Literature & Literary Studies
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Superheroes
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /In Thirroul, Emily sits on the beach with her sort-of-ex-sort-of-not boyfriend, trying to figure out how to deal with her unwanted pregnancy. In Mo...
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Surrender
Otago University Press (NZ)£14.99| /"As one of eight writers, poet Janet Charman was invited in 2009 to take part in a hectic, immersive literary residency in Hong Kong. Written out o...
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Surviving the Gulag
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /"The terrified yell of my comrades makes me stop. I drop the potatoes into the grass and turn around. He has pulled out the pistol and is taking ai...
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Susanna Shakespeare
Aspekt Uitgeverij BV (NL)£19.95| /One can find plenty of literature on the life and works of William Shakespeare. Much less if any can be found and read about his three children. Th...
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Sustainability Planning and Collaboration in Rural Canada
University of Alberta Press (CA)£42.99| /Rural communities, often the first indicators of economic downturns, play an important role in planning for development and sustainability. Increas...
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Sweet Water
Caitlin Press (CA)£14.99| /This book gathers the voices of poets from across Canada, the US and the UK who write of water. Bottled, clouded, held in rain, in river, estuary ...
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Swelling with Pride
Caitlin Press (CA)£15.99| /Theres no straightforward path to LGBTQ2 parenthood and just as every queer person has their own coming out story, every LGBTQ2 family has a uniqu...
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Swimming Ginger
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /Shortlisted, Independent Publishers Book Award, PoetryThe Qingming Shanghe Tu scroll, sometimes called "Spring Festival by the River," was thought ...
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Switzerland
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Its 1995 in the Swiss Alps and the ailing reclusive crime writer Patricia Highsmith is visited by a genial young man from her New York publisher, ...
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Sybil
Spinifex Press£9.95| /Gillian Hanscombe performs a feat of lesbian imagination in this stunning sequence. Her sybilic voice, familiar and strange at once, radiates both ...
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Symposium
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£11.99| /A model of the kind of text one needs for lecture courses: the translation is extremely readable and made even more accessible by intelligent print...
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Symposium
Focus Publishing (US)£12.99| /This is an English translation of Plato account of an important dialogue on the nature of love between Phaedrus, Pausanias, Eryximachus, Aristophan...
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Synesthetics / Edges of Sound
Birch Brook Press (US)£20.99| /An essayist (Harry Smith) and poet (Stanley Nelson) team up to achieve a literary synergy that explores synesthesia, a condition in which one kind ...
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Syzygy
DC Books (US)£13.99| /Louise Bak's third collection of poetry continues to reinvent the English language as a sharp and challenging post-modern argot that combines termi...
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T.S. Eliot
Sterling Publishers Pvt Ltd (IND)£14.99| /T S Eliot, udually considered to be difficult and obscure, must be approached through the images running through his work as woof and wrap. This bo...
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Tacoma Narrows
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /In Tacoma Narrows, Mitchell Parry reflects on the nature of disasters, both public and private. A reflection on things lost, Parry allows himself t...
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Take Us Quietly
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /In Take Us Quietly, Armstrong explores life, sickness, death and the importance of paying attention to the wider world, filtered through her own un...
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Taking My Mother to the Opera
Otago University Press (NZ)£15.50| /Piquant, frank, open, wistful, tender, funny this personal memoir by Diane Brown is deftly 'marbled' throughout with social history. From careful...
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Tales From The Arabian Nights
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)Original price £15.99Current price £14.99| /In this delightful adaptation of the classic tales, Donna Abela brings centuries-old tradition into the modern era with a play that is timeless yet...
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Tales From the Vienna Woods & Other Plays
Ariadne Press (US)£26.99| /Ödön von Horváth (1901-1939) is one of the most important theatre writers in the 1930s. His reputation rests largely on the four plays in this coll...
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Tales of a City by the Sea
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /A Palestinian journalist writes poetry on the beach. A doctor must decide to stay or leave. Then come the missiles and the phosphorus showers. This...
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Tales Tall & True
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£21.99| /A compelling collection of four plays by multi-award winning playwright Reg Cribb. THE HAUNTING OF DANIEL GARTRELL -- In the tradition of Australia...
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Tao of Walt Whitman
Sentient Publications, Llc (US)£10.99| /Walt Whitman, whose Leaves of Grass was called "the secular Scripture of the United States" by Harold Bloom, is a source of contemporary inspiratio...
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Tar Swan
Newest Press (CA)£14.99| /An allegorical reckoning of the physical and psychic wounds inflicted by the oil sands.