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LITERATURE, REFERENCE & IDEAS

The rise and fall of the Oxbridge intellectual, from Isaiah Berlin to Keith Joseph.

Twilight of the Dons: British Intellectuals from World War II to Thatc ...

Colin Kidd

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An ethnobiologist's view of evolution, from the primordial soup to machine intelligence: he sees human culture as part of rather than ancillary to evolution.

Life Story: From Cells to Civilisations and Beyond

Jonathan Loh

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This polemic by the distinguished US historian argues that technology corrodes democracy and data centres eradicate wildlife. She also suggests that we can avoid the dystopian future that we... read more

The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State

Jill Lepore

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A slim guide by the doyenne of world literature.

Story Telling: A Masterclass in Crafting Stories

Isabel Allende

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Beckett's first book was this short, incisive critique of Proust's In Search of Lost Time, in which he identifies habit, memory and time as the defining attributes to the human condition. Fi... read more

Proust

Samuel Beckett

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Essays by the poet and novelist about encountering what we don't understand.

On Difficulty (and Poetry)

Lavinia Greenlaw

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A third collection of essays by the American poet, critic and translator. Resembling, as he puts it, the figure in Philip Dow's poem, 'shoveling salt into the waves to pay back the sea', his... read more

A Third Commonness: Essays on Poetry, Poetics, and the Natural World ...

Robert Hass

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Our favourite man of letters wrestles with the impossible and comes out trailing clouds of paper - we mean glory!

A History of the Novel in Britain

Philip Hensher

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A book which does the most Alice Oswald thing possible: it begins with an attempt to 'interview' Homer. That rather sets the tone for this expansive defence of poesy.

Rhapsody: A Manifesto

Alice Oswald

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A rich intellectual history of the many forms of earthly paradise that have been dreamt up, from Plato to Ursula le Guin, via Thomas More, Francis Bacon, Margaret Cavendish, Etienne Cabet's ... read more

The Uses of Utopia: Travels to the Limits of Thought ...

Joad Raymond Wren

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Sebastian Castellio was a C16th French scholar and theologian who propounded religious toleration and freedom of conscience in opposition to Calvin's dogmatism - and suffered for it. Transla... read more

The Right to Heresy: Castellio against Calvin

Stefan Zweig

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Lively, well-argued essays on the role of fairy tales in our culture now. Far from outgrowing them, the world needs these stories as much as - if not more than - ever. .

Once upon a Time There Was Truth: or, Why We Need Fairy Tales ...

Jack Zipes

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On the Mark: A History of Punctuation from Ancient Egypt to the Emotic ...

Florence Hazrat

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This hybrid of fiction, memoir and criticism from the poet and former MacArthur Fellow filters nuanced negotiations of the pressing issues of our times through the prism of a conversation be... read more

Triage: Truth, Art and Fiction

Claudia Rankine

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An irresistible argument for the importance of 'humanistic values' - a term Rieman redefines and recontextualizes through a mosaic of influences from Socrates to Spinosa, from Gracian to hi... read more

Nobility of Spirit: A Forgotten Ideal

Rob Riemen

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Essays on reading and writing, challenging and reinventing form - from a writer who can really claim to have extended literary form.

Essays

Lydia Davis

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It’s Terrible the Things I Have to Do to Be Me: ‘A brutal ...

Philippa Snow

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Sanctuary

Marina Warner

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Written Down / Written Up: Selected Writings of John Hilliard ...

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Writing Creativity and Soul

Sue Monk Kidd

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The Collected Works of Spinoza, Volume I

Benedictus de Spinoza

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£52.00

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The Collected Works of Spinoza, Volume II

Benedictus de Spinoza

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Slips of the Mind: Poetry as Forgetting

Jennifer Soong

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Significant Others

frank r jagoe

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Six Walks in the Fictional Woods

Umberto Eco

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The Philosophy of Translation

Damion Searls

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Much of this is previously uncollected and unpublished.

The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath

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Bored Stiff has been put together in 2026 by Terry Macalister (who first created the fanzine of that name half a century ago) with the help of graphic designer Martin Hand. Terry, who went ... read more

Bored Stiff

Terry Macalister

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A guide to this complex and influential figure, taking its subtitle from Hannah Arendt's admiration for what she called Benjamin's 'poetical thinking'. A new addition to Yale's magnificent ... read more

Walter Benjamin: The Pearl Diver

Peter E. Gordon

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Cut-glass observations of her life by the author of Bertie, May and Mrs Fish, her wartime memoir. Bingley's career began as a trainee at MI5 before marriage to a poet and a life in the US. S... read more

Ways of Telling

Xandra Bingley

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Penetrating and often funny look at silk purses and sows' ears.

You’ve Changed: The Promise and Price of Self-Transformation ...

Benoit Denizet-Lewis

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A celebration of the written word and a quiet paean to the dingy, depressed Dublin of his adolescence. Is there anything Dillon hasn't read?

Ambivalence

Brian Dillon

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A book in two parts by the former artistic director of the RSC: the first an intensely moving account of his late husband Anthony Sher's illness and death; followed by Doran's miraculous que... read more

Walking Shadow: Love, Loss and Shakespeare

Greg Doran

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The summer of 1776, when Swift stayed in Alexander Pope's delightful house in Twickenham, with Pope and John Gay. Each added fuel to their satirical bonfire, from which not only Gulliver eme... read more

The Twitnam Summer: Friendship, Satire and the Writing of GulliverR ...

Hester Grant

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A rich collection of stories, essays and memoir by a writer who has been at the centre of the literary world for an exceptionally long time - her first novel, The Millstone, won the John Lle... read more

The Great Good Places

Margaret Drabble

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Witty and erudite and deliciously discursive.

If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation ...

Daniel Hahn

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