Ian Sansom - Böcker

From the author of The Bad Book Affair comes a witty, personal, and entertaining meditation on the history and significance of paperan international cultural study and a series of personal reflections on the meaning of this essential product. Let ...

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Let us suppose for a moment that paper were to disappear. Would anything be lost? Everything would be lost. Paper surrounds us. Not only as books, letters and diaries, but as beer mats and birth certificates, board games and business cards, firewo...

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Love Miss Marple? Adore Holmes and Watson? Professor Morleys guide to Devon is a story of bygone England; quaint villages, eccentric localsand murderSwanton Morely, the Peoples Professor, sets off for Devon to continue his history of England, The ...

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Love Miss Marple? Adore Holmes and Watson? Professor Morley's guide to Devon is a story of bygone England; quaint villages, eccentric locals—and murder... Swanton Morely, the People's Professor, sets off for Devon to continue his history of ...

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Welcome to Westmorland. Perhaps the most scenic county in England! Home of the poets! Land of the great artists! District of the Great Lakes! And the scene of a mysterious crime . . . Swanton Morley, the Peoples Professor, once again sets off in h...

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W elcome to Westmorland. Perhaps the most scenic county in England! Home of the poets! Land of the great artists! District of the Great Lakes! And the scene of a mysterious crime . . . . Swanton Morley, the People's Professor, once again sets off ...

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One poet, his poem, New York City, and a world on the verge of change.W. H. Auden, a wunderkind, a victim-beneficiary of a literary cult of personality, became a scapegoat and a poet-expatriate largely excluded from British literary history becaus...

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One poet, his poem, New York City, and a world on the verge of change.W. H. Auden, a wunderkind, a victim-beneficiary of a literary cult of personality, became a scapegoat and a poet-expatriate largely excluded from British literary history becaus...

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This is a playful and provocative collection of 365 extracts sourced from the British Library's collections. Selected to challenge and inform the reader, each excerpt is accompanied by the unique shelfmark number of the source publication. En...

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I dont recall if I saw my first gunman in my childhood nightmares or on my childhood streets. There were plenty in both and they looked very much like each other. So begins Reggie Chamberlain-Kings introduction to The Black Dreams, a thrilling and...

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Babies are strange creatures. They enter our lives, and things are never the same again. In this unusual book, Ian Sansom (father of three) conveys the oddness and beauty of human beings in their first year of life, and the cataclysmic affect they...

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A new collection from the author of "The Mobile Library" mysteries, addressing the intertwined magic and menace of December.

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