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  • The Tipping Point: America at the Brink

    Important institutions have failed the United States in many ways, causing serious harm to the country. These trends can be reversed.

    by James Booth ...
    We are living in a very difficult time. The United States is greatly polarized. Important institutions are failing. People have lost confidence in the government. The country is in decline.What are the indications of decline? How did we get here? Which divisions are most harmful to the country? Can these trends be reversed? Can the divisions he healed? What can we do about it?In this book James F. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Philip Larkin

    Life, Art and Love

    by James Booth ...
    A revelatory, intimate, and sympathetic study of Philip Larkin, an iconic poet and a much misunderstood man, offering fresh understanding of the interplay of his life and work.Philip Larkin (1922-1985) is one of the most beloved poets in English. Yet after his death a largely negative image of the man himself took hold; he has been portrayed as a racist, a misogynist and a narcissist. Now Larkin ... Read more

    $20.09 USD

  • Memory, Historic Injustice, and Responsibility

    by W. James Booth ...
    What is it to do justice to the absent victims of past injustice, given the distance that separates us from them? Grounded in political theory and guided by the literature on historical justice, W. James Booth restores the dead to their central place at the heart of our understanding of why and how to deal with past injustice. Testimonies and accounts from the race war in the United States, the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Philip Larkin

    Life, Art and Love

    by James Booth ...
    _______________'Superb … Booth's psychology is subtler than Motion's and more convincing' - Peter J. Conradi, Spectator'Booth's diligence is unquestionable and even readers who think they know the poems will see nuances they had previously missed … should render further attention by biographers superfluous for several years' - Guardian'Those of us who never warmed to Larkin the man or poet,... ... Read more

    $20.09 USD

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    Peeler

    The BBC Radio 4 crime series

    by Patrick Carroll ...
    Narrated by Richard E Grant, Full Cast, James Booth, Mick Ford, Norman Jones ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 57 min

    A six-part BBC Radio 4 crime drama set in nineteenth-century LondonIt is 1830, a year after Sir Robert Peel’s creation of the Metropolitan Police, known as the 'Peelers'. As the brand new bobbies patrol the beat in their smart blue uniforms, armed only with truncheons and rattles, they form the first line of defence against crime.But as this thrilling series opens, the fledgling detective force is ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Reading Philip Larkin: Selected Poems

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    The book offers a detailed commentary on the poetry of Philip Larkin, exploring the political and cultural contexts which have shaped his contemporary reputation. Part 1, Life and Times, traces Larkin's early years and follows his development, within his career as a university librarian, into one of the most important and popular voices in twentieth-century poetry. Part 2, Artistic Strategies, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Between the Sheets

    Nine 20th Century Women Writers and Their Famous Literary Partnerships

    by Lesley McDowell ...
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  • The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf

    Edited by Susan Sellers ...
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