Author: Harry Harrison
The first planet was called Pyrrus ...a strange place where all the beasts, plants and natural elements were designed for one specific purpose: to destroy man. The second planet was unknown ...a savagely primitive place ... |
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Author: Wilkie Collins
When a condemned woman asks the local Minister to take her daughter home, the childless man is touched and finds himself unable to refuse. Yet the prisoner is unrepentant of the murder of her husband. Will her vices be p ... |
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Three English Lives
Author: Caryl Phillips
Francis Barber, 'given' to the great eighteenth-century writer Samuel Johnson, afforded an unusual depth of freedom, which, after Johnson's death, would help hasten his wretched demise...Randolph Turpin, Britain's first ... |
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The Collected Tablet Journalism of Graham Greene, 1936 - 1987
Author: Graham Greene
When Graham Greene died in 1991, at the age of 86, his reputation as a great Catholic writer was assured. His books reflected an awareness of sin and confronted discomfiting themes with a sombre eye. The British Catholic ... |
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Author: Blake Morrison
This volume seeks to expose the hollowness of condemnation divorced from understanding in relation to the Bulger murder trial. People have almost become desensitized to random murder. It is often explained away by madnes ... |
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Confessions of a Literary Hedonist
Author: Anne Fadiman
In At Large and At Small, Anne Fadiman returns to one of her favourite genres, the familiar essay - a beloved and hallowed literary tradition recognized for both its intellectual breadth and its miniaturist focus on ever ... |
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Iraq and the Gulf War
Author: Jean Moorcroft Wilson & Cecil Woolf
This book is about two wars, separated by twelve years but united by the figures of Saddam Hussein and George Bush father and son. Based on writers' responses to a questionnaire, it is an attempt to record contemporary o ... |
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Author: Carlos Castaneda
Carlos Castaneda was one of the most influential spiritual teachers of the 20th century. In this stunning new jacket edition of his bestselling book, he takes the reader on an amazing journey of the soul via the teaching ... |
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Author: Mark Kurlansky
From Mark Kurlansky, bestselling and award-winning author of Cod, comes a lively, insightful anthology of food writing from ancient to contemporary writers. Choice Cuts opens with an introduction about the history of foo ... |
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Author: David Mitchell
This title presents an inspirational collection of quotations. Conversations With the Heart-Mind is a book of beautiful quotations covering all aspects of our lives. Written by a well-known Adelaide doctor, these quotati ... |
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Author: Spike Milligan
This second collected work of one of Britain's best-loved comedians, a companion to the original, "The Essential Spike Milligan", spans his 50-year career and incorporates a rich and varied range of material. |
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Fiction, Journalism and Travel Writing
Author: Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens, Francais naturalise, et Citoyen de Paris. This is how Dickens signed a letter from France to his friend John Forster in 1847. Behind the joke lay a fascination for French life and culture and a sense of ... |
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Author: Claude Cahun
Claude Cahun (1894-1954, born Lucie Schwob) was a poet, essayist, literary critic, translator, actress, Surrealist, revolutionary artist and photographer. Although primarily a writer, the range of Cahun's activities as a ... |
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Author: David Malouf
From the image of a small boy entranced by his mother's GI escort, yet still hoping for the return of his father 'missing in action', to the portrait of an adult writer trying to piece together a defining image of his la ... |
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Selected Prose 1971-2001
Author: Seamus Heaney
Finders Keepers is a gathering of Seamus Heaney's prose of three decades. Whether autobiographical, topical or specifically literary, these essays and lectures circle the central preoccupying questions: How should a poet ... |
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Webs of Power - Mates, Nodes and Cells
Author: Julianne Schultz
The internet has changed the way we think. Elites are pass networks are the new webs of power. Griffith Review: Webs of Powerexplores the way networks exert influence. From the revolving door or politics to the junior cr ... |
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A Critical Voice in Interwar Central Europe
Author: Milena Jesenska & Kathleen Hayes
Although Milena Jesenska's relationship with Kafka lasted only a short time, it won the attention of the literary world with the 1952 publication of Kafka's letters to Milena. Her own letters did not survive. Later biogr ... |
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The Making of a Tarantino Classic as Seen Through the Eyes of a Screen Legend
Author: David Carradine
The quirky, strange and utterly sagacious meditations of David Caradine written during the making of Quentin Tarantino's contemporary classic in which Carradine played the lead role. When Carradine landed the lead role ... |
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The Last Interview
Author: Jacques Derrida & Jean Birnbaum
A few weeks before his death, Derrida said: 'I am at war with myself, it's true, you couldn't possibly know to what extent ...I know that it is what keeps me alive, and makes me ask precisely ...how does one learn to liv ... |
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The Art of the Obituary
Author: Nigel Starck
In recent years, the obituary has enjoyed a remarkable resurgence in literary prestige and popularity with readers. As David Bowman, a distinguished Australian editor and journalist, says: 'In the English-speaking world, ... |
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