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Return of Print?
Monash University Publishing£19.99| /This collection of essays by established and emerging scholars of Australian publishing examines the industry in the wake of both the Global Financ...
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Return to Open Water
Ronsdale Press (CA)£12.99| /To Harold Rhenisch, poetry is a wisdom path equal to Zen, or a pilgrimage on the holy road from Seville to Minsk, and even to Stand Up Comedy. His ...
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Return to Palm Island
Aboriginal Studies Press (AUS)£15.99| /In 1976, Bill Rosser visited friends on Palm Island and was shocked at the restrictions the Aboriginal people living there were forced to endure. H...
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Revenge of the Amazons
Play Press (NZ)£8.00| /Based on A Midsummer Nights Dream, with the mechanicals as a female theatre troupe and Oberon falling for a hard line feminist Easter bunny. (5 mal...
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Revision of Forward
Newest Press (CA)£13.99| /By turns tender and rough-hewn, and always structurally inventive, the poems in Wendy's McGrath's new collection show a writer reaching the height ...
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Revisitando a Berceo
Iberoamericana/Vervuert£26.99| /Quince artículos que analizan, desde la perspectiva crítica actual, las complejidades del poeta riojano. Los distintos trabajos abordan revisitan...
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Rhythm & Meaning in Shakespeare
Monash University Publishing£26.99| /This book explores the rhythmical organisation of Shakespeare's verse and how it creates and reinforces meaning both in the theatre and in the mind...
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Rich and Rare
Ford Street Publishing£19.99| /A collector of computer games, a knitting needle ninja, a violin that comes to life, a cat with many names, a love that cannot be bought, a prince ...
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Richard Flanagan
Sydney University Press£30.00| /Richard Flanagan: Critical Essays is the first book to be published about the life and work of this major world author. Written by twelve leading c...
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Ricky Ricardo Suites
DC Books (US)£13.99| /In his first book since the novel Napoleon's Retreat, and his first collection of poems in almost a decade, Robert Allen continues to dazzle with h...
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Riding the Northern Range
Lone Pine Publishing (CA)£9.99| /This anthology of the best cowboy poetry from the wranglers of yesteryear and today includes works by Ian Tyson, Wallace McRae, Mike Logan and Cork...
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Right Ballerina
Playdead Press£7.99| /Jack, the Artistic Director of the country's leading dance company, is forced to make some difficult decisions when Penny, his principal dancer, is...
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Rilke in the Making. Volume 1. A Poet's Fall from Grace (1897-1905)
HcP Ottawa£11.99| /In part through critical biography, in part through a close reading of "The Book of Hours" as well as many poems from his Diaries, this book challe...
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Rilke's Late Poetry
Ronsdale Press (CA)£13.99| /The late poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the summits of European poetry in the twentieth century. Completed in 1922, as were T S...
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Rimas humanas y divinas del licenciado Tomé de Burguillos
Iberoamericana/Vervuert£83.99| /Text in Spanish. Este libro extraordinario presenta para el lector moderno el reto de su dificultad ingeniosa. En esta edición, por primera vez, se...
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Rising Abruptly
University of Alberta Press (CA)£21.99| /Gisèle Villeneuve's short stories test the elastic pull between passion and terror. For inspiration, Villeneuve turned to her personal history to e...
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Risking the Wind
Birch Brook Press (US)£13.99| /An autumnal poetic flight carried off with insight and a deft touch. Includes original wood engravings.
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Ritual Lights
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /On "A Girl Like This Might Have Loved Glenn Gould":"The poem sits up at its greasy-spoon counter and recounts its tale, a kind of cryptic plain-spe...
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Rituals of Mummification
Sagging Meniscus Press£15.00| /Poet Joseph Reich writes from a great inner pressure of experience and memory. His senses are open to an America frozen in a forever unconsummated ...
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Rivers of China
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /In 1923 Katherine Mansfield visits a guru. In the 1980s a young man wakes in hospital to find a world dominated by women. As each struggles to disc...
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Road Less Travelled
Bhatkal & Sen (IND)£35.00| /Presenting the life and work of Vinodineeben Neelkanth (1907-1987), this book offers a portrait of a woman who played many roles with distinction: ...
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Robert Service
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£33.99| /One hundred years ago, a shy bank clerk sent a collection of his poems south from the Yukon to be privately published and shared with a small group...
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Robots vs Art
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /When Robots start thinking for themselves, they decree planet earth will not survive unless all humans are destroyed. They execute 90% of them and ...
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Rock Rabbit & the Rainbow
Daimon Verlag (CH)£48.99| /Sir Laurens van der Post, author, film-maker, storyteller of world-wide renown, soldier, prisoner of war, political advisor to heads of state, huma...
