Literature & Literary Studies
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Living Language & Dead Reckoning
Ronsdale Press (CA)£7.99| /Turning frequently to First Nations people, Ted Chamberlin looks at their culture and asks what it means to listen. In response, he notes that we t...
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Living Waters
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£40.00| /Living Waters - Scandinavian Oriental Studies. In Honour of Frede Løkkegaard
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Lloyd Beckmann, Beekeeper
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Based on a true story, Lloyd Beckmann, Beekeeper is the tale of a Queensland battler as told through his grandson's eyes. In a one man show Tim Sti...
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Locating the Past / Discovering the Present
University of Alberta Press (CA)£33.99| /This collection examines the production and recreation of religious ideas and images in different times and locations, achieving a comparative pers...
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Lockie Leonard, Human Torpedo
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Lockie Leonard, the human torpedo, has arrived in town. He gives teachers a tough time, and surfs like there is no tomorrow. But no one wants to kn...
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Logography
Sagging Meniscus Press£25.99| /This book brings together three collections of extraordinarily vigorous and electric poetry from the quicksilver mind of Anis Shivani: Confessions ...
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Long Tan
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)Original price £15.99Current price £14.99| /This is Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, August 1966. This is a rubber plantation called Long Tan. This is blood and mud and sweat-sodden heat. I...
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Long-Forgotten Events from Imperial Austria
Ariadne Press (US)£32.99| /The time for autobiographies has arrived. Interest in authentic life stories seems greater than ever, even greater than well written works of ficti...
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Longing For Laura
Birch Brook Press (US)£14.99| /Delicious translations of a selection of Petrarch's love sonnets.
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Loose to the World
Ronsdale Press (CA)£12.99| /These poems lead the reader into a world that reveals a balancing act between the familiar and known, the mysterious and wild. Some poems are narra...
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Lope de Vega y el Humanismo cristiano
Iberoamericana/Vervuert£34.99| /Text in Spanish. The religious theme constitutes an essential section in the immense poetic production of Lope de Vega. From an interdisciplinary a...
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Los pre-textos del teatro áureo español
Iberoamericana/Vervuert£34.99| /Una de las características del teatro del Siglo de Oro es su abundancia. Este enorme númerode textos dramáticos se debe a la inventiva casi inagota...
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Loser
Play Press (NZ)£8.00| /Loser is a winner! A high school reunion provides fertile territory for an inspired piece of high-spirited mayhem. Six ex-classmates turn up for th...
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Lost & Found in Las Vegas
Huntington Press Inc (US)£14.99| /You never know what you will encounter in a lost-and-found box -- random items, lost histories, and left-behind fragments of very different lives. ...
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Lost Lagoon / Lost in Thought
Caitlin Press (CA)£12.99| /After moving to Vancouvers West End in 2014, The Human is drawn to a small body of water called Lost Lagoon in Stanley Park. Daytime visits, with ...
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Lost Luggage Revival
Harris Museum & Art Gallery (UK)£9.50| /An artist's interpretation of a novel. Lisa Wigham's installation in the waiting room of Preston Station was created for Preston Guild 2012 by publ...
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Lotty's War
Playdead Press£9.99| /A mesmerising story of passion, courage and sacrifice, Lotty's War is a thriller set in WWII enemy occupied Channel Islands. Based on unpublished d...
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Louis Riel
Ronsdale Press (CA)Original price £23.99Current price £19.99| /Louis Riel, prophet of the new world and founder of the Canadian province of Manitoba, has challenged Canadian politics, history and religion since...
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Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£97.99| /Reading, reading and reading. In the 21st century, the computer is king and the cell phone is its only competitor. For those who have ever intervie...
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Love Child
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /A reconciliation between a mother and the daughter she gave away at birth. Anna is a successful film editor in her 40s who has defined herself thro...
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Love For An Addict
Golden Brick Road Publishing House£12.99| /I remember coming to Earth. I know this sounds crazy, but I do remember and I cannot deny it! I've never met anyone else who remembers coming to Ea...
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Love in London
Ariadne Press (US)£16.99| /Text in English & German. This volume contains a bilingual (German-English) edition of poems by the Austrian-Jewish writer Theodor Kramer (1897...
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Love Me Tender
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /'Love Me Tender' is a play of beauty and emotional power. Inspired by Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis, Tom Holloway has orchestrated a thrilling visi...
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Love Me True
Caitlin Press (CA)£15.99| /What keeps us together? What breaks us apart? In Love Me True, 27 creative nonfiction writers and 20 poets explore how marriage and committed relat...
