Manchester University Press
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Into Being: The Radical Craft of Memoir and Its Power to Transform
$24.95 Add to cartThe acclaimed author of Sins of My Father shares the secrets of writing a new, transformative kind of memoir.
Into being is an essential guide to writing radical and empowering memoir. Drawing on her- Author: Dunn, Lily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1526179253
- Language: English
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The Return of the Housewife: Why Women Are Still Cleaning Up
$29.95 Add to cartAn illuminating look at the world of cleanfluencers that asks why the burden of housework still falls on women.
Housework is good for you. Housework sparks joy. Housework is beautiful. Housework is g- Author: Casey, Emma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1526170973
- Language: English
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Eclipsing the West: China, India and the Forging of a New World
$29.95 Add to cartAs the international order begins to crumble, this incisive book asks what the rise of the Asian superstates means for the future.
The Western-dominated world we have known for the past three hundred- Author: Cable, Vince
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1526179822
- Language: English
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Folklore: A Journey Through the Past and Present
$29.95 Add to cartA gripping guide to the weird yet everyday world of British folklore.
In this ground-breaking book, two leading experts provide the definitive guide to British folklore past and present. Owen Davies a- Author: Davies, Owen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1526180383
- Language: English
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Blitzkrieg and the Russian Art of War
$21.95 Add to cartA cutting-edge investigation of how Russia makes war.
Russian strategy in the twenty-first century has been described in terms of ‘hybrid’ warfare, an approach characterised by measures short of war,- Series: Russian Strategy and Power
- Author: Monaghan, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1526164523
- Language: English
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Walking in the Dark: James Baldwin, My Father, and Me
$24.95 Add to cartA moving exploration of the life and work of the celebrated American writer, blending biography and memoir with literary criticism.
Since James Baldwin’s death in 1987, his writing – including The Fi- Author: Field, Douglas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1526175177
- Language: English
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Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a Novel
$27.95 Add to cartThe first book in the ‘Biography of a novel’ series offers a compelling account of Virginia Woolf’s masterpiece.
The fourth and best-known of Virginia Woolf’s novels, Mrs Dalloway is a modernist maste- Series: Biography of a Novel
- Author: Hussey, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1526176815
- Language: English
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Wildly Different: How Five Women Reclaimed Nature in a Man’s World
$29.95 Add to cartThe globe-trotting tales of five women who fought for the right to enjoy the wild places of the earth.
For millennia the ‘wild’ was a place heroic men went on epic quests. Women were prevented from jo- Author: Lonsdale, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1526168693
- Language: English
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She Played and Sang: Jane Austen and Music
$29.95 Add to cartJane Austen, widely acclaimed as one of the greatest English novelists, possessed another talent that enriched her life and work – music. She played and sang draws on the newly digitised music books o… [more below]
- Author: Dooley, Gillian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1526170108
- Language: English
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Pink-Pilled: Women and the Far Right
$18.95 Add to cartA daring investigation into how women are recruited by the far right online.
As the far right has gained popularity and acceptance around the world, its ranks have swelled with an unlikely category o- Author: Shearing, Lois
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1526170698
- Language: English
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Shakespeare’s Borrowed Feathers: How Early Modern Playwrights Shaped the World’s Greatest Writer
$36.95 Add to cartThis book uses the latest techniques in textual analysis to reveal the influence of a community of English playwrights on the celebrated works of William Shakespeare.
- Author: Freebury-Jones, Darren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1526177323
- Language: English
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The Punk Rock Politics of Joe Strummer: Radicalism, Resistance and Rebellion
$24.95 Read moreDrawing on Strummer’s lyrics, interviews and bootleg recordings, as well as interviews with friends and contemporaries like Billy Bragg, The punk rock politics of Joe Strummer reveals the wide-ranging… [more below]
- Author: Gall, Gregor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1526148986
- Language: English
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Charles Dickens and Georgina Hogarth: A Curious and Enduring Relationship
$29.95 Read moreTells the remarkable story of Charles Dickens’ relationship with his sister-in-law, his ‘best and truest friend’ Georgina Hogarth, who came to live with the Dickenses aged fifteen, and continued to li… [more below]
- Author: Skelton, Christine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1526166089
- Language: English
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B. R. Ambedkar: The Man Who Gave Hope to India’s Dispossessed
$24.95 Read moreA household name throughout India, B. R. Ambedkar is one of the country’s most important figures, second only to Mahatma Gandhi. He played a major role in drafting the constitution for a newly indepen
- Series: Global Icons
- Author: Tharoor, Shashi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1526173581
- Language: English
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Red Closet: The Hidden History of Gay Oppression in the USSR
$26.95 Read moreIn 1934, Joseph Stalin enacted sodomy laws, unleashing a wave of brutal detentions of homosexual men in large Soviet cities. Rustam Alexander recounts the compelling stories of people whose lives were
- Author: Alexander, Rustam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 152616745X
- Language: English
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Barbara Comyns: A Savage Innocence
$39.95 Add to cartThis biography of Barbara Comyns presents a twentieth-century author whose life was as extraordinary as her novels. Hundreds of unpublished letters reveal an occasionally desperate but resourceful and… [more below]
- Author: Horner, Avril
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1526173743
- Language: English
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Hanif Kureishi: Writing the Self: A Biography
$44.95 Read moreOriginal, bold and always funny, Hanif Kureishi is one of Britain’s most popular, provocative and versatile writers.
Born in Bromley in 1954 to an Indian father and white British mother, Kureishi’s li- Author: Ranasinha, Ruvani
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1526147394
- Language: English
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Welcome to the Club: The Life and Lessons of a Black Woman DJ
$29.95 Add to cartHacienda resident and Manchester legend DJ Paulette celebrates the highs, lows and lessons of a 30-year career at the forefront of UK dance music as a ground-breaking Black female DJ.
- Author: Paulette, Dj
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1526166909
- Language: English
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Trade Winds: A Voyage to a Sustainable Future for Shipping
$29.95 Add to cartIn 2020, Christiaan De Beukelaer spent 150 days covering 14,000 nautical miles aboard the schooner Avontuur, a hundred-year-old sailing vessel that transports cargo across the Atlantic Ocean. Embarkin
- Author: Beukelaer, Christiaan de
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1526163098
- Language: English
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Ecocide: Kill the Corporation Before It Kills Us
$14.95 Add to cartWe have reached the point of no return. The existential threat of climate change is now a reality. The world has never been more vulnerable.
Yet corporations are already planning a life beyond this po- Series: Manchester University Press
- Author: Whyte, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1526146983
- Language: English
