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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.
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In Wartime
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In Wartime
Tim Judah
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Conversations on Love
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Natasha Lunn
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Four Thousand Weeks
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Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
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Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain
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Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain
Amy Jeffs
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Novelist as a Vocation
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Novelist as a Vocation
Haruki Murakami
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Agatha Christie
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Lucy Worsley
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A Message from Ukraine
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Volodymyr Zelensky
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Healing Through Words
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Healing Through Words
Rupi Kaur
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Manifesto
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Bernardine Evaristo
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Mythos
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Stephen Fry
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Milk and Honey
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Milk and Honey
Rupi Kaur
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What Writers Read
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What Writers Read
Pandora Sykes
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The The Sun and Her Flowers
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Rupi Kaur
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Pandora's Jar
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Natalie Haynes
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The Years
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The Years
Annie Ernaux
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Faith, Hope and Carnage
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Nick Cave
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Super-infinite
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Katherine Rundell
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Getting Better
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Getting Better
Michael Rosen
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Novelist as a Vocation
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Novelist as a Vocation
Haruki Murakami
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Agatha Christie
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Lucy Worsley
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Healing Through Words
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Healing Through Words
Rupi Kaur
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What Writers Read
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Pandora Sykes
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Faith, Hope and Carnage
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Nick Cave
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Who Are You Calling Vermin?
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Who Are You Calling Vermin?
Pam Ayres
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Nobody Asked For This
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Nobody Asked For This
Charly Cox
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Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop
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Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop
Alba Donati
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Tribute
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Tribute
Simon Armitage
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The Waste Land
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The Waste Land
Matthew Hollis
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The Book Of Desire
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The Book Of Desire
Meena Kandasamy
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Blurb Your Enthusiasm
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Blurb Your Enthusiasm
Louise Willder
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Black and Female
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Black and Female
Tsitsi Dangarembga
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All the Knowledge in the World
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All the Knowledge in the World
Simon Garfield
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The Crane Wife
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The Crane Wife
Christina Joyce Hauser
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Teller of the Unexpected
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Teller of the Unexpected
Matthew Dennison
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Manifesto
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Manifesto
Bernardine Evaristo
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The Most of Nora Ephron
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The Most of Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron
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Notes on Grief
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Notes on Grief
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The Fire of Joy
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The Fire of Joy
Clive James
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The Young H.G. Wells
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Claire Tomalin
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On Freedom
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On Freedom
Maggie Nelson
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Writing from Ukraine
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Writing from Ukraine
Mark Andryczyk
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Poems
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Louise Gluck
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Everybody
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Everybody
Olivia Laing
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Fifty Forgotten Books
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Fifty Forgotten Books
R. B. Russell
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Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year
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Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year
Allie Esiri
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This is the Canon
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This is the Canon
Joan Anim-Addo
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East Side Voices
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East Side Voices
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When My Brother Was an Aztec
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When My Brother Was an Aztec
Natalie Diaz
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Allegorizings
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Allegorizings
Jan Morris
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Pessoa
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Pessoa
Richard Zenith
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Burning Man
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Burning Man
Frances Wilson
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A Vertical Art
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A Vertical Art
Simon Armitage
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The Poetry Pharmacy
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The Poetry Pharmacy
William Sieghart
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Mythology
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Mythology
Edith Hamilton
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Eliot's Book of Bookish Lists
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Eliot's Book of Bookish Lists
Henry Eliot
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On Cats
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On Cats
Margaret Atwood
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The Penguin Modern Classics Book
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Henry Eliot
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The Lyrics
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The Lyrics
Paul McCartney
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The Writer's Map
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The Writer's Map
Huw Lewis-Jones
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Ex Libris
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Ex Libris
Michiko Kakutani
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A Poet for Every Day of the Year
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A Poet for Every Day of the Year
Allie Esiri
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Black Joy
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Black Joy
Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff
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3212
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3212
William Shakespeare
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Collected Poems
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Collected Poems
Clive James
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Literary Landscapes
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Literary Landscapes
John Sutherland
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Decadence
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Decadence
Jon Crabb
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Writers
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How To Be Invisible
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Kate Bush
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Sundog
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Sundog
Scott Walker
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Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970-2015
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Patti Smith
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One Hundred Lyrics and a Poem
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One Hundred Lyrics and a Poem
Neil Tennant
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How To Be Invisible
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Kate Bush
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Mother, Brother, Lover
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Jarvis Cocker
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Forever Words
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Forever Words
Johnny Cash
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A Lover Sings: Selected Lyrics
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A Lover Sings: Selected Lyrics
Billy Bragg
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The Complete Lyrics
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The Complete Lyrics
Nick Cave
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The Lyrics of Syd Barrett
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Syd Barrett
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Useless Magic
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Florence Welch
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Morning Glory on the Vine
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Morning Glory on the Vine
Joni Mitchell
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Side by Side
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Side by Side
Robert Wyatt
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I'll Be Your Mirror
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I'll Be Your Mirror
Lou Reed
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Fear Stalks the Land!
