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Literature Studies
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No Straight Road Takes You There : Essays for Uneven Terrain€21.99This book's title, No Straight Road Takes You There, is an evocation and a declaration.
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Steering the Craft : A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story€18.99Revised and updated for the twenty-first century, Steering the Craft is Ursula K. Le Guin’s carrier bag of the essentials of a writer’s craft, a generous gift from one of the great thinkers about how – and why – to write.
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Margaret Atwood : Burning Questions€16.99From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays -- funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient -- which seek answers to a wide range of Burning Questions.
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Dispatches from the Diaspora : From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter€17.99For the last three decades Gary Younge has had a ringside seat during the biggest events and with the most significant personalities to impact the black diaspora: accompanying Nelson Mandela on his first election campaign, joining revellers on the southside of Chicago during Obama's victory.
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Engaging with Irish Vernacular Worldview : Narrative and ritual expression of native cultural tradition€39.99The book comprises an ensemble of articles and essays offering its readers engagement from an ethnological perspective with significant facets of the domain of Irish Studies. It attempts, both in its organisation and intellectual orientation to be a contribution to the instruction and formation of a variety of readerships.
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain€13.99A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is a deep exploration not just of how great writing works but of how the mind itself works while reading, and of how the reading and writing of stories make genuine connection possible.
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Begin Again : James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Today€12.99America is at a crossroads.
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How Do We Know We're Doing It Right? Essays on Modern Life (Hardback)Special Price €9.99 Regular Price €17.99
Wide-ranging, thoughtful and witty, How Do We Know We're Doing It Right? explores the anxieties and myths that consume our lives and the tools we use to muddle through. So sit back and take a breath. It's time to stop worrying about the answers - and start delighting in the questions.
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Sinead Gleeson : Constellations - Reflections From Life€12.99In the tradition of some of our finest life writers, and yet still in her own spirited, generous voice, Sinéad takes us on a journey that is both uniquely personal and yet universal in its resonance. Here is the fierce joy and pain of being alive. . .
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Trick Mirror€14.50We are living in the era of the self, in an era of malleable truth and widespread personal and political delusion.
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Books That Saved My Life : Reading for Wisdom, Solace and Pleasure€15.25Great literature is thrilling. It will feed your hungry mind and take your heart on a journey.
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A History of Reading€19.99Tracing the complete story of reading from the age when symbol first became sign through to the electronic texts of the present day, Steven Roger Fischer's fascinating A History of Reading offers a sweeping view across time and geography of our evolving relationship with text.
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The Cost of Living€14.99The Cost of Living reveals a writer in radical flux, considering what it means to live with value and meaning and pleasure. This perfectly crafted snapshot of a woman in the process of transformation is as distinctive, wide-ranging and original as Levy's acclaimed novels, an essential read for every Deborah Levy fan.
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Virginia Woolf in Richmond€19.99Virginia and her husband Leonard Woolf lived in Richmond-upon-Thames for ten years from the time of the First World War (1914-1924).
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J.R.R. Tolkien€10.99The authoritative exploration of the man behind Middle Earth. From Tolkien's Bletchley Park connection to the `publishing risk' of The Lord of the Rings, this latest addition to the Amazing & Extraordinary series explores J.R.R.Tolkien's inventiveness, the sources of his inspiration and the fellowship of his fan base.
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Pierre Loti€13.25Few authors have led lives as interesting as the French novelist and travel writer Pierre Loti (1850-1923) - nor have they worked harder to make it appear even more romantic than it already was.
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The Unpunished Vice : A Life of Reading€15.95An insightful account of the key role reading has played in the life of literary icon Edmund White Edmund White made his name as a writer, but he remembers his life through the books he read.
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Tolkien : Maker of Middle-Earth (Hardback)€48.00This richly illustrated book explores the huge creative endeavour behind Tolkien's enduring popularity.
