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Essays on the Art of Angela Carter: Flesh and the Mirror

Essays on the Art of Angela Carter: Flesh and the Mirror

ed Lorna Sage Introduction by Ali Smith

'Go out and get Carter. Get all her fiction, all her fact.' Ali Smith

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The Daphne du Maurier Companion

The Daphne du Maurier Companion

ed: Helen Taylor

Daphne du Maurier is one of Britain’s best-loved authors, her writing capturing the imagination in a way that few have been able to equal. Rebecca, her most famous novel, was a huge success on...

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Strange Things

Strange Things

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood's witty and informative book focuses on the imaginative mystique of the wilderness of the Canadian North. She discusses the 'Grey Owl Syndrome' of white writers going native; the...

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Negotiating With the Dead: A Writer on Writing

Negotiating With the Dead: A Writer on Writing

Margaret Atwood

What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High Priest of Art? Court Jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and the development of her writing career, Margaret Atwood...

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A View From the Bed and Other Observations

A View From the Bed and Other Observations

Jenny Diski

‘As a general rule I try to maintain a balanced and realistic approach to life. I’m convinced that the best place for a rabbit’s foot is at the end of a rabbit’s leg. And if there are fairies at...

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The Spooky Art

The Spooky Art

Norman Mailer

Mailer explores, among other topics, the attractions and limitations of non-fiction, the pressing need for work habits, the pitfalls of early success, and the dire business of coping with bad...

Hardback: £20.00

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A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing

A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing

Elaine Showalter

When first published in 1982 A Literature of their Own quickly set the stage for the creative explosion of feminist literary studies that transformed the field in the 1980s. Launching a major new...

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Flesh and the Mirror

Flesh and the Mirror

ed LORNA SAGE

This volume of essays commemorates the work of Angela Carter, discussing the novels, stories and polemics. Contributors include Guido Almansi, Isobel Armstrong, Margaret Atwood, Robert Coover...

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Daughters of Decadence

Daughters of Decadence

Elaine Showalter

At the turn of the century, short stories by- and often about- 'New Women' flooded the pages of English and American magazines like The Yellow Book, The Savoy, Atlantic Monthly and Harpers. This...

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The Haunting of Sylvia Plath

The Haunting of Sylvia Plath

Jacqueline Rose

Since her suicide in 1963 at the age of 30, Sylvia Plath has become a strange icon. This book addresses why this is the case and what this tells us about the way culture picks out important ...

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