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| "The Ode Less Travelled : Unlocking the Poet within" |
| "Stephen Fry believes that if you can speak and read English you can write poetry But it is no fun if you don't know where to start or have been led to believe that Anything Goes Stephen who has long written poems and indeed has written long poems for his own private pleasure invites you to discover the incomparable delights of metre rhyme and verse forms Whether you want to write a Petrarchan sonnet for your lover's birthday an epithalamion for your sister's wedding or a villanelle excoriating the government's housing policy The Ode Less Travelled will give you the tools and the confidence to do so Brimful of enjoyable exercises witty insights and simple step-by-step advice The Ode Less Travelled guides the reader towards mastery and confidence in the Mother of the Arts"
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| "Beloved by Toni Morrison (Paperback, 2007)" |
| "Terrible unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is still not free Sethe&39;s new home is not only haunted by the memories of her past but also by the ghost of her baby who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word Beloved"
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| "Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India's independence Saleem Sinai is a special child However this coincidence of birth has consequences he is not prepared for telepathic powers connect him with 1000 other 'midnight's children' all of whom are endowed with unusual gifts Inextricably linked to his nation Saleem's story is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirrors the course of modern India at its most impossible and glorious"
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| "The Leopard: Revised and with new material by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (Paperback, 2007)" |
| "INCLUDES RECENTLY DISCOVERED NEW MATERIALIn the spring of 1860 Fabrizio the charismatic Prince of Salina still rules over thousands of acres and hundreds of people including his own numerous family in mingled splendour and squalor Then comes Garibaldi's landing in Sicily and the Prince must decide whether to resist the forces of change or come to terms with them"
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| "War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "'If you've never read it now is the moment This translation will show that you don't read War and Peace you live it' The TimesTolstoy's enthralling epic depicts Russia's war with Napoleon and its effects on the lives of those caught up in the conflict He creates some of the most vital and involving characters in literature as he follows the rise and fall of families in St Petersburg and Moscow who are linked by their personal and political relationships His heroes are the thoughtful yet impulsive Pierre Bezukhov his ambitious friend Prince Andrei and the woman who becomes indispensable to both of them the enchanting Natasha Rostov"
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| "On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "It is July 1962 Edward and Florence young innocents married that morning arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come"
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| "Joy in the Morning: (Jeeves & Wooster) by P. G. Wodehouse (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "A Jeeves and Wooster novelTrapped in rural Steeple Bumpleigh a man less stalwart than Bertie Wooster would probably give way at the knees For among those present were Florence Craye to whom Bertie had once been engaged and her new fiance 'Stilton' Cheesewright who sees Bertie as a snake in the grass And that biggest blot on the landscape Edwin the Boy Scout who is busy doing acts of kindness out of sheer malevolence All Bertie's forebodings are fully justified For in his efforts to oil the wheels of commerce promote the course of true love and avoid the consequences of a vendetta he becomes the prey of all and sundry In fact only Jeeves can save him"
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| "Brave New World" |
| "&39;The best science fiction book ever definitely the most prescient Looking at our present trajectory we are on the way to Brave New World&39; Yuval Noah Harari author of Sapiens and Homo Deus ‘A masterpiece of speculation As vibrant fresh and somehow shocking as it was when I first read it’ Margaret Atwood A grave warning Provoking stimulating shocking and dazzling&39; Observer &39;What Aldous Huxley presented as fiction with the human hatcheries of Brave New World has become fact The consequences are profound and if we don&39;t get it right deeply disturbing&39; John Humphries Sunday Times WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY MARGARET ATWOOD AND DAVID BRADSHAW Far in the future the World Controllers have created the ideal society Through clever use of genetic engineering brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old imperfect life still continues may be the cure for his distress Huxley&39;s ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present and is considered to be his most enduring masterpiece"
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| "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running" |
| "In 1982 having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing Murakami began running to keep fit A year later he'd completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon and now after dozens of such races he reflects upon the influence the sport has had on his life and on his writing Equal parts travelogue training log and reminiscence this revealing memoir covers his four-month preparation for the 2005 New York City Marathon and settings ranging from Tokyo's Jingu Gaien gardens where he once shared the course with an Olympian to the Charles River in Boston By turns funny and sobering playful and philosophical this is a must-read for fans of this masterful yet private writer as well as for the exploding population of athletes who find similar satisfaction in distance running"
