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Carol Atherton
Reading Lessons

An English teacher's love letter to reading and the many ways literature can make us, and our lives, better. How can a Victorian poem help teenagers understand YouTube misogyny? Can Jane Eyre encourage us…

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Nicholas Boggs
Baldwin: A Love Story

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERDrawing on new archival material, original research, and interviews, this spellbinding book is the first major biography of James Baldwin in three decades, revealing ho…

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Christopher Booker
The Seven Basic Plots

This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of 'basic stories' in the world.Using a wealth of examples, from …

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Eli Burnstein
Dictionary of Fine Distinctions

'A joy to read' David Crystal | 'Gulp it down' Lucy Mangan | 'A gem' Simon GarfieldSwamp or bog? Guilt or shame? Clementine or tangerine?We like to think that we choose our words with care, but are we usi…

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Ron Chernow
Mark Twain

The complex and fascinating life of Mark Twain, as told by a Pulitzer prizewinning biographer Born in 1835, the man who would become America's first, and most influential, literary celebrity spent his ch…

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Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Look Closer

'The best book about reading I have read for a very long time' STEPHEN FRY'A glittering gem of a book' NATALIE HAYNESA joyful and enlightening masterclass in how reading attentively can change our livesAs…

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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tales of the Jazz Age

Oxford World's Classics

'I tender these tales of the Jazz Age into the hands of those who read as they run and run as they read.' Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) was Fitzgerald's second collection of short stories, and it contains …

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Edwin Frank
Stranger Than Fiction

AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 'A masterclass in masterpieces' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Epic, personal, smart, wise, witty' JOSHUA COHEN 'Sizzles with passion' TOM McCARTHYFor more than two decades, Edwin Fr…

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Edwin Frank
Stranger Than Fiction

AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 'A masterclass in masterpieces' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Epic, personal, smart, wise, witty' JOSHUA COHEN 'Sizzles with passion' TOM McCARTHYFor more than two decades, Edwin Fr…

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Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Survival is a Promise

A Guardian and Lit Hub most anticipated book of 2024Read these chapters like a collection of poems that speak in chorus in all directions. Understand each word as an opportunity for Audre's fierce love, w…

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Kathryn Harkup
V is for Venom

Fourteen novels. Fourteen more poisons. Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's all made-up ...Agatha Christie revelled in the use of poison to kill off unfortunate victims in her books; indeed, she e…

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Diane Long Hoeveler, Deborah Denenholz Morse
A Companion to the Brontës

Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture

A Companion to the Brontës brings the latest literary research and theory to bear on the life, work, and legacy of the Brontë family. * Includes sections on literary and critical contexts, individual text…

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Joseph Hone
The Book Forger

'Absolutely fascinating . . . A must-read for anyone enthralled by the value and integrity of books' Janice Hallett, author of The Alperton Angels'Hugely entertaining . . . a propulsive if unlikely thrill…

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Nicholas Jubber
Monsterland

Monsters, in all their terrifying glory, have preoccupied humans since we began telling stories. But where did these stories come from? In Monsterland, award-winning author Nicholas Jubber goes on a journ…

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Nicholas Jubber
Monsterland

Monsters, in all their terrifying glory, have preoccupied humans since we began telling stories. But where did these stories come from?In Monsterland, award-winning author Nicholas Jubber goes on a journe…

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Ilana Kaplan
Nora Ephron at the Movies

The first illustrated monograph on writer, journalist, and director Nora Ephron, the visionary behind When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, andYou've Got Mail. "A visual celebration of the writ…

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Helena Kelly
The Worlds of Jane Austen

The Worlds of Jane Austen invites readers to see one of Britain's most beloved authors in a completely new light. Far from the quiet world of country houses and tea parties, Austen lived through revolutio…

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Robin Lane Fox
Homer and His Iliad

A thrilling study of the greatest of all epic poems, by one of the world's leading classicistsHomer's Iliad is the famous epic poem set among the tales of Troy. Its subject is the anger of the hero Achill…

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Sam Leith
The Haunted Wood

*A Sunday Times , Irish Times , Financial Times , Independent, Daily Mail , TLS, Economist, Prospect, Evening Standard and New Statesman Book of the Year 2024*Can you remember the first time you fell in l…

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Donna Leon
Backstage

'To read her is to restore the soul.' THE TIMES 'No one is more graceful and accomplished than Leon.' WASHINGTON POST 'Leon writes with great literary panache and evocative power about the world's most be…

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