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The Dark-Hunter Companion
St. Martin's Press 2007; US$ 19.99Consider this handbook your education. Hunter 101. And don't go thinking you got off easy just because there's not a pop quiz at the end. This is the good stuff. The real deal. In here you'll find out all there is to know about being a Dark-Hunter. Now for the disclaimer: This book is mutable. It goes with the wind. It changes more often... more...
Into The Looking-Glass Wood
Knopf Canada 2011; US$ 19.95By the award-winning author of A History of Reading "For me, words on a page give the world coherence--Words tell us what we, as a society, believe the world to be--I believe there is an ethic of reading--a commitment that is both political and private in the act of turning the pages. And I believe that sometimes, beyond the author's intentions and... more...
In Praise of Reading and Fiction
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011; US$ 15.99On December 7, 2010, Mario Vargas Llosa was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. His Nobel lLecture is a resounding tribute to fiction?s power to inspire readers to greater ambition, to dissent, and to political action. ?We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and the... more...
A Dangerous Profession
St. Martin's Press 2011; US$ 7.99Frederick Busch has an enduring love affair with great books, and here he brilliantly communicates his passion to us all. Whether expounding on Melville or Dickens, or celebrating Hemingway or O'Hara, he explains what literature can ineffably reveal about our own lives. For Busch, there was no other recourse save the "dangerous profession;" it was... more...
Readings on Audience and Textual Materiality
Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2011; US$ 99.00The twelve essays in this edited collection examine the experience of reading, from the late medieval period to the twentieth century. Central to the theme of the book is the role of materiality; how the physical object book, manuscript, libretto affects the experience of the person reading it. more...
Ex Libris
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011; US$ 12.99Anne Fadiman is--by her own admission--the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring over her roommate's 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only written material in the apartment that she had not read at... more...
Postcolonial Spaces
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00With essays from a range of geographies and bringing together influential scholars across a range of disciplines, this book focuses on the role of space in the study of the politics of contemporary postcolonial experience, engaging with the spectrum of postcolonial spatialities which play a significant role in defining global postcolonial culture. more...
Who's Afraid of Jane Austen? How to Really Talk About Books You Haven't Read
John Murray 2012; US$ 11.77A survivor's guide to literary bluffing more...
Who's Afraid of Jane Austen? How to Really Talk About Books You Haven't Read
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One for the Books
Penguin Group US 2012; US$ 11.99One of America?s leading humorists and author of the bestseller Closing Time examines his own obsession with books Joe Queenan became a voracious reader as a means of escape from a joyless childhood in a Philadelphia housing project. In the years since then he has dedicated himself to an assortment of idiosyncratic reading challenges: spending... more...









