Literature & Literary Studies

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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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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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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Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion [9780008294953]

The Times Literary Non-Fiction Book of the YearFrom one of the brightest young chroniclers of US culture comes this dazzling collection of essays on t…

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The Glamour Boys: The Secret Story of the Rebels who Fought for Britain to Defeat Hitler [9781526601711]

A story of unsung bravery at a defining moment in Britain's history We like to think we know the story of how Britain went to war with Germany in 193…

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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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Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency [9781529027648]

In this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in…

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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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Intimations: Six Essays [9780241492383]

Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on the experience of lockdown, by one of the most clear-sighted and essenti…

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Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town [9781526600011]

A captivating, lyrical and deeply discerning portrait of life in the Cornish town of Newlyn, the largest working fishing port in Britain, from a brill…

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A Little History of Poetry [9780300232226]

A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature What is poe…

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Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes [9781526614391]

A linen sheet, smooth with age. A box of buttons, mother-of-pearl and plastic, metal and glass, rattling and untethered. A hundred-year-old pin, forgo…

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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…

Very Stable Genius, A: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America [9781526609076]

Rucker and Leonnig have deep and unmatched sources throughout Washington DC, and for the past three years have chronicled in depth the ways President …

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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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How Do We Know We're Doing It Right: & Other Essays on Modern Life [9781786332073]

How do we know what our best life looks like? And what if we get it wrong? 'Pandora is my personal guru on all things relating to the zeitgeist. How…

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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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The Genius of Jane Austen: Her Love of Theatre and Why She is a Hit in Hollywood [9780008225650]

'This is the best book on Jane Austen I have ever read' - Paul Johnson, Spectator Jane Austen loved the theatre. She learned much of her art from…

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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…