How to Read Now by Elaine Castillo
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'I cannot say enough about How to Read Now... Check it out' Roxane Gay'A red-hot grenade... One of my favourite books of the year' Jia Tolentino'Energetically brilliant, warmly humane, incisively funny' Andrew Sean Greer'I gasped, shouted, and holler-laughed . . . Phenomenal' R.O. Kwon'A wake-up call. A ...Show more
Medusa's Ankles: Selected Stories by A S Byatt
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Carefully selected from five collections and over thirty years of writing, this beautiful new publication celebrates the best of A. S. Byatt’s short stories. Fascinated by fairy tales and fables, art and creation, these stories of betrayal and loyalty, quests and longings, loneliness and passion will de ...Show more
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More by Roald Dahl
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Enter a brilliant, sinister and wholly unpredictable world. Here you will find the suggestion of other-worldly goings on in a dark story about a swan and a boy; the surprising tale of a wealthy young wastrel who suddenly develops a remarkable new ability; and, meet the hitchhiker whose light-fingers sav ...Show more
Critical Hits: Writers on Gaming and the Alternate Worlds We Inhabit
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An anthology of essays on video games by some of today's best literary writers 'A loot drop of brilliance' Naomi Alderman, author of The Power Whether you're an avid gamer, a Twitch subscriber, or just an incidental Subway Surfer, video games have changed the way you interact with the world, and have be ...Show more
Kintsugi by Marie O'Rourke
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These essays are a poignant reminder that some things cannot be fixed but can still hold immense beauty and meaning. All her life, Marie O'Rourke has been a Good Girl, a perfectionist, using words to apply golden seams to an imperfect life in an attempt to make something beautiful out of things that are ...Show more
The Body of the Soul: Stories by Ludmila Ulitskaya
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A new collection of stories by the acclaimed Ludmila Ulitskaya, masterfully translated into English While we can feel, know, and study the body, the soul refuses definition. Where does it begin and end? What does the soul have to do with love? Does it exist at all, and if so, does it outlast the body? ...Show more
We All Lived in Bondi Then by Georgia Blain
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From the author of the multi-award-winning bestseller Between a Wolf and a Dog, a powerful collection of previously unpublished stories. A sister is haunted by the consequences of a simple mistake. A daughter searches for certainty as her mother's memory degrades. An encounter at a house party changes ...Show more
Japanese Ghost Stories by Lafcadio Hearn
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New in Penguin Japanese Classics- ghost stories from a master recounter of the macabre Introducing Penguin Japanese Classics- a collection of some of Japan's most celebrated and ground-breaking 20th century writers, with covers inspired by Japanese art and design. Taking us from a sun-drenched affair in ...Show more
Life Lessons from Literature by Joseph Piercy
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‘I read a book one day and my whole life was changed’ ... So confesses the narrator of Orhan Pamuk’s novel The New Life. But what can we learn from reading books? Life Lessons from Literature poses this broad question by examining the works of some of the greatest writers in history. In it, we can draw ...Show more
On Purpose: Ten lessons on the meaning of life by Ben Hutchinson
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Ten brief essays on how reading and meaningfully engaging with literature can help us live better, more purposeful lives. How do we live successfully?How do we live fully?Identifying the meaning of life and where we are heading preoccupies all of us at some stage or another. Who better to help us articu ...Show more
Vocal LocalsShort Stories by the Writers on Fire by Danielle Babb
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The Young Man by Annie Ernaux; Alison L. Strayer (translator)
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WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breathtaking, published in France in 2022, is about her affair with a man 30 years her junior. "A sublime book." -Olivia de Lamberterie, Elle "Once again the work of the writer Annie Ernaux appears as both a rigor ...Show more