A Vertical Art: Oxford Lectures
By: Simon Armitage
3.90
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Weeds and Wild Flowers
By: Alice Oswald , None
4.00
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
"Weeds and Wild Flowers" is a magical meeting of the poems of Alice Oswald and the etchings of Jess… read more
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2. Monstrous Regiment (Discworld, #31; Industrial Revolution, #3)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
Polly Perks joins the Discworld army to find her brother Paul. "Ozzer" cuts off blonde braids, dons… read more
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3. New Selected Poems
By: Carol Ann Duffy
3.81
Format: 215 pages, Hardcover
Carol Ann Duffy draws together key poems from her published work to date spanning almost twenty yea… read more
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- poetry
4. A Murder of Quality
By: John Le Carré
3.64
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of inter… read more
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5. The Peripheral
By: William Gibson
3.42
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The New York Timesbestselling author of such "high-tech dystopian thriller[s]"* as Neuromancer and … read more
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6. Hot Milk
By: Deborah Levy
3.94
Format: 489 pages, Hardcover
Sofia, a young anthropologist, has spent much of her life trying to solve the mystery of her mother… read more
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7. You Took the Last Bus Home: The Poems of Brian Bilston
By: Brian Bilston
3.65
Format: 36 pages, Hardcover
You Took the Last Bus Home is the first and long-awaited collection of ingeniously hilarious and su… read more
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8. Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku
By: William J. Higginson
3.49
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
"The Haiku Handbook" is the first book to give the reader everything needed to begin writing or tea… read more
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9. Unseen Academicals (Discworld, #37; Rincewind #8)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.29
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Discworld lives on in Unseen Academicals, the latest novel from Terry Pratchett. Delivering the tra… read more
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10. The Rain in Portugal: New Poems
By: Billy Collins
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins comes a twelfth collection of poetry offering nearly f… read more
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11. The Epic of Gilgamesh
By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars
3.74
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more
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"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh
12. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
By: Unknown , None , Burton Raffel
4.50
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Written by an anonymous 14th-century poet, this epic poem is recognized as an equal of Chaucer's ma… read more
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13. Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad
By: Alice Oswald
3.97
Format: 68 pages, Hardcover
To retrieve the Iliad's' energy, Alice Oswald has stripped away its story and her account focuses b… read more
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14. New Selected Poems, 1957-1994
By: Ted Hughes
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
This volume contains a large selection of poems from 1957 to 1994, including uncollected poems from… read more
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15. Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Mark Doty , A. Poulin Jr.
4.07
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Rilke is one of the most widely read poets of the 20th century. In his poetry, Rilke addresses the … read more
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16. The Night is Darkening Round Me
By: Emily Brontë
3.81
Format: None pages, Paperback
'... ever-present, phantom thing; My slave, my comrade, and my king' Some of Emily Bronte's most ex… read more
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17. 40 Sonnets
By: Don Paterson
4.17
Format: 267 pages, Hardcover
This new collection from Don Paterson, his first since the Forward prize-winning Rainin 2009, is a … read more
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18. The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone (The Theban Plays, #1–3)
By: Sophocles , Robert Fitzgerald , Dudley Fitts , None
5.00
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
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19. Vampires in the Lemon Grove
By: Karen Russell
4.18
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times best seller Swamplandia!--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--… read more
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20. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
By: Katherine Rundell
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biogra… read more
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"To adore and to devour and to be devoured is its own kind of focus: a gasp of a different kind of oxygen."-Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
21. Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.08
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A startling new look at quantum theory, from the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physi… read more
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"But structures are processes are not there so that organisms can survive and reproduce. It is the other way round: organisms survive and reproduce because these structures have happened to gradually …"-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
"Credo che uno dei grandi errori che fanno gli esseri umani quando tentano di capire qualcosa sia volere certezze. La ricerca della conoscenza non si nutre di certezze: si nutre di una radicale assenz…"-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
"In qualunque angolo dell'universo troviamo vertiginosi pozzi di strati di realtà. In questi strati siamo riusciti a riconoscere regolarità, sulle quali abbiamo raccolto informazione rilevante per noi…"-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
22. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
By: Thomas Halliday
4.13
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more
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"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
23. Certain Dark Things
By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
3.74
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Welcome to Mexico City, an oasis in a sea of vampires. Domingo, a lonely garbage-collecting street … read more
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"One moment he was flinching and the next there was a slow, sweet wave that dragged him down ... it was a haze. The haze you experience when your eyes are heavy and you are about to fall asleep, where…"-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Certain Dark Things
24. Underland: A Deep Time Journey
By: Robert Macfarlane
4.22
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
In Underland, Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic exploration of the Earth’s underworlds as they exi… read more
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25. Strong Female Character
By: Fern Brady
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more
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"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character
26. Musical Tables: Poems
By: Billy Collins
3.79
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A collection of more than 125 small poems, all of them new, each a thought or observation compresse… read more
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27. A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
By: Noreen Masud
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A surprising and lyrical journey—part memoir, part nature book—meditating on the meaning of "flatne… read more
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"We tell stories to make them visible. Or we tell stories so that we don’t have to look at them any longer."-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
"Supposedly trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is th…"-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
"Supposedly, trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does, and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is …"-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
"I was held captive by this unyielding, silent space, and I began to understand two things. The flatness wasn’t an absence - not in the way we might assume it is - but something strong and original an…"-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
28. The Lost Rainforests of Britain
By: Guy Shrubsole
4.30
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Who Owns England?, a mesmerising chronicle of our forgo… read more
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"This was the very heart of Wales' rainforest zone, where the oceanic climate conspires to make conditions perfect for the rich profusion of plant life that we'd spent the past week exploring. Yet her…"-Guy Shrubsole, The Lost Rainforests of Britain
29. Alexa, what is there to know about love?
By: Brian Bilston
4.07
Format: 84 pages, Kindle Edition
‘Bilston is a magician with words’ - GuardianThe perfect, witty gift for Valentine’s and beyond. Al… read more
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30. A Vertical Art: Oxford Lectures
By: Simon Armitage
3.90
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
This edition gathers the expansive and spirited public lectures delivered by Simon Armitage during … read more
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31. Orpheus
By: Don Paterson
4.22
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Since his work was translated by J.B. Leishman and Stephen Spender in the 1930s, Rainer Maria Rilke… read more
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