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Across English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Essays, European, and Literary Collections — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as News by Ian Jack.

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Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

Life At Grasmere — Dorothy Wordsworth

Life At Grasmere

Dorothy Wordsworth

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

Unto This Last and Other Writings — John Ruskin

Unto This Last and Other Writings

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

E. P. Thompson and English Radicalism — Roger Fieldhouse

E. P. Thompson and English Radicalism

Roger Fieldhouse

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

Memoir Of The Life Of Lieutenant-Colonel Vassall With An Elegiac Ode (1819) — Spencer Thomas Vassall

Memoir Of The Life Of Lieutenant-Colonel Vassall With An Elegiac Ode (1819)

Spencer Thomas Vassall

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

Selected Poems — Thomas Stearns Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

The Table Talk of John Selden — John Selden

The Table Talk of John Selden

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

Murray’s English Exercises Consisting Of Exercises In Parsing, Instances Of False Orthography, Violations Of The Rules In Syntax, Etc. (1850) — Lindley Murray

Murray’s English Exercises Consisting Of Exercises In Parsing, Instances Of False Orthography, Violations Of The Rules In Syntax, Etc. (1850)

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

The Window Seat Notes from a Life in Motion — Aminatta Forna

The Window Seat Notes from a Life in Motion

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

The Book of Prefaces A Short History of Literate Thought in Words by Great Writers of Four Nations from the 7th to the 20th Century — Alasdair Gray

The Book of Prefaces A Short History of Literate Thought in Words by Great Writers of Four Nations from the 7th to the 20th Century

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

The Virginia Woolf Reader — Virginia Woolf

The Virginia Woolf Reader

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

Somerville Hall Or Hints To Those Who Would Make Home Happy (1843) — Sarah Stickney Ellis

Somerville Hall Or Hints To Those Who Would Make Home Happy (1843)

Sarah Stickney Ellis

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

Openings & Outings An Anthology — David Pryce-Jones

Openings & Outings An Anthology

David Pryce-Jones

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

Selected Writings — Thomas Carlyle

Selected Writings

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

Independent Spirit Essays — Hubert Butler

Independent Spirit Essays

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

Silly Novels by Lady Novelists — George Eliot

Silly Novels by Lady Novelists

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

Select Translations From Scaliger’s Poetics (1905) — Giulio Cesare Scaligero

Select Translations From Scaliger’s Poetics (1905)

Giulio Cesare Scaligero

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

Death of a Harvard Man — Simon Schama

Death of a Harvard Man

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

Stories For The Fireside Or Moral Improvement Illustrated (1839) — Miss Rignall

Stories For The Fireside Or Moral Improvement Illustrated (1839)

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

Selections From The Spectator With Introduction And Notes (1892) — Joseph Addison

Selections From The Spectator With Introduction And Notes (1892)

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

Giving Shape to the Moment The Art of Mary O’Donnell : Poet, Novelist and Short Story Writer — María Elena Jaime de Pablos

Giving Shape to the Moment The Art of Mary O’Donnell : Poet, Novelist and Short Story Writer

María Elena Jaime de Pablos

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

Areopagitica and Other Writings — John Milton

Areopagitica and Other Writings

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

Seeing Things as They are Selected Journalism and Other Writings — George Orwell

Seeing Things as They are Selected Journalism and Other Writings

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

The Essays of Virginia Woolf — Virginia Woolf

The Essays of Virginia Woolf

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Essays • European

If News by Ian Jack is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Essays, European and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Bill Buford, Dorothy Wordsworth, John Ruskin, Roger Fieldhouse, and others.

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