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A discussion of ways in which we may be terrorized by experts, and of the idea of expertise itself. The author challenges the conventional idea of the "self" as something to be known, and sets out to show how self-knowledge is the problem rather than the solution.

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and Rabelais with his heirs - the great novelists.In the light of their wisdom this book examines some of the great situations of our time. the testaments, the betrayed testaments - of Europe, of art, of the art of the novel and of artists.

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An astounding self-portrait covering the whole of the great Russian composer's life (1906-1975).

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Part of the extraodinary project to bring all of classic Beckett's prose work into new editions, freshly edited and with a new introduction.

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Reverberating with risk, this collection negotiates the darkness of injury, the potency and pain of revelation, and agency as song.

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Polly Stenham's first play: a hard-hitting, intense and visceral dissection of children who become parents to their parents.

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The definitive book about Ireland during the Second World War.

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That They May Face the Rising Sun was the last novel from John McGahern, one of Ireland's greatest novelists.

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A first novel of extraordinary beauty and intensity, That We Might Never Meet Again is a celebration of the pastoral and the pagan within us all - and a journey through the shadows of the human soul

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'Britain's leading contemporary playwright.' The Times

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- he hadn't forgotten i was there - he just didn't care whether i was there or not - it would've been better him forgetting rather than not caring at all

Gerry and Iggy face the ends of their lives in a London hostel.

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From the author of the Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller The Expats, comes a riveting time-bomb of a thriller.

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Eight centuries ago was not part of France. The principality on the Mediterranean, ruled by the house of Toulouse, seemed far apart from the world of the feudal north. It was here that a heresy of eastern origin challenged the orthodoxy of Catholicism.

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Professional slackers and best friends KJ and Jasper spend their days talking music and Bukowski outside back of a coffee shop in Vermont. Seventeen-year-old Evan is eking out his summer working at cafe. When he meets two young men he is irresistibly drawn to their world of magic mushrooms, philosophical musings and great-bands that never-were.

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In this funny, fact-packed guide you'll learn who aliens are, where to find them, how to spot them and what to do if you're abducted.

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A Civil War epic from one of America's finest writers.

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The American Pilot explores the way the world sees America and the way America sees the world.

The American Pilot premiered with the RSC at The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon in April 2005.

'Greig at his best.' Evening Standard.

'One of the most intellectually stimulating dramatists around...

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An unconventional detective story about memory and reality.

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David Jones was one of the most important first generation British modernist poets.

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Poetry of how we shape what is lost or past, and how it shapes us.

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Animation is one of the hottest and most creative areas of film-making today .

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From Richard Williams' The Animator's Survival Kit comes key chapters in mini form.

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The propulsive debut novel from one of the most innovative young fiction writers today - a searing and affecting depiction of what redemption can be for a person and for a country in the wake of trauma.

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An arresting debut novel from one of the most innovative young fiction writers today.