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Good-bye to the Sugar Refinery
Goose Lane Editions£6.99| /Wheatley reflects on her experience with the Canadian Women's Army Corps -- exploring her own coming-of-age and offering an historical testament to...
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Gophers and Swans
Goose Lane Editions£3.99| /Gophers and Swans is a trenchant and powerfully feminist collection of poetry by the author of The Ordinary Invisible Woman.
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Gorgias
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£10.99| /This is an excellent translation. It achieves a very high standard of accuracy and readability, two goals very difficult to attain in combination w...
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Gorse Blooms Pale
Otago University Press (NZ)Original price £23.00Current price £17.25| /Dan Davin, one of New Zealands acknowledged masters of the short story, was born in Invercargill in 1913. The Gorse Blooms Pale gathers together t...
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Gospel Drunk
University of Alberta Press (CA)Original price £15.99Current price £11.99| /Gospel Drunk follows a speaker's journey to find clarity and identity as he contemplates his Catholic upbringing and struggles with loneliness and ...
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Gothic Canada
University of Alberta Press (CA)Original price £29.99Current price £19.49| /Canadians have always been obsessed with the idea of their own identities. Stories that tell us who we are provide a reassuring sense of identity f...
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Grammatical Works Attributed to Peter of Pisa, Charlemagne's Tutor
Weidmann£108.99| /Text in German.
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Greek Lyric
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)Original price £17.99Current price £13.49| /Successfully integrating elegance and a close fidelity to the Greek, these new translations aim to provide Greekless students with as close a sense...
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Greek Lyric
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)Original price £45.99Current price £29.89| /Successfully integrating elegance and a close fidelity to the Greek, these new translations aim to provide Greekless students with as close a sense...
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Greek Tragedy, a First Reading
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.Original price £40.99Current price £26.64| /This is an intermediate to advanced textbook for first reading of Greek tragedy. This book draws from selections from both Euripides' and Sophocles...
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Gregory of Nazianzus
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)Original price £56.99Current price £37.04| /Gregory of Nazianzus (ca330-390) is one of the three Greek church fathers from Cappadocia. This book explores both his theology -- which earned him...
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Growing Pains
Playdead Press£9.99| /Carrying the weight of the world in his J.D sports bag, a working class lad trades his bag-head mates and council estate for a one-way ticket out o...
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Grundriss des Laufes der Sterne -- 2-Volume Set
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£121.99| /Text in German. This volume contains a complete re-edition and study of the 'Fundamentals of the Course of the Stars'. This handbook on Religious A...
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Guesswork
Goose Lane EditionsOriginal price £13.99Current price £12.99| /Winner, City of Hamilton Arts Award, Established Artist, WritingBeginning with an autobiographical account of the mind, Jeffery Donaldson's marvell...
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Guesthouse
Playdead Press£9.99| /Three generations of women try to push back the tide.It is 1966. I am sixteen years old and I am on the Venetian bridge with Brian Joy from the Gol...
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Guitars & Adobes
Museum of New Mexico Press (US)Original price £25.99Current price £16.89| /Fray Angélico Chávez was an American Franciscan priest, historian, researcher, author, poet, and painter. This rare collection of writings combines...
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Gulistan (Rose Garden) of Sa'di
Ibex Publishers (US)Original price £100.00Current price £65.00| /Text in English & Persian. Is the Gulistan the most influential book in the Iranian world? In terms of prose, it is the model, which all writer...
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H.C. Andersens brevveksling med Lucie og B.S. Ingemann
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)Original price £76.99Current price £50.04| /H.C. Andersens (1805-1875) brevveksling med B.S. Ingemann (1789-1862) og hustruen Lucie (1792-1862) er en af eventyrdigterens sidste store korrespo...
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Hafez Poems of Gertrude Bell
Ibex Publishers (US)Original price £22.99Current price £17.24| /"Miss Bells [translations] are true poetry of a very high order and, with perhaps the single exception of FitzGerald's paraphrase of the Quatrains ...
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Haft Paykar
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)Original price £21.99Current price £16.49| /"It was a refreshing, old-fashioned pleasure to read Julie Scott Meisami's verse translation of, and introduction and notes to, this twelfth-centur...
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Haft Paykar
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)Original price £58.99Current price £38.34| /"It was a refreshing, old-fashioned pleasure to read Julie Scott Meisami's verse translation of, and introduction and notes to, this twelfth-centur...
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Haiku in Papiamentu
University of Alberta Press (CA)Original price £16.99Current price £12.74| /Curaçao writer, sculptor and artist Elis Juliana's poetry blends the intrinsic rhythmic and tonal aspects of the Papiamentu language as he depicts ...
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Hamlet Minibook
Wartelsteiner GmbHOriginal price £19.99Current price £14.99| /Book & slipcase. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been wr...
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Hamlet Minibook: Gilt Edged Edition
Wartelsteiner GmbHOriginal price £24.99Current price £18.74| /Book & slipcase. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been wr...
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Hans Christian Andersen
University Press of Southern Denmark (DK)Original price £31.00Current price £20.15| /On the occasion of Hans Christian Andersen's bicentenary the theme chosen was Hans Christian Andersen between Children's Literature and Adult Liter...
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Hans Christian Andersen
Odense University Press (DK)Original price £32.75Current price £21.29| /For the first time ever in English, this book presents a wide range of approaches to Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) and his works, thereby pro...
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Hans Christian Andersen and Community
University of Southern Denmark PressOriginal price £33.00Current price £21.45| /The theme of community has perhaps never been of a more vital significance than in our present day and age. The process we refer to as modernity ha...
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Hans Christian Andersen in China
University Press of Southern Denmark (DK)Original price £22.00Current price £16.50| /Hans Christian Andersen is known and loved throughout modern China. With his fairy tales and other stories the Danish author builds a bridge of ima...
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Hans Christian Andersen in Russia
University of Southern Denmark PressOriginal price £36.00Current price £23.40| /Hans Christian Andersens long-standing canonical status among his Russian readers is owed specifically to his fairy tales. For the nearly two cent...
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Hans Christian Andersens Magic Trunk
University Press of Southern Denmark (DK)Original price £18.00Current price £13.50| /At the Hans Christian Andersen Museum in Odense the writer's trunk is on display. It is worn and dusty, for Andersen loved to travel and was often ...
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Happy New
Playdead Press£9.99| /People don't really accept chickens, which is wrong, cos we invented the pecking order.' The outback. Danny and Lyle were abandoned by their mothe...
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Hard-Boiled Anxiety
Secant Publishing LLC£25.99| /Named one of Kirkus Reviews' Best Indie Books of 2016. For close to fifty years, three masters of the hard-boiled detective novel dispatched intrep...
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Harmonic
Interactive Press£19.99| /Poetry. This collection brings together the strengths of Oliver's poetic; clarity of thought, compressed, highly original imagery, and rhythmic exp...
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Haruki Murakami Goes to Meet Hayao Kawai
Daimon Verlag (CH)£30.00| /Two of Japans foremost contemporary cultural spokespersons met for an informal conversation with remarkable results. While their extended talk too...
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He Leaves His Face in the Funeral Car
Caitlin Press (CA)£11.99| /Elegiac, lyrical, ironic; a series of reflections, recollections; a collection about relationships -- to family, clocks, water, trees, ungulates, e...
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Heart Takes Wing
Interactive Press£6.99| /A brilliant collaboration of words and music between tanka artist Kathy Kituai and composer/musician Nitya Bernard Parker. Kituai says of tanka: 'O...
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