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The Destiny Thief
Richard Russo
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A master of the novel, short story and memoir, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Everybody's Fool now gives us his very first collection of personal essays, thoughts on writing, reading and living.


The Private Life of the Diary: From Pepys to Tweets - A History of the Diary as an Art Form
Sally Bayley
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In a beautiful literary exploration, Sally Bayley tracks the evolution - and the potential twenty first century death of - the diary, mourning what it means to lose the art of writing simply for oneself.


One Lark, One Horse
Michael Hofmann
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Approaching his sixtieth birthday, the poet explores where he finds himself, geographically and in life, treating with wit and compassion such universal themes as ageing and memory, place, and the difficulty for the individual to exist at all in an ever bigger and more bestial world.


Blurb Your Enthusiasm: A Cracking Compendium of Book Blurbs, Writing Tips, Literary Folklore and Publishing Secrets
Louise Willder
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A dazzling dictionary of book blurbs, filled with writing tips, literary folklore and publishing secrets


PLUS ULTRA
Sarah Fletcher
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A dazzling debut collection that refuses to look away as it grapples with pain, control, decadence, love and grief, in poems of wit, sharp intelligence, and a linguistic restlessness.


Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature
Anna Beer
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The lives and achievements of eight women writers - a startling and unconventional history of literature


In Praise of Disobedience: The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Other Writings
Oscar Wilde
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The works of Wilde's annus mirabilis of 1891 in one volume, with an introduction by renowned British playwright.


A New Divan - A Lyrical Dialogue between East and West
Barbara Schwepcke, Bill Swainson
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Twenty-four original poems on the twelve themes of Goethe's West-Eastern Divan (1819) by leading contemporary world poets, with facing English versions by contemporary British, Irish, American and New Zealand poets, together with 6 essays.


These Islands: A Letter To Britain
Ali M. Ansari
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Ansari makes the claim that Britain's strength lies in its ability of shape the popular imagination, both at home and abroad, and that an `excess of enthusiasm' may yet do untold damage to the fabric of a state and society that has been carefully constructed and will not be easily repaired.


Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown: Verses for a Despotic Age
John Lithgow
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New York Times Besteller

Following the success of New York Times bestseller Dumpty comes Volume 2 of award-winning actor and national bestselling author John Lithgow's next book of satirical poetry chronicling the era of Trump madness. Darker, funnier, and more hard-hitting than ever, Lithgow writes ...


A Scattering and Anniversary
Christopher Reid
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A Scattering is a book of lamentation and remembrance, its subject being Christopher Reid's wife, the actress Lucinda Gane, who died of cancer at the age of fifty-five. A moving exploration of the stages of grief, A Scattering and Anniversary shows us what it means to love, lose, and - forever changed - continue on.


Christopher Smart
Neil Curry
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This close and sensitive study shows Christopher Smart (1722-1771) to be one of the finest and most important English religious poets between George Herbert and Gerard Manley Hopkins.


David Lodge
Bernard Bergonzi
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This study examines David Lodge's work from The Picturegoers (1960) to Therapy (1995).


Margaret Drabble
Glenda Leeming
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This book draws together the different aspects of Margaret Drabble's narrative practice, and looks at the increasing flexibility of her narrative methods, both in terms of the kind of narrator used and in the structuring of plot events.


Percy Bysshe Shelley
Paul Hamilton
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This book is both a general introduction to and a particular interpretation of Shelley's thought and major writings.


Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread
Michiko Kakutani
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**SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020**


From renowned, Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic, Michiko Kakutani, comes an inspiring and gorgeously illustrated selection of the life-changing books that none of us should miss


Lady Chatterley's Lover (Collins Classics)
D. H. Lawrence
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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.


Before Dawn on Bluff Road / Hollyhocks in the Fog: Selected New Jersey Poems / Selected San Francisco Poems
August Kleinzahler
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A collection of August Kleinzahler's best poems, divided - like his life - between New Jersey and San Francisco.


The Poems of Dorothy Molloy
Dorothy Molloy
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Dorothy Molloy was a star in the making when Faber prepared her debut Hare Soup (2004) for publication, before tragedy struck, and she died four days before advance copies arrived.


Words & Pictures: Writers, Artists and a Peculiarly British Tradition
Jenny Uglow
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It looks at how artists have responded to two great, contrasting works, Paradise Lost and Pilgrim's Progress; A brief coda turns to a fourth relationship: writers and artists who collaborate from the start, like Dickens and Phiz, and Lewis Carroll and Tenniel.

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