive and detailed collection of Dylan Thomas' poems, stories and broadcasts, featuring a bold new livery in celebration of the Dylan Thomas centenary. A must-have for all literature lovers.  This selection provides the perfect introduct ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shaking a Leg: Collected Journalism and Writings by Angela Carter
    Shaking a Leg: Collected Journalism and Writings - by Angela Carter

    £12.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780099583073 | ISBN 10: 0099583070

    Forthright, funny, unpredictable: Carter is capable of illuminating any topic with the brilliance of her prose.   With a new introduction by Rachel Cooke.   Reading Shaking a Leg is like spending time with the funniest, wisest friend yo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Moranthology by Caitlin Moran
    Moranthology - by Caitlin Moran

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780091940898 | ISBN 10: 0091940893

    Possibly the only drawback about the bestselling How To Be A Woman was that its author, Caitlin Moran, was limited to pretty much one subject: being a woman. Moranthology is proof that Caitlin can actually be quite chatty about many other thing ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Literary Heritage of the Arabs: An Anthology by Suheil Bushrui and James M. Malarkey (Editors)
    The Literary Heritage of the Arabs: An Anthology - by Suheil Bushrui and James M. Malarkey (Editors)

    £35.00   hardback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780863568244 | ISBN 10: 0863568246

    The Literary Heritage of the Arabs samples some of the finest literature produced by Arab writers in the last 1,500 years. The selection of poetry and prose spans many genres and styles, conveying the full range of Arab experiences and perspectives ... 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 Tablet and Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East by Reza Aslan (Editor)
    Tablet and Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East - by Reza Aslan (Editor)

    £15.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780393340778 | ISBN 10: 0393340775

    A landmark literary event, this groundbreaking work spans a century of literature by the regions best writers from the famed Arab poet Khalil Gibran to the Turkish Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk all of them bound together, not by borders and nat ... more

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  • Cover image of book Scribble, Scribble, Scribble: Writing on Ice Cream, Obama, Churchill and My Mother by Simon Schama
    Scribble, Scribble, Scribble: Writing on Ice Cream, Obama, Churchill and My Mother - by Simon Schama

    £16.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099546658 | ISBN 10: 0099546655

    A treasure trove of Schama's writing with subjects ranging from cookery to Barack Obama.  Passionate, provocative, entertaining and informative, Scribble, Scribble, Scribble ranges far and wide: from cookery and family to Barack Obama, fr ... more

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  • Cover image of book Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008 by Nadine Gordimer
    Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008 - by Nadine Gordimer

    £12.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781408800966 | ISBN 10: 1408800969

    Nadine Gordimers life reflects the true spirit of the writer as moral activist, political visionary and literary icon. Telling Times collects together all her non-fiction for the first time, spanning more than half a century, from the twilight of co ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Little, Aloud: An Anthology of Prose and Poetry for Reading Aloud to Someone You Care for by Edited by Angela Macmillan
    A Little, Aloud: An Anthology of Prose and Poetry for Reading Aloud to Someone You Care for - by Edited by Angela Macmillan

    £12.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780701185633 | ISBN 10: 0701185635

    We are on the cusp of a reading revolution. Increasingly, research is uncovering an intimate connection between reading and wellbeing. The seemingly simple act of being read to brings remarkable health and happiness benefits. It stimulates thought an ... more

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  • Cover image of book Believe in People: The Essential Karel Capek by Karel Capek
    Believe in People: The Essential Karel Capek - by Karel Capek

    £12.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780571231621 | ISBN 10: 0571231624

    Playful and provocative, irreverent and inspiring, Capek is perhaps the best-loved Czech writer of all time. Novelist and playwright, famed for inventing the word robot in his play RUR, Capek was a vital part of the burgeoning artistic scene of Cze ... more

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  • Cover image of book Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics, 1948-2008 by Harold Pinter
    Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics, 1948-2008 - by Harold Pinter

    £12.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780571244805 | ISBN 10: 0571244807

    Various Voices is the only collection of Harold Pinter's prose, poems and political writing to span his career.  This new edition includes a remarkable interview in which he reflects on his time as an evacuee in Cornwall during the Second World ... 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 Granta 104: Fathers by Alex Clark (editor)
    Granta 104: Fathers - by Alex Clark (editor)

    £10.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781905881048 | ISBN 10: 1905881045

    "Its a huge pleasure to be able to introduce you to the new issue of Granta, for which weve chosen the theme of fathers. One of the most rewarding aspects of editing the issue was the imaginative responses we had from the writers we worked with w ... more

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  • Cover image of book Turning Back The Clock by Umberto Eco
    Turning Back The Clock - by Umberto Eco

    £10.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099503682 | ISBN 10: 0099503689

    After the Cold War, the 'Hot War' has made its comeback in Afghanistan and Iraq. Exhuming Kiplings 'Great Game', we have gone back to the clash between Islam and Christianity.  The ghost of the Yellow Peril has been resurrected, the nineteen ... more

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  • Cover image of book Selected Writings by Mai Ghoussoub
    Selected Writings - by Mai Ghoussoub

    £12.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780863566424 | ISBN 10: 0863566421

