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Ashland & Vine by John Burnside
Category: Fiction
It is 1999. Kate Lambert, a grieving, semi-alcoholic film student, invites an elderly woman to take part in an oral-history documentary. The woman, Jean Culver, declines, but makes her a bizarre counter-offer- if Kate can stay sober for four days, she will tell her a story. And if she can stay sober bey ...Show more
Havergey by John Burnside
Category: Fiction
"Havergey does not feature on any maps of the British Isles. Yet this remote island is as real as any, with its limestone stacks, seabirds and human population - a mixture of utopians and nomads who have settled here to build a new kind of society. When a traveller arrives in this small land, bewildered ...Show more
On Henry Miller - Or, How to Be an Anarchist by John Burnside
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Writers on Writers Ser.
An engaging invitation to rediscover Henry Miller--and to learn how his anarchist sensibility can help us escape "the air-conditioned nightmare" of the modern world The American writer Henry Miller's critical reputation--if not his popular readership--has been in eclipse at least since Kate Millett's b ...Show more
The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century by John Burnside
Category: Non-Fiction
A revelatory history of twentieth-century poetry by prize-winning poet and memoirist John Burnside Poetry helps us to make sense of our world, transforming what the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam called the noise of time into a kind of music. The Music of Time is a unique history of twentieth-century ...Show more
The Music of Time - Poetry in the Twentieth Century by John Burnside
Category: Gift
Though we might not realise it, our collective memory of the twentieth century was defined by the poets who lived and wrote in it. At every significant turning point we find them, pen in hand, fingers poised at the typewriter, ready to distil the essence of the moment, from the muddy wastes of the Weste ...Show more
The Sea, The Sea: Vintage Classics Murdoch Series by Iris Murdoch; John Burnside (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Murdoch Ser.
VINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. To celebrate her centenary Vintage Classics presents special editions of her greatest and most timeless novels. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAISY JOHNSON 'I s ...Show more
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