English at Kent Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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The Waste Land
T. S. Eliot
A reading of Eliot's Four Quartets by Gawain Douglas 📅 Tue 23 May 🕐 16:30 - 17:30 🎟️ FREE To bring The Waste Land exhibition to a close, we are delighted to have Gawain Douglas read Eliot's Four Quartets. 👏📖 https://t.co/jhJZ990i8v https://t.co/zo7h10FdLO
Paperback, 2018
$7.95$3.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Housing India's Urban Poor 1800-1965: Colonial and Post-Colonial Studies
Hans Schenk
Doctoral Researcher in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Haifa Mahabir, has just published a fantastic review of ‘Unsettling the World: Edward Said and Political Theory’ in the Journal of Palestine Studies. Have a read 📰 ⬇️ https://t.co/9EGR8mqikw https://t.co/lq5WRoJpil
Hardcover, 2020
$190.00$165.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Bloomsbury, Beasts and British Modernist Literature
Derek Ryan
Dr Derek Ryan's new monograph, Bloomsbury, Beasts and British Modernist Literature has recently been published by Cambridge University Press - with chapters on Leonard Woolf, David Garnett, Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster. 👏 Find the monograph here: https://t.co/5IgUpR730E https://t.co/q4bIL27BLv
Hardcover, 2022
$99.99$74.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
The Waste Land: A Facsimile & Transcript of the Original Drafts Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound
T. S. Eliot
Did you know Templeman Gallery has launched the '100 Years: T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land exhibition', celebrating the centenary of the publication of one of the world’s most popular and studied poems? Make sure you go and visit this fascinating display! https://t.co/8pYDBgRisH https://t.co/nQ99Z4tzbP
Hardcover, 2022
$40.00$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Head Above Water: Reflections on Illness
Shahd Alshammari
Congratulations to Kent graduate Shahd Alshammari on her recent publication: Head Above Water: Reflections on Illness. “An important piece of life writing – Shahd Alshammari's memoir breaks new ground in representing the lives of disabled Arab women.” https://t.co/XTLeVuIkST https://t.co/AB1isH55Hq
Paperback, 2023
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Sea View Has Me Again: Uwe Johnson in Sheerness
Patrick Wright
Alumnus and Honorary Graduate, Patrick Wright (English and American Literature 1970-73), will be talking about his latest book ‘The Sea View Has Me Again’, at Waterstones in Canterbury on Wednesday 3 November at 18.30. Find out more: https://t.co/KvX8PzmxqD https://t.co/LvfMMsRdi6
Paperback, 2021
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The High House
Jessie Greengrass
📚 Next in our Creative Writing Reading Series: Jessie Greengrass and her new novel The High House 📚 Tuesday 23 November ◾18:00 - 19:30 ◾ The Gulbenkian Further information: https://t.co/LwPznywRrq https://t.co/WvE177k5OE
Hardcover, 2022
$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Unsettling the World: Edward Said and Political Theory
Jeanne Morefield
Doctoral Researcher in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Haifa Mahabir, has just published a fantastic review of ‘Unsettling the World: Edward Said and Political Theory’ in the Journal of Palestine Studies. Have a read 📰 ⬇️ https://t.co/9EGR8mqikw https://t.co/lq5WRoJpil
Hardcover, 2022
$132.00$107.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
A Door Behind a Door
Yelena Moskovich
Congratulations to Director of Creative Writing in Paris, Yelena Moskovich. Whose short novel 'A DOOR BEHIND A DOOR' has been featured in a Times Literary Supplement article. 📖 👏 Read full book review: https://t.co/aPfHsbXAKn https://t.co/kMQi1f7ZWM
Paperback, 2021
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Walk Song
David Herd
A huge congratulations to Professor David Herd whose poetry collection, Walk Song, has been named a Book of the Year in the Australian Book Review. 👏📖 Read more here: https://t.co/OV7cLJz3ba https://t.co/mb1PcNvHuh
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book