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The White Clock
Otago University Press (NZ)£8.90| /Delving both into 'the worlds of the mind' and 'where he happens to be', Owen Marshall brings us poetry that is steeped in the Classics, history an...
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The Wilder Years
Otago University PressOriginal price £21.00Current price £15.75| /"David Eggleton, Poet Laureate of Aotearoa 201921, has published nine poetry collections, and now, finally, comes a Best Of . The Wilder Years: ...
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The Wings of Angels
Spinifex PressOriginal price £14.95Current price £12.95| /Not since Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton has anyone written so candidly about madness. Able to manipulate key images, she moves from Niobe in 'widow'...
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The Winter's Tale
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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The Witch of the Inner Wood
Goose Lane EditionsOriginal price £30.99Current price £20.14| /Winner, New Brunswick Book Award for PoetryA Quill & Quire Best Book of the YearLike the novella in fiction, the long poem is an oft-neglected ...
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The World Cup Baby
Interactive Press£25.99| /Euan McCabe is a football World Cup compulsive. Once a typical rugby-loving New Zealand schoolboy, he was mesmerised by his first sighting of Bueno...
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The Writing Life
Massey University PressOriginal price £38.99Current price £25.34| /A unique, candid and intimate survey of the life and work of 12 of our most acclaimed writers: Patricia Grace, Tessa Duder, Owen Marshall, Philip T...
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The Yield
Otago University Press£11.50| /The vivid and lyrical new collection from award-winning poet Sue Wootton. These poems are sensorially alive, deeply attentive to language, the body...
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Theban Plays
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)Original price £14.99Current price £12.99| /This volume offers the fruits of Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's dynamic collaboration on the plays of Sophocles' Theban cycle, presenting the tr...
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Theban Plays
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)Original price £35.99Current price £23.39| /This volume offers the fruits of Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's dynamic collaboration on the plays of Sophocles' Theban cycle, presenting the tr...
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Then & Now
Paul Dry Books (US)£15.99| /These two long essays make up a short book, one full of depth and knowledge, in which Eva Brann gets at the roots of our thinking -- without tearin...
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Theogony
Focus Publishing (US)£11.99| /This translation contains an introduction, commentary and interpretive essay and well as numerous notes and annotations to provide the history and ...
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Theory of Literature
Nova Science Publishers, IncOriginal price £274.99Current price £178.74| /Theory of Literature was originally published in 1949. It is not a textbook introducing the young to the elements of literary appreciation nor a su...
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There Are Not Enough Sad Songs
University of Alberta Press (CA)Original price £16.99Current price £12.74| /There is beauty in the teacup like dresses requiring crinoline or beaded purses too small to carry anything but anger. --from "Inheritance" Marita ...
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These are not the potatoes of my youth
Goose Lane EditionsOriginal price £15.99Current price £11.99| /Shortlisted, Trillium Book Award for Poetry and Gerald Lampert Memorial AwardIn this confessional debut collection, Matthew Walsh meanders through ...
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These Fields Were Rivers
Goose Lane EditionsOriginal price £15.99Current price £11.99| /Brent MacLaine's poems, like the poet himself, are rooted in the history and landscape of Prince Edward Island. Yet, MacLaine possesses a remarkabl...
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Things That Get You
Digital Publishing Centre£19.99| /This collection engages the essential questions of life, reflecting on the connectivity of humanity and nature, and the importance of love and fami...
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Thinking Faith
ATF PressOriginal price £28.99Current price £18.84| /The title of this collection of essays is Thinking Faith: Moods, Methods, and Mystery, and it might need a word of explanation. The aim is to sugge...
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Thirsting for Lemonade
Digital Publishing Centre£19.99| /In her third collection of poetry, Heather Taylor Johnson celebrates the liminal spaces between two cultures - the neither here nor there, the neit...
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Thirty-Three Short Comedy Plays for Teens
Meriwether Publishing (US)Original price £21.99Current price £16.49| /A collection of plays with natural dialogue and believable situations for two to six actors.
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Thirty-Two Stories
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)Original price £13.99Current price £12.99| /America's most influential literary figure worldwide is familiar to most readers of short fiction through only about a dozen stories. This is becau...
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Thirty-Two Stories
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)Original price £38.99Current price £25.34| /America's most influential literary figure worldwide is familiar to most readers of short fiction through only about a dozen stories. This is becau...
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This Book Is Unpublishable!
Fidelio Press (UK)£7.95| /This book delves into the stories of forty authors of the past whose works, although initially rejected, are today very much alive. Their experienc...
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This City
Otago University Press (NZ)Original price £13.50Current price £12.50| /This City circles the globe from Florence to Palmerston North but the resulting volume is far more than so-called armchair travel. Topography and p...
