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Helen Dunmore
Helen Dunmore (1952-2017)

poet

  • University of York

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The Tide Knot (Ingo #2)
Ingo (Ingo #1)
Your blue-eyed boy
Mourning Ruby
A spell of winter
With your crooked heart
The Siege
Talking to the dead
Brother Brother, Sister Sister
Amina's blanket
Burning bright
Zillah and Me
Midnight Feast
Tara's tree house
Ice Cream
The Crossing Of Ingo (Ingo #4)
House of Orphans
The Deep (Ingo #3)
Zennor in Darkness
The Crossing of Ingo (Ingo #4)
In The Money
The Lie
Love of fat men
The betrayal
The Silver Bead
The Deep (Ingo #3)
Clyde's Leopard
The Ingo Chronicles
The Crossing Of Ingo (Ingo #4)
Counting the stars
Birdcage walk
The betrayal
Great-Grandma's Dancing Dress
Talking to the Dead: A Novel Tag
Allie's Apples
Allie Away
Ingo (Ingo #1)
The Ferry Birds
Going to Egypt (Definitions)
Exposure
Aliens Don't Eat Bacon Sandwiches (Contents)
Rose, 1944
The betrayal
The Seal Cove
The Siege Helen Dunmore
The Lilac Tree
Out of the Blue
Glad of these times
Allie Away
Going to Egypt
The greatcoat
Bestiary
Allie's Rabbit
Zennor in Darkness
Brother, brother, sister, sister
Snollygoster and Other Poems
The raw garden
The Ferry Birds
Anima's Blanket
Nixenmagier
The crossing of Ingo
Ils iraient jusqu'à la mer
The siege
Penguin modern poets
Recovering a body
Fatal Error
Tara's treehouse
¡Que alguien me libre de estos monstruitos!
Nixenblut
Counting the stars
Bruder, Bruder, Schwester, Schwester
Nixenfluch
The betrayal
Im ersten Licht des Tages
Mourning Ruby
La Faim
Burning Bright
The apple fall
The Zillah Rebellion
The Greatcoat
The Ugly Duckling (Everystory S.)
Zelda und ich.
Love of Fat Men
Short Days Long Nights
The seaskater
Burning bright
The Lonely Sea Dragon
De schimmen van Zennor
Die Stimme des Meeres
Secrets
House of orphans
Der Duft des Schnees. (übs. von Lore Pilgram)
Mourning Ruby 6-copy counter
Der Duft des Schnees
The deep
The Secret Servant
Your Blue Eyed Body
Zennor in Darkness (Jack Crossman Adventures)
City
Go fox
De onschuld van Nadine
Ils iraient jusqu'à la mer
Allie Away
The Poetry Quartets 5
Spell of Winter (Gold Range)
Ha-matsor ʻal Leningrad
Un été vénéneux
Un hiver enchanté
La maison des orphelins
Die Stimme des Meeres
Yelban - Amina S Blanket
Amina's Blanket (Yellow Bananas)
Malgré la douleur
Project nemesis and other mysteries
"Fatal Error" & Other Adventure Stories
Catherine Fisher
Catherine Fisher (born 1957)

poet

  • University of Wales

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Incarceron (Incarceron #1)
The slanted worlds
The Oracle Betrayed
Darkhenge
Sapphique (Incarceron #2)
The Sphere of Secrets
Day of the Scarab
Snow-Walker (Snow-Walker #1-3)
Corbenic
The Snow-Walker Trilogy
The Candle Man
African American Womens Life Issues Today Vital Health And Social Matters
The Oracle (Silver)
Crown Of Acorns
The Lammas Field
Incarceron
Belin's Hill, Book 4
Immrama
The Snow-walker's Son
The dark city
The Archon
The Box of Red Brocade
Glass Tower, The
Darkwater Hall
Fintan's Tower
Darkhenge
The Hare and Other Stories
The conjuror's game
Das Geheimnis von Darkwater Hall.
The Pan book of dogs
The obsidian mirror
The unexplored ocean
Altered states
Darkwater
First Impressions
The Margrave
The empty hand
The lost heiress
Saint Tarvel's Bell
The dog
Flains Coronet
The Cat With Iron Claws
The hidden Coronet
The door in the moon
Quilting in Square Paper
O DIA DO ESCARAVELHO
Tajemnice wyroczni
Sapphique
Catherine Fisher $1 Off Copy Stockpack
Snow-Walker's Son, The
Tajemnice wyroczni
Sapphique
Darkwater Hall
The handbook of dogs and their care
Darkwater
Oracle Betrayed (Oracle Prophecies)
Circle of stones
Relic master
Sapphique - Fliehen heißt leben
Obsidian mirror
A child's book of poems
In de greep van de Sneeuwheks
Zwartwaterstate
Anderland
L'archonte
Blwch yr Ysbryd
Japan (We Come from)
Belin's hill
L'oracle
Lawrence Treat
Lawrence Treat (1903-1998)

