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Louis de Bernières
Louis de Bernières (born 1954)

poet

  • Bradfield College, Victoria University of Manchester

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Birds Without Wings
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Red dog
A partisan's daughter
Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord
The troublesome offspring of Cardinal Guzman
The Dust That Falls From Dreams
So much life left over
Notwithstanding
The war of Don Emmanuel's nether parts
Sunday morning at the centre of the world
The Book of Job
A pack of dogs
Imagining Alexandria
Blue Dog
Red Dog [adaptation]
Autumn of the Ace
PR Library Pack Level 6
Station Jim
Labels
Labels and Other Stories
A day out for Mehmet Erbil
The Latin American Trilogy
Cat in the Treble Clef
Günter Weber's confession
A Night Off for Prudente de Moraes
Captain Corelli Header
Dochʹ partizana
Girt Pike (Storycuts)
Death of Miss Agatha Feakes (Storycuts)
Birds Without Wings (Signed)
Red Dog Header
Kapitein Corelli's mandoline
Captain Corelli's Mandolin Film Tie-in
Capt. Correli Mand Read Guide Exp
Of Love and Desire
Bat shel parṭizan
Red Dog (Signed)
Light over Liskeard
La mandolina del Capità Corelli
The Way of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts, Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord and The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman (Boxed Set)
Talking to George (Storycuts)
David Malouf
David Malouf (born 1934)

poet, librettist, playwright

  • University of Queensland, Brisbane Grammar School

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Fly away Peter
The conversations at Curlow Creek
Remembering Babylon
Johnno
Dream Stuff
Ransom
The great world
An imaginary life
Harland's half acre
Antipodes
Every move you make
The year of the foxes and other poems
Love Stories
First things last
Child's play ; with Eustace and The prowler
12 Edmondstone Street
Child's play
A spirit of play
Neighbours in a thicket
Child's play ; with Eustace and The prowler
Child's play ; The bread of time to come
The conversations at Curlow Creek
Child's Play/the Bread of Times to Come
Selected poems
A first place
David Malouf
The on-nibus
Poems 1959-89
The conversations at Curlow Creek
Ce vaste monde
On experience
L'Etoffe des rêves
Jenseits von Babylon
Revolving days
Wild lemons
The happy life
Into the light
Selected poems, 1959-1989
The Complete Stories
Harland's Half Acre
Chaque geste que tu fais
Conversations
Untold tales
Gesture of a hand
Harland's half acre
Die Große Welt
Jane Eyre
Al-irhabi
Un poeta australiano, David Malouf
Blood Relations
Poems, 1975-76
Südlicher Himmel
Verspieltes Land
Ḥayāt mutakhayyalah awfayd fī al-manfá
Die Nachtwache am Curlow Creek
Four poets
The happy life
Bicycle and other poems
Je me souviens de Babylone
Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch (1919-1999)

poet, philosopher, biographer, professor

  • Badminton School, University of Oxford

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A fairly honourable defeat
Nuns and soldiers
An unofficial rose
Something Special
A word child
The red and the green
Acastos
Existentialists and Mystics
An accidental man
The book and the brotherhood
The Bell
Great humorous stories
The nice and the good
The Green Knight
The Italian girl
The fire & the sun
Metaphysics as a guide to morals
The philosopher's pupil
The Sea, the Sea
Le dilemme de Jackson
Under the net, a novel
Going Back
Bruno's Dream
Henry und Cato
The unicorn; a novel
The Time of the Angels
Sartre, romantic realist
In guter Absicht
Iris Murdoch, writer at war
El castillo de arena
Die Flucht vor dem Zauberer
A writer at war
A year of birds
The servants and the snow ; The three arrows ; The black prince
The Sea, the Sea; A Severed Head
La Souveraineté du bien
Le Prince noir
Une'Tete Coupee
The existentialist political myth
Reynolds Stone
De Sacrale En Profane Liefdes Machine
Izbrannoe
Living on paper
Women ask why
Izbrannoe
Le message à la planète
From a tiny corner in the house of fiction
One alone
La negra noche
The Time of the Angels (The Collected Works of Iris Murdoch)
Joanna, Joanna
Rencontres avec Iris Murdoch
LE SEDUCTEUR QUITTE (DU MONDE ENTIER)
A Fairly Honourable Defeat
L'attention romanesque
Novels of Iris Murdoch Volume Three
Amigos Y Amantes/ Friends and Lovers
L'élève du philosophe
Iyinin Egemenligi
Angeliques
El Fuego y El Sol
Pediatric Medicine
Philosophy and literature
3 Arrows & Servnt & Snow
Tamarisk now
A SEVERED HEAD; THE BLACK PRINCE; THE SEA, THE SEA
Novels of Iris Murdoch Volume Two
Something special
A severed head
Iris Murdoch Omnibus
Three Arrows and the Ser Kindle
תחת הרשת
Philosophy Essays
Iris Murdoch in conversation with Malcolm Bradbury
Novels of Iris Murdoch Volume One
Ruya Sakinleri
Black Prince (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
Never mind about the bourgeoisie
Black Prince (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
SOLDATS ET LES NONNES
Murdoch: 40 years a novelist
Het boek en de broederschap
TEMPO (O) DOS ANJOS -(EURO 17.41)
Algo del otro mundo
Descubrir el existencialismo
Richard Adams
Richard Adams (1920-2016)