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| "The House Of The Spirits by Isabel Allende (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "As a girl Clara del Valle can read fortunes make objects move as if they had lives of their own and predict the future Following the mysterious death of her sister Rosa the Beautiful Clara is mute for nine years When she breaks her silence it is to announce that she will be married soon to the stern and volatile landowner Esteban Trueba Set in an unnamed Latin American country over three generations The House of the Spirits is a magnificent epic of a proud and passionate family secret loves and violent revolution"
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| "Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition by Joseph Heller (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "Explosive subversive wild and funny 50 years on the novel's strength is undiminished Reading Joseph Heller's classic satire is nothing less than a rite of passage Set in the closing months of World War II this is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him His real problem is not the enemy - it is his own army which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service If Yossarian makes any attempts to excuse himself from the perilous missions then he is caught in Catch-22 if he flies he is crazy and doesn't have to; but if he doesn't want to he must be sane and has to That's some catch"
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| "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "This powerful collection of stories set in the mid-West among the lonely men and women who drink fish and play cards to ease the passing of time was the first by Raymond Carver to be published in the UK With its spare colloquial narration and razor-sharp sense of how people really communicate the collection was to become one of the most influential literary works of the 1980s"
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| "Silence Of The Lambs: (Hannibal Lecter) by Thomas Harris (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "An FBI traineeA psychopath locked up for unspeakable crimes And a serial killer getting ever closer to his latest victim FBI rookie Clarice Starling turns to Dr Hannibal Lecter monster cannibal held in a hospital for the criminally insane for insight into the deadly madman she must find As Dr Lecter invites her into the darkest chambers of his mind he forces her to confront her own childhood demons as the price of understanding an unspeakable tuition he exacts to teach her how the monster thinks And time is running out"
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| "Hannibal Rising: (Hannibal Lecter) by Thomas Harris (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front a boy in the snow mute with a chain around his neck He seems utterly alone but he has brought his demons with him Hannibal's uncle a noted painter finds him in a Soviet orphanage and brings him to France where Hannibal will live with his uncle and his uncle's beautiful and exotic wife Lady Murasaki Lady Murasaki helps Hannibal to healWith her help he flourishes becoming the youngest person ever admitted to medical school in France But Hannibal's demons visit him and torment himWhen he is old enough he visits them in turn He discovers he has gifts beyond the academic and in that epiphany Hannibal Lecter becomes death's prodigy"
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| "Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky (Paperback, 1995)" |
| "Contrary to the usual image of the press as cantankerous obstinate and ubiquitous in its search for truth Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news They skilfully dissect the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news They reveal how issues are framed and topics chosen and contrast the double standards underlying accounts of free elections a free press and governmental repression between Nicaragua and El Salvador; between the Russian invasion of Afghanistan and the American invasion of Vietnam; between the genocide in Cambodia under a pro-American government and genocide under Pol Pot What emerges from this groundbreaking work is an account of just how propagandistic our mass media are and how we can learn to read them and see their function in a radically new way"
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| "The Magicians: (Book 1) by Lev Grossman (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES In a secret world of forbidden knowledge power comes at a terrible price Quentin Coldwater's life is changed forever by an apparently chance encounter when he turns up for his entrance interview to Princeton he finds his interviewer dead - but a strange envelope bearing Quentin's name leads him down a very different path to any he'd ever imagined The envelope and the mysterious manuscript it contains leads to a secret world of obsession and privilege a world of freedom and power and for a while it's a world that seems to answer all Quentin's desires But the idyll cannot last - and when it's finally shattered Quentin is drawn into something darker and far more dangerous than anything he could ever have expected"
