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  • How to Feel Better: A Guide to Navigating the Ebb and Flow of Life (Paperback)

    Cathy Rentzenbrink
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    In How to Feel Better, bestselling author Cathy Rentzenbrink shares the advice that has seen her through life's ups and downs. From her etiquette f...

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  • A Stone is Most Precious Where It Belongs: A Memoir of Uyghur Loss, Exile and Hope (Trade Paperback)

    Gulchehra Hoja
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    A powerful and urgent memoir by Uyghur activist Gulchehra Hoja - a remarkable woman who went from being a beloved star on Chinese children's TV to ...

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  • Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce

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    'There is something interesting and intriguing to be found on almost every page' Guardian 'A father . . . is a necessary evil.' Stephen Dedalus in ...

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    Mrs Gaskell and Me: Two Women, Two Love Stories, Two Centuries Apart

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    Winner of the 2019 Somerset Maugham Award'A great galloping joy of a book - funny, lyrical, fast paced, heart-warming - a delicious celebration of ...

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  • Much Ado About Shakespeare: 2016

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    There s never been a period when Shakespeare was out of fashion. In his lifetime he was incredibly successful, and soon after his death his works w...

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  • Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World

    Lyndall Gordon
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    Outsiders tells the stories of five novelists - Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner, Virginia Woolf - and their famous novels...

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  • Over the Hills and Far Away: The Life of Beatrix Potter

    Matthew Dennison
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    Beatrix Potter is one of the world's bestselling, most cherished authors, whose books have enchanted generations of children for over a hundred yea...

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  • Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Soren Kierkegaard

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    Selected as a Book of the Year in The Times Literary Supplement'This lucid and riveting new biography at once rescuses Kierkegaard from the scholar...

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  • Pocket Maya Angelou Wisdom

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    Pocket Maya Angelou Wisdom is a collection of some of her best and most empowering quotes. This is the ultimate keepsake for fans of Maya Angelou's...

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  • Sol Plaatje: A life of Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje 1876-1932

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  • The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)

    Tom Wolfe
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    Tom Wolfe's genre-defining magical mystery tour through the 1960s published in Vintage Classics for the first time to mark its fiftieth anniversary...

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  • The Haunted Reader and Sylvia Plath

    Gail Crowther
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    The Haunted Reader & Sylvia Plath takes an unusual approach to Sylvia Plath studies focusing on the readers of Sylvia Plath rather than the his...

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  • The Illustrated Letters of Jane Austen (Hardcover)

    Penelope Hughes-Hallett
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    A beautifully illustrated account of the letters and correspondence of Jane Austen. It has been said that Jane Austen the woman and Jane Austen th...

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  • The Wife's Tale: A Personal History

    Wordsworth Books
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    WINNER OF THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2019 AN ECONOMISTBOOK OF THE YEAR A CBC BOOK OF THE...

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  • Two Sisters (Trade Paperback)

    Blake Morrison
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    TWO SISTERS publishes on the 30th anniversary of Blake Morrison's ground-breaking book And When Did You Last See Your Father? which forged the way ...

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  • The Hyacinth Girl: T. S. Eliot's Hidden Muse (Trade Paperback)

    Lyndall Gordon
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    The revealing of the hidden muse - Emily Hale - the Hyacinth Girl of The Waste Land poem - who influenced the life and art of T S Eliot. Over 1000 ...

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  • De Profundis

    Oscar Wilde
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    Oscar Wilde is one of the world's most beloved writers.

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  • Origins of The Wheel of Time: The Legends and Mythologies that Inspired Robert Jordan

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    With an introduction by Harriet McDougal, Origins of The Wheel of Time by Michael Livingston explores the inspirations behind the acclaimed series ...

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  • That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography Of An Innocent Man On Death Row (Paperback)

    Jarvis Jay Masters
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    OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK 2022.  The moving memoir of a Death Row inmate who discovers Buddhism and becomes an inspirational role model for fellow inm...

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  • Black And Female (Hardcover)

    Tsitsi Dangarembga
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    This paradigm shifting essay collection weaves the personal and political in an illuminating exploration of internationally acclaimed novelist Tsit...

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  • Bamboozled (Paperback)

    Melinda Ferguson
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    After a near-fatal car accident, Ferguson is shattered by PTSD. The meds she's prescribed don't work. On discovering that her hero Bill W, father o...

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  • Out of Place: An Autoethnography of Postcolonial Citizenship

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    An in-depth exploration of Nuraan Davids’ experience as a Muslim ‘coloured’ woman, traversing a post-apartheid space. It centres on and explores a ...

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    James Patterson: The Stories of My Life (Trade Paperback)

    James Patterson
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    The official autobiography of James Patterson, where he tells the story of his life and his journey to becoming a world-renowned author who continu...

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    Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker (Track Paperback)

    Alice Walker
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    For the first time, the edited journals of Alice Walker are gathered together to reflect the complex, passionate, talented and acclaimed Pulitzer P...

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