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| p>Waterstones is proud to present this collection of stories shortlisted for The Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award. Chosen from a wealth |
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| A book of 26 poetic essays written in English by a Lebanese artist, philosopher and writer. |
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| First published in the 1920s, this book attempts to provide the reader with a guide to living. Gibran lets his protagonist, called simply the prophet, |
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| An inspirational guide to living that delivers spiritual, yet practical, homilies on a wide variety of topics central to daily life, including: love, |
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| The new collection from the Poet Laureate |
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| This play was published to coincide with its British premiere, directed by Harold Pinter, at the Royal Court Theatre, London. |
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| Describing Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide, this title depicts a cruel underworld in which desperate figures |
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| A stunning new translation of the classic tale of Greeks, Trojans and the fall of Troy; An ILIAD for the 21st century. |
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| A young prince meets with his father's ghost, who alleges that his own brother, now married to his widow, murdered him. The prince devises a scheme to |
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| The inspirational masterpiece from the Lebanese born poet, philospher and artist |
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| When Eva's parents fail to escape Germany, the child changes her name and begins the process of denial of her roots. It is only when her own daughter |
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| The Tempest isone of Shakespeare's enduringly popular and much-studied later plays. The introduction has been extended to focus on new scholarship abo |
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| An epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature. Confro |
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| Presents the story of how the small community of Salem is stirred into madness by superstition, paranoia and malice, culminating in a violent climax. |
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| Hamlet is not only one of Shakespeare's greatest plays, but also the most fascinatingly problematical tragedy in world literature |
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| Promised a golden future as ruler of Scotland by three sinister witches, Macbeth murders the king to ensure his ambitions come true. But he soon learn |
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| Brief poems consider sunlight, myths, death, the past, ancient rituals, courtship, dreams, and justice. |
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| A collection of over 1,000 Limericks historical, wistful, whimsical, clerical, medical, cynical and gastronomical. |
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| * A collection of timely and timeless poems that Maya Angelou has written for grand occasions - now in paperback |
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| Using conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon as a poetic census, Alice Oswald creates a narrative of the river, tracki |
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| A brilliant new collection from the T.S. Eliot and Forward Prize winning poet |
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| Winner of the Costa Book of the Year award 2009, and also shortlisted for the Forward Prize and the T S Eliot Prize. A Scattering is Christopher Re |
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| Zeal honours the moments in which the everyday face of the world slips for a second. With a poetic eye alert to these moments and roots in the work of |
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| Reflections on the individual and community flash in this urban web of buildings, technology and news bits, where the "city" looms and the inhabitants |
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| Composed between the seventh and tenth centuries, this work is the narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes fro |
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| An allegorical guide to living. It delivers spiritual, yet practical homilies on a wide variety of topics central to daily life: love; marriage and ch |
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| Presents the poems that deal with many of William Shakespeare's most common themes: jealousy, betrayal, melancholy. |
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| Composed of 17 syllables, haiku can convey the essence of an emotion, a fleeting moment in nature, or a throwaway comment. This is a selection of 60 c |
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| Showing a scholarly dedication to the craft, the poems in this collection are brimming with originality and the startling imagery that would later con |
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| A poetic sequence that take as its 'subject' the urge to memorialize the scenes of fatal car accidents. |
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| Speaks of love and marriage, joy and sorrow, reason and passion, beauty and death, and conveys the yearning for a Unity of Being that can only be achi |
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| A stunning debut collection from the acclaimed Picador Poetry list |
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| A book of 26 poetic essays written in English by a Lebanese artist, philosopher and writer. |
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| A stunning new collection of selected works from one of Scotland's most loved writers and current makar. |
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| Universally known and admired as a peacemaker, Dag Hammarskjold concealed a remarkable intense inner life which he recorded over several decades in th |
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| An anthology including the work of the 2012 Terry Hetherington Award winning work and commended writing. Also includes the entries of past winners. |
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| A book of modern war poems. It features the poems that are written by the people whose lives have been changed by war. It gathers together the poems f |
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| A collection of poems by Wislawa Szymborska. It features twenty-seven poems. |
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| The critically acclaimed new collection from the Poet Laureate. |
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| Penelope Shuttle is one of Britain's leading poets. This selection - drawn from ten collections published over three decades plus new work - shows |
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| Explores Greek mythology, Roman and Byzantine history, art and travel, from contemporary perspectives. This title re-imagines the myth of Actaeon in t |
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| 'The Graft' turns upon moments of uncertain feeling wherein the clarity of loss dispels our anxious dialectical interrogations. The poems are cross-po |
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| "Chris Jennings's work possesses a full poetic intelligence, by which I mean that passion is matched by intellect and intellect by humour--all this de |
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Announcing the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets competition, North America's oldest annual literary prize.
