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By: Derek Attridge

ISBN: 9781862079120
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2007
Publisher: Granta Books
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Adding to 15 other titles currently available in the How to Read series


(Paperback)

By: John Phillips

ISBN: 9781862077270
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2005
Publisher: Granta Books
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How to Read is a personal master-class in reading, bringing you face to face with the work of some of the most influential and challenging writers in history.


(Paperback)

By: Annie Ernaux

ISBN: 9781583220528
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
UK Publication Date: 7th November 2000
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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Translation of: Je ne suis pas sortie de ma nuit.


(Hardback)

By: Thomas E. Cronin

ISBN: 9781538105719
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In the first comprehensive reading of dozens of American literary and social culture classics, Tom Cronin, one of Americas most astute students of the American political tradition, tells the story of the American political experiment through the eyes of forty major novelists, from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Hunter S. Thompson.


(Paperback)

By: Declan Kiberd

ISBN: 9780099582212
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1997
UK Publication Date: 7th November 1996
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Kiberd - one of Ireland's leading critics and a central figure in the FIELD DAY group with Brian Friel, Seamus Deane and the actor Stephen Rea - argues that the Irish Literary Revival of the 1890-1922 period embodied a spirit and a revolutionary, generous vision of Irishness that is still relevant to post-colonial Ireland.


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By: Hilary Spurling

ISBN: 9780099484363
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2005
UK Publication Date: 5th May 2005
Publisher: Cornerstone
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This guide to Anthony Powell's 12-volume sequence of novels, 'A Dance to the Music Time' contains extensive character, book, painting and place indices, creating a database of Powell's imagination and England's cultural landscape. It details over 400 characters and one million words of Powell's lively 50-year dance of fiction and fact.


(Paperback)

By: David Streitfeld

ISBN: 9781612195896
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2017
UK Publication Date: 10th November 2016
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
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(Hardback)

By: Rebecca Romney

ISBN: 9781785124105
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 20th February 2025
Publisher: Bonnier Books Ltd
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Who were the women writers that inspired Jane Austen Why have they all but disappeared from our bookshelves Rare books dealer Rebecca Romney sheds a light on Austen's inspirations and contemporaries in this page-turning literary adventure.


(Hardback)

By: John Muir

ISBN: 9781883011246
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 1997
Publisher: The Library of America
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By: Elias Canetti

ISBN: 9780141195636
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2012
UK Publication Date: 26th January 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Offers insights into the creativity of Franz Kafka and the torment he suffered as a man, a lover, and a writer. This book explores the letter that Kafka wrote to his fiancee, from their first tender moments together to his final letter and his refusal to reconcile.


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By: Virginia Woolf

ISBN: 9781784872717
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
UK Publication Date: 8th June 2017
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Why should one half be free to live, while the other is doomed to watch silently from the sidelines In this collection, the author leads us on a transformative journey through the liberating powers of the mind.


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By: Lee Stringer

ISBN: 9781609800741
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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Vonnegut and Stinger talk about the place where the lives they lead meet the art they practice.


(Paperback, Main)

By: Nickolas Butler

ISBN: 9780571351107
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A Wisconsin family grapples with the power and limitations of faith when one of their own falls under the influence of a radical church.


(Paperback, Main)

By: Nickolas Butler

ISBN: 9780571351114
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
UK Publication Date: 2nd January 2020
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A Wisconsin family grapples with the power and limitations of faith when one of their own falls under the influence of a radical church.


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By: Jonathan Noakes

ISBN: 9780099437574
Readership/Audience: Adult Education
Publication Date: Oct 2002
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A guide to the works of Louis de Bernieres. It deals with de Bernieres' themes, genre and narrative technique, and includes a close reading of the texts that are accompanied with likely exam questions, and contexts and comparisons.


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By: Nicolas Barreau

ISBN: 9780349423487
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2021
UK Publication Date: 9th February 2021
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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LOVE LETTERS FROM MONTMARTRE is an ode to love, Paris and empathy from international bestselling author Nicolas Barreau


(Paperback)

By: Nicolas Barreau

ISBN: 9780349423463
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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LOVE LETTERS FROM MONTMARTRE is an ode to love, Paris and empathy from international bestselling author Nicolas Barreau


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By: Angela Bourke

ISBN: 9780712697552
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2005
UK Publication Date: 4th August 2005
Publisher: Vintage
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Born in Dublin in 1917 to politically active parents, Maeve Brennan's childhood in Ireland was moulded by the cultural ideologies of nationalism and lit by the creative energy of the Abbey and Gate theatres.


(Hardback)

By: P. March-Russell

ISBN: 9780230273481
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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A socio-cultural analysis of the relationship between modernism and science fiction, from the 1870s to the 1970s, with examples drawn from literature and other media in Britain, Europe and the Americas. The book challenges how high and low culture has been mapped in the twentieth century.


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By: Lorna Sage

ISBN: 9781841156361
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2002
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Lorna Sage looks at the ways in which pre-war women writers, some famous, some less well known, invented themselves as authors in the face of the rigid conceptions of feminine creativity which prevailed at the time.


(Paperback, New edition)

By: Jean Cocteau

ISBN: 9780720612585
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2008
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
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For almost 50 years (until his death in 1963) Jean Cocteau held a unique place in French cultural life. The breadth of his artistic success bears witness to the variety of his talents. In these fields - theatre, cinema, art, ballet and literature - Cocteau made many life-long friends. Portraits of these friends and intimates make up this volume.


(Paperback, Main - Re-issue)

By: Hanif Kureishi

ISBN: 9780571224043
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2005
UK Publication Date: 19th August 2021
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Following the discovery of an unfinished manuscript written by his father, Kureishi looks back on his own development as a writer in the light of his father s unrealised literary ambitions


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By: Isabel Allende

ISBN: 9780007163106
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2004
UK Publication Date: 1st April 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The life story of Isabel Allende one of the world's favourite writers is as exotic, passionate and inspiring as one of her novels.


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By: Kingsley Amis

ISBN: 9780141198620
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
UK Publication Date: 7th June 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A collection of essays that introduces readers to the wonders and value of science fiction writing.

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