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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Award–winning 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 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 Poet’s 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 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 Brontë 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 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 Peter’s Preparatory School at ... 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 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 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 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 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 LRB’s 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 Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel García Márquez
    Living to Tell the Tale - by Gabriel García Márquez

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

    In Living to Tell the Tale Gabriel García Márquez – 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 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 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 Midnight’s Children.   From the author of The Satanic Verses and Midnight’s Children, which was awarded the Best of the Booker Prize ... 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 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 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 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 poet’s 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 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 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 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 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 Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar by Colm Tóibín
    Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar - by Colm Tóibín

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

    In this perceptive and rich collection of essays Tóibín 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 Tóibín looks at the life and work of some ... 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 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 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 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 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 Studs’s best work ... 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 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 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 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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