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  • Red Comet: Life And Art Sylvia Plath (Paperback)

    Heather Clark
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    Drawing on a wealth of new material, Heather Clark brings to life the great and tragic poet, Sylvia Plath. Refusing to read Plath's work as if her ...

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    The Skipper's Daughter (Paperback)

    Nancy Richards
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    Nancy Brooks was sixteen when she went to sea with her father. Despite a gypsy fortune-teller’s warning to her mother, on 2 July 1938, she signed u...

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  • Jonathan Ball: A Tribute (Paperback)

    Michele Magwood
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    An edited collection of over 40 essays in tribute to Jonathan Ball, the founder of Jonathan Ball Publishers. It includes contributions from Andrew ...

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  • A fountain in France

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    More than a decade ago Marita van der Vyver emigrated to France where she married a Frenchman and settled in the scenic countryside of Provence. Ha...

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  • Agatha Christie's Complete Secret Notebooks: Stories and Secrets of Murder in the Making

    Wordsworth Books
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    Agatha Christie's Complete Secret Notebooks brings together for the first time Secret Notebooks and Murder in the Making, two volumes that explore ...

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  • At close of day: Reflections

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  • Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer's Awakening (Paperback)

    Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
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    `Exquisite in its honesty and truth and resilience, and a necessary chronicle from one of the greatest writers of our time.' - Chimamanda Ngozi Adi...

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  • Black Boy

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    Richard Wright's memoir of his childhood as a young black boy in the American south of the 1920s and 30s is a stark depiction of African-American l...

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  • Confessions of a Bookseller: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

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    A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Irreverently funny ... kept me giggling all week.' Scotland on Sunday "Do you have a list of your books, or do I just ...

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  • Confessions

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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    'No one can write a man's life except himself.' In his Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau tells the story of his life, from the formative experien...

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  • Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

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    Explosive and unforgiving, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater describes in searing detail the pleasure, pain and mind-expanding powers of opium....

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  • Consequences of Love HB

    Wordsworth Books
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    THE TIMES BEST BOOKS OF 2020THE GUARDIAN BEST AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIRS 2020_______Can you ever rediscover the forgotten memories of someone you lo...

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  • CRYING BOOK BPB

    Heather Christle
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    'A deeply felt, and genuinely touching, book' Esme Weijun Wang, author of The Collected Schizophrenias'Spellbinding and propulsive' Leni Zeumas, au...

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  • Devotion (Paperback)

    Patti Smith
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    "Devotion is short enough to devour at one enjoyable sitting and thought-provoking enough to deserve re-reading."-Suzi Feay, Financial Times "Devo...

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  • 9781485308034

    Die keer toe ek my naam vergeet het

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  • Everyday Madness: On Grief, Anger, Loss and Love

    Lisa Appignanesi
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    'You will find all of life in this' Deborah Levy After the death of her partner of thirty-two years, Lisa Appign...

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  • Gather Together In My Name

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    The sequel to I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' Barack ObamaMaya Angelou's volumes ...

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  • Gospel of The Eels (Hardcover)

    Patrik Svensson
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    Shortlisted for the Richard Jefferies Society and White Horse Book Shop Literary Prize'This is one of those special books . . . Even if it were onl...

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  • In the House of the Interpreter (Hardcover)

    Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
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    Ngugi wa Thiong'o is a writer who has lived through extraordinary times. "In the House of the Interpreter" tells the story of his schooldays in Ken...

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  • Island Home: A Landscape Memoir

    Tim Winton
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    'I grew up on the world's largest island.'From his childhood, Tim Winton's relationship with the landscape around him - Australia's swamps and bush...

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  • Letters To Sartre

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    In 1983 de Beauvoir published Sartre's letters, maintaining that her own to him had been lost. They were found by de Beauvoir's adopted daughter, a...

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  • Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man

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    If he is to become a man, what sort of man should Thomas Page McBee be?To find out, McBee must confront the suffering he has endured at the hands o...

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    Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

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    Natasha Trethewey was born in Mississippi in the 60s to a black mother and a white father. When she was six, Natasha's parents divorced, and she an...

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  • MEMORIAL DRIVE PB

    TRETHEWEY, NATASHA
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    ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2020 AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK A...

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