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How Proust Can Change Your Life

Whatever the merits of Proust's work, even a fervent admirer would be hard pressed to deny one of its awkward features: length. A novel i...

The Color of Smoke

Sweeping us into the world of the roma as fascism gathers force and the Holocaust looms on the horizon, The Color of Smoke is a thoroughl...

Men Explain Things To Me - And Other Essays

Rebecca Solnit's essay 'Men Explain Things to Me' has become a touchstone of the feminist movement, inspired the term 'mansplaining', and...

There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness - And Other Thoughts on Physics, Philosophy and the World

'A joy of a book - enriching, illuminating, eclectic and far from a conventional science read' Richard Webb, New Scientist Books of the Y...

The Seven Basic Plots - Why We Tell Stories

This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small numbe...

Plath: Poems - Selected by Diane Wood Middlebrook

A representative selection of verse by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who left in the wake of her personal tragedy a legacy of poems t...

Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Omnibus Edition)

This is a collection of all 37 of Shakespeare's comedies, tragedies and historical plays in a leatherbound edition. Also features his com...

Orwell on Truth

George Orwell (1903¿1950) is one of England's most famous writers and social commentators. He is the author of the classic political sati...

The Fairy Tellers - A Journey into the Secret History of Fairy Tales

Fairy-Tales are not just fairy-tales: they are records of historical phenomena, telling us something about how Western civilisation was f...

Blurb Your Enthusiasm - An A-Z of Literary Persuasion. A Cracking Compendium of Book Blurbs, Writing Tips, Literary Folklore and Publishing Secrets

A dazzling dictionary of book blurbs, filled with writing tips, literary folklore and publishing secrets

Romanticism

Romanticism was a revolutionary intellectual and artistic movement which generated some of the most popular and influential texts in Brit...

The New Frontier - Reflections From the Irish Border

The New Frontier is a landmark publication of writing from the Irish Border, a chorus of voices from some of the island's greatest writer...

Edward Lear

James Williams's account, the first book-length critical study of the poet since the 1980s, sets out to re-introduce Lear and to accord h...

Writers Who Changed History

This visual celebration of the world's most celebrated thinkers tells the fascinating stories of their lives and pioneering ideas. Writer...

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

The novel is modernism's most vital and experimental genre. In this Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of r...

On Dogs - An Anthology

A literary anthology on the varied and ineffable appeal of dogs as felt by humans in deep and various ways. Includes pieces from Vita Sac...

Recipes from the World of H.P Lovecraft - Recipes inspired by cosmic horror

The Art of War

The iconic text in its original 13 short chapters printed unencumbered by notesThe text repeated, this time interspersed with selected ex...

Women Talk Money - Breaking the Taboo

A searing and fearless anthology of essays exploring the profound impact of money on women's lives, edited by prominent feminist and writ...

Tyger Tyger, Burning Bright - Much-Loved Poems You Half-Remember

Tyger Tyger, Burning Bright is perfect to dip into on the reader's whim, the chapters cover childhood and youth, nature, love and romance...

Wissenschaft weltoffen 2022 - Facts and Figures on the International Nature of Studies and Research in Germany and Worldwide

This publication compiles and analyses the latest data on the international nature of studies, research and universities from Germany and...

Volume 3 of the Collected Works of Marie-Louise von Franz - Archetypal Symbols in Fairytales: The Maiden's Quest

The Collected Works of Marie-Louise von Franz Volume 3 turns to the Maiden's Quest within fairytales.

The Kannada Mahabharata

The Kannada Mahabharata, known as Kum¿ravy¿sa Bh¿rata, is an innovative fifteenth-century retelling of the famous Mahabharata story cente...

The Swedish Art of Ageing Well - Life wisdom from someone who will (probably) die before you

This is a guide to a life well-lived. It is about the wonder of the everyday and the lessons that age brings. Wear stripes. Eat chocolate...

The Poetry Book - Big Ideas Simply Explained

The perfect introduction to poetry, The Poetry Book offers a fascinating exploration of more than 90 of the world's greatest poetic works...

Maus Now - Selected Writing

A richly illustrated book in which leading cultural critics, authors, and academics reflect on the radical achievement and innovation of ...

What Writers Read - 35 Writers on their Favourite Book

A WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH In this love letter to reading, curated by Pandora Sykes in aid of the National Literacy Trus...

Sad Happens - A Celebration of Tears

From the editor-in-chief of The Creative Independent, a beautiful, celebratory anthology about sadness and everything that accompanies it...

