Literature & Literary Studies
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Winter River Flowing
Presa Press (US)£22.99| /This book contains the very best poetry of reclusive poet t.kilgore splake, chosen by splake himself at the age of seventy-seven, from all of this ...
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Winter Tennis
DC Books (US)£13.99| /Todd Swift's fourth collection, "Winter Tennis" is a passionate appraisal of life by the poet at age forty. By turns elegantly sad and radically wi...
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Winter's Cold Girls
Caitlin Press (CA)£11.99| /In her debut collection of poetry, Lisa Baird explores themes of trauma and recovery, everyday violence and queerness from a personal point of view...
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Wintersleep
Ronsdale Press (CA)£11.99| /Appearing for the first time in an English translation, these plays allow anglophones to appreciate Marie-Claire Blais' range as a dramatist. The p...
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Winyanboga Yurringa
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Six Indigenous women gather on country for what seems like a fun camping trip by the river, a chance to get away from the daily grind, a time to na...
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Wire Dancing
Spinifex Press£11.95| /Circus as drama and risk, as exuberance and irrepressible spirit, is the central metaphor Patricia Sykes uses to open a world where public and priv...
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Wisdom in Nonsense
University of Alberta Press (CA)£10.99| /I broke all the rules that my dad gave me. It was he who had given me, in part, the confidence to think of my life as being worthy to mix with tho...
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Wisdom of Adam Smith
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£7.95| /Adam Smith was an eloquent man of considerable philosophical and historical learning. His most incisive and enduring observations are collected her...
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Witch Dance
Presa Press (US)£14.99| /Poet Glenna Luschei responds to the death of her husband Bill with a special kind of poetic magic. The collection is built around the poems remembe...
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With One Brush
Interactive Press£18.99| /The act of painting takes on metaphorical significance as Dean navigates themes of creation and documentation of life through art. What emerges is ...
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Within the Song to Live
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£23.99| /Book & CD. Natan Yonatan is one of Israel's most beloved and popular poets, whose books have sold in the hundreds of thousands. Over two hundre...
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Witness
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£50.00| /This book offers a complex and thought-provoking anthology of critical essays respecting the notion of the witness and phenomena of witnessing in W...
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Witness to a Conga & Other Plays
NeWest Press (CA)£15.99| /The Sterling Award-winning author of "At the Zenith of the Empire" and "A Teatro Trilogy" returns with a new collection of charming, heart-warming ...
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Wolf Lullaby
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /In a bleak, remote town, a small child is murdered. Suspicion falls on nine-year-old Lizzie. Angela, Lizzie's young mother, is convinced her daught...
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Women in Concert
Bhatkal & Sen (IND)£50.00| /Translated from the original anthology in Bengali. Throwing light on the work and lives of unknown or forgotten Muslim women writers of pre-Indepen...
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Women's Words, Women's Works
Ariadne Press (US)£28.99| /This is the first anthology in English devoted entirely to contemporary Austrian drama written by women. The selection begins with Clara S. (A Musi...
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Wonderlands
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /In 1931, Alice, a white station owner, goes riding with her Aboriginal head stockman and friend, Jim. During the course of the afternoon, they come...
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Woodstoves & Ravens
Birch Brook Press (US)£16.99| /This book describes a wild-land sojourn with woodstoves and ravens in the boreal forest on the Canadian north shore of Lake Superior, near Thunder ...
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Word, Woman and Place
Goose Lane Editions£6.99| /Word, Woman and Place is McCarthy's fourth collection of poetry. Selections from his earlier works are gathered together with recent poems into thi...
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Words Flower
Interactive Press£19.99| /This is a collection of delightful tanka, in Japanese and English, by two poets experienced and skilled in the form. Saeko Ogi, whose primary langu...
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Words of Wisdom from Ancient Greece
Aiora Press£12.99| /His poetry sings of the beauty of the natural world and offers a vision of the paradise that the world could be, but it is also imbued with a deep ...
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Working in the Dark
Museum of New Mexico Press (US)£18.99| /Baca passionately explores the troubled years of his youth, from which he emerged with heightened awareness of his ethnic identify as a Chicano, hi...
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Works and Days and Theogony
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£12.99| /"Robert Lamberton's Introduction is an excellent, concise exposition of current scholarly debate: his notes are informative and helpful. . . . Thos...
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Works of Fisher Ames
Liberty Fund Inc. (US)£13.95| /Fisher Ames was a leading New England Federalist and sublime critic of Jacobin Democracy and the French Revolution. During the presidency of George...
