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  • The Marlowe Papers

    A Novel

    by Ros Barber ...
    "The novel—which purports that Marlowe is the true author of William Shakespeare's legendary oeuvre—is a gripping, lyrical, most unlikely page-turner." ― American WayWinner of the Desmond Elliott PrizeLonglisted for the Women's Prize for FictionYou're the author of the greatest plays of all time. But nobody knows. And if it gets out, you're dead.On May 30, 1593, a celebrated young playwright was ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Devotion

    by Ros Barber ...
    The new novel from the award-winning author of The Marlowe PapersApril is angry. Dr Finlay Logan is broken.Only nineteen, April is an elective mute, accused of a religiously motivated atrocity. Logan, a borderline suicidal criminal psychologist, must assess her sanity in a world where - ten years after the death of Richard Dawkins - moves have been made to classify religious fundamentalism as a ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • 30-Second Shakespeare

    50 Key Aspects of his Works, Life and Legacy, each explained in Half a Minute

    by Ros Barber, Mark Rylance ...
    Series series 30-Second
    The bestselling 30-Second series takes a revolutionary approach to learning about those subjects you feel you should really understand. Each title selects a popular topic and dissects it into the 50 most significant ideas at its heart. Every idea, no matter how complex, is explained in 300 words and one image, all digestible in just 30 seconds. 30-Second Shakespeare uses this unique approach to ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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  • Madness: a Memoir

    a Memoir

    by Kate Richards ...
    Winner of the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature 2014 nonfiction prize. Shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards 2013 nonficiton prize.It's not every day you get to admit you're mad.The thing with psychosis is that when I'm sick I believe the delusional stuff to the same degree that you might know the sky is above and the earth below. And if someone were to say to me that the delusional ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

    How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

    by Stephen Greenblatt ...
    "So engrossing, clearheaded, and lucid that its arrival is not just welcome but cause for celebration." —Dan Cryer, NewsdayStephen Greenblatt, the charismatic Harvard professor who "knows more about Shakespeare than Ben Jonson or the Dark Lady did" (John Leonard, Harper's), has written a biography that enables us to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Shakespeare

    The World as Stage

    by Bill Bryson ...
    Series Book 63 - Eminent Lives
    Bill Bryson’s bestselling and brilliantly witty biography of William Shakespeare takes the reader on an enthralling tour through Elizabethan England and the eccentricities of Shakespearean scholarship—updated with a new introduction by the author to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s deathWilliam Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Shakespeare After All

    by Marjorie Garber ...
    A brilliant and companionable tour through all thirty-eight plays, Shakespeare After All is the perfect introduction to the bard by one of the country’s foremost authorities on his life and work.Drawing on her hugely popular lecture courses at Yale and Harvard over the past thirty years, Marjorie Garber offers passionate and revealing readings of the plays in chronological sequence, from The Two ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Pretender

    A Novel

    by Jo Harkin ...
    **Set in the tumultuous period of the Tudors' ascent, The Pretender brings to life the little-known story of Lambert Simnel. From humble beginnings as a peasant boy, Lambert's life takes an astonishing turn when, at just ten years old, he becomes a claimant to the English throne as one of the last of the Plantagenet line. As Lambert navigates the treacherous waters of royal intrigue and court life ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • I Am, I Am, I Am

    Seventeen Brushes with Death

    by Maggie O'Farrell ...
    In this astonishing memoir, the New York Times bestselling author of The Marriage Portrait and Hamnet shares the seventeen near-death experiences that have punctuated and defined her life.The childhood illness that left her bedridden for a year, which she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning to escape that nearly ended in disaster. An encounter with a disturbed man on a remote path. And ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • The Mirror & the Light

    A Novel

    by Hilary Mantel ...
    Series Book 3 - Wolf Hall Trilogy
    The brilliant #1 New York Times bestsellerNamed a best book of 2020 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, The Guardian, and many moreWith The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with her peerless, Booker Prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climb. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Winter's Tale

    by William Shakespeare ...
    The Newly Revised Signet Classic Shakespeare Series The work of the world’s greatest dramatist edited by outstanding scholarsThe Winter’s TaleUnique Features of the Signet Classic Shakespeare•An extensive overview of Shakespeare’s life, world, and theater by the general editor of the Signet Classic Shakespeare series, Sylvan Barnet•Special introduction to the play by the editor, Frank Kermode, ... Read more

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  • Intimacies

    Winner of the 2021 BBC National Short Story Award

    by Lucy Caldwell ...
    *Includes the winner of the 2021 BBC National Short Story Award*'Outstanding.' Guardian'Eleven perfect stories.' Irish Independent'Glorious.' The Times'My FAVE collection ever.' Pandora SykesIn eleven stories, Intimacies exquisitely charts the steps and missteps of young women trying to find their place in the world. From a Belfast student ordering illegal drugs online to end an unwan... ... Read more

    $12.79 USD