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| Kenneth Steven's poems are inspired first and foremost by wildscape, by the places and people of Highland Perthshire and of the Celtic west - Iona a |
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| Intends to attack what the author saw as the destructive forces of materialism and conformity in the United States at the time of Beat movement, and t |
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| A fascinating and accessible new collection from the former US Poet Laureate |
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| The new collection from the Poet Laureate |
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| What has happened to the lost art of memorising poetry? Why do we no longer feel that it is necessary to know the most enduring, beautiful poems in th |
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| An inspirational guide to living that delivers spiritual, yet practical, homilies on a wide variety of topics central to daily life, including: love, |
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| A complete, annotated edition of all Shakespeare's non-dramatic verse, including the SONNETS, VENUS AND ADONIS and THE RAPE OF LUCRECE, with an introd |
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| From the highly acclaimed novelist, comes a new collection of poetry. She is 'the quiet Mata Hari' of poetry - Michael Ondaatje |
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| Latest collection from Welsh-language poet Menna Elfyn presented in a bilingual format with English translations by leading poets from Wales. |
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| Head On is a second Bloodaxe collection from Clare Shaw. |
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| India's only Nobel laureate, Rabindranath Tagore, was one of the most important writers in 20th-century Indian literature. Among his expansive and imp |
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| The T. S. Eliot Prize-winning collection from the Poet Laureate. |
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| A collection of "dream" poems that crosses many times, places and cultural spaces. This work is a collection of different poetic responses to the subj |
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| A stunning new translation of the classic tale of Greeks, Trojans and the fall of Troy; An ILIAD for the 21st century. |
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| Penelope has been waiting for her husband Odysseus to return from Troy for many years. Little does she know that his path back to her has been blocked |
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| Carol Ann Duffy's collection celebrating our timeless fascination with the Moon. |
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| Written by the author of the award-winning "Landing Light", this title conjures a series of fables and charms that serve both to expose us to the unse |
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| There are two currents of history in the author's poem, the visible history charted in events - the tribal losses of the American Indian and the trage |
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| A book of black romance and risk from Next Generation poet, Robin Robertson |
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| Presents the poems that explore the nature of change - in the body and the natural world, and in the shifting relationships between people. |
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| This anthology is the culmination of a much needed initiative by literature development agency Spread the Word to support talented new Black and Asian |
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| Shelley's work has been criticized for its didacticism and undisciplined emotionalism. But essentially, he was a poet of ideas and in his search for t |
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| Composed at the end of the first millennium, "Beowulf" is the elegiac narrative of the Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invinc |
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| London has long been understood through the poetry it has inspired. Mark Ford has assembled the most capacious and wide-ranging anthology of poems abo |
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| This may be the most beautiful book in the world, lighted from within and somehow embodying all forms of literature. Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angele |
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| A collection of song-poems, covering deeply personal themes as well as global hypocrisy and the dangers posed by capitalist culture. |
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| Described by Rabindranath Tagore as revelations of my true self, the poems and songs of "Gitanjali" established the writers literary talent worldwide. |
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| A renowned Irish writer's Odyssey through the sea, the self, and time. |
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| A collection of poems that takes us on a journey through states of gain and loss, alienation and belonging. It explores our chances, records our trace |
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| A collection of patriotic Scottish poetry. |
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| The fabulous new collection from the prize-winning poet Gerard Woodward. |
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| A collection of poems that starts from the far flung ('out there' is the nothing - or the something - of outer space), ascertaining the mood of an obs |
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| A beautifully illustrated new poetry collection for children aged 0 - 90 |
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| Shortlisted for the 2011 T.S. Eliot Prize, this third collection by Esther Morgan is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and includes 'This Morning', |
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| Features poems that come from the rhythms of speech and the stuff of daily life: work and love, seasons and cities, and his writing is alive with the |
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| First published in the 1920s, the author attempts to provide the reader with a guide to living. He lets his protagonist, called simply the prophet, de |
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| Brings together many favourite poems from the author's four collections - "The Adoption Papers", "Other Lovers", "Off Colour" and "Life Mask" - as wel |
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| Wallace's best poems, contained within this collection, have been described as the work of "someone sympathetic, magnanimous, brightly and deeply inte |
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| Winner of the Picador Poetry Prize 2010 |
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| 'Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch's lines are full of beauty ... implicating us in the essential human situations, life, death and survival' Philip Gross |
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| A collection of poems that reveals the origin of mankind, the origin of the self, the self's development in the sensuous world, and - in both a litera |
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| Anne Stevenson is one of Britain's leading poets. Astonishment, published just before her 80th birthday, is her second new collection since her much p |
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| Based on the fable of a man who traded his soul for superhuman powers and knowledge, this text became the life work of Germany's greatest poet, Goethe |
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| HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. |
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| Tells the story of Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks, and his refusal to fight after being humiliated by his leader Agamemnon. But |
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| Depicting a realm of intense sensation and physical experience, this poem transforms the traditional Christian idea of Purgatory by showing how the fr |
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| An epic poem by the Greek poet Homer, which is the tale of Odysseus' wanderings, a story of heroic adventure and romantic temptation. |
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| Includes poems that use multiple viewpoints - from Darwin himself, to his beloved wife Emma, and even, at one point, the orangutang at London Zoo - an |
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| Inspired by Homer and inspiration for Dante and Milton, the Aeneid is an immortal poem at the heart of Western life and culture. Virgil took Aeneas as |
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| Over the years the author has been recording conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon. Using these records and voices as |
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| The definitive collection of America's bestselling poet. Rumi's finest poems of love and lovers will open your heart and soul to the lover inside and |
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| Delving into ancient fables, the Bible, medieval records, Victorian ghost stories, contemporary interviews, and more, this title explores the effects |
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| Confronted by natural and supernatural threats - shipwrecks, battles, monsters and the implacable enmity of the sea-god Poseidon - Odysseus must use h |
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| Offers translation of Vergil's great epic and renders the poem in the same number of lines as the original work. This title helps modern readers exper |
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| In the characteristic style which has seen Geoffrey Hill frequently acclaimed as the greatest living British poet, obscurity and clarity are interwove |
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