environmentalist, poet

  • University of Oxford, Bradfield College

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Traveller
Traveller
Traveller (Braille)
Watership Down
The girl in a swing
Stories
The day gone by
A nature diary
The girl in a swing
The Plague Dogs
Shardik
Tales from Watership Down
The tyger voyage
Shardik
The adventures & brave deeds of the ship's cat on the Spanish Maine
Maia
The bureaucats
The plague dogs
The Outlandish Knight
The plague dogs
Nature day and night
The unbroken web
Watership Down
Relaciones Etnicas En Guatemala 1944-2000
Voyage through the Antarctic
The Watership down film picture book
A la carte
The ship's cat
Nature through the seasons
Tales from Watership Down
Joseph Conrad, Heart of darkness
The iron wolf
Legend of Te Tuna Uk
Nature through the seasons
The Tiger Voyage
Daniel
Frommer's Australia
Voyage through the Antarctic
Shardik
The Tyger Voyage
Shardik
Shardik
Frommer's New Zealand from $50 a Day
The plague dogs
The plague dogs
Changing corporate values
Who Profits?
The Iron Wolf and Other Stories
Tales from Watership Down
The Plague Dogs
Beyond Command and Control
The Complete Iggy Pop
A book of British music festivals
The legend of Te Tuna
Www.advertising (Design Directories)
De fire aarstider i naturen
Shardick
Waterschapsheuvel
Watership Down Gift Pack
Shardik
The adventures & brave deeds of the ship's cat on the Spanish Maine
Occasional poets
The Adventures of Egg Box Dragon
Richard Adamss Favourite Animal Stories
Practical Customer Success Management
Shardik
Frommer's Comprehensive Travel Guide Australia '94-'95 (Frommer's Comprehensive Guides)
Household Welfare, the Labor Market, and Public Programs in Albania (World Bank Technical Paper)
Richard Adams' Favorite Animal Stories
Shopping for a better world
www.advertising
The board member's book
La colina de Watership
Voyage through the Antartic
Warning wings
Towards a new aesthetic
The iron wolf, and other stories
Antarctica
SHARDIK
Maia
El Viaje De Los Tigres/the Voyage of the Tigers
Explore and express
Seen God Lately?
Nature Through the Seasons
Twee Honden (gebonden, 1e druk, zonder stofomslag)
It's Henry
Signs of Life
Changing corporate values
The Best Of Ernest Thompson Seton
The girl in a swing
Los Origenes de La Civilizacion Maya
Awakening to Earth-Centred Consciousness
Unten Am Fluss Watership Down
The Board Member's Guide
Visions and Voices
The Delaware Indians
Teaching Shakespeare
Daniel
Frommer's Australia
Watership down
Sinister and Supernatural Stories
Physics Projects for Young Scientists
Writing English
New shoes
When witches ride
Waterschapsheuvel (Watership Down)
Unten Am Fluss
The girl in a swing
The Tyger Voyage
An exhibition of comic drawings by George Belcher R.A. 1875-1947
Watership Tepesi
Wodnikowe Wzgórze
The Unbroken Web
Shardik-V2
Frommer's Australia 1990-1991
The 'Watership Down' film picture book
La jeune fille a l'escarpolette
The Day Gone By
Obitateli kholmov
Key to the Playhouse
Iron Wolf
Free to Use
Maia-V3
Die vier Jahreszeiten in der Natur
Explore and Express: Teacher's Handbook
Đồi thỏ
Obitateli kholmov
גבעת ווטרשיפ
La colina Watership
Maia-V1
The Ship's Cat
Los Perros Perseguidos/Plague Dogs
Maia-V2
Shardik Part 1 Of 2
Tales/Watrship Down
Shardik Part 2 of 2
For a Better World
Maia Part 3 Of 3
Rutland
Shardik-V1
Maia Part 2 Of 3
The Tyger Voyage (Picturemacs)
ha-Naʻarah ba-nadnedah
Antiguas Civilizaciones del Nuevo Mundo
Appropriate English
lA RAGAZZA SULL'ALTALENA
Maia Part 1 Of 3
Hendrik Conscience
Hendrik Conscience (1812-1883)

