Petrarch: Everywhere a Wanderer
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Born in Tuscany in 1304, Italian poet Francesco Petrarca is widely considered one of the fathers of...
Re-Orienting China: Travel Writing and Cross-Cultural Understanding
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Re-Orienting China challenges the notion of the travel writer as imperialistic, while exploring the...
The 1980s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction
Philip Tew, Emily Horton and Leigh Wilson
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How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1980s shape contemporary British...
The Image of the Black Prince in Georgian and VI - Negotiating the Late Medieval Past
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During the Georgian and Victorian periods, the fourteenth-century hero Edward the Black Prince...
The Secret Life of Plays
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Drawing on a wide range of drama, both historical and modern, Waters takes the reader through the...
The Goldfinch
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2014 Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother...
The Napoleon Complex
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Napoleon stood before a stormy sky. In his hand was a scroll, and on that scroll were characters....
When the Floods Came
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In a world prone to violent flooding, Britain, ravaged 20 years earlier by a deadly virus, has been...
Will You Walk a Little Faster?
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Penelope Shuttle's new collection explores cities (London, Bristol) on foot and via inward...
Film and the Natural Environment: Elements and Atmospheres
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Environmental themes are present in cinema more than ever before. But the relationship between film...