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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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Wild Woman & Other Plays
Ariadne Press (US)£28.99| /This second volume of Felix Mitterer's plays in English trans-lation offers further evidence of this dramatist's powerful artistry. A mythological ...
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Will not forget both laughter and tears
University of Alberta Press (CA)£21.99| /Geishas and samurai, manga and animé come to mind when Japan enters the conversation. While these traditional and modern images about the island na...
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Wind & Water
Birch Brook Press£15.99| /An engaging collection of poetry which invokes classical allusions while immersing itself in the land the poet loves, echoing early days in Michiga...
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Wind in the Willows
Playdead Press£9.99| /By Kenneth Grahame, Adapted by Gari Jones. Toad hasn't been seen since the most recent of his escapades backfired, Badger doesn't react well to vis...
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Windmill
Museum of New Mexico Press (US)£15.99| /As Thoreau used the pond, Romtvedt uses the windmill as a metaphor to take the reader on a philosophical and spiritual search of fundamental truths...
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Wings of Angels
Spinifex Press£14.95| /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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Wings of Same Bird
Interactive Press£19.99| /Poetry. Winner of the 2009 Interactive Publications Picks Best Poetry Award. WINGS OF THE SAME BIRD is an impressive collection grown from the myth...
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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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