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LITERATURE, REFERENCE & IDEAS

First edition. A fine copy, with a fine dust jacket.

Enthusiasms

Mark Girouard

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Fine copy in wraps. One of 650 copies published by the wonderful George Ramsden at Stone Trough.

Bensoniana and Cornishiana

A. C. Benson & Mrs Cornish

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The entanglement of Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth et al in the racial politics of their age: a fascinating and original perspective in which feeling and scholarship are deftly balanced.

The Trembling Hand: Reflections of a Black Woman in the Romantic Archi ...

Mathelinda Nabugodi

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Explores how some kind of Indo-European 'big bang' occurred about 5,000 years ago. Finno-Ugrics may quibble.

Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global

Laura Spinney

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A useful narrative of the book's writing, reception and legacy.

Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a Novel

Mark Hussey

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Essays from five decades.

Putting Myself Together

Jamaica Kincaid

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A thoughtful, articulate exploration of the ancient right of asylum and hospitality, of the modern idea of refuge that keeps others out, and of the stories we tell that can bridge these pole... read more

Sanctuary: Ways of Telling, Ways of Dwelling

Marina Warner

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A fascinating exploration of the Romantic idea of genius, and how this is (mis)used to distort and justify outrages.

The Genius Myth: The Dangerous Allure of Rebels, Monsters and Rule-Bre ...

Helen Lewis

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Rare books and manuscripts in the Bodleian's magnificent holdings. Large format, well illustrated.

Splendours of Japan: Highlights from the Bodleian Library ...

Various

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By bus across the US, following the same route (Detroit to Los Angeles) that she made in her youth. Memoir and reportage of a changed world and environmental damage.

Greyhound

Joanna Pocock

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From seed to maturity to dessication, the life-cycle of the teasel, closely observed - a process that has bewitched the author, an artist and naturalist. A pamphlet from a tiny press.

Teasels

Sam Francis

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Mary Shelley in Bath

Mary Shelley

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A microscopic book - no larger than of a packet of cigarettes. Collects her essays on mass media, popular culture and art into 200 or so tiny pages. Pieces on Francis Bacon, Annie Ernaux, Ki... read more

Snow Business

Philippa Snow

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A provocative, personal series of essays looking at the encroachment of technology - AI, Twitter, Google et al - on our autonomy, independence and privacy. But it's SO convenient...

Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age

Vauhini Vara

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The appeal of simplistic answers and their concomitant narrow conformity: Zmigrod's analysis makes for compelling reading in our polarized times.

The Ideological Brain: A Radical Science of Susceptible Minds ...

Leor Zmigrod

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An enquiry into the history of unruly noise, by a genius.

The Gender of Sound

Anne Carson

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A string of digressions, witty asides and intellectual rabbit holes make up this essay by the late novelist and scholar of Islamic culture.

The Madman’s Guide to Stamp Collecting

Robert Irwin

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'The greatest literary biography of the twentieth century' and its intriguing author.

Ellmann’s Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker ...

Zachary Leader

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A new edition of the Austentatious academic's primer for her 250th anniversary.

What Matters in Jane Austen?

John Mullan

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A reissue of Woolf's seminal text with the original cover, designed by her sister, Vanessa Bell, for the Hogarth Press.

A Room of One’s Own

Virginia Woolf

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Essays by the modernist photographer, in a slim, clothbound hardback. Some illustrations.

Blind Corners

Michael Collins

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A collection of essays about our most basic need - water - with contributions by Rebecca Solnit, Ocean Vuong, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Lucy Jones, Vandana Shiva, Elif Shafak and others.

Thirst: In Search of Freshwater

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Recent essays by the author of Orwell's Roses, Wanderlust and others.

No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain ...

Rebecca Solnit

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Thoughts on different kinds of love in contemporary society: why are we so fixated on it and why do so many feel it to be out of reach? Drawing on personal experience, cultural touchstones, ... read more

Love in Exile

Shon Faye

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Recently republished, Barley Patch was Murnane's first work of fiction in fourteen years. A paradoxical, generous book about reading, writing and not writing.

Barley Patch

Gerald Murnane

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A dictionary like no other - exuberant yet precise, Lexicon Of Affinities is both a portrayal of Vitale's remarkable 20th century and an insight into the idiosyncrasies of human experience.

Lexicon of Affinities

Ida Vitale

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Astute literary and social criticism, exploring the evolution of African American literature during the cold war by addressing their unique positionality - alienated from both the left and r... read more

The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War ...

Jesse McCarthy

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Anyone who read Christopher de Hamel's last book, or Alexandra Lapierre's novel Belle Greene, will know that the letters from Pierpont Morgan's mixed-race librarian/buyer to Berenson will be... read more

Becoming Belle da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian Through Her Lett ...

Deborah Parker

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Following visits to Dakar, Columbia and Palestine, the American novelist and critic explores in a series of essays how we are shaped by the stories we tell ourselves (or one another).

The Message

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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A fascinating, eloquent study that looks not only at nocturnal animals and night terrors but also at those who work while the rest of us sleep.

Overnight: Journeys, Conversations and Stories After Dark ...

Dan Richards

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It seems scarcely credible that these essays should have remained unpublished for so long.

Silent Catastrophes: Essays in Austrian Literature

W. G. Sebald

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The violation of nature as the corollary of war: a formidable classical scholar on the links between ecological degradation and Homer's work.

Epic of the Earth: Reading Homer’s “Iliad” in the Fi ...

Edith Hall

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An elegant anthology that tries to encompass India's plurality, from the C6th BC to the C18th, with excerpts of works in Hindi, Kannada, Pali, Panjabi, Persian, Sanskrit, Telugu, and Urdu. P... read more

Ten Indian Classics

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Rosa Luxemburg, Charlotte Salomon and Marilyn Monroe are Rose's first focus in this far-sighted and tightly-reasoned exploration of women's lives. Feminism at its most elegant and intelligen... read more

Women in Dark Times

Jacqueline Rose

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An immense, learned and witty sweep of literature by the editorial director of New York Review Books and the founder of the NYRB Classics series. Frank is terrific company through the centur... read more

Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel ...

Edwin Frank

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The first issue of a new, massive (almost twice the dimensions of a standard magazine) bi-annual publication. Each issue revolves around a central text - this time by AK Blakemore - with oth... read more

Footnote No.1

A. K. Blakemore

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