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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.
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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: 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.
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By: Tegan Bennett Daylight
ISBN: 9781760855253
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2020
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia
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By: John Koenig
ISBN: 9781501153648
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 20th January 2022
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows poetically defines emotions that we all feel but dont have the words to express, until nowfrom the creator of the popular online project of the same name.
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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.
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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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By: Michel Montaigne
ISBN: 9780140446029
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1993
UK Publication Date: 26th August 1993
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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To overcome a crisis of melancholy after the death of his father, Montaigne withdrew to his country estates and began to write. This title discusses Montaigne's themes such as fathers and children, conscience and cowardice, and coaches and cannibals.
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By: Francis Bacon
ISBN: 9780140432169
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 1985
UK Publication Date: 29th August 1985
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Discusses truth, death, revenge, adversity, envy, marriage, love, goodness, superstition, friendship, ambition, aging, beauty, gardens, and honor.
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By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
ISBN: 9780691181042
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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First published by Wordsworth Editions 1999 and 2007. First published by Princeton University Press in 2016.
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By: Helen Garner
ISBN: 9780330362894
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2008
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia
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"Although I have been married three times, I have never been a bride.
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By: James Baldwin
ISBN: 9781841594248
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
UK Publication Date: 7th November 2024
Publisher: Everyman
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By: Robert Macfarlane
ISBN: 9780241978313
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Robert Macfarlane
ISBN: 9781474624930
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
UK Publication Date: 30th September 2021
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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An anthology of essays about the joys of reading and of giving books, from some of the world's most beloved writers. Inspired by and including Robert Macfarlane's own essay, 'The Gifts of Reading', publishing to coincide with the 20th anniversary of global literacy non-profit, Room to Read
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By: Marilynne Robinson
ISBN: 9780349007335
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
UK Publication Date: 25th October 2016
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A profound essay collection from the beloved author of Gilead, Houskeeping and Lila.
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By: Simon Leys
ISBN: 9781863955850
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2012
Publisher: Black Inc.
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A new paperback edition of this essential collection of essays from an eminent critic. Simon Leys' cultural and political commentary has spanned four decades, with no corner of the arts escaping his sharp eye and acerbic wit.
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Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
UK Publication Date: 22nd June 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Rachel Kushner
ISBN: 9781529114027
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 21st April 2022
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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'I'm glad to taste something this sharp, this smart' Olivia Laing
'Wide-ranging and unsparingly intelligent throughout' Vogue
In her twenties Rachel Kushner went to Mexico in pursuit of her first love - motorbikes - to compete in the notorious and deadly race, Cabo 1000.
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By: David Day
ISBN: 9780753733806
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
UK Publication Date: 17th October 2019
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
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A visual celebration of the vast lands, epic battles, formiddable beasts, heroes, peoples and armies of Tolkien's world.
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By: Nicola Legat
ISBN: 9780994130068
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
Publisher: Massey University Press
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GREAT MINDS SHARE GREAT IDEAS AND STRONG VIEWS A better-quality national conversation Conducted by clever people who know a thing or two You're holding it in your hands.
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By: Simon Wilson
ISBN: 9780994141569
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Massey University Press
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Great minds share great ideas and strong views.
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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: Sebastian Barry
ISBN: 9780571372027
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2022
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The three acclaimed Laureate lectures from the from the bestselling, twice Costa-Book-of-the-Year-winning, author.
