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![Drinking (Vintage Minis) John Cheever]()
Essays - Fiction - Non FictionDrinking (Vintage Minis)
What’s the worst another drink could do? John Cheever pours out our most sociable of vices, and hands it to us in a highball. From the calculating t
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![Depression (Vintage Minis) William Styron]()
Essays - Fiction - Non FictionDepression (Vintage Minis)
How does a writer compose a suicide note? This was not a question that the prize-winning novelist William Styron had ever contemplated before. In this
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![Swimming (Vintage Minis)]()
Essays - FictionSwimming (Vintage Minis)
Is there anything quite so exhilarating as swimming in wild water? This is a joyful swimming tour of Britain, a frog’s-eye view of the country’s b
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![Liberty (Vintage Minis) Virginia Woolf]()
Essays - Fiction - Non FictionLiberty (Vintage Minis)
Why should one half be free to live, while the other is doomed to watch silently from the sidelines? In this visionary collection, Virginia Woolf lead
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![Race (Vintage Minis) Toni Morrison]()
Essays - Fiction - Non FictionRace (Vintage Minis)
Is who we are really only skin deep? In this searing, remonstrative book, Toni Morrison unravels race through the stories of those debased and dehuman
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![Home (Vintage Minis) Salman Rushdie]()
Essays - Fiction - Non FictionHome (Vintage Minis)
Salman Rushdie, a self-described ‘emigrant from one place and a newcomer in two’, explores the true meaning of home. Writing with insight, passion
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![Sisters (Vintage Minis) Louisa May Alcott]()
Essays - Fiction - Non FictionSisters (Vintage Minis)
Your sister might be the kindred soul who knows you best, or the most alien being in your household; she might enrage you or inspire you; she might be
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![Jealousy (Vintage Minis) Marcel Proust]()
Essays - Fiction - Non FictionJealousy (Vintage Minis)
Can we truly know the one we love? In this painfully candid book Marcel Proust looks straight into the green eye of every lover’s jealous struggle.
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![Summer (Vintage Minis) Laurie Lee]()
Essays - Fiction - Non FictionSummer (Vintage Minis)
How do you remember the summers of your childhood? For Laurie Lee they were flower-crested, heady, endless days. Here is an evocation of summer like n
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![Fatherhood (Vintage Minis) Karl Ove Knausgaard]()
Essays - Fiction - Non FictionFatherhood (Vintage Minis)
How to be a good father? Children’s birthday parties, unsuccessful family holidays, humiliating antenatal music classics: the trials of parenthood a
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![Motherhood (Vintage Minis) Helen Simpson]()
Essays - Fiction - Non FictionMotherhood (Vintage Minis)
Welcome to motherhood – a land of aching fatigue, constant self-sacrifice and thankless servitude, a land of bottomless devotion, small hands and fe
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![Language (Vintage Minis) Xiaolu Guo]()
Essays - Fiction - Non FictionLanguage (Vintage Minis)
Have you ever tried to learn another language? When Zhuang first arrives in London from China she feels like she is among an alien species. The city i
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![Babies (Vintage Minis)]()
Essays - Fiction - Non FictionBabies (Vintage Minis)
Babies: our biggest mystery and our most natural consequence, our hardest test and our enduring love. Anne Enright describes the intensity, bewilderme
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![Love (Vintage Minis) Jeanette Winterson]()
Essays - Fiction - Non FictionLove (Vintage Minis)
How do we love? With romance. With work. Through heartbreak. Throughout a lifetime. As a means, but not an end. Love in all its forms has been an abid
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![Desire (Vintage Minis) Haruki Murakami]()
Essays - Fiction - Non FictionDesire (Vintage Minis)
You’ve just passed someone on the street who could be the love of your life, the person you’re destined for – what do you do? In Murakami’s wo
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![Not That Kind of Girl Lena Duham]()
Biography - EssaysNot That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s “Learned”
For readers of Nora Ephron, Tina Fey, and David Sedaris, this hilarious, poignant, and extremely frank collection of personal essays confirms Lena Dun
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![Varför alla hatar poesi Ben Lerner]()
EssaysVarför alla hatar poesi
Med jämna mellanrum blossar frågan om poesins marginalisering upp. Varför läser inte fler människor poesi? klagar någon. Poesin är viktig! Uta
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![Jerusalem & Jag Anita Goldman]()
Biography - EssaysJerusalem & Jag
"Jag gifte mig i Jerusalem, jag fick två barn här, jag hade ett hus i Staden och en trädgård, jag lärde mig hebreiska och i Jerusalem har jag skr
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![South and West: From a Notebook Joan Didion]()
EssaysSouth and West: From a Notebook
From the best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebo
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![Hanna Hellquist En tryckare på Blue Moon Bar : samlade krönikor]()
Essays - Humour - Non FictionEn tryckare på Blue Moon Bar : samlade krönikor
När man står utanför Blue Moon Bar i Karlstad, klockan halv tre på natten i snöglopp, och skriker åt en chalmerist för att han har dansat tryck
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![Jag kommer ihåg Peter Englund]()
EssaysJag kommer ihåg
Peter Englund har i åtskilliga verk försökt skildra det stora genom det lilla, helheten genom delen. I Jag kommer ihåg har han för första gånge
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![The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2016]()
Essays - FictionThe Best American Nonrequired Reading 2016
In a small but comfortable conference room, in a publishing house in San Francisco, a group of high school students met weekly over the past year to r
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![Men and Style]()
Essays - Fashion - Men's FashionMen and Style
Men and Style reaches beyond standard what to wear advice: it is equal parts style guide and intriguing conversation about masculine identity in the w
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![On Reading, Writing and Living with Books]()
EssaysOn Reading, Writing and Living with Books
"This little body of thought, that lies before me in the shape of a book, has existed thousands of years, nor since the invention of the press can any
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![Life in a Bustle: Advice to Youth]()
EssaysLife in a Bustle: Advice to Youth
"Every age has its own special difficulties and dangers. The disease which specially threatens this generation is restlessness, distraction, dissipati
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![The Gentlewoman's Book of Sports]()
EssaysThe Gentlewoman's Book of Sports
"One would hear considerably less of hysteria, of morphine-mania, and of other regrettable characteristics of fin-de-siecle existence, if women were t
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![On Corpulence: Feeding the Body and Feeding the Mind]()
EssaysOn Corpulence: Feeding the Body and Feeding the Mind
"Oh! that the faculty would look deeper into and make themselves better acquainted with the crying evil of obesity - that dreadful tormenting parasite
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![The Lure of the North]()
EssaysThe Lure of the North
"If you give anything to a Norwegian (old meat tins are always thankfully received), he will give your hand a silent grip more expressive than many wo
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![Cycling]()
Cycling - EssaysCycling: The Craze of the Hour
"Directly you are in motion you will feel quite helpless, and experience a sensation of being run away with, and it will seem as if the machine were t
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![Lena Andersson Allvarligt talat]()
Essays - Non FictionAllvarligt talat
I två omgångar har Lena Andersson deltagit i Sveriges Radios programserie Allvarligt talat, och tillsammans med P O Enquist respektive Horace Engdah
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