Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense
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Edward Lear's poems follow and break the rules. They abide by the logic of syntax, the linking of...
Some Remarks
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'Sometimes when you're reading Neal Stephenson, he doesn't just seem like one of the best novelists...
Speeches That Influenced the World
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Speeches that Defined the World is a collection of the most potent and memorable speeches throughout...
Table Talk: Sweet and Sour, Salt and Bitter
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The first collection of food writing by Britain's funniest and most feared critic A.A. Gill knows...
Telling Tales: A History of Literary Hoaxes
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When Dionysus the Renegade faked a Sophocles text in 400BC (cunningly inserting the acrostic...
Before They are Hanged: The First Law: Book Two
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Bitter and merciless war is coming to the frozen north. It's bloody and dangerous and the Union...
Serious Sweet: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize
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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 MAN BOOKER PRIZE. A Sunday Times Book of the Year. A good man in a bad...
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The Outside Lands
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'Masterly ...gloriously well-written and deeply imagined' Jim Crace Jeannie is nineteen when the...
The Tusk That Did the Damage
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This is selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the Guardian. It was shortlisted for the...
Vladimir M.
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Moscow, March 1953: As Stalin breathes his last, four women meet in Room 408 of the luxurious hotel...