Literature & Literary Studies
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Making Room
Caitlin Press (CA)£15.99| /This book celebrates the history and evolution of Canadian literature and feminism with some of the most exciting and thought-provoking fiction, po...
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Making Use of History in New South African Fiction
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£21.99| /A study of the use of history as political ammunition and literature as historical counter-discourse in Mongane Serote's "Gods of Our Time", Mike N...
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Malakut & Other Stories
Ibex Publishers (US)£36.99| /A man who does not recognise his own face, an aristocrat who keeps his amputated limbs in jars on the shelf, an infant that commits suicide, a cat ...
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Mall
Play Press (NZ)£8.00| /In this ingenious commingling of darkness and high comedy, the bland, peculiar and quietly desperate inhabitants of the local mall go about their d...
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Mammoth
DC Books (US)£13.99| /Larissa Andrusyshyn's debut collection confronts loss and mourning by exploring the lyric science behind keeping things alive in a world where tech...
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Man and Citizen
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£15.99| /A reprint of the 1972 Doubleday edition. Contains the most helpful version of Hobbes's political and moral philosophy available in English. Include...
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Man from Mukinupin
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /This comic musical play celebrates life in a country town at the time of the Great War, conjuring its light and dark sides into an old fertility da...
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Man Versus the State
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£8.95| /This volume contains the four essays that Spencer published as The Man Versus the State in 1884 as well as five essays added by later publishers. I...
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Man with Five Children
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Gerry is a documentary filmmaker who, one day each year, follows five children around with a camera. He shows the results annually on television. Y...
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Mandorla
Ronsdale Press (CA)£12.99| /Motherhood -- personal, historical, mythological. "Mandorla" is all about mothers and children, especially the mothering of challenging children, c...
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Manifesto Aotearoa
Otago University Press£20.50| /A poem is a vote. It chooses freedom of imagination, freedom of critical thought, freedom of speech. A collection of political poems in its very es...
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Manuscript Transmission of the Anthologia Latina
Weidmann£53.99| /This essay does not concern the manuscript transmission of the short series of poems (the so-called minor anthologiae) and of the single wandering...
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Map for the Heart
Otago University Press£18.00| /To live in Central Otago is to come to terms with the dominance of nature. Writer Jillian Sullivan set out to walk the hills and mountains of the I...
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Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland, Letters
University of Alberta Press (CA)£33.99| /Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland--one of Canada's most beloved writers and one of Canada's most significant publishers--enjoyed an unusual rap...
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Margaret Laurence's Epic Imagination
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /Margaret Laurence instinctively turned to the epic mode to create archetypal narratives of loss, exile, and redemption. Drawing on the Bible, Dante...
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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Ariadne Press (US)£40.99| /This portrayal of Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) is based on published and unpublished sources. Like many women novelists of her time -- pa...
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Mark Colvin's Kidney
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /A premiere Australian play based on actual events, showing just how startling real-life can be. Mary-Ellen Field is a successful Australian busines...
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Mark Twain
Schiffer£13.99| /This book is a fresh appraisal of the writer who made American fiction and travel writing popular worldwide. Looking at his life and his body of wr...
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Markings
Otago University Press (NZ)£8.90| /In this fine collection of poems and drawings Cilla McQueen traces the lives and voyages of her ancestors, and the living history of her husband's ...
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Martini with a Twist
Newest Press (CA)£15.99| /Absurdity reigns in multiple award-winning author and playwright Clem Martini's newest collection of work, Martini with a Twist -- five plays spann...
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Marvellous Fantasy
Aalborg Universitetsforlag (DK)£35.95| /In this book academics write about significant fantasy books, films, television series and music. The different approaches offer new insights into ...
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Marvellous Repossessions
Ronsdale Press (CA)£8.99| /In this work, Professor Harris explores Shakespeare's play The Tempest to show how the play is driven by a waking dream in which progress towards a...
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Massacre Street
University of Alberta Press (CA)£16.99| /Merging poetry and historical records, Zits masterfully (re)creates a poetic view of the Frog Lake Massacre of April 2, 1885. His collage and cut-u...
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Master Couplets of Urdu Poetry
Sterling Publishers Pvt Ltd (IND)£14.95| /This book offers a representative selection of humorous and satirical Urdu poetry, drawn from the works of seventeen major poets, including the cla...
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Masterplan
Presa Press (US)£14.99| /Boom! Widely published poets Alison Stone and Eric Greinke wrote these inventive poems together from February 2014 to April 2017. Although they eac...
