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Take your time and enjoy browsing our selection of poetry books, new and old, including poetry anthologies and classic poetry. From Shakespeare plays to Sylvia Plath's poetry, you'll also find books on popular plays and drama books as well as books on literary theory and criticism.

Our Best Poetry, Drama & Critcism Books

The Fran Lebowitz Reader
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The Fran Lebowitz Reader
Fran Lebowitz
£12.99
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Intimations
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Intimations
Zadie Smith
£5.99
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Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
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Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
Lana Del Rey
£16.99   £8.49
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Daemon Voices
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Daemon Voices
Philip Pullman
£10.99
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Mantel Pieces
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Mantel Pieces
Hilary Mantel
£16.99   £8.49
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The Fire of Joy
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The Fire of Joy
Clive James
£20.00   £10.00
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Milk and Honey
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Milk and Honey
Rupi Kaur
£9.99
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How Do We Know We're Doing It Right?
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How Do We Know We're Doing It Right?
Pandora Sykes
£14.99
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Pandora's Jar
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Pandora's Jar
Natalie Haynes
£20.00
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Up in the Attic
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Up in the Attic
Pam Ayres
£8.99
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The The Sun and Her Flowers
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The The Sun and Her Flowers
Rupi Kaur
£12.99
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The Poetry Pharmacy
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The Poetry Pharmacy
William Sieghart
£12.99
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A Streetcar Named Desire
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams
£9.99   £8.99
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Dear Reader
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Dear Reader
Cathy Rentzenbrink
£12.99
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Macbeth
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Macbeth
William Shakespeare
£7.99
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Cat Poems
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Cat Poems
Elizabeth Bishop
£7.99   £3.99
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When I Dare to Be Powerful
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When I Dare to Be Powerful
Audre Lorde
£5.99
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Pillow Thoughts
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Pillow Thoughts
Courtney Peppernell
£11.99
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Our Best New Poetry, Drama and Criticism Hardbacks

Ex Libris
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Ex Libris
Michiko Kakutani
£16.99   £8.49
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Home Body
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Home Body
Rupi Kaur
£12.99
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Mantel Pieces
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Mantel Pieces
Hilary Mantel
£16.99   £8.49
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The Artful Dickens
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The Artful Dickens
John Mullan
£16.99   £8.49
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Dearly
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Dearly
Margaret Atwood
£14.99   £7.49
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Dear Reader
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Dear Reader
Cathy Rentzenbrink
£12.99
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Hag
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Hag
Daisy Johnson
£12.99
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Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
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Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
Lana Del Rey
£16.99   £8.49
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Pandora's Jar
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Pandora's Jar
Natalie Haynes
£20.00
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The Fire of Joy
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The Fire of Joy
Clive James
£20.00   £10.00
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On Connection
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On Connection
Kae Tempest
£9.99   £4.99
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Just Us
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Just Us
Claudia Rankine
£25.00
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I Wanna Be Yours
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I Wanna Be Yours
John Cooper Clarke
£20.00   £10.00
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All the Sonnets of Shakespeare
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All the Sonnets of Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
£12.99
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Poems to Save the World With
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Poems to Save the World With
Chris Riddell
£12.99
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The Bookseller's Tale
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The Bookseller's Tale
Martin Latham
£16.99
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The Lost Spells
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The Lost Spells
Robert Macfarlane
£14.99
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Places of Poetry
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Places of Poetry
Paul Farley
£12.99
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Our Best New Poetry, Drama and Criticism Paperbacks

The Historians
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The Historians
Eavan Boland
£10.99   £9.49
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How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division
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How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division
Elif Shafak
£4.99
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That Reminds Me
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That Reminds Me
Derek Owusu
£8.99   £7.49
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Trick Mirror
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Trick Mirror
Jia Tolentino
£9.99
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My Darling from the Lions
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My Darling from the Lions
Rachel Long
£10.99
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Intimations
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Intimations
Zadie Smith
£5.99
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Up in the Attic
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Up in the Attic
Pam Ayres
£8.99
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The Air Year
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The Air Year
Caroline Bird
£9.99
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Citadel
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Citadel
Martha Sprackland
£9.99
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This Is Shakespeare
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This Is Shakespeare
Emma Smith
£9.99   £7.99
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When I Dare to Be Powerful
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When I Dare to Be Powerful
Audre Lorde
£5.99
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How to Grow Your Own Poem
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How to Grow Your Own Poem
Kate Clanchy
£14.99
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Daemon Voices
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Daemon Voices
Philip Pullman
£10.99
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The Actual
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The Actual
Inua Ellams
£9.99
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Staying Human
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Staying Human
Neil Astley
£12.99
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The Forward Book of Poetry 2021
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The Forward Book of Poetry 2021
Various Poets
£9.99
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Swimming Lessons: Poems
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Swimming Lessons: Poems
Lili Reinhart
£9.99
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Luxury Editions & Gift Books

The Gifts of Reading
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The Gifts of Reading
Robert Macfarlane
£16.99
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Ex Libris
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Ex Libris
Michiko Kakutani
£16.99   £8.49
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The Poetry Pharmacy
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The Poetry Pharmacy
William Sieghart
£12.99
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The Art of the Glimpse
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The Art of the Glimpse
Sinead Gleeson
£25.00
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The Writer's Map
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The Writer's Map
Huw Lewis-Jones
£30.00
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Books That Changed History
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Books That Changed History
DK
£20.00
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Literary Landscapes
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Literary Landscapes
John Sutherland
£25.00
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Boundless Books
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Boundless Books
Postertext
£25.00
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Decadence
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Decadence
Jon Crabb
£20.00
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Writers
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Writers
DK
£20.00
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The Novel Cure
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The Novel Cure
Ella Berthoud
£16.99
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The Penguin Classics Book
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The Penguin Classics Book
Henry Eliot
£30.00
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Collected Poems
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Collected Poems
Clive James
£25.00
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A Literary Christmas
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A Literary Christmas
British Library
£12.99
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Haiku Illustrated
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Haiku Illustrated
Hart Larrabee
£24.99
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Our Best Poetry Books

