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The Life

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Winner of the Whitbread Biography Award: A "profoundly moving [and] definitive" portrait of George Orwell, author of 1984 and larger-than-life literary genius ( The Daily Telegraph).It was not easy to bury George Orwell. After a lifetime of iconoclasm, during which he professed no interest in religion and no affiliation with any church, he asked to be buried in an Anglican churchyard—but none ... Read more

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Winner of the Whitbread Biography Award: A "profoundly moving [and] definitive" portrait of George Orwell, author of 1984 and larger-than-life literary genius ( The Daily Telegraph).It was not easy to bury George Orwell. After a lifetime of iconoclasm, during which he professed no interest in religion and no affiliation with any church, he asked to be buried in an Anglican churchyard—but none
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What if hair-something so intimate, so easily dismissed-has quietly shaped the course of history?In Hair Goes History, historian JD TAYLOR takes readers on an audacious and unexpectedly profound journey through time, revealing how hair enhancement, baldness, and the relentless pursuit of appearance have influenced power, identity, myth, and political destiny across civilizations.From Ancient Egypt ... Read more

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What if hair-something so intimate, so easily dismissed-has quietly shaped the course of history?In Hair Goes History, historian JD TAYLOR takes readers on an audacious and unexpectedly profound journey through time, revealing how hair enhancement, baldness, and the relentless pursuit of appearance have influenced power, identity, myth, and political destiny across civilizations.From Ancient Egypt
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The Life of a Literary Man

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A rich and evocative portrait of one of the greatest authors of Victorian EnglandWho was William Makepeace Thackeray? Was he the wealthy dilettante who came to London in the 1830s and squandered his fortune on newspapers? Was he the impoverished freelance author of the 1840s who scrapped for every penny he could get? Or was he the great writer who published Vanity Fair in 1847, skewering Victorian ... Read more

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A rich and evocative portrait of one of the greatest authors of Victorian EnglandWho was William Makepeace Thackeray? Was he the wealthy dilettante who came to London in the 1830s and squandered his fortune on newspapers? Was he the impoverished freelance author of the 1840s who scrapped for every penny he could get? Or was he the great writer who published Vanity Fair in 1847, skewering Victorian
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A fascinating exploration of George Orwell—and his body of work—by an award-winning Orwellian biographer and scholar, presenting the author anew to twenty-first-century readers.We find ourselves in an era when the moment is ripe for a reevaluation of the life and the works of one of the twentieth century’s greatest authors. This is the first twenty-first-century biography on George Orwell, with ... Read more

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A fascinating exploration of George Orwell—and his body of work—by an award-winning Orwellian biographer and scholar, presenting the author anew to twenty-first-century readers.We find ourselves in an era when the moment is ripe for a reevaluation of the life and the works of one of the twentieth century’s greatest authors. This is the first twenty-first-century biography on George Orwell, with
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A sparkling exploration of the myths that J. R. R. Tolkien created around himself, examining the social and political worlds that surrounded the creator of Middle-Earth, by award-winning biographer D. J. Taylor.In the past seven decades J.R.R. Tolkien’s major works—The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion—have sold over half a billion copies, been made into prodigiously successful ... Read more

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A sparkling exploration of the myths that J. R. R. Tolkien created around himself, examining the social and political worlds that surrounded the creator of Middle-Earth, by award-winning biographer D. J. Taylor.In the past seven decades J.R.R. Tolkien’s major works—The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion—have sold over half a billion copies, been made into prodigiously successful
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Eighteen tales featuring down-on-their-luck characters whose dreams will never come true, by Man Booker Prize–long-listed author D. J. TaylorIn the vein of Raymond Carver's short prose, these eighteen stories sharply capture ordinary people desperate to escape their dead-end lives as they grapple with failure, disappointment, and missed chances. In "Dreams of Leaving," Harlem pornographer Fuchs ... Read more

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Eighteen tales featuring down-on-their-luck characters whose dreams will never come true, by Man Booker Prize–long-listed author D. J. TaylorIn the vein of Raymond Carver's short prose, these eighteen stories sharply capture ordinary people desperate to escape their dead-end lives as they grapple with failure, disappointment, and missed chances. In "Dreams of Leaving," Harlem pornographer Fuchs
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On Nineteen Eighty-Four

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The essential backstory to the creation and meaning of one of the most important novels of the twentieth century—and now the twenty-first.Since its publication nearly seventy years ago, George Orwell's 1984 has been regarded as one of the most influential novels of the modern age. Politicians have testified to its influence on their intellectual identities, rock musicians have made records about
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Bright Young People

The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age

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"Jampacked and delicious, crammed with a cast of selfish, feckless, darling, talented, almost terminally eccentric, good-looking men and women." —Carolyn See, The Washington PostBefore the media circus of Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, and our modern obsession with celebrity, there were the Bright Young People, a voraciously pleasure-seeking band of bohemian party-givers and blue-blooded socialites
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Canine Warrior

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He was trained to listen in the dark, to move where fear lived, and to protect without question.Beauregard: Canine Warrior is a powerful, cinematic novel inspired by the true legacy of military working dogs-those loyal soldiers who walked point into ambushes, saved lives without recognition, and were too often left behind. Set against the brutal backdrop of the Vietnam War, this story follows ... Read more

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He was trained to listen in the dark, to move where fear lived, and to protect without question.Beauregard: Canine Warrior is a powerful, cinematic novel inspired by the true legacy of military working dogs-those loyal soldiers who walked point into ambushes, saved lives without recognition, and were too often left behind. Set against the brutal backdrop of the Vietnam War, this story follows
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The Spastic House

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The Spastic House is set within a disability group home structured to support people who need it. Days follow routines. Medications are administered. Paperwork is completed. Staff rotate through shifts. Residents are cared for, supervised, and managed.Nothing and no one inside the house is intentionally cruel. Everyone has the best of intentions.The novel moves quietly between residents and staff, ... Read more

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The Spastic House is set within a disability group home structured to support people who need it. Days follow routines. Medications are administered. Paperwork is completed. Staff rotate through shifts. Residents are cared for, supervised, and managed.Nothing and no one inside the house is intentionally cruel. Everyone has the best of intentions.The novel moves quietly between residents and staff,
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The day of the gentleman is over. Good manners are of the past. Brutality and barroom talk is in. It’s OK to grope. It’s OK to lie. I am thankful for the husband I have. Are there only a few decent ones? What about yours? Does your husband fight for your rights? Sons? Take an informed look at policies being made for women and children today. We’re not going to let men make the rules for women ... Read more

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The day of the gentleman is over. Good manners are of the past. Brutality and barroom talk is in. It’s OK to grope. It’s OK to lie. I am thankful for the husband I have. Are there only a few decent ones? What about yours? Does your husband fight for your rights? Sons? Take an informed look at policies being made for women and children today. We’re not going to let men make the rules for women
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Born for Fairytales. Forced into Reality.

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Born for Fairytales. Forced into Reality is a collection of poetry that explores the space between hope and heartbreak, fantasy and truth, loss and healing. Through intimate reflections on love, family, loneliness, therapy, and growth, J.D. Taylor invites readers into a journey of learning to let go of what could have been and make peace with what is.These poems are for the dreamers, the ... Read more

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Born for Fairytales. Forced into Reality is a collection of poetry that explores the space between hope and heartbreak, fantasy and truth, loss and healing. Through intimate reflections on love, family, loneliness, therapy, and growth, J.D. Taylor invites readers into a journey of learning to let go of what could have been and make peace with what is.These poems are for the dreamers, the
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