Literature & Fiction
Dubliners
JOD 12.50
Dubliners was first published in 1914. The book depicts middle-class Catholic life in Dublin at the beginning of the twentieth century. The topics related in the opening stories include the disappointments of childhood, the frustrations of adolescence, and the importance of sexual awakening. Joyce w..
Dubliners
JOD 11.00
In this powerfully influential series of short stories, James Joyce captures uneasy souls, shabby lives and innocent minds in the dark streets and homes of his native city. In doing so, he conjures uncertainties and desires, illumines moments of joy and sorrow otherwise lost in private memory, and p..
Dubliners
JOD 3.50
In this powerfully influential series of short stories, James Joyce captures uneasy souls, shabby lives and innocent minds in the dark streets and homes of his native city. In doing so, he conjures uncertainties and desires, illumines moments of joy and sorrow otherwise lost in private memory, and p..
Ecce Homo
JOD 10.00
In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to compose his autobiography, and Ecce Homo remains one of the most intriguing yet bizarre examples of the genre ever written. In this extraordinary work Nietzsche traces his life, work and development as ..
Effi Briest
JOD 10.00
Seventeen-year-old Effi Briest is steered by her parents into marriage with an ambitious bureaucrat, twenty years her senior. He takes her from her home to a remote provincial town on the Baltic coast of Prussia where she is isolated, bored, and prey to superstitious fears. She drifts into a half-he..
Egghead
JOD 9.30
JOD 15.50
A strange and charming collection of hilariously absurd poetry, writing, and illustration from one of today's most popular young comedians?Ķ Bo Burnham was a precocious teenager living in his parents' attic when he started posting material on YouTube. 100 million people viewed those videos, turnin..
Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
JOD 11.00
First published in 1962, a year after Revolutionary Road, this sublime collection of stories seems even more powerful today. Out of the lives of Manhattan office workers, a cab driver seeking immortality, frustrated would-be novelists, suburban men and their yearning, neglected women, Richard Yates ..
Eligible
JOD 5.00
JOD 10.00
This version of the Bennet family and Mr. Darcy is one that you have and haven't met before: Liz is a magazine writer in her late thirties who, like her yoga instructor older sister, Jane, lives in New York City. When their father has a health scare, they return to their childhood home in Cincinnati..
Elizabeth And Her German Garden
JOD 10.00
From Elizabeth, the least respectable aristocrat you could meet, you'll discover there is no greater happiness to be found than when lost in a wilderness of a garden, with bird-cherries, hollyhocks and lilies crowding the vision. This is her sanctuary from a host of unreasonable demands, whether fro..
Ellie and the Harpmaker
JOD 4.80
JOD 11.80
Meet Ellie. She’s perfectly happy living her quiet life with her husband, Clive. Happy to wander the Exmoor countryside and write the occasional poem that nobody will read; happy to dream of all the things she hasn't yet managed to do. Or is she? Meet Dan. He thinks all he needs is the time and spa..
Elsewhere
JOD 21.50
Richly emotive and darkly captivating, with elements of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and the imaginative depth of Margaret Atwood, Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin conjures a community in which girls become wives, wives become mothers and some of them, quite simply, disappear. Vera grows up in a sm..
Embrace
JOD 10.00
‘Confused, wet through, My hands, torn reaching to embrace mountains’ This is the opening of the title poem of Najwan Darwish’s award-winning collection, translated by Atef Alshaer and Paul Batchelor. In the introduction, Alshaer talks about Darwish’s work as ‘compelling’ yet also ‘inexplicable’. ..