Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews and Letters to the Editor Vladimir Nabokov (Author) Brian Boyd (Edited by) Anastasia Tolstoy (Edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 576pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 394g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780141398389 ISBN13: 978-0-14-139838-9 ISBN10: 0141398388 EAN: 9780141398389 x Description: 'Masterly, hilarious, truly insightful' - Philip Hensher, The Spectator A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2019 The last major collection of Nabokov's published material, Think, Write, Speak brings together a treasure trove of previously uncollected texts from across the author's extraordinary career. Each phase of his wandering life is included, from a precocious essay written while still at Cambridge in 1921, through his fame in the aftermath of the publication of Lolita to the final, fascinating interviews given shortly before his death in 1977. Introduced and edited by his biographer Brian Boyd, this is an essential work for anyone who has been drawn into Nabokov's literary orbit. Here he is at his most inspirational, curious, playful, misleading and caustic. The seriousness of his aesthetic credo, his passion for great writing and his mix of delight and dismay at his own, sudden global fame in the 1950s are all brilliantly delineated. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories Svetlana Alexievich (Author) Richard Pevear (Translated by) Larissa Volokhonsky (Translated by) Series:
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 320pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 236g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780141983561 ISBN13: 978-0-14-198356-1 ISBN10: 0141983566 EAN: 9780141983561 x Description: Selected as a Book of the Year 2019 by The Times and Telegraph'Astonishing. . . Like the great Russian novels, these testimonials ring with emotional truth' - Caroline Moorehead, GuardianExtraordinary stories about what it was like to be a Soviet child during the upheaval and horror of the Second World War, from Nobel Laureate Svetlana AlexievichWhat did it mean to grow up in the Soviet Union during the Second World War? In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich started interviewing people who had experienced war as children, the generation that survived and had to live with the trauma that would forever change the course of the Russian nation. With remarkable care and empathy, Alexievich gives voice to those whose stories are lost in the official narratives, uncovering a powerful, hidden history of one of the most important events of the twentieth century.Published to great acclaim in the USSR in 1985 and now available in English for the first time, this masterpiece offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of the human consequences of the war - and an extraordinary chronicle of the Russian soul. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Life for Sale Yukio Mishima (Author) Stephen Dodd (Translated by) Series:
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04 Feb 2021
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Language: English Translated From: Japanese Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s11mm 145g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241333150 ISBN13: 978-0-241-33315-0 ISBN10: 0241333156 EAN: 9780241333150 x Description: 'The best book I've read this year ... darkly comedic and full of tension and surprise' Marina Abramovic 'Life for sale. Use me as you wish. I am a twenty-seven-year-old male. Discretion guaranteed. Will cause no bother at all.'When Hanio Yamada realises the future holds little of worth to him, he puts his life for sale in a Tokyo newspaper, thus unleashing a series of unimaginable exploits. A world of murderous mobsters, hidden cameras, a vampire woman, poisoned carrots, code-breaking, a hopeless junkie heiress and makeshift explosives reveals itself to the unwitting hero. Is there nothing he can do to stop it? Resolving to follow the orders of his would-be purchasers, he comes to understand what life is worth, and whether we can indeed name our price. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Woman Sibilla Aleramo (Author) Series:
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07 May 2020
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Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 240pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 179g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241345726 ISBN13: 978-0-241-34572-6 ISBN10: 0241345723 EAN: 9780241345726 x Description: 'The first Italian feminist writer' La Repubblica 'To love, to sacrifice oneself, and to submit! Was this what all women were destined for?'When her carefree, aspirational childhood in a seaside town is brought brutally to an end, the nameless narrator of Sibilla Aleramo's blazing autobiographical novel discovers the shocking reality of life for a woman in Italy at the dawn of the twentieth century. As she begins to recognize the similarities between her own predicament and the plight of her mother and the women around her, she becomes convinced that she must escape her fate. Unashamed and remarkably ahead of its time, A Woman is a landmark in European feminist writing.'Powerful' Luigi Pirandello _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Memoir of an Anti-Hero Kornel Filipowicz (Author) Series:
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Language: English Translated From: Polish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 80pp h198mm x w129mm x s4mm 67g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241351604 ISBN13: 978-0-241-35160-4 ISBN10: 024135160X EAN: 9780241351604 x Description: The Second World War. Poland. Our narrator has no intention of being a hero. He plans to survive this war, whatever it takes.Meticulously he recounts his experiences: the slow unravelling of national events as well as uncomfortable personal encounters on the street, in the cafe, at the office, in his love affairs. He is intimate but reserved; conversational but careful; reflective but determined. As he becomes increasingly and chillingly alienated from other people, the reader is drawn into complicit acquiescence. We are forced to consider what it means to be heroic and how we ourselves would behave in the same circumstances.Written in 1961, this is the masterpiece of one of the great Polish writers of the twentieth century. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The House on the Hill Cesare Pavese (Author) Tim Parks (Translated by) Series:
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29 Apr 2021
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Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 176pp h198mm x w129mm x s9mm 134g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241370520 ISBN13: 978-0-241-37052-0 ISBN10: 0241370523 EAN: 9780241370520 x Description: 'Pavese's novels are works of an extraordinary depth where one never stops finding new levels, new meanings' Italo CalvinoJune, 1943. Allied aircraft are bombing Turin; fascist Italy is on its knees. Every evening, after a day's teaching in the city, Corrado returns to the safety of the hills and the care of his two doting landladies. He has no attachments, no obligations. Yet against his better judgement he is drawn to the easy warmth of a circle of anti-fascists who congregate at a nearby tavern, and confronted with a painful choice: emotional and political commitment, with all its dangers or devastating retreat. Pavese's extraordinary semi-autobiographical novel is a lucid portrayal of missed opportunities and human weakness, set against the seductive intensity of the Italian countryside.Translated with an introduction by Tim Parks _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Moon and the Bonfires Cesare Pavese (Author) Tim Parks (Translated by) Series:
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28 Jan 2021
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Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 176pp h198mm x w129mm x s9mm 134g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241370544 ISBN13: 978-0-241-37054-4 ISBN10: 024137054X EAN: 9780241370544 x Description: 'Insinuating, haunting and lyrically pervasive' The New York Times Book ReviewA new translation by Tim ParksTwenty years after making his fortune in America, Eel is drawn back to the closest thing he has to a home: the Piedmontese countryside where he grew up poor and illegitimate. Wandering the valleys and vineyards with his childhood friend Nuto, Eel remembers the farm where he worked, his employer's beautiful daughters, the rituals of rural life. Yet as he discovers more about what happened there during the war, he realizes that these timeless landscapes hide terrible, savage secrets. By turns fond and evocative, seductive and troubling, The Moon and the Bonfires is a lyrical masterpiece of memory and betrayal.Translated with an Introduction by Tim Parks _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures Clarice Lispector (Author) Series:
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06 Apr 2021
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Language: English Translated From: Portuguese Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 160pp h198mm x w129mm x s8mm 123g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241371367 ISBN13: 978-0-241-37136-7 ISBN10: 0241371368 EAN: 9780241371367 x Description: 'One of the very great writers of the last century' Guardian'Lispector had an ability to write as though no one had ever written before' Colm Toibin'He'd wait for her, she knew that now. Until she learned'Lori yearns for love yet is scared of herself, and of connecting with another human. When she meets Ulisses, a Professor of Philosophy, she is forced to confront her fears. As both of them will learn, to be worthy of another person, they must first be fully themselves. The book of which Clarice Lispector said, 'I humanized myself', An Apprenticeship is about the ultimate unknowability of the other in a relationship, and what it means to love and be loved.Translated by Stefan ToblerEdited by Benjamin Moser with an Afterword by Sheila Heti _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Island Ana Maria Matute (Author) Laura Lonsdale (Translated by) Series:
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23 Apr 2020
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Language: English Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s11mm 145g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241374283 ISBN13: 978-0-241-37428-3 ISBN10: 0241374286 EAN: 9780241374283 x Description: 'This is an old and wicked island. An island of Phoenicians and merchants, of bloodsuckers and frauds'Expelled from her convent school for kicking the prioress, and abandoned by her father when her mother dies, rebellious teenager Matia is sent to live with her domineering grandmother on the island of Mallorca. In the hot, oppressive stillness of an adolescent summer, she learns to scheme with her cousin Borja, and finds herself increasingly drawn to the strange outsider Manuel. But civil war has come to Spain, and it will teach Matia about the adult world in ways she could not foresee.This powerful, lyrical coming-of-age novel depicts Mallorca as an enchanted island, a lost Eden and a Never Land combined, where ancient hatreds and present-day passions collide.'brilliant, devastating . . . every character is remarkable and captivating' The Times Literary Supplement'a feverish, dramatic brew . . . the style is intoxicating . . . it offers a unique view of a part of Spain usually overlooked by literature' The Irish Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Penguin Book of Oulipo: Queneau, Perec, Calvino and the Adventure of Form Philip Terry (Edited by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 592pp h198mm x w129mm x s25mm 404g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241378458 ISBN13: 978-0-241-37845-8 ISBN10: 0241378451 EAN: 9780241378458 x Description: A TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'Lovers of word games and literary puzzles will relish this indispensable anthology' The Guardian'At times, you simply have to stand back in amazement' Daily Telegraph'An exhilarating feat, it takes its place as the definitive anthology in English for decades to come' Marina WarnerBrought together for the first time, here are 100 pieces of 'Oulipo' writing, celebrating the literary group who revelled in maths problems, puzzles, trickery, wordplay and conundrums.Featuring writers including Georges Perec, Raymond Queneau and Italo Calvino, it includes poems, short stories, word games and even recipes. Alongside these famous Oulipians, are 'anticipatory' wordsmiths who crafted language with unusual constraints and literary tricks, from Jonathan Swift to Lewis Carroll. Philip Terry's playful selection will appeal to lovers of word games, puzzles and literary delights. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The History of Sexuality: 1: The Will to Knowledge Michel Foucault (Author) Series:
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09 Apr 2020
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 176pp h198mm x w129mm x s9mm 134g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241385982 ISBN13: 978-0-241-38598-2 ISBN10: 0241385989 EAN: 9780241385982 x Description: 'A brilliant display of fireworks, attacking the widespread and banal notion that "in the beginning" sexual activity was guilt-free and delicious, being repressed and blighted only by the gloom of Victorianism' Spectator We talk about sex more and more, but are we more liberated? The first part of Michel Foucault's landmark account of our evolving attitudes in the west shows how the nineteenth century, far from suppressing sexuality, led to an explosion of discussion about sex as a separate sphere of life for study and examination. As a result, he argues, we are making a science of sex which is devoted to the analysis of desire rather than the increase of pleasure. 'A wealth of insights, original conceptualizations and provocative ideas' The Times Literary Supplement _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The History of Sexuality: 2: The Use of Pleasure Michel Foucault (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 224g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241385999 ISBN13: 978-0-241-38599-9 ISBN10: 0241385997 EAN: 9780241385999 x Description: 'No brief survey can do justice to the richness, complexity and detail of Foucault's discussion' New York Review of BooksThe second volume of Michel Foucault's pioneering analysis of the changing nature of desire explores how sexuality was perceived in classical Greek culture.From the stranger byways of Greek medicine (with its advice on the healthiest season for sex, as well as exercise and diet) to the role of women, The Use of Pleasure is full of extraordinary insights into the differences - and the continuities - between the Ancient, Christian and Modern worlds, showing how sex became a moral issue in the west. 'Required reading for those who cling to stereotyped ideas about our difference from the Greeks in terms of pagan license versus Christian austerity' Los Angeles Times Book Review _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The History of Sexuality: 3: The Care of the Self Michel Foucault (Author) Series:
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 288pp h198mm x w129mm x s16mm 213g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241386002 ISBN13: 978-0-241-38600-2 ISBN10: 0241386004 EAN: 9780241386002
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison Michel Foucault (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 270g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241386019 ISBN13: 978-0-241-38601-9 ISBN10: 0241386012 EAN: 9780241386019 x Description: 'Imaginative, illuminating and innovative' The New York Times Book ReviewThe grisly spectacle of public executions and torture of centuries ago has been replaced by the penal system in western society - but has anything really changed?In his revolutionary work on control and power relations in our public institutions, Michel Foucault argues that the development of prisons, police organizations and legal hierarchies has merely changed the focus of domination from our bodies to our souls. Even schools, factories, barracks and hospitals, in which an individual's time is controlled hour by hour, are part of a disciplinary society. 'Foucault's genius is called forth into the eloquent clarity of his passions ... his best book' Washington Post _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Visions of Gerard Jack Kerouac (Author) Series:
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20 Aug 2020
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 112pp h198mm x w129mm x s6mm 89g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241389010 ISBN13: 978-0-241-38901-0 ISBN10: 0241389011 EAN: 9780241389010 x Description: 'The piteousness of his little soft shroud of hair falling down his brow and swept aside by the hand over blue serious eyes'Described by Kerouac as 'my most serious sad and true book', Visions of Gerard forms the first volume of his memoir cycle the 'Duluoz Legend'. Based on Jack Kerouac's memories of the beloved older brother who died when he was a boy, it is unique among his novels for its dreamlike evocation of the sensations of childhood - its wisdom, anguish, intensity, innocence, joy and pain. It is a haunting exploration of the precariousness of existence.'Called a "pain-tale" by Kerouac, it's the story of an almost divine, Buddha-like child wracked with sickness and suffering' Guardian _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The History of Sexuality: 4: Confessions of the Flesh Robert Hurley (Translated by) Michel Foucault (Author) Series:
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03 Mar 2022
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 416pp h198mm x w129mm x s30mm 350g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241389614 ISBN13: 978-0-241-38961-4 ISBN10: 0241389615 EAN: 9780241389614 x Description: The final major work by one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth centuryIn the fourth and final volume of his far-reaching and influential study of human sexuality, Foucault turns his attention to early Christianity, exploring how ancient ideas of pleasure were modified into the notion of the 'flesh'. Ranging over marriage, procreation and the concept of virginity as a divine state, Foucault brilliantly shows how a fledgling religion altered and defined the Western history of desire. Confessions of the Flesh brings to a conclusion one of the twentieth century's seminal works.'A thinker of immense power ... posing questions that still perplex us' The Times Literary Supplement'Required reading ... The appearance of the fourth volume is the most significant event in the world of Foucault scholarship in 20 years ... Essential' Los Angeles Review of Books _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
After Midnight Irmgard Keun (Author) Anthea Bell (Translated by) Series:
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23 Apr 2020
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Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 144pp h198mm x w129mm x s8mm 112g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241391822 ISBN13: 978-0-241-39182-2 ISBN10: 0241391822 EAN: 9780241391822 x Description: Depicting a young woman's life in Nazi Germany, a masterpiece from the author of Child of All Nations'I cannot think of anything else that conjures up so powerfully the atmosphere of a nation turned insane' Sunday TelegraphNineteen-year-old Sanna just wants to drink her beer in peace, but that's difficult when Hitler has come to town and his motorcade is blocking the streets of Frankfurt. What's more, her best friend Gerti is in love with a Jewish boy, her brother writes books that have been blacklisted and her own aunt may denounce her to the authorities at any moment, as Germany teeters on the edge of the abyss. Written after she had fled the Nazi regime, Irmgard Keun's masterly novel captures the feverish hysteria and horror of the era with devastating perceptiveness and humour.Translated by Anthea Bell _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Faces Tove Ditlevsen (Author) Tiina Nunnally (Translated by) Series:
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26 Jan 2021
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Language: English Translated From: Danish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 144pp h198mm x w129mm x s8mm 112g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241391914 ISBN13: 978-0-241-39191-4 ISBN10: 0241391911 EAN: 9780241391914 x Description: 'One of Denmark's most celebrated writers' New StatesmanFrom the acclaimed author of the Copenhagen Trilogy, a searing, haunting novel of a woman on the edge, portrayed with all the vividness of lived experience. Copenhagen, 1968. Lise, a children's book writer and married mother of three, is increasingly haunted by disembodied faces and voices. She is convinced that her husband, already extravagantly unfaithful, will leave her. Most of all, she is scared that she will never write again. Yet as she descends into a world of pills and hospitals, she begins to wonder, is insanity really something to be feared, or does it bring a kind of freedom?'Ditlevsen explores the surprising contours of Lise's experience: from her point of view, madness can be funny, soft and secure, and far more enlightening than the "reality" it struggles to evade' The New York TimesTranslated by Tiina Nunnally _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Black Skin, White Masks Frantz Fanon (Author) Richard Philcox (Translated by) Series:
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25 Mar 2021
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 168g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241396667 ISBN13: 978-0-241-39666-7 ISBN10: 0241396662 EAN: 9780241396667 x Description: 'This century's most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism' Angela Davis'Fanon is our contemporary ... In clear language, in words that can only have been written in the cool heat of rage, Fanon showed us the internal theatre of racism' Deborah LevyFrantz Fanon's urgent, dynamic critique of the effects of racism on the psyche is a landmark study of the black experience in a white world. Drawing on his own life and his work as a psychoanalyst to explore how colonialism's subjects internalize its prejudices, eventually emulating the 'white masks' of their oppressors, it established Fanon as a revolutionary anti-colonialist thinker. 'So hard to put down ... a brilliant, vivid and hurt mind, walking the thin line that separates effective outrage from despair' The New York Times Book Review _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tiepolo Pink Roberto Calasso (Author) Series:
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28 May 2020
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Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 304pp h128mm x w198mm x s25mm 496g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241399422 ISBN13: 978-0-241-39942-2 ISBN10: 0241399424 EAN: 9780241399422 x Description: 'Tiepolo: the last breath of happiness in Europe'The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life creating frescoes that are among the glories of Western art, yet he remains shrouded in mystery. Who was he? And what was the significance of the dark, bizarre etchings depicting sacrifice and magic, which he created alongside his heavenly works? Roberto Calasso explores Tiepolo as the last artist of the ancien regime and at the same time the first example of the "painter of modern life" evoked by Baudelaire. He was the incarnation of that peculiar Italian virtue sprezzatura: the art of not seeming artful.Translated by Alastair McEwen'A brilliant, eccentric, provocative . . . and thoroughly splendid celebration of a great painter' John Banville, The New Republic'Calasso is a myth-maker ... a book that treats paintings as a kind of sorcery' Peter Conrad, Observer _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
K. Roberto Calasso (Author) Series:
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23 Apr 2020
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s19mm 247g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241399439 ISBN13: 978-0-241-39943-9 ISBN10: 0241399432 EAN: 9780241399439 x Description: What are Kafka's stories about? Are they dreams? Allegories? Symbols? Things that happen every day? But where and when?In this remarkable book, Roberto Calasso sets out not to dispel the mystery but to let it be illuminated by its own light. With his unique vision, imagination, and intellectual acumen, Calasso attempts to enter the flow, the tortuous movement, the physiology of the stories to discover what they are meant to signify and to delve into the most basic question: Who is K.? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Personal Writings Albert Camus (Author) Justin O'Brien (Translated by) Series:
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27 Aug 2020
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 168g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241400272 ISBN13: 978-0-241-40027-2 ISBN10: 0241400279 EAN: 9780241400272 x Description: 'It was the discovery of the essays celebrating his childhood and youth that altered my perception of Camus, from a thinker to a writer whose intellectual lucidity was a product of the wealth - the sensual immediacy and clarity - that had been heaped on his senses' Geoff Dyer Albert Camus was born in a 'world of poverty and sunshine' in Algeria, which would infuse all of his work. This new collection brings together three volumes of Camus' most intimate autobiographical writings for the first time. The Wrong Side and the Right Side, his first book, describes his family and his early years in a working-class neighbourhood. Nuptials rejoices in the sensuality of sun, landscape and sea, while Summer ranges over the cities of Algiers and Oran, nature and identity. Lyrical and emotional, these pieces enrich our understanding of Camus and his love of life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Speaking Out: Lectures and Speeches 1937-58 Albert Camus (Author) Quintin Hoare (Translated by) Series:
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 288pp h198mm x w129mm x s16mm 213g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241400364 ISBN13: 978-0-241-40036-4 ISBN10: 0241400368 EAN: 9780241400364 x Description: A new collection of Albert Camus' most brilliant speeches and lectures'Freedom is dangerous, as hard to live as it is exalting...'This definitive new collection of Albert Camus' public speeches and lectures gives a compelling insight into one of the twentieth century's most enduring writers. From a pre-war speech on the politics of the Mediterranean - delivered when he was just twenty-two - to his impassioned Nobel Prize acceptance lectures and several pieces appearing in English for the first time, Speaking Out shows Camus' clarity and subtlety of thought, his 'stubborn humanism' and his unerring commitment to freedom and justice.Translated by Quintin Hoare _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Committed Writings Albert Camus (Author) Justin O'Brien (Translated by) Alice Kaplan (Introduction by) Series:
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Down in the Valley: A Writer's Landscape Laurie Lee (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 112pp h198mm x w129mm x s6mm 89g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241411698 ISBN13: 978-0-241-41169-8 ISBN10: 0241411696 EAN: 9780241411698 x Description: A moving portrait of the landscape that shaped the life of Laurie Lee, the beloved author of Cider With Rosie 'Before I left the valley I thought everywhere was like this. Then I went away for 40 years and when I came back I realized that nowhere was like this.' Laurie Lee walked out of his childhood village one summer morning to travel the world, but he was always drawn back to his beloved Slad Valley, eventually returning to make it his home. In this portrait of his Cotswold home, Laurie Lee guides us through its landscapes, and shares memories of his village youth - from his favourite pub to winter skating on the pond, the church through the seasons, local legends, learning the violin and playing jazz records in the privy on a wind-up gramophone. Filled with wry humour and a love of place, Down in the Valley is a writer's tribute to the landscape that shaped him, and where he found peace. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Potiki Patricia Grace (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s11mm 145g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241413555 ISBN13: 978-0-241-41355-5 ISBN10: 0241413559 EAN: 9780241413555 x Description: 'Provocative, compassionate and beautiful' - Joy Harjo, US Poet Laureate A moving story of a Maori community's fight for survival, from one of New Zealand's most prominent and celebrated authorsOn the remote coast of New Zealand, at the curve that binds the land and the sea, a small Maori community live, work, fish, play and tell stories of their ancestors. But something is changing. The prophet child toko can sense it. Men are coming, with dollars and big plans to develop the area for tourism. As their ancestral land becomes threatened, the people must unite in a battle for survival. Weaving together myth and memory, Patricia Grace's prize-winning novel is a spellbinding portrait of a defiant community determined to protect their way of life at any cost. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons (Author) Lynne Truss (Introduction by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 256pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 191g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241418895 ISBN13: 978-0-241-41889-5 ISBN10: 0241418895 EAN: 9780241418895 x Description: One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''Brilliant ... very probably the funniest book ever written' Sunday TimesWhen sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. At the aptlynamed Cold Comfort Farm, she meets the doomed Starkadders: cousin Judith, heaving with remorse for unspoken wickedness; Amos, preaching fire and damnation; their sons, lustful Seth and despairing Reuben; child of nature Elfine; and crazed old Aunt Ada Doom, who has kept to her bedroom for the last twenty years. But Flora loves nothing better than to organise other people. Armed with common sense and a strong will, she resolves to take each of the family in hand. A hilarious and ruthless parody of rural melodramas and purple prose, Cold Comfort Farm is one of the best-loved comic novels of all time.'Screamingly funny and wildly subversive' Marian Keyes, GuardianThe Penguin Classics edition of Stella Gibbons's Cold Comfort Farm is introduced by Lynne Truss, author of Eats, Shoots and Leaves.If you enjoyed Cold Comfort Farm you might like George and Weedon Grossmith's Diary of a Nobody, also available in Penguin Classics. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Perfume Patrick Suskind (Author) Series:
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Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 224g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241420294 ISBN13: 978-0-241-42029-4 ISBN10: 0241420296 EAN: 9780241420294 x Description: 'Witty, stylish and ferociously absorbing' ObserverJean-Baptiste Grenouille is abandoned on the filthy streets of eighteenth-century Paris as a baby, but grows up to discover he has an extraordinary gift: a sense of smell more powerful than any other human's. Gradually he learns how to exploit this gift in the art of creating the most sublime perfumes in France. Yet there is one scent he cannot capture: the scent of an innocent young virgin. In order to perfect his experiments, he must have this final ingredient, at any cost. A cult international bestseller, Perfume is a bewitching, darkly humorous fable of desire, obsession and death. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
All My Cats Bohumil Hrabal (Author) Series:
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Language: English Translated From: Czech Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 96pp h198mm x w129mm x s5mm 78g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241422199 ISBN13: 978-0-241-42219-9 ISBN10: 0241422191 EAN: 9780241422199 x Description: 'One of the greatest European prose writers' Philip RothIn the autumn of 1965, Bohumil Hrabal bought a weekend cottage in the countryside east of Prague. There, until his death, he tended to an ever-growing, unruly community of cats. This is his confessional, tender and shocking meditation on the joys and torments of his life with them; how he became increasingly overwhelmed by the demands of the things he loved, even to the brink of madness.'Dark and strange ... It begins with warmth and fluffiness, but soon descends into Dostoevskian horror' Daily Telegraph'The Czech master exposed the animal within us' New Yorker _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Power: The Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984 Michel Foucault (Author) Series:
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 528pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 362g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241435083 ISBN13: 978-0-241-43508-3 ISBN10: 0241435080 EAN: 9780241435083 x Description: 'Who since Weber, or perhaps even Hobbes, has done as much to show why power is such a profound, elusive and treacherous presence throughout our experience?' The Times Higher EducationThe third and final volume of the Essential Works of Foucault series, Power brings together his writings on the issues that he helped make the core agenda of Western political culture: medicine, prisons, psychiatry, government and sexuality, in particular showing his concerns with human rights, discrimination and exclusion. It also includes articles and open letters published directly in response to the issues of the time, calling for reform in abortion, asylum and the death penalty. All the pieces here bring a new sense of Foucault's huge influence on the politics of personal freedom.Edited by James D. FaubionTranslated by Robert Hurley and Others _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth: Essential Works of Michel Foucault 19541984 Michel Foucault (Author) Series:
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 384pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 281g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241435090 ISBN13: 978-0-241-43509-0 ISBN10: 0241435099 EAN: 9780241435090 x Description: 'A fabulous journey through thirty years of political and intellectual ferment ... will reorient our reading of Foucault's major works' Didier EribonThe Essential Works of Michel Foucault offers the definitive collection of his articles, interviews and seminars from across thirty years of his extraordinary career. This first volume, Ethics, contains the summaries of Foucault's renowned courses at the College de France, as well as key writings and candid interviews on ethical matters: from the role of the intellectual and philosopher in society to friendship, sexuality and the care of the self and others.Edited by Paul RabinowTranslated by Robert Hurley and Others _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology: Essential Works of Foucault 19541984 Michel Foucault (Author) Series:
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 528pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 362g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241435113 ISBN13: 978-0-241-43511-3 ISBN10: 0241435110 EAN: 9780241435113 x Description: 'Foucault leaves no reader untouched or unchanged' Edward SaidAesthetics, the second volume of the complete collection of Michel Foucault's courses, articles and interviews, focuses on the philosophy, literature and art which informed his engagement with ethics and power, including brilliant commentaries on the work of de Sade, Rousseau, Marx, Magritte, Nietzsche, Freud and Wagner. He also explores a number of avant-garde authors who challenge our traditional notions of humanism, extends his theories on power relations and looks back over the whole of his extraordinary 'critical history of thought'.Edited by James D. FaubionTranslated by Robert Hurley and Others _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Foucault Reader Michel Foucault (Author) Series:
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 400pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 292g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241435144 ISBN13: 978-0-241-43514-4 ISBN10: 0241435145 EAN: 9780241435144 x Description: 'The most innovative and influential French thinker of the contemporary era' GuardianThis is the ideal introduction to one of the most significant and radical philosophers of the past century. It includes detailed excerpts from all of Foucault's major works, including Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality, as well as many of his most revealing interviews, covering subjects from madness to desire, art to the nature of truth. No other writer has made us think more about the structures of power and control in our society, both past and present.'Scarcely any philosopher working on the history of philosophy or historian working on the history of institutions, social science or sexuality can avoid confronting the challenge of Foucault's books' Michael IgnatieffEdited by Paul Rabinow _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the College de France, 1975-76 Michel Foucault (Author) Series:
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s19mm 247g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241435168 ISBN13: 978-0-241-43516-8 ISBN10: 0241435161 EAN: 9780241435168 x Description: 'Foucault must be reckoned with by humanists, social scientists, and political activists' The New York Times Book ReviewSociety Must Be Defended is Michel Foucault's devastating critique of the systems of power and control inherent in civilization. Taken from a series of lectures given by Foucault at the College de France in 1975-76, it reveals how war is the foundation of all power relations, and politics ultimately a continuation of battlefield violence. He offers a politically charged re-reading of history, with examples ranging from the Trojan myth to Nazi Germany, to show a continual, 'silent war' between the powerful and the powerless.'A timely and prescient book, mainly because of what it says about the way in which war is necessary as a means of control' New StatesmanTranslated by David Macey _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Metamorphosis and Other Stories Franz Kafka (Author) Michael Hofmann (Translated by) Series:
