Literature & Literary Studies
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GOBBY
Playdead Press£9.99| /"I think you like parties because you like talking. Not in a bad way, talking's good. If you're talking, you're not keeping it all in. Five parties...
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God is Dead (Again)
Presa Press (US)£20.99| /Twelve one-act plays about the meaning of life. With crisp, precise dialogue, insightful characterisation and streamlined plot development, Congdon...
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Golda Namat Hona
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press£8.99| /Text in Arabic. Suad Amiry traces the lives of individual members of Palestinian families and, through them, the histories of both Palestine and th...
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Golda Slept Here
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press£8.99| /Suad Amiry traces the lives of individual members of Palestinian families and, through them, the histories of both Palestine and the émigré Palesti...
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Golden Age
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Inspired by the true story of a group of people who were discovered in the wilds of Tasmania in 1939 (2 acts, 10 men, 6 women).
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Golden Verses
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£22.99| /Golden Verses: Poetry of the Augustan Age is an anthology containing fresh and rhythmic translations of the great poets from the Augustan period an...
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Good Cook. Friendly. Clean
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Where do you go when you dont have a home? Coming home one night, Sandra learns she has two weeks to move out. Its nothing personal, her housemat...
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Good with Maps / Teacup in a Storm
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£18.99| /GOOD WITH MAPS: When the world map was full of gaps, the Amazon topped the list of places unknown to western explorers. In the twenty-first century...
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Good Works
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Would you ruin someone's life, separate them from their soulmate and their only son, all the time telling yourself you are doing the right thing? L...
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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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Goodbye Vaudeville Charlie Mudd / Return to Earth
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£18.99| /"Goodbye Vaudeville Charlie Mudd" is set in Edwardian Melbourne. The play is an evocation of a forgotten past -- a play about pain and cruel desire...
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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)£23.00| /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)£15.99| /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)£29.99| /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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Grace Under Pressure
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Grace Under Pressure is a verbatim theatre project about the workplace and training cultures that are making young health professionals sick and ...
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Grafitti
DC Books (US)£11.99| /In metaphor there is an implicit comparison, a higher form by which presence in this world is made manifest through language. Pierre DesRuisseaux ....
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Grammatical Works Attributed to Peter of Pisa, Charlemagne's Tutor
Weidmann£108.99| /Text in German.
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Grandchild of Empire
Ronsdale Press (CA)£9.99| /The book draws its examples mainly from the Commonwealth, focussing on family and family metaphors, on margins and the power of language to alter t...
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Grazing on Stars
Presa Press (US)£16.99| /Steven Sher's poems are rooted in Brooklyn, New York, where he grew up, and in the places across America where he has lived including Iowa, Kansas,...
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Great Fire
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Many years ago, in the 1970s, in pursuit of a good life and a sustainable future, Judith and Patrick built a house in the Adelaide Hills. They rais...
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Great Man / Sanctuary
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£18.99| /Two plays that investigate the divergence of self-interest and truth in public life. The Great Man (1 act: 4 men, 3 women) -- Jack Barclay, great m...
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Greek Lyric
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£17.99| /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)£45.99| /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.£40.99| /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)£56.99| /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 Editions£13.99| /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)£25.99| /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)£100.00| /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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Gwen in Purgatory
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Gwen is 90. She woke up this morning to discover that purgatory is sitting alone in a new house in a new subdivision on the edge of town, trying to...
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H.C. Andersens brevveksling med Lucie og B.S. Ingemann
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£76.99| /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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Hacia un primer teatro clásico
Iberoamericana/Vervuert£22.99| /Text in Spanish. Tradicionalmente desdeñado por la crítica como un teatro menor, el teatro del siglo XVI camina firmemente hacia su proceso de cano...
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