City Psalms (Studies in Comparative Religion (Paperback))
By: Benjamin Zephaniah
4.15
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
City Psalms was Benjamin Zephaniah's first collection from Bloodaxe back in 1992. It includes some …
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1. Serious Concerns
By: Wendy Cope
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A collection of poems featuring works by Cope such as "Bloody Men", "Men and their Boring Arguments… read more
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"Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion."-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
"The day he moved out was terrible – That evening she went through hell. His absence wasn’t a problem But the corkscrew had gone as well."-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
"At lunchtime I bought a huge orange The size of it made us all laugh. I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave— They got quarters and I had a half. And that orange it made me so happy, As ordin…"-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
"Bloody men are like bloody buses — You wait for about a year And as soon as one approaches your stop Two or three others appear. You look at them flashing their indicators, Offering you a ride. You’r…"-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
2. On Palestine
By: Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé
4.25
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dea… read more
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"It's quite standard for those who hold the clubs to say: "Forget about everything that happened and let's just go on from here." In other words, "I've got what I want, and out forget about what your …"-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine
"How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply forget that we are. We are all born with compassion, generosity, and love for others…"-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine
3. Dance Dance Dance
By: Haruki Murakami
4.05
Format: 393 pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition here. High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic 13-year-old … read more
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"I often dream about the Dolphin Hotel."-Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
"What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with."-Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
"I'm your phantom dance partner. I'm your shadow. I'm not anything more."-Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
"We keep moving. And as we do, the things around us, well, they disappear."-Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
4. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
By: Muriel Spark
3.70
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
A teacher at a girl's school in Edinburgh during the 1930s comes into conflict with school authorit… read more
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"It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due"-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"[...] there were other people's Edinburghs quite different from hers [...]"-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"... flattening their scorn underneath the chariot wheels of her superiority."-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul."-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
5. Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow
By: Ted Hughes
4.26
Format: 999 pages, Hardcover
Crowwas Ted Hughes's fourth book of poems for adults and a pivotal moment in his writing career. In… read more
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- poetry
- british literature
6. The World's Wife
By: Carol Ann Duffy
4.42
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Be terrified. It's you I love, perfect man, Greek God, my own; but I know you'll go, betray me,… read more
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7. The Man Who Planted Trees
By: Jean Giono
3.85
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Simply written, but powerful and unforgettable, The Man Who Planted Trees is a parable for modern t… read more
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8. Utopia
By: Paul Turner , Thomas More
3.55
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
In his most famous and controversial book, Utopia, Thomas More imagines a perfect island nation whe… read more
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"The change of the word does not alter the matter"-Paul Turner, Utopia
"Isn't this conception of absolute justice absolutely unjust?"-Paul Turner, Utopia
"Dünyada kaygısız, rahat yürekle, sevinçle yaşamaktan daha büyük zenginlik olabilir mi?"-Paul Turner, Utopia
"Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all."-Paul Turner, Utopia
9. Grief is the Thing with Feathers
By: Max Porter
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their … read more
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10. The Leopard
By: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , Archibald Colquhoun
4.01
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
The Sicilian prince Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (1896-1957) died just after writing The Leopard, h… read more
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"While there’s death there’s hope"-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"Cambiare tutto perché niente cambi."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"La eternidad amorosa dura pocos años."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"Nothing could be decently hated except eternity."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
11. Fathers and Sons
By: Ivan Turgenev , None , None
3.99
Format: 244 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Bazarov—a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man—has journeyed from school to the home of his fri… read more
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"He has no faith in principles, only in frogs."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"Death's an old story, but new for each person."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
"However, I know myself as a very unhappy person."-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
12. Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
By: C.S. Lewis
4.19
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Lifeis a partial autobiography describing Lewis' conversion… read more
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13. Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
By: Armistead Maupin
4.00
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
San Francisco, 1976. A naïve young secretary, fresh out of Cleveland, tumbles headlong into a brave… read more
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"Small world, huh?"-Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
"We’re gonna be … I mean people like you and me … we’re gonna be fifty-year-old libertines in a world full of twenty-year-old Calvinists."-Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
"The thing that bugs me... is that you never really know what women are like... not for a long time, anyway. They only show you what they want you to see." Michael nodded. "So you fantasize over all t…"-Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
"Nobody's happy. What's happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on." The older woman poured herself a glass of sangria. "Screw that," she said quietly. "What?" "Screw that. Wash your mouth out. …"-Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
14. The Tiger's Wife
By: Téa Obreht
3.20
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Weaving a brilliant latticework of family legend, loss, and love, Tea Obreht, the youngest of The N… read more
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15. Night Sky with Exit Wounds
By: Ocean Vuong
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more
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16. The Waste Land and Other Poems
By: T.S. Eliot
3.62
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Few readers need any introduction to the work of the most influential poet of the twentieth century… read more
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17. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
18. So Late in the Day
By: Claire Keegan
4.00
Format: 47 pages, Hardcover
After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more
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19. Treacle Walker
By: Alan Garner
3.13
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the fluidity of time… read more
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- british literature
20. Enter Ghost
By: Isabella Hammad
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more
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21. Ain't Burned All the Bright
By: Jason Reynolds
4.42
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Prepare yourself for something unlike anything: A smash-up of art and text for teens that viscerall… read more
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"What is life in a house underwater?"-Jason Reynolds, Ain't Burned All the Bright
"...and freedom to play without worry about the rules being rearranged"-Jason Reynolds, Ain't Burned All the Bright
"...and she wipes weary from her eyes still glued to the no-good glued to the high definition glare of low-definition life"-Jason Reynolds, Ain't Burned All the Bright
"And I'm sitting here wondering why my mother won't change the channel and why the news won't change the story and why the story won't change into something new instead of the every-hour rerun about h…"-Jason Reynolds, Ain't Burned All the Bright
22. The Orange and Other Poems
By: Wendy Cope
4.19
Format: 53 pages, Kindle Edition
My heart has made its mind up And I'm afraid it's you. The Orange and Other Poems provides the … read more
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- british literature
23. 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
24. People Person
By: Candice Carty-Williams
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Dimple Pennington knew of her half siblings, but she didn't really know them. Five people who don't… read more
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25. Intervals
By: Marianne Brooker
4.38
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
What makes a good death? A good daughter? In 2009, with her forties and a harsh wave of austerity o… read more
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26. Self-Portrait as Othello
By: Jason Allen-Paisant
4.02
Format: 88 pages, Kindle Edition
Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2023 Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023 Long… read more
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27. The Coin
By: Yasmin Zaher
3.55
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets… read more
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"And the poet, he asked, who was it again? Aisha didn't know him, neither did Matthew. But, of course, Gregory did. He asked if he was the 9/11 denier. No, definitely not a denier, but very vocal when…"-Yasmin Zaher, The Coin
28. City Psalms (Studies in Comparative Religion (Paperback))
By: Benjamin Zephaniah
4.15
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
City Psalms was Benjamin Zephaniah's first collection from Bloodaxe back in 1992. It includes some … read more
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- british literature
29. The Masquerades of Spring (Rivers of London #9.2)
By: Ben Aaronovitch
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
New York City, New York. Meet Augustus Berrycloth-Young - fop, flaneur, and Englishman abroad - … read more
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30. Collected Poems (Penguin Modern Classics)
By: Laurie Lee
3.67
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A landmark new collection of poems from the author of Cider with RosieLaurie Lee is beloved for his… read more
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