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  • DEAD & ALIVE
    SMITH, ZADIE
    An illuminating new essay collection from one of the most distinctive, exciting and acclaimed writers of her generation, Zadie SmithZadie Smith is a wonderful essayist. She is a natural. She writes as she thinks, and she thinks crisply and exactly Tessa Hadley, GuardianIn this keenly awaited new collection, Zadie Smith brings her unique skills as an essayist to bear on a range ...
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  • THE BOOK OF ALCHEMY
    JAOUAD, SULEIKA
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER‘A stellar collection of prompts and invitations that will enrich any journal' KATHERINE MAY‘This book is not only beautiful, but exceedingly helpful. I recommend it to every dreamer' ELIZABETH GILBERT'Galvanising and comforting. An instant classic' EMMA GANNONA guide to the healing power of journalling and a meditation on the central questions of life,...
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  • RAVE: VINTAGE MINIS
    WELSH, IRVINR
    Irvine Welsh, 'poet laureate of the chemical generation', exposes the seamy underbelly of rave's utopian dream. Lloyd, our permanently pilled-up protagonist, pushes his weekends to breaking point and beyond in this frazzled trip through Scottish clubland. He experiences the vertiginous uppers and downers of the Second Summer of Love, dabbles in a spot of disc jockeying and clos...
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  • JOURNEYS
    ZWEIG, STEFAN
    When I am on a journey, all ties suddenly fall away. I feel myself quite unburdened, disconnected, free - There is something in it marvellously uplifting and invigorating. Whole past epochs suddenly return: nothing is lost, everything still full of inception, enticement.For the insatiably curious and ardent Europhile Stefan Zweig, travel was both a necessary cultural education ...
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  • NOVELIST AS A VOCATION
    MURAKAMI, HARUKI
    Discover the craftsman's secrets of one of the world's most successful writersHaruki Murakami's myriad fans will be delighted by this unique look into the mind of a master storyteller. In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author and famously reclusive writer shares with readers what he thinks about being a novelist; his thoughts on the role of the novel in ou...
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  • THE PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS BOOK
    ELIOT, HENRY
    The essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the worldFor six decades the Penguin Modern Classics series has been an era-defining, ever-evolving series of books, encompassing works by modernist pioneers, avant-garde iconoclasts, radical visionaries and timeless storytellers. This reader's companion showcases every title published in the series so far, with more th...
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  • MOTHERS, FATHERS, AND OTHERS : NEW ESSAYS
    HUSTVEDT, SIRI
    'Dizzyingly flexible, deeply human, often funny, it blasts aside our preconceptions and urges us to see the world as it is' iFeminist philosophy meets family memoir in Siri Hustvedt's most personal essay collection yet, a scintillating and profound exploration of motherhood, the maternal and misogyny. Ranging across artistic mothers such as Jane Austen and Louise Bourgeois, psy...
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  • ON WOMEN : A NEW COLLECTION OF FEMINIST ESSAYS FROM THE INFLUENTIAL WRITER, ACTIVIST AND CRITIC
    SONTAG, SUSAN
    On Women brings together Susan Sontag's most fearless and incisive writing on women, a crucial aspect of her work that has not until now received the attention it deserves. For the most part written in the 1970s during the height of second-wave feminism, Sontag's essays are strikingly relevant to our contemporary conversations. At times powerfully in sync and at others powerful...
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  • 100 BOOKS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD
    CHRISTIANSON, SCOTT
    A thought-provoking chronological journey through the world's most influential books. Many books have become classics, must-reads or overnight publishing sensations, but how many can genuinely claim to have changed the way we see and think?In 100 Books that Changed the World, authors Scott Christianson and Colin Salter bring together an exceptional collection of truly groundbre...
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  • THE MESSAGE
    COATES, TA-NEHISI
    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe renowned author returns with a timely book about his journeys to three sites of conflict - Dakar, South Carolina, and Palestine - exploring how the stories we tell, and the ones we don’t, shape our realities. ‘An earnest and intimate exploration of locations of extreme injustice’ Oprah Daily***Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set out to write a book ...
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  • THE LAND OF SWEET FOREVER
    LEE, HARPER
    'Someone rare ... a writer with the liveliest sense of life and the warmest, most authentic humour' TRUMAN CAPOTE'A writer with something significant to say' NEW YORK TIMES'A rare literary phenomenon' VOGUE'[She changed] the way we saw each other, and then the way we saw ourselves' PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMAFrom the beloved bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a posthumous...
