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BREAD & BUTTER
History, Culture, RecipesRICHARD SNAPES, GRANT HARRINGTON and EVE HEMINGWAY
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You Save: 55%A celebration of arguably the most important pairing in food history, delving deep into its history and culture. The book explores how bread and butter are eaten across the world, the traditions, the ... Learn More -
A VIKING SLAVE’S SAGA
Jan Fridegård’s Trilogy of Novels about the Viking AgeJAN FRIDEGÅRD
Translated by ROBERT E BJORKList Price: £38.00
£15.95
You Save: 59%Published in Sweden in 1940, Land of Wooden Gods is the first volume of a trilogy that Scandinavians consider among the greatest and most accurate ever written about the Vikings. Fridegård (... Learn More -
THE STORY OF CLASSIC CRIME IN 100 BOOKS
MARTIN EDWARDS
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£9.95
You Save: 61%The main aim of detective stories is to entertain, but the best cast a light on human behaviour and display both literary ambition and accomplishment. Even unpretentious detective stories can give us ... Learn More -
THE ROAD TO ADVENT
And Other StoriesJ C BRETHERTON
Wood Engravings by SIMON BRETT£5.95Nine tales of younger sons and distant kingdoms, magic and enchantment and of what it is in men that is stronger than enchantment, written for children of about seven and upwards. What distinguishes B... Learn More -
NO MAN’S LAND
A PlayHAROLD PINTER
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You Save: 51%Set against the decayed elegance of a house in London’s Hampstead Heath, in No Man’s Land two men face each other over a drink. Do they know each other, or is each performing an elaborate ... Learn More -
I CAN’T GO ON, I’LL GO ON
A Selection from Samuel Beckett’s WorkSAMUEL BECKETT
Edited By :RICHARD SEAVER
List Price: £15.99
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You Save: 38%In this one-volume collection of Beckett’s fiction, drama, poetry and critical writings we get an unsurpassed look at his work. Included, among others, are the complete plays Waiting for Godot, ... Learn More -
HYPNEROTOMACHIA POLIPHILI
The Strife of Love in a DreamFRANCESCO COLONNA
Translated by JOSCELYN GODWINList Price: £19.95
£7.95
You Save: 61%Exactly 500 years after its first publication by the great Venetian printing house Aldus Manutius, Francesco Colonna’s weird, erotic, allegorical antiquarian tale was translated into English and rep... Learn More -
EXEMPLARY NOVELS
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Translated by EDITH GROSSMANList Price: £12.99
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You Save: 39%The twelve novellas gathered together here reveal the extraordinary breadth of Cervantes’s imagination: his nearly limitless ability to create characters, invent plots and entertain readers across c... Learn More -
THE BEAT GOES ON
The Complete Rebus Short StoriesIAN RANKIN
£8.95There is no detective like DI Rebus. Brilliant, irascible and endlessly frustrating to both his friends and his long-suffering bosses, he has made the dark places of Edinburgh his comfort and his home... Learn More -
ASPECTS OF THE NOVEL
E M FORSTER
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£6.95
You Save: 62%Forster pares down the novel to its essential elements as he sees them: story, people, plot, fantasy, prophecy, pattern and rhythm. He illustrates each aspect with examples from their greatest exponen... Learn More
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