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By: Edwidge Danticat
ISBN: 9781529439236
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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A collection of exceptional new essays by one of the most significant contemporary writers on the world stage.
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By: Edwidge Danticat
ISBN: 9781529439212
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
UK Publication Date: 3rd September 2024
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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A collection of exceptional new essays by one of the most significant contemporary writers on the world stage.
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By: Kurt Vonnegut
ISBN: 9780099387817
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1994
UK Publication Date: 21st July 1994
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Kurt Vonnegut, described by Graham Greene as "One of the best living American writers", is equally well known as an essayist and commentator on American society as he is a novelist. This volume brings together the best of his shorter work - essays, stories, speeches, letters, articles and autobiography.
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By: Wendell Berry
ISBN: 9781598536065
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
Publisher: The Library of America
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The first volume of the Library of America's definitive selection of Wendell Berry's nonfiction writings.
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By: Wendell Berry
ISBN: 9781598536089
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
Publisher: The Library of America
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The second volume of the Library of America's definitive selection of Wendell Berry's nonfiction writings.
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By: Bruce Chatwin
ISBN: 9780099769811
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1999
UK Publication Date: 3rd December 1998
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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In this collection of profiles, essays and travel stories, Chatwin takes us to Benin, where he is arrested as a mercenary during a coup; and to Nepal where he reminds us that 'Man's real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is a journey to be walked on foot'
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By: Hanif Kureishi
ISBN: 9780571352067
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
UK Publication Date: 3rd June 2021
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The essential collection of Hanif Kureishi's finest literary essays and fiction.
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By: Wendell Berry
ISBN: 9781598536102
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
Publisher: The Library of America
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The indispensible writings of the modern-day Thoreau.
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By: Jonathan Franzen
ISBN: 9780008434045
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
UK Publication Date: 21st January 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The climate crisis is here. Our chance to stop it has come and gone, but this doesnt have to mean the world is ending.
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By: Marina Hyde
ISBN: 9781783352593
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2022
Publisher: Guardian Faber Publishing
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'Britain's funniest writer' (Jon Ronson) makes some sense of the delusional fever-dream of recent times.
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By: Jeremy Vine
ISBN: 9781472277862
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 9th June 2022
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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Famous names and influential thinkers answer the question: What Makes Us Human
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By: Derek Walcott
ISBN: 9780571196487
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2005
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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This is the first collection of essays and critical writings by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature of 1992 and the Caribbean's greatest poet. Derek Walcott has long held a unique position in the world of Caribbean letters and - beyond that - in the literary consciousness of Great Britain, the United States and the rest of the world.
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By: Liliane Louis
ISBN: 9781563085796
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1999
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Through lively tales remembered from childhood, storyteller Liliane Nerette Louis shares with readers and listeners the warmth, fondness, and humor of her beautiful and mysterious homeland. Louis also shares a variety of tantalizing, traditional recipes.
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By: Michael Hofmann
ISBN: 9780571323661
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Twenty-five illuminating essays on art from one of the keenest critics of contemporary literature.
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By: Henry Thoreau
ISBN: 9780141023977
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2005
UK Publication Date: 25th August 2005
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Amy Tan
ISBN: 9780007585571
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
UK Publication Date: 1st November 2018
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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From New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir on her life as a writer, her childhood and the symbiotic relationship between fiction and emotional memory.
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By: Susan Sontag
ISBN: 9780141190211
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2009
UK Publication Date: 2nd July 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Includes ardent pieces on writers from the author's own private canon - Machado de Assis, Barthes, W G Sebald, Borges, Tsvetaeva and Elizabeth Hardwick. This work shares her passions for film, dance, photography, painting, opera and theatre. It explores her own commitments to the work (and activism) of conscience and to the vocation of the writer.
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By: Mark Twain
ISBN: 9780061735011
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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When Mark Twain died in 1910, he left behind the largest collection of personal papers created by any nineteenth-century American author. This title includes twenty-four remarkable pieces by the American master.
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By: Mark Twain
ISBN: 9780061735004
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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Considered to be way ahead of his time on issues of race and politics, Mark Twain remains one of literature's greatest original stars. This title features 24 essays about various elements of life and culture.
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By: douard Louis
ISBN: 9781784709907
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2020
UK Publication Date: 20th February 2020
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Who Killed My Father is the story of a tough guy the story of the little boy I never was.
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By: Dan Halpern
ISBN: 9780061782220
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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A collection of privileged information about the identities of authors. It briefs about the fictional persona behind the scenes.
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By: Jenny Diski
ISBN: 9781526621948
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
UK Publication Date: 25th November 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Amitav Ghosh
ISBN: 9781529349382
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 10th April 2025
Publisher: John Murray Press
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From one of our most brilliant thinkers, a searing collection of essays about how we tell stories and our relationship with the world around us
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By: Matthew Sturgis
ISBN: 9781529406740
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 10th November 2022
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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This riverrun edition includes the hitherto uncollected works by one of the twentieth century's most celebrated writers.
