
England Your England
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'England is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands...

Life Class
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Life Class is the first novel in Pat Barker's Life Class Trilogy - a powerful and unforgettable...

Nabokov's Favourite Word is Mauve: The Literary Quirks and Oddities of Our Most-Loved Authors
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'Read this book thoughtfully. It's fun. And, I think, the shape of some very interesting things to...

Peter Hall's Bacchai
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"Bacchai is one of the top dozen plays ever written. Whenever it's performed, it seems...

Shakespeare on Stage: Thirteen Leading Actors on Thirteen Key Roles
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The performers interviewed represent a Who's Who of stage and screen actors (between them they have...

Selected Poems
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Intense verbal music with a jazz feeling; invention against the grain of expectation; intelligence...

Susceptible
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..".an aching clarity [is] evident in [Castree's] sombre grey tones and her dexterous, serpentine...

The Elegance of the Hedgehog
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Rene is the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building. She maintains a carefully constructed...

The French Art of War
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It was the beginning of the Gulf War. I watched it on TV and did little else. I was doing badly, you...

The Incomplete Tim Key: About 300 of His Poetical Gems and What-Nots
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This is a Paperback Book. And it is ram-jammed full of poems by KEY. Originally it was conceived and...