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Works of Peter Handke
Ariadne Press (US)£39.99| /Since his now famous appearance on the literary stage in 1968 novelist, playwright and poet Peter Handke has remained on the forefront of the liter...
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Workshy
Playdead Press£9.99| /This is a play for young people about six characters exploring their relationship to work, education, society and the influences/barriers to all of...
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World Enough & Time
Playdead Press£9.99| /2014. Celia appears to be the woman who has it all -- a high-flying career, financial security and a picture-perfect family. But then a friend from...
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World Literature in Motion
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£45.00| /By bringing in different degrees of circulation in different regions and languages, this collection shows that while literary centers do exist in w...
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World's Greatest Speeches
Sterling Publishers Pvt Ltd (IND)£4.99| /This anthology gives an insight into the minds of great leaders and personalities and documents the way they changed the course of history with the...
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World-Fixer
Ariadne Press (US)£17.99| /This translation of Thomas Bernhard's Der Weltverbesserer makes a contemporary masterpiece available to English language readers for the first time...
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Worsooz
Playdead Press£9.99| /When Worsooz meets her estranged father Nick, her mother Alberta is immersed in a secret relationship with girlfriend Anne and building their plan ...
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Wozzeck
University of Alberta Press (CA)£23.99| /Izdryk's Wozzeck is one of the masterpieces of contemporary Ukrainian literature and a cult classic for the Ukrainian 1990s generation. Discerning ...
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Writer Who Stayed
Paul Dry Books (US)£15.99| /William Zinsser, author of "On Writing Well" and many other books, wrote a weekly blog for the American Scholar -- about writing, the arts, New Yor...
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Writers of the Caribbean Diaspora
Sterling Publishers Pvt Ltd (IND)£20.99| /Histories are important and histories have a way of travelling. West Indies is one example of a society constructed artificially of imported popula...
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Writers, Lovers, Soldiers, Spies
Author's Club£19.99| /Where did Oscar Wilde indignantly denounce the censorship of his play Salome? Where did Arthur Conan Doyle and Jerome K Jerome read from their unpu...
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Writing Home
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£28.99| /When the SS Empire Windrush berthed at Tilbury docks in 1948 with 492 ex-servicemen from the Caribbean, it marked the beginning of the post-war mig...
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Writing the Sacred
Northstone Publishing (CA)£19.99| /In this unique book, Ray McGinnis offers us a new, deeper, and more meaningful way to explore and understand the Psalms. Vividly connecting us with...
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Writing the Tides
Ronsdale Press (CA)£13.99| /Speaking of Kevin Roberts, the Australian writer Nigel Krauth says, "Roberts takes the common man's point of view and proves that humanity is still...
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Writing the West Coast
Ronsdale Press (CA)£19.99| /This collection of over thirty essays by both well-known and emerging writers explores what it means to "be at home" on Canada's West Coast. The es...
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Writing Within / Without / About Sri Lanka
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£28.99| /Paola Brusasco's study offers an original insight into Sri Lankan literature in English and an exploration of cultural, social, and linguistic issu...
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Yanagai! Yanagai!
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /We are in a mythical landscape on the banks of a mighty river. The Yorta Yorta know him as Dhungula'. The white fellas call it The Murray'. A cla...
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Yellow Wave
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Kenneth Mackays 19th century classic Australian novel comes to vivid life on the stage, in an epic saga of love, heroism and sacrifice. This is a ...
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Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
Interactive Press£19.99| /This book-length tanka collaboration, by Kathy Kituai and Amelia Fielden, explores the deep and sometimes uncanny relationships between our human e...
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Yiddish and the Field of Translation
Bohlau Verlag GmbH & Co.KG£71.99| /Yiddish literature and culture take a central position in Jewish literatures. They are shaped to a high degree, not least through migration, by enc...
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Yip Sang
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /During the second half of the 19th century, thousands of Chinese men arrived on the west coast of North America, seeking to escape poverty and make...
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You are Never Too Far
Wisdom Tree (IND)£7.95| /Is the learning that we need essentially different from the education that we receive?
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You Look Good for Your Age
University of Alberta Press (CA)£20.99| /"I returned to the same respiratory therapist for my annual checkup. I told her that her words to me, 'You look good for your age,' had inspired a ...
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Young Brer Rabbit & Other Trickster Tales from the Americas
Stemmer House Publishers, Inc (US)£10.99| /For ages 4-8. A completely fresh treasure trove of the sly rabbit's adventures in tales from Central and South America.