With his unique and entertaining blend of memoir, biography, and literary detective work, Craig Munro recreates the lives and careers of a group of renowned Australian editors and their authors in a narrative spanning from the 1890s to the 1990s.
A Place For Everything
The Curious History of Alphabetical...
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$19.99
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
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$34.99
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Aristophanes
Four Plays: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata,...
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$65.95
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Meditations
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$22.99
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A Little History of Poetry
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$20.95
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A Thousand Crimson Blooms
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$24.99
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Stranger Shores
Essays 1986-1999
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$19.99
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The Level-headed Revolutionary
Essays, stories and poems by Brian...
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$34.95
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Had I Known
Collected Essays
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$22.99
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The Illustrated Letters of the Brontes
The letters, diaries and writings...
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$32.99
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Preparing for Business
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$22.95
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The Hill We Climb
An Inaugural Poem
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$19.99
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The Loeb Classical Library and Its Progeny
Proceedings of the First James Loeb...
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$34.95
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Lilavai
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$59.95
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Reading the Seasons
Books Holding Life and Friendship...
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$32.99
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Bookish Broads
Women Who Wrote Themselves into...
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$29.99
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The Captain's Daughter
Essential Stories
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$24.99
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The RHS Book of Garden Verse
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$19.99
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The Short Story of the Novel
A Pocket Guide to Key Genres, Novels,...
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$29.99
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The Universal Translator
Everything you need to know about...
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$39.99
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The Believer
Encounters with Love, Death & Faith...
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$34.99
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Shakespeare in a Divided America
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$22.99
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Homo Irrealis
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$27.99
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Dropbear
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$24.99
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Pride and Prejudice
Illustrations by Marjolein Bastin...
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$80
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Emma
Illustrations by Marjolein Bastin...
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$80
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Lady Susan, The Watsons, and Sanditon
Unfinished Fictions and Other Writings...
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$15.95
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Parisian Lives
Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir...
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$22.99
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Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles
The Power of the Reader's Mind over...
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$51.95
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The Bright Book of Life
Novels to Read and Reread
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$69.95
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Jane Eyre
Illustrations by Marjolein Bastin...
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$80
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Collected Poems
Paperback
$59.99
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Dead Cat Bounce
New & Selected Poems
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$25
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97,196 Words
Essays
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$19.99
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Murder Your Darlings
And Other Gentle Writing Advice...
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$22.99
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The Analects
Conclusions and Conversations of...
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$26.95
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The Art Of Creative Writing
The Classic Guide to Writing Fiction...
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$25.99
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The Great Gatsby
A Novel: Illustrated Edition
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$39.99
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Where Hope Comes From
Poems of Resilience, Healing and...
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$29.99
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John Keats
Poetry, Life and Landscapes
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$59.99
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Mysteries
Classic Edition
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$19.99
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Aflame
Paperback
$19.99
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In the Land of the Cyclops
Essays
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$39.99
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Modern Languages
Why It Matters
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$20.95
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Earth Dwellers
New Poems
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$24
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Ken
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$19.99
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Fishwork
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$22.99
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321 Seriously Smart Things You Need To Know
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$29.99
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At the Foot of the Mountain
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$25
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Level Up Your Essays
How to get better grades at university...
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A Fire in My Head
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$22.99
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Inside the Whale
On Writers and Writing
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$24.99
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England Your England
Notes on a Nation
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$24.99
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Down and Out in Paris and London
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$19.99
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The Road to Wigan Pier
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$19.99
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Homage to Catalonia
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$19.99
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Poems to Fall in Love With
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$19.99
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Great Women's Speeches
Empowering Voices that Engage and...
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$19.99
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How to Find the Right Words
a guide to delivering life's most...
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$19.99
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Troilus and Cressida
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$16.99
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How to Train Your Dog
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$32.99
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An Editor's Burial
Journals and Journalism from the...
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$19.99
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The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh
A Tourist in Africa: Volume 25
Hardback
$192.95
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The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh
Ninety-Two Days: Volume 22
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$192.95
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The Pronoun Lowdown
Demystifying and celebrating gender...
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$19.99
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Literary Lion Tamers
Book editors who made publishing...
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$29.99
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Tales from Russian Folklore
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$19.99
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The Right Dog for You
How to choose the perfect breed...
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$24.99
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Agatha Christie's Poirot
The Greatest Detective in the World...
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$49.99
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Emma
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$24.95
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The Historians
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$24.95
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Ulysses by Numbers
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Summertime
Reflections on a vanishing future...
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Glide
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$25
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Places of Poetry
Mapping the Nation in Verse
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$29.99
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American War Poetry
An Anthology
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$42.95
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Doctor Dogs
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$32.99
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The Mother
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$19.99
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The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories
From Hans Christian Andersen to...
