Yukio Mishima
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Yukio Mishima was the most internationally acclaimed Japanese author of the twentieth century:...
Roy Jenkins
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This book was shortlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize. It was shortlisted for the 2014 Costa...
Strindberg: A Life
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Novelist, satirist, poet, photographer, painter, alchemist, and hellraiser-August Strindberg was all...
Body Language: Narrating Illness and Disability
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As much as we may like to evade them, illness and disability inescapably attend human embodiment -...
Einstein's Heroes: Imagining the World Through the Language of Mathematics
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Imagine you are fluent in a magical language of prophecy, a language so powerful it can accurately...
Jack the Ripper: The Forgotten Victims
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Experts agree that Jack the Ripper murdered five London women, but how many others did he slaughter...
Lives in Writing
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This is a collection of essays on writers and writing by the Booker-shortlisted novelist and critic....
My Guardian Demon: Letters of Andre Tchaikowsky and Halina Janowska 1956-1982
Anita Halina Janowska and Jacek Laskowski
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My Guardian Demon tells the story of two remarkable artists. Separated by the Iron Curtain, their...
My Two Italies
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The child of Italian immigrants and an award-winning scholar of Italian literature, Joseph Luzzi...
Organizations: A Very Short Introduction
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Most of us recognize that organizations are everywhere. You meet them on every street corner in the...