Language and Literature

Writers' & Artists' Yearbook 2018 [9781472935052]

This bestselling guide to all areas of publishing and the media is completely revised and updated every year. The Yearbook is packed with advice, insp…

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Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience [9781782119289]

Letters of Note is a collection of over one hundred of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and unusual letters, based on the seismically popular …

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We Should All be Feminists [9780008115272]

A personal and powerful essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of 'Americanah' and 'Half of a Yellow Sun', based on her 2013 TEDx…

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Children's Writers' & Artists' Yearbook 2020 [9781472947635]

The indispensable guide to writing for children and young adults, this Yearbook provides inspirational articles from successful writers and illustrato…

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Speeches of Note [9781786331090]

Speeches of Note is a celebration of oratory old and new. From Shaun Usher, the author of the international bestseller, LETTERS OF NOTE, comes an ob…

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Reasons to Stay Alive [9781782116820]

THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO FEEL TRULY ALIVE? Aged 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on living…

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Hadrian's Wall [9781784974725]

Located at the far-flung and wild edge of the Roman Empire, Hadrian's Wall was constructed by Emperor Hadrian in the 120s AD. Vast in size and stretch…

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The Golden Atlas: The Greatest Explorations, Quests and Discoveries on Maps [9781471166822]

The Golden Atlas is a spectacular visual history of exploration and cartography, a treasure chest of adventures from the chronicles of global discover…

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Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions [9780008241032]

From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today - written as a letter to…

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Poetry Notebook: 2006-2014 [9781447269120]

Clive James is one of our finest critics and best-loved cultural voices. He is also a prize-winning poet. Since he was first enthralled by the mysteri…

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Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense [9780571269549]

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE Edward Lear's poems follow and break the rules. They abide by the logic of syntax, the linking of rhyme and t…

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David Jones: Engraver, Soldier, Painter, Poet [9780224044608]

As read on BBC Radio 4. As a poet, visual artist and essayist, David Jones is one of the great Modernists. The variety of his gifts reminds us of Blak…

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Have You Eaten Grandma? [9780241352632]

A brilliantly funny lament on the misuse of English grammar and a guide on how to avoid the troublingly common language pitfalls, from the self-procla…

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The Accidental Memoir [9780008302030]

The Accidental Memoir truly is for all: writers and non-writers, teachers and students, the perfect book for anyone seeking inspiration or imaginative…

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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper [9780857524485]

** WINNER of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2019 ** 'The victimes of Jack the Ripper were never "just prostitutes"; they were daughters, w…

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Make, Think, Imagine: Engineering and the Future of Civilisation [9781526605719]

Today's unprecedented pace of change leaves many people wondering what new technologies are doing to our lives. Has social media robbed us of our pri…

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The Good Immigrant [9781783523955]

How does it feel to be constantly regarded as a potential threat, strip-searched at every airport? Or be told that, as an actress, the part you're mos…

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The Road to Wigan Pier [9780141185293]

'True genius ... all his anger and frustration found their first proper means of expression in Wigan Pier' - Peter Ackroyd, The Times A sear…

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This Is Shakespeare [9780241392157]

A genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no others. A writer who surpassed his contemporaries in vision, origina…

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The Written World: How Literature Shaped History [9781783783137]

From clay tablets to the printing press. From the pencil to the internet. From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter. This is the true story of litera…

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