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halfvalue.co.uk Hot 25 Poetry, Drama & Criticism
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A Man Without a
Country: A Memoir of Life in George W. Bush's America
~Kurt
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The Writer's
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~Barry
Turner
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The complete guide for all writers, journalists, publishers,
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The Ode Less
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~Stephen Fry
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"Brokeback
Mountain": Story to Screenplay
~Annie
Proulx, et al
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Annie Proulx's celebrated story is published here alongside
the award-winning screenplay of "Brokeback Mountain" by
Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. Also included are three
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One Fish, Two
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~Dr.
Seuss (Illustrator)
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"From there to here, from here to there, funny things are
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Children's
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~Julia
Donaldson
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GCSE English: "Of
Mice and Men" Text Guide Pt. 1 & 2
~Richard Parsons (Editor)
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Pride and
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~Jane
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'his perfect indifference, and your pointed dislike, make it
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Pride and Prejudice has delighted generations of readers
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1001 Books: You
Must Read Before You Die
~Peter
Boxall
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From "The Alchemist" to "Thus Spake Zarathustra" and Achebe
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Each Peach Pear
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~Allan
Ahlberg, Janet Ahlberg (Illustrator)
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"Each Peach Pear Plum. I spy Tom Thumb!" In this engaging,
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York Notes on "Of
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~John
Steinbeck
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Untold Stories -
The Stories: The Stories Pt. 1 [Audiobook]
~Alan
Bennett
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"Untold Stories", Alan Bennett's first major collection of
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Poems from
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~Paul
Pascoe
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Republic (Oxford
World's Classics)
~Plato,
Robin Waterfield (Editor)
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Duffy and Armitage:
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~David
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Without Title
~Geoffrey Hill
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A new collection of poetry from England's most brilliant and
provocative poet prophet. Hill's most recent books, "The
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Mark Twain
~Ron
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If Mark Twain was the seminal American writer, he was also
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The Works: Every
Kind of Poem You Will Ever Need for the Literacy Hour
~Paul
Cookson (Editor)
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This is a collection of every kind of poem that could be
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fables, haiku, sonnets, modern poems, classic poems and
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How Proust Can
Change Your Life
~Alain
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'What a marvellous book this is...de Botton dissects what [Proust]
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