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From the Saltire Award shortlisted author of Language of My Choosing.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49519583953169,"sku":"GOR009767645","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1912147378.jpg?v=1750726200"},{"product_id":"keeping-away-the-spiders-book-anne-pia-9781913025724","title":"Keeping Away the Spiders","description":"In a series of honest, often humorous and brutally frank essays, Anne Pia discusses sexuality, gender identity, reluctant feminism, and food as a sumptuous, sensual game-changer. She conveys her exhilaration at the transformative power of music and learning, clothes and fashion. She gives an unflinching account of coming to terms with a daughter’s disability.     This life-changing book shows how positive energy can be drawn from life’s most challenging experiences. 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Tackling themes such as growing up, romantic love and motherhood, Pia’s memoir traces her journey as she discovers her place in the world.   Studying in France, Pia tries to come to terms with her unconventional family and the two nationalities she bridges. A truly honest book that delves into hard-hitting issues without veering into the sentimental, Pia’s memoir will strike a chord with readers of any nationality.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49595757003025,"sku":"GOR008282300","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53116119810321,"sku":"GOR008788912","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53297211539729,"sku":"GOR008774617","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/191074591X.jpg?v=1751250513"},{"product_id":"the-sweetness-of-demons-book-anne-pia-9781913212322","title":"The The Sweetness of Demons","description":"Anne Pia's responses to Baudelaire's poetry is not only emotional and intellectual but also linguistic. It comes from her profound love for France's language and culture, particularly when it looks beyond nationhood.   As she writes in her passionate and illuminating introduction, [Baudelaire] luxuriates and furiously dismisses. He rages and yet he speaks soft words. He is tender. He yearns, aches and seductively persuades. A creator of vivid visuals and sublimely evocative music, a conjuror of mist, soft light and of exotic scents, a sculptor and a weaver of tapestry and texture through a mere interplay of words and skilful verse and stanza, Baudelaire - whether jubilant or bitter - is never light-hearted, always honest, intense, disturbing.  The challenge Pia set herself was to recreate some of this powerful mix in our English language, which has perhaps ceased to look for inspiration beyond itself since it became so dominant. And she has succeeded in this challenge quite remarkably, drawing the reader into the intimacy of her own intellectual and artistic journey with deep European roots.  In this volume we have published the original French poems Pia has chosen and her poetic responses in English, along with her literal translations of the originals. It is a bold move in a language not of its time, which demands our engagement.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49603768418577,"sku":"GOR013405228","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1913212327.jpg?v=1751061764"},{"product_id":"language-of-my-choosing-book-anne-pia-9781912147397","title":"Language of My Choosing","description":"How do you choose your nationality?  This is a question that Anne Pia often asked herself whilst growing up in Edinburgh. 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