Let Me Tell You What I Mean [HB] by Joan Didion
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Category: Biography & Memoir
From one of our most iconic and influential writers: twelve pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of this legendary figure. Mostly drawn from the earliest part of her astonishing five-decade career, Didion writes about a Gamblers Anonymous meeting, a ...Show more
Mantel Pieces by Hilary Mantel
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, ‘I have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be more brisk and breezy than scholarly.’ This collection of twenty reviews, essays and pieces of memoir from the next three dec ...Show more
Letters to the Earth by Anna Hope (Compiled by); Kay Michael (Compiled by); Jo McInnes (Compiled by); Jackie Morris (Illustrator); Emma Thompson (Introduction by)
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
The largest creative response to the climate and ecological emergency the world has yet seen. 2019 was the year of rebellion. It was the year nurses, poets, nine-year olds and grandparents came together to say: we know the truth about climate change - now it is time to act. But what words describe this ...Show more
Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
FOREWORD BY ALI SMITH WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADE Who better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf? In the early years of its existence, the Times Literary Supplement published some of the finest writers in English: T. S. Eliot, Henry James and E. M. Forster ...Show more
Raven Smith's Trivial Pursuits by Raven Smith
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
'Instagram's answer to David Sedaris.' ST STYLE MAGAZINE 'Irresistibly readable.' DOLLY ALDERTON 'You'll laugh. You'll cry.' LENA DUNHAM A hilarious, smart and incredibly singular debut from Raven Smith, whose exploration of the minutiae of everyday modern life and culture is totally unique and painf ...Show more
Letters to the Lady Upstairs by Marcel Proust; Lydia Davis (Translator)
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
A charming, funny, poignant collection of twenty-three letters from Marcel Proust to his upstairs neighbour102 Boulevard Haussmann, an elegant address in Paris's eighth arrondissement.Upstairs lives Madame Williams, with her second husband and her harp. Downstairs lives Marcel Proust, trying to write In ...Show more
If I Could Tell You Just One Thing... by Richard Reed; Samuel Kerr (Illustrator)
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Category: Mind Body Spirit
NOW WITH EVEN MORE REMARKABLE PEOPLEIn If I Could Tell You Just One Thing... some of the world's most remarkable people share their most valuable pieces of wisdom. Including: President Bill Clinton, Clare Balding, Bill Gates, Stephen Fry, Dame Judi Dench, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Caitlyn Jenner, Jam ...Show more
On Patrick White: Writers on Writers by Christos Tsiolkas
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing | Series: Writers on Writers
'Patrick White, the un-Australian writer who did more than any other writer in the twentieth century to create an imaginative language that we can call Australian, who unshackled us from the demand that we write as the English do, who recognised, through his own alienation and also through his profound ...Show more
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today - written as a letter to a friend. I have some suggestions for how to raise Chizalum. But remember that you might do all the things I suggest, and she will still turn out to be d ...Show more
Motherhood: Vintage Minis by Helen Simpson
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Welcome to motherhood - a land of aching fatigue, constant self-sacrifice and thankless servitude, a land of bottomless devotion, small hands and feet like warm pink roses, and velvet kisses. Here is a land where men and women, once carefree and engrossed in work and sex, now try to solve age-old argume ...Show more
Words That Go Ping: The Ridiculously Wonderful World of Onomatopoeia by Barbara Lasserre
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Barbara Lasserre brings the neglected world of onomatopoeia to life in this witty little gem of a book which will delight language lovers.
Have You Eaten Grandma? by Gyles Brandreth
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
The go-to good English guide from the grammar guru himself, Gyles Brandreth . . .__________ Why, like, does everyone keep saying 'like'? Why do apostrophe's keep turning up in the wrong place? Why do we get confused when using foreign phrases - and vice versa? Is it 'may be' or 'maybe'? Should it be ...Show more