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By: Vivian Gornick
ISBN: 9781788739771
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
UK Publication Date: 16th March 2021
Publisher: Verso Books
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One of our most vital and incisive writers on literature, feminism, and knowing one's self
(Paperback)
By: Vivian Gornick
ISBN: 9781839765094
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
Publisher: Verso Books
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One of our most vital and incisive writers on literature, feminism, and knowing one's self
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By: Jamaica Kincaid
ISBN: 9781529077049
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 8th August 2024
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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Originally featured in the New Yorkers Talk of the Town column, these are Jamaica Kincaids first impressions of snobbish, mobbish New York.
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By: Yassmin Abdel-Magied
ISBN: 9781761044595
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 3rd October 2022
Publisher: Random House Australia
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(Paperback, Main - Canons Edition)
By: Annie Dillard
ISBN: 9781782117735
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2017
UK Publication Date: 2nd February 2017
Publisher: Canongate Books
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The best writing from the Pulitzer Prize-winning nature writer, with a foreword by Geoff Dyer.
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By: Tacitus
ISBN: 9780872205581
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2004
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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A.J.Woodman's translation combines accuracy and Tacitean invention, masterfully conveying Tacitus' distinctive and powerful manner of expression, and reflecting the best of current scholarship. No other translation captures more successfully the flavor, nuance, and power of Tacitus' greatest work.
(Paperback)
By: Tacitus
ISBN: 9780140440607
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1963
UK Publication Date: 26th June 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Recounts the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus up to the death of Nero in AD 68. The author describes the reign of terror under the corrupt Tiberius, the great fire of Rome during the time of Nero, and the wars, poisonings, scandals, conspiracies and murders that were part of imperial life.
(Paperback)
By: John Green
ISBN: 9781529109894
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
UK Publication Date: 21st March 2023
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Josh Cook
ISBN: 9781771965415
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
Publisher: Biblioasis
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(Paperback)
By: Wesley Morris
ISBN: 9780063351554
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
UK Publication Date: 5th December 2024
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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(Paperback)
By: Padma Lakshmi
ISBN: 9780063370647
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
UK Publication Date: 5th December 2024
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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(Hardback)
By: Andrew Sean Greer
ISBN: 9780358724407
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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"Featuring guest editor contributions by the author of 'Less,' the latest edition of the respected literary annual collects twenty top-selected short stories from the previous year"
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By: Ross Gay
ISBN: 9781643756356
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
Publisher: Workman Publishing
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In these short lyrical essayettes-a follow-up volume to the New York Times bestselling The Book of Delights: Essays-the award-winning poet continues his celebration of the everyday delights we so often miss and inspires readers to rediscover the ordinary joys in the world around us.
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By: Ross Gay
ISBN: 9781529349771
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 8th September 2020
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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The New York Times bestselling essay collection about finding delight every day of your life, as featured recently on THIS AMERICAN LIFE.
(Paperback)
By: Baldesar Castiglione
ISBN: 9780140441925
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2001
UK Publication Date: 24th June 1976
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Defines the essential virtues for those at Court. This title includes a series of imaginary conversations between the real-life courtiers to the Duke of Urbino, in which his speakers discuss qualities of noble behaviour - chiefly discretion and gracefulness - as well as questions such as the duties of a good government and the true nature of love.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Jo Ann Beard
ISBN: 9781800817883
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
UK Publication Date: 17th August 2023
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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Jo Ann Beard, one of the most influential writers in America, illuminates the complexities of the human condition in this career-spanning collection
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By: Colson Whitehead
ISBN: 9780708898765
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
UK Publication Date: 1st February 2018
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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By the author of the international bestseller, The Underground Railroad.
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By: Virginia Woolf
ISBN: 9780008658458
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 18th January 2024
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.
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By: Aesop
ISBN: 9780140446494
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 1998
UK Publication Date: 29th January 1998
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In a series of pithy, amusing vignettes, the author creates a vivid cast of characters to demonstrate different aspects of human nature. It shows you a wily fox being outwitted by a quick-thinking cicada, a tortoise triumphing over a self-confident hare and a fable-teller named Aesop silencing those who mock the author.
(Paperback)
By: Julius Caesar
ISBN: 9780140444339
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 1983
UK Publication Date: 9th December 1982
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Between 58 and 50BC Caesar conquered most of the area now covered by France, Belgium and Switzerland, and twice invaded Britain. This title records of his campaigns.
(Paperback)
By: Oscar Wilde
ISBN: 9780241472453
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2020
UK Publication Date: 24th September 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The decay of lying and The critic as artist first published in Intentions by Methuen and Co. 1891.
(Paperback)
By: Tegan Bennett Daylight
ISBN: 9781760855253
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2020
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia
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(Paperback)
By: Leslie Jamison
ISBN: 9781847088420
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2015
UK Publication Date: 4th June 2015
Publisher: Granta Books
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A powerful yet refreshing essay collection centred around themes of confession, illness, violence and sentimentality from an exciting new American talent.
(Hardback)
By: Darrell Perkins
ISBN: 9781627311342
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2023
UK Publication Date: 12th January 2023
Publisher: Feral House,U.S.
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