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Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 202g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241436240 ISBN13: 978-0-241-43624-0 ISBN10: 0241436249 EAN: 9780241436240 x Description: A collection of Kafka's greatest short fiction, translated by Michael HofmannKafka's masterpiece of unease and black humour, Metamorphosis, the story of an ordinary man transformed into an insect, is brought together in this collection with the rest of his works that he thought worthy of publication. It includes Contemplation, a collection of his earlier short studies; The Judgement, written in a single night of frenzied creativity; The Stoker, the first chapter of a novel set in America; and an eyewitness account of an air display. Together, these stories, fragments and miniature gems reveal the breadth of his vision, his sense of the absurd, and above all his acute, uncanny wit. Translated with an introduction by Michael Hofmann _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s11mm 145g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241436271 ISBN13: 978-0-241-43627-1 ISBN10: 0241436273 EAN: 9780241436271 x Description: 'One of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century' Michael CunninghamClarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Warren Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Smith's day interweaves with that of Clarissa and her friends, their lives converging as the party reaches its glittering climax. Virginia Woolf's masterly novel, in which she perfected the interior monologue, brings past, present and future together on one momentous day in June 1923. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 112pp h198mm x w129mm x s6mm 89g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241436288 ISBN13: 978-0-241-43628-8 ISBN10: 0241436281 EAN: 9780241436288 x Description: 'But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction - what has that got to do with a room of one's own?'A Room of One's Own grew out of a lecture that Virginia Woolf had been invited to give at Girton College, Cambridge in 1928 and became a landmark work of feminist thought. Covering everything from why a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write, to authors such as Jane Austen, Aphra Behn and the Bronte sisters, and the tragic story of Shakespeare's fictional sister Judith, it remains a passionate assertion for female creativity and independence in a world dominated by men. 'Fierce, energetic, humorous' Hermione Lee _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Orlando Virginia Woolf (Author) Sandra Gilbert (Introduction by) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 240pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 179g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241436301 ISBN13: 978-0-241-43630-1 ISBN10: 0241436303 EAN: 9780241436301 x Description: 'A fantasy, impossible but delicious ... an exuberance of life and wit' The Times Literary SupplementFirst masculine, then feminine, Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman, then gallops through the centuries to end up as a woman writer in Virginia Woolf's own time. Written for the charismatic, bisexual writer Vita Sackville-West, this playful mock biography of a chameleon-like historical figure is both a wry commentary on gender and, in Woolf's own words, a 'writer's holiday' which delights in its ambiguity and capriciousness.Edited by Brenda Lyons with an Introduction and Notes by Sandra M. Gilbert
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The Housing Lark Sam Selvon (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 144pp h198mm x w129mm x s8mm 112g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241441329 ISBN13: 978-0-241-44132-9 ISBN10: 0241441323 EAN: 9780241441329 x Description: 'Irreverent, spirited ... a seriously funny novel' New York Review of BooksSitting in his cramped basement room in Brixton, Battersby dreams of money, women, a T-bone steak - and a place to call his own. So he and a group of friends decide to save up and buy a house together. But amid grasping landlords, the temptations of spending money and the less-than-welcoming attitude of the Mother Country, can this motley group of hustlers and schemers, Trinidadians and Jamaicans, men and women make their dreams a reality? 'Selvon's meticulously observed narratives of displaced Londoners' lives created a template for how to write about migrant, and postmigrant, London for countless writers who have followed in his wake, including Hanif Kureishi and Zadie Smith' Caryl Phillips _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ferdinand, the Man with the Kind Heart Michael Hofmann (Translated by) Irmgard Keun (Author) Series:
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Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 192pp h196mm x w129mm x s10mm 143g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241441336 ISBN13: 978-0-241-44133-6 ISBN10: 0241441331 EAN: 9780241441336 x Description: 'A great writer' Ali SmithNewly translated by Michael Hofmann, the touching final novel from the author of Child of All Nations'I don't think I'm that unusual, and I don't think I'm crazy either'Bombed-out Cologne after the war is a strange place to be. The black market in jam and corsets is booming, half-destroyed houses offer opportunities for stealing doors and eggcups, and de-Nazification parties are all the rage. Ferdinand daydreamer, former prisoner of war, wearer of a curious jerkin - drifts around the city, observing life's absurdities, strenuously avoiding his fiancee and drinking brandy with his fabulous cousin. When he gets a job as a 'cheerful adviser' to those down on their luck, will Ferdinand's fortunes change too?Irmgard Keun's exuberantly funny and touching final novel takes the tiny moments of triumph and defeat in one man's life, and turns them into a moving portrait of the human spirit. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ceremony Leslie Marmon Silko (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 202g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241441640 ISBN13: 978-0-241-44164-0 ISBN10: 0241441641 EAN: 9780241441640 x Description: 'An exceptional novel ... a cause for celebration' Washington Post'The most accomplished Native American writer of her generation' The New York Times Book Review Tayo, a young Second World War veteran of mixed ancestry, is coming home. But, returning to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation, he finds himself scarred by his experiences as a prisoner of war, and further wounded by the rejection he finds among his own people. Only by rediscovering the traditions, stories and ceremonies of his ancestors can he start to heal, and find peace.'Ceremony is the greatest novel in Native American literature. It is one of the greatest novels of any time and place' Sherman Alexie _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Nostalgia Mircea Cartarescu (Author) Julian Semilian (Translated by) Series:
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Language: English Translated From: Romanian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 258g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241448915 ISBN13: 978-0-241-44891-5 ISBN10: 0241448913 EAN: 9780241448915 x Description: 'Cartarescu is one of the great literary voices of Central Europe' Olga Tokarczuk, Nobel Prize winner and author of Flights'A Danubian Narnia. . . his writing delivers a rainbow-hued riot of fantasy, imagination and invention' Boyd Tonkin, SpectatorA dreamlike novel of memory and magic, Nostalgia turns the dark world of Communist Bucharest into a place of strange enchantments. Here a man plays increasingly death-defying games of Russian Roulette, a child messiah works his magic in the tenements, a young man explores gender boundaries, a woman relives her youth and an architect becomes obsessed with the sound of his new car horn - with unexpected consequences. Blending reality and symbolism, time and myth, this is a cult masterwork from Romania's most celebrated writer. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Krull House Georges Simenon (Author) Howard Curtis (Translated by) Series:
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 208pp h198mm x w129mm x s12mm 157g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241453414 ISBN13: 978-0-241-45341-4 ISBN10: 0241453410 EAN: 9780241453414 x Description: 'Vintage Simenon, a dark masterpiece . . . eerily prophetic' John Banville, Guardian'It's not because you're foreigners. It's because you aren't foreign enough . . . or else that you are too foreign'Just as the Krull house sits on the edge of a rural French town, the family occupies a marginal place in the life of the community around them. Snubbed by the locals despite having lived there for decades, they rely on trade with passing sailors to earn a living. When their relative arrives unannounced from Germany, with his unsettling, nonchalant ways, the family becomes the target of increasing suspicion and the scapegoat for a terrible crime. Written on the eve of the Second World War, The Krull House is a taut, strangely prophetic novel about how distrust and hostility towards outsiders descends into hate-filled violence.'Simenon lays out with ruthless exactitude the way selfish, conscience-free greed exploits modest, hospitable decency . . . The world of Chez Krull is a common, shared one' Julian Barnes, London Review of Books _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Cancer Journals Audre Lorde (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 96pp h198mm x w129mm x s5mm 78g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241453506 ISBN13: 978-0-241-45350-6 ISBN10: 024145350X EAN: 9780241453506 x Description: 'A brave, beautiful book that could double as a handbook to accompany anyone on their journey through cancer' Jackie Kay, New StatesmanThe Cancer Journals is an intimate, poetic and invigorating account of the experience of breast cancer, from biopsy to mastectomy, told by the great feminist and activist Audre Lorde.Moving between journal entry, memoir, and essay, Lorde fuses the personal and political to reflect on the many questions breast cancer raises: questions of survival, sexuality, prosthesis and self-care. It is a journey of survival, friendship, and selfacceptance. 'Grief, terror, courage, the passion for survival and for more than survival, are here in the searchings of a great poet' Adrienne Rich'This book teaches me that with one breast or none, I am still me' Alice Walker _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Box Man Kobo Abe (Author) E. Dale Saunders (Translated by) Series:
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Language: English Translated From: Japanese Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 160pp h198mm x w129mm x s9mm 123g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241454596 ISBN13: 978-0-241-45459-6 ISBN10: 024145459X EAN: 9780241454596 x Description: 'A spellbinder from beginning to end, an edgy masterpiece' Chicago Sun Times'This is the record of a box man'. Anonymous and alone, the box man peeps out of his cut-out eyeholes and watches the world from behind his four cardboard walls. At first repulsed by the strange phenomenon of people who have decided to abandon society and live in boxes on the Tokyo streets, he has found himself drawn into the anonymity and voyeurism of their life. As he becomes obsessed with spying on a young nurse, his identity slips away, in Kobo Abe's eerie, disorienting and seductive masterpiece of unease.'Funny, sad and destructive ... an invention with its own crazy pull, it gnaws at the reader ... a stunning addition to the literature of eccentricity' The New York Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Ruined Map Kobo Abe (Author) E. Dale Saunders (Translated by) Series:
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Language: English Translated From: Japanese Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 240pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 179g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241454602 ISBN13: 978-0-241-45460-2 ISBN10: 0241454603 EAN: 9780241454602 x Description: 'A brilliant display of pyrotechnics, a compelling tour de force ... by a master jeweller of polished prose' The New York TimesA private detective is hired to find a missing person, but nothing is normal about this case. Why has the beautiful, alcoholic wife of the vanished salesman waited over half a year to search for him? Why are the only clues a photo and a matchbox? As the investigator's ever-more puzzling hunt takes him into the labyrinthine depths of the urban underworld, he begins to wonder if it is in fact he who is lost. An intoxicating blend of noir thriller and surreal dream, The Ruined Map questions identity itself.'An exciting, imaginative and entertaining novel' San Francisco Chronicle _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Secret Rendezvous Kobo Abe (Author) Juliet Winters Carpenter (Translated by) Series:
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Language: English Translated From: Japanese Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s11mm 145g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241454619 ISBN13: 978-0-241-45461-9 ISBN10: 0241454611 EAN: 9780241454619 x Description: 'A gorgeously entertaining, provocative book' Chicago TribuneIt is 4am when the ambulance comes to take the man's wife away although no-one has called it, and there is nothing wrong with her. As he sets out to find her, he finds himself in the corridors of a vast underground hospital, where he encounters sinister medics, freakish sexual experiments and the unmistakable feeling of being watched. Even when he is suddenly appointed as the hospital's chief of security, reporting to a man who thinks he is a horse, he will not give up his search. Secret Rendezvous is a nightmarish satire of bureaucracy, medicine and modern life. 'Reads as if it were the collaborative effort of Hieronymus Bosch, Franz Kafka and Mel Brooks' Chicago Sun Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Corner That Held Them Sylvia Townsend Warner (Author) Series:
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28 Jan 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 258g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241454817 ISBN13: 978-0-241-45481-7 ISBN10: 0241454816 EAN: 9780241454817 x Description: 'One of the great British novels of the twentieth century: a narrative of extraordinary reach, power and beauty' Sarah WatersThe nuns who enter a medieval Norfolk convent are told to renounce the world, but the world still finds ways to trouble them, whether it is through fire, floods, pestilence, a collapsing spire, jealous rivalries, a priest with a secret or a plague of caterpillars. As we follow their daily lives over three centuries, this masterpiece of historical fiction re-creates a world run by women.'As an act of imagined history this novel has few rivals. Also, as it happens, a work of high, frequent comedy' George Steiner, The Times Literary Supplement'Spellbinding . . . One starts rereading as soon as one has reached the last page' Sunday Times'Magnificent' Philip Hensher, Daily Telegraph _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Summer Will Show Sylvia Townsend Warner (Author) Series:
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28 Jan 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 320pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 236g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241454848 ISBN13: 978-0-241-45484-8 ISBN10: 0241454840 EAN: 9780241454848 x Description: 'A novel of love, war and death; brilliantly entertaining and far ahead of its time' Guardian 'She is my husband's mistress - and here am I, taking her out to dinner'Sophia Willoughby of Blandamer House, upstanding Victorian matriarch, has packed her errant husband off to Paris with his mistress Minna. But when tragedy throws her life off balance Sophia goes to seek him out, and instead finds herself intensely attracted to the charismatic, bohemian Minna, who leads her on a wild, chaotic adventure through a city in the throes of revolution.'One of the great under-read British novelists of the twentieth century. This is my favourite of her novels' Sarah Waters'Every page contains something brilliant, arresting or amusing, and one comes away from it staggered' Claire Harman _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Lolly Willowes Sylvia Townsend Warner (Author) Series:
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01 Oct 2020
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 176pp h198mm x w129mm x s9mm 134g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241454886 ISBN13: 978-0-241-45488-6 ISBN10: 0241454883 EAN: 9780241454886 x Description: 'A great shout of life and individuality ... an act of defiance that gladdens the soul' Guardian Lolly Willowes, so gentle and accommodating, has depths no one suspects. When she suddenly announces that she is leaving London and moving, alone, to the depths of the countryside, her overbearing relatives are horrified. But Lolly has a greater, far darker calling than family: witchcraft. 'The book I'll be pressing into people's hands forever . . . It tells the story of a woman who rejects the life that society has fixed for her in favour of freedom ... tips suddenly into extraordinary, lucid wildness' Helen McDonald'Witty, eerie, tender ... her prose, in its simple, abrupt evocations, has something preternatural about it' John Updike _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Child, the Family, and the Outside World D. W. Winnicott (Author) Series:
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25 Jan 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 256pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 191g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241455685 ISBN13: 978-0-241-45568-5 ISBN10: 0241455685 EAN: 9780241455685 x Description: 'The greatest British psychoanalyst who ever lived. He writes beautifully and simply about the problems of everyday life' Alain de BottonThe paediatrician and child psychiatrist D. W. Winnicott changed the way we think about childhood by placing the parent-infant relationship at the heart of human happiness, and by encouraging mothers and fathers to trust their own instincts. In this landmark work he follows the development of
a child from their first weeks to finding their place in the wider world, touching on everything from crying and feeding to shyness, jealousy, independence and anger. His plain-speaking, humane and non-judgemental approach continues to influence our understanding of parenting today. 'His style is lucid, his manner friendly, and his years of experience provide much wise insight into child behaviour and parental attitudes' British Journal of Psychology _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Childhood, Youth, Dependency: The Copenhagen Trilogy Tove Ditlevsen (Author) Series:
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26 Jan 2021
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Language: English Translated From: Danish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 384pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 281g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241457573 ISBN13: 978-0-241-45757-3 ISBN10: 0241457572 EAN: 9780241457573 x Description: 'Utterly, agonisingly compulsive ... a masterpiece' Liz Jensen, GuardianFollowing one woman's journey from a troubled girlhood in working-class Copenhagen through her struggle to live on her own terms, The Copenhagen Trilogy is a searingly honest, utterly immersive portrayal of love, friendship, art, ambition and the terrible lure of addiction, from one of Denmark's most celebrated twentieth-century writers.'Sharp, tough and tender ... wrenching sadness and pitch-black comedy ... Ditlevsen can pivot from hilarity to heartbreak in a trice' Boyd Tonkin Spectator'Astonishing, honest, entirely revealing and, in the end, devastating. Ditlevsen's trilogy is remarkable not only for its honesty and lyricism; these are books that journey deep into the darkest reaches of human experience and return, fatally wounded, but still eloquent' Observer'The best books I have read this year. These volumes slip in like a stiletto and do their work once inside. Thrilling' New Statesman _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Left-Handed Woman Peter Handke (Author) Series:
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06 Aug 2020
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 80pp h198mm x w129mm x s4mm 67g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241457672 ISBN13: 978-0-241-45767-2 ISBN10: 024145767X EAN: 9780241457672 x Description: WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE'One of Europe's great writers' Karl Ove KnausgaardOne evening Marianne, a suburban housewife living in an identikit bungalow, is struck by the realization that her husband will leave her. Whether at that moment, or in years to come, she will be deserted. So she sends him away, knowing she must fend for herself and her young son. As she adjusts to her disorienting new life alone, what she thought was fear slowly starts to feel like freedom.'Knifelike clarity of evocation ... Handke is a kind of nature poet, a romantic whose exacerbated nerves cling like pained ivy to the landscape' John UpdikeTranslated by Ralph Manheim _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Repetition Peter Handke (Author) Series:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 168g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241457689 ISBN13: 978-0-241-45768-9 ISBN10: 0241457688 EAN: 9780241457689 x Description: WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE'Repetition made a great and, as I have since learned, lasting impression on me' W. G. SebaldFilip Kobal, an Austrian teenager, is on the trail of his missing older brother Gregor, who he never knew. All he has is two of Gregor's books: a school copy book, and a dictionary in which certain words have been marked. As he enters Slovenia on his journey, Filip discovers something else entirely: the transformative power of language to describe the world, and the unnerving joy of being an outsider in a strange land.'One of the most moving evocations I have ever read of what it means to be alive, to walk upon this earth' Gabriel JosipoviciTranslated by Ralph Manheim _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Goalkeeper's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick Peter Handke (Author) Series:
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06 Aug 2020
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 96pp h198mm x w129mm x s5mm 78g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241457696 ISBN13: 978-0-241-45769-6 ISBN10: 0241457696 EAN: 9780241457696 x Description: WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE'Portrays the breakdown of a murderer in ways that recall Camus' The Stranger' The New York TimesJoseph Bloch, a once-famous goalkeeper turned construction worker, commits a random murder without thought or regret. As he wanders the streets, from hotel to bar, cinema to tram stop, experiencing strange and violent encounters on the way, he finds himself, and everything around him, disintegrating. Told in spare and icy prose, Peter Handke's masterpiece of alienation takes apart our ideas of humanity and reality itself.'A Kafkaesque crime novel' Los Angeles TimesTranslated by Michael Roloff _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Old Masters: A Comedy Thomas Bernhard (Author) Series:
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01 Oct 2020
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 256pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 191g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241459423 ISBN13: 978-0-241-45942-3 ISBN10: 0241459427 EAN: 9780241459423 x Description: 'Bernhard is one of the masters of contemporary European fiction'George SteinerOld Masters (1985) is Thomas Bernhard's devilishly funny story about the friendship between two old men.For over thirty years Reger, a music critic, has sat on the same bench in front of a Tintoretto painting in a Viennese museum, thinking and railing against contemporary society, his fellow men, artists, the weather, even the state of public lavatories. His friend Atzbacher has been summoned to meet him, and through his eyes we learn more about Reger - the tragic death of his wife, his thoughts of suicide and, eventually, the true purpose of their appointment. At once pessimistic and exuberant, rancorous and hilarious, Old Masters is a
richly satirical portrait of culture, genius, nationhood, class, the value of art and the pretensions of humanity. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mercies: Selected Poems Anne Sexton (Author) Series:
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05 Nov 2020
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 202g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241460399 ISBN13: 978-0-241-46039-9 ISBN10: 0241460395 EAN: 9780241460399 x Description: The ground-breaking work of the poet who paved the way for generations of women writers, in a new selection by her daugher and literary executor, Linda Gray SextonWhen Anne Sexton took her own life in October 1974, she left behind a body of work which had already, in less than two decades of writing, won her the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, established her as one of the foremost voices of her generation, and shocked America by breaking multiple taboos of subject matter, from insanity, depression and addiction to menstruation, adultery and the figure of the witch.Sexton's name is legendary. Her poetry is read around the world, translated into over thirty languages, and in her own country remains a touchstone for poets and readers looking for rawness of perception, vitality of expression, confessional frankness and fiery passion. Yet, incredibly, there has been no new UK edition of her work for decades. In Mercies, readers are provided with a resonant new selection from the writings of this natural phenomenon of a poet. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Because They Wanted To Mary Gaitskill (Author) Series:
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05 Nov 2020
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 256pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 191g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241464144 ISBN13: 978-0-241-46414-4 ISBN10: 0241464145 EAN: 9780241464144 x Description: 'A perfectly formed set of stories about alienation in modern times' Independent'Mesmerizing - almost ecstatic' The New York TimesMary Gaitskill's coolly compelling, quietly devastating stories explore the messy complexity of relationships between lovers, families and friends. An unsettling encounter on a plane; a tentative affair between an older woman and a younger man; the chasm between a father and his daughter: each expresses our longing for, and our fear of, human connection. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Two Girls, Fat and Thin Mary Gaitskill (Author) Series:
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01 Apr 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 320pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 236g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241464151 ISBN13: 978-0-241-46415-1 ISBN10: 0241464153 EAN: 9780241464151
x Description: The intense, caustically funny first novel from the bestselling author of Bad Behaviour'Dark, menacing and original' Joanna Briscoe, GuardianDorothy Never - fat - lives alone in New York, eats and works the night shift as a proofreader. Justine Shade - thin - is a freelance journalist who sleeps with unsuitable men. Both are isolated. Both are damaged by their pasts. When Justine interviews Dorothy about her involvement with an infamous and charismatic philosophical guru, the two women are drawn together with an intense magnetism that throws their lives off balance. Mary Gaitskill's first novel is an intense, darkly funny and caustic portrayal of loneliness and the search for intimacy.'What makes her scary, and what makes her exciting, is her ability to evoke the hidden life, the life unseen, the life we don't even know we are living' Parul Sehgal, The New York Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Selected Poems: 1968-1996 Joseph Brodsky (Author) Ann Kjellberg (Edited by) Series:
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05 May 2020
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s11mm 145g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241464823 ISBN13: 978-0-241-46482-3 ISBN10: 024146482X EAN: 9780241464823 x Description: 'Brodsky charged at the world . . . there is no voice, no vision, remotely like it' The New York Times Book ReviewSelf-educated, intense, impulsive and unmoored, Joseph Brodsky emerged in mid-century Russia as a poetic virtuoso, recognized by such greats as Anna Akhmatova as their worthy heir. He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972. Together, the poems in this volume unfold the project that, as Brodsky saw it, the condition of exile presented: 'to set the next man - however theoretical he and his needs may be - a bit more free.'This edition includes poems translated by Derek Walcott, Richard Wilbur and Anthony Hecht, and poems written in English or translated by the author himself. It surveys Brodsky's tumultuous life and illustrious career, and showcases his most notable and poignant work as a poet.Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Edited and introduced by Ann Kjellberg _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Bolivian Diary Ernesto Che Guevara (Author) Series:
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02 Sep 2021
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Language: English Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 202g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241465073 ISBN13: 978-0-241-46507-3 ISBN10: 0241465079 EAN: 9780241465073 x Description: 'Guevara was a figure of epic proportions. These diaries, stark and moving, will be his most enduring monument' ObserverThe final diaries of Che Guevara begin in 1966, when he travelled to Bolivia to foment a revolution, and end just two days before his death in October 1967. They form an unvarnished account of his guerrilla campaign against CIA-backed Bolivian troops, fighting in the jungle and keeping his men's spirits up - even as the struggle started to fail. Found in Guevara's backpack and smuggled to Cuba after his execution, The Bolivian Diary is an inspiring record of, and a moving memorial to, a revolutionary life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Guerrilla Warfare Ernesto Che Guevara (Author) Series:
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02 Sep 2021
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Language: English Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 144pp h198mm x w129mm x s8mm 112g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241465080 ISBN13: 978-0-241-46508-0 ISBN10: 0241465087 EAN: 9780241465080 x Description: 'Guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people'First published in 1961, following the successful Cuban Revolution, this is Che Guevara's handbook for guerrilla war.It covers strategy, tactics, terrain, organization of an army, logistics, field medical treatment, intelligence, propaganda and training, and focuses on seven 'golden rules' of guerrilla warfare. Widely studied both by insurrectionist movements and those who have tried to suppress them, this is the key text to understand how revolutions can be fought and won by ordinary people. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War Ernesto Che Guevara (Author) Series:
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07 Oct 2021
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Language: English Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 249g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241465097 ISBN13: 978-0-241-46509-7 ISBN10: 0241465095 EAN: 9780241465097 x Description: 'Powerful and poetic ... For anyone interested in the myth of Che Guevara ... this book is essential reading' Colm Toibin, Observer'We were an army of shadows, of ghosts, walking as if to the beat of some dark psychic mechanism...'The Cuban Revolution changed the course of the twentieth century. Following years of brutal tyranny and poverty, a band of idealistic young people fought against immense odds to overthrow a dictator and emerged victorious. This is the story of how they did it. Che Guevara's classic eyewitness account chronicles the transformation of a country, and of Che himself, from troop doctor to revolutionary icon.'Che's life is an inspiration for every human being who loves freedom' Nelson Mandela _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Motorcycle Diaries Ernesto Che Guevara (Author) Series:
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29 Jul 2021
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Language: English Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 176pp h198mm x w129mm x s9mm 134g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241465103 ISBN13: 978-0-241-46510-3 ISBN10: 0241465109 EAN: 9780241465103 x Description: 'A Latin American James Dean or Jack Kerouac' Washington Post'It's true; Marxists just wanna have fun... a revolutionary bestseller' GuardianAt the age of twenty-three, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado set out from their native Argentina to explore their continent, with only a single 1939 Norton motorcycle to carry them, nicknamed La Poderosa ('the powerful one'). They travelled not to visit the usual tourist attractions, but to meet ordinary people and understand Latin American life. In amidst the tales of youthful adventures - of women, wine, thrilling escapes and the power of friendship - the young Che also learns first-hand about poverty, philosophy and philosophy and forms himself into the man who would become the world's most famous and admired revolutionary and freedom fighter. 'For every comic escapade of the carefree roustabout there is an equally eye-opening moment in the development of the future revolutionary leader. By the end of the journey, a politicized Guevara has emerged to predict his own legendary future' Time _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Trouble With Being Born E. M. Cioran (Author) Richard Howard (Translated by) Richard Howard (Translated by) Series:
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29 Oct 2020
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s11mm 145g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241467275 ISBN13: 978-0-241-46727-5 ISBN10: 0241467276 EAN: 9780241467275 x Description: 'Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately it is within no one's reach.'In The Trouble With Being Born, E. M. Cioran grapples with the major questions of human existence: birth, death, God, the passing of time, how to relate to others and how to make ourselves get out of bed in the morning.In a series of interlinking aphorisms which are at once pessimistic, poetic and extremely funny, Cioran finds a kind of joy in his own despair, revelling in the absurdity and futility of our existence, and our inability to live in the world.Translated by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and critic Richard Howard, The Trouble With Being Born is a provocative, illuminating testament to a singular mind. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Great Crash 1929 John Kenneth Galbraith (Author) James K. Galbraith (Introduction by) Series:
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06 May 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 208pp h200mm x w132mm x s14mm 158g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241468081 ISBN13: 978-0-241-46808-1 ISBN10: 0241468086 EAN: 9780241468081 x Description: 'One of the most engrossing books I have ever read' Daily TelegraphJohn Kenneth Galbraith's now-classic account of the 1929 stock market collapse remains the definitive book on the most disastrous cycle of boom and bust in modern times.Vividly depicting the causes, effects, aftermath and long-term consequences of financial meltdown, Galbraith also describes the people and the corporations who were affected by the catastrophe. With its depiction of the 'gold-rush fantasy' ingrained in America's psychology, The Great Crash 1929 remains a penetrating study of human greed and folly. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Raising Demons Shirley Jackson (Author) Series:
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04 Mar 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 320pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 236g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241473009 ISBN13: 978-0-241-47300-9 ISBN10: 0241473004 EAN: 9780241473009 x Description: 'Hilarious, subversive, sharp without being lethal, and loving without an ounce of sentiment, Shirley Jackson's more-or-less autobiographical account of life as a mother of four and faculty wife (and brilliant writer) is an eternal, comic joy' Amy Bloom'Our new house was waiting for us, eager, expectant, and empty'Shirley Jackson skewered the trials of domestic life in 1950s America with wry wit and uncanny precision. In this sequel to Life Among the Savages, her four offspring have now grown into fully-fledged demons. As their house starts to burst at the seams, the Jackson clan somehow manage (without really planning it) to move into a larger home, only to take the chaos - absent furniture, vanishing children, misbehaving refrigerators, an avalanche of books - right along with them. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Christmas Memory Truman Capote (Author) Series:
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27 Oct 2022
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 112pp h198mm x w129mm B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241474426 ISBN13: 978-0-241-47442-6 ISBN10: 0241474426 EAN: 9780241474426 x Description: Tender and bittersweet, these stories by Truman Capote, the author of Breakfast at Tiffany's,are a captivating tribute to the Christmas season'We set about choosing a tree. "It should be," muses my friend, "twice as tall as a boy. So a boy can't steal the star."'Selected from across Truman Capote's writing life, these Christmas stories range from nostalgic, semi-autobiographical portraits of childhood to more unsettling tales of darkness beneath the festive glitter. In the Deep South of Capote's youth, a young boy, Buddy, and his beloved maiden 'aunt' Sook forage for pecans
and whiskey to bake into fruitcakes, make kites - too broke to buy gifts - and rise before dawn to prepare feasts for a ragged assembly of guests; while in other stories, a lonely woman has a troubling encounter in wintry New York and an unlikely festive miracle, of sorts, occurs at a local drugstore.Brimming with feeling, these sparkling tales convey both the wonder and the chill of Christmas time. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Trials of Rumpole John Mortimer (Author) Series:
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25 Mar 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 208pp h198mm x w129mm x s12mm 157g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241474433 ISBN13: 978-0-241-47443-3 ISBN10: 0241474434 EAN: 9780241474433 x Description: 'I thank heaven for small mercies. The first of these is Rumpole' Clive JamesHorace Rumpole, the irrepressible barrister fuelled by cigars, Tennyson, steak-and-kidney pud and the cooking claret from Pommeroy's wine bar, is back for further misadventures. Amid an unfortunate and temporary downturn in London crime, the Old Bailey Hack sits in Chambers (he never writes at home for fear of She Who Must Be Obeyed) and picks up his pen to recount six classic tales of his recent trials. Here he deals with, among others, a clergyman on a shoplifting rampage, a backstage theatrical murder, a villain with unfortunate sartorial taste and, worst of all, the possibility that he may have to hang up his wig and retire. 'Rumpole, like Jeeves and Sherlock Holmes, is immortal' P. D. James _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Rumpole's Return John Mortimer (Author) Series:
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04 Nov 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 160pp h198mm x w129mm x s8mm 123g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241474440 ISBN13: 978-0-241-47444-0 ISBN10: 0241474442 EAN: 9780241474440 x Description: 'A fruity, foxy masterpiece, defender of our wilting faith in mankind' Sunday TimesHorace Rumpole is in a strange state that could only be described as a kind of air-conditioned purgatory: he has retired to Florida with his wife, Hilda (She Who Must Be Obeyed). It is safely assumed the Old Bailey hack's wig has been hung up for good. But when a rather unkempt civil servant is mixed up in the mysterious death of a minor aristocrat, Rumpole seizes the opportunity to escape a life of leisure. He is soon back in court (via a budget airline) to do battle once more with Judge 'Mad Bull' Bullingham. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
After the Death of Don Juan Sylvia Townsend Warner (Author) Series:
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25 Mar 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 240pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 179g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241476079 ISBN13: 978-0-241-47607-9 ISBN10: 0241476070 EAN: 9780241476079
x Description: 'She has a talent amounting to genius' John UpdikeDon Juan, that notorious libertine, has disappeared. Has he been dragged down to hell by demons, as rumoured - or has he escaped? Dona Ana, the woman he tried to seduce, will stop at nothing to discover the truth. Set in a rural eighteenth-century Spain rife with suspicion and cruelty, and featuring a glorious cast of peasants, aristocrats and vengeful ghosts, this moving, surprising tragicomedy is also Sylvia Townsend Warner's response to the dark days of the Spanish Civil War.'The kind of novelist who inspires an intense sense of ownership in her fans' Sarah Waters _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Flint Anchor Sylvia Townsend Warner (Author) Series:
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25 Mar 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s19mm 247g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241476086 ISBN13: 978-0-241-47608-6 ISBN10: 0241476089 EAN: 9780241476086 x Description: 'A comic masterpiece' Patrick Gale, GuardianPillar of society and stern upholder of Victorian values, god-fearing Norfolk merchant John Barnard presides over a large and largely unhappy family. This is their story - his brandy-swilling wife, their hapless offspring and their changing fortunes - over the decades. Sylvia Townsend Warner's last novel, The Flint Anchor gloriously overturns our ideas of history, family and storytelling itself.'A novel created with solidity and subtlety of feeling, a fusion of warmth, wit and quietly biting shrewdness that are reminiscent of Jane Austen' Atlantic Review'As a sustained work of historical imagination, it has few rivals ... one of the most acute and intelligent writers of her age' Claire Harman _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mr Fortune's Maggot Sylvia Townsend Warner (Author) Series:
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25 Feb 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 160pp h198mm x w129mm x s8mm 123g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241476093 ISBN13: 978-0-241-47609-3 ISBN10: 0241476097 EAN: 9780241476093 x Description: 'Witty, poetic, clairvoyant' John UpdikeThe Reverend Timothy Fortune, ex-clerk of the Hornsey branch of Lloyds Bank, has found his vocation: to convert the inhabitants of the remote tropical island of Fanua to Christianity. Even when everyone except for a young boy called Lueli remains indifferent to his preaching, Mr Fortune's good spirits cannot be dampened - until one day his faith is put to a terrible test.'This quizzical tale is so intensely moving' Gillian Beer, New Statesman'Original, elegant and hypnotically strange' Miranda Seymour, The New York Times'Sylvia Townsend Warner pursues the psychology of the story with beautiful accuracy' John Carey _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The True Heart Sylvia Townsend Warner (Author) Series:
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25 Feb 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 208pp h198mm x w129mm x s12mm 157g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241476109 ISBN13: 978-0-241-47610-9 ISBN10: 0241476100 EAN: 9780241476109 x Description: 'The kind of novelist who inspires an intense sense of ownership in her fans ... her sympathies tended naturally to the marginal, the vulnerable, the exploited, the obscure' Sarah WatersSukey Bond, a sixteen-year-old orphan, is sent to work as a servant at a farm on the remote Essex Marshes. There she falls in love with gentle, unworldly Eric, the son of the rector's wife, only for them to be separated when their relationship is discovered. But nothing will deter Sukey in her quest to be reunited with her true love, even if it means seeking the help of Queen Victoria herself.'One of our most idiosyncratic, courageous and versatile writers' Hermione Lee 'One can't be too thankful that Miss Townsend Warner has lived to discover the alchemist's secret of transmuting the past into pure gold' Hilary Spurling _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Songs of Mihyar the Damascene Adonis (Author) Kareem James Abu-Zeid (Translated by) Ivan Eubanks (Translated by) Series:
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25 Feb 2021
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Language: English Translated From: Arabic Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 256pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 191g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241483558 ISBN13: 978-0-241-48355-8 ISBN10: 0241483557 EAN: 9780241483558 x Description: 'The greatest living poet of the Arab world' GuardianCloud, mirror, stone, thunder, eyelid, desert, sea. Through a dead or dying land, Mihyar walks: a figure of heroic individualism and dissent, part-Orpheus, part-Zarathustra. Where he goes, the austere building-blocks of his world become the expressions of passionate emotion, of visionary exaltation and despairing melancholy. The traditions of the Ancient Greeks, the Bible and the Quran flow about and through him.Written in the cosmopolitan Beirut of the early 1960s, Adonis's Songs of Mihyar the Damascene did for Arabic poetry what The Waste Land did for English. These are poems against authoritarianism and dogma, in which a new Noah would abandon his ark to dive with the condemned, and in which surrealism and Sufi mysticism meet and intertwine. The result is a masterpiece of world literature.Translated by Kareem James Abu Zeid and Ivan Eubanks'The most eloquent spokesman and explorer of Arabic modernity' Edward Said _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fremder Russell Hoban (Author) Series:
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Pub Date:
29 Apr 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 208pp h197mm x w130mm x s10mm 158g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241485699 ISBN13: 978-0-241-48569-9 ISBN10: 024148569X EAN: 9780241485699 x Description: 'Recalls Orwell's 1984 and Wells's The Time Machine ... a revelation' GuardianOn 4 November 2052, Fremder Gorn is discovered drifting in deep space. He has no spacesuit, no helmet, no oxygen, but he is still alive: the sole survivor from the mysteriously vanished ship Clever Daughter. How did he get here? To find out, Fremder must search through memory, dream and the unknowable fragments of his own mind. 'A wildly imaginative piece of science fiction' The Times'Unputdownable, moving, ingenious ... it will remain in my head with troubling images and scenes for a long time' A. N. Wilson, Evening Standard _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Kleinzeit Russell Hoban (Author) Series:
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Pub Date:
25 Mar 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 208pp h198mm x w129mm x s12mm 157g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241485705 ISBN13: 978-0-241-48570-5 ISBN10: 0241485703 EAN: 9780241485705 x Description: 'An original ... a delight to read' The TimesOn an ordinary day in a strangely unfamiliar London, Kleinzeit is fired from his advertising job and told he must go to hospital with a skewed hypotenuse. There on Ward A4, he falls in love with the divine, rosy-cheeked Sister and is sent spinning into a quest involving, among other things, a glockenspiel, sheets of yellow paper, Orpheus, the Underground and that dirty chimpanzee, Death.'Kleinzeit, is a sort of holy fool, a fierce, lonely intelligence desperately trying to make sense of a hopeless world. A tour de force ... entirely delightful' Auberon Waugh, Evening Standard _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz Russell Hoban (Author) Series:
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Pub Date:
25 Mar 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s11mm 145g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241485712 ISBN13: 978-0-241-48571-2 ISBN10: 0241485711 EAN: 9780241485712 x Description: 'A piece of invention as original as any of Tolkien's or C.S. Lewis's' New Statesman'I have gone to look for a lion.' In a world where lions have become extinct, the map-maker Jachin-Boaz nevertheless abandons his wife and son to find one, leaving just this note. But his decision has unexpected consequences. He will be pursued by his son, Boaz-Jachin, and by something else: a tawny-skinned, amber-eyed beast from another place and time, a bringer of life and death.'Magic at work ... Funny as well as beautiful' Irish Times'Hoban is unclassifiable, thank goodness. His narrative is so minutely and compellingly realistic that after a time you cease to notice that he has stood reality on its head' Sunday Times
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The Medusa Frequency Russell Hoban (Author) Series:
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Pub Date:
29 Apr 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 176pp h197mm x w130mm x s9mm 136g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241485729 ISBN13: 978-0-241-48572-9 ISBN10: 024148572X EAN: 9780241485729 x Description: 'Sparkles with classical allusions and a wisecracking humour ... it is pure joy' Daily TelegraphIt all begins the night a leaflet comes through the door of unsuccessful novelist Herman Orff, promising a magical cure for writer's block. The strange treatment plunges him into a hallucinatory London dreamworld populated by figures mythical and real: a severed talking head, Vermeer's girl with a pearl earring, his lost love Luise and, beneath it all, the Kraken awaiting. As Herman will discover, creating art is a tough business.'One of his most accessibly entertaining books' The Times'Short, smart and fizzy, the novel seeks out the roots of creativity with none of the solemnity that phrase implies' New Statesman _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mr Rinyo-Clacton's Offer Russell Hoban (Author) Series:
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Pub Date:
29 Apr 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 192pp h198mm x w130mm x s10mm 146g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241485736 ISBN13: 978-0-241-48573-6 ISBN10: 0241485738 EAN: 9780241485736 x Description: 'Russell Hoban's imagination knows no bounds ... darkly funny and profound' The Times'You want to buy my death for a million pounds!' Piccadilly Circus tube station is an unlikely location for a pact with the Devil, but this is where Jonathan Fitch first meets Mr Rinyo-Clacton. Devastated after his girlfriend Serafina has left him, Jonathan agrees that this mysterious stranger will pay him a million pounds for a year, if he agrees to die at the end of it. What could possibly go wrong?'A poignant and engaging fable of ownership and surrender' Philip Hensher, Mail on Sunday'Nothing is accidental or optional in this jewelled clockwork egg of a book ... Hoban is a hugely skilled, moving and endlessly entertaining writer' The Times Literary Supplement _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Pilgermann Russell Hoban (Author) Series:
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Pub Date:
25 Mar 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 288pp h198mm x w129mm x s16mm 213g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241485743 ISBN13: 978-0-241-48574-3 ISBN10: 0241485746 EAN: 9780241485743 x Description: 'Superb ... Pilgermann is history, metaphysics, a tangle of mysteries, profound and simple' GuardianIt is 1097 and a traveller arrives in the great, walled city of Antioch with a vision of a beautiful and mysterious geometric design that will change the lives of all those who see it.
Pilgermann is a mesmerising recreation of the world of the Crusades, following its unlikely hero and those he meets on a journey of picaresque horror across a Europe of hatreds, visions and a desperate wish for salvation.'A dark treatise on the mysterious nature of things ... The world according to Pilgermann is a brutish place borrowing from Hieronymus Bosch, pilgrimage narrative, allegory and the historical novel' The New York Times Book Review'A strange and beautiful work' Evening Standard _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Riddley Walker Russell Hoban (Author) Series:
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29 Apr 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 272pp h197mm x w129mm x s15mm 201g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241485750 ISBN13: 978-0-241-48575-0 ISBN10: 0241485754 EAN: 9780241485750 x Description: 'This is what literature is meant to be' Anthony Burgess'O what we ben! And what we come to...' Wandering a desolate post-apocalyptic landscape, speaking a broken-down English lost after the end of civilization, Riddley Walker sets out to find out what brought humanity here. This is his story.'Funny, terrible, haunting and unsettling, this book is a masterpiece' Observer'A timeless portrayal of the human condition ... frightening and uncanny' Will Self'A book that I could read every day forever and still be finding things' Max Porter _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Turtle Diary Russell Hoban (Author) Series:
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25 Mar 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 208pp h198mm x w129mm x s12mm 157g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241485767 ISBN13: 978-0-241-48576-7 ISBN10: 0241485762 EAN: 9780241485767 x Description: 'Wonderful, life-saving ... places Russell Hoban among the greatest, timeless novelists' The TimesBorn to swim thousands of miles in the ocean, the giant sea turtles are now trapped in a tank of golden-green water at London Zoo. But not for much longer. Two lonely people, a bookseller and a children's illustrator, have begun thinking turtle thoughts. As they come together to hatch a plan to release the turtles into the sea, their diaries reveal how they find their own lives changing in imperceptible and quite unintended ways.'Crackles with witty detail, mordant intelligence and selfdeprecating irony' Time'This lovely human fable seems to me one of the best things of its kind - a fine and touching achievement' John Fowles _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Bomber Len Deighton (Author) Series:
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Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
20 May 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 496pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 340g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241493700 ISBN13: 978-0-241-49370-0 ISBN10: 0241493706 EAN: 9780241493700
x Description: 'Probably the best thing ever written about the wartime air campaign against Germany' Max Hastings'Magnificent ... rich with historical detail' The Times31 June, 1943. An RAF crew prepare for their next bombing raid on Germany. It is a night that many will never forget. Len Deighton's devastating novel is a gripping minute-by-minute account of what happens over the next twenty-four hours. Told through the eyes of ordinary people in the air and on the ground - from a young pilot to the inhabitants of a small town in the Ruhr - Bomber is an unforgettable portrayal of individuals caught up in the wreckage of war.'A superbly mobilised tragedy of the machines which men make to destroy themselves. Masterly' Spectator _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Berlin Game Len Deighton (Author) Series:
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Pub Date:
27 May 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 224g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241505144 ISBN13: 978-0-241-50514-4 ISBN10: 0241505143 EAN: 9780241505144 x Description: 'Masterly ... dazzlingly intelligent and subtle' Sunday Times'Deighton's best novel to date - sharp, witty and sour, like Raymond Chandler adapted to British gloom and the multiple betrayals of the spy' ObserverEmbattled agent Bernard Samson is used to being passed over for promotion as his younger, more ambitious colleagues - including his own wife Fiona - rise up the ranks of MI6. When a valued agent in East Berlin warns the British of a mole at the heart of the Service, Samson must return to the field and the city he loves to uncover the traitor's identity. This is the first novel in Len Deighton's acclaimed, Game, Set and Match trilogy.A BERNARD SAMSON NOVEL _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Billion-Dollar Brain Len Deighton (Author) Series:
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Pub Date:
29 Apr 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 224g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241505168 ISBN13: 978-0-241-50516-8 ISBN10: 024150516X EAN: 9780241505168 x Description: 'Dazzlingly intelligent and subtle' Sunday Times'Worth of Raymond Chandler ... intelligent, inventive, constantly entertaining' Sunday TelegraphTexan billionaire General Midwinter will stop at nothing to bring down the USSR - even if it puts the whole world at risk. The fourth and final novel featuring the cynical, insolent narrator of The IPCRESS File sees him sent from his shabby Soho office to bone-freezing Helsinki in order to penetrate Midwinter's vast anti-Communist network - and stop a deadly virus from wiping out the planet. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk Len Deighton (Author) Series:
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Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Jul 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 432pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 315g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241505212 ISBN13: 978-0-241-50521-2 ISBN10: 0241505216 EAN: 9780241505212 x Description: 'Deighton has a desire, unobtrusive but inflexible, to see the truth ... Blitzkrieg is full of insights' Financial TimesThis is the story of the Nazi conquest of western Europe, from Hitler's rise to power and 'lightning-fast war', to his fatal mistake in halting the German advance on Dunkirk in 1940. Drawing on technical mastery and interviews with both Allied and German participants, Blitzkrieg sets out the technical thinking behind the attack and the weapons that made it possible. It is a compelling, detailed account of Europe's darkest hour. 'What Deighton did for the Battle of Britain in Fighter he has done for the land-war here ... A rattlingly good yarn' Guardian _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War Two Len Deighton (Author) Series:
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15 Jul 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 832pp h198mm x w129mm x s35mm 564g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241505236 ISBN13: 978-0-241-50523-6 ISBN10: 0241505232 EAN: 9780241505236 x Description: 'Every page of Deighton's work glows with the excitement of discovery ... wonderful' Geoff Dyer, GuardianThis unflinching history of the darkest days of the Second World War covers the entire world stage, from the Battle of the Atlantic to Pearl Harbor. Rooted in the personal accounts of the soldiers themselves, Blood, Tears and Folly is a sweeping, moving account of the political machinations, the strategy and tactics, the weapons and the men on both sides who created a world of devastation.'If he had never written a word of fiction Deighton would still be remembered for his scholarly and merciless history of the Second World War, Blood, Tears and Folly' Peter Millar, The Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Charity Len Deighton (Author) Series:
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Pub Date:
26 Aug 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 202g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241505250 ISBN13: 978-0-241-50525-0 ISBN10: 0241505259 EAN: 9780241505250 x Description: A BERNARD SAMSON NOVEL'The master of espionage writing at his brilliant best' Mail on SundayWith the Cold War drawing to a close in the East, Bernard Samson is still haunted by the events that have turned his life upside down over the last ten years. But when he takes a train from
Moscow to Berlin, he stumbles across a clue that may lead him to the truth at last - even though, in finding the answers, he could lose everything. Bringing the 'Faith, Hope and Charity' trilogy, and Bernard Samson's story, to a stunning conclusion, this final volume brilliantly shows the human cost of the spying game.'The series represents a magnificent achievement in the field of espionage writing and Samson remains one of the great spies' Irish Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
City of Gold Len Deighton (Author) Series:
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Pub Date:
25 Nov 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 258g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241505311 ISBN13: 978-0-241-50531-1 ISBN10: 0241505313 EAN: 9780241505311 x Description: 'A superb example of Deighton's craft' Robert HarrisJanuary 1942. Rommel's troops are at the gates of Egypt, soon to threaten Cairo itself. A spy has been leaking British secrets to the German commander, and Captain Albert Cutler has been sent to find them amongst the city's teeming streets and bazaars, before it is too late. But Cutler is not quite what he seems, and Cairo is a city of fool's gold, where nothing can be taken at face value.'The pace of the story is compulsive ... it is a real pleasure to be swallowed up in Deighton's descriptions of wartime Cairo' Daily Telegraph'A novel reminiscent in spirit to Casablanca. Play it again, Len' Kirkus Reviews _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Close-Up Len Deighton (Author) Series:
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Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
30 Sep 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 368pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 269g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241505328 ISBN13: 978-0-241-50532-8 ISBN10: 0241505321 EAN: 9780241505328 x Description: 'Stylish and stimulating' The TimesAgeing Hollywood star Marshall Stone is scared. Scared that the parts are drying up. Scared of being forgotten. So when he hears an eminent author is writing his biography, Stone siezes the chance of immortality. But painful memories and suppressed scandals soon threaten to destroy the carefully-constructed fiction of his life. Inspired by Len Deighton's own experiences of the film industry, Close-Up is a brilliant expose of the sleaze, venality and betrayals of the studio machine.'The richness, the sardonic humour, the wheeling and dealing ... the power of the book is undoubted' Evening Standard _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Declarations of War Len Deighton (Author) Series:
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Pub Date:
06 Jan 2022
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s11mm 145g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241505335 ISBN13: 978-0-241-50533-5 ISBN10: 024150533X EAN: 9780241505335
x Description: 'Deighton really is something special' Sunday TimesLen Deighton's only collection of short stories explores the devastating experiences of ordinary soldiers across over two thousand years of war. From Hannibal's march on Rome to the American Civil War, and from a British Hurricane pilot in the Second World War to a modern conflict played out in the Mexican borderlands, each of these stories shows the effects of war on the human character, and how it can lead to extraordinary deeds, both great and terrible. 'Len Deighton is a fearless observer of the deceptive human world' John Gray _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
An Expensive Place to Die Len Deighton (Author) Series:
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Pub Date:
30 Sep 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 240pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 179g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241505342 ISBN13: 978-0-241-50534-2 ISBN10: 0241505348 EAN: 9780241505342 x Description: 'For sheer readability he has no peer' Evening StandardParis in the 1960's caters for every taste, and nowhere more than at the private 'clinic' run by the enigmatic Monsieur Datt on Avenue Foch, which supplies psychedelic drugs and sexual favours to the city's elite - all the while secretly filming guests in order to blackmail them. Into this decadent underworld steps a bespectacled British spy. Sent on what seems like a simple mission, he soon finds himself playing a game where the rules are unknown - and even victory could be fatal.'Take this excellent thriller at a single gulp' Sunday TimesA PATRICK ARMSTRONG NOVEL _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Faith Len Deighton (Author) Series:
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Pub Date:
26 Aug 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 320pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 236g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241505366 ISBN13: 978-0-241-50536-6 ISBN10: 0241505364 EAN: 9780241505366 x Description: A BERNARD SAMSON NOVEL'The plotting is masterly, the atmospheric descriptions superb ... absolute bliss' Sunday TelegraphSummer 1987, the final years of the Cold War. Bernard Samson has been sent to East Germany to make contact with a KGB defector, codename VERDI, who claims to have access to top intelligence secrets. But something goes wrong, and Bernard must struggle to stay in the game. Fighting to keep his job and rebuild his shattered marriage, kept in the dark by London Central, he has no one he can trust, and nothing to depend on but his own faith. This is the first part of the 'Faith, Hope and Charity' trilogy.'A string of brilliantly mounted set-pieces ... superbly laconic wisecracks' The Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain Len Deighton (Author) Series:
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Pub Date:
15 Jul 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s19mm 247g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241505373 ISBN13: 978-0-241-50537-3 ISBN10: 0241505372 EAN: 9780241505373 x Description: 'The most honest attempt yet to tell how the Battle of Britain really was' Andrew Wilson, ObserverHistory is swamped by patriotic myths about the aerial combat fought between the RAF and the Luftwaffe over the summer of 1940. In his gripping history of the Battle of Britain, Len Deighton drew on a decade of research and his own wartime experiences to puncture these myths and point towards a more objective, and even more inspiring, truth.'Revolutionised thinking about the Battle of Britain in a way that has not been seriously challenged since' The Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Funeral in Berlin Len Deighton (Author) Series:
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Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
29 Apr 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 288pp h198mm x w129mm x s16mm 213g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241505380 ISBN13: 978-0-241-50538-0 ISBN10: 0241505380 EAN: 9780241505380 x Description: 'The classic and gripping spy novel of Cold War Berlin' Guardian1963 Berlin is dark and dangerous. The anonymous hero of The IPCRESS File has been sent to help arrange the defection - in an elaborate mock coffin - of a leading Soviet scientist. But, as he soon discovers, this deception hides an even deadlier truth. One of the first novels written after the construction of the Berlin Wall, Funeral in Berlin revels in the murky, chilling atmosphere of a divided city. 'A ferociously cool fable' The New York Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Goodbye Mickey Mouse Len Deighton (Author) Series:
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Pub Date:
28 Oct 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 384pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 281g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241505397 ISBN13: 978-0-241-50539-7 ISBN10: 0241505399 EAN: 9780241505397 x Description: 'The sheer charge of the writing swept me into another world' The TimesDecember 1943. A group of US fighter pilots is camped at a windswept air base in Norfolk. Their job is to escort bombers over Germany, and each mission could be their last. Among them are cocky Lieutenant Mickey Morse (nicknamed 'Mickey Mouse'), who is almost on his way to becoming a Flying Ace, and reserved Captain Jamie Farebrother, who is starting to fall in love with an English woman. All they have in common is their courage - until the day their lives converge in ways they could never have imagined.'Truly astonishing in its recreation of a time and place ... it is a novel of memory, satisfying on every imaginable level' Washington Post
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Hope Len Deighton (Author) Series:
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Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
26 Aug 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 288pp h198mm x w129mm x s16mm 213g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241505403 ISBN13: 978-0-241-50540-3 ISBN10: 0241505402 EAN: 9780241505403 x Description: A BERNARD SAMSON NOVEL'A master of fictional espionage' Daily MailWhen Bernard Samson is woken in the middle of the night and discovers an injured man on his doorstep, he knows it will only bring trouble. It is the start of a dangerous journey to Zurich, rural Poland and the heart of a mystery that has tormented both him and his wife Fiona since they left East Berlin. Thrown into conflict with his superiors, and forced to question his job and his marriage, Bernard will learn, in the second part of the 'Faith, Hope and Charity' trilogy, whether treachery can ever be forgiven.'He can still set the nerve ends jangling with a thriller set in the Cold War ... his sense of pace is extraordinary, as is his sense of mood' Sunday Telegraph _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Horse Under Water Len Deighton (Author) Series:
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29 Apr 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 202g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241505410 ISBN13: 978-0-241-50541-0 ISBN10: 0241505410 EAN: 9780241505410 x Description: 'The poet of the spy story' Sunday TimesA sunken U-Boat has lain undisturbed on the Atlantic ocean floor since the Second World War until now. Inside its rusting hull, among the corpses of top-rank Nazis, lie secrets people will kill to obtain. The sequel to Len Deighton's game-changing debut The IPCRESS File, Horse Under Water sees its nameless, laconic narrator sent from fogbound London to the Algarve, where he must dive through layers of deceit in a place rotten with betrayals. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The IPCRESS File Len Deighton (Author) Series:
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29 Apr 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 256pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 191g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241505427 ISBN13: 978-0-241-50542-7 ISBN10: 0241505429 EAN: 9780241505427 x Description: 'A stone-cold Cold War classic' Toby Litt, GuardianA high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped. A secret British intelligence agency must find out why. But as the quarry is pursued from grimy Soho to the other side of the world, what seemed a straightforward mission turns into something far more sinister. With its sardonic, cool, working-class hero, Len Deighton's sensational debut The IPCRESS File rewrote the spy thriller and became the defining novel of 1960's London.'Changed the shape of the espionage thriller ... there is an infectious energy about this book which makes it a joy to read' Daily Telegraph
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London Match Len Deighton (Author) Series:
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27 May 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 416pp h197mm x w128mm x s23mm 303g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241505434 ISBN13: 978-0-241-50543-4 ISBN10: 0241505437 EAN: 9780241505434 x Description: 'Spying at its most captivating and intricate' The Times'Deighton has woven an intricate and satisfying plot, peopled it with convincing characters and even given a new twist to the spy story. But then he is a master of the form' Washington PostLong-suffering spy Bernard Samson has, against all the odds, enticed a Soviet agent to defect to London - but this proves to be the start of something even bigger. For he learns that there is treachery within his own Service, and no one is free from suspicion. To discover who really controls the game of spies, he must attempt a desperate gamble. As the Game, Set and Match trilogy reaches its shattering finale, who will make the winning move?A BERNARD SAMSON NOVEL _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
MAMista Len Deighton (Author) Series:
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25 Nov 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 368pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 269g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241505441 ISBN13: 978-0-241-50544-1 ISBN10: 0241505445 EAN: 9780241505441 x Description: 'A superb novel ... you will be hooked from the first chapter and enjoy every line' Sunday ExpressDeep in the South American jungle the MAMista Marxist revolutionaries are fighting a hopeless, protracted war against a dictator - while the CIA see an opportunity. Amid the turmoil, three very different people - a doctor, a young firebrand and an educated revolutionary - find themselves thrown together and trapped at the heart of a battle where the enemy is uncertain, and there can be no winners. Len Deighton's first post-Cold War novel is a chilling and compelling story of revolution and betrayal.'Moral ambiguity used to be called Greeneland. Since Graham Greene's death, at least part of it ought to be renamed Deightonsville' Time Magazine _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mexico Set Len Deighton (Author) Series:
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27 May 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 384pp h197mm x w129mm x s20mm 279g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241505458 ISBN13: 978-0-241-50545-8 ISBN10: 0241505453 EAN: 9780241505458 x Description: 'Deighton is a marvel ... a tale told by an author at the height of his power' Chicago TribuneWorld-weary agent Bernard Samson is losing control of his personal and professional life. Sent to Mexico to aid the defection of a KGB agent to the West, he has a chance to prove his worth.
Instead he is torn between conflicting loyalties, and lost in a maze of double-dealing and duplicity. The second novel in the Game, Set and Match trilogy is a gripping portrayal of a man who can trust no one, not even those closest to him. A BERNARD SAMSON NOVEL _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Only When I Larf Len Deighton (Author) Series:
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25 Nov 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 240pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 200g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241505465 ISBN13: 978-0-241-50546-5 ISBN10: 0241505461 EAN: 9780241505465 x Description: 'Dazzling ingenuity and cleverness' IndependentThree con artists are on the make, and making millions. There's Silas, the leader, slick and self-assured; Liz, his glamorous lover; and Bob, the young cockney upstart (who's also falling for Liz). As this uneasy trio's swindles take them from New York high-rises to sixties London, corrupt governments to, finally, the ultimate con in the Middle East, will their luck start to run out?'For sheer readability he has no peer' Evening Standard _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Spy Hook Len Deighton (Author) Series:
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29 Jul 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 288pp h198mm x w129mm x s16mm 213g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241505472 ISBN13: 978-0-241-50547-2 ISBN10: 024150547X EAN: 9780241505472 x Description: 'A master of fictional espionage' Daily Mail'In Deighton's best books - like this one - the narrative glides forward on rollers, and the scenes and characters fit perfectly into place. The result is marvellous' IndependentMillions of pounds have gone missing, and the Department have sent agent Bernard Samson to Washington to track them down. But this mission is just the start of something far deeper and darker. It will take him from the English suburbs to Berlin, the South of France to Los Angeles and the heart of a maelstrom. In the first part of the Hook, Line and Sinker trilogy, friends become enemies, pursuer becomes victim and no one - not even Bernard himself - is above suspicion.A BERNARD SAMSON NOVEL _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Spy Line Len Deighton (Author) Series:
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29 Jul 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 202g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241505489 ISBN13: 978-0-241-50548-9 ISBN10: 0241505488 EAN: 9780241505489 x Description: 'This is vintage Deighton' Sunday Times'Spy Line is vigorous and sleazy, psychologically complex and action-packed. And it is always exciting' Daily MailBernard Samson is a spy on the run. But in the murky streets of Berlin, he knows where to hide. Wanted for an act of treachery he
has not committed, he must not only escape the grasp of London Central, but get to the bottom of a tangled conspiracy that is about to change everything. In the thrilling penultimate instalment of the Hook, Line and Sinker trilogy, Bernard's personal and professional life collide with devastating consequences.A BERNARD SAMSON NOVEL _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Spy Sinker Len Deighton (Author) Series:
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29 Jul 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s19mm 247g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241505496 ISBN13: 978-0-241-50549-6 ISBN10: 0241505496 EAN: 9780241505496 x Description: 'Dazzling ingenuity and cleverness' Independent'Chilling ... the writing is crisp and brutal' Daily TelegraphOf all the mysteries Bernard Samson has encountered, the greatest is his wife Fiona. Dedicated agent of the Service and a woman of secrets, she will risk everything to play the long game. As the truth about the decision that shattered their marriage is gradually revealed, the web of deception that has snared Bernard for ten years begins to unravel. In the gripping, tragic finale of the Hook, Line and Sinker trilogy, everything we thought we knew is brought into question.A BERNARD SAMSON NOVEL _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Spy Story Len Deighton (Author) Series:
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30 Sep 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 168g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241505519 ISBN13: 978-0-241-50551-9 ISBN10: 0241505518 EAN: 9780241505519 x Description: 'Len Deighton's spy novels are so good they make me sad the Cold War is over' Malcolm GladwellAfter six weeks in a nuclear submarine gathering computer data on Soviet activity, the mysterious, bespectacled spy known as Patrick Armstrong is desperate to return home. But when he arrives at his London flat, it appears to be occupied by someone who looks just like him - and he finds himself propelled into the heart of a conspiracy stretching from the remote Scottish highlands to the Arctic ice. Revisiting some of the characters from The IPCRESS File, Spy Story shows military games played out for real, and the Cold War turning dangerously hot. 'Menacing, beguiling ... a vintage Len Deighton thriller' The Times Literary SupplementA PATRICK ARMSTRONG NOVEL _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
SS-GB Len Deighton (Author) Series:
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20 May 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 258g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241505526 ISBN13: 978-0-241-50552-6 ISBN10: 0241505526 EAN: 9780241505526
x Description: 'Deighton's best book ... an absorbingly exciting spy story that is also a fascinating exercise in might-have-been speculation' The New York Times Book ReviewIt is 1941 and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied, Churchill executed and the King imprisoned in the Tower of London. At Scotland Yard, Detective Inspector Archer tries to do his job and keep his head down. But when a body is found in a Mayfair flat, what at first appears to be a routine murder investigation sends him into a world of espionage, deceit and betrayal.'Len Deighton is the Flaubert of contemporary thriller writers ... this is much the way things would have turned out if the Germans had won' The Times Literary Supplement _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy Len Deighton (Author) Series:
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30 Sep 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 240pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 179g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241505533 ISBN13: 978-0-241-50553-3 ISBN10: 0241505534 EAN: 9780241505533 x Description: 'The master at his peak' Daily TelegraphA Russian scientist is defecting to the West, in order to realize his dreams of contacting extraterrestrial life among the stars. But when an insubordinate British agent and a top CIA operative are sent to the Sahara desert to bring him in, things don't go to plan. The result is a violent chase stretching across three continents, where loyalties - between spies, partners, nations and lovers - become fatally divided.'Classic, world-ranging, marvellously knowledgeable ... in a word, quality' The Times'Tightly and complicatedly plotted, so credible in detail' Financial TimesA PATRICK ARMSTRONG NOVEL _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Violent Ward Len Deighton (Author) Series:
