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CHARLOTTE MEW was an English short-story writer and poet. The Farmer’s Bride (1916) was her only book to be published in her lifetime; on the strength of it, she was awarded a Civil List pension. JULIA COPUS’s fourth poetry collection, Girlhood, and her selection of Charlotte Mew’s poetry and prose were both published in 2019 by Faber.
15/10/20 HB | 978 0 57131353 2 | 352pp | £25.00 Ebook | 978 0 571 31355 6 UK C/Wealth + Can, EU
This Rare Spirit Julia Copus
A Life of Charlotte Mew
The first comprehensive biography of this highly original poet and short-story writer, following the 150th anniversary of her birth. Charlotte Mew (1869–1928) was regarded as one of the best poets of her age by her contemporaries. She has since been largely neglected, but her star is beginning to rise again. This is the first comprehensive biography, from cradle to grave. Growing up in Bloomsbury, Mew was an intriguing blend of New Woman and stalwart Victorian. Her poems speak to us strongly today, in these strangely mixed times of exposure and seclusion: they reveal the agony of an isolated being forced to keep secret the tragedies of her personal life while simultaneously being propelled by her work into the public arena. Fellow poet Julia Copus sensitively reveals how Mew transfigured that very private suffering into an art of universal resonance.
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Lost for Words Alex Bellos A joyful compendium of fascinating word and language puzzles. Lost for Words is a book of more than one hundred surprising and entertaining puzzles that celebrate the amazing diversity of the world of words and language. Featuring a huge variety of ancient, modern and even invented languages, this collection of problems will introduce you to unusual alphabets and scripts, curious vocabularies and phonologies and global variations in simple behaviours like counting, telling the time and naming children. Whether you are a crossword solver, a code-breaker or a Scrabble addict, these puzzles are guaranteed to twist your tongue and sharpen your mind.
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05/11/20
‘The greatest living poetess.’ Virginia Woolf
HB | 978 1 783 35218 0 | 288pp | £14.99
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ALEX BELLOS is brilliant on all things mathematical. His bestselling, award-winning books include Alex’s Adventures in Numberland and Alex Through the Looking-Glass. They have been translated into more than twenty languages. His YouTube videos have been watched by more than twenty million people, and he writes a popular maths and puzzle blog for the Guardian. His latest book is So You Think You've Got Problems?
Ebook | 978 1 783 35220 3 UK C/Wealth + EU ex Can
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