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  • Honeymoons

    through writers' eyes

    Edited by Rose Baring, Roger Hudson ...
    The honeymoon – no other holiday inspires so much anticipation of blissful happiness, nor such potential for catastrophic disappointment. Using extracts from fiction and from real-life diaries and letters, Honeymoons: through writers' eyes takes you on a rollercoaster of an emotional journey into the heart of human longing, to examine what it is we are seeking, what we expect, when we embark on ... Read more

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  • Tales from the life of Bruce Wannell

    Adventurer, Linguist, Orientalist

    Bruce Wannell was the greatest Orientalist traveller of his generation: a Paddy Leigh Fermor of the East, a Kim for our time. He lived through the Iranian Revolution, worked for a decade in the North West Frontier during the wars in Afghanistan, could transcribe the most complex Arabic calligraphy by sight and spoke Iranian and Afghan Persian with a dazzling, poetic fluency. His curious ... Read more

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  • Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Delphi Classics)

    Series Book 25 - Delphi Series One
    Virginia Woolf was one of the foremost authors of the twentieth century, whose ground-breaking novels and essays had a profound impact on modernist literature. For the first time in publishing history, Delphi Classics is proud to present Woolf’s complete works in a single edition. The comprehensive eBook is complemented with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the ... Read more

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  • Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Delphi Classics)

    Series Book 21 - Delphi Series Three
    For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents the complete works of the Modernist master short story writer Katherine Mansfield, with beautiful illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Mansfield's life and works* Concise introductions to the short story collections and other works* The ... Read more

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  • House of Stone

    A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East

    "Wonderful . . . One of the finest memoirs I've read." — Philip Caputo, Washington PostIn the summer of 2006, racing through Lebanon to report on the Israeli invasion, Anthony Shadid found himself in his family's ancestral hometown of Marjayoun. There, he discovered his great-grandfather's once magnificent estate in near ruins, devastated by war. One year later, Shadid returned to Marjayoun, not ... Read more

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  • The Complete Works (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Includes: Mrs. Dalloway + To the Lighthouse + A Room of One's Own + Orlando + The Waves & much more…

    The Complete Works of Virginia Woolf gathers the fiction, essays, criticism, and autobiographical writings of one of modernism's most searching minds. From the luminous interiority of Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse to the experimental historical playfulness of Orlando and the polemical clarity of A Room of One's Own, Woolf's prose reshapes narrative around consciousness, time, gender, and ... Read more

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  • In Xanadu

    A Quest (Text Only)

    One of the most successful, influential and acclaimed travel books of recent years from the author of ‘Return of a King’, which has been shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize.At the age of twenty-two, William Dalrymple left his college in Cambridge to travel to the ruins of Kublai Khan’s stately pleasure dome in Xanadu. This is an account of a quest which took him and his companions across the ... Read more

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  • Out of Thin Air

    Running Wisdom and Magic from Above the Clouds in Ethiopia: Winner of the Margaret Mead Award 2022

    'Full of wonderful insights and lessons from a world where the ability to run is viewed as something almost mysterious and magical.' - Adharanand Finn, author of Running with the KenyansWhat we can learn from Ethiopian running culture – written by an anthropologist and 2:20 marathon runner who trained with the Ethiopians.'Ethiopia is a place where I have been told that energy is controlled by ... Read more

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  • Cain's jawbone

    Cain's Jawbone is a murder mystery puzzle written by Edward Powys Mathers under the pseudonym "Torquemada". The puzzle was first published in 1934 as part of The Torquemada Puzzle Book. Cain's Jawbone has been described as "one of the hardest and most beguiling word puzzles ever published.Six murders. One hundred pages. Million of possible combinations, but only one is correct. The pages of this e ... Read more

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  • A Bike Ride

    12,000 miles around the world

    by Anne Mustoe ...
    When ex-headmistress Anne Mustoe gave up her job, bought a bike and took to the road, she couldn't even mend a puncture. 12,000 miles and 15 months later, she was home.Her epic solo journey took her around the world, through Europe, India, the Far East and the United States. From Thessaloniki to Uttar Pradesh, from Chumphon to Singapore, she faced downpours, blizzards and blistering deserts, ... Read more

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  • Travels with a Tangerine

    A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah

    Ibn Battutah set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on the pilgrimage to Mecca. By the time he returned twenty-nine years later, he had visited most of the known world, travelling three times the distance Marco Polo covered. Spiritual backpacker, social climber, temporary hermit and failed ambassador, he braved brigands, blisters and his own prejudices. The outcome was a monumental travel classic ... Read more

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  • Complete Works of Ford Madox Ford

    Series Book 6 - Delphi Series Three
    In recent times Ford Madox Ford has become one of the neglected figures of modernist literature, although he was a leading writer of his time, producing innovative novels, whilst promoting the works of struggling fellow writers. For the first time in publishing history, this comprehensive eBook presents the complete fictional works of Ford Madox Ford, allowing readers to enjoy masterpieces that ... Read more

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