Gainsborough: A Portrait
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Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) lived as if electricity shot through his sinews and crackled at his...
A Smell of Burning: A Memoir of Epilepsy
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One day Colin Grant's teenage brother Christopher failed to emerge from the bathroom. His family...
A Woman's Work
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'If I had a teenage daughter, especially one who didn't see the point of politics, this is the book...
Africa, Empire and Fleet Street: Albert Cartwright and West Africa Magazine
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For decades before and after African independence, the London weekly West Africa was a well-known...
Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller and Enoch Brater
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Death of a Salesman is Miller's tragic masterpiece and one of the greatest plays of the twentieth...
Journeys and Journals: Women's Mystery Writing and Migration in the African Diaspora
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Using literary criticism, theory, and sociohistoric data, this book brings into conversation black...
Sophocles: Antigone
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Antigone is Sophocles' masterpiece, a seminal influence on a wide range of theatrical, literary, and...
The Principles of Sufism
A'Ishah Al-Ba'Uniyyah, Th. Emil Homerin and Ros Ballaster
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Aishah al-Bauniyyah of Damascus was one of the great women scholars in Islamic history. Born into a...
Another Day Gone
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Two sisters must learn to make peace with the past—and each other. In the wake of the 2005...
Beauty is a Wound
Eka Kurniawan and Annie Tucker
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A colour-drenched epic set in Indonesia, filled with vivid sex and violence, from the Man Booker...