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    Letters To Milena [1992] paperback

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    Kafka first made the acquaintance of Milena Jesenska in 1920 when she was translating his early short prose into Czech, and their relationship quickly developed into a deep attachment. Such...

    Seamus Heaney: The Letters of Seamus Heaney [2023] hardback

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    Every now and again I need to get down here, to get into the Diogenes tub, as it were, or the Colmcille beehive hut, or the Mossbawn scullery. At any...

    Brendan Behan: Bit Of A Writer A: Brendan Behan's [2023] paperback

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    Brendan Behan wrote over one hundred articles for Irish newspapers between 1951 and 1956 as he rose to international fame, with most of them written in a weekly column in...

    Slug: The Sunday Times Bestseller [2022] paperback

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    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An intoxicating mixture of poetry and prose, Slug is a taboo-busting delight' SCOTSMAN 'One of the best poets we have' MATT HAIG 'She writes with honesty, conviction,...

    Haruki Murakami: Novelist as a Vocation: The master storyteller on writing and creativity [2022] hardback

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    A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author's own novels.Haruki Murakami's myriad fans will be delighted by this unique look into the mind of a master storyteller. In...

    Jonathan Littell: Triptych: Three Studies After Francis Bacon: 128 [2013] hardback

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    Francis Bacon was one of the iconic figures of modern art, a painter who transformed the way we see and experience the human body. Mirroring Bacon's famous triptychs, Jonathan Littell's...

    Lloyd Rachel: Always Take Notes [2023] hardback

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    'Inspiring' - Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of Write It All Down'Fascinating and useful' - Joe Moran, author of First You Write A SentenceBestselling and award-winning authors share the secrets to their...

    Christopher Morash: Dublin [2023] hardback

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    The words of its writers are part of the texture of Dublin, an invisible counterpart to the bricks and pavement we see around us. Beyond the ever-present footsteps of James...

    Anne Lamott: Bird by Bird [2020] paperback

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    Bird by Bird is the bible of writing guides - a wry, honest, down-to-earth book that has never stopped selling since it was first published in the United States in...

    Annie Ernaux: The Years - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE [2022] paperback

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    Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work, The Years is a narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past...

    Everyone You Hate is Going to Die: And Other Comforting Thoughts on Family, Friends, Sex, Love, and More Things That Ruin Your Life

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    'This is the Pandora's Box of self-help books.' - Conan O'BrienOne of this generation's hottest and boldest young comedians, Daniel Sloss presents a transgressive and hilarious analysis of all of...

    Brian Dillon: Suppose a Sentence [2020] paperback

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    In Suppose a Sentence, Brian Dillon turns his attention to the oblique and complex pleasures of the sentence. A series of essays prompted by a single sentence - from Shakespeare...

    Martin Edwards: The Golden Age of Murder [2017] paperback

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    Winner of the 2016 EDGAR, AGATHA, MACAVITY and H.R.F.KEATING crime writing awards, this real-life detective story investigates how Agatha Christie and colleagues in a mysterious literary club transformed crime fiction....

    Helene Hanff: 84 Charing Cross Road [2002] paperback

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    A TRUE STORY THAT HAS TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF THOUSANDS'Unmitigated delight from cover to cover' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A real-life love story . . . A timeless period piece. Do read...

    Library the Bodleian: The Book Lovers' Anthology [2016] paperback

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    'Much reading is like much eating, wholly useless without digestion' - R. South'If I had read as much as other men, I should have been as ignorant as they' -...

    Jonathan Franzen: The Kraus Project [2014] paperback

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    A great American writer's confrontation with a great European critic - a personal and intellectual awakening. Karl Kraus: satirist. Controversialist. Forgotten voice of the early twentieth century. Jonathan Franzen: bestseller....

    Ross Gay: The Book Of Delights [2020] paperback

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    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAs Heard on NPR's This American Life'The delights he extols here (music, laughter, generosity, poetry, lots of nature) are bulwarks against casual cruelties . . ....

    Fernanda Melchor: This Is Not Miami [2023] paperback

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    Set in and around the city of Veracruz in Mexico, This Is Not Miami delivers a series of devastating stories - spiralling from real events - that bleed together reportage...

    Frank O'Connor: 'Look Back to Look Forward' [2023] hardback

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    While Frank O'Connor was known primarily as one of Ireland's finest short-story writers, he was also an accomplished translator. In the long line of Irish writers given to translating poems...

    Salman Rushdie: Languages Of Truth: Essays 2003-202 [2023] paperback

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    From 'Best of the Booker' winner Salman Rushdie, an incisive and inspiring collection of non-fiction essays, criticism and speeches that takes readers on a thrilling journey through the evolution of...