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This Intimate War
Spinifex PressOriginal price £12.95Current price £11.95| /It began with the Battle of Çanakkale. It was hand-to-hand killing, the physical closeness of its soldiers unmasking the depersonalisation of the p...
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This Is Your Real Name
Otago University Press (NZ)Original price £14.00Current price £13.00| /In lieu of flowers, bring weeds. Elizabeth Mortons poems look unflinchingly at a raw and unstable world the crash, the aftermath, the comeback, ...
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This Series Has Been Discontinued
Goose Lane Editions£5.99| /This Series Has Been Discontinued is an early collection from a prolific journalist, historian, biographer, and poet.
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This Way the Road
NeWest Publishers Ltd (CA)£13.99| /Inspired by working at the Royal Ontario Museum, gifted poet Nina Berkhout spins a catastrophic yet enduring tale of love set amidst the chaos of a...
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This Way to the Grand As-Is
Sagging Meniscus PressOriginal price £22.99Current price £17.24| /THIS WAY TO THE GRAND AS-IS is a snapshot of Aaron Anstett's career so far: the author's own selections from six previous collections, from SUSTENA...
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Those Earlier Hills
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)Original price £15.99Current price £11.99| /Few men have been as set on isolated adventures and as passionate about the wild landscape of Canada as R.M. Patterson. He spent over 30 years in e...
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Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£10.99| /A model of what an edition of a philosohic text for an introductory level should be. Introduction does an admirable job of putting Berkeley's thoug...
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Three Irish Plays
Branden Publishing Co (US)£6.99| /The Land of Heart's Desire (Yeats); The Twisting of the Rope (Hyde); and Riders to the Sea (Synge).
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Three Other Theban Plays
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)Original price £15.99Current price £11.99| /Though now associated mainly with Sophocles' Theban Plays and Euripides' Bacchae , the theme of Thebes and its royalty was a favorite of ancient Gr...
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Three Other Theban Plays
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)Original price £42.99Current price £27.94| /Though now associated mainly with Sophocles' Theban Plays and Euripides' Bacchae , the theme of Thebes and its royalty was a favorite of ancient Gr...
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Three Plays
Branden Publishing Co (US)£6.99| /The three plays in this volume focus on the tumultuous relationships between men and women, whether they are father and daughter, brother and siste...
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Three Shrew Plays
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)Original price £17.99Current price £13.49| /Unusual among Shakespeare's plays in that it drew theatrical responses from the outset, The Taming of the Shrew continues to inspire adaptations an...
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Three Shrew Plays
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)Original price £48.99Current price £31.84| /Unusual among Shakespeare's plays in that it drew theatrical responses from the outset, The Taming of the Shrew continues to inspire adaptations an...
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Three Sisters
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£10.99| /First published in her Chekhov: Four Plays and Three Jokes , Sharon Marie Carnicke's eye-opening translation of Three Sisters appears in this editi...
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Three Sisters
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)Original price £32.99Current price £21.44| /First published in her Chekhov: Four Plays and Three Jokes , Sharon Marie Carnicke's eye-opening translation of Three Sisters appears in this editi...
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Threshold
University of Alberta Press (CA)Original price £16.99Current price £12.74| /A dynamic collection of Alberta's vibrant literary culture. Established names and emerging talents are brought together to demonstrate the outstand...
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Through Random Doors We Wandered
Odense University Press (DK)Original price £19.50Current price £14.63| /This book brings together a group of women interested in, even consumed by, the region they inhabit physically or mentally. They know that the Sout...
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Thunder Rumbling at My Heels
Ariadne Press (US)Original price £30.99Current price £20.14| /These essays deal with Ingeborg Bachmann, the most important and most widely read Austrian woman writer of the twentieth century. Her work spans th...
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Ticker
Playdead Press£9.99| /Ticker follows twenty-something Spencer, a Geordie millennial who is deeply in love with the inestimable Gabi. But Spencers life is torn apart by ...
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Tiger in The Skull
Goose Lane Editions£9.99| /Tiger in the Skull makes available for the first time in a single volume the range, substance, and variety of Lochhead's work.
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Time of the Icebergs
Otago University Press (NZ)£8.90| /Much of Time of the Icebergs was written while David Eggleton was a Writer-in-Residence at the Michael King Writers Centre in Auckland in 2009. The...
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Time of Unrememberable Being
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)Original price £32.99Current price £21.44| /This study views the early work of William Wordsworth as partaking in a general Western European cultural movement in which the realm of the numino...
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Time, History, and Philosophy in the Works of Wilson Harris
ibidemOriginal price £29.90Current price £19.44| /Gianluca Delfino’s study is based on the assumption that Wilson Harris’s works as a whole show a remarkable unity of thought rooted in their author...
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Timelord Dreaming
Interactive Press Australia£19.99| /You wake in the middle of the night with a terrible pain radiating from your lower side up to your chest. An ambulance is called, and you're ration...
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