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The pursuit of laughter
eBook. English.
Published
London: Gibson Square, 2009
[New ed.]
Diana Mitford is one of the surprise discoveries of the phenomenally successful collection of Mitford letters published for Christmas 2007. This paperback...
It's a don's life
eBook. English.
Published
London: Profile, 2009
In her now famous 'Timesonline' blog, Mary Beard has made her name as a wickedly subversive commentator on the world in which we live. Her central themes...
Out of the blue: poems, 1975-2001
eBook. English.
Published
Tarset: Bloodaxe, 2001
As in her fiction, Helen Dunmore's acclaimed poetry draws us into darkness, engaging our fears and hopes. Out of the Blue presents a selection from her...
A river dies of thirst: (a diary)
eBook. English.
Published
London: Saqi, 2009
Mahmoud Darwish was often cited as the poetic voice of the Palestinian people. During the summer of 2006, Darwish was in Ramallah. He recorded his observations...
First of the last chances
eBook. English.
Published
Manchester: Carcanet, 2003
In this collection of poetry, Sophie Hannah explores and celebrates the complex interactions and strong feelings involved in everyday experience, in poems...
A night out with Robert Burns: the greatest poems
eBook. English.
Published
Edinburgh: Canongate, 2009
The Scottish poet Robert Burns has been idolised and eulogised. He has been sainted, painted, tarted up and toasted. In this text, Scottish essayist Andrew...
The malarkey
eBook. English.
Published
Tarset: Bloodaxe, 2012
As soon as you turn your back, time slips. The humdrum present has become the precious, irrecoverable past. The ways in which the present longs for the...
And yet: essays
eBook. English.
Published
London: Atlantic Books, 2016
'And Yet' brings together the previously uncollected essays of the late Christopher Hitchens into a final volume of vintage prose from one of the great...
Small wonder
eBook. English.
Published
London: Faber, 2003
'Small Wonder' is a collection of essays that begins with the true story of an infant who goes missing. Eventually adults searching for the infant find...
Some remarks
eBook. English.
Published
London: Atlantic, 2012
In this collection, Neal Stephenson puts the 20th century (mathematics, cryptography, philosophy, currency, history, science and technology) under his...
