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Full Marks for Trying
An unlikely journey from the Raj to the rag trade
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Brigid Keenan was never destined to lead a normal life. From her early beginnings – a colourful childhood in India brought to an abrupt end by independence and partition, then a return to dreary post-war England and on to a finishing school in Paris with daughters of presidents and princes – ordinary...
by Professor Mark Yakich
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Playful and serious, unforgiving and compassionate, Poetry: A Survivor's Guide offers an original take on a subject both loved and feared. In a series of provocative and inspiring propositions, the act of reading a poem is made new, and the act of writing one is made over. Questions of poetry's difficulty,...
Playwriting
A Writers' and Artists' Companion
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Full of inspiration and practical advice, Playwriting: A Writers' & Artists' Companion is a comprehensive companion to writing for the stage.
PART 1 includes reflections on the art and the craft of playwriting, guidance on writing for a full range of genres and spaces and a brief history...
Poetry
A Writers' Guide and Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Poetry: A Writers' Guide and Anthologyis a complete introduction to the art and craft of writing poetry. The authors map out more than 25 key elements of poetry including image, lyric, point of view, metaphor, and movement and use these elements as starting points for discussion questions and writing...
The Dog's Last Walk
(and Other Pieces)
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
'The author's prose is always a delight … a book that manages the high-wire act of being genuinely funny while dispensing genuine wisdom' Times Literary Supplement
Week after week, for eighteen years, the Booker Prize-winning novelist Howard Jacobson wrote a weekly column for the Independent,...
Gin & Juice
The Victorian Guide to Parenting
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Learn the importance of routine from Gertrude Fjörd-Mettöd, how to Have It All from Queen Victoria (mother of seventeen and Empress of India), how to tell which twin is the Good One and which the Evil, how to turn a Bad Seed into a Good Egg, how to take your charge from Infancy to Infantry (3-21),...
Six Elizabethan and Jacobean Tragedies
The Spanish Tragedy; Doctor Faustus; Sejanus His Fall; Women Beware Women; The White Devil; 'Tis Pity She's A Whore
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
This anthology contains scholarly and annotated editions of six major Elizabethan and Jacobean plays:
The Spanish Tragedy
Doctor Faustus
Sejanus
Women Beware Women
The White Devil
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
The Heart of the Humanities
Reading, Writing, Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
From one of America's great professors, a collection of works exploring the importance of reading, writing, and teaching well, for anyone invested in the future of the humanities.
A renowned professor of English at the University of Virginia, Mark Edmundson has devoted his career to tough-minded...
by Helen Oyeyemi
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
Jessamy Harrison is eight years old. Sensitive, whimsical, possessed of a powerful imagination, she spends hours writing, reading or simply hiding in the dark warmth of the airing cupboard. As the half-and-half child of an English father and a Nigerian mother, Jess just can't shake off the feeling...
by Niall Williams
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2019
A profound and enchanting new novel from Booker Prize-longlisted author Niall Williams about the loves of our lives and the joys of reminiscing.
You don't see rain stop, but you sense it. You sense something has changed in the frequency you've been living and you hear the quietness you thought...
by Damian Barr
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
An extraordinary debut that explores **legacies of abuse, redemption, and the strength of the human spirit--**from the Boer Wars in South Africa to brutal wilderness camps for teenage boys.
South Africa, 1901. It is the height of the second Boer War. Sarah van der Watt and her six-year-old...
A Shot in the Dark
A Constable Twitten Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
A wryly entertaining new crime novel from Lynne Truss, New York Times bestselling author of Eats, Shoots and Leaves.
It's 1957, and the famed theater critic A. S. Crystal has come to the British seaside resort of Brighton with something other than the local production of A Shilling in the Meter...
by Ali Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
A compulsive, mesmerising and wildly imaginative novel in the vein of Pan's Labyrinth and Station Eleven from the award-winning author of The Girl with Glass Feet
There came an elastic aftershock of creaks and groans and then, softly softly, a chinking shower of rubbled cement. Leaves calmed...
Bottle Grove
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2019
A razor-sharp tale of two couples, two marriages, a bar, and a San Francisco start-up from a best-selling, award-winning novelist.
This is a story about two marriages. Or is it? It begins with a wedding, held in the small San Francisco forest of Bottle Grove--bestowed by a wealthy patron for...