The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940-1956Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers that defined the course of twentieth-century poetry.

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A beautiful clothbound hardback gift edition of one of the world\'s most beloved stories. The timeless, enchanting story of the little prince who lives on a tiny planet with three volcanoes and a haughty flower, which he must protect from the baobabs, the bad seeds.

From \'Best of the Booker\' winner Salman Rushdie, an incisive and inspiring collection of non-fiction essays, criticism and speeches that takes readers on a thrilling journey through the evolution of language and culture. \'One of the greatest writers of our age\' Neil Gaiman

\'One of my favourite science writers\' Bill Gates\'Hugely important\' Jim Al-KhaliliFor decades, biology has been dominated by information - the power of genes. Yet there is no difference in information content between a living cell and one that died a moment ago.

A deserting soldier treks through the torn-up countryside and abandoned villages, trying to distance himself from the atrocities of war. An elderly man sits beneath lime trees, remembering his first sexual encounter one summer night with a female stranger who whispered another man\'s name.

\'D\'you - er - have you seen her before?\' \'Yes. I know who she is.\' \'But, Grinstead, this painting is seventy years old - probably nearer eighty! You\'re not being serious - I mean . . . What do you mean?\' On a dark winter\'s night in 1970, Horley and Grinstead huddle for warmth in the Senior Common Room of a college in Oxford.

From the New York Times-bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves - and our world today. For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University.

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Yoshiro thinks he might never die. A hundred years old and counting, he is one of Japan\'s many \'old-elderly\'; men and women who remember a time before the air and the sea were poisoned, before terrible catastrophe promted Japan to shut itself off from the rest of the world.

TWO EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE. A LOVE THAT DRAWS THEM TOGETHER.

A New Statesman essential non-fiction read of 2021 \'Everybody should read [this]\' Stylist \"Blackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story.

This is a book that contains very few numbers. Instead, it is about meeting people who have opened my eyes.

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It is Brighton, 1959, and the theatre at the end of the pier is having its best summer season in years. Ronnie, a brilliant young magician, and Evie, his dazzling assistant, are top of the bill, drawing audiences each night.

A selection of the best poetry from America\'s most iconic and imitated poet, Charles Bukowski.

As the eagerly-anticipated new film Blade Runner 2049 finally comes to the screen, rediscover the world of Blade Runner . . . World War Terminus had left the Earth devastated. Through its ruins, bounty hunter Rick Deckard stalked, in search of the renegade replicants who were his prey.

Can we truly know the one we love? In this painfully candid book Marcel Proust looks straight into the green eye of every lover\'s jealous struggle.

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