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Essays & Correspondence

The Fun Stuff and Other Essays

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(36 reviews)

Following The Broken Estate, The Irresponsible Self, and How Fiction Works - books that established James Wood as the leading critic of his generation - The Fun Stuff confirms Wood's pre-eminence, not only as a discerning... See More

£5.99 £8.99 Save 33% Price verified 12 hours ago
Essays & Correspondence

The Nearest Thing To Life

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(96 reviews)

In this remarkable blend of memoir and criticism, James Wood has written a master class on the connections between fiction and life. He argues that, of all the arts, fiction has a unique ability to describe the shape of our... See More

£9.99 Price verified 9 hours ago
British & Irish

Serious Noticing: Selected Essays

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(44 reviews)

The selected essays of James Wood - our greatest living literary critic and author of How Fiction Works 'James Wood is a close reader of genius... By turns luscious and muscular, committed and disdaining, passionate and... See More

£9.49 £9.99 Save 5% Price verified 2 days ago
Contemporary Fiction

The Book Against God

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(34 reviews)

Thomas Bunting, charming, chaotic, and deeply untruthful, is in despair. His marriage is disintegrating, and his academic career is in ruins: instead of completing his philosophy PhD, he is secretly writing what he hopes... See More

£5.99 Price verified 12 hours ago
Essays & Correspondence

The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel

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(23 reviews)

When James Wood's first collection of essays, The Broken Estate, was published in 1999, the reviewers hailed a master critic. The common thread in Wood's latest collection of essays is what makes us laugh - and the book is... See More

£6.99 Price verified 12 hours ago
History & Criticism

How Fiction Works

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(583 reviews)

Rediscover this deep, practical anatomy of the novel from 'the strongest... literary critic we have' (New York Review of Books) in this new revised 10th anniversary edition. What do we mean when we say we 'know' a fictional... See More

£5.99 £9.99 Save 40% Price verified 18 hours ago
Contemporary Fiction

Upstate

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(168 reviews)

Upstate is a funny, moving family drama from one of the world's most influential literary critics. 'Thoughtful and though-provoking' Financial Times Alan Querry, a successful property developer from the north of England... See More

£6.99 Price verified 7 hours ago
Biography & True Accounts

The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief

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(29 reviews)

In a series of long essays, James Wood examines the connection between literature and religious belief, in a startlingly wide group of writers. Wood re-appraises the writing of such figures as Thomas More, Jane Austen... See More

£9.99 Price verified one hour ago
Science Fiction

Serug: and the birth of the gods

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An alternative historical fiction of Serug, the seventh son of Noah. Have you ever wonder why after Noah Flood that the men moved east, yet the Tower of Babel is almost directly south of Mount Ararat? Did the ancient writers... See More

£0.82 £2.30 Save 64% Price verified 3 hours ago

The Written History after the Flood

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(1 review)

The author of this book has found a link in ancient Ugaritic cuneiform tablets with a time that happened after the Great Flood mentioned in Epic of Gilgamesh and by so many other cultures. This link has a profound affect on... See More

£0.82 £3.74 Save 78% Price verified one day ago
Crime, Thriller & Mystery

Neapolitan Sky

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(6 reviews)

Dreams of becoming a professional writer are abruptly put on hold for college student Nica Mitchell following the unexpected death of her mother and her father's cancer diagnosis. Forced to return home when he's hospitalized... See More

£3.68 Price verified 2 days ago
Travel & Tourism

The Man Who Danced Around The World

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(11 reviews)

James Wood may have the best job in the world. For nearly a quarter of a century, he's worked as a professional dance host on passenger ships ranging from the Mississippi Queen to the Crystal Serenity. During that time he... See More

£6.11 Price verified one day ago
Religion & Spirituality

Proverbs of james

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Proverbs of james is not one of the lost books of the Holy Bible, nor one of the Dead Sea Scrolls and not even written by the author who wrote the book of James in the New Testament of the Holy Bible. Proverbs of james is a... See More

£1.49 £2.30 Save 35% Price verified one day ago
History

Old and New Theology

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This is a reproduction of a classic text optimised for kindle devices. We have endeavoured to create this version as close to the original artefact as possible. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with... See More

£7.95 Price verified 2 days ago

Stories From Greek Mythology

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(1 review)

This vintage book contains a fantastic collection of stories taken from Greek mythology. Derived partly from the classical originals and partly from excellent versions of them written in German, these stories were intended... See More

£7.99 Price verified 12 hours ago
Computing

SAP NetWeaver Process Integration: A Developer's Guide

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(11 reviews)

If you're looking for a comprehensive learning resource that will guide you in the development of interfaces using SAP NetWeaver PI, then you've come to the right place. Whether you're an experienced developer looking to... See More

£44.03 £52.27 Save 16% Price verified 2 days ago
Children's eBooks

Doodle

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(4 reviews)

A little girl and her dog explore the world around them and wonder how things were made. See More

£0.99 Price verified one day ago
Self-Help & Counselling

Ten Paths to Freedom: Awakening Made Simple

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(9 reviews)

Ten Paths to Freedom is a guide to spiritual awakening based on the author's experience. Clear, concise, and thorough, it covers what awakening is (and isn't) and offers ways to empower your spiritual practice, regardless of... See More

£4.60 Price verified one hour ago
Religion & Spirituality

Lambs of Sacrifice: Volume 2

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If you have read the first book in the series of Lambs of Sacrifice then you already know that the author has a way of sharing spiritual principles in the most unusual ways; sometimes mischievously, sometimes using physical... See More

£3.25 Price verified 16 hours ago
Religion & Spirituality

Lambs of Sacrifice: Volume 3

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Just as in Volume 1 and Volume 2 of the Lambs of Sacrifice series, Volume 3 is a compilation of 34 short stories, poems, visions, dreams, and interesting subjects for you to explore. The author's unique way of presenting... See More

£3.25 Price verified 6 hours ago
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