Why We (Still) Need Russian Literature - Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov and Others

For nearly two centuries readers all over the world have turned to the great canon of Russian literature. Love and death, war and peace, ...

The Analects

A superb modern translation of the most famous Chinese text in history.

Balancing Heaven and Earth - A Memoir

One of this century's most popular psychology scholars, Robert A.Johnson was among the first to present Carl Jung's rich but complex theo...

East Side Voices - Essays celebrating East and Southeast Asian identity in Britain

A first-of-its-kind essay anthology that showcases the brightest East and Southeast Asian voices in Britain today, on a broad range of su...

Introduction to Translation and Interpreting Studies

A unique and balanced combination of translation and interpreting studies, edited and written by leading voices in the fields In Introduc...

If You're a Girl, Revised and Expanded Edition

The trailblazing book that influenced a generation of writers, and proves that mature reflection needn’t be lacking in attitude. In the b...

How Plato Writes - Perspectives and Problems

Plato is a philosophical writer of unusual and impressive versatility. His dialogues not only engage in argument but also abound in alleg...

When Fiction & Philosophy Meet

An innovative book, When Fiction and Philosophy Meet explores the intersection between the philosophy of Simone Weil from Paris, France, ...

100 Books that Changed the World

A thought-provoking chronological timeline of the world¿s most influential books.

How to Write About Africa

A trailblazing collection of writing from Binyavanga Wainaina's extraordinary life 'In your text, treat Africa as if it were one country....

Powers of Horror - An Essay on Abjection

Julia Kristeva offers an extensive and profound consideration of the nature of abjection. Drawing on Freud and Lacan, she analyzes the na...

Aidan Chambers - Master Literary Choreographer

Aidan Chambers: Master Literary Choreographer is a full-length study that integrates the biography, creative writing, and criticism of on...

Invisible Man

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time • Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The G...

Eliot's Book of Bookish Lists - A Book of Bookish Lists

Who had birds called Death, Wigs and Spinach? How do you spell the noise of a door slamming? Whose working title was The Chronic Argonaut...

The Worlds of Dune - The Places and Cultures that Inspired Frank Herbert

The Worlds of Dune presents a deep dive into the many different strands of inspiration that Frank Herbert wove into Dune and its sequels ...

Orchid Muse - A History of Obsession in Fifteen Flowers

Orchids, the epitome of floral beauty, have long inspired poetry, adventure, art and scientific discovery. In Orchid Muse, historian and ...

The Lost Spells

Beautiful books make unforgettable gifts. This pocket-sized treasure is the perfect present for fans of nature, language and rich artwork...

Reading Poetry - A Complete Coursebook

Reading Poetry offers a comprehensive and accessible guide to the art of reading poetry. Discussing more than 200 poems by more than 100 ...

The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches

In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described the natural world with great simplicity and delicacy of feeling. When he composed T...

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

'She is alive and active - we hear her voice and trace her influence even now' Virginia Woolf Writing in an age when the call for the rig...

Cosmic Connections - Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment

Charles Taylor delves into the poetry of the Romantics and their heirs, a foundation of his distinctive philosophy of language. Taylor ho...

You've Always Been Wrong

You've Always Been Wrong is a collection of prose and poetic works by the French writer Rene Daumal (1908-1944). A fitful interloper amon...

The Haunted Wood - A History of Childhood Reading

A panoramic and poignant history of children¿s literature

The Poetics of Noise from Dada to Punk

In Writing - Conversations on Inspiration, Perspiration and Creative Desperation

Hattie Crisell invites some of our most-read authors, poets, journalists and screenwriters to share their secrets, as she asks them: wher...

A Room of One's Own

A Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of Virginia WoolfâEUR(TM)s classic plea for aworld in which women are free to use their gifts. ...

Rotten London, Rotten Elsewhere - Letters To Power

A collection of letters written to people in positions of authority between 2008 and 2023.

Anne of Green Gables

Chiltern Publishing was formed in 2018 with a vision to create the most beautiful classics. Using a perfect mix of tradition and the very...

The Cambridge Companion to Lucian

An innovative and exciting introduction to one of the most influential and controversial ancient authors. Explores Lucian's major contrib...

Macbeth

Chiltern creates the most beautiful editions of the World's finest literature. Your favorite classic titles in a way you have never seen ...

Virginia Woolf and Motherhood

[headline]Establishes maternity as a vital theme within Virginia Woolf's feminist and political thought Motherhood is a recurrent theme i...

Black Buffalo Woman - An Introduction to the Poetry & Poetics of Lucille Clifton