Features articles by: Tim Parks, on the joys of commuting from Verona to Milan every day; Christopher de Bellaigue, on tracking down the Armenians in Turkey; Jeremy Treglown, following in the footsteps of V. S. Pritchett in Spain; Jeremy Seabrook, on being separated from his twin; and, Todd McEwen, on Cary Grant's trousers.

Granta has aimed to publish the best of contemporary fiction, memoir, reportage and travel. This anthology takes 21 landmark pieces from each of the magazine's 21 years bringing together classic pieces from its past.

In a collection that owes more to the spirit of Madonna than the Blessed Virgin, O'Connell takes the dusty icons down from the shelves and sets their spirits loose in the modern world.

(, Special, Anniversary)

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A new essay collection by the noted Polish poet.

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There's an activist in all of us, and you don't have to shout about it to be heard. In Small World, Big Ideas, Satish Kumar collects the voices of some of the most passionate activists fighting for a better world, and shares their insights into how we can achieve this.

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A brilliant and thrilling memoir of a dangerous and disorienting year of self-discovery in the Congo, set against the backdrop of the explosively violent 2006 elections.

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A selection of Edgar Allan Poe's best tales and poems.

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An inspirational gift book full of advice written in six-word installments, building off of Smith's popular Six-Words platform and the success of his previous Six-Word books

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Major writers through the centuries have turned their minds to the subject of books, often with humour, sometimes with exasperation, always with affection. This essential anthology for bibliophiles offers a rich selection of musings on the virtues of libraries, books and 'the pleasant smell of paper freshly pressed.'

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A selecton of key pieces from Edward Said's works, including his groundbreaking 1966 study of Joseph Conrad and the influential Orientalism, to the critically acclaimed memoir Out of Place.

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This collection of stories captures the timeless quality of the oral tradition from coastal New South Wales and the Riverina into Victoria. Endorsed by the Burraga Aboriginal History and Writing Group, the stories include creation stories and cosmological insights.

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Presents a sequence of sea novels set in the early nineteenth century, about a voyage from England to Australia.

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The author reflects on the links between the homosexual of the 1980s and his counterparts of a century ago--between gay lives today and those of Oscar Wilde, his friends, lovers, and acquaintances.

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Across the Pass includes writing from New Zealanders such as writer John Mulgan, mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary and adventurer Graeme Dingle. The pieces range from epic tales to stories of strolls, writing that pokes fun at companions or instead celebrates that strong bond often forged when facing challenges together.

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Four of the most sizzling authors of paranormal romance take readers beyond their wildest fantasies, to a seductive midnight world of erotic suspense, demons, mages, vampires, and knights.

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100 of literature's sexiest stories, selected and introduced by Mariella Frostrup and the Erotic Review.

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By turns funny, disquieting, and moving, "Fight Scenes" takes an unsparing look at juvenile disaffection and the dark side of white, working-class masculinity. In a pared-down, highly readable style, Bottoms shows how even the most accepted forms of "toughness" can be damaging.

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First published in 1686, this collection of five novellas was an immediate bestseller in the bawdy world that was Genroku Japan, and the book's popularity has increased with age, making it today a literary classic like Boccaccio's Decameron, or the works of Rabelais.

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Part love story, part thriller, part meditation on how the dead are remembered and history is presented, this novel chronicles the story of a letter written by eminent philosopher Martin Heidegger to his optometrist, who was lost in the dying thralls of Auschwitz.

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Theres no place like home for the horrordays, as this anthology of dark fantasy and paranormal romance shows, with a spellbinding look at what happens when the magic of the season is unleashed--for good and evil. Includes tales from Kim Harrison, Lynsay Sands, Marjorie M. Liu, and Vicki Pettersson. Original.