Orwell by Pierre Christin
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Category: Reference Literature
George Orwell's most celebrated work, 1984, and the prescient vision it contains of a society governed by Big Brother predates the constant monitoring of people and data we are familiar with today by almost 70 years. But his life was every bit as fascinating and forward-looking as his books. Orwell stud ...Show more
Jane Austen by Carol Shields
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Category: Reference Literature | Series: Lives Ser.
Bestselling, award-winning novelist writing about one of the most popular and enduring English novelists of all time.'Splendid ... a gem' LITERARY REVIEW'An excellent biography' MAIL ON SUNDAY'Shields on Austen offers up a delicious prospect. And we are not disappointed' SCOTSMANJane Austen was one of t ...Show more
The Secret Life of Books (PB) by Tom Mole
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Category: Reference Literature
We love books. We take them to bed with us. They weigh down our suitcases on holiday. We display them on our bookshelves, give them as gifts, write our names in them. We take them for granted. And all the time, our books are leading a double life. The Secret Life of Books is about everything that isn' ...Show more
The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time by Robert McCrum
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Category: Reference Literature
The author's choice of the 100 best nonfiction books in English spanning 400 years. Each entry has a two page critique of the book in question.
The Penguin Modern Classics Book by Henry Eliot
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Category: Reference Literature
The essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the world, and the companion volume to The Penguin Classics Book. For six decades the Penguin Modern Classics series has been an era-defining, ever-evolving series of books, encompassing works by modernist pioneers, avant-garde iconoclasts, rad ...Show more
Byron In Love by Edna O'Brien
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Category: Reference Literature
'Edna O'Brien has always had a gift for writing about affairs of the heart' Guardian 'Her boldly coloured portrait rewrites his life with all the brio and elan for which her novels are renowned' The Herald 'Hugely enjoyable' Daily Telegraph BYRON IN LOVE - the nobility, arrogance and sheer theatre of By ...Show more
Pulped Fiction - An Anthology of Microlit by Cassandra Atherton (Editor)
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Category: Reference Literature
Cri Fi, Sci Fi, Noir, Rom Com, Lit Fic, Western, Horror, Gothic, Fantasy, Fairytale... In Spineless Wonders' latest anthology of microlit, writers were invited to play with genre. Here you will find some of the well-worn tropes from literature and film reshaped and manipulated – all in less than half a ...Show more
I Saw the Dog: How Language Works by Alexandra Aikhenvald
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Category: Reference Literature
A leading expert draws on a lifetime of fieldwork to reveal the mysteries and magic of language. Every language in the world shares a few common features: we can ask a question, say something belongs to us, and tell someone what to do. But beyond that, our languages are richly and almost ...Show more
Lost in Thought - The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life by Zena Hitz
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Category: Reference Literature
An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendours of a life of learning.In an overloaded, superficial, technological world, in which almost everything and everybody is judged by its usefulness, where can we turn for escape, lasting pleasure, contemplation, or conn ...Show more
The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities by Paul Anthony Jones
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Category: Reference Literature
'Brilliant for anyone interested in the effervescent oddness of English' --Stig Abell on Word DropsThis is the perfect language gift book: a surprising or obscure word for every day of the year. Paul Anthony Jones has unearthed a wealth of wonderful and strange words: dip into this beautifully designed ...Show more
A History of Writing by Steven Roger Fischer
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Category: Reference Literature
From the earliest scratches on stone and bone to the languages of computers and the internet, A History of Writing offers an investigation into the origin and development of writing throughout the world. Illustrated with numerous examples, this book offers a global overview in a format that everyone can ...Show more
House of Fiction: From Pemberley to Brideshead, Great British Houses in Literature and Life by Phyllis Richardson
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Category: Reference Literature
From the gothic fantasies of Walpole's Otranto to post-modern takes on the country house by Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian McEwan, Phyllis Richardson guides us on a tour through buildings real and imagined to examine how authors' personal experiences helped to shape the homes that have become icons of English l ...Show more