The Fire of Joy: Roughly Eighty Poems to Get By Heart and Say Aloud
By: Clive James
4.24
Format: None pages, Paperback
Essentially, this is Clive James' desert island a selection of his favourite verse and a personal c…
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1. The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
By: Mark Forsyth
4.48
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The Etymologicon springs from Mark Forsyth's Inky Fool blog on the strange connections between word… read more
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- nonfiction
2. Firstborn: Poems
By: Louise Glück
4.08
Format: 234 pages,
LoC: 6818259 ASIN: B000UE2H3Y read more
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- poetry
3. Runaway
By: Alice Munro
4.20
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Here are the infinite betrayals and surprises of love-between men and women, between friends, betwe… read more
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- literature
4. Hume: A Very Short Introduction
By: A.J. Ayer
4.21
Format: None pages, Paperback
Hume's "naturalist" approach to a wide variety of philosophical topics resulted in highly original … read more
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- nonfiction
5. The Human Factor
By: Graham Greene , Peter Kemp
4.20
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A leak is traced to a small sub-section of SIS, sparking off the inevitable security checks, tensio… read more
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6. Days Without End
By: Sebastian Barry
2.75
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Man Booker Prize finalist Sebastian Barry, "a master storyteller" (Wall Street Jo… read more
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7. Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems
By: William Carlos Williams , Allen Ginsberg
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechn… read more
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8. Felicity
By: Mary Oliver
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, celebrates love in her new collection of poems "If I ha… read more
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9. Landmarks
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Landmarksis Robert Macfarlane's joyous meditation on words, landscape and the relationship between … read more
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10. Herzog
By: Philip Roth , Saul Bellow
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is the story of Moses Herzog, a great sufferer, joker, mourner, and charmer. Although his life… read more
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11. The Living Mountain
By: Robert Macfarlane , Nan Shepherd
4.50
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
This is an alternate Cover Edition for . The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of t… read more
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13. Leaving the Atocha Station
By: Ben Lerner , Alva Dahl
4.54
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship i… read more
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14. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
By: Olivia Laing
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
15. Caledonian Road
By: Andrew O'Hagan
3.96
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more
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- literature
16. Stone Yard Devotional
By: Charlotte Wood
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more
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- literature
17. The Last Witch of Scotland
By: Philip Paris
3.95
Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition
Being a woman was her only crime. Scottish Highlands, 1727. In the aftermath of a tragic fire… read more
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18. Cuddy
By: Benjamin Myers
4.33
Format: 447 pages, Hardcover
Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patr… read more
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- poetry
"Some say owls carry within them the souls of those who in life never had a name, a place or a purpose, and were cast out to wander alone. Some say their stained-glass eyes are windows into other worl…"-Benjamin Myers, Cuddy
19. Absolutely and Forever
By: Rose Tremain
3.90
Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition
A piercing short novel of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writers… read more
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20. Soldier Sailor
By: Claire Kilroy
4.10
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more
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"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
21. Night Side of the River
By: Jeanette Winterson
3.69
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A captivating collection of ghost stories from “one of the most gifted writers working today” ( New… read more
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"That's the trouble with time. Never happens when it should."-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River
"Nobody's looking at me. Nobody does look at middle-aged women."-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River
"We're always roaming around in the past or the future. The present is a hard place to live."-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River
"It's hard, you know, getting divorced.' Billy gave me a hug. 'Love is hard--whether you got it or you don't."-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River
22. My Friends
By: Hisham Matar
4.34
Format: 399 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more
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- literature
"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."-Hisham Matar, My Friends
"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"-Hisham Matar, My Friends
23. But What Can I Do?
By: Alastair Campbell
3.87
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
'Your country needs you. Your world needs you. Your time is now.'Our politics is a mess. Leaders wh… read more
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- nonfiction
24. The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History
By: Kassia St. Clair
4.11
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From colorful 30,000-year-old threads found on the floor of a Georgian cave to the Indian calicoes … read more
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- nonfiction
"Canopy, an environmental organisation, believes that 120 million trees are felled each year to produce rayon and other cellulose-based materials."-Kassia St. Clair, The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History
25. The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley
By: Sean Lusk
3.90
Format: 356 pages, Paperback
Zachary Cloudesley is gifted in a remarkable way. But not all gifts are a blessing... Leadenhall… read more
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26. Held
By: Anne Michaels
3.66
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more
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- literature
- poetry
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"-Anne Michaels, Held
"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."-Anne Michaels, Held
27. How to Enjoy Poetry (Little Ways to Live a Big Life Book 12)
By: Frank Skinner
4.30
Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition
'Someone recently said to me, in reference to my poetry podcast, that you'd think poetry would be m… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"We may not know how the lines of our life are going to end, but at least we can predict what they'll sound like."-Frank Skinner, How to Enjoy Poetry (Little Ways to Live a Big Life Book 12)
"That's the thing with good poets. They structure and decide and re-write and insert, but some of the magic comes from a place beyond intention."-Frank Skinner, How to Enjoy Poetry (Little Ways to Live a Big Life Book 12)
"That's the thing with good poets. They structure and decide and re-write and insert, but some of the magic comes from the place beyond intention."-Frank Skinner, How to Enjoy Poetry (Little Ways to Live a Big Life Book 12)
"That's the thing with good poets. They structure and decide and re-write and insert, but some of the magic comes from the place beyond intention. It just falls from them like windfall fruit."-Frank Skinner, How to Enjoy Poetry (Little Ways to Live a Big Life Book 12)
28. A Little History of Poetry
By: John Carey
3.72
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one … read more
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- literature
- poetry
- nonfiction
"IM DYING PELASE - clare batt in year 6"-John Carey, A Little History of Poetry
29. Leaning Toward Light: Poems for Gardens & the Hands That Tend Them
By: Tess Taylor
4.09
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
This beautiful poetry anthology offers a warm, inviting selection of poems from a wide range of voi… read more
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- nonfiction
30. The Fire of Joy: Roughly Eighty Poems to Get By Heart and Say Aloud
By: Clive James
4.24
Format: None pages, Paperback
Essentially, this is Clive James' desert island a selection of his favourite verse and a personal c… read more
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- literature
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- nonfiction
- essays