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  • THE PROSE FACTORY
    TAYLOR, D.J.
    What do we mean when we talk about `taste'?'Taste' takes countless forms. There is the exclusive taste of highbrow critics such as T.S. Eliot and F.R. Leavis. There is the taste of ordinary book lovers persuaded to buy the best-sellers of the day. And there is the taste of Virginia Woolf's elusive `common reader'. A taste that in the days of the Victorian reading public was fou...
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  • THE EDINBURGH INTRODUCTION TO STUDYING ENGLISH LITERATURE
    This is a new edition of this established guide for students studying literature for the first time. This up-to-the minute foundational guide introduces the full range of literary forms, styles, theories and critical strategies which new students need to cover. By careful use of examples it demonstrates exactly how strategies for reading texts can be put to work and all texts d...
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  • FATHERHOOD: VINTAGE MINIS
    KNAUSGAARD, KARL OVE
    Karl Ove Knausgaard explores the day to day realities of fatherhood in the ultimate literary gift for dads. How to be a good father? Children's birthday parties, unsuccessful family holidays, humiliating antenatal music classes: the trials of parenthood are all found in Knausgaard's compelling and honest account of family life. Contrasting moments of enormous love and tendernes...
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  • MOTHERHOOD: VINTAGE MINIS
    SIMPSON, HELEN
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  • BURNING QUESTIONS
    ATWOOD, MARGARET
    From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays -- funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient -- which seek answers to Burning Questions such as: Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories?How can we live on our planet?What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism?In Burning Questions Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and...
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  • BROWSE: LOVE LETTERS TO BOOKSHOPS AROUND THE WORLD
    ALI SMITH , YIYUN LI , PANKAJ MISHRA , ALAA AL ASWANY , MICHAEL DIRDA , IAIN SINCLAIR , IAN SANSOM , DANIEL KEHLMANN , ANDREY KURKOV , DORTHE NORS
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  • SHAPE OF A POCKET
    BERGER, JOHN
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  • MORE ALIVE AND LESS LONELY: ON BOOKS AND WRITERS
    LETHEM, JONATHAN
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  • ENF OF THE END OF THE EARTH
    FRANZEN, JONATHAN
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  • WOMEN WHO DARED: TO BREAK ALL THE RULES
    SCOTT, JEREMY
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  • THE SOURCE OF SELF-REGARD
    MORRISON,TONI
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  • ART : VINTAGE MINIS
    SCHAMA, SIMON
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  • SCIENCE : VINTAGE MINIS
    MCEWAN, IAN
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  • FINNEGANS WAKE
    YORK TINDALL, WILLIAM
    For years, William York Tindall's Guide has been one of the valuable ways to approach the difficult writing and complex language of Joyce's ""Finnegans Wake"". Over a period of 40 years, Tindall studied, instructed and, most importantly, learned from graduate students about Joyce's greatest literary masterpiece. He explores and analyses Joyce's unexpected depths and vast collec...
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  • INDEPENDENCE: VINTAGE MINIS
    BRONTE, CHARLOTTE
    'To myself alone could I look'Jane Eyre and Lucy Snowe are heroines who depend upon no one but themselves. In the face of hardship, from small sacrifices to great heartache, they cling resolutely to their principles of self-reliance. Lucy's energy and enterprise take her to Belgium and a career in teaching, whilst Jane's honest, intelligent mind draws declarations of love. Both...
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  • SLOUCHING TOWARDS BETHLEHEM
    DIDION, JOAN
    Joan Didion's savage masterpiece, which, since first publication in 1968, has been acknowledged as an unparalleled report on the state of America during the upheaval of the Sixties Revolution.We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we wereIn her non...
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  • INTIMATIONS
    SMITH, ZADIE
    One of Time Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 and an FT Best Book of the Year.Thought-provoking and deeply consoling, a perfectly distilled set of essays on the strangest year many of us have experienced, from one of our wisest and most humane thinkers.Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on the experience of lockdown, by one of the mo...
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  • MEN EXPLAIN THINGS TO ME : AND OTHER ESSAYS
    SOLNIT, REBECCA
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  • NOTES ON GRIEF
    CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE
    A devastating essay on loss and the people we love from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun. 'Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger.You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much grief is about language, the failure of language and the grasping for language' ...
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