    Mai Ghoussoub was a woman who lived with one foot in the East and one in the West, who embodied cosmopolitanism, and who was deeply committed to freedom of expression. Drawing on her own extraordinary experiences as well as political and histori ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Dirty Bits - For Girls by India Knight
    The Dirty Bits - For Girls - by India Knight

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781844082285 | ISBN 10: 1844082288

    Edited and introduced by India Knight, The Dirty Bits - For Girls is an unmissable collection. From zipless action in Fear of Flying to jolly romps with Jilly Cooper; from transgressions with a priest in The Thorn Birds to mischief with Mellors; from ... more

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  • Cover image of book Other Colours by Orhan Pamuk
    Other Colours - by Orhan Pamuk

    £14.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780571236879 | ISBN 10: 0571236871

    From Orhan Pamuk, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature, comes a personal selection of the best from twenty-five years' work. His original pieces have been sympathetically revisited by the author, and the result is a new work of great narrati ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Jose Marti Reader: Writings on the Americas by Jose Marti
    The Jose Marti Reader: Writings on the Americas - by Jose Marti

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781920888749 | ISBN 10: 1920888748

    This Reader presents an outstanding new anthology of the writings, poetry and letters of Jos Mart one of the most brilliant and impassioned Latin American intellectuals of the 19th century.  Teacher, journalist, revolutionary and poet, Jo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Like the Flowing River: Thoughts and Reflections by Paulo Coelho
    Like the Flowing River: Thoughts and Reflections - by Paulo Coelho

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780007235803 | ISBN 10: 0007235801

    Like the Flowing River is an intimate collection of Paulo Coelho's reflections and short stories, written from 1998 to 2005. These are powerful tales of living and dying, of destiny and choice, of love lost and found. Sometimes humorous, sometimes s ... more

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  • Cover image of book Van Gogh
    Van Gogh's Ear 5: The Celebrity Edition - by various

    £11.00   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9782914853071 | ISBN 10: 2914853076

    Van Gogh's Ear: The Celebrity Edition, which is volume 5, celebrates art, poetry, and the ultimate sex goddess of the 20th century, Marilyn Monroe. There's a one-act play by Joyce Carol Oates that brings to life Marilyn's posing for the nude calendar ... more

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  • Cover image of book What the Chinese Don
    What the Chinese Don't Eat - by Xinran

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780099501527 | ISBN 10: 009950152x

    In June 2003 Xinran began writing about China for her weekly column in the Guardian. She has covered a vast range of topics from food to sex education, and from the experiences of British mothers who have adopted Chinese daughters, to whether Chinese ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Portable Beat Reader by Edited by Ann Charters
    The Portable Beat Reader - by Edited by Ann Charters

    £12.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780142437537 | ISBN 10: 0142437530

    Beginning in the late 1940s, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was "beat." Beat as in povery and beatitude, ecstasy and exile. Beat was Jack Kerouac touring the American road in prose as fast and reckless as a V-8 Chevy. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stranger in a Strange Land: Encounters in the Disunited States by Gary Younge
    Stranger in a Strange Land: Encounters in the Disunited States - by Gary Younge

    £13.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781595580689 | ISBN 10: 1595580689

    Black, opinionated, and from a working-class background, Gary Younge is not your typical foreign correspondent. Yet, in three years working for The Guardian newspaper in New York, Younge has aquired a transatlantic reputation as one of the most thoug ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wild Ducks Flying Backward by Tom Robbins
    Wild Ducks Flying Backward - by Tom Robbins

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781842431719 | ISBN 10: 1842431714

    Whether he is rocking with the Doors, depoliticizing Picasso's Guernica, lamenting the angst-ridden state of contemporary literature, or drooling over tomato sandwiches and a species of womanhood he calls 'the genius waitress,' Tom Robbins's briefer ... more

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  • Cover image of book Van Gogh
    Van Gogh's Ear Vol.4: Best World Poetry and Prose - by various

    £11.00   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9782914853033 | ISBN 10: 2914853033

    Volume four of Van Gogh's Ear: Best World Poetry and Prose is now to be experienced! A powerful poem for peace by one of the great voices of contemporary literature, Maya Angelou, seizes the soul; Margaret Atwood's insightful, often amusing essay on ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Selected Essays of John Berger by John Berger, edited by Geoff Dyer
    The Selected Essays of John Berger - by John Berger, edited by Geoff Dyer

    £20.00   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780747554196 | ISBN 10: 0747554196

    Booker wining novelist, playwright, essayist, poet and critic - even admirers rarely know John Berger in all his literary incarnations. This collection of essays will, for the first time, take a definitive look at his extraordinary career.  Far f ... more

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  • Cover image of book Moving Beyond Words by Gloria Steinem
    Moving Beyond Words - by Gloria Steinem

    £10.99   paperback   (1995) - ISBN 13: 9780747520214 | ISBN 10: 0747520216

    A selection of essays from the feminist author of Revolution from Within. The topics featured include economic empowerment, the advance of women in politics, the terrorism of anti-abortion activists, the joy of diversity, and the new ceremonies for ... more

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