What's Your Poison? - Save up to 40% From Coleridge's opium-induced visions to James Frey's frantic consumption of any substance he could find, from Elizabeth Wurtzel's prescription drug nightmare to Ernest Hemingway's legendary boozing, writers have always dabbled with drugs, both legal and illegal, to their detriment or for inspiration.
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From early childhood Andre Agassi hated the game. Coaxed to swing a racket while still in the crib, forced to hit hundreds of balls a day while still in grade school, Agassi resented the constant pressure even as he drove himself to become a prodigy, an inner conflict that would define him Starts on 10-Jul-2011 Expires on 30-Nov-2011
Arabic Writing - Save up to 40% The uprisings in Egypt have returned the focus of world attention to volatile regions of north-eastern Africa and the Arabian nations.
The politics and culture mix of the region is complex. See relationships from the perspective of nine Iranian women in Embroideries, join Amitav Ghosh in his discovery of the ancient history of Indian slavery in Egypt, or learn of the all-pervading powers of state in Gaddafi's Libya
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Time Out City Break Guides - Save up to 35% Time Out's City Break guides are the perfect accompaniment, with information on sightseeing, restaurants, shopping, nightlife and entertainment for everywhere from Brighton to Barcelona and Krakow to Kyoto.
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Royal Romance for Kids - Save up to 40% The Royal Wedding was a spectacle the like of which most children will never have seen before, so here are some suggestions to help them get the most out of Will and Kate's big day.
They can help dress the bride and groom with the William and Kate Dress-Up Dolly Book, colour in Little Miss Princess and the Very Special Wedding or delve into the past fairytale romances with Royal Weddings: A Very Peculiar History
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Russian Books and Poetry - Save up to 40% Russia is the Market Focus of this year's London International Book Fair, so we've put together some of the very best books by and about Russians and their homeland.
Wonder at the defiant poetry of Anna Akhmatova, take a frozen journey beyond the Urals with Dervla Murphy or explore a sinister possible future with Dymitry Bykov's Living Souls
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Great Foods from Penguin - Save up to 40% Packaged with exquisite designs taken from food-related items in the Victoria & Albert Museum, Penguin's Great Food series presents the finest in food writing from the last 400 years.
Featured writers include the original domestic goddess, Hannah Glasse, MFK Fisher and his celebration of food as the heart of good living and Pellegrino Artusi, the capo di tutti capi of Italian cookery
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And while few of us will ever be in contention for the Booker, there are plenty of helpful guides out there to help you make the most of your writing skills, be it fiction, poetry, a children's book, a memoir, journalism or just a heartfelt letter.
Here are the books we recommend to any budding author still staring at a blank page.
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Unfinished Business - Save up to 40% In the wake of the posthumous publication of David Foster Wallace's unfinished novel The Pale King, we've turned our minds to other books brought to a premature halt.
Books that have attained classic status range from Plato's story of Atlantis, Critias, to Irene Nemirovsky's recently unearthed Suite Francaise, and include acknowledged classics such as Kafka's The Castle and Jane Austen's Sanditon
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Books on the Brain - Save up to 40% New technology and techniques are bringing about remarkable leaps in our understanding of the mysteries of the brain.
Neuroscientists such as Daniel Dennett, Oliver Sacks and Daniel Levitin have exposed the biochemical activity that governs so much of our behaviour, while novelists such as Siri Hustvedt, in her recent memoir, and the ever cutting-edge Richard Powers have brought new insights across literary spectrum.
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Chapter and Verse - Save up to 40% While few poets make good novelists (and vice versa), those that do tend to write memorably beautiful prose.
Amongst those who bridged the divide in style are Booker-shortlisted Gerard Woodward and Adam Foulds, Anne Michael's elegaic story of the relocation of some of Egypt's ancient monuments and John Burnside's menacing modern folk-tale The Devil's Footprints
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Britain's Great and Good - Save up to 35% Intended as a much-needed pick-me-up during the grey post-war years, the Festival of Britain comprised a new world of futuristic attractions, celebrating the very best our nation had to offer.
Marking its 60th anniversary Foyles-style by celebrating Britain's people and artists: the most interesting, iconic and, most importantly, British characters from fiction and life
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Vorticists - Save up to 35% The Tate Britain is currently hosting an exhibition of the best of the Vorticists, the avant-garde group headed by Wyndham Lewis in 1914.
This is our selection of the very best titles on the artists at the heart of this short-lived movement, which sprang out of Cubism, Futurism and the writings of the Bloomsbury Group
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Books of the Sea - Save up to 35% The sea, in all its beauty and all its menace, has provided inspiration for countless generations of writers.
You will find romantic voyages, seaside holidays, looming icebergs, monstrous fish, stately galleons and intrepid coracles in our selection of ocean-going fact and fiction: perfect holiday reading, wherever you're headed
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