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| "The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance by Edmund de Waal (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2010 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 264 wood and ivory carvings none of them bigger than a matchbox Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in his great uncle Iggie&39;s Tokyo apartment When he later inherited the &39;netsuke&39; they unlocked a story far larger and more dramatic than he could ever have imagined From a burgeoning empire in Odessa to fin de siecle Paris from occupied Vienna to Tokyo Edmund de Waal traces the netsuke&39;s journey through generations of his remarkable family against the backdrop of a tumultuous century &39;You have in your hands a masterpiece&39; Frances Wilson Sunday Times &39;The most brilliant book I&39;ve read for years A rich tale of the pleasure and pains of what it is to be human&39; Bettany Hughes Daily Telegraph Books of the Year&39;A complex and beautiful book&39; Diana Athill"
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| "Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "Anna Karenina is a novel of unparalleled richness and complexity set against the backdrop of Russian high society Tolstoy charts the course of the doomed love affair between Anna a beautiful married woman and Count Vronsky a wealthy army officer who pursues Anna after becoming infatuated with her at a ball Although she initially resists his charms Anna eventually succumbs falling passionately in love and setting in motion a chain of events that lead to her downfall In this extraordinary novel Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together the lives of dozens of characters while evoking a love so strong that those who experience it are prepared to die for it"
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| "The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY WILL SELF The devil makes a personal appearance in Moscow accompanied by various demons including a naked girl and a huge black cat When he leaves the asylums are full and the forces of law and order in disarray Only the Master a man devoted to truth and Margarita the woman he loves can resist the devil's onslaught"
Price: 6.99 |
| "The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia by Michael Booth (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "The Danes are the happiest people in the world and pay the highest taxes 'Neutral' Sweden is one of the biggest arms manufacturers in the world Finns have the largest per capita gun ownership after the US and Yemen 54 per cent of Icelanders believe in elves Norway is the richest country on earth 5 per cent of Danish men have had sex with an animal Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians on and off for over ten years perplexed by their many strange paradoxes and character traits and equally bemused by the unquestioning enthusiasm for all things Nordic and hygge that has engulfed the rest of the world He leaves his adopted home of Denmark and embarks on a journey through all five of the Nordic countries to discover who these curious tribes are the secrets of their success and most intriguing of all what they think of each other Along the way a more nuanced often darker picture emerges of a region plagued by taboos characterised by suffocating parochialism and populated by extremists of various shades 'The next Bill Bryson' New York TimesWinner of the Best Narrative Travel Book Award from the British Guild of Travel Writers"
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| "Moonwalk by Michael Jackson (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "Moonwalk is the only book about his life that Michael Jackson ever wrote It chronicles his humble beginnings in the Midwest his early days with the Jackson 5 and his unprecedented solo success Giving absolutely unrivalled insight into the King of Pop's life it details his songwriting process for hits like Beat It Rock With You Billie Jean and We Are the World; describes how he developed his signature dance style including the Moon Walk; and opens the door to his very private personal relationships with his family including sister Janet and stars like Diana Ross Berry Gordy Marlon Brando Quincy Jones Paul McCartney and Brooke Shields At the time of its original publication in 1988 MOONWALK broke the fiercely guarded barrier of silence that surrounded Michael Jackson Candidly and courageously Jackson talks openly about his wholly exceptional career and the crushing isolation of his fame as well as the unfair rumors that have surrounded it MOONWALK is illustrated with rare photographs from Jackson family albums and Michael's personal photographic archives as well as a drawing done by Michael exclusively for the book It reveals and celebrates as no other book can the life of this exceptional and beloved musician"
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| "The Examined Life : How We Lose and Find Ourselves" |
| "A Sunday Times bestsellerLonglisted for the Guardian first book awardA Radio 4 Book of the WeekThis book is about learning to live In simple stories of encounter between a psychoanalyst and his patients The Examined Life reveals how the art of insight can illuminate the most complicated confounding and human of experiences These are stories about our everyday lives they are about the people we love and the lies that we tell; the changes we bear and the grief Ultimately they show us not only how we lose ourselves but how we might find ourselves too"
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| "1Q84: Books 1 and 2" |
| "The year is 1Q84 This is the real world there is no doubt about that But in this world there are two moons in the sky In this world the fates of two people Tengo and Aomame are closely intertwined They are each in their own way doing something very dangerous And in this world there seems no way to save them both Something extraordinary is starting Shortlisted for the 2013 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award"
