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Literature Studies
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Dispatches from the Diaspora : From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter€17.99
For 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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Jan Morris: Allegorizings€12.99
From reflections on identity and nations to the importance of good marmalade, Allegorizings is the final despatch from one of the greatest chroniclers of the twentieth century.
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain€13.99
From the New York Times-bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves - and our world today. For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University.
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Begin Again : James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Today€12.99
America is at a crossroads.
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The Book of Delights€12.99
Among Gay's funny, poetic, philosophical delights: a friend's unabashed use of air quotes, cradling a tomato seedling aboard an aeroplane, the silent nod of acknowledgement between the only two black people in a room.
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Constellations : Reflections From Life€11.99
'Utterly magnificent. Raw, thought-provoking and galvanising; this is a book every woman should read.' -Eimear McBride, author of A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing.
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Trick Mirror€14.50
We are living in the era of the self, in an era of malleable truth and widespread personal and political delusion.
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No Laughing Matter: The Life & Times of Flann O’Brien€16.95
First published in 1989 No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O’Brien was the first full-length biography of Flann O’Brien. Rich in background, anecdote and social history, it is an extraordinary portrait of a writer and his times, perceptive, sympathetic and authoritative.
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A History of Reading€11.22
Tracing 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.