JONES DAVID
ISBN:9780571259793
The Anathemata, appeared in 1952 (again published by Faber). Inspired in part by a visit to Palestine during which he was struck by the historic parallels between the British and Roman occupations of the region...
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O'BRIEN SEAN
ISBN:9780571235483
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces...
Format:Paperback / softback Pages:96
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Silverman Sarah
ISBN:9780571251261
Shockingly funny book from the controversial and brilliant American comedian. Sarah Silverman's father taught her to curse - at the age of three...
Format:Hardback Pages:256
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Tobrmanova-Kuhnova Sarka
ISBN:9780571231621
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...
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Millett Peter
ISBN:9780571253234
General Pandemonium's back and he's badder than ever. Disguised as pop singer Andy Dandy he's out to brainwash the world with his hypnotic songs and turn everyone into a bunch of bamboozled break-dancing boneheads. Once again...
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James P D
ISBN:9780571253418
Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiat, the Warden of England, the old are despairing and the young cruel. Theo Faren, a cousin of the Warden...
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Auster Paul
ISBN:9780571253982
Paul Auster's Collected Screenplays brings together the film work of Paul Auster. Paul Auster's novels have earned him the reputation as 'one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers.' He has also brought this sense of invention to the art of screenwriting...
Format:Hardcover Pages:384
USD $68.28
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Morris Jan
ISBN:9780571250691
Jan Morris has been a travel writer for over half a century, known for her ability to perfectly capture places and atmospheres ... But what about the many people she has encountered along the way?
In Contact! Jan turns her brilliantly observant eye to the human contacts she has made...
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Jame P D
ISBN:9780571253340
St Cedd's Church fete had been held in the grounds of Martingale manor house for generations. As if organizing stalls, as well as presiding over luncheon...
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THOMSON IAN
ISBN:9780571227624
Jamaica used to be the source of much of Britain's wealth, a tropical paradise for the planters, a Babylonian exile for the Africans shipped to the Caribbean. It became independent in 1962. Jamaica is now a country in despair. It has become a cockpit of gang warfare...
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Parry Jann
ISBN:9780571243037
Kenneth MacMillan's ballets are in constant demand by world-famous companies, in particular Romeo and Juliet, Manon and Mayerling. However, MacMillan was tormented by an acute sense of being an outsider...
Format:Paperback / softback Pages:688
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Young Rob
ISBN:9780571237524
Electric Eden documents one of the great untold stories of British music over the past century. While ostensibly purporting to be a history of that much derided (though currently fashionable) four-letter word...
Format:Paperback / softback Pages:500
USD $36.09
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KUNDERA MILAN
ISBN:9780571250899
With the same dazzling mix of emotion and idea that characterizes his novels he illuminates the art and artists who remain important to him and whose work helps us better understand the world. An astute and brilliant reader of fiction...
Format:Paperback / softback Pages:176
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Lee Stewart
ISBN:9780571254804
Experience how it feels to be the subject of a blasphemy prosecution! Find out why 'wool' is a funny word! See how jokes work, their inner mechanisms revealed...
Format:Paperback / softback Pages:304
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Heaney Seamus
ISBN:9780571269235
Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present - the stepping stones of the day...
Format:Hardback Pages:96
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JONES DAVID
ISBN:9780571259809
'This writing has to do with some things I saw, felt, and was part of': With quiet modesty, David Jones introduces one of the grandest imaginative efforts to grapple with World War I. Fusing poetry and prose...
Format:Paperback / softback Pages:256
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Olusoga David
ISBN:9780571231416
On 12 May, 1883, the German flag was raised on the coast of South-West Africa, modern Namibia - the beginnings of Germany's African Empire. As colonial forces moved in...
Format:Hardback Pages:388
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Burton Tim
ISBN:9780571270248
The must-have quirky Christmas gift from 'the' film maker, Tim Burton....
Format:Hardback Pages:128
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Cargill-Thompson Jessica
ISBN:9781907595059
Are you: Aged between 35 and 55? Acutely conscious that life hasn't panned out quite the way you imagined it? A lot happier after a couple of glasses of wine? Getting divorced? Or consoling divorced friends? Having...
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Pamuk Orhan
ISBN:9780571237029
The Museum of Innocence - set in Istanbul between 1975 and today - tells the story of Kemal, the son of one of Istanbul's richest families, and of his obsessive love for a poor and distant relation...
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Frayn Michael
ISBN:9780571270583
A delightful and uncommonly honest memoir of Michael Frayn's father and of his own childhood, written in the spirit of enquiry that so characterises one of our most distinguished and cherished authors...
Format:Hardback Pages:256
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Jackson D C
ISBN:9780571269570
'Where do you meet people? Where are people meeting each other? Pubs? The gym? The supermarket? I'll tell you where. If you haven't met someone by the time you graduate...
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Levenson Thomas
ISBN:9780571229932
Already famous throughout Europe for his theories of planetary motion and gravity, Isaac Newton decided to take on the job of running the Royal Mint. And there...
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Eliot TS
ISBN:9780571268979
Cats! Some are sane, some are mad and some are good and some are bad. Meet magical Mr Mistoffelees, sleepy Old Deuteronomy and curious Rum Tum Tugger...
