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The Road to Inver

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Tom Paulin
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The Road to Inver gathers the verse translations of Tom Paulin from four decades, and brings together distinguished versions of classical and European poets which have appeared in his previous collections, from Liberty Tree (1983) to The Wind Dog (1999). But The Road to Inver also includes dozens (...)

The Royal Ballet: 75 Years

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Zoë Anderson
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In 1931, Ninette de Valois started a ballet company with just six dancers. Within twenty years, the Royal Ballet - as it became was established as one of the world s great companies. It has produced celebrated dancers, from Margot Fonteyn to Darcey Bussell, and one of the richest repertoires in (...)

The Secret Life of Poems

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Tom Paulin
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The Secret Life of Poems is a primer which offers a poem - or on occasion an excerpt - succeeding with commentary in which rhythm, form, metre and sources are the order of the day, not ethical commentary or descriptive paraphrase. This brief engagement with forty-seven poems is intended for (...)

The Short Sharp Life of T. E. Hulme

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Robert Ferguson
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The Stoning of Sally Kern

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Sally Kern
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This book is about Sally Kern, District 84 House of Representatives member from Oklahoma, and her desire to see America return to the conservative principles that guided the nation s founders. In January 2008, the pastor s wife and former high school teacher gave a speech to a Republican club in (...)

The Storm at the Door

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Stefan Block
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Just outside Boston, in 1963, Frederick Merrill found himself a patient in the country's premiere mental hospital, a world of structured authority and absolute control - a forced regression to a simpler time even as the pace of the outside world accelerated into modernity. Meanwhile, in a (...)

The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart

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David Greig
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One wintry morning Prudencia Hart, an uptight academic, sets off to attend a conference in Kelso in the Scottish Borders. As the snow begins to fall, little does she know who or what awaits her there. Swept along on an enchanting dream-like journey of self discovery, Prudencia meets with magical (...)

The Sunlit Summit

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Robin Lloyd-Jones
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The Syme Papers

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Benjamín Markovits
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Douglas Pitt is a man obsessed. Laughed at, mocked, and dismissed at every turn, Pitt has dedicated the best part of an unremarkable academic career attempting to prove the genius of Samuel Highgate Syme (b.1794, Baltimore; soldier, geologist, inventor). Pitt's postulation is simple enough: Syme, (...)

The Trouble with Science

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Robin Dunbar
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