politician, poet, military personnel

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Batavia
Le lion de Flandre
Tales of Flemish life
The Amulet
The boys of the Sierras
La guerre des paysans
Off to California
Le gentilhomme pauvre
De leeuw van Vlaanderen
The lost glove
Le Guet-apens
Batavia
Histoire de deux enfants d'ouvrier
L'année des merveilles
Tales of old Flanders
The Amulet
La tombe de fer
Baas Gansendonck
De loteling
Argent et Noblesse
L'orpheline
Tales
Le Pays de l'or
Les heures du soir
The demon of gold
The Young Doctor
The curse of the village
DE OMWENTELING VAN 1830
Le lion de Flandre
The Merchant of Antwerp
Ludovic and Gertrude
Le gant perdu
Geschiedenis mijner jeugd gevolgd door het onuitg. werk Lucifer ou Satan converti
Verzameld Werk I
La guerre des paysans
Avondstonden verhalen: zedeschetsen en zinnebeelden
De loteling
L'orpheline
The Poor Gentleman
Le pays de L'or
Le remplacant
De Leeuw van Vlaenderen, of De Slag der Gulden Sporen
Le jeune docteur
[O euvres complètes de Henri Conscience
The Lion of Flanders
Le coureur des grèves
Le cantonneier
The iron tomb
Tales of Flemish life
Het goudland
Flemish Life in Four Stories
The lion of Flanders; or, The battle of the golden spurs
Hendrik Conscience C.S. schrijven aan zijne Majesteit Leopold I : 10.10.1846
Der rekrut ; erzàhlung
Hendrik Conscience en Kortrijk
Fashion; Or, Siska Van Roosemael
The happiness of being rich
Het wonderjaar
Geschichte von Belgien
De oom van Felix Roobeek
Jakob von Artenelde
Der Löwe von Flandern
The boys of the Sierras, or, The young gold hunters
Xiao you jing
Fünf Erzählungen
The lion of Flanders
Historische romans
The miser; Ricketicketack
Le démon de l'argent
De leeuw van Vlaanderen
Sketches from Flemish life, in 3 tales. Transl
La leono de Flandrujo
La tombe de fer
Romantische werken
Briefwisseling van
L' orpheline
The stolen child
Les Kerles de Flandre
孝友鏡
Scènes de la vie flamande
Simon Turchi
Ludovic and Gertrude
The poor gentleman
La guerre des paysans
Le conscrit
Der Rekrut
Les martyrs de l'honneur
L'avare
Les veillées flamandes
Edgar Hilsenrath
Edgar Hilsenrath (1926-2018)

poet, storyteller

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Der Nazi & der Friseur
Das Märchen vom letzten Gedanken
Gesammelte Werke
Jossel Wassermanns Heimkehr
Moskauer Orgasmus
Berlin-- Endstation
Night
Zibulsky, oder, Antenne im Bauch
Fuck America
Die Abenteur des Ruben Jablonski
Sie trommelten mit den Fäusten den Takt
Bronskys Geständnis
Die Abenteuer des Ruben Jablonski. Ein autobiographischer Roman
Nouvelles
The Nazi and the Barber
Gib acht, Genosse Mandelbaum
Satires
Le nazi et le barbier
David Jones
David Jones (1895-1974)

painter, poet, illustrator, wood engraver, copper engraver, calligrapher, xylographer

