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By: Brian Blanchfield
ISBN: 9781509847853
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2017
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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"Everyone ought to read Brian Blanchfield's Proxies immediately... It will change you." (Jonathan Lethem)
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By: Svetlana Alexievich
ISBN: 9781910695111
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2016
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
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In this magnificent requiem to a civilization in ruins, the winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature reinvents a singular, polyphonic literary form, bringing together the voices of dozens of witnesses to the collapse of the USSR in a formidable attempt to chart the disappearance of a culture and to surmise what new kind of man may emerge from the rubble.
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By: Kathleen Jamie
ISBN: 9781908745811
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
Publisher: Sort of Books
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A new collection of writing from the prize-winning author of Findings and Sightlines.
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By: Georg Simmel
ISBN: 9781782274483
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: Pushkin Press
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A quartet of brilliant essays, from one of Germany's greatest and most influential thinkers, that are beautifully written and highly readable portraits of three Italian cities: Rome, Venice and Florence.
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By: Richard Russo
ISBN: 9781760632632
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
UK Publication Date: 1st August 2019
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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A master of the novel, short story and memoir, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Everybody's Fool now gives us his very first collection of personal essays, thoughts on writing, reading and living.
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By: Rebecca Solnit
ISBN: 9781595341983
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2014
Publisher: Trinity University Press,U.S.
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Essays exploring politics and place, written with the lyricism of a poet and the wisdom of a modern-day sage
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By: Martha Gellhorn
ISBN: 9781862071506
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 1998
UK Publication Date: 1st April 1998
Publisher: Granta Books
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Reports from one of the Worlds greatest war correspondents
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By: Daphne Merkin
ISBN: 9781250074768
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2015
Publisher: Picador USA
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A wide-ranging collection of essays that are "brimming with insight" (The New York Times Book Review) by one of America's most perceptive critics of popular and literary culture.
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By: London Review Of Books
ISBN: 9780571358045
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The most literary gift of the year: a gorgeous collection of gems from the London Review of Books' archive, published to celebrate the paper's 40th anniversary.
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By: Veronica Chambers
ISBN: 9781250160232
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
Publisher: St Martin's Press
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A tribute to America's beloved first lady, Michelle Obama, as she leaves the White House.
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By: Ren Daumal
ISBN: 9780872862593
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2001
Publisher: City Lights Books
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By: Seamus Heaney
ISBN: 9780571175376
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2002
UK Publication Date: 7th October 2002
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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He proceeds to explore how this 'redress' manifests itself in a diverse range of poems and poets, including Christopher Marlowe's 'Hero and Leander', 'The Midnight Court' by the eighteenth-century Irish poet Brian Merriman, John Clare's vernacular writing and Oscar Wilde's 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol'.
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By: Clive James
ISBN: 9780330457392
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2010
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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The further thoughts of Clive James.
By: Ivan Klima
ISBN: 9781862071025
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2000
Publisher: Granta Books
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A collection of essays charting five critical decades in the history of Czechoslovakia, including the Nazi occupation, the Stalinist regimes of the 1950s, the celebrations of the Prague Spring, the 1968 Soviet invasion, Charter 77, and the Velvet Revolution of 1989.
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By: Meghan Daum
ISBN: 9781250074928
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2015
Publisher: Picador USA
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A master of the personal essay candidly explores love, death, and the counterfeit rituals of American life in this "brave, funny compendium" Slate.
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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: Martha Gellhorn
ISBN: 9781862071490
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 1998
UK Publication Date: 1st April 1998
Publisher: Granta Books
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Reports from one of the Worlds greatest war correspondents
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By: V.S. Naipaul
ISBN: 9780330523691
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2011
UK Publication Date: 17th June 2011
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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Concentrating mainly on India, the Americas, Africa and the Diaspora, this wonderful collection of essays is a clear-eyed and magnificent introduction to this writers extraordinary world.
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By: Hanif Kureishi
ISBN: 9780571352050
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The new and essential collection of Hanif Kureishi's finest literary essays and fiction.
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By: Robert Fulghum
ISBN: 9780312365509
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2008
Publisher: Griffin Publishing
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The bestselling author of "All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten" extolls the virtues of simple pleasures and human kindness as cures for a chaotic world. He shows readers the wonders of everyday living and appreciating the people in our lives.
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By: Ben Okri
ISBN: 9781788549639
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A collection of essays by Ben Okri, one of Britain's foremost poets, and a Booker Prize-winning novelist, that explore such diverse themes as childhood and creativity, beauty, censorship, art and politics.
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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: Oscar Wilde
ISBN: 9781840224016
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 1999
UK Publication Date: 5th July 1999
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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Contains De Profundis, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, The Soul of Man under Socialism, The Decay of Lying and The Critic as Artist.
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By: George Orwell
ISBN: 9780241315668
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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