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Through the tide of hormones surging within my body, and the little runnels of blood, and the sour tang of my breasts, I lay awake, listening, and thinking of breath and of water. I had broken my relationship with sleep.

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'What can literature and music do for each other' In This man and music, novelist and composer Anthony Burgess explores the topic, touching on composition, poetry, prose, and his own personal experiences. -- .

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Designed to give students a working knowledge of the Greek language in order to examine the ancient texts with confidence and enjoyment. The text includes some of the more familiar of the myths, some of the exciting parts of the Odyssey, and a number of extracts from other Greek authors from the earliest down to the New Testament.

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Danyl McLauchlan wanted to get closer to the hidden truth of things. But it was starting to look like the truth of things was that nothing was real, everything was suffering, and he didn't really exist. In these essays Danyl explores ideas and paths that he hopes will make him freer and happier - or at least, less trapped, medicated and depressed.

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A Times book of the year A Guardian book of the year MagnificentThe Times Dazzling New Statesman It filled me with hope Zadie Smith

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Trim was a much-loved cat who accompanied Matthew Flinders on several of his voyages. Trim was to sail on four ships with Flinders, travelling from the Cape of Good Hope to Botany Bay, to England and back to Sydney Town. Flinders wrote Trim's story whilst being held by the French in Mauritius.

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This edition brings together the essays, stories and diary entries of True Stories, The Feel of Steel and Everywhere I Look as well as later work.

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Brings together the author's important critical writing from 1972 to 1980. This title explores some of the most controversial artists and thinkers of our time, including her polemic against Hitler's favourite film-maker, Leni Riefenstahl, and the cult of fascist art, as well as an analysis of Hans-Jurgen Syberberg's "Hitler, a Film from Germany".

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Offers systematic help with Latin-English translation, not just a collection of passages.

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One of the most influential books in early American literature.

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Disdainful of America's booming commercialism and industrialism, Henry David Thoreau left Concord, Massachusetts, in 1845 to live in solitude in the woods near Walden Pond. Walden, the account of his stay, conveys at once a naturalist's wonder at the commonplace and a Transcendentalist's yearning for spiritual truth and self-reliance.

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One of the most influential and compelling books in American literature, Walden is a vivid account of the years that Henry D. Thoreau spent alone in a secluded cabin at Walden Pond. This edition--introduced by noted American writer John Updike--celebrates the perennial importance of a classic work, originally published in 1854. Much of Walden's mat

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A personal and powerful essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun.

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New essays by the Orange and Pulitzer Prize winning author of Gilead, Home and Lila. In this collection, Marilynne Robinson, one of today's most important thinkers - admired by President Obama, and so many others - impels us to action and offers us hope.

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During the decades of his world fame, Tolstoy wrote this series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice and religion. He considered and rejected the idea that art reveals and reinvents through beauty, although he perceived the question of art to be a religious one.

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Relive the delusional fever-dream of the modern era with Britain's favourite columnist.

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You will devour these beautifully written and very important tales of honesty, pain, and resilience (Elizabeth Gilbert, bestselling author of Eat Pray Love)

Fifteen brilliant writers explore how what we dont talk about with our mothers affects us, for better or for worse.

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Bri Lee, best-selling and award-winning author of Eggshell Skull, asks Who gets to be smart in this forensic and hard-hitting exploration of knowledge, power and privilege.

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Powerful, incisive, inspiring, a fourth essay collection from the bestselling author of the iconic Men Explain Things To Me.