Precarious Labour and the Contemporary Novel: 2016
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Recent trends in literary study have tended to place socio-political questions at the centre of...
Roland Barthes' Cinema
Philip Watts, Dudley Andrew, Yves Citton and Vincent Debaene
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The most famous name in French literary circles from the late 1950s till his death in 1981, Roland...

Samuel Johnson: 21st-Century Oxford Authors
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The Samuel Johnson volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers a generous selection of...

Sixty Stories
Donald Barthelme and David Gates
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This excellent collection of Donald Barthelme's literary output during the 1960s and 1970s covers...

Sherlock Holmes: The Essential Mysteries in One Sitting
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With countless clubs, films, and books celebrating Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary Sherlock...

The Elephant
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The Elephant (1957) is Slawomir Mrozek's award-winning collection of hilarious and unnerving short...

The Yellow Buoy
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The Yellow Buoy is CK Stead's fifteenth collection of poetry, in which the writer journeys in time...

Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
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Jimmy Corrigan has rightly been hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever to be published. It won...

Making Nice
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Meet Alby. Natural habitat: a bar; a boat; his bedroom; a broad's bedroom. Favourite hobbies:...

Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov and Mary McCarthy
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The American poet John Shade is dead; murdered. His last poem, Pale Fire, is put into a book,...