Author: | Breton Dukes |
Category: |
Anthologies and Essays |
Reading Level: | near fine |
A young father high on Ritalin longs to leap into the tiger enclosure. A teacher who has been stood down for accessing porn on a school computer wants to re-establish contact with his teenage daughter. A carer out on a day trip is desperate to find a working toi... read more
Author: | Hilary Mantel |
Category: |
Anthologies and Essays |
In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, ‘I have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be more brisk and breezy than scholarly.’ This collection of twenty reviews, essays a... read more
Author: | Lloyd Jones; Euan Macleod |
Category: |
Anthologies and Essays |
Series: | Korero Ser. |
High Wire brings together Booker finalist writer Lloyd Jones and artist Euan Macleod. It is the first of a series of picture books written and made for grownups and designed to showcase leading New Zealand writers and artists working together in a collaborative a... read more
Author: | Rachel Williams |
Category: |
Anthologies and Essays |
All around us, nature is turning, growing...and working. Every day, hour by hour, magical transformations happen right in front of you. But it's not always easy to see them... Discover 50 nature stories, paused just long enough... read more
Author: | Paul Merton (Editor) |
Category: |
Anthologies and Essays |
80 of the funniest stories ever written, selected and introduced by comedian and broadcaster Paul Merton.
From Anton Chekhov to Ali Smith, from P.G. Wodehouse to Nora Ephron, the greatest writers are those who know how to have a laugh. Here, award-winning comedian and ... read more
Author: | Sarah Wearne |
Category: |
Anthologies and Essays |
Series: | Epitaphs of the Great War Ser. |
Epitaphs of the Great War: The Last 100 Days is the third instalment in a collection that presents headstone inscriptions from the graves of soldiers killed during World War I. Limited by the Imperial War Graves Commission to sixty-six characters, these inscriptions are ma... read more
Author: | Virago Press |
Category: |
Anthologies and Essays |
Series: | Virago Modern Classics Ser. |
Reading Level: | near fine |
Margaret Drabble | Beryl Bainbridge | Angela Carter | Maggie O'Farrell | Elizabeth Jane Howard | A. S. Byatt | Penelope Lively | Sarah Waters | Jonathan Coe | Diana Souhami | Jilly Cooper | Elizabeth Bowen | Mark Bostridge | Alexander McCall Smith | Sarah Dunant | Rac... read more
Author: | Robert McCrum |
Category: |
Anthologies and Essays |
'Thoughtful, subtle, elegantly clever and oddly joyous, Every Third Thought is beautiful' Kate Mosse In 1995, at the age of forty two, Robert McCrum suffered a dramatic and near-fatal stroke, the subject of his acclaimed memoir My Year ... read more
Author: | Tim Parks |
Category: |
Anthologies and Essays |
Should you finish every book you start? How has your family influenced the way you read? What is literary style? How is the Nobel Prize like the World Cup? Why do you hate the book your friend likes? Is writing really just like any othe... read more
Author: | Suzette Field |
Category: |
Literary Criticism |
Since ancient times human beings have gathered together for social purposes. And since not very long after that writers have written about these occasions. The party is a useful literary device, not only for social comment and satire, but as an occasion where characters... read more
Author: | Jacqueline Rose |
Category: |
Literary Criticism |
Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
Since her suicide in 1963 at the age of 30, Sylvia Plath has become a strange icon. This book addresses why this is the case and what this tells us about the way culture picks out important writers. The author argues that without a concept of fantasy we can understand neither Plath's work nor what she... read more
Author: | John Freeman |
Category: |
Literary Criticism |
Series: | Granta: The Magazine of New Writing |
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