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By: Stefan Zweig
ISBN: 9781782272298
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
Publisher: Pushkin Press
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A collection of essays and speeches by Stefan Zweig from the 1930s and 1940s on the theme of the need for European unity - of great relevance today.
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By: Michael Parkinson
ISBN: 9780340825082
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2003
UK Publication Date: 9th June 2003
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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Michael Parkinson on Cricket represents the best and most humorous of the author's journalism on his favourite sport.
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By: Norman Mailer
ISBN: 9780141394985
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2014
UK Publication Date: 5th June 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Focuses on Marilyn Monroe, culture, ideology, boxing, Hemingway, politics, sex, celebrity.
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By: Marshall Berman
ISBN: 9781784784980
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: Verso Books
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Essays tracing the intellectual life of a quintessential New York City writer and thinker
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By: Craig Raine
ISBN: 9781848872875
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2013
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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A crash course in twentieth century artistic endeavour - nothing short of a master class in high culture from one of the most discerning minds in contemporary British letters.
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By: Toni Morrison
ISBN: 9781529110883
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2020
UK Publication Date: 13th February 2020
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: Thessaly La Force
ISBN: 9780316200905
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2012
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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A star-studded line-up of writers, artists, designers, musicians, and chefs discuss their favorite books, with irresistible paintings by artist Jane Mount.
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By: Mikhail Shishkin
ISBN: 9781529427783
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
UK Publication Date: 30th March 2023
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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A passionate, eye-opening account of a state entangled in a complex and bloody past, as well as a love letter to a conflicted country.
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By: George Steiner
ISBN: 9780753825693
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2009
UK Publication Date: 8th January 2009
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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George Steiner, the eminent professor of English at Cambridge and Geneva universities, has outlined seven books he has never written, but has always wanted to write, in seven sections.
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By: Flannery O'Connor
ISBN: 9780571309597
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2014
UK Publication Date: 1st May 2014
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The classic collection of essays from one of America's greatest modern writers.
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By: Matsuo Basho
ISBN: 9781570627163
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2000
Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc
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This is a single-volume collection of writings by Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), including a travel diary and over 250 haiku, an art form he raised to a level of simplicity and spiritual beauty. The book includes an introduction to Basho's life and work and an essay on the art of haiku.
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By: Elizabeth Crowens
ISBN: 9781950384136
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
Publisher: BookBaby
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By: Gregor Hens
ISBN: 9781910695074
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2016
UK Publication Date: 4th November 2015
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
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Nicotine is part-memoir, part-cultural history, written just after its author Gregor Hens has overcome the withdrawal symptoms from quitting smoking.
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By: Charles Dickens
ISBN: 9780141047508
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2010
UK Publication Date: 26th August 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Charles Dickens describes his time as an insomniac, when he decided to cure himself by walking through London in the small hours, and discovered homelessness, drunkenness, and vice on the streets. This collection of essays shows him as one of the greatest visionaries of the city in all its variety and cruelty.
(Hardback)
By: Lauren Oyler
ISBN: 9780349016511
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
UK Publication Date: 7th March 2024
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A brilliant and addictive collection of brand-new essays on modern culture - from the author of the acclaimed novel Fake Accounts and one of America's sharpest and most provocative literary critics
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By: Norman Mailer
ISBN: 9781598535594
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
Publisher: The Library of America
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Politics, war, sex, boxing, and the art of writing: an era s most controversial writer at his slashing and provocative best.
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By: The Editors of O
ISBN: 9781509832552
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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A collection of thought-provoking stories and essays on the wisdom to be gleaned from asking (and answering) life's biggest questions.
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By: Brian Dillon
ISBN: 9781934105795
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2011
Publisher: Sternberg Press
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The prolific art critic and writer Brian Dillon is back with his fifth book in as many
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By: Jean Giono
ISBN: 9781939810564
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
UK Publication Date: 30th April 2020
Publisher: Archipelago Books
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A glimpse into life in collaborationist France during the Second World War.
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By: Alasdair Gray
ISBN: 9781786895202
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
UK Publication Date: 7th February 2019
Publisher: Canongate Books
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The essential essay collection by one of Britain's most fascinating and acclaimed writers and artists, Alasdair Gray.
(Paperback)
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 29th September 2022
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth. Many have tried, but most have concluded that it is impossible to capture the true scope and significance of Africas most populous nation through words or images.
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By: William H. Gass
ISBN: 9781590177181
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2014
UK Publication Date: 15th May 2014
Publisher: New York Review Books
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On Being Blue is a book about everything blue-sex and sleaze and sadness, among other things-and about everything else.
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By: Norman Mailer
ISBN: 9780812979404
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2015
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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In this collection of moving, amusing, probing, and uncommon dialogues, Mailer establishes his own system of belief, one that rejects both organized religion and atheism and presents instead a view of the world as one created by an artistic God.
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By: Joseph Brodsky
ISBN: 9780241952719
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2011
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A collection of essays, that casts a reflective eye on the author's experiences of early life in Russia and exile in America. With erudition, it explores subjects as varied as the dynamic of poetry, the nature of history and the plight of the emigre writer. It also includes a disastrous trip to Brazil, advice to students, and more.
