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  • The Critic in the Modern World

    Public Criticism from Samuel Johnson to James Wood

    by Dr. James Ley ...
    The Critic in the Modern World explores the work of six influential literary critics-Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt, Matthew Arnold, T.S. Eliot, Lionel Trilling and James Wood-each of whom occupies a distinct historical moment. It considers how these representative critics have constructed their public personae, the kinds of arguments they have used, and their core principles and philosophies ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Positive Stories for Negative Times, Volume 4

    Bold new plays co-created by young people and world-class artists

    by Ella Hickson, Hannah Low, Travis Alabanza, Mammalian Diving Reflex, James Ley ...
    Series series Plays for Young People
    Nominated for Community Award at The Stage Awards 2025Five powerful new plays by some of the most exciting artists working in the UK today – created with and for young people. Developed as part of Wonder Fools' international project Positive Stories for Negative Times, which has engaged over 11,000 young people across 24 countries including the UK, South Africa, India, USA, Canada, Italy and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Wilf

    by James Ley ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    My story is about love… No, it's about loss… No, it's about love and loss and pain and loneliness… But it's funny!Calvin is going to completely revolutionise his life. Escape his abusive boyfriend, detonate his inner sex bomb, see (and shag) the world. Yes, he's going to change things, and everything will be wonderful, and he's going to be so happy. Definitely. Finally. Right?Together with Wilf, a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Love Song to Lavender Menace

    by James Ley ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    In 1982, two friends Bob and Sigrid opened their new radical lesbian, gay and feminist bookshop, 'Lavender Menace' on Edinburgh's Forth Street. On the eve of the shop's 5th birthday, sales assistants Paul and David take a look back at its origins, in this funny, moving play.Cast your mind back to 1982 - Margaret Thatcher sends the British Fleet to the Falklands, Channel 4 comes to the living room ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • The Australian Face

    Essays from the Sydney Review of Books

    Edited by James Ley, Catriona Menzies-Pike ...
    TheSydney Review of Booksis Australia's leading space for longform literary criticism. Now celebrating five years online, the SRB has published more than five hundred essays by almost two hundred writers. To mark this occasion,The Australian Facecollects some of the best essays published in the SRB on Australian fiction, poetry and non-fiction. The essays in this anthology are contributions to the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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    One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster

    by Sarah Krasnostein ...
    Winner of the Victorian Prize for Literature, Sarah Krasnostein's The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster is the fascinating biography of one of the people responsible for tidying up homes in the wake of natural—and unnatural—catastrophes and fatalities.Homicides and suicides, fires and floods, hoarders and addicts. When properties are ... Read more

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  • The Charming Predator

    The True Story of How I Fell in Love with and Married a Sociopathic Fraud

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    She fell in love with him, they married and then she found out who he was: a conman who was determined to destroy her.The instant bestselling story of Lee Mackenzie, who was a capable and confident young woman, studying broadcast journalism and honing her skills of observation and objectivity. She was also a little unworldly, the product of a small, rural Western Canadian community where doors ... Read more

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  • Under the Harrow

    A Novel

    by Flynn Berry ...
    **"A thriller for fans of The Girl on the Train and Gone Girl...[with] a striking, original voice all Berry’s own.” —The New York Times Book ReviewThe riveting, Edgar Award-winning first novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Northern Spy and A Double Life**When Nora takes the train from London to visit her sister in the countryside, she expects to find her waiting at the station, or ... Read more

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  • Who's that Girl?

    The funny, feel-good Rom-Com

    by Celia Hayes ...
    A funny, feel-good romantic comedy. Perfect for fans of Fiona Gibson and Jo Watson.Sam Preston appears to be living the glamorous life of a journalist at the San Francisco Chronicle...If only that was the case... in reality, she's frustratingly single, stuck living in her parents' house, and oh yeah, in love with her boss, Dave, who barely knows that she exists...Life seems like it will never ... Read more

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  • The Elephant Man Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library

    by Tim Vicary ...
    Series Book 1 - Oxford Bookworms Library
    A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Tim Vicary. He is not beautiful. His mother does not want him, children run away from him. People laugh at him, and call him 'The Elephant Man'. Then someone speaks to him - and listens to him! At the age of 27, Joseph Merrick finds a friend for the first time in his life. This is a true and tragic story. It is ... Read more

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  • Ben Elton Collection

    Gridlock, Chart Throb and Blind Faith

    by Ben Elton ...
    GridlockToo many cars and not enough space equals gridlock.Gridlock is when a city dies.Killed in the name of freedom. Killed in the name of oil and steel. Choked on carbon monoxide and strangled with a pair of fluffy dice.How did it come to this? How did the ultimate freedom machine end up paralysing us all? How did we end up driving to our own funeral, in somebody else's gravy train?Deborah and ... Read more

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  • My Girragundji

    by Meme McDonald, Boori Monty Pryor ...
    The story of an Aboriginal boy whose house is invaded by a Hairyman - a spirit the old people call a Quinkin. When a little green tree frog lands on his windowsill, he knows she has been sent by the ancestors to help him face his fears.BOORI MONTY PRYOR: AUSTRALIA'S CHILDREN'S LAUREATE 2012-13'I wake with a start. The doorknob turns. It's him. The Hairyman.'There's a bad spirit in our house. He's ... Read more

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