Nielsen BookData Online You Were Never Really Here (Film Tie-in) Jonathan Ames (Author) Series:
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24 Jan 2018
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Language: English Translated From: English Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 112pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782273615 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-361-5 ISBN10: 1782273611 EAN: 9781782273615 x Description: A former Marine and ex-FBI agent, Joe has seen one too many crime scenes and known too much trauma, and not just in his professional life. Solitary and haunted, he prefers to be invisible. He doesn't allow himself friends or lovers and makes a living rescuing young girls from the deadly clutches of the sex trade. But when a high-ranking New York politician hires him to extricate his teenage daughter from a Manhattan brothel, Joe uncovers a web of corruption that even he may not be able to unravel. When the men on his trail take the only person left in the world who matters to him, he forsakes his pledge to do no harm. If anyone can kill his way to the truth, it's Joe... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Extra Man Jonathan Ames (Author) Series:
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02 Aug 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 384pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782274681 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-468-1 ISBN10: 1782274685 EAN: 9781782274681 x Description: Meet Louis Ives: well-groomed, romantic and newly unemployed after an unfortunate incident involving a colleague's brassiere. Meet Henry Harrison: former actor, brilliant but failed playwright, and a well-seasoned escort for New York City's women of means. What can this ageless Don Quixote of the Upper East Side have to offer a young gentleman such as Louis? What, indeed... This is the kind of story that will make you hoot with laughter before flooring you with a sucker punch of pathos. It's a story of friendship and frustration, of cocktails and cross-dressing, and you should read it immediately! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
You Were Never Really Here Jonathan Ames (Author) Series:
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04 Oct 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 112pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782275251 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-525-1 ISBN10: 1782275258 EAN: 9781782275251 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Man who Walked Through Walls Marcel Ayme (Author) (Author) Sophie Lewis (Translator) (Translated by) Series:
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23 Feb 2017
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 304pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782273271 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-327-1 ISBN10: 1782273271 EAN: 9781782273271 x Description: The excellent Monsieur Dutilleul has always been able to pass through walls, but has never seen the point of using his gift, given the general availability of doors. One day, however, his tyrannical boss drives him to desperate, creative measures - he develops a taste for intramural travel and becomes something of a super-villain. How will the unassuming clerk adjust to a glamorous life of crime? Ayme's genius lies in imagining the practical unfolding of bizarre and difficult situations. In each story, anarchic comedy is arrested by moments of pathos, only to descend into anarchy and hilarity once more ... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Odessa Stories Isaac Babel (Author) Boris Dralyuk (Translated by) Series:
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01 Nov 2018
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782274735 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-473-5 ISBN10: 1782274731 EAN: 9781782274735 x Description: Odessa was a uniquely Jewish city, and the stories of Isaac Babel - a Jewish man, writing in Russian, born in Odessa - uncover its tough underbelly. Gangsters, prostitutes, beggars, smugglers: no one escapes the pungent, sinewy force of Babel's pen. From the tales of the magnetic cruelty of Benