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By: Bill McKibben
ISBN: 9780063333994
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
UK Publication Date: 5th December 2024
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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By: Elias Canetti
ISBN: 9781804270899
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2024
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
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The Book Against Deathis the work of a lifetime: a collection of Canetti's aphorisms, diatribes, musings and commentaries on and against death published in English for the first time since his death in 1994 interposed with material from philosophers and writers including Goethe, Kafka, Walter Benjamin and Robert Walser.
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By: Fiona Farrell
ISBN: 9781869405762
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2011
Publisher: Auckland University Press
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Consists of four essays about life and walking, bookended by a preamble and an afterword, and interrupted by 21 poems about the Christchurch earthquakes and their aftermath. The poems jolt into the essays like aftershocks, like cracks in the text; they make you pause and reconsider.
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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: 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.
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By: Leslie Fiedler
ISBN: 9781593762667
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2009
Publisher: Counterpoint
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By: Iain Dale
ISBN: 9781399721615
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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A timely collection of 64 essays about dictators through the ages by acclaimed historians, politicians, journalists and academics, edited by Iain Dale.
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By: Spike Milligan
ISBN: 9780007155118
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2004
UK Publication Date: 2nd June 2003
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A Spike Milligan opus, containing everything from classics to hidden gems, with a foreword by Eddie Izzard.
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By: C. j. Dennis
ISBN: 9781460756003
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Jonathan Franzen
ISBN: 9780007518241
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2013
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A great American writers confrontation with a great European critic a personal and intellectual awakening.
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By: Natalia Ginzburg
ISBN: 9781911547143
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
UK Publication Date: 19th April 2018
Publisher: Daunt Books
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'I really love and admire The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg... She writes beautiful, short essays about very simple things: shoes, food, children, writing itself. Her sentences have great precision and clarity, and I learn a lot when I read her.' - Zadie Smith
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By: Ovid
ISBN: 9780140422306
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2002
UK Publication Date: 28th March 2002
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In "The Metamorphoses", Ovid draws on Greek mythology, Latin folklore, and tales from Babylon and the East to create a series of narrative poems, linked by the common theme of transformation. This is Arthur Golding's 16th-century translation of the verses.
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By: Amy Tan
ISBN: 9780007170401
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2004
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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An unbearably moving, intensely passionate, deeply personal account of life as seen through the eyes of one of Americas best-loved novelists.
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By: Jacqueline Rose
ISBN: 9781804270486
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 7th June 2023
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
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A collection of essays imagining a world in which a radical respect for death might exist alongside a fairer distribution of the earth's wealth, by one of our leading thinkers.
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By: Kristin Ross
ISBN: 9781839768316
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
Publisher: Verso Books
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Using the concept of the everyday as a lever for social transformation
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By: Lavinia Greenlaw
ISBN: 9780571355631
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2024
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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From the renowned poet, novelist and memoirist, and ingenious constellation of writings on light, image, seeing . . . and the unseen.
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By: Lavinia Greenlaw
ISBN: 9780571355648
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
UK Publication Date: 7th November 2024
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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From the renowned poet, novelist and memoirist, an ingenious constellation of writings on light, image, seeing . . . and the unseen.
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By: Neil Gaiman
ISBN: 9781472208026
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
UK Publication Date: 11th April 2017
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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A collection of speeches, articles, essays and introductions from Sunday Times bestselling author, commentator and craftsman Neil Gaiman.
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By: Peter Cornell
ISBN: 9781804271063
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
UK Publication Date: 21st November 2024
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
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A cult book at the intersection of fiction and essay, onthe connections between art, literature, spirituality and the occult through history.
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By: Wendell Berry
ISBN: 9780141984131
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Deborah Levy
ISBN: 9780241983089
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Kate Briggs
ISBN: 9781910695456
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2017
UK Publication Date: 20th September 2017
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
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Both an ode to Barthes and to translation, This Little Art offers a unique insight into the 'lived-out, unabstracted practice' of translation.
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By: Jeremy Eichler
ISBN: 9780571370542
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 12th September 2024
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize, a stirring account of how music acts as a witness to history and a medium of cultural memory in the post-Holocaust world.
