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Book Cover for: Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir, Margo Jefferson

Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir

Margo Jefferson
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A must-read for anyone interested in memoir, biography, or simply the act of interrogating the self - much like Constructing a Nervous System itself https://t.co/Q6uY3xY5W6

Paperback, 2023

$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Emergency

Daisy Hildyard
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Daisy Hildyard spoke to @unitedbypop about her #RathbonesFolioPrize shortlisted #Emergency! Read below. Daisy will also be taking part in our @britishlibrary shortlist event on Sunday 26th March. Tickets: https://t.co/Zv3DQFAxaI https://t.co/7SgaZbYin4

Hardcover, 2022

$23.00$11.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude, Amy Bloom

Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude

Amy Bloom
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Amy Bloom is the author of four novels and three collections of short stories, all also published in one volume as Rowing to Eden by @GrantaBooks in 2015, and a collection of essays, Normal. She is the Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing at Wesleyan University. https://t.co/XkLK3zEsQw

Paperback, 2003

$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Liberation Day: Stories, George Saunders

Liberation Day: Stories

George Saunders
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Excitement all over bookworld! Modern master of short stories George Saunders's new collection coming soon - his first, Tenth of December, was our inaugural #rathbonesfolioprize winner https://t.co/nWrfHm9sQ6 https://t.co/JbVSoxyotk

Paperback, 2023

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World, Jonathan Freedland

The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

Jonathan Freedland
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Our Q&A today is with Jonathan @Freedland, who spoke to us about his admiration for teachers, and his favourite book of recent years by William Boyd. #TheEscapeArtist, published by @johnmurrays, is shortlisted for the #RathbonesFolioPrize Full Q&A here: https://t.co/kRBRxcCZtZ https://t.co/95g9w8aA53

Paperback, 2023

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Second Body, Daisy Hildyard

The Second Body

Daisy Hildyard
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Daisy Hildyard’s essay The Second Body was published by @FitzcarraldoEds in 2017. Her debut novel, Hunters in the Snow, came out with @JonathanCape in 2013, received the Somerset Maugham Award and a ‘5 under 35’ honorarium at the USA National Book Awards. https://t.co/nujgOowsLc

Paperback, 2017

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Lost Children Archive

Valeria Luiselli
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Congratulations! We're thrilled to announce that the #RathbonesFolioPrize 2020 winner is @ValeriaLuiselli for her incredible, formally innovative and deeply moving novel Lost Children Archive. #WritersPrize https://t.co/9o4z8Q9C0d

Paperback, 2020

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Day That Went Missing: A Family's Story, Richard Beard

The Day That Went Missing: A Family's Story

Richard Beard
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Day #4 of #RFPFavourites Richard Beard's stunning memoir of a family tragedy 'The Day That Went Missing', shortlisted for #rathbonesfolioprize in 2018 https://t.co/yEgqsAsNDY

Hardcover, 2018

$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Oh William!, Elizabeth Strout

Oh William!

Elizabeth Strout
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Elizabeth Strout is the author of the @nytimes bestseller Olive Kitteridge, which was awarded the @PulitzerPrizes; the national bestseller Abide with Me; Amy and Isabelle, which won the @latimes Art Seidenbaum Award, and Oh William!, which was shortlisted for the @TheBookerPrizes https://t.co/6cu4ar3mBz

Paperback, 2022

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Lost Dog, Michelle de Kretser

The Lost Dog

Michelle de Kretser
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Michelle de Kretser was born in Sri Lanka and emigrated to Australia when she was 14. She is the author of five other novels, including The Lost Dog, which was longlisted for both the @TheBookerPrizes and the @WomensPrize, and Questions of Travel, which won several prizes. https://t.co/cFn6u7Y5kN

Paperback, 2009

$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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