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"George Mackay Brown, one of the best authors of fiction in the 20th Century.Maggie Fergusson has in this biography helped us appreciate the life of an extraordinary author.Part of Mackay Brown's"... (read full reviews)
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"Technically, I was given the hardback copy for my birthday, but I find the paperback much easier to scribble in. (I know, I know, it is a horrible crime, but you have to tick a box at the start"... (read full reviews)
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"In his own introduction to the Letters to a Young Poet, Franz Kappus describes how, in 1902, he was a young man struggling to reconcile his artistic ambitions with his impending military career. After"... (read full reviews)
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"I was convinced that although this book is amazing, I didnt like it as much as I had on my first reading. But then I reread it this summer. And it is even better than I've ever thought it"... (read full reviews)
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"My favourite, favourite book ever. The end.
P.S. If you've only watched the BBC adaptation, wonderful although it is, it's not a patch on the book (which doesn't include a soaking wet Mr Darcy"... (read full reviews)
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"An amazingly personal portrayal of the great span covered by the Harry Potter phenomenon. Melissa manages to get deep into the making of such an epic book series, while simultaneously showing how it"... (read full reviews)
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"George Mackay Brown, one of the best authors of fiction in the 20th Century.Maggie Fergusson has in this biography helped us appreciate the life of an extraordinary author.Part of Mackay Brown's prose"... (read full reviews)
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"After 35 years of silence regarding the suicide of Sylvia Plath in 1998, Hughes quietly unleashed 'Birthday Letters'. Reading like a heartfelt narrative of the relationship, it moulds straightforward"... (read full reviews)
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"So I shall start with the most pressing of issues, aesthetics, because this is possibly the most beautiful book published in 2007. That is not to demean Miss Herbert's contents, which I shall come too"... (read full reviews)
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"A classic tale of greed, power and subsequent guilt.
Hugely atmospheric thanks to the skill of Shakespeare. It leaves a lasting impression.
Lady Macbeth is my favourite character, as it is great she"... (read full reviews)
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"This anthology contains fourteen critical essays on the science fiction, fantasy and utopian writings of Wells which were first published in The Wellsian: The Journal of the H. G. Wells Society. A"... (read full reviews)
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"This volume is the first work to study H. G. Wells's life, work and thought in the European context. As well as chapters on Wells's critical reception in France, Poland, Germany and Russia among other"... (read full reviews)
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"Extraordinary self testing tool, well structured and very very comprehensive. Really money worth."... (read full reviews)
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"Jane Eyre is an orphan who comes from a loveless aunt to a brutal school in the north of England. When the school's atrocities are discovered, vast improvements are made and Jane continues on from a"... (read full reviews)
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"This is an excellent book to have. There have been many books written on Shakespeare but this one beats a lot of them for the curiosity and uesful factor. Great to dip into but also good fro answering"... (read full reviews)
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"This book is amazing-Nabokov beautifully evokes his Russian childhood, the clarity of his memories unclouded, maybe even enhanced, by his years as a White Russian exile. As an insight into his"... (read full reviews)
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"York provides you with the perfect student-friendly analytical guide to 'Hamlet.'"... (read full reviews)
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"Why is it that we are so fascinated by Ghosts, Agels, Zombies and the Supernatural. Warner looks at our media society and literature and investigates the history of our macbre pre-occupations."... (read full reviews)
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"One of the geatest writers of the medieval era.Snorre Surlason (1179-12410 was an icelandic poet, historian and chieftan, a man of action who also possessed a high degree of literary skill. The"... (read full reviews)