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		The Winter of the World
		Poems of the First World War		Literature
		Dominic Hibberd; John Onions (Edited by)
		Constable & Robinson 2007  362 pages
		Hardback    1845295153		Qty
		Published Price £25.00		Our Price £9.99
	The poetry that came out of the First World War exposed, for the first time, the horror of modern warfare. This terrible reality found its perfect expression in poetry as in no other form. The result is an extraordinary record of emotion and experience, written by men and women from widely differing backgrounds. This new anthology brings together 250 poems, arranged by year rather than by author, and is the first to reveal how poetry developed between 1914 and 1918, then on into the 1920s.

		The Book of Lost Things
				Literature
		John Connolly
		Hodder 2006  310 pages
		Hardback    0340899468		Qty
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	High in his attic bedroom, 12-year-old David mourns the loss of his mother. He is angry and alone, with only the books on his shelf for company. As he laments, the books begin to whisper to him. Exploring the myths and fables that they contain, David finds that the worlds of reality and fantasy have begun to meld...

		Virginia Woolf
		A Critical Memoir		Literature
		Winifred Holtby
		Continuum 2007  206 pages
		Paperback    0826494439		Qty
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	This classic work was the first critical study of Virginia Woolf in English. Its author, the novelist, journalist and social reformer who went on to write the ever-popular South Riding, could not have been more removed from her subject in background or artistic outlook. The result, first published in 1932 when Woolf was at the height of her career, is an engrossing dialogue between two women writers on either side of the divide between traditional realism and the modernist avant-garde.

		Tokyo Year Zero
				Literature
		David Peace
		Faber 2007  355 pages
		Hardback    0571236456		Qty
		Published Price £16.99		Our Price £4.99
	August 1946; Tokyo lies broken at the feet of its American victors; and panic and mistrust spreads through the remnants of the city's police department. Against this chaotic historical backdrop, Detective Minami finds himself investigating a double murder - a case which, as it grows in complexity, turns out to be inextricably linked with Minami's own dark past...

		Dear Blue Peter
				Literature
		Biddy Baxter (Edited by)
		Short 2008  336 pages
		Hardback  Illustrated  190602149X		Qty
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	Dogs, badges, sticky-back plastic, even that mishap with the elephant... Blue Peter has been part of British childhood for 50 years and from the outset children have written letters to the presenters. As the show celebrates its 50th anniversary, Biddy Baxter, the legendary editor who first used the Blue Peter badge to encourage children to write in, presents a selection from the vast correspondence (average 7,000 letters a week) from children (and 'big kids') offering ideas, pictures and stories.

		Catullus
		Oxford Readings in Classical Studies		Literature
		Julia Haig Gaisser (Edited by)
		Oxford University Press 2007  606 pages
		Hardback    0199280347		Qty
		Published Price £105.00		Our Price £19.99
	This volume follows the established format of the Oxford Readings series, conveniently bringing together 25 provocative articles first published between 1951 and 2000, as well as three short pieces by Renaissance scholars. Julia Haig Gaisser's introduction gives an overview of recent developments in Catullan scholarship, while the readings themselves cover such issues as neoteric poetics, theory, allusion and intertext, obscenity, invective and Lesbia's infamous 'dirty sparrow'. All Latin and Greek quotations are translated.

		Epic
		Britain's Heroic Muse 1790-1910		Literature
		Herbert F Tucker
		Oxford University Press 2008  740 pages
		Hardback    0199232989		Qty
		Published Price £39.00		Our Price £9.99
	In all eras and in all languages, the epic poem has been a summit to which all poets aspire. But with its emphasis on personal heroism and shared goals, can it still have anything to say to an age of industrialization, revolution, global trade and mechanized warfare? This magisterial survey demonstrates how poets as diverse as Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Browning, Tennyson, William Morris and Thomas Hardy reinvented the form to meet the challenges of their times.

		The New Posidippus
		A Hellenistic Poetry Book		Literature
		Kathryn Gutzwiller (Edited by)
		Oxford University Press 2008  394 pages
		Paperback  Illustrated  0199541663		Qty
		Published Price £33.00		Our Price £12.99
	One of the most exciting literary discoveries of recent years has been the Milan Papyrus which contains previously unknown epigrams by the 3rd century BCE poet, Posidippus of Pella, and is also our earliest example of a Greek poetry book that is roughly contemporary with its author. Fifteen scholars have contributed to this volume of essays on the poems, their arrangement within the book, and the author in his Ptolemaic context; plus a complete translation of all Posidippus' surviving poetry by Frank Nisetich.

		Alex Guinness
		A Life		Literature
		Garry O'Connor
		Applause 2002  528 pages
		Hardback  Illustrated  1557835748		Qty
		Published Price £21.50		Our Price £7.99
	His roles in Lawrence of Arabia, Bridge on the River Kwai and Doctor Zhivago made Alec Guinness one of Britain's best-loved actors, yet he was also one of the most enigmatic, a chameleon-like master of disguise. His three volumes of autobiography offered scarcely a glimpse of the inner man. Now, drawing on interviews with family, friends and the actor himself, this authoritative yet sympathetic biography reveals a troubled, sexually ambivalent man riven by self-doubt and haunted by childhood rejection.

		Forever and Anon
		A treasury of Poetry and Prose from the Pen of Author Unknown		Literature
		Gerry Hanson (Edited by)
		JR Books 2007  196 pages
		Hardback  Illustrated  1906217114		Qty
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	'Anonymous' - an author of the highest proliferation - has been responsible for such classics as The Vicar of Bray, The Man on the Flying Trapeze and Greensleeves. This entertaining anthology celebrates the mystery of how so many accomplished writers could fail to be identified, not to mention the fact that for 200 years the British have sung the words of their National Anthem without having a clue as to who wrote them.

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