Books on Books
Enjoy daily distraction with this engaging Almanac. Each date is assigned one or more literary connections. Book lovers will find extracts from authors' diaries and letters, chance upon the narrative ..
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The people's history of the first great crowdsourcing experiment of the Victorian age- the Oxford English Dictionary What do three murderers, Karl Marx's daughter and a vegetarian vicar have in c..
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'As soon as I began to read, I was filled with that kind of engrossed blossoming that happens somewhere inside of you when you start a really nourishing book.' - Pandora Sykes A conversatio..
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Following the success of The Book Lover's Bucket List, Caroline Taggart sets off on a tour of Europe to select 100 literary landmarks across the continent to describe and provide practical advice for ..
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'Powerful and illuminating' James Shapiro, author of 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, winner of the Baillie Gifford 'Winner of Winners' 2023 'Insightful, passionate, piled with..
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'A MARVEL' PHILIP PULLMAN Do you remember the first time you fell in love with a book? The stories we read as children matter. The best ones are indelible in our memories; reachi..
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Now revised and expanded for its first paperback publication, The Life of Crime was the winner of four major prizes for the best critical/biographical book related to crime fiction: the Edgar, Anthony..
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* BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK * 'Anybody who loves the printed word will be bowled over by this amusing, erudite, beautiful book about books. It is in every way a triumph. One of the loveliest book..
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1984 isn't just a novel; it's a key to understanding the modern world. George Orwell's final work is a treasure chest of ideas and memes - Big Brother, the Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, 2+2=5..
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A 'Best Book of the Year 2023' in the New Statesman, Spectator and Waterstones'From plans for flying machines to philosophy - the remarkable joy of jotting things down' Guardian'Surprisingly revealing..
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How much do you know about the Victorian novelist who outsold Dickens? Or the woman who became the first published poet in America? Do you know what connects Homer's Iliad to Aesop's Fables? The ..
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Featuring original interviews with booksellers and librarians, James Patterson presents a new non-fiction title that highlights the magic of books. To be a bookseller or librarian . . . You ..
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'Engrossing.' -Observer 'Remarkable.' - The Times 'Magnificent.'- Phillipe Sands 'Gripping.'- Literary Review 'A history so outlandish and unlikely that you feel it must be true . ..
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As book banning efforts increase throughout so many areas of the U.S., conscientious reading and the act of seeking out those books at risk becomes even more important. Knowing how to work against suc..
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'Fascinating.... Wonderfully exhilarating.' - Mail on Sunday An engaging, original and radical reassessment of J.R.R. Tolkien, revealing how his visionary creation of Middle-Earth is more relevan..
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The relationship between philosopher-critic Walter Benjamin and playwright-poet Bertolt Brecht was both a lasting friendship and a powerful intellectual partnership. Having met in the late 1920s in Ge..
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See through the eyes of the Brontes as you immerse yourself in their lives and landscapes, wandering the very same paths they each would have walked in search of the inspiration behind their novels an..
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The first detailed account of Austen's characters' reading experience to date, this book explores both what her characters read and what their literary choices would have meant to Austen's own readers..
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MEET THE WORLD'S GREATEST WRITERS - FACE TO FACE This stunning visual celebration of the world's most celebrated novelists, poets, and playwrights tells the fascinating stories of their lives and..
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