Selected Letters
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The enormous popular appeal of Philip Larkin's poetry has long been established; but oddly little is...
Don't Ask Me What I Mean: Poets in Their Own Words
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Don't Ask Me What I Mean is a comprehensive guide to the last fifty years of British poetry...
The Military Orchid
Jocelyn Brooke, Gavin Bone, Stephen Bone and Horatio Clare
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Jocelyn Brooke's love affair with wild flowers and home-made fireworks began when he was growing up...
Shaken and Stirred: Intoxicating Stories
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In this lively collection, wine snobs receive their comeuppance at the hands of Roald Dahl and Edgar...
A House of Air: Selected Writings
Penelope Fitzgerald and Hermione Lee
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HERMIONE LEE The previously uncollected occasional prose of a great English...
The Timewasting Emails
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'Don't ever, ever send this office an email like this again.' Penny Hart, Psychic. One man. One...
For the Love of Letters: The Joy of Slow Communication
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Remember letters? They were good, weren't they? The thrill of receiving that battered envelope with...
I'm Not One to Gossip, but...: Wicked Whispers, William Hickey and Forty Years of Blarney
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From an embarrassing encounter with Jim Callaghan (and his impressive member) in the gentlemen's...
Never Had it So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles
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In 1956 the Suez Crisis finally shattered the old myths of the British Empire and paved the way for...
Lives in Writing
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This is a collection of essays on writers and writing by the Booker-shortlisted novelist and critic....