    Ulysses Unbound: A Reader's Companion to James Joyce's Ulysses [2022] paperback

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    Ulysses is one of the foundational texts of modern literature, yet has a reputation for complexity and controversy. In Ulysses Unbound, Joyce expert Terence Killeen untangles this seemingly knotty classic...

    Brian Dillon: Affinities [2023] paperback

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    What do we mean when we claim affinity with an object or picture, or say affinities exist between such things?Affinities is a critical and personal study of a sensation that...

    Annie Ernaux: A Man's Place - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE [2022] paperback

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    Annie Ernaux's father died exactly two months after she passed her exams for a teaching certificate. Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labour, Ernaux's father had grown...

    Colm Tóibín: A Guest at the Feast: Colm Toibin [2022] hardback

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    A Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it.From the...

    Christopher Hitchens: Arguably: Christopher Hitchens [2021] paperback

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    A Sunday Times BestsellerChristopher Hitchens (1949-2011) was a matchless writer, debater and humanist. Throughout his life he shone the light of reason and truth into the eyes of charlatans and...

    Thea Lenarduzzi: Dandelions [2022] paperback

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    Where, or what, is home? What has it meant, historically and personally, to be 'Italian' or 'English', or both in a culture that prefers us to choose? What does it...

    Fitzcarraldo Editions: Essayism [2017] paperback

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    Imagine a type of writing so hard to define its very name means a trial, effort or attempt. An ancient form with an eye on the future, a genre poised...

    Stephen King: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft: Twentieth Anniversary Edition with Contributions from Joe Hill and Owen King [2012] paperback

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    Twentieth Anniversary Edition with Contributions from Joe Hill and Owen King Immensely helpful and illuminating to any aspiring writer, this special edition of Stephen King's critically lauded, million-copy bestseller shares...

    George Saunders: A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: W2 [2022] paperback

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    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERPICKED BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT, IRISH TIMES, SPECTATOR, TLS, NEW STATESMAN, MAIL ON SUNDAY, I PAPER, PROSPECT, REVEW31 AND EVENING STANDARD AS A BOOK...

    George Saunders: Congratulations, by the way [2017] paperback

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    'Here's something I know to be true, although it's a little corny, and I don't quite know what to do with it: What I regret most in my life are...

    Ira Nadel: Joyce and the Jews [1995] paperback

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    James Joyce, an Irish Catholic by upbringing, was described as ""the greatest Jew of all"" by his countryman and fellow writer Frank O'Connor. In this exploration of Joyce's identity with...

    Ursula Doyle: Love Letters of Great Men [2008] hardback

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    From the private papers of Mark Twain and Mozart to those of Robert Browning and Nelson, Love Letters of Great Men collects together some of the most romantic letters in...

    Taylor D.J.: Orwell [2024] paperback

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    Over seventy years since his premature death, George Orwell (1903-50) has become one of the most significant figures in western literature. His two dystopian masterpieces, Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen...

    Funder Anna: Wifedom [2024] paperback

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    'Truly wonderful... Anna Funder has written another brilliant human portrait.' - Claire Tomalin A BLAZING, GENRE-BENDING MASTERPIECE FROM ONE OF THE MOST INVENTIVE WRITERS OF OUR TIMELooking for wonder and...

    A. Bradley: Shakespearean Tragedy [1991] paperback

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    A.C. Bradley put Shakespeare on the map for generations of readers and students for whom the plays might not otherwise have become "real" at all' writes John Bayley in his...

    Maeve Binchy: Maeve's Times [2014] paperback

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    'Maeve's Times is funny and clever and kind, which are excellent qualities in both books and people' Irish Times'As someone who fell off a chair not long ago trying to...

    Claire Tomalin: The Invisible Woman [2014] paperback

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    The Invisible Woman by Claire Tomalin is the acclaimed story of Nelly Ternan and Charles DickensWinner of the NCR Book Award, the Hawthornden Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial...

    Peter Barry: Beginning Theory [2002] paperback

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    Expanded second edition of this hugely successful introduction to literary theory, a book which has already proven itself as the first port of call for students - Two new chapters...

    Peter Cook: Tragically I Was an Only Twin [2003] paperback

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    For his many friends and fans, Peter Cook was quite simply the funniest man they'd ever encountered. And nearly eight years since his death, his status as one of Britain's...

    Mr Con Houlihan: In So Many Words [2002] paperback

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    Kerryman Con Houlihan, who in his time has been a fisherman, a turf cutter and a rugby player, is now best known as one of Ireland's finest journalists. 'In So...

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