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The Serviceberry
An Economy of Gifts and Abundance
2024 || Hardcover || Robin Wall Kimmerer || Penguin Books Ltd
The Book of Magic
From Antiquity to the Enlightenment
2016 || Paperback || Brian Copenhaver || Penguin Books Ltd
A rich, wondrous anthology of the Western magical tradition, from the Old Testament to Doctor Faustus and Paradise Lost, now in a Penguin Classics black spine edition
". . . as when iron is drawn to a magnet, camphor is sucked into hot air, crystal lights up in the Sun, sulfur and a volatile liquid are kindled by flame, an empty eggshell filled with dew is raised towards the Sun . . ."
The Bible is full of stories featuring forms of magic and possession-from Moses batt...
The Light that Failed
A Reckoning
2020 || Paperback || Ivan Krastev e.a. || Penguin Books Ltd
*Winner of the 2020 Lionel Gelber Prize*FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST, PROSPECT and EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR PICKA landmark book that completely transforms our understanding of the crisis of liberalism, from two pre-eminent intellectualsWhy did the West, after winning the Cold War, lose its political balance?In the early 1990s, hopes for the eastward spread of liberal democracy were high. And yet the transformation of Eastern European countries gave rise to a bitter repudiation of liber...
Difficult Conversations
How to Discuss What Matters Most
2011 || Paperback || Bruce Patton e.a. || Penguin Books Ltd
The 10th anniversary edition of the classic guide to handling life's toughest conversationsWhat is a difficult conversation?Asking for a pay rise, saying 'no' to your boss or spouse, confronting a friend, apologizing. We all have conversations that we dread and find unpleasant. But can we develop the skills to make such situations less stressful and more productive?Based on fifteen years of research and consultations with thousands of people, Difficult Conversations pinpoints what works.
It t...
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Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
2024 || Paperback || David Graeber || Penguin Books Ltd
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Homer and His Iliad
2024 || Paperback || Robin Lane Fox || Penguin Books Ltd
Joseph Andrews & Shamela
1999 || Paperback || Henry Fielding || Penguin Books Ltd
"Shamela" is a parody of Samuel Richardson's "Pamela", in which a virtuous servant girl long resists her master's advances and is eventually 'rewarded' with marriage. "Joseph Andrews", Fielding's first novel, can also be seen as a response to Richardson, as the lascivious Lady Booby sets out to seduce her comically chaste servant Joseph.
Reading Lessons
An English Teacher’s Love Letter to the Books that Shape Us
2025 || Paperback || Carol Atherton || Penguin Books Ltd
Bleak House
2003 || Paperback || Charles Dickens || Penguin Books Ltd
'Perhaps his best novel ... when Dickens wrote Bleak House he had grown up' G. K.
ChestertonAs the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada Clare and Richard Carstone, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; Esther Summerson, a ward of court; the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn; the determined sleuth Inspector Bucket; and even Jo, a destitute crossing-sweeper. A savage indictme...
Species of Spaces and Other Pieces
2008 || Paperback || Georges Perec || Penguin Books Ltd
Georges Perec produced some of the most entertaining and spirited essays of his age. His literary output was amazingly varied in form and style and this generous selection of Perec's non-fictional work also demonstrates his characteristic lightness of touch, wry humour and accessibility.