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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 19 books in this booklist
£9.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780241996478 | ISBN 10: 0241996473
'A joyful examination of two artists from different centuries and the unlikely parallels in their life and work' Guardian 'An ardent fan letter from Hornby that makes you want to reread Great Expectations whilst listening to Sign o'the Times ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781472130129 | ISBN 10: 147213012x
Historian, revolutionary and cricket writer, CLR James was one of the truly radical voices of the twentieth century. Born in Trinidad in the final days of the Victorian era, he debated with Trotsky, played cricket with Constantine, was published by L ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529176902 | ISBN 10: 1529176905
WINNER OF THE 2023 LOCUS AWARD FOR NON-FICTION WINNER OF THE BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION 'Always readable, illuminating and honest. It made me miss the real Terry.' - Neil Gaiman 'Sometimes joyful ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780571331208 | ISBN 10: 0571331203
The extraordinary true story of the Stasi’s poetry club: Stasiland and The Lives of Others crossed with Dead Poets Society.  Berlin, 1982. Morale is at rock bottom in East Germany as the spectre of an all-out nuclear war looms. The Ministry ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781908745842 | ISBN 10: 1908745843
Out of the thousands of letters Tove Jansson wrote a cache remains that she addressed to her family, her dearest confidantes, and her lovers, male and female. Into these she spilled her innermost thoughts, defended her ideals and revealed her heart. ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781781255292 | ISBN 10: 1781255296
Mary Shelley was brought up by her father in a house filled with radical thinkers, poets, philosophers and writers of the day. Aged sixteen, she eloped with Percy Bysshe Shelley, embarking on a relationship that was lived on the move across Britain a ... more
View book details£11.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784161040 | ISBN 10: 1784161047
"A sweet, filthy peach of a memoir from a cultural explosion of a man."(Caitlin Moran) Born in the mid-twentieth century and raised in the heart of conservative North Carolina, Armistead Maupin lost his virginity to another man “on the very spot ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780008168889 | ISBN 10: 0008168881
The remarkable story of Helen Forrester, author of Twopence to Cross the Mersey, and how she turned tragedy to triumph. When Helen Forrester’s father went bankrupt in the 1930’s, she and her six siblings fell from a comfortable middle-clas ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408851692 | ISBN 10: 1408851695
Philip Larkin was that rare thing among poets: a household name in his own lifetime. Lines such as 'Never such innocence again' and 'Sexual intercourse began / In nineteen sixty-three' made him one of the most popular poets of the last century. &nbs ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408859629 | ISBN 10: 1408859629
In this delightful collection forty acclaimed writers explain what first made them interested in literature, what inspired them to read and what makes them continue to do so. First published in 1992 in hardback only, original contributors include Mar ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781909983236 | ISBN 10: 1909983233
he first full biography of Lily Tobias (1887-1984) a Jewish writer from Wales: a courageous, idealistic woman who wrote compellingly about Jewish life and experience in the 20th century. Daughter of Polish immigrant parents, Lily Tobias grew ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408833896 | ISBN 10: 1408833891
Amid the rubble of a city blasted by a civil war that many fear will cross borders and engulf Europe, the Hotel Florida on Madrid's chic Gran Via has become a haven for foreign journalists and writers. It is here that six people meet and find their l ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781780333854 | ISBN 10: 1780333854
A moving memoir from Mervyn Peake's daughter. Clare Peake, daughter of the celebrated writer and artist Mervyn Peake, tells the story of her parents' romance and her own happy and bohemian childhood. Mervyn Peake was born in Ch ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780571239108 | ISBN 10: 0571239102
Philip Larkin met Monica Jones at University College, Leicester, in Autumn 1946, when they were both twenty-four; he was the newly appointed assistant librarian and she was an English lecturer. In 1950 Larkin moved to Belfast, and thence to Hull, whi ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781846684968 | ISBN 10: 184668496x
OxTravels is a collection of travel writing, which will act as a focus for the Oxfam Bookfest in 2011 donated by world class travel writers. You have to go back to the 1980s and Granta's bestselling travel issue to find a book that com ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781848851481 | ISBN 10: 1848851480
Gertrude Stein and Alice Babette Toklas met on Sunday 8 September 1907, in Paris. From that day on they were together, until Gertrude's death on Saturday 27 July 1946. This title presents story of their remarkable life together, of the path ... more
View book details£11.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781595584236 | ISBN 10: 1595584234
Millions of Studs Terkel fans have come to know the prizewinning oral historian through his landmark books — The Good War, Hard Times, Working, Will the Circle Be Unbroken?, and many others. Few people realize, however, that much of Studs’s best work ... more
View book details£11.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781844082544 | ISBN 10: 1844082547
One block of a Tel Aviv street is the starting point for this highly acclaimed writer's exploration of the inner dynamics of Israelis - not the government and its policies, but the people themselves, in all their variety. Iraqi shopkeepers, teenage s ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780192804556 | ISBN 10: 0192804553
"When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous insect..." (Franz Kafka) So begins Franz Kafka's most famous story Metamorphosis (1883-1924) - which is among the most intriguing an ... more
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