An Edo Anthology: Literature from Japan's Mega-City, 1750-1850
Sumie Jones and Kenji Watanabe
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During the eighteenth century, Edo (today's Tokyo) became the world's largest city, quickly...
In Search of the Essence of Place
Petr Kral and Christopher Moncrieff
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A moving and reflective memoir, In Search of the Essence of Place is a Remembrance of Things Past...
That Mighty Heart: Visions of London
John Elinger and Katherine Shock
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In 1802 William Wordsworth, the great Romantic poet, gazed over London and claimed "Earth has not...
The Unfinished Symphony of You and Me
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The Unfinished Symphony of You and Me by Lucy Robinson, author of A Passionate Love Affair with a...
Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog
Jerome Jerome and Jeremy Lewis
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A comic masterpiece that has never been out of print since it was first published in 1889, Jerome K....
Early One Morning
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A grey dawn in 1943: on a street in Rome, two young women, complete strangers to each other, lock...
Bring Up the Bodies
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Grammar School Boy: A Memoir of Personal and Social Development
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This memoir covers the first twenty years of the life of the author, a retired university professor,...
The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life
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'Out of the secret world I once knew, I have tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we...
Wayne Rooney: My Decade in the Premier League
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'My Decade in the Premier League' is Wayne's first hand account of his 10 years playing at the...