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06 Jan 2022
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 256pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 200g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241505540 ISBN13: 978-0-241-50554-0 ISBN10: 0241505542 EAN: 9780241505540 x Description: 'Superbly edgy. Entertaining, full of good one-liners' Sunday TimesDowntown LA. Streetwise lawyer Mickey Murphy has a shabby office in a low-rent district, an ex who bleeds him dry and the kind of clients who would plead the Fifth if they could count that high. He's also been bought out by millionaire tycoon Zach Petrovitch - who just happens to be married to the love of Mickey's life. When she asks him for help, Mickey finds himself thrown into a world of Hollywood stars, shady schemes, riots - and murder.'Crime at its most entertaining, filled with lively dialogue' Sunday Telegraph'Deighton's ear for dialogue and eye for lunatic California are perfect' Sunday Express _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Winter Len Deighton (Author) Series:
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06 May 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 640pp h198mm x w129mm x s27mm 436g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241505557 ISBN13: 978-0-241-50555-7 ISBN10: 0241505550 EAN: 9780241505557 x Description: 'A monumental work ... brilliantly executed' Daily Telegraph'The pace and tension leave one almost breathless. A frightening yet compelling novel' Sunday TelegraphPeter and Paul, the two sons of German businessman Harald Winter, are bonded together by a childhood trauma. But as they grow up the brothers also grow apart. When the shadow of the Third Reich falls they become divided by war and their differing ideals - only to meet again years later at the Nuremberg trials. An epic prelude to the Bernard Samson Game, Set and Match trilogy, Winter is a rich, tragic portrait of the fortunes of a family, and a nation, over half a century. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
XPD Len Deighton (Author) Series:
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28 Oct 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 400pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 292g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241505564 ISBN13: 978-0-241-50556-4 ISBN10: 0241505569 EAN: 9780241505564 x Description: 'A stunning spy story ... incomparable' GuardianIt is the most dangerous secret of the Second World War, one that could destroy Britain's reputation forever. In 1940, a clandestine meeting took place between Churchill and Adolf Hitler. All records of it have been hidden, and anyone who discovers the truth dies - their file stamped XPD; Expedient Demise. But now what was buried is threatening to come to light, and SIS agent Boyd Stuart must stop it falling into the wrong hands, no matter how high the price.'Deliciously sharp and flawlessly accurate dialogue, breathtakingly clever plotting ... a splendidly strongly told story' The Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yesterday's Spy Len Deighton (Author) Series:
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30 Sep 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 168g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241505571 ISBN13: 978-0-241-50557-1 ISBN10: 0241505577 EAN: 9780241505571 x Description: 'Deighton at his best' Evening StandardSteve Champion - flamboyant businessman, former leader of an anti-Nazi network in the Second World War - is a man surrounded by mysteries. There are rumours he is still in the spying business. And suspicions that his fortune may be built on something nefarious; something he'd rather stayed secret. The Department are nervous, so Champion's oldest wartime ally is sent to the South of France to investigate. It's time to re-open the file on yesterday's spy, whatever the consequences. 'Tough, well-written and extremely readable' Daily MailA PATRICK ARMSTRONG NOVEL
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Everything Like Before: Stories Kjell Askildsen (Author) Series:
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27 Apr 2021
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Language: English Translated From: Norwegian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 240pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 179g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241508251 ISBN13: 978-0-241-50825-1 ISBN10: 0241508258 EAN: 9780241508251 x Description: 'Askildsen's dry, absurd humour is not unlike that of Beckett... His short stories are packed with irony, and the dialogue is sharp and expressive' TLSSpare, taut and told with flashes of pitch-black humour, the short stories of Norwegian master Kjell Askildsen capture all the strangeness of modern existence. In this selection of tales, spanning the whole of his brilliant career, unnerving encounters occur, lonely individuals try to connect, families and relationships are fractured, and we are confronted by the fragility and absurdity of life.'Full of compelling strangeness. Lives surge through a few brittle pages, suppressed loves and resentments threaten to erupt' Independent _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Essential June Jordan Jan Heller Levi (Edited by) Christoph Keller (Edited by) Jericho Brown (Introduction by) June Jordan (Author) Series:
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24 Jun 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 202g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241508718 ISBN13: 978-0-241-50871-8 ISBN10: 0241508711 EAN: 9780241508718 x Description: The definitive introduction to the work of 'the bravest of us . . . the universal poet' (Alice Walker)For the poet and activist June Jordan, neither poetry nor activism could easily be disentangled from the other. Her storied career came to chronicle a living, breathing history of the struggles that defined the USA in the latter half of the twentieth century; and her poetry, accordingly, put its dazzling stylistic range to use in exploring issues of gender, race, immigration, representation and much else besides.Here, above all, are sinuous, lashing and passionate lines, virtuosic in their musicality and always bearing the stamp of Jordan's irrepressible personality. Here are poems of suffusing light and profound anger: poems moved as much by political animus as by a deep love for the observation of human life in all its foibles, eccentricities, strengths and weaknesses.With a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Jericho Brown, The Essential June Jordan allows new readers to discover - and old fans to rediscover - the vital work of this endlessly surprising poet who, in the words of Adrienne Rich, believed that 'genuine, up-from-the-bottom revolution must include art, laughter, sensual pleasure, and the widest possible human referentiality.' _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Letter from America: 1946-2004 Alistair Cooke (Author) Series:
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05 Aug 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 544pp h198mm x w129mm x s30mm 394g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241513361 ISBN13: 978-0-241-51336-1 ISBN10: 0241513367 EAN: 9780241513361 x Description: A defining collection from Alistair Cooke's legendary BBC Radio broadcasts, guiding us through nearly sixty years of changing life in the United States'No one else succeeded in explaining to the English-speaking world ... the idiosyncrasies of a country at once so familiar, and yet so utterly foreign' IndependentWhen Alistair Cooke retired in February 2004 he was acclaimed as one of the greatest broadcasters of all time. His Letter from America radio series, which began in 1946 and continued every week for fifty-eight years until his retirement, kept the world in touch with what was happening in America. Cooke's wry, humane and liberal style both informed and entertained his audience. The selection here, made largely by Cooke himself and supplemented by his literary executor, gives us the very best of these legendary broadcasts. It covers key moments from the assassination of Kennedy through to the Vietnam War and Watergate to 9/11, the Iraq War and anticipates the 2004 elections. It includes portraits of the great and the good from Charlie Chaplin to Martin Luther King, Jr, and topics as varied as civil rights, golf, jazz and the changing colours of a New England fall. Each Letter contributes to a captivating portrait of a nation - and of a man. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The End of Nature Bill McKibben (Author) Series:
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31 Mar 2022
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s30mm 350g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241514429 ISBN13: 978-0-241-51442-9 ISBN10: 0241514428 EAN: 9780241514429 x Description: One of the earliest warnings about climate change and one of environmentalism's lodestars'Nature, we believe, takes forever. It moves with infinite slowness,' begins the first book to bring climate change to public attention.Interweaving lyrical observations from his life in the Adirondack Mountains with insights from the emerging science, Bill McKibben sets out the central developments not only of the environmental crisis now facing us but also the terms of our response, from policy to the fundamental, philosophical shift in our relationship with the natural world which, he argues, could save us. A moving elegy to nature in its pristine, pre-human wildness, The End of Nature is both a milestone in environmental thought, indispensable to understanding how we arrived here. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Pursuit of Love: With Love in a Cold Climate and The Blessing Nancy Mitford (Author) Series:
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04 Mar 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 512pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 351g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241514993 ISBN13: 978-0-241-51499-3 ISBN10: 0241514991 EAN: 9780241514993
x Description: 'A masterpiece ... The Pursuit of Love is one of the funniest books ever written' India Knight, The TimesNancy Mitford's brilliantly witty, irreverent stories of the upper classes in pre-war London and Paris conjure up a world of glamour, gossip and decadence. In The Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate and The Blessing, her extraordinary heroines deal with armies of eccentric relatives, the excitement of love and passion, and the thrills of the social Season. But beneath the perfectly timed comic dialogue, these novels are also bittersweet reminders of the brevity of life and love.With an Introduction by Philip Hensher'A kind of perfection' Olivia Laing, Guardian'Peerless ... beneath the surface of Mitford's wit, there is something infinitely more melancholy at work' Zoe Heller _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Little Misunderstandings of No Importance: And Other Stories Antonio Tabucchi (Author) Frances Frenaye (Translated by) Series:
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01 Jul 2021
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Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 160pp h198mm x w129mm x s8mm 123g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241519288 ISBN13: 978-0-241-51928-8 ISBN10: 0241519284 EAN: 9780241519288 x Description: The short story collection that launched Tabucchi to fame, reflecting on the uncertainties, memories, mistakes and mysteries of life Eleven short stories pivoting on life's ambiguities and the central question they pose in Tabucchi's fiction: is it choice, fate, accident, or even, occasionally, a kind of magic that plays a decisive role in the protagonists' lives? Set in Paris, Lisbon, Madras and New York and blended with the author's wonderfully intelligent imagination, Tabucchi reflects on the elemental aspects of the human experience, exploring grief, uncertainty, adventure, memory and love.'One of the most admired Italian writers of his generation' The Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Pereira Maintains: A Testimony Antonio Tabucchi (Author) Patrick Creagh (Translated by) Series:
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01 Jul 2021
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Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 160pp h198mm x w129mm x s8mm 123g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241519301 ISBN13: 978-0-241-51930-1 ISBN10: 0241519306 EAN: 9780241519301 x Description: 'Subtle, skillful, and clear. It's so clear, in fact, that you can see a very long way down, into the heart of a flawed but valiant human being, into the sickness of a nation, into the depths of political evil. It's the most impressive novel I've read for years, and one of the very few that feels truly necessary' - Philip PullmanIn the sweltering summer of 1938, with Lisbon in the grip of Portugal's dictatorship of Antonio Salazar, a journalist is coming to terms with the rise of fascism around him and its insidious impact on his work. Consumed by the passing of his wife and the child he never had, Pereira lives a quiet and lonely existence. One day, the young and charismatic Monteiro Rossi enters his life, changing everything. A man who once shied away from criticizing Portugal's authoritarian regime finds himself unable to stay quiet any longer, resulting in his political awakening and a devastating act of rebellion. Tabucchi's celebrated masterpiece is an ode to courage and solidarity in the face of political oppression.'A stunningly good novel, and it goes on getting better in one's head after one has stopped reading it - it works as an experience - something that has happened to one, which is of course the proof of great writing' Diana Athill
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Requiem: A Hallucination Antonio Tabucchi (Author) Margaret Jull Costa (Translated by) Series:
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01 Jul 2021
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Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 96pp h198mm x w129mm x s5mm 78g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241519318 ISBN13: 978-0-241-51931-8 ISBN10: 0241519314 EAN: 9780241519318 x Description: 'A funny, sad novella about how we got here from there, and how, in our youth, "our eyes saw things differently"' The TimesA private meeting, chance encounters and a mysterious tour of Lisbon haunt this moving homage to Tabucchi's adopted cityIn the city of Lisbon, Requiem's narrator has an appointment to meet someone on a quay by the Tagus at twelve. Misunderstanding twelve to mean noon as opposed to midnight, he is left to wait. As the day unfolds he has many unexpected encounters - with a young drug addict, a disorientated taxi driver, a cemetery keeper, the mysterious Isabel and the ghost of the late great poet Fernando Pessoa - each meeting travelling between the real and illusionary. Part travelogue, part autobiography, part fiction, Requiem becomes an homage to a country and its people, and a farewell to the past as the narrator lays claim to a literary forebear who, like himself, is an evasive and many-sided personality.'Tabucchi is a master of illusion and allusion, and this is a literary puzzle that teases, amuses and provokes' Sunday Telegraph _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Rage in Harlem Chester Himes (Author) Series:
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25 Mar 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 168g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241521083 ISBN13: 978-0-241-52108-3 ISBN10: 0241521084 EAN: 9780241521083 x Description: 'The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler' Sunday TimesJackson's woman has found him a foolproof way to make money - a technique for turning ten dollar bills into hundreds. But when the scheme somehow fails, Jackson is left broke, wanted by the police and desperately racing to get back both his money and his loving Imabelle.The first of Chester Himes's novels featuring the hardboiled Harlem detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, A Rage in Harlem has swagger, brutal humour, lurid violence, a hearse loaded with gold and a conman dressed as a Sister of Mercy.With an Introduction by Luc Sante _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Cotton Comes to Harlem Chester Himes (Author) Series:
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25 Mar 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 240pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 179g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241521090 ISBN13: 978-0-241-52109-0 ISBN10: 0241521092 EAN: 9780241521090 x Description: 'A bawdy, brazen rollercoaster of a novel . . . the wildest' The New York TimesA preacher called Deke O'Malley's been selling false hope: the promise of a glorious new life in Africa for just $1,000 a family. But when thieves with machine guns steal the proceeds - and send one man's brain matter flying - the con is up. Now Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed mean to bring the good people of Harlem back their $87,000, however many corpses they have to climb over to get it.Cotton Comes to Harlem is a non-stop ride, with violence, sex, double-crosses, and the two baddest detectives ever to wear a badge in Harlem.With an Introduction by Will Self _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Heat's On Chester Himes (Author) Series:
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25 Mar 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 168g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241521106 ISBN13: 978-0-241-52110-6 ISBN10: 0241521106 EAN: 9780241521106 x Description: 'The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler' Sunday TimesDetectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones have lost two criminals. Pinky ran off - but it shouldn't be hard to track down a giant albino in Harlem. Jake the drug dealer, though, isn't coming back - he died after Grave Digger punched him in the stomach. And his death might cost them both their badges. Unless they can track down the cause of all this mayhem - like the African with his throat slit and the dog the size of a lion with an open head wound.Chester Himes's hardboiled tales of Harlem have a barely contained chaos and a visceral, macabre edge all their own. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Real Cool Killers Chester Himes (Author) Series:
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25 Mar 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s11mm 145g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241521113 ISBN13: 978-0-241-52111-3 ISBN10: 0241521114 EAN: 9780241521113 x Description: 'The toughest crime stories in print' Sunday TimesThe night's over for Ulysses Galen. It started going bad for the big Greek when a knife was drawn, then there was an axe, then he was being chased and shot at. Now Galen is lying dead in the middle of a Harlem street. But the night's just beginning for detectives Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson. Because they have a smoking gun but it couldn't have killed Galen, and they had a suspect but a gang called the Real Cool Moslems took him. And as patrol cars and search teams descend on the neighbourhood, their case threatens to take a turn for the personal.The Real Cool Killers is loaded with grizzly comedy and with all the raucous, threatening energy of the streets
it's set on. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
All Shot Up Chester Himes (Author) Series:
