The Art of Memoir
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Bestselling author and renowned professor Mary Karr offers a master class in the essential elements...
Conversations with Edmund White
Will Brantley and Nancy McGuire Roche
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Conversations with Edmund White brings together twenty-one interviews with an author known for...
Edge of the Orison: In the Traces of John Clare's Journey Out of Essex
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In Edge of the Orison the visionary Iain Sinclair walks in the steps of poet John Clare. In 1841 the...
The Land Where Lemons Grow: The Story of Italy and its Citrus Fruit
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A delightful book about Italy's unexpected history, told through its citrus fruits The story of...
Prague Pictures: Portraits of a City
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The fourth book in Bloomsbury's Writer and the City series. Prague is the magic capital of Europe....
The Image of Political Power in the Reign of Nerva, AD 96-98
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Nerva, who ruled from 18 September AD 96 to 27 January AD 98, left little for the art historian or...
Artefacts of Writing: Ideas of the State and Communities of Letters from Matthew Arnold to Xu Bing
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Some forms of literature interfere with the workings of the literate brain, posing a challenge to...
Connemara: A Little Gaelic Kingdom
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The triumphant conclusion to Tim Robinson's extraordinary Connemara trilogy, which Robert Macfarlane...
Reading Orientalism: Said and the Unsaid
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The late Edward Said remains one of the most influential critics and public intellectuals of our...
Rebel Barons: Resisting Royal Power in Medieval Culture
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Ambivalence towards kings, and other sovereign powers, is deep-seated in medieval culture:...