Recommendations from our site
“The Journals are, in their unabridged state, an astonishing body of work. We talk about how poets are born, not made, but what I always take away from every page of the Journals—and it’s a serious slab of a book—is the extent to which Plath was both born and self-made.” Read more...
Tim Kendall, Literary Scholar
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A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor
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Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
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To the Happy Few: Letters
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The Story of My Life
by Helen Keller -
Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492–1900
by Simon Schama -
On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing Persons
by Laura Cumming