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Fear Stalks the Land!
Thom Yorke
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Keep 'Er Lit
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Keep 'Er Lit
Van Morrison
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So This is Permanence
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So This is Permanence
Ian Curtis
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Wrote For Luck
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Wrote For Luck
Shaun Ryder
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Healing Through Words
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Rupi Kaur
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The The Sun and Her Flowers
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Rupi Kaur
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The Poetry Pharmacy
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William Sieghart
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The Odyssey
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The Odyssey
Homer
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Inferno
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Inferno
Dante
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Who Are You Calling Vermin?
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Who Are You Calling Vermin?
Pam Ayres
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The Iliad
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Homer
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Days Like These
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Days Like These
Brian Bilston
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The Prophet
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Kahlil Gibran
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Milk and Honey
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Milk and Honey
Rupi Kaur
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100 Poems
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100 Poems
Seamus Heaney
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Cerys Matthews' Under Milk Wood
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Cerys Matthews' Under Milk Wood
Dylan Thomas
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The Way Back Home
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The Way Back Home
Courtney Peppernell
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Tribute
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Simon Armitage
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Advent Street
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Advent Street
Carol Ann Duffy
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Pam Ayres on Animals
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Pam Ayres on Animals
Pam Ayres
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Poetry Unbound
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Padraig O Tuama
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Faber & Faber Desk Diary 2023
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Faber & Faber Desk Diary 2023
Various Poets
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Let Me Tell You What I Mean
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Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Joan Didion
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Why I Write
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Why I Write
George Orwell
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Mantel Pieces
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Mantel Pieces
Hilary Mantel
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
George Saunders
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Books v. Cigarettes
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Books v. Cigarettes
George Orwell
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The Fire Next Time
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The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
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Why We Read
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Why We Read
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This Is Shakespeare
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This Is Shakespeare
Emma Smith
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Trick Mirror
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Trick Mirror
Jia Tolentino
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Agatha Christie's Poirot
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Agatha Christie's Poirot
Mark Aldridge
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Intimations
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Intimations
Zadie Smith
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When I Dare to Be Powerful
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When I Dare to Be Powerful
Audre Lorde
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The Amis Collection
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Kingsley Amis
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Everybody
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Everybody
Olivia Laing
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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
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Burning Questions
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Margaret Atwood
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At the Pond
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Margaret Drabble
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An Inspector Calls
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J.B Priestley
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Prima Facie (NHB Modern Plays)
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Suzie Miller
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A Streetcar Named Desire
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Tennessee Williams
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Othello
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William Shakespeare
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Hamlet
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Hamlet
William Shakespeare
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Macbeth
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William Shakespeare
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Death of a Salesman
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Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller
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The Crucible
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The Crucible
Arthur Miller
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Romeo and Juliet
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Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
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Blood Brothers
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Blood Brothers
Willy Russell
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Waiting for Godot
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Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett
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Leopoldstadt
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Leopoldstadt
Tom Stoppard
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Fleabag: The Special Edition
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Fleabag: The Special Edition
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Tennessee Williams
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A View from the Bridge
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Arthur Miller
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Book of Longing
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On Writing
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Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt
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John Cooper Clarke
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The Opposite of Loneliness
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Shakespeare
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Bill Bryson
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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
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Pablo Neruda
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Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin
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Alan Bennett
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The Peace of Wild Things
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The Divine Comedy
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The Ode Less Travelled
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Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know
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Essays
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On Writers and Writing
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