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| "Bloodlands : Europe between Hitler and Stalin" |
| "Under Hitler and Stalin the Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered fourteen million people in the bloodlands between Berlin and Moscow The killing fields extended from central Polads to western Russia For twelve savage years on this bloodsoaked soil an average of one million individuals - mostly women children and the aged - were murdered every year Though in 1939 these lands became battlefields not one of these fourteen million was killed in combat They were victims of a murderous policy not casualties of war Int his deeply unsettling and revelatory book Timothy Snyder gives voice to the testimony of the victims through the letters home the notes flung from trains the diaries on corpses It is a brilliantly researched profoundly humane and authoritative bok that demands we pay attention to those that history is in danger of forgetting"
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| "The Magician King : (Book 2)" |
| "Meet Quentin Coldwater king of the bizarre and wonderful land of Fillory But he is getting restless even in heaven a man needs a little adventure So when a steward is murdered on a morning's hunt Quentin gets exactly that But this quest is like no other What starts as a glorified cruise to faraway lands soon becomes the stuff of nightmares The Magician King is a grand voyage into the dark glittering heart of magic an extraordinary journey that allows the imagination to run riot and proves Grossman is the modern heir to CS Lewis This is a book like no other"
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| "The Art of Fiction" |
| "In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James Martin Amis Jane Austen and James Joyce Looking at ideas such as the Intrusive Author Suspense the Epistolary Novel Magic Realism and Symbolism and illustrating each topic with a passage taken from a classic or modern novel David Lodge makes the richness and variety of British and American fiction accessible to the general reader He provides essential reading for students aspiring writers and anyone who wants to understand how fiction works"
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| "The Map and the Territory" |
| "Artist Jed Martin emerges from a ten-year hiatus with good news It has nothing to do with his broken boiler the approach of another lamentably awkward Christmas dinner with his father or the memory of his doomed love affair with the beautiful Olga It is that for his new exhibition he has secured the involvement of none other than celebrated novelist Michel Houellebecq The exhibition brings Jed new levels of global fame But his boiler is still broken his ailing father flirts with oblivion and worst of all he is contacted by an inspector requiring his help in solving an unspeakable atrocious and gruesome crime involving none other than celebrated novelist Michel Houellebecq Shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2013"
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| "The Night Circus" |
| "'Playful and intensely imaginative Erin Morgenstern has created the circus I have always longed for This is a marvellous book' Audrey Niffenegger author of The Time Traveler's WifeThe circus arrives without warning No announcements precede it It is simply there when yesterday it was not The black sign painted in white letters that hangs upon the gates readsOpens at NightfallCloses at DawnAs the sun disappears beyond the horizon all over the tents small lights begin to flicker as though the entirety of the circus is covered in particularly bright fireflies When the tents are all aglow sparkling against the night sky the sign appears Le Cirque des RevesThe Circus of Dreams Now the circus is open Now you may enter"
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| "At The Existentialist Cafe : Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails" |
| "Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize Paris near the turn of 1932-3 Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse They are Jean-Paul Sartre Simone de Beauvoir and their friend Raymond Aron who opens their eyes to a radical new way of thinking… ‘It’s not often that you miss your bus stop because you’re so engrossed in reading a book about existentialism but I did exactly that The story of Sartre Beauvoir Camus Heidegger et al is strange fun and compelling reading If it doesn’t win awards I will eat my copy’ Independent on Sunday ‘Bakewell shows how fascinating were some of the existentialists’ ideas and how fascinating often frightful were their lives Vivid humorous anecdotes are interwoven with a lucid and unpatronising exposition of their complex philosophy… Tender incisive and fair’ Daily Telegraph ‘Quirky funny clear and passionate… Few writers are as good as Bakewell at explaining complicated ideas in a way that makes them easy to understand’ Mail on Sunday"
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| "A Death in the Family : My Struggle Book 1" |
| "'It's unbelievable It's completely blown my mind' Zadie SmithKarl Ove Knausgaard writes about his life with painful honesty He writes about his childhood and teenage years his infatuation with rock music his relationship with his loving yet almost invisible mother and his distant and unpredictable father and his bewilderment and grief on his father's death When Karl Ove becomes a father himself he must balance the demands of caring for a young family with his determination to write great literature Knausgaard has created a universal story of the struggles great and small that we all face in our lives A profound and mesmerizing work written as if the author's very life were at stake Shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Award"
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