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$24.99
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Selected Poems
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$19.99
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Antipodean China
Reflections on Literary Exchange...
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Who We're Reading When We're Reading Murakami
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$29.99
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Daybreak
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$34.99
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Buried Not Dead
Essays
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$26.95
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The Complete Musashi
The Book of Five Rings and Other...
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$22.99
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How to be an Author
The Business of Being a Writer in...
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$34.99
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The Language Lover's Puzzle Book
Lexical Complexities and Cracking...
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$29.99
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Beowulf
A new translation
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$27.99
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The Aeneid
A New Translation
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$34.99
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Shakespearean
On Life & Language in Times of Disruption...
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So You Think You've Got Problems?
Surprising and rewarding puzzles...
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Three Years
New Translation
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$12.99
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La Vita Nuova
Love Poems
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$19.99
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King Solomon's Mines
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$16.99
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Mlle de Scuderi
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$14.99
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The Nautical Puzzle Book
Over 100 Puzzles to Leave You Lost...
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$35
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
1984
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$19.99
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Burmese Days
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$19.99
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Orwell and England
Selected Essays
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Animal Farm
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$14.99
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Poems to Night
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$24.99
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Letters to a Young Poet
With the Letters to Rilke from the...
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Childhood, Boyhood and Youth
riverrun editions
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$22.99
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Love and Youth
Essential Stories
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$19.99
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The Book Lover's Quiz Book
Novel Conundrums
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$32.99
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The Short Stories of Oscar Wilde
An Annotated Selection
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$47.95
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How the Classics Made Shakespeare
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$34.99
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Stuff You Should Know
An Incomplete Compendium of Mostly...
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$32.99
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Dog's Best Friend
A Brief History of an Unbreakable...
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The Fire of Joy
Roughly 80 Poems to Get by Heart...
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$44.99
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Ex Libris
100+ Books to Read and Reread
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$34.99
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The Lost Spells
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$35
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Emigres
French Words That Turned English...
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$29.99
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500 Beautiful Words You Should Know
Hardback
$22.99
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Why Dante Matters
An Intelligent Person's Guide
Hardback
$34.99
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Late Murrumbidgee Poems
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$20
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The Narrative of Trajan's Column
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$9.99
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Daily Rituals Women at Work
How Great Women Make Time, Find...
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Blood Royal
A Sequel to the Three Musketeers...
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Being Happy
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$9.99
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Extraordinary Old Dogs
Uplifting True Tales of Remarkable...
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Sherlock Holmes Escape Room Puzzles
Solve the Interactive Cases
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$27.99
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The Cop and the Anthem and Other Stories
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Prose Poetry
An Introduction
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Crow
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$24.99
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The Imperial War Museums Code-Breaking Puzzles
Can you crack the wartime codes?...
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Time alone on a quiet path
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$22.99
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The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2021
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$31.95
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Japanese Garden
Jigsaw Puzzle 1000 Piece
Mixed media product
$34.99
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Look Out
Jigsaw Puzzle 1000 Piece
Mixed media product
$34.99
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Foxgloves and Finches
Jigsaw Puzzle 1000 Piece
Mixed media product
$34.99
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Insomnia
Poems
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$44.95
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To My Country
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$29.99
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Carmilla
The cult classic that inspired Dracula...
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$19.99
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Funny You Should Ask . . .
Your Questions Answered by the QI...
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$24.99
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Selected Works of Jack London
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$49.99
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Labour and Other Poems
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$20
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The Gifts of Reading
Hardback
$39.99
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In a Time of Distance
And Other Poems
Hardback
$29.99
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The Secret Life of Books
Why They Mean More Than Words
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$22.99
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The Artful Dickens
The Tricks and Ploys of the Great...
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$27.99
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For Now
Hardback
$26.95
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Cats vs Dogs
Misbehaving mammals, intellectual...
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$24.99
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God is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him....
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$9.99
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Orwell's England
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$26.99
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Orwell and the Dispossessed
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$26.99
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Orwell in Spain
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Orwell and Politics
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Nganajungu Yagu
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$20
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Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One's...
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Grimoire
Hardback
$36.99
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The Little Prince
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$44.99
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All the Sonnets of Shakespeare
Hardback
$27.95
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Southern Cross Crime
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$22.99
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Strange Vernaculars
How Eighteenth-Century Slang, Cant,...
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Flip the System US
How Teachers Can Transform Education...
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$58.99
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The Sunday Times Concise Crossword Book 3
100 Challenging Crossword Puzzles...
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$14.99
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The Times Jumbo Cryptic Crossword Book 19
The World's Most Challenging Cryptic...
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$22.99
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The Illustrated Compendium of Essential Modern Slang...
Including Cray, Lit, Basic, and...
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$35
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The Decay of Lying
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$9.99
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