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Always take notes
£20.00Always take notes
Where do the best ideas come from? How do you stay motivated? What does it take to become a published author? And how do you actually make money from your writing? For over five years the hosts of Always Take Notes podcast have posed their nosiest questions to some of the world’s greatest writers. The result is a compendium of frank and frequently entertaining guidance for living a creative life. From the early failures that shaped them to the daily challenges of writing and the habits that keep them on track, literary luminaries offer guidance to inspire.
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Fanny Hill, Or, Memoirs of A Woman of Pleasure
£2.00Fanny Hill, Or, Memoirs of A Woman of Pleasure
Published in 1748-9, this novel is a mocking parody of the warning moralism as seen in Defoe’s novels. Rather than ending in misery, Fanny Hill rises from poverty to a middle-class existence as wife and mother via several stages of prostitution.
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Metamorphoses
£18.99Metamorphoses
In 2024, exactly one hundred years after his death at the age of 40, readers all over the world will reach for the works of Franz Kafka. Many of them will want to learn more about the enigmatic man behind the classic books filled with mysterious courts and monstrous insects. Who, exactly, was Franz Kafka? Karolina Watroba, the first Germanist ever elected as a Fellow of Oxford’s All Souls College, will tell Kafka’s story beyond the boundaries of language, time and space, travelling from the Prague of Kafka’s birth through the work of contemporary writers in East Asia, whose award-winning novels are in part homages to the great man himself. ‘Metamorphoses’ is a non-chronological journey through Kafka’s life, drawing together literary scholarship with the responses of his readers through time.
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The Battles of Tolkien
£16.99The Battles of Tolkien
An in-depth analysis of the major battles of Tolkien’s works, from The Hobbit to The Lord of the Rings. Find out how each battle came about and how it shaped the course of Middle-earth’s history in this beautifully-bound leatherette volume, the third title in a successful trilogy.
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The bookshop woman
£16.99The bookshop woman
Nanako Hanada’s life is in crisis. Recently separated from her husband, living in youth hostels and internet cafes, her work is going no better. Book sales at the eccentric Village Vanguard bookstore in Tokyo, which Nanako manages, are dwindling. Fallen out of love in all aspects of her life, Nanako realises how narrow her life has become, with no friends outside of her colleagues, and no hobbies apart from reading and arranging books. That’s when Nanako, in a bid to inject some excitement into her life, joins a meet-up site where people meet for 30-minute bursts to find romance, build a network, or just share ideas. She describes herself as a sexy bookseller who will give you a personalised book recommendation. In the year that follows, Nanako meets an eclectic range of strangers, some of whom wanted more than just a book, others she became real friends with.
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The Heroes of Tolkien
£16.99The Heroes of Tolkien
An in-depth and illustrated guide to the epic lives of Tolkien’s heroes.
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The hobbits of Tolkien
£16.99The hobbits of Tolkien
An entire race was born when J.R.R. Tolkien scrawled on a leaf, ‘In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit’. From the invention of that single word (hobbit) Tolkien became the explorer and chronicler of the character, their race and their significant role in his fantastical world, Middle-earth. Here in his latest book, Tolkien expert David Day unpicks the myriad of riddles, puns and mystical meanings in Tolkien’s works, ‘The Hobbit’ and ‘The Lord of the Rings’.
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The Ring Legends of Tolkien
£12.99The Ring Legends of Tolkien
Tolkien’s One Ring, at the centre of one of the greatest fantasy tales ever told, is an undeniably iconic and powerful symbol in literature. Tracing centuries of ancient folklore, ‘The Ring Legends of Tolkien’ is a deep and highly informed investigation into the inspiration behind Tolkien’s epic fantasy world, exploring the origins of the One Ring, as well as the extraordinary myths and legends that inspired Tolkien’s works. This work is unofficial and is not authorized by the Tolkien Estate or HarperCollins Publishers.
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The Shakespeare and Company book of interviews
£20.00The Shakespeare and Company book of interviews
Shakespeare and Company, Paris, is one of the world’s most iconic and beautiful bookshops. Located on the banks of the Seine, opposite Notre-Dame, it’s long been a meeting place for anglophone writers and readers. In that tradition, determined for the bookshop to remain a place of meaningful and transformative conversation, owner Sylvia Whitman and novelist and literary director Adam Biles have hosted several hundred interviews with writers, ranging from prize-winning novelists to visionary non-fiction writers. The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews is a selection of the best of these interviews from the last decade.
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