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The Voice That Thunders
ISBN: 9781846554728
Format:Paperback
Publisher: Harvill Press
Category: Biography & autobiography
£9.99

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The Voice That Thunders
by Alan Garner

'His is a consummate artist's vision that matches landscape and people and story; his is an artist's ear able to hear preliterate song as well as local speech and adolescent slang. With great skill he has wielded these into tales uniquely blending r...

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Lost For Words
ISBN: 9780552162760
Format:Paperback
Publisher: Corgi
Category: Biography: general
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Lost For Words
by Deric Longden

Deric Longden's mum was a wonderfully endearing, eccentric lady whose passions ranged from pot plants and her beloved pussycats to Buttercup Syrup which she consumed in vast quantities. She also provided comfort, advice and her own particular brand o...

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Germs: A Memoir Of Childhood
ISBN: 9780552776905
Format:Paperback
Publisher: Black Swan
Category: Biography & autobiography
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Germs: A Memoir Of Childhood
by Richard Wollheim

The son of affluent parents – a distant, dandified impresario father he revered; a beautiful, mindless ‘Gaiety Girl’ mother he came to regret loathing – Richard Wollheim grew up in the English suburbia of the 1920s and 1930s. Germs is his acco...

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Hope Against Hope
ISBN: 9781846554100
Format:Paperback
Publisher: Harvill Press
Category: Biography & autobiography
£15

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Hope Against Hope
by Nadezhda Mandelstam

The story of the poet Osip Mandelstam, who suffered continuous persecution under Stalin, but whose wife constantly supported both him and his writings until he died in 1938. Since 1917 The Modern Library prides itself as The modern Library of the wor...

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Georges Perec: A Life in Words
ISBN: 9781846554209
Format:Paperback
Publisher: Harvill Press
Category: Biography & autobiography
£20

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Georges Perec: A Life in Words
by David Bellos

“It’s hard to see how anyone is ever going to better this User’s Manual to the life of Georges Perec” – Gilbert Adair, Sunday TimesWinner of the Prix Goncourt for Biography, 1994George Perec (1936-82) was one of the most signif...

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In A Rare Time Of Rain
ISBN: 9780701185626
Format:Trade Paperback
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Category: Literature: history & criticism
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In A Rare Time Of Rain
by Milner Place

Described in the Telegraph as 'Huddersfield's Melville', Milner Place has spent much of his life sailing the seven seas as a skipper of a trading boat, while also writing beautifully crafted poetry. His two pamphlet collections. The CONFUSION OF ANGE...

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The Double Flame: Essays on Love & Eroticism
ISBN: 9781846554360
Format:Paperback
Publisher: Harvill Press
Category: Literary studies: general
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The Double Flame: Essays on Love & Eroticism
by Octavio Paz

A discourse on the connection between sex, eroticism and love in literature by the Nobel Prize-winning poet and essayist....

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George Sand
ISBN: 9780099552055
Format:Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Category: Biography & autobiography
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George Sand
by Belinda Jack

The love affair between Maurice Bendix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. After a chance meeting rekindles his love and jealousy two years later, Bendix hir...

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From The Neanderthal
ISBN: 9780224090889
Format:Paperback
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Category: Poetry & poets
£10

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From The Neanderthal
by Adam Thorpe

The poems in Adam Thorpe's latest collection are concerned with the continuum between two worlds: the lived present and the felt past. With the attentive care of an archaeologist he uncovers and examines fragments - from a personal history or the his...

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A Fan's Notes
ISBN: 9780224083096
Format:Paperback
Publisher: Yellow Jersey
Category: Literature: history & criticism
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A Fan's Notes
by Frederick Exley with a foreword by Nick Hornby

A Fan's Notes - the horrible and hilarious account of a long failure. Our narrator is the ultimate unreconstructed male. His primary concerns are booze, sex and the New York Giants. But things go very wrong for him - he drinks too much, he's i...

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