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Rock Rabbit & the Rainbow
Daimon Verlag (CH)£35.99| /Sir Laurens van der Post, author, film-maker, storyteller of world-wide renown, soldier, prisoner of war, political advisor to heads of state, huma...
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Roman Comedy: Five Plays by Plautus and Terence
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£20.99| /This anthology contains English translations of five plays by two of the best practitioners of Roman comedy, Plautus and Terence. The plays, Menaec...
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Romance of the Book
Birch Brook Press (US)£18.99| /This book features a selection of essays from the early days of the book to current times when some claim the book could become an endangered speci...
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Romantik 2019
V & R Unipress GmbH£23.99| /This is a multidisciplinary journal dedicated to the study of romantic-era cultural productions and concepts. The journal promotes innovative resea...
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Rome Burning
Birch Brook Press (US)£14.99| /This collection of elegant, quietly powerful poems evokes the author's past life in Rome and its rich, classical traditions.
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Romeo & Juliet
Dante University of America Press (US)£19.99| /Adolph Caso reprints the first short stories and novellas written by Italian authors as a basis for Shakespeare supreme work. By reading these stor...
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Romeo & Juliette Minibook
Wartelsteiner GmbH (D)£19.99| /The classic love story between Romeo and Juliette, which plays in the fifteenth century in Verona, was already received by Shakespeare by various a...
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Romeo & Juliette Minobook -- Gilt Edged Edition
Wartelsteiner GmbH (D)£26.99| /Book in slipcase. The classic love story between Romeo and Juliette, which plays in the fifteenth century in Verona, was already received by Shakes...
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Room with Five Walls
NeWest Publishers Ltd (CA)£13.99| /This is Barclay's disturbing exploration into the internal forces that drove a quiet young man to commit one of the most senseless mass murders in ...
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Rooms
Goose Lane Editions£6.99| /Chilean-born Renato Trujillo has published several collections of poetry in both Spanish and English. In Rooms he exhumes the floating images of hi...
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Rotalever Revelator
Sagging Meniscus Press£16.99| /ROTALEVER REVELATOR is a book made from words that spell other words backwards: a giant palindrome that contains poems about geography, dams, swamp...
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Rough Ground Revisited
Caitlin Press (CA)£11.99| /Covering Rough Ground, Kate Braid's first book, was published in 1991 and awarded the Pat Lowther Award for Best Book of Poetry by a Canadian Woman...
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam for Students of Persian Literature
Ibex Publishers (US)£20.99| /Since leaving his homeland after the Iranian revolution in 1979, Kuros Amouzgar witnessed his children and many other second generation Iranians wh...
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Ruben Guthrie
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Ruben Guthrie is on fire. He is 29, he is the Creative Director of a cutting-edge advertising agency, he's engaged to a Czech supermodel and Sydney...
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Ruby Moon
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /In Flaming Tree Grove, life appears to be picture perfect. Security and privacy are precious virtues and seclusion its own reward. Until the day wh...
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Rudyard Kipling
Natraj Publishers (IND)£9.95| /Rudyard Kipling, the unrivalled poet laureate of the common man, has undoubtedly augmented the language with his fragmented phrases of diverse vers...
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Rue du Regard
DC Books (US)£12.99| /Todd Swift is one of Canada's leading younger expatriate writers. Elegant, moving, and masterful, Rue du Regard forms the final part of a trilogy, ...
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Ruin
Interactive Press£19.99| /Ruin is one of the first poetry collections in the world to explore the epic tragedy of the Iraq War (2003 - 20??). Using four distinctive voices, ...
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Rumors of Fallible Gods
Presa Press (US)£16.99| /This is the second poetry collection from Peter Ludwin. Most of the poems were previously published in quality literary magazines such as The Midwe...
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Run Rabbit Run
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /When the National Rugby League thought they could jettison the Rabbitohs to streamline their competition they were in for a shock. South Sydney, a ...
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Run Riot
Caitlin Press (CA)£10.99| /This is a weird place to wake up / For someone who has woken up in some pretty strange places before. With one poem written each day during Ash Win...
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Runaway Dreams
Ronsdale Press (CA)£12.99| /Having developed an impressive reputation for his many novels and non-fiction works, Richard Wagamese now presents a collection of stunning poems r...
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Rupert
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /In his latest play Australia's best known and multi-award winning playwright David Williamson tackles the rise and rise of ex-Australian citizen an...
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Russell Country
Hancock House Publishers (CA)£10.99| /A Compilation of Poetry containing the authors memories of the Cowboy Way in Southeastern Montana - Russell Country. This collection of verse conta...
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