5 best-selling poetry books like Magnetic Field The Marsden Poems by Simon Armitage

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Magnetic Field The Marsden Poems

By: Simon Armitage

4.07

Format: 89 pages, Hardcover

First edition, first printing hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, in very good condition. Light s…

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1. Four Quartets

By: T.S. Eliot

3.67

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

The Four Quartets is a series of four poems by T.S. Eliot, published individually from 1936 to 1942… read more

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2. 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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3. Hotel du Lac

By: Anita Brookner

3.93

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

"Impeccably written and suffused with pleasing wit."--Newsweek In the novel that won her the Booker… read more

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4. Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of an English Dynasty

By: Catherine Bailey

3.50

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

House of privilege, riches and secrets... Wentworth is today a crumbling and forgotten palace in Yo… read more

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5. The English Patient

By: Michael Ondaatje

4.22

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel tr… read more

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6. Cold Comfort Farm

By: Roz Chast , Lynne Truss , Stella Gibbons

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1933 Femina Vie Heureuse Prize, COLD COMFORT FARM is a wickedly funny portrait of Bri… read more

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7. Skirrid Hill

By: Owen Sheers

3.68

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

Ideas of separation and divorce--the geographical divides of borders, the separation of the dead an… read more

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8. The Code of the Woosters (Jeeves, #7)

By: P.G. Wodehouse

4.27

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman's gentleman, Jeeves, in this stunning new… read more

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9. 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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10. Off the Shelf: A Celebration of Bookshops in Verse

By: Carol Ann Duffy

4.16

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In Off the Shelf: A Celebration of Bookshops in Verse, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy has commission… read more

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11. Vile Bodies

By: Evelyn Waugh

4.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

Evelyn Waugh's second novel, "Vile Bodies" is his tribute to London's smart set. It introduces us t… read more

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12. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

By: Laura Cumming

4.19

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt m… read more

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"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

"I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by mome…"

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

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13. Weather

By: Jenny Offill

3.55

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a v… read more

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"How do you know all this?"

-Jenny Offill, Weather

"They say when you're lonely you start to lose words."

-Jenny Offill, Weather

"Later, I remember to tell Ben about the girl. “Seconds!"

-Jenny Offill, Weather

"If only I’d remembered that old proverb: When three people say you are drunk, go to sleep. "

-Jenny Offill, Weather

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14. And Away...

By: Bob Mortimer

4.33

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

Bob Mortimer’s life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a hear… read more

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"Always enter your shoes before wearing them."

-Bob Mortimer, And Away...

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15. 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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16. Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

By: Oliver Darkshire

3.97

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Some years ago, Oliver Darkshire stepped into the hushed interior of Henry Sotheran Ltd on Sackvill… read more

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"Early one morning, which is to say about five minutes before noon..."

-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

"It's my belief that anyone worth knowing enjoys spending time in a bookshop."

-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

"Hell hath no fury, they say, like a man treated the same way as he treats women."

-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

"There is something about geriatric men which attracts them to dangerous ladders."

-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

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17. The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)

By: Jessie Burton

3.87

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Alive with the magic of Amsterdam, the enchanting new historical novel from the author of the sensa… read more

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"The road in front is empty: it is behind them that something waits."

-Jessie Burton, The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)

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18. The Secret Commonwealth (The Book of Dust, #2)

By: Philip Pullman

4.04

Format: 784 pages, ebook

It is twenty years since the events of La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One unfolded and s… read more

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"We need to imagine as well as measure."

-Philip Pullman, The Secret Commonwealth (The Book of Dust, #2)

"You're in a world full of color and you want to see it in black and white."

-Philip Pullman, The Secret Commonwealth (The Book of Dust, #2)

"But he was a human being, or part of one, and he felt just as Lyra did: unhappy, and guilty, and wretchedly lonely."

-Philip Pullman, The Secret Commonwealth (The Book of Dust, #2)

"What is the world of the spirits? It is nothing I know about. I don't know what spirit is." "Spirit is what matter does."

-Philip Pullman, The Secret Commonwealth (The Book of Dust, #2)

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19. Pearl: A New Verse Translation

By: Unknown

3.87

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Winner • PEN Award for Poetry in Translation  From the acclaimed translator of Sir Gawain and the G… read more

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20. The Owl and the Nightingale

By: Unknown

4.09

Format: 100 pages, Hardcover

Following his acclaimed translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl , Simon Armitage … read more

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"Who speaks well ... fights well,' goes the song; she'd wage war with her voice instead. 'To fight well, speak well,' Alfred said."

-Unknown, The Owl and the Nightingale

"If Beauty called it didn't stay, & Virtue looked the other way. Another charge that I will file: your habits, like your looks, are vile."

-Unknown, The Owl and the Nightingale

"The wise have noted more than once that he who argues with a dunce might just as well compare his jaw against an oven's yawning door. And now a saying comes to mind, a proverb that King Alfred coined…"

-Unknown, The Owl and the Nightingale

"Through pity, then, I can't resist delivering a song of bliss when witnessing the painful trace that love leaves in a young girl's face. I try to teach them, through my song, love of that kind will n…"

-Unknown, The Owl and the Nightingale

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21. Magnetic Field The Marsden Poems

By: Simon Armitage

4.07

Format: 89 pages, Hardcover

First edition, first printing hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, in very good condition. Light s… read more

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3.41

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