Format:Paperback / softback Pages:64
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James P D
ISBN:9780571248902
The Peverell Press, a two-hundred-year-old publishing firm housed in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames, is certainly ripe for change. But the proposals of its ruthlessly ambitious new managing director...
Format:Paperback / softback Pages:560
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Golding William
ISBN:9780571255252
Oliver is eighteen, and wants to enjoy himself before going to university. But this is the 1920s, and he lives in Stilbourne, a small English country town...
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Lloyd John
ISBN:9780571272853
A new indispensable compendium of popular misconceptions, misunderstandings and common mistakes culled from the hit BBC show, QI, hosted by Stephen Fry....
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PATERSON DON
ISBN:9780571268580
In this, his first volume of original verse since the award-winning Landing Light, Don Paterson is found writing at his most memorable and direct. In an aessembly of light masterful lyrics and monologues...
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Spufford Francis
ISBN:9780571225231
The Soviet Union was founded on a fairytale. It was built on 20th-century magic called 'the planned economy', which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things and the penny-pinching lands of capitalism could never match. And just for a little while...
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Romer Stephen
ISBN:9780571236800
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces...
Format:Paperback / softback Pages:128
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NOKES DAVID
ISBN:9780571226368
Johnson, born weak and half-blind, shambolic and poverty-stricken, became the most admired and quoted man in the eighteenth century. Thrown out of Oxford for a lack of funds...
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Richards Justin
ISBN:9780571245086
Ben's sister Sam saw the ghosts all the time. Then she looked into the Judgement Box, and that's when Ben's life changed forever. Would you look into the Judgement Box? Would you dare? If you can see what's inside...
Format:Paperback / softback Pages:224
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Bray Christopher
ISBN:9780571238071
Sean Connery's creation of secret agent James Bond invigorated Britain and its cinema, allowing a cash-strapped, morale-sapped country in decline to fancy itself still a player on the world stage. But while Bond would make Connery the first actor to command a million dollar-plus fee...
Format:Hardback Pages:368
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WADHAM LUCY
ISBN:9780571236121
At the age of eighteen Lucy Wadham ran away from English boys and into the arms of a Frenchman. Twenty-five years later, having married in a French Catholic Church...
Format:Paperback / softback Pages:288
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STEVENS WALLACE
ISBN:9780571260089
Wallace Stevens is, for many readers, the supreme poet of twentieth century America. His unique voice combining meditative speculation with what he called 'the essential gaudiness of poetry'...
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Sieburth Richard
ISBN:9780571239009
This edition replaces Ezra Pound's Selected Poems 1908-1969, and offers a revaluation of the poetry by conjoining early and late works within a new overview. Emphasis has also been laid on the interpretation of original composition and translation within Pound's career...
Format:Paperback / softback Pages:256
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PADEL RUTH
ISBN:9780571238040
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces...
Format:Paperback Pages:115
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Ardagh Philip
ISBN:9780571253494
News just in from Beardy Ardagh: When a yachting trip turns to disaster and the shipwrecked crew, including Mango Claptrap, ends up using the impressively large Flabby Gomez as a man-made floating island...
Format:Paperback / softback Pages:160
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Auster Paul
ISBN:9780571258796
In the sprawling flatlands of Florida, 28-year-old Miles is photographing the last lingering traces of families who have abandoned their houses due to debt or foreclosure. Miles is haunted by guilt for having inadvertently caused the death of his step-brother...
Format:Paperback / softback Pages:320
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Morris Jan
ISBN:9780571241798
Renowned and much-loved travel writer Jan Morris turns her eye to Sydney: 'not the best of cities the British Empire created ... but the most hyperbolic...
Format:Paperback / softback Pages:256
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Frayn Michael
ISBN:9780571240906
'All writers of fiction should be required, by law, to go out and do a bit of reporting from time to time, just to remind them how different the real world in front of their eyes is from the invented world behind them.' This is what Frayn did in mid-career...
Format:Paperback / softback Pages:224
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Taylor G P
ISBN:9780571226948
You will come to know hell better than most, Jago. I have waited all these years for you to come back to this town. England, 1940: Britain is entrenched in war with the Germans when young Jago is evacuated from the Blitz bombings in London to the Yorkshire coast. With just the memory of his dead mother for comfort...
Format:Paperback / softback Pages:320
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Chown Marcus
ISBN:9780571244034
Look around you. The reflection of your face in a window tells you that the universe is orcestrated by chance. The iron in a spot of blood on your finger tells you that somewhere out in space there is a furnace at a temperature of 4.5 billion degrees. Your TV tells you that the universe had a beginning. In fact...
Format:Paperback / softback Pages:208
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Moore Lorrie
ISBN:9780571268559
This novel follows the lives of two 11-year-olds intent on escaping childhood. As the strength of their friendship is tested repeatedly, they begin to take their first...
Format:Paperback / softback Pages:160
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FENTON JAMES
ISBN:9780571236039
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces...
Format:Paperback / softback Pages:96
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Carey John
ISBN:9780571231645
William Golding was born in 1911 and educated at his local grammar school and Brarsenose College, Oxford. He published a volume of poems in 1934 and during the war served in the Royal Navy. Afterwards...
Format:Paperback / softback Pages:400
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