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By: Sigrid Rausing
ISBN: 9781905881871
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2015
Publisher: Granta Magazine
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Published in book form four times a year, Granta is respected around the world for its mix of outstanding new fiction, poetry, reportage, memoir, photography and art.
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By: Sigrid Rausing
ISBN: 9781905881895
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2015
Publisher: Granta Magazine
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Here are fifteen takes on the human drive to possess - a person, a home, a territory - and the many ways we become possessed - by ideas, by desires, by spirits.
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By: Ian Jack
ISBN: 9780903141710
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2004
Publisher: Granta Books
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A celebration of Granta's first quarter century with new writing from the writers who made its reputation, including Martin Amis, Paul Auster, William Boyd, Amit Chaudhul, Richard Ford, James Hamilton-Paterson, Jan Morris, Blake Morrison, Jayne Anne Phillips, Paul Theroux and Edmund White.
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By: Ian Jack
ISBN: 9780903141888
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2006
Publisher: Granta Books
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It can be hard to love the people we should love; sometimes objects of affection are easier
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By: Jonathan Swift
ISBN: 9780333634387
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 1995
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Gulliver's Travels remains one of the most popular and widely-studied of literary classics. This edition reprints an authoritative text together with five newly-commissioned essays designed to introduce the text to students from a variety of contemporary critical perspectives.
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By: Ernest Hemingway
ISBN: 9780099583189
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2014
UK Publication Date: 6th February 2014
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Offers an unparalleled portrayal of the physical and psychological impact of war and its aftermath. This title represents the author's penetrating chronicles of perseverance and defeat, courage and fear, and love and loss in the midst of modern warfare.
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By: Ovid
ISBN: 9780140423556
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2004
UK Publication Date: 26th April 1990
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In the twenty-one poems of the "Heroides", Ovid gave voice to the heroines and heroes of epic and myth. These deeply moving literary epistles reveal the happiness and torment of love, as the writers tell of their pain at separation, forgiveness of infidelity or anger at betrayal.
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By: John Updike
ISBN: 9780241962268
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Presents a collection of essays, poems and short stories. This book includes a collection of the author's best gossip.
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By: Herodotus
ISBN: 9781857152340
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 1997
UK Publication Date: 20th March 1997
Publisher: Everyman
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Traditionally known as the Father of History, the Greek writer Herodotus(c. His subject is the war between the Persians and the Greeks but, in order to explain how this war came about, he also describes the rise of the Persian empire and analyses the causes of its conflict with neighbouring states.
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By: Ngugi wa Thiong'o
ISBN: 9781035906024
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
UK Publication Date: 14th March 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Paolo Giordano
ISBN: 9781474619288
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2020
UK Publication Date: 16th April 2020
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A rallying cry for a new form of global solidarity in the wake of the Covid-19 epidemic. Written from the Italian lockdown.
'Reinforced my sense of hope in humanity' Philippe Sands, bestselling author of EAST WEST STREET
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By: Barbara Hoffbeck Scoblic
ISBN: 9798896360223
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
Publisher: She Writes Press
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By: Jonathan Franzen
ISBN: 9780007153589
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2004
UK Publication Date: 2nd July 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Passionate, independent-minded nonfiction from the international bestselling author of The Corrections.
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By: Umberto Eco
ISBN: 9780099428633
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2001
UK Publication Date: 16th April 2001
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Tackling topics as diverse as the coffee pot from hell, eating on an aeroplane, how not to use a cellular phone and recognising porn movies, Umberto Eco guides us with all his customary wit and brilliance through the complexities of the modern world.
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By: Baltasar Gracin
ISBN: 9780141398273
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2015
UK Publication Date: 26th February 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Shows us how to exploit friends and enemies alike to thrive in a world of deception and illusion.
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By: Elias Canetti
ISBN: 9780374298425
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
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"A new collection of the writings of Elias Canetti"--
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By: Diana Evans
ISBN: 9781784744243
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
UK Publication Date: 6th February 2025
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: Youngmi Mayer
ISBN: 9780316569231
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
UK Publication Date: 12th December 2024
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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From standup comedian Youngmi Mayer comes a gripping and unforgettable memoir interrogating whiteness, gender, and sexuality in America, navigating a tumultuous childhood in Korea and Saipan, and coming to terms with her parents' shortcomings, for fans of Hua Hsu, Rebecca Solnit, and Lindy West.
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By: Hermann Hesse
ISBN: 9781786894458
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2019
UK Publication Date: 1st November 2018
Publisher: Canongate Books
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A collection of essays on the absurdity of war, from the Nobel Prize laureate.
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By: Salman Rushdie
ISBN: 9780099542254
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2010
UK Publication Date: 4th February 2010
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Drawing from two political and several literary homelands, this collection presents a remarkable series of trenchant essays, demonstrating the full range and force of Salman Rushdie's remarkable imaginative and observational powers.
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By: Wendell Berry
ISBN: 9781582437064
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2011
Publisher: Counterpoint
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By: Amitav Ghosh
ISBN: 9781847081940
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2012
UK Publication Date: 5th January 2012
Publisher: Granta Books
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From the bestselling author of The Glass Palace and Sea of Poppies, an extrarodinary work of non-fiction that combines ancient history with a modern day travelogue.
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By: John Troyer
ISBN: 9780847687664
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1997
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Jenny Diski
ISBN: 9781408879948
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
UK Publication Date: 9th March 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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