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  • A Memoir of My Former Self

    A Life in Writing

    by Hilary Mantel ...
    'A guide to the mind of one of the great English novelists of the last half-century' Guardian'Like hearing the voice of an old friend' Observer'Extraordinary . . . a quality of timelessness and prescience' New Statesman, Book of the Year'Magical . . . Here we meet not just Mantel the Cromwell-catcher, but Mantel the quill-sharp critic of contemporary life' The Times, Book of the Year</e... ... Read more

    £14.99 £0.99

  • Have I Told You This Already?

    Stories I Don't Want to Forget to Remember - the New York Times bestseller from the Gilmore Girls star

    by Lauren Graham ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER from the beloved star of Gilmore Girls'Insightful, honest, funny, and moving' BUZZFEED'Candid, genuine and as per usual hilarious ... A treat' GLAMOUR'Graham is fast and furiously funny' E! ONLINELauren Graham has graced countless television screens with her quick-witted characters and hilarious talk sh... ... Read more

    £3.99 £0.99

  • Paradise Lost

    by John Milton ...
    Following both the adventures of Satan and the lives of Adam and Eve, this telling of key biblical stories is split into multiple books to form an epic poem. Beginning with Satan's promise to corrupt God's Earth, Milton tells the tale of how Satan entered the Garden of Eden and filled Adam and Eve's angelic existence with sin. Written in blank verse, this seventeenth-century English poem ... Read more

    £0.99

  • Ridge Hill

    Book Three in the beautifully heartwarming Gibson Family Saga

    by Anna Jacobs ...
    Series Book 3 - Gibson Saga
    **The third book in the stunning Gibson Family series**, perfect for fans of 'Call the Midwife', Dilly Court and Catherine Cookson********Lancashire, 1848. Preparations are under way for Annie Gibson's wedding to Bilsden's wealthy mill owner, Frederick Hallam. But not everyone is as pleased as they are.Frederick's daughter is horrified at the prospect of a new, attractive stepmother arriving at ... Read more

    £3.99

  • Managing Expectations

    AS RECOMMENDED ON BBC RADIO 4. ‘Vital, heartfelt and surprising' Graham Norton

    by Minnie Driver ...
    'A beautiful book: funny, honest, revealing, heartfelt and moving' - Adam Kay, bestselling author of This is Going to Hurt''Vital, heartfelt and surprising, these tales from a life are told with humour, style and intelligence.' - Graham Norton'A wonderful memoir by a glorious writer: funny, poignant, profound. I gobbled it up in one joyous sitting.' - Elizabeth Day'An absolute jewel of a book. ... Read more

    £4.99

  • James Joyce: The Complete Works

    Dubliners, Ulysses, Chamber Music, Exiles, Finnegans Wake... (Bauer Books)

    Series Book 25 - All Time Best Writers
    This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!'James Joyce: Complete Works' contains:Chamber Music (1907)Dubliners (1914)A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)Exiles (1918)Ulysses (1922)Pomes Penyeach (1927)Finnegans Wake (1939)PoemsCritical WritingsOther WritingsLe... ... Read more

    £0.49 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kid Gloves

    A Voyage Round My Father

    NEW STATESMAN, TELEGRAPH, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT AND GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015When his widowed father - once a high court judge and always a formidable figure - drifted into vagueness if not dementia, the writer Adam Mars-Jones took responsibility for his care. Intimately trapped in the London flat where the family had always lived, the two men entered an oblique new stage in their ... Read more

    £3.99

  • Animals Strike Curious Poses

    Beginning with Yuka, a 39,000-year-old mummified woolly mammoth recently found in the Siberian permafrost, each of the sixteen essays in Animals Strike Curious Poses investigates a different famous animal named and immortalised by humans. Here are the starling that inspired Mozart with its song, Darwin’s tortoise Harriet, and in an extraordinary essay, Jumbo the elephant (and how they tried to ... Read more

    £5.99 £3.99

  • The Most of Nora Ephron

    The ultimate anthology

    by Nora Ephron ...
    A NEW, REVISED EDITION OF THE ULTIMATE NORA EPHRON COLLECTION, PACKED WITH WIT, WISDOM AND COMFORT, WITH AN INTRODUCTION FROM CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS'The perfect introduction to the iconic writer' STYLISTINCLUDING:* Nora's much-loved essays on everything from friendship to feminism to journalism* Extracts from her bestselling novel Heartburn* Scenes from her hilarious screenplay for When Harry Me.. ... Read more

    £6.99

  • Bluets

    AS SEEN ON BBC2’S BETWEEN THE COVERS

    by Maggie Nelson ...
    **AS SEEN ON BBC2's BETWEEN THE COVERS**A Guardian Book of the YearMaggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation - Olivia LaingBluets winds its way through depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting along the way with famous blue figures, including Joni Mitchell, Billie Holiday, Yves Kl... ... Read more

    £6.99 £0.99

  • Troy

    Our Greatest Story Retold

    by Stephen Fry ...
    Series Book 3 - Stephen Fry’s Greek Myths
    AN EPIC BATTLE THAT LASTED TEN YEARS. A LEGENDARY STORY THAT HAS SURVIVED THOUSANDS.'An inimitable retelling of the siege of Troy . . . Fry's narrative, artfully humorous and rich in detail, breathes life and contemporary relevance into these ancient tales' OBSERVER'Stephen Fry has done it again. Well written and super storytelling' 5***** READER REVIEW________'Troy. The most marvellous k... ... Read more

