Zoology
By: Gillian Clarke
4.09
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
Longlisted for the 2020 Laurel Prize for Ecopoetry Zoology is Gillian Clarke’s ninth Carcanet colle…
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1. Notes on Suicide
By: David Hume , Simon Critchley
3.74
Format: 92 pages, Paperback
Suicide is everywhere. It haunts history and current events. It haunts our own networks of friends … read more
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"El suicidio, bajo mi punto de vista, no constituye un crimen legal ni moral, y nadie debería considerarlo como tal."-David Hume, Notes on Suicide
"Este mundo puede quitarnos todo, puede prohibirnos todo, pero no está en el poder de nadie impedir nuestra autoabolición."-David Hume, Notes on Suicide
"Cioran escribe que «sólo se suicidan los optimistas, los optimistas que ya no logran serlo. Los demás, no teniendo ninguna razón para vivir, ¿por qué la tendrían para morir?»"-David Hume, Notes on Suicide
"Quien no haya concebido jamás su propia anulación, quien no haya presentido el recurso a la cuerda, a la bala, al veneno o al mar, es un recluso envilecido o un gusano reptante sobre la carroña cósmi…"-David Hume, Notes on Suicide
2. Brand New Ancients
By: Kae Tempest
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the Ted Hughes Prize for innovation in poetry. read more
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3. Girl with Curious Hair
By: David Foster Wallace
3.62
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Remarkable, hilarious and unsettling re-imaginations of reality by "a dynamic writer of extraordina… read more
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4. Deep Water
By: Patricia Highsmith
4.10
Format: 668 pages, Paperback
In Deep Water, set in the quiet, small town of Little Wesley, Patricia Highsmith has created a vici… read more
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5. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
By: Roddy Doyle
3.50
Format: 0 pages, Mass Market Paperback
"Sometimes when nothing happened it was really getting ready to happen." Irish Paddy rampages throu… read more
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6. The Woman in Black
By: Susan Hill , John Lawrence
3.85
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
What real reader does not yearn, somewhere in the recesses of his or her heart, for a really litera… read more
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7. Raising Demons
By: Shirley Jackson
4.00
Format: 139 pages, Paperback
Life Among the Savages charmed thousands with its insightful wit and contrasting warmth. In this se… read more
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8. 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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- poetry
9. I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
By: Maggie O'Farrell
4.19
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary memoir--told entirely in near-death experiences--from one of Britain's best-sellin… read more
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10. A Month in the Country
By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd
3.76
Format: None pages,
In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more
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11. The Arrival
By: Shaun Tan
4.30
Format: 237 pages, Hardcover
In a heartbreaking parting, a man gives his wife and daughter a last kiss and boards a steamship to… read more
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12. Dart
By: Alice Oswald
4.00
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
Over the past three years Alice Oswald has been recording conversations with people who live and wo… read more
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13. Sweet Days of Discipline
By: Tim Parks , Fleur Jaeggy
4.50
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's eerily beautiful novel begins simply and innocently enou… read more
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14. The Bonniest Companie
By: Kathleen Jamie
4.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In her extraordinary new collection, Kathleen Jamie examines her native Scotland - a country at onc… 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. Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger
By: Nigel Slater
3.69
Format: 496 pages,
'My mother is scraping a piece of burned toast out of the kitchen window, a crease of annoyance acr… read more
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17. Blue Horses
By: Mary Oliver
4.24
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
In this stunning collection of new poems, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has defined her l… read more
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18. 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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19. The Complete Poems
By: William Blake , Alicia Suskin Ostriker
3.72
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
One of the great English Romantic poets, William Blake (1757-1827) was an artist, poet, mystic and … read more
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20. Prophet Song
By: Paul Lynch
4.10
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more
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"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
21. The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides
By: Adam Nicolson
3.51
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Few places are as familiar as the shore – and few as full of mystery and surprise. In the sea is… read more
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"The sea is not made of water. Creatures are its genes."-Adam Nicolson, The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides
22. Niente di vero
By: Veronica Raimo
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Prendete lo spirito dissacrante che trasforma nevrosi, sesso e disastri famigliari in commedia, da … read more
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"Quando finalmente arrivò la scoperta dei libri, non fu una forma di evasione, piuttosto una rasserenante coalescenza di noia. Riuscivo quasi a visualizzarla, bianca e melmosa: leggere era come sprofo…"-Veronica Raimo, Niente di vero
23. The Perseverance
By: Raymond Antrobus
4.31
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
The Perseverance is the remarkable debut book by British-Jamaican poet Raymond Antrobus. Ranging ac… read more
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24. Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains
By: Alexa Hagerty
4.47
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims' families to investigate crimes against h… read more
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25. 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
26. Postcolonial Love Poem
By: Natalie Díaz
4.33
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more
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"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
27. The Gull Yettin
By: Joe Kessler
4.04
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
The life of an orphaned boy is shaped by the devotion of a fantastical Gull in this lovingly render… read more
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28. Cairn
By: Kathleen Jamie
4.34
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Cairn: A marker on open land, a memorial, a viewpoint shared by strangers. For the last five yea… read more
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- nature
29. Zoology
By: Gillian Clarke
4.09
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
Longlisted for the 2020 Laurel Prize for Ecopoetry Zoology is Gillian Clarke’s ninth Carcanet colle… read more
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30. Late Light: Finding Home in the West Country
By: Michael Malay
4.40
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
This is a book about falling in love with vanishing things Late Light is the story of Michael … read more
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31. The Butterfly House
By: Kathryn Bevis
4.93
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
Following her much-celebrated pamphlet, Flamingo, Kathryn Bevis’s debut, The Butterfly House, tells… read more
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