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By: Douglas Coupland
ISBN: 9780099510895
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
UK Publication Date: 5th October 2017
Publisher: Cornerstone
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In Bit Rot, Douglas Coupland explores the different ways in which twentieth-century notions of the future are being shredded, and creates a gem of the digital age. you can't stop with just one.
Bit rot is a term used in digital archiving to describe the way digital files can spontaneously and quickly decompose.
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By: Tsitsi Dangarembga
ISBN: 9780571373192
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 18th August 2022
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A short, staggering collection of essays from 'one of the most remarkable people the Booker Prize has ever celebrated' (New Statesman).
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By: Henry Rollins
ISBN: 9780753510353
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2007
UK Publication Date: 24th March 2005
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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'If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light, If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls.
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By: Steve Reiss
ISBN: 9781368076630
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2022
Publisher: Hyperion
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ESPN's website, The Undefeated (now Andscape), publishes content that explores how race and identity impact American culture. This will be a collection of the best articles published on the site. Timely and relevant, BlackTold will cover current events such as the BLM movement, the Covid-19 pandemic, race and the NFL, and more.
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By: Nicole Chung
ISBN: 9781646221318
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
UK Publication Date: 2nd August 2022
Publisher: Catapult
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By: Mark Williams
ISBN: 9781098383671
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
Publisher: BookBaby
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By: Darryl Pinckney
ISBN: 9781529413748
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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A collection of essays that blend the personal and the social, from the celebrated literary critic and novelist
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By: Ernest Hemingway
ISBN: 9780099586593
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2013
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2013
Publisher: Cornerstone
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By: W. G. Sebald
ISBN: 9780141017860
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2006
UK Publication Date: 23rd February 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A collection of essays by W G Sebald, which provide insight into the themes that came to dominate his life. It also includes four pieces that pay tribute to Corsica, weaving elegiacally between past and present.
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By: Geoffrey Chaucer
ISBN: 9781857150742
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1992
UK Publication Date: 4th June 1992
Publisher: Everyman
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These tales bring together a band of pilgrims who represented most of the occupations and social groups of the time. The diversity of the narrators in turn made possible a varied collection of tales including chivalric romance, spiritual allegory, courtly lay, beast fable and literary satire.
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By: Umberto Eco
ISBN: 9781784705206
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2018
UK Publication Date: 15th November 2018
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: Hanif Kureishi
ISBN: 9780571362455
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
UK Publication Date: 19th August 2021
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A new paperback edition of Hanif Kureishi's wide-ranging and thought-provoking essays.
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By: Paul Kingsnorth
ISBN: 9780571329694
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
UK Publication Date: 16th March 2017
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The award-winning essayist examines the impact of humans on the Earth and considers how we might live in this changing world.
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By: George Saunders
ISBN: 9781408899403
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
UK Publication Date: 2nd November 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Sinad Gleeson
ISBN: 9781509892778
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
UK Publication Date: 2nd April 2020
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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An extraordinarily intimate memoir in a series of bodily encounters that have made Sinad Gleeson the woman and the writer she is today.
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By: Herta Mller
ISBN: 9781846274756
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2013
Publisher: Granta Books
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The finest essays of Nobel Prize Winner Herta Muller, selected from twenty years of her fearless, intelligent, unsettling truth-telling on life lived in opposition, loneliness, fear, betrayal and uncertainty.
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By: Lynne Sharon Schwartz
ISBN: 9781609807917
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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An illuminating anthology about translating and translators from Lynne Sharon Schwartz.An illuminating anthology about translating and translators from Lynne Sharon Schwartz.
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By: Margaret Atwood
ISBN: 9781844081509
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2006
UK Publication Date: 4th May 2006
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Collected essays and journalism from the bestselling author of The Blind Assassin and Oryx and Crake. First publication.
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By: John Osborne
ISBN: 9780571200573
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A selection of the playwright's work.
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By: Marcel Proust
ISBN: 9780141036731
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2008
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Features essays about why we read. This work explores the pleasures and trials that we take from books, as well as explaining the beauty of Ruskin and his work, and the joys of losing yourself in literature as a child.
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By: Oscar Wilde
ISBN: 9780679783213
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2000
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Portrays the lives of Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas through a letter written by Wilde, professing his love for Douglas and his disappointment of his own deteriorating life in prison.
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By: Yiyun Li
ISBN: 9780241978665
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
UK Publication Date: 23rd February 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: George Orwell
ISBN: 9780141191263
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2009
UK Publication Date: 27th August 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In these timeless and witty essays George Orwell explores the English love of reading about a good murder in the papers (and laments the passing of the heyday of the 'perfect' murder involving class, sex and poisoning), as well as unfolding his trenchant views on everything from boys' weeklies to naughty seaside postcards.
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By: J. B. Priestley
ISBN: 9780008585709
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
UK Publication Date: 13th April 2023
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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An exquisitely-written, generous, funny, thoughtful book about the everyday joys of being alive. I love it. Dolly Alderton
J. B. Priestley is one of our literary icons of the 20th Century and it is time that we all became re-acquainted with his genius. Dame Judi Dench