  • Camberwell College of Arts

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In parenthesis
David Jones, letters to Vernon Watkins
The anathemata
David Jones Letters to a friend
David Jones, a fusilier at the front
The dying Gaul, and other writings
David Jones
In parenthesis
The Roman quarry, and other sequences
Selected works of David Jones from In parenthesis,The Anathemata, The Sleeping lord
Dai Greatcoat
David Jones 1895-1974
Ten letters to two young artists working in Italy, Juliet Wood & Richard Shirley Smith
Wedding poems
Epoch and artist
The Narrows
Introducing David Jones
Letters to William Hayward
Dai Greatcoat
The sleeping lord, and other fragments
The Tribune's visitation
Inner necessities
Thirteen wood engravings by David Jones for the Book of Jonah
The sleeping Lord
Yr iaith
Aesthetics and history
David Jones, a centenary exhibition
Looking back at the thirties
Jones
An introduction to The rime of the ancient mariner
The wall
The engravings of David Jones
David Jones
Part of The anathemata
The Kensington Mass
David Jones, inscriptions
An introduction to The rime of the ancient mariner
The fatigue
A centenary exhibition
The narrows
Use & sign
David Jones (1895-1974)
David Jones, 1 November 1895-28 October 1974
[Paintings]
The Anathémata
Llyfr y pregeth-wr
The anathémata
The anathemata
The anathemata; fragments of an attempted writing
The dream of Private Clitus
Epoch and artist
The tutelar of the place
The engravings of David Jones
The Chester play of the Deluge
The sleeping lord, and other fragments
In parenthesis
David Jones, artist and poet
The book of Jonah
The sleeping lord, and other fragments
The book of Jonah taken from the authorized version of King James I.
The hunt
In parenthesis
The tribune's visitation, idem in me
"An awful outsider"
Use & sign
The wall : extract from a larger work
The Book of Jonah
Siegfried Sassoon
Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)

reporter, military personnel, poet

  • University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge

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Prentice Hall Literature - Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes - The British Tradition
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
Prentice Hall Literature--The British Edition--Volume II
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
The War Poems
Prentice Hall
Siegfried Sassoon letters to Max Beerbohm
Diaries
Sherston's progress
The old century and seven more years
The complete memoirs of George Sherston
Counter-attack, and other poems
The War Poems
Poems
Siegfried's journey, 1916-1920
Siegfried Sassoon diaries, 1923-1925
The memoirs of George Sherston
The weald of youth
Picture-show
Siegfried Sassoon: poet's pilgrimage
Siegfried Sassoon diaries, 1920-1922
Meredith
Letters to Max Beerbohm
Letters to a critic
Sassoon's Long Journey
Collected Poems, 1908-1956
The old huntsman
Selected poems
Rhymed ruminations
Lenten illuminations
Ave, atque vale
In Sicily
The flower show match
Poems newly selected
Four poems
The road to ruin
The daffodil murderer
The path to peace
Vigils
Lingual exercises for advanced vocabularians
Arbor vitae
A suppressed poem
Siegfried Sassoon
Satirical poems
The heart's journey
Arms and the Boy
On poetry
An adjustment
Human bondage
Renewals
To the red rose
To my mother
Everyone sang, April 1919
Sequences
Nativity
Something about myself
Recreations
An octave
The tasking
Discoveries
Collected Poems of Siegfried Sassoon
Prehistoric burials
Sunday morning visitors
Owen and Sassoon
Awaitment
Poets of the Great War
The General and other poems
Faber War Poets Collection - 6 Books
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
Sassoon
Orpheus, in Diloeryum ...
Poems from Italy
Satirical poems
Nativity
The daffodil murderer
Counter-attack, and other poems
Siegfried Sassoon
To the red rose
The heart's journey
Common chords
Picture-show
Satirical poems
Siegfried Sassoon correspondence
The tasking
Rhymed ruminations
To my mother
Four poems