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Walking to Jutland Street
Otago University Press (NZ)£13.99| /Walking to Jutland Street is the impressive frst book-length collection by up-and-coming Auckland-based poet Michael Steven. The title refers to Du...
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Walt Whitman & the Persian Poets
Ibex Publishers (US)£100.00| /Where did Walt Whitman get his religious ideas? This book follows in detail the similarities of the religious beliefs of the American writer/humani...
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Walter Moers' Zamonien-Romane
V & R Unipress GmbH£42.99| /In 2009 a Bernese zoologist discovered a new species of spider in the Alps, which he named "Zamonian dwarf spider". The literary fantasy work Walte...
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War & Literature
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£33.99| /This comprehensive volume analyzes the radical change in the nature of armed conflicts and in the way they are narrated and represented. Ever since...
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War and the Intellectuals
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£12.99| /Although he died at the age of thirty-two, Randolph Bourne (1886-1918) left a body of writing on politics, culture, and literature that made him on...
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War and the Intellectuals
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£33.99| /Although he died at the age of thirty-two, Randolph Bourne (1886-1918) left a body of writing on politics, culture, and literature that made him on...
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Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Basil Pepper is not the man, hes not a doer, or a fighter or even much of a thinker. World events pass him by, ideology makes him sleepy, and ...
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Water over Stone
Interactive Press£19.99| /"Shore's mind is awake, always, to the lyrical potential of an ordinary moment and the consolations of memory and old friendships, awake to the sat...
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We Are Better Than This
ATF Press£23.99| /This is a collection of essays and poetry addressing the Australian governments asylum seeker policy. The aims of the book are several: to provide...
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We Are Not Avatars
Palimpsest Press£15.99| /Renowned poet and editor John Barton collects his most provocative essays, public lectures, and reviews produced over the past twenty-five years. B...
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We Fall Like Children
Laertes, a Press for Literary Translation, Inc£10.99| /How does a writer translate war? And when the war is over, how does the individual reconstruct his world from the ruins? Bajraj lives in Mexico, in...
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We Never Sleep
Ariadne Press (US)£22.99| /In this masterfully constructed docu-novel Kathrin Röggla ventures into the dysfunctional, self-contained and self-destructive universe of a New Ec...
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Weathering Wilderness
Birch Brook Press (US)£16.99| /This is the first volume of poetry by this 30-year veteran of the National Park Service, where he worked as a Senior Planner at the Interpretive De...
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Weathers
Goose Lane Editions£19.99| /Douglas Lochhead is one of Canada's finest poets. In celebration of his eightieth birthday, Goose Lane Editions is releasing Weathers: Poems New an...
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Web
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /'Is a person still isolated if their friends are make-believe?' Fred is a 16-year-old living on a farm without stock or crops in an Australian coun...
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Wee Girls
Spinifex Press£14.95| /This is a selection of writings by women from Ireland, Australia, England, Canada (and other countries) compiled and edited by Irish-Australian poe...
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Welcome to the Anthropocene
University of Alberta Press (CA)£16.99| /Alice Major observes the comedy and the tragedy of this human-dominated moment on Earth. Major's most persistent question--"Where do we fit in the ...
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Wells
University of Alberta Press (CA)£16.99| /Jenna Butler draws on her own experiences of her grandmother's disappearance into senile dementia to reassemble a sensual world in longpoem form th...
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Were the Bees
NeWest Publishers Ltd (CA)£11.99| /This is an innovative collection of poetry from a fresh Canadian voice. Andy Weaver explores the boundaries of the poetic form to create a playful ...
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Wharton Esherick's Illuminated & Illustrated Song of the Broad-Axe
Schiffer£31.99| /In 1922, Wharton Esherick showed a copy Rhymes of Early Jungle Folk, which he had illustrated with woodcut prints, to Harold Mason, owner of the Ce...
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What Can Be Proven
Interactive Press£18.99| /A strange and compelling world is revealed in What Can Be Proven, and yet reading it is like returning to familiar things that we have forgotten. O...
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What did I know? CD
Interactive Press£19.99| /In this audio book selected from BN Oakman's latest poetry collections, In Defense of Hawaiian Shirts and Second Thoughts, we have brilliant readin...
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What Fox Knew
At Bay Press£15.99| /'His voice was as thick as pine resin when he began to read and as the words travelled down my spine.' Mary Barnes has identified beauty in subtlet...
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What We're Left With
Brindle & Glass (CA)£19.99| /The poems in Ben Murray' s debut collection, What We' re Left With, reflect on disconnection as a feature of contemporary urban experience. Murray'...
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What You Used to Wear
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /Charmaine Cadeau's intensely imagined poems captivate everyone who experiences them. Delving beneath the gleaming surfaces of satellite dishes, wag...
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When Eyes Meet Over the Minestrone
Birch Brook Press (US)£15.99| /These poems offer readers a sometimes humorous, sometimes unsmiling view of the joys and disenchantments of married as well as unmarried love. The ...
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When Sleep Comes
Sagging Meniscus Press£22.99| /In his new poetry collection, Jack Foley revels in a wild and varied display bringing together many styles and preoccupations, from the depths of g...
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When the bad bleeds
V & R Unipress GmbH£71.99| /The study "When the bad bleeds" examines the function of manticism in the English revenge tragedy of the Renaissance. Mantic elements are supernatu...
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When They Broke Down the Door
Mage Publishers Inc (US)£20.99| /The power of poetry to map the human heart has been a hallmark of Persian culture for at least a thousand years, and Fatemeh Shams wields it unforg...
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Where I Sit
Presa Press (US)£16.99| /Donald Lev's book collects seventy-four poems that are deceptively simple yet infused with a subtle irony that gives them a poignant intimacy. He a...
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Where Nothing Arrives
Playdead Press£9.99| /In a room of an unfinished new build in Kensal Rise, Chimp and Knuckle are passing the dark hours before dawn. As they consider the future, the two...
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Where the Nights Are Twice as Long
Goose Lane Editions£17.99| /Under the covers of Where the Nights Are Twice as Long: Love Letters of Canadian Poets, David Eso and Jeanette Lynes collect letters and epistolary...
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Where the Truth Lies
Newest Press (CA)£19.99| /The problem with writer longevity can be a complicating, even contradictory oeuvre. Hopefully". This book collects forty years of essays and speech...
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Wherever I Find Myself
Caitlin Press (CA)£15.99| /In this third anthology in the Canadian women series by Caitlin Press, Canadian immigrant women from a variety of ethnicities and intersecting iden...
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While the Billy Boils
Sydney University Press£26.99| /Fifty-two of Henry Lawson's stories and sketches that he had first published in newspapers and magazines from 1888 onwards were gathered in his col...
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Whiskey Bullets
Ronsdale Press (CA)£11.99| /This edgy collection explores themes of duality that exist in the parallel worlds of cowboys and Indians. Often satirical, 'Whiskey Bullets' is a t...
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Whispering Mind
Sterling Publishers Pvt Ltd (IND)£19.99| /This is the love story of Yin and Yang, the negative and positive vibes in the world. They are eternal lovers like Shakti and Shiva, Prakriti and P...
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Whispers in the Classroom Voices on the Field
Wisdom Tree (IND)£12.99| /School! A splendid institution. It tells you about what's around you while helping you explore what lies within. It brings you face-to-face with pe...
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Who Needs Books?
University of Alberta Press (CA)£9.99| /"We look around and feel as if book culture as we know it is crumbling to dust, but there's one important thing to keep in mind: as we know it." Wh...
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Who Shaped Science Fiction?
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£29.99| /This book combines the reading public's interest in science fiction with the always popular biography genre. The book contains one hundred concise ...
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Why Grow Here
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /"A visitor from down south stared at my apple tree and said: 'Those don't grow here you know. It's too cold.' If the apricot tree in Highlands knew...
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Wicked Sisters
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /When George Hobbesscientific geniusdies, his widow, Meridee, hosts a lunch for three friends. The four women have known each other since their y...
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Widow's Walk
Goose Lane Editions£4.99| /The first book of an enormously talented and award-winning author and songwriter.
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Wieland; or The Transformation
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£14.99| /Wieland; or The Transformation (1798) ties revolutionary-era Gothic themes to struggles over the politics of Enlightenment on both sides of the Atl...
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Wild Honey
Massey University Press£34.99| /Highly regarded poet and anthologist Paula Green is the author of this much overdue survey of New Zealands women poets. Illustrated throughout by ...
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wild horses
University of Alberta Press (CA)£16.99| /Cast during his year in the U of A's writer in residency, wild horses is Ottawan rob mclennan's deep lyrical engagement with Edmonton, Alberta. He ...
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Wild Strawberries
Presa Press (US)£15.99| /"Wild Strawberries" collects fifty-nine new poems previously published in three dozen plus literary journals such as Backwards City Review, The Cal...
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