
The Poetry Lesson
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"Intro to Poetry Writing is always like this: a long labor, a breech birth, or, obversely, mining in...

To be or Not to be
Douglas Bruster, Simon Palfrey and Ewan Fernie
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"Shakespeare Now!" is a series of short books of truly vital literary scholarship, each with its own...

Words are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016, with a Journal of a Writer's Week
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"Hard times are coming, when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how...

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
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Patrick Suskind's Perfume is a classic novel of death and sensuality in Paris 'In eighteenth-century...

Prayer for the Dead
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Sunday Times bestseller Prayer for the Dead is the fifth novel in the bestselling Inspector McLean...

The Buddha in the Attic
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Read our exclusive interview with Julie, in which she talks about the sentence that made everything...

The Chilbury Ladies' Choir
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Read an exclusive interview with the author A warm, funny and big-hearted novel of...

The Fountainhead
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Her first major literary success, Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead is an exalted view of her Objectivist...

The Night Before Christmas
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Gogol's classic, uproarious folktale, presented in a beautiful hardcover edition perfect for giving...

The Spectre of Alexander Wolf
Bryan Karetnyk, Gaito Gazdanov and Julien Pacaud
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A superb early postmodern classic by one of Nabokov's fellow emigre writers, rediscovered after more...