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25 Mar 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 208pp h198mm x w129mm x s12mm 157g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241521120 ISBN13: 978-0-241-52112-0 ISBN10: 0241521122 EAN: 9780241521120 x Description: 'Outrageous, shocking, wonderful' The New York TimesA golden Cadillac big enough to cross the ocean has been seen sailing along the streets of Harlem. A hit-and-run victim's been hit so hard she got embedded in the wall of a convent. A shootout with three heistmen dressed as cops has left an important politician in a coma - and a lot of money missing. And Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson are the ones who have to piece it all together.All Shot Up is chaotic, bloody - and completely unforgettable. Chester Himes wrote detective fiction darker, dirtier and more extreme than anyone else dared. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Salt Eaters Toni Cade Bambara (Author) Series:
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Pub Date:
07 Oct 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 256pp h198mm x w130mm x s15mm 193g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241521380 ISBN13: 978-0-241-52138-0 ISBN10: 0241521386 EAN: 9780241521380 x Description: 'A book full of marvels' New YorkerThe American Deep South, in the 1970s. Velma Henry, once a formidable political activist, has grown weary and disillusioned with the fight for civil rights. She wants to end it all. But then she finds herself in the hands of a Black faith community, and the fabled healer Minnie Ransom. As she works through the rage and fear of her traumatic past, Velma finds herself changing, becoming whole and, maybe, free. The Salt Eaters is a boldly optimistic, profound exploration of memory, the self, power and Black health as liberation.'A hymn to individual courage' The Times Literary Supplement'Her characters inhabit the nonlinear, sacred space and sacred time of traditional African religion' The New York Times Book Review _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
I Paint What I Want to See Philip Guston (Author) Series:
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Pub Date:
28 Apr 2022
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 112pp h181mm x w111mm x s30mm 350g ISBN13: 9780241525715 ISBN13: 978-0-241-52571-5 ISBN10: 0241525713 EAN: 9780241525715 x Description: 'Thank God for yellow ochre, cadmium red medium, and permanent green light' How does a painter see the world? Philip Guston, one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century, spoke about art with unparalleled candour and commitment. Touching on work from across his career as well as that of his fellow artists and Renaissance heroes, this selection of his writings, talks and interviews draws together some of his most
incisive reflections on iconography and abstraction, metaphysics and mysticism, and, above all, the nature of painting and drawing.'Among the most important, powerful and influential American painters of the last 100 years ... he's an art world hero' Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Averno Louise Gluck (Author) Series:
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Pub Date:
26 Aug 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 96pp h198mm x w129mm x s5mm 78g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241526002 ISBN13: 978-0-241-52600-2 ISBN10: 0241526000 EAN: 9780241526002 x Description: 'Brilliant poems of complex, haunting power... Averno may be Gluck's masterpiece' The New York Times Book ReviewAn acclaimed collection from the Nobel prize-winning poetThis startlingly original reworking of the Persephone myth takes us to the icy shores of Averno, the crater lake regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. Here, the consolations of rebirth and renewal are eclipsed by the immediacy of loss - by a mother's possessive grief, an abducted girl's equivocal memories, a farmer's lament for a lost harvest. This chorus offers neither comfort nor solace but deepened understanding, its sorrow textured by the poet's luminous wit. Together, the poems of Averno swell to a staggeringly powerful lamentation, through which the reader glimpses the ecstasy of the inevitable, only to find it resisted by the insistent, impersonal presence of the Earth. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Crossing the Mangrove Maryse Conde (Author) Series:
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30 Sep 2021
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s11mm 145g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241530054 ISBN13: 978-0-241-53005-4 ISBN10: 0241530059 EAN: 9780241530054 x Description: 'An extraordinary storyteller' Bernardine Evaristo'People say that on the first night Francis Sancher spent in Riviere au Sel the wind in its temper screamed down from the mountains...'Francis Sancher always said he would come to an unnatural end. So when this handsome newcomer to the Guadeloupean village of Riviere au Sel is found dead, face down in the mud, no one is particularly surprised. Loved by some - especially women and reviled by others, Francis was an enigmatic figure. Where did he come from? What caused his strange nocturnal wanderings? What devils haunted him? As the villagers come to pay their respects, they each reveal another piece of the mystery behind his life and death - and their own buried secrets and stories come to light.'The grand queen, the empress, of Caribbean literature' Fiammetta Rocco, Guardian _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation Silvia Federici (Author) Series:
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Pub Date:
29 Jul 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 400pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 292g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241532539 ISBN13: 978-0-241-53253-9 ISBN10: 0241532531 EAN: 9780241532539 x Description: 'A groundbreaking work . . . Federici has become a crucial figure for . . . a new generation of feminists' Rachel Kushner, author of The Mars RoomA cult classic since its publication in the early years of this century, Caliban and the Witch is Silvia Federici's history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages through the European witch-hunts, the rise of scientific rationalism and the colonisation of the Americas, it gives a panoramic account of the often horrific violence with which the unruly human material of pre-capitalist societies was transformed into a set of predictable and controllable mechanisms. It Is a study of indigenous traditions crushed, of the enclosure of women's reproductive powers within the nuclear family, and of how our modern world was forged in blood.'Rewarding . . . allows us to better understand the intimate relationship between modern patriarchy, the rise of the nation state and the transition from feudalism to capitalism' Guardian _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Second-Class Citizen Buchi Emecheta (Author) Series:
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Pub Date:
07 Oct 2021
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 168g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241532683 ISBN13: 978-0-241-53268-3 ISBN10: 024153268X EAN: 9780241532683 x Description: 'Fresh, timeless ... a lively work of art' Observer'Buchi Emecheta was the foremother of black British women's writing . . . powerful fictions written from and about our lives' Bernardine Evaristo 'Most dreams, as all dreamers know quite well, do have setbacks. Adah's dream was no exception, for hers had many'They nicknamed Adah 'the Igbo tigress' at school in Nigeria, she was so fearless. Now she has moved to London to join her husband, and is determined to succeed. But her welcome from 1960's England - and the man she married - is a cold one. Providing for her growing family, struggling to survive and negotiating everyday injustices along the way, Adah still resolves that she will never give up her dream of becoming a writer.'Bold, brave, defiant ... its exploration of blackness, the white gaze, and the development of the main character Adah's sense of self is extremely powerful' Gal-dem _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Taste of Power Elaine Brown (Author) Series:
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Pub Date:
24 Feb 2022
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 480pp h198mm x w129mm x s30mm 350g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241537343 ISBN13: 978-0-241-53734-3 ISBN10: 0241537347 EAN: 9780241537343
x Description: The incredible memoir of Elaine Brown - the first woman leader of the Black Panthers'Here I was, a woman, proclaiming supreme power over the most militant organization in America'In 1974 Elaine Brown became the first woman leader of the Black Panther Party. This is her unforgettable memoir, charting her rise from an impoverished neighbourhood in Philadelphia, through her political awakening during a bohemian adolescence, and on to her time as a foot soldier for the Panthers and ascent into its male-dominated upper ranks. It is a seminal exploration of power, racism and one woman's revolutionary struggle.'Heart-wrenching, wild and moving ... a glowing achievement' Los Angeles Times'What Elaine Brown writes is so astonishing, at times it is even difficult to believe she survived it. And yet she did, bringing us that amazing light of the black woman's magical resilience' Alice Walker _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dibs in Search of Self: Personality Development in Play Therapy Virginia M. Axline (Author) Series:
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03 Mar 2022
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 208pp h198mm x w129mm x s30mm 350g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241547977 ISBN13: 978-0-241-54797-7 ISBN10: 0241547970 EAN: 9780241547977 x Description: The classic account of a lost boy's emotional breakthrough, from a renowed child psychotherapist'I welcome this book with all my heart' D. W. WinnicottWhen renowned psychotherapist Virginia Axline first encountered Dibs at his New York School, he was a little boy lost to the world. He would not talk. He would not play. He sat alone, defying every attempt at interaction. Axline was the last resort. This is her seminal account of how, through weekly play therapy sessions over the course of one year, Dibs's extraordinary character, and the reason for his silent withdrawal, were gradually revealed. Dibs in Search of Self is a classic of child therapy, and a moving story of transformation.'A very empowering and kind book' Tanya Byron'It should be the law that you have to read this book' Adjoa Andoh, BBC Radio 4 _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life Erving Goffman (Author) Series:
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05 May 2022
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 256pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 200g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241547991 ISBN13: 978-0-241-54799-1 ISBN10: 0241547997 EAN: 9780241547991 x Description: Acclaimed on first publication and today considered one of the defining works of the sociology, The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life is Erving Goffman's extraordinary analysis of the structure of our social interactions.Blurring the line between workaday life and theatrical performance, Goffman argues that our behaviour with others is defined by how we wish to be perceived - resulting in displays bearing a startling similarity to those of an actor on the stage. From the houses and clothes that we use as 'fixed props' to the 'backstage' of the solitude in which our personas are rehearsed and relaxed, Goffman's insight reveals human character to be not fixed or stable, but liquid and consciously maintained. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates Erving Goffman (Author) Series:
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05 May 2022
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s35mm 500g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241548004 ISBN13: 978-0-241-54800-4 ISBN10: 0241548004 EAN: 9780241548004 x Description: Asylums presents four interlinked essays that explore life in the 'total institutions': the closed systems of prisons, boarding schools, nursing homes and, most importantly, mental institutions. Focusing on the relationship between an inmate and the institution that contains them, Goffman unpicks how lives are managed 'on the inside', and how the setting more often than not works against the inmate's best interests.A radical exploration of the institutions that rule over the lives of men, women and children, Asylums is one of Erving Goffman's most insightful and long-lived works. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity Erving Goffman (Author) Series:
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05 May 2022
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 176pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 200g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241548011 ISBN13: 978-0-241-54801-1 ISBN10: 0241548012 EAN: 9780241548011 x Description: In this groundbreaking work, acclaimed sociologist Erving Goffman examines how society treats those who it considers abnormal. Forced to adjust their social identities from situation to situation, Goffman analyses the variety of strategies that stigmatised individuals deploy to deal with the rejection of others, as well as the complex image of themselves they subsequently project.Relying extensively on biography and the lived experience of those who have found themselves on the edges of society, Goffman lays out the ways in which stigma dramatically alters the way the person affected feels about themselves, and the ways in which it can often violently shatter their relationships with 'normal' people. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Capitalism and Slavery Eric Williams (Author) Series:
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24 Feb 2022
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 288pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 180g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241548165 ISBN13: 978-0-241-54816-5 ISBN10: 0241548160 EAN: 9780241548165 x Description: 'If one criterion of a classic is its ability to reorient our most basic way of viewing an object or a concept, Eric Williams's study supremely passes that test' Seymour DrescherArguing that the slave trade was at the heart of Britain's economic progress, Eric Williams's landmark 1944 study
revealed the connections between capitalism and racism, and has influenced generations of historians ever since.Williams traces the rise and fall of the Atlantic slave trade through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to show how it laid the foundations of the Industrial Revolution, and how racism arose as a means of rationalising an economic decision. Most significantly, he showed how slavery was only abolished when it ceased to become financially viable, exploding the myth of emancipation as a mark of Britain's moral progress.'Its thesis is a starting point for a new generation of scholarship' New Yorker _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Murderer Roy Heath (Author) Series:
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05 May 2022
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s30mm 350g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241552728 ISBN13: 978-0-241-55272-8 ISBN10: 0241552729 EAN: 9780241552728 x Description: 'A beautiful writer and an unforgettable book' Salman Rushdie'Chilling and tense and deeply original' Colm Toibin and Carmen Callil'For me life hasn't got dreams, success and all that damn nonsense. Life is full of shadows: some of them soft and others conceal a hammer.'Galton Flood is a lonely man, restless and ill at ease with his family. He leaves his home in Guyana's capital, Georgetown, for a remote township, and the first of a string of precarious jobs. Meeting Gemma, his landlord's daughter, appears to offer a first chance of meaningful connection - maybe even happiness. But there is a darkness inside Galton, and soon jealousy and paranoia lead him to fatally, violently unravel.With this haunting portrait of a mind undone, celebrated Guyanese writer Roy Heath evocatively recreates the country of his youth: its rivers, townships and tenement yards, and the tensions shimmering below the surface of a community. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Michel the Giant: An African in Greenland Tete-Michel Kpomassie (Author) Series:
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Pub Date:
03 Feb 2022
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 200g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241554531 ISBN13: 978-0-241-55453-1 ISBN10: 0241554535 EAN: 9780241554531 x Description: A gripping account of one man's ten year expedition from a village in West Africa to the Arctic CircleScorching heat, rich, fertile soil, and treacherous snakes marked the landscape in which Tete-Michel grew up in 1950s Togo, West Africa. When he discovered a book on Greenland as a teen, this distant land became an instant obsession - he was determined to journey to the place these pages had revealed to him and embarked on the adventure of a lifetime.A book of rich and immersive travel writing, Michel the Giant invites the reader to journey alongside an audacious Kpomassie as he makes his way from the equator to the bitter cold of the artic and settles into life with the Inuit peoples, adapting to their foods and customs. Part memoir, part anthropological observation this captivating narrative teems with nuanced observations on community, belonging and the universality of human experience. This title has been previous published as An African in Greenland _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution C L R James (Author) James Walvin (Introduction by) Series:
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Pub Date:
04 Aug 2022
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 384pp h198mm x w129mm x s35mm 500g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241562079 ISBN13: 978-0-241-56207-9 ISBN10: 0241562074 EAN: 9780241562079 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden Joanne Greenberg (Author) Series:
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05 May 2022
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 288pp h198mm x w129mm x s30mm 350g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241563427 ISBN13: 978-0-241-56342-7 ISBN10: 0241563429 EAN: 9780241563427 x Description: Sixteen-year-old Deborah is receding from the world. Each day she finds it harder to leave her haunted, enveloping inner kingdom of Yr, where private tormentors ply their lush violences. With her future and her sanity at stake, Deborah enters a psychiatric hospital where she will spend the next three years searching for 'normality', with the help of a gifted, compassionate psychiatrist. First published in 1964, this novel - a fictionalized autobiography - remains as poignant, intoxicating, and surprising today as when it was first published. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Ipcress File Len Deighton (Author) Series:
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03 Mar 2022
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 256pp h198mm x w129mm x s30mm 350g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241566312 ISBN13: 978-0-241-56631-2 ISBN10: 0241566312 EAN: 9780241566312 x Description: 'A stone-cold Cold War classic' Toby Litt, GuardianA high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped. A secret British intelligence agency must find out why. But as the quarry is pursued from grimy Soho to the other side of the world, what seemed a straightforward mission turns into something far more sinister. With its sardonic, cool, working-class hero, Len Deighton's sensational debut The Ipcress File rewrote the spy thriller and became the defining novel of 1960's London.'Changed the shape of the espionage thriller ... there is an infectious energy about this book which makes it a joy to read' Daily Telegraph _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Joys of Motherhood Buchi Emecheta (Author) Series:
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Pub Date:
01 Sep 2022
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback B-format paperback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 200g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780241578131 ISBN13: 978-0-241-57813-1 ISBN10: 0241578132 EAN: 9780241578131 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________