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Maurice Gee
Otago University Press (NZ)£15.50| /Maurice Gee's fiction for younger readers blends exciting stories with serious issues. Told through a range of genres, from fantasy to realism, adv...
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Max Frisch
Ronsdale Press (CA)£14.99| /The three plays collected in this volume were the first of Max Frisch's dramatic works to reach the public. Now for the first time they appear in E...
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Me & Robert McKee
Play Press (NZ)£8.00| /Billy, a writer, is reliant on teaching scriptwriting for a living and the bottle for oblivion; his sense of self-worth is teetering on the edge. W...
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Me Plays
Playdead Press£9.99| /Exciting young writer Andrew Maddock's "The Me Plays" present a semi-autobiographical look at growing up in Wembley, complete with discussions of m...
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Me Theme
Sagging Meniscus Press£11.99| /In this dazzling cycle of poems, Doug Nufer, wizardly author of poetry and prose works based on formal constraints, starts with a simple constructi...
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Measure for Measure
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£9.99| /George Lyman Kittredge's insightful editions of Shakespeare have endured in part because of his eclecticism, his diversity of interests, and his wi...
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Meat
Playdead Press£7.99| /Vincent works in a meat processing factory. When the local lads erupt, things get out of hand and Vincent becomes a vigilante. As the violence from...
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Medea
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£11.99| /This is the Medea we have been waiting for. It offers clarity without banality, eloquence without pretension, meter without doggerel, accuracy with...
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Medea
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£28.99| /This is the Medea we have been waiting for. It offers clarity without banality, eloquence without pretension, meter without doggerel, accuracy with...
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Medea
Focus Publishing (US)£12.99| /This is an English translation of Euripides' tragedy Medea based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and her revenge against her husband Jason. Focus ...
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Medea, Hippolytus, Heracles, Bacchae
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£21.99| /This anthology includes four outstanding translations of Euripides' plays: Medea, Bacchae, Hippolytus, and Heracles. These translations remain clos...
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Medicine and Humor from the Writings of Hans Sachs and Hans Folz, Meistersinger
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£243.99| /Hans Sachs (1494-1576), while also a cobbler, was the most prolific German author of the 16th century. He was the immediate literary successor in p...
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Medieval Drama
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£61.99| /This reprint (with updated 'Suggestions for Further Reading') of the Houghton Mifflin edition makes David Bevington's classic anthology of medieval...
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Medieval Narratives Between History & Fiction
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£56.99| /The rise of literary fiction in medieval Europe has been a hotly debated topic for at least two decades. Important progress has been made, but diff...
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Mel White's Readers Theatre Anthology
Meriwether Publishing (US)£20.99| /28 all-occasion readings. Works of a variety of writers have been adapted: Thurber, Shakespeare, Dickens, Grahame, and many other writers, journali...
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Melbourne Talam
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /I have completely lost my talam. All I hear is the ring of mobile phones, the noise of escalators, platform announcements and the trains squealing...
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Memoirs from a Madhouse
Ariadne Press (US)£18.99| /Christine Lavant (1915-1973), one of Austria's most famous yet obscure 20th century poets, wrote these memoirs during a voluntary six-week stay in ...
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Memoirs of Victor Hugo
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£97.99| /Victor-Marie Hugo (26 February 26 1802 -- 22 May 1885) is recognised as the most influential Romantic writer of the 19th century and is often ident...
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Memorable Deeds and Sayings
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£19.99| /Popular in its day both as a sourcebook for writers and orators and as a guidebook for living a moral life, this remarkably rich document serves as...
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Memorable Deeds and Sayings
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£47.99| /Popular in its day both as a sourcebook for writers and orators and as a guidebook for living a moral life, this remarkably rich document serves as...
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Memorias de la orfandad
Iberoamericana/Vervuert£34.99| /El propósito de este libro es profundizar sobre las ficciones que abordan el tema de laexpropiación de niños durante la dictadura española y las ap...
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Memories Pretend to Sleep
Laertes, a Press for Literary Translation, Inc£10.99| /Born in 1949, Julia Gjika grew up during the harshest years of Albanias Communist regime when literature from the West was strictly censored and ...
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Memory Serves & Other Essays
Newest Press (CA)£19.99| /This book gathers together the oratories award-winning author Lee Maracle has delivered and performed over a twenty-year period. Revised for public...
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