poet lawyer, lawyer

  • Dartmouth College, Columbia University

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O as in omen
100 Malicious Little Mysteries
Who done it?
You're the detective!
Crime and Puzzlement
Crime and Puzzlement 5
Tales of Obsession
Crime and Puzzlement 3
Ellery Queen's Eyes of Mystery
Crime and Puzzlement 4
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
A Special kind of crime
BT-Clue Armchair Det
Get a clue 1
Crime and Puzzlement 2
Get a clue 2
Cluedo armchair detective
Trial and terror
P as in police
H as in hangman
The leather man
Step into quicksand
Over the edge
H as in hunted
Murder in Mind
T as in trapped
F as in flight
The Clue armchair detective
V as in victim
Big shot
You're the Detective!
B as in banshee
Q as in quicksand
Run far, run fast
Venus unarmed
F as in flight
Murder on the Aisle
Cherchez le coupable 2
Phyllis Ann Karr
Phyllis Ann Karr (born 1944)

poet

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Wildraiths Last Battle
100 Malicious Little Mysteries
The King Arthur companion
The Arthurian Companion (Pendragon, 6208)
Lady Susan
Frostflower and Windbourne
The Idylls of the Queen
At Amberleaf Fair
Frostflower and Windbourne
The Arthurian Companion
Frostflower And Thorn
Perola
At Amberleaf Fair
The Follies of Sir Harald
Vampire of the Savoy
Idylls of the Queen
THE ELOPEMENT
Toymaker's Castle
Frostflower/windbourn
Panjandrum of Toboku
The Gallows in the Greenwood
Frost flower and thorn
Loon Lake Lodge
Bucketheads In Oz
Frostflower and Thorn
All But a Pleasure: An Alternate-History Role-Playing Romance Murder Mystery
The Deathguards
Bloody Herring
At Amberleaf Fair
Inquisitor Dreams
Droodology
All but a Pleasure
My Lady Quixote (Coventry Romances; 35)
Kenji Miyazawa
Kenji Miyazawa (1896-1933)