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Love Poems of Ahmad Shamlu
Ibex Publishers (US)£61.99| /Incorporates poems that trace the development of the relationship among the lover, the beloved, and love, in Shamlu's poetry. The selection include...
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Love Suicides
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Romeril's homage to the 18th century Japanese playwright, Chikamatsu Monzaemon, is a daring blend of cultures, involving the destiny of two lovers ...
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Love's Labour's Lost
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£9.99| /George Lyman Kittredge's insightful editions of Shakespeare have endured in part because of his eclecticism, his diversity of interests, and his wi...
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Love's Silence & Other Poems
Ronsdale Press (CA)£11.99| /Yong-un Han (1879-1944) is recognised as Korea's finest Buddhist poet of the twentieth century and also one of the country's most influential polit...
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Love, Eroticism & Female Sexuality in Classical Sanskrit Literature
Manohar Publishers (IND)£40.00| /This book is an attempt to analyse the conception of kama in the early-medieval classical Sanskrit literary tradition from a gender perspective. By...
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Lovecraft Lexicon
New Falcon Publications (US)£40.99| /For decades, H.P Lovecraft's horror stories -- such as The Dunwich Horror and The Call of Cthulhu -- have intrigued and horrified readers from all ...
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Lovely Lovely Sometimes Ugly
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£21.99| /In Lovely Lovely Sometimes Ugly, a collection of four plays by one of Australias most fearless playwrights, Patricia Cornelius displays all her sk...
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Luck of the Draw
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£16.99| /This play traces one family's plight when enforce separation crosses generations and challenges its survival. Reconciliation might be a recent issu...
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Lullabies in the Real World
Newest Press (CA)£14.99| /Meredith Quartermains Lullabies in the Real World is a sequence of poems about a train journey from West to East coast that invokes a patchwork of...
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Luna Moth & Other Poems
DC Books (US)£11.99| /In his latest collection, Steve Luxton navigates the mid-passages, facing what his favourite character, the notorious Doc Holliday, terms "the wast...
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Lupa & Lamb
Spinifex Press£15.00| /This collection of imagist poems combines mythology, archaeology and translation. Susan Hawthorne draws on the history and prehistory of Rome and i...
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Lysistrata
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£11.99| /This rollicking new translation of Aristophanes' comic masterpiece is rendered in blank verse for dialogue and in lyric meters and free verse for t...
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Lysistrata
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£29.99| /This rollicking new translation of Aristophanes' comic masterpiece is rendered in blank verse for dialogue and in lyric meters and free verse for t...
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Lysistrata
Focus Publishing (US)£11.99| /This English translation of Aristophanes' most popular comedy will appeal to the modern reader because of its lively and imaginative plot, memorabl...
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Macbeth Minibook
Wartelsteiner GmbH (D)£19.99| /Welcome to the world of miniature books! Experience the true meaning of a miniature book. It is not just about the size! These books will impress y...
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Macbeth Minibook -- Limited Gilt-Edged Edition
Wartelsteiner GmbH (D)£24.99| /Book in slipcase. Welcome to the world of miniature books! Experience the true meaning of a miniature book. It is not just about the size! These bo...
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Macquarie
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /Traces the decline of the Governor Lachlan Macquarie's authority in the infant colony of NSW (7 men, 3 women).
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Madame Bovary
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£11.99| /In his Introduction, MacKenzie discusses Flaubert's life, the writing of Madame Bovary, the world in which the novel is set, and its publication an...
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Madison Jones' Garden of Innocence
University Press of Southern Denmark (DK)£23.25| /Madison Jones is the author of eleven novels, among them are The Innocent, An Exile (film: I Walk the Line), A Cry of Absence, Season of the Strang...
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Maggie Stone
Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS)£14.99| /'Back in Kenya -- in the camps -- they say we can stay there for free. But everybody wants something. The journalists want our stories; the NGOs wa...
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Magical Realism in Postcolonial British Fiction
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£27.99| /This study aims at delineating the cultural work of magical realism as a dominant narrative mode in postcolonial British fiction through a detailed...
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Magnetic North
University of Alberta Press (CA)£16.99| /"Windburned, eyes closed, this: beneath the keening of bergs, a deeper thresh of glaciers calving, creaking with sun. Sound of earth, her bones, wi...
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Magnús Eiriksson
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£56.99| /This book is the first anthology of writings to be devoted to Icelandic theologian and religious writer Magnús Eiríksson (180681). A contemporary ...
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Magritte's Missing Murals
Sagging Meniscus Press£10.00| /These "insomniac episodes" consist of 84 tantalizing descriptions of hallucinated Magritte murals, painted on the inside of poet Joseph Reich's sle...
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