    £4.99

  • The Anthropocene Reviewed

    The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller

    by John Green ...
    A deeply moving and mind-expanding collection of personal essays in the first ever work of non-fiction from #1 internationally bestselling author John GreenThe Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his ground-breaking, critically acclaimed podcast, ... Read more

    £9.99 £5.99

  • Gratitude

    by Oliver Sacks ...
    Oliver Sacks died in August 2015 at his home in Greenwich Village, surrounded by his close friends and family. He was 82. He spent his final days doing what he loved: playing the piano, swimming, enjoying smoked salmon – and writing . . .As Dr Sacks looked back over his long, adventurous life his final thoughts were of gratitude. In a series of remarkable, beautifully written and uplifting ... Read more

    £6.99

  • The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

    by Audre Lorde ...
    Series series Penguin Modern
    From the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on the power of women, poetry and anger are filled with darkness and light.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from ... Read more

    £0.99

  • The Bell Jar

    by Sylvia Plath ...
    The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under—maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep ... Read more

    £0.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Same Life Twice

    by Frank Kuppner ...
    Comic, cosmic: for Kuppner the terms are inseparable. In the three plaited sections of The Same Life Twice, Frank Kuppner asks the essential, answerless questions about human existence: What are we doing here? Is it really here? And why here? Fortunately,' he writes, 'it is nearly always possible to take notes, even if these habitually contradict each other.' Here are Kuppner's fieldnotes from ... Read more

    £5.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Waste Land

    by T. S. Eliot ...
    The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line[B] poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of Eliot's The Criterion and in the United States in the November issue of The Dial. It was published in book form in December 1922. Among its famous ... Read more

    £0.76 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 失樂園

    Paradise Lost

    Series series 不朽Classic
    來自挑戰君權與教權的狂飆年代,一部偽裝成聖經故事的政治教育經典!密爾頓筆下的《失樂園》,藏著撒旦的誘惑,更深藏權力的媚藥……墮落天使路西法化身成蛇,誘惑人類亞當的另一半夏娃摘食智慧禁果;亞當與夏娃同擔罪恥,而被逐出天庭樂園。這份原罪將世世代代承襲,神與人的關係覆水難收,人能依靠的不再是順服,而是自由意志。★逢甲大學外文系邱源貴教授傾力譯注★不朽史詩經典《失樂園》全新中譯本全詩十二卷,附精彩導論及評介,鉅細靡遺地隨文注釋細數典故,輔以歷代文人名家見解,全面剖析《失樂園》故事及其歷史意義,並深入點評其中蘊藏的政治教育與教育政治,以另類觀點解讀撒旦形象與行徑。★誕生於君權神授時代,失樂園墮落故事成為勵志詩文★骨子裡是反壓迫體治的標竿,述說著奴役與自由間的拉扯《... ... Read more

    £10.99

  • Run With The Hunted

    A Charles Bukowski Reader

    The best of Bukowski's novels, stories, and poems, this collection reads like an autobiography, relating the extraordinary story of his life and offering a sometimes harrowing, invariably exhilarating reading experience. A must for this counterculture idol's legion of fans. ... Read more

    £4.99

  • Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained (Collins Classics)

    by John Milton ...
    Series series Collins Classics
    HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘Greedily she engorged without restraint,And knew not eating death;’Milton’s Paradise Lost is a poem of epic proportions that tells of Satan’s attempts to mislead Eve into disobeying God in the Garden of Eden, by eating from the tree of knowledge. His interpretation of the biblical story of Genesis is vivid and ... Read more

    £1.49

  • The Examined Life

    How We Lose and Find Ourselves

    by Stephen Grosz ...
    **SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLER**This book is about learning to live.Echoing Socrates' statement that the unexamined life not worth living, psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz draws on his twenty-five years of work and more than 50,000 hours of conversations to form a collection of beautifully rendered tales that illuminate the human experience.These are stories about everyday lives: from a woman who finds ... Read more

    £4.99 £3.99

  • The Book of Taliesin

    Poems of Warfare and Praise in an Enchanted Britain

    The great work of Welsh literature, translated in full for the first time in over 100 years by two of its country's foremost poetsTennyson portrayed him, and wrote at least one poem under his name. Robert Graves was fascinated by what he saw as his work's connection to a lost world of deeply buried folkloric memory. He is a shapeshifter; a seer; a chronicler of battles fought, by sword and with ... Read more

    £9.99

  • Verse and Worse

    by Robin Salter ...
    This book of poetry will appeal to those who can see life from a different perspective; for example, the author’s poem on Trousers, reflecting a different view of these everyday garments. His writing is both innovative and sometimes intense whilst also being humorous, such as Knickers and Bras and It’s the Dog that gets the Blame. His writing can also be political and controversial like his poem ... Read more

    £3.50

  • Wild

    Tales from Early Medieval Britain

    by Amy Jeffs ...
    By the bestselling author of Storyland.Sheer cliffs, salt spray, explosive sea spume, thunderous clouds, icy waves, whales with mountains on their backs, sleet, bitter winds, bleak, impenetrable marshes, howling wolves, forests, the unceasing cries of birds and the death grip of subterranean vaults that have never seen the sun: these are wild landscapes of a world almost familiar.In Wild, Amy ... Read more

    £7.49