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Where the Hearth Is: Stories of home

Where the Hearth Is: Stories of home

Author: Kate Humble
ISBN: 9781783254613
Format: Paperback
$26.99

A resounding love letter to the notion of 'home'  Read More >>

Revisiting Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic: Emerging Cultures of Sustainability

Revisiting Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic: Emerging Cultures...

Author: William Forbes
ISBN: 9781622881376
Format: Paperback
$68.64

Presents a collection of essays about the man acknowleged by some as the father of wildlife conservation. What may...  Read More >>

All We Have is the Story: Selected Interviews (1973-2022)

All We Have is the Story: Selected Interviews (1973-2022)...

Author: James Kelman
ISBN: 9798887440057
Format: Paperback
$39.99

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How to Build Impossible Things: Lessons in Life and Carpentry

How to Build Impossible Things: Lessons in Life and...

Author: Mark Ellison
ISBN: 9781529157307
Format: Paperback
$27.99

An illuminating memoir-cum-meditation on work and creativity by the brilliant veteran carpenter, Mark Ellison. 'Gorgeous...  Read More >>

On Women: A new collection of feminist essays from the influential writer, activist and critic, Susan Sontag

On Women: A new collection of feminist essays from the...

Author: Susan Sontag
ISBN: 9780241996843
Format: Paperback
$24.99

On Women brings together Susan Sontag's most fearless and incisive writing on women, a crucial aspect of her work...  Read More >>

Truly Criminal: A Crime Writers' Association Anthology of True Crime

Truly Criminal: A Crime Writers' Association Anthology...

Author: Martin Edwards ,  Peter James
ISBN: 9781803996998
Format: Paperback
$37.99

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Some Men In London: Queer Life, 1945-1959

Some Men In London: Queer Life, 1945-1959

Author: Peter Parker
ISBN: 9780241370605
Format: Hardback
$65.00

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All We Have is the Story: Selected Interviews (1973-2022)

All We Have is the Story: Selected Interviews (1973-2022)...

Author: James Kelman
ISBN: 9798887440064
Format: Hardback
$69.99

Novelist, playwright, essayist, and master of the short story. Artist and engaged working-class intellectual; husband,...  Read More >>

Landfall 247: Autumn 2024

Landfall 247: Autumn 2024

Author: Lynley Edmeades
ISBN: 9781990048777
Format: Paperback
$43.73

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Time, History and Cultural Spaces: Narrative Explorations

Time, History and Cultural Spaces: Narrative Explorations...

Author: Jayita Sengupta
ISBN: 9781032318271
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book brings together critical essays on time, history and narrativity and the explorations of these concepts...  Read More >>

David, Donne, and Thirsty Deer: Selected Essays of Anne Lake Prescott

David, Donne, and Thirsty Deer: Selected Essays of Anne...

Author: Anne Lake Prescott ,  Roger Kuin
ISBN: 9781526179388
Format: Hardback
$194.99

Essays by Anne Lake Prescott on French and English early modern writers and cultures, from Du Bellay to Spenser,...  Read More >>

Jump Start

Jump Start

Author: Michael Press
ISBN: 9781528976947
Format: Paperback
$23.26

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A Last Supper of Queer Apostles: Selected Essays

A Last Supper of Queer Apostles: Selected Essays

Author: Pedro Lemebel ,  Gwendolyn Harper
ISBN: 9781782278245
Format: Paperback
$26.99

"""A galvanizing look at life on the margins of society by a crowning figure of Latin America's queer counterculture...  Read More >>

A Silent Language — WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE: The Nobel Lecture

A Silent Language — WINNER OF THE 2023 NOBEL PRIZE IN...

Author: Jon Fosse ,  Damion Searls
ISBN: 9781804271230
Format: Paperback
$14.99

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Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship

Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good...

Author: Robert Baden-Powell ,  Elleke Boehmer (Professor of World Literature in English)
ISBN: 9780198900344
Format: Paperback
$16.95

The original 'self-instructor' of the Boy Scout Movement, Scouting for Boys (1908) is probably the most influential...  Read More >>

Like Love: Essays and Conversations

Like Love: Essays and Conversations

Author: Maggie Nelson
ISBN: 9781911717027
Format: Hardback
$45.00

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The Paris Trilogy: A Life in Three Stories

The Paris Trilogy: A Life in Three Stories

Author: Colombe Schneck ,  Lauren Elkin
ISBN: 9781398529397
Format: Hardback
$55.00

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The Art of Dying: Writings, 2019-2022

The Art of Dying: Writings, 2019-2022

Author: Peter Schjeldahl ,  Steve Martin
ISBN: 9781419773242
Format: Hardback
$44.99

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Aale-Ahmad Suroor ke Mazameen: (Urdu Essays)

Aale-Ahmad Suroor ke Mazameen: (Urdu Essays)

Author: Aale-Ahmad Suroor
ISBN: 9789358728712
Format: Paperback
$84.45

Aale-Ahmad Suroor's selected articles based on the understanding and interpretation of poetry and literature are...  Read More >>

Abandon All Hope: A Personal Journey Through the History of Welsh Literature

Abandon All Hope: A Personal Journey Through the History...

Author: Gary Raymond
ISBN: 9781915279262
Format: Hardback
$39.95

An accessible introduction to the history of Wales's literature. I awoke from a deep sleep I had taken under the...  Read More >>

Chattaan aur Paani: (Literary Essays)

Chattaan aur Paani: (Literary Essays)

Author: Fuzail Jafri
ISBN: 9789358722499
Format: Paperback
$71.25

A literary critic must have the qualities of intelligent interpretation, wide-ranging study, ability to write clearly...  Read More >>

Best Canadian Essays 2024

Best Canadian Essays 2024

Author: Marcello Di Cintio
ISBN: 9781771965644
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Selected by editor Marcello Di Cintio, the 2024 edition ofBest Canadian Essays showcases the best Canadian nonfiction...  Read More >>

The Muse of History: The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the Present

The Muse of History: The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment...

Author: Oswyn Murray
ISBN: 9780241360576
Format: Hardback
$65.00

Oswyn Murray charts the shifting uses of the ancient past, showing how three centuries of scholars interpreted ancient...  Read More >>

Beneath the Surface of Things: New and Selected Essays

Beneath the Surface of Things: New and Selected Essays...

Author: Wade Davis
ISBN: 9781778400445
Format: Hardback
$49.99

'Wade Davis is a true wayfinder, and these essays offer new insight into his visionary approach to culture, landscape,...  Read More >>

Errant Destinations

Errant Destinations

Author: Andrea Jeftanovic ,  Jacqueline C. Nanfito
ISBN: 9781666942262
Format: Hardback
$177.00

In nine personal essays that blur the line between fiction and non-fiction, Andrea Jeftanovic explores border regions...  Read More >>

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