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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
What a carve up!	Jonathan Coe	A brilliant noir farce, a dystopian vision of Britain, a family history and the story of an obsession. Michael is a lonely, rather pathetic writer, obsessed by the film, 'What A Carve Up!' in which a…	OL11346168W
The barracks	Georges-Michel Sarotte,John McGahern	Elizabeth Regan, after years of freedom - and loneliness - marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. The children are not her own, and her husband is straining against his job in the…	OL15841625W
The testament of Mary	Colm Tóibín	From inside front cover: In the ancient town of Ephesus, Mary lives in exile, years after her son's crucifixion. She has no interest in collaborating with the authors of the Gospel -- her keepers, wh…	OL16558007W
Globalization and Literature Themes in TwentiethCentury Literature a…	Suman Gupta	"This book presents a state-of-the-art overview of the relationship between globalization studies and literature and literary studies, and the bearing that they have on each other. It engages with th…	OL17563022W
A long way down	Nick Hornby	Narrated in turns by a dowdy, middle-aged woman, a half-crazed adolescent, a disgraced breakfast TV presenter and an American rock star cum pizza delivery boy, A Long Way Down is the story of the Top…	OL1916935W
Love, etc	Julian Barnes	There used to be two sides to every story. Now there are three...In Talking it Over Gillian and Stuart were married until Oliver - witty, feckless Oliver - stole Gillian away. In Love, etc Julian Bar…	OL1984732W
Shakespeare's language	Kermode, Frank	The great English tragedies were written in the first decade of the 17th century and the language is often difficult. In this text, Kermode argues that the resources of English underwent major change…	OL20984546W
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe	Douglas Adams	The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is the second book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction "trilogy" by Douglas Adams, and is a sequel. It was originally published by…	OL2163655W
Sister Outsider	Audre Lorde,Robin Eller	A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's literary and philosophical personae. These essays explore and illuminate the roots of Lorde's intellect…	OL2191789W
Evelina	Frances Burney,Fanny Burney	First published in 1778, this novel of manners tells the story of Evelina, a young woman raised in rural obscurity who is thrust into London’s fashionable society at the age of eighteen. There, she e…	OL2252006W
The Accidental	Ali Smith	The Accidental is a 2005 novel by Scottish author Ali Smith. It follows a middle-class English family who are visited by an uninvited guest, Amber, while they are on holiday in a small village in Nor…	OL2412076W
Macbeth	Ben Crystal	Macbeth is one of the most popular and bloody of Shakespeare's tragedies. This accessible introduction offers a springboard into the play, taking a hands-on, performance-based approach, exploring the…	OL27719241W
Queen of the sheep	Valerie Thornton,Hamish Whyte,Maoilios M. Caimbeul	Forty-eight contributors this year, slightly down on Issue 21, but with about the same number of pieces. Twenty-seven men, twenty-one women: the gender balance is improving. And a good mixture of wel…	OL28759168W
King Richard II	William Shakespeare	"Richard is King. A monarch ordained by God to lead his people. But he is also a man of very human weakness. A man whose vanity threatens to divide the great houses of England and drag his people int…	OL362665W
Tempest	William Shakespeare	The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–11, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set on a remote island, whe…	OL362699W
Melymbrosia	Virginia Woolf	"Virginia Woolf completed Melymbrosia in 1912 when she was thirty years old. The story concerned the emotional and sexual awakening of a young English woman traveling abroad, and bristled with social…	OL39434W
The Book of Other People	Zadie Smith	The Book of Other People is just that: a book of other people. Open its covers and you'll make a whole host of new acquaintances. Nick Hornby and Posy Simmonds present the ever-diverging writing life…	OL481139W
The complete works of Robert Browning Volume XVI	Daniel Karlin,John Woolford,Robert Browning	Nineteen poems by Robert Browning include "My Last Duchess," "Porphyria's Lover," "Fra Lippo Lippi," and "Love among the Ruins."	OL634478W
Porno	Irvine Welsh	some of the gang from trainspotting ten years on and as always dream up schemes to make a quick buck whilst doing there normal dodgy things and how their seperate lives entangle!	OL816254W
Dracula	Bram Stoker	Sink your teeth into the ageless tale of the famous vampire Count Dracula. Dracula first horrified readers over 125 years ago. Today, this original gothic masterpiece includes a detailed explorati…	OL85892W