The Historians
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The Historians
Eavan Boland
£10.99   £9.49
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The Fire of Joy
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The Fire of Joy
Clive James
£20.00   £10.00
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The Air Year
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The Air Year
Caroline Bird
£9.99
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Citadel
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Citadel
Martha Sprackland
£9.99
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My Darling from the Lions
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My Darling from the Lions
Rachel Long
£10.99
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The Girl and the Goddess
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The Girl and the Goddess
Nikita Gill
£12.99
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That Reminds Me
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That Reminds Me
Derek Owusu
£8.99   £7.49
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Home Body
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Home Body
Rupi Kaur
£12.99
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Milk and Honey
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Milk and Honey
Rupi Kaur
£9.99
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The The Sun and Her Flowers
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The The Sun and Her Flowers
Rupi Kaur
£12.99
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Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
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Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
Lana Del Rey
£16.99   £8.49
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Up in the Attic
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Up in the Attic
Pam Ayres
£8.99
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The Poetry Pharmacy
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The Poetry Pharmacy
William Sieghart
£12.99
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Dancing By The Light of The Moon
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Dancing By The Light of The Moon
Gyles Brandreth
£14.99
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Ariel
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Ariel
Sylvia Plath
£10.99
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Inferno
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Inferno
Dante
£5.99
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The Poetry Pharmacy Returns
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The Poetry Pharmacy Returns
William Sieghart
£12.99
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Night Sky with Exit Wounds
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Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Ocean Vuong
£12.00
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Our Best Literary Criticism & Essays

Intimations
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Intimations
Zadie Smith
£5.99
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Daemon Voices
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Daemon Voices
Philip Pullman
£10.99
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Mantel Pieces
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Mantel Pieces
Hilary Mantel
£16.99   £8.49
Hardback
Pandora's Jar
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Pandora's Jar
Natalie Haynes
£20.00
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How Do We Know We're Doing It Right?
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How Do We Know We're Doing It Right?
Pandora Sykes
£14.99
Hardback
Dear Reader
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Dear Reader
Cathy Rentzenbrink
£12.99
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When I Dare to Be Powerful
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When I Dare to Be Powerful
Audre Lorde
£5.99
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Trick Mirror
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Trick Mirror
Jia Tolentino
£9.99
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This Is Shakespeare
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This Is Shakespeare
Emma Smith
£9.99   £7.99
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The Fire Next Time
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The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
£8.99
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Why I Write
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Why I Write
George Orwell
£5.99
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A Little History of Poetry
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A Little History of Poetry
John Carey
£14.99   £7.49
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Books v. Cigarettes
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Books v. Cigarettes
George Orwell
£4.99
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The Artful Dickens
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The Artful Dickens
John Mullan
£16.99   £8.49
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Far and Away
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Far and Away
Adrian Gill
£20.00   £10.00
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Strangers
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Strangers
Rebecca Tamas
£12.99
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At the Pond
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At the Pond
Margaret Drabble
£9.99
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Notes to Self
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Notes to Self
Emilie Pine
£9.99
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Our Best Drama Books

Two Besides
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Two Besides
Alan Bennett
£10.00   £5.00
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An Inspector Calls
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An Inspector Calls
J.B Priestley
£9.99
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A Streetcar Named Desire
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams
£9.99   £8.99
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two
J. K. Rowling
£8.99   £7.49
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Macbeth
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Macbeth
William Shakespeare
£7.99
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Leopoldstadt
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Leopoldstadt
Tom Stoppard
£9.99
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Othello
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Othello
William Shakespeare
£7.99
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Death of a Salesman
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Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller
£8.99
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Blood Brothers
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Blood Brothers
Willy Russell
£10.99
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The Crucible
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The Crucible
Arthur Miller
£8.99
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Romeo and Juliet
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Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
£7.99
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A View from the Bridge
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A View from the Bridge
Arthur Miller
£8.99
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"A Doll's House"
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"A Doll's House"
Henrik Ibsen
£10.99
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Tennessee Williams
£9.99
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Hamlet
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Hamlet
William Shakespeare
£7.99
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Waiting for Godot
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Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett
£9.99
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Great Books You Must Read

Our selection of classic paperbacks

Book of Longing
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Book of Longing
Leonard Cohen
£9.99
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On Writing
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On Writing
Stephen King
£10.99
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Sister Outsider
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Sister Outsider
Audre Lorde
£9.99
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Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt
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Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt
John Cooper Clarke
£8.99
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The Opposite of Loneliness
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The Opposite of Loneliness
Marina Keegan
£8.99
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Shakespeare
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Shakespeare
Bill Bryson
£8.99
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Twenty Love Poems
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Twenty Love Poems
Pablo Neruda
£7.99
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Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin
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Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin
Alan Bennett
£9.99
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The Peace of Wild Things
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The Peace of Wild Things
Wendell Berry
£8.99
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The Divine Comedy
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The Divine Comedy
Clive James
£16.99
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The Ode Less Travelled
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The Ode Less Travelled
Stephen Fry
£9.99
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Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know
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Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know
Colm Toibin
£9.99
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Essays
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Essays
George Orwell
£14.99
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On Writers and Writing
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On Writers and Writing
Margaret Atwood
£9.99
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1606
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1606
James Shapiro
£10.99
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How Proust Can Change Your Life
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How Proust Can Change Your Life
Alain de Botton
£9.99
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