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Dine with beloved writers in this ‘utterly charming’ (Nina Stibbe) new anthology of their very own favourite recipes, introduced by Bee…

Sylvia Plath’s Tomato Soup Cake: A Compendium of Classic Authors’ Favourite Recipes
Various
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9780571341092

A marvellous book, lovingly edited, beautifully produced. . . and brimming with literary insights, much laughter, a sprinkle of gossip and…

The Letters of Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney
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9780571394968

Sean O’Casey’s tragicomic masterpiece, set during the Irish Civil War.

Juno and the Paycock (Playscript)
Sean O’Casey
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9780571377640

The complete edition of Sylvia Plath’s prose including much unpublished and previously uncollected material.

The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
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Edited by Archie Burnett. The definitive edition of the published prose of the Nobel laureate, the most important poet-critic of modern…

The Collected Prose of T.S. Eliot Volume 1
T. S. Eliot
£50.00
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Edited by Archie Burnett. The definitive edition of the published prose of the Nobel laureate, the most important poet-critic of modern…

The Collected Prose of T.S. Eliot Volume 2
T. S. Eliot
£50.00
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Edited by Archie Burnett. The definitive edition of the published prose of the Nobel laureate, the most important poet-critic of modern…

The Collected Prose of T.S. Eliot Volume 3
T. S. Eliot
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Edited by Archie Burnett. The definitive edition of the published prose of the Nobel laureate, the most important poet-critic of modern…

The Collected Prose of T.S. Eliot Volume 4
T. S. Eliot
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Hand to Mouth is Paul Auster’s startling memoir of his career as a young writer – and his accompanying struggle with poverty.

Hand to Mouth
Paul Auster
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The letters provide us with an intimate, multi-layered understanding of this extraordinary poet’s life and mind.

The Letters of Seamus Heaney (Hardback)
Seamus Heaney
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Now in paperback – Heaney’s prize-winning book-length translations as well as the many individual poems in fourteen languages worked on and…

The Translations of Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney
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The collected letters of John McGahern, ‘one of the greatest writers of our era’ (Hilary Mantel) and ‘the most important Irish…

The Letters of John McGahern
John McGahern
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A riveting account of the making of T. S. Eliot’s celebrated poem The Waste Land, by a Costa award-winning biographer.

The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem
Matthew Hollis
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The Poet Laureate’s ‘eerie and wonderful’ version of the Middle English poem – now in Faber Poetry typographic look.

Pearl
Simon Armitage
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One of Ireland’s greatest writers turns her attention to the legacy of another.

Joyce’s Women (Playscript)
Edna O’Brien
£9.99
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9780571385379

A profound, luminous masterpiece by one of Ireland’s greatest playwrights.

Dancing at Lughnasa (2023 Edition)
Brian Friel
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Introduced by Claire-Louise Bennett, experience one new mother’s psychological journey in this lost 1930 foremother of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar.

The Shutter of Snow (Faber Editions)
Emily Holmes Coleman
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The first ever collected volume of Seamus Heaney’s translations from languages including Old and Middle Irish and English, Medieval Italian, Classical…

The Translations of Seamus Heaney (Hardback)
Seamus Heaney
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One of the first ever African novels in English by a radical black South African writer: the 1946 classic of one…

Mine Boy
Peter Abrahams
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