Literature & Literary Studies
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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.