On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt
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A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid be ...Show more
Come Rain or Come Shine (Faber Stories) by KAZUO ISHIGURO
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When Ray turns up to visit his old university friends Charlie and Emily, he's given a special task: to be so much his useless self that he makes Charlie look good by comparison. But Ray has his own buried feelings to contend with. Decades earlier, he and Emily would listen to jazz when they were alone, ...Show more
House in Little Chelsea by Hastings Claire
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A story of social change and the evolution of a neighbourhood, full of human interest and the richness and sadness of the passing of time - I loved the irrepressible character who combined the skills of barrister, chef and advertising genius, and the poor first owner with her aesthetic aspirations and h ...Show more
Cat Stories by Diana Secker Tesdell
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Playful kittens and ruthless predators, beloved pets and witches' familiars - cats of all kinds come alive in these stories. Maeve Brennan and Alice Adams movingly explore what cats can mean to their humans, while writers as varied as Patricia Highsmith and Fritz Leiber imagine the intriguingly alien fe ...Show more
The Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel by Matt Zoller Seitz
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This companion to the New York Times bestselling book The Wes Anderson Collection takes readers behind the scenes of the Oscar(R)-winning film The Grand Budapest Hotel with a series of interviews between writer/director Wes Anderson and movie/television critic Matt Zoller Seitz.Learn all about the film' ...Show more
Wes Anderson Collection by Matt Zoller Seitz; Eric C. Anderson (Illustrator); Michael Chabon (Introduction by); Max Dalton (Illustrator)
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This New York Times bestselling overview of Wes Anderson's filmography features previously unpublished behind-the-scenes photos, artwork, and ephemera, with an introduction by Michael Chabon.Writer/director Wes Anderson guides movie/television critic Matt Zoller Seitz through Anderson's life and career ...Show more
The Wes Anderson Collection: The French Dispatch by Matt Zoller Seitz
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The official behind-the-scenes companion to The French Dispatch and the latest volume in the bestselling Wes Anderson Collection series The French Dispatch--the tenth feature film from writer-director Wes Anderson--is a love letter to journalists set at the titular American newspaper in the fictional 2 ...Show more
Wood in Winter by JOHN LEWIS-STEMPEL
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One for those of us who love tales of the natural world, and who enjoy seasonal woodland walks when things lie deep and crisp and even. John Lewis-Stempel's The Wood in Winter is a beautiful piece of nature writing about the life of a wood in bleak midwinter, tying in old festivals and traditions which ...Show more
Happy Half Hours by A.A. Milne
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A delightful selection of articles by the ever-popular A. A. Milne, many of which haven't been in print for decades. Introduced by the prize-winning children's author Frank Cottrell Boyce, this volume brings Milne's brilliant non-fiction back to the spotlight. A. A. Milne was a successful writer lon ...Show more
How to Play the Piano by James Rhodes
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Now you can master Bach's most beautiful prelude--even if you've never sat down at a piano before Do you have a piano (or keyboard) and forty-five spare minutes every day? Then spend the next six weeks with acclaimed concert pianist James Rhodes. By the end, you'll be able to perform Bach's Prelude ...Show more
How to Skim a Stone by Ralph Jones
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This is the ultimate guide to skimming a stone. Stone skimming is an art and a science: a brief distraction on a country walk and an international sport with highly competitive championships. Ralph Jones covered last year's World Stone Skimming Championships and here, he investigates the physics, the ...Show more
How to Enjoy Poetry by Frank Skinner
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'Someone recently said to me, in reference to my poetry podcast, that you'd think poetry would be more popular than ever, in the twenty-first century, because people don't have a lot of time and 'novels are often quite big while poems are often quite small'. I referred them to Doctor Who's Tardis.'Frank ...Show more