poet, teacher, Esperantist, agronomist, pedagogue

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Milky Way Railroad
Miyazawa Kenji
新編 銀河鉄道の夜
Miyazawa Kenji
Winds from afar
Night Train to the Stars (Kodansha English Library)
Soseki no buntai
Once and Forever
Strong in the rain
Spring & asura
Night of the Milky Way railway
Milky Way railroad
A future of ice
Chūmon no ōi ryōriten
The Tales of Miyazawa Kenji
Winds and wildcat places
Donguri to yamaneko
Yamanashi
Les fruits du gingko
Wildcat and the acorns
Les Pieds nus de lumière
Matasaburo, the Wind
Miyazawa Kenji, Hayakawa Kōtarō
Serohiki no Gōshu
Les Pieds nus de la lumière
The Restaurant of Many Orders
Le Diamant du Bouddha
Le coquillage de feu et autres contes
Miyazawa Kenji shishū
Chūmon no Ōi Ryori-ten
Kaze no Matasaburō
Traversée de la neige
Shishiodori no hajimari
Suisenzuki no yokka
Miyazawa Kenji dōwa taizen
Miyazawa Kenji shu
Chūmon no Ōi Ryōri-ten
Hikari no suashi (Miyazawa Kenji dowa kessakusen)
Miyazawa Kenji tanpenshū =
Meisaku dōwa Miyazawa Kenji 20-sen
Kenji no uta
Miyazawa Kenji dōwa zenshū
Shinshū Miyazawa Kenji zenshū
Miyazawa Kenji tomo eno tegami
Yukiwatari
Miyazawa Kenji zenshu
[Yukimatari
Chuumon no ooi ryooriten
Tsukiyo no denshinbashira
Ginga tetsudo no yoru
Miyazawa Kenji sakuhinshū
Miyazawa Kenji shū
Kenjū kōenrin
Shinpen Kaze no Matasaburō
Ihatobo nogakkou no haru
Nametokoyama no kuma
Miyazawa Kenji (Nihon genso bungaku shusei)
Miyazawa Kenji (Kindai no shijin)
Kōhon Miyazawa Kenji zenshū
Neko no jimusho
Yodaka no hoshi
Ginga tetsudo no yoru (Miyazawa Kenji sakuhinshu)
STRONG IN THE RAIN: SELECTED POEMS; TRANS. BY ROGER PULVERS
Kohon Miyazawa Kenji zenshu
Miyazawa Kenji sakuhinshu
税務署長の冒険
フランドン農学校の豚
家長制度
Una notte sul treno della Via Lattea e altri racconti
車
月夜のけだもの
カイロ団長
水仙月の四日
雪渡り
みじかい木ぺん
氷河鼠の毛皮
虹の絵の具皿
毒蛾
農民芸術の興隆
林の底
ポラーノの広場
シグナルとシグナレス
農民芸術概論
文語詩稿　一百篇
泉ある家
畑のへり
かしわばやしの夜
セロ弾きのゴーシュ
手紙　三
狼森と笊森、盗森
烏の北斗七星
銀河鉄道の夜
Goosch der Cellist und andere Erzählungen
おきなぐさ
ひかりの素足
手紙　二
蜘蛛となめくじと狸
どんぐりと山猫
インドラの網
学者アラムハラドの見た着物
山地の稜
さるのこしかけ
よく利く薬とえらい薬
『春と修羅』補遺
なめとこ山の熊
朝に就ての童話的構図
手紙　一
植物医師
『注文の多い料理店』新刊案内
床屋
黄いろのトマト
疾中
双子の星
ありときのこ
Miyazawa Kenji
オツベルと象
山男の四月
ペンネンネンネンネン・ネネムの伝記
『注文の多い料理店』序
よだかの星
紫紺染について
ひのきとひなげし
十六日
宮沢賢治詩集
風の又三郎
文語詩稿　五十篇
『注文の多い料理店』広告文
若い木霊
鳥をとるやなぎ
クねずみ
化物丁場
〔雨ニモマケズ〕
花椰菜
葡萄水
まなづるとダァリヤ
ツェねずみ
注文の多い料理店
四又の百合
マリヴロンと少女
祭の晩
柳沢
鹿踊りのはじまり
手紙　四
電車
バキチの仕事
ガドルフの百合
猫の事務所
ペンネンノルデはいまはいないよ　太陽にできた黒い棘をとりに行ったよ
雁の童子
ざしき童子のはなし
凾館港春夜光景
農民芸術概論綱要
黒ぶだう
革トランク
めくらぶどうと虹
銀河鉄道の夜
Night Hawk Star
グスコーブドリの伝記
洞熊学校を卒業した三人
サガレンと八月
北守将軍と三人兄弟の医者
茨海小学校
或る農学生の日誌
春と修羅
貝の火
ビジテリアン大祭
月夜のでんしんばしら
毒もみのすきな署長さん
Matasaburo rides the wind
とっこべとら子
マグノリアの木
風野又三郎
チュウリップの幻術
ポランの広場
饑餓陣営
鳥箱先生とフウねずみ
いてふの実
Marie-Claire Blais
Marie-Claire Blais (1939-2021)

playwright, poet

  • Laval University

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Aux jardins des acacias
American Notebooks
Jour est noir
Nuits de l'underground
The day is dark, and Three travelers
The angel of solitude
Pierre
David Sterne
Collected Radio Drama of Marie-Claire Blais
A literary affair
Dans la foudre et la lumière
Anna's world
St. Lawrence Blues
Naissance de Rebecca à l'ère des tourments
Le sourd dans la ville
Durer's angel
The Exile and the Sacred Travellers
Des rencontres humaines
Veiled Countries/Lives
Pays voilés ; Existences
Notes américaines
L' océan, suivi de Murmures
Fievre et autres textes dramatiques
L'Insoymise suivi de le jour est noir
Un joualonais sa joualonie
L'exilé
La vache et d'autres animaux
Des rencontres humaines
These festive nights
The exile
Une saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel
Twilight Celebration
Manuscripts de Pauline Archange
Le jeune homme sans avenir
The island
The Day Is Dark and Three Travelers
Augustino et le choeur de la destruction
Sommeil d'hiver
Insoumise
St. Lawrence blues
La belle bête
Noces à midi au-dessus de l'abîme
Le loup; roman
L'exécution
Passages américains
Tête blanche
Le jour est noir, suivi de L'insoumise
Noces à midi au-dessus de l'abîme
Mai au bal des prédateurs
L' écriture féminine au Québec
[Préface pour la radio]
Oeuvre poétique, 1957-1997
Existences, poèmes
Les voyageurs sacrés
Textes radiophoniques
A coeur joual
L'instant fragile
Sed
St. Lawrence blues
Un corazón habitado por mil voces
The Day Is Dark and Three Travelers
COLLECTED STAGE DRAMA OF MARIE-CLAIRE BLAIS; TRANS. BY NIGEL SPENCER
St. Lawrence Blues
Songs for Angel
Nights Too Short to Dance
Existences
Théâtre
Richard Jefferies
Richard Jefferies (1848-1887)

poet, journalist

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After London
Nature near London
Under the Acorns
The story of my heart
Bevis
The Open Air
Wild life in a southern county
The Life of the Fields
Hodge and His Masters
The Amateur Poacher
Field and hedgerow
The toilers of the field
Red deer
The gamekeeper at home
After London or Wild England
Wood magic
Landscape with figures
Round about a great estate
Amaryllis at the fair
The Story of My Heart: My Autobiography
Bevis, the story of a boy
World's end
The hills and the vale
After London: Or, Wild England
The Scarlet Shawl: A Novel
The pageant of summer
Wild Life in a Southern Country
Class, power, and ideology in Ghana
At Home on the Earth
Wood Magic
Bevis
Wood Magic: A Fable
Jefferies' Land: A History of Swindon and Its Environs
Hodge and His Masters
Heavy Weather
Restless human hearts
Walks In The Wheatfields
Restless Human Hearts V3
Jefferies' land
The story of my heart
A memoir of the Goddards of North Wilts
Summer in the woods
Landscape & labour
The dewy morn
The gamekeeper at home ; the amateur poacher
The early fiction of Richard Jefferies
The old house at Coate
The Story of My Heart An Autobiography
A classic of English farming
Amaryllis at the Fair: A Novel
The Story of my Heart - My Autobiography
Bevis, the story of a boy
The Gamekeeper At Home - Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life
An English Village
The Amateur Poacher - Poachers and Poaching
Chronicles of the hedges
A rook book
Richard Jefferies Centenary
The story of my heart. An Autobiography With- The Pageant of Summer
Jefferies' England
A classic of English farming
The Dewy Morn: A Novel
Round About a Great Estate, and The Pageant of Summer
The amateur poacher
Richard Jefferies
Thoughts from the writings of Richard Jefferies
Readings for Native People of North America
Bevis: the story of a boy
Bits of oak bark
The gamekeeper at home
Greene Ferne Farm
Chronicles of the hedges and other essays
The wood from the trees
The spring of the year
Hodge And His Masters V1
Country vignettes
Amaryllis at the fair [Book]
The pageant of summer
Memoir of the Goddards of North Wilts
Jefferies' countryside
Amateur Poacher Annotated
Field and Hedgerow
Sea, sky, & down
Beauty is immortal (Felise of "The dewy morn")
The Gamekeeper at Home, Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life [Signed R.J.]
The story of my heart
Jeffries' land, a history of Swindon and its environs
Field and Hedgerow Annotated
Return to Jefferies' land
After London Illustrated
After London Annotated
Amaryllis At The Fair
Amateur Poacher(annotated)
Beloved Land
HNC horticulture conifer study pack
The old house at Coate, and other hitherto unpublished essays
Jefferies' England; nature essays
Saint Guido
Gamekeeper at Home
Red Deer
Hours of spring and Wild flowers
Out-of-doors with Richard Jefferies
Wild flowers
The pageant of Summer, and other essays
Eye of the beholder
Amateur Poacher Illustrated
The Jefferies companion
After London (Illustrated)
After London
After London - Large Print
After London and Amaryllis at the fair
The sun and the earth
The nature diaries and note-books of Richard Jefferies
Field and Hedgerow - Publishing People Series
Richard Jefferies' London
Amateur Poacher
The scarlet shawl
A Book of rooks
Field and farm
The makers of summer
Richard Jefferies, selections of his work
Field sports in art
The hills and the vale
Bevis & Mark
The story of my heart
Bevis at home
A Richard Jefferies anthology
An English Village: A New Ed. of Wild Life in a Southern County
Field and hedgerow
The nature diaries and note-books of Richard Jefferies
The hills and the vale
A little book of nature thoughts
The story of my heart
Meadow thoughts
Bevis
Greene Ferne Farm
Bevis & Mark, from Bevis
The pageant of summer
The birth of a naturalist
The Gamekeeper at Home: Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life
By the brook
Nature near London...
The amateur poacher
After London
The toilers of the field
The story of my heart; my autobiography
Nature and eternity
Hours of spring
The toilers of the field
The essential Richard Jefferies
The amateur poacher ...
The story of my heart, my autobiography
The Farmer's World
Green Ferne Farm
Beauty is immortal (Felise of 'The dewy morn')
The story of my heart [my autobiography] ed. with the first draft of the author's manuscript and an introd. and notes by Samuel J. Looker
Round about a great estate
Saint Guido
By the brook
The water colley
The pageant of summer
Elmer Rice
Elmer Rice (1892-1967)

playwright, poet lawyer, theatrical director

  • New York Law School

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A voyage to Purilia
Famous Plays of Crime and Detection
Elmer Rice: Three Plays
The winner
Three plays
Minority report
Love among the ruins
The living theatre
The Adding Machine.
Seven Plays
Imperial city
Two on an island
The adding machine
We, the people
Court of Last Resort
Minority Report
On trial
Seven plays
Judgment day
Black sheep
Best Plays of the Modern American Theatre Second Series Complete
Imperial city, a novel
Dream girl
Street scence
Cock Robin, a play in three acts
The house in Blind alley
On Trial; a Dramatic Composition in Four Acts
Flight to the west,
Dream girl, a comedy
Street Scene - A Play in Three Acts
Plays of Elmer Rice
The passing of Chow-Chow
Cue for passion
A new life
Counsellor-at-law, a play in three acts
We, the people,
Show Must Go On, The
Counsellor-at-law
Cue for passion
A new life
A new life, a play in nine scenes
Imperial City
See Naples and die
Street scene
Judgement Day
The left bank,
Cock Robin
Counsellor-At-Law
Two plays
American Landscape
The show must go on
The left bank
The supreme freedom
The subway
Imperial city
American landscape
The grand tour,
The grand tour
Street Scene
Not for children, a comedy in two acts
Adding Machine
The iron cross
Counsellor At Law, Theatre Programme Piccadilly Theatre programme 1934
The home of the free
Counselor-at-law
Street scene,
The living theatre
Two plays
Cock Robin
The subway
The iron cross
Not for children
Three plays without words
See Naples and die
Other plays, and Not for children
A voyage to Purilia
SEE NAPLES AND DIE
Counsellor-at-law
Love among the ruins,
Plays of Elmer Rice
See Naples and Die
Flight to the west
Judgment day
The adding machine
The show must go on
Three plays (A Mermaid dramabook, MD35)
Judgment day,
Judgment day,
The winner,
Blacksheep
American landscape
Two on an island
Naʻarat ha-ḥalomot
Counsellor at law
Dream girl
A voyage to Purilia
The home of the free
Three plays
Yom ha-din
Street scene
La calle
The iron cross
The living theatre
The subway
On trial
Cock Robin
Counsellor-at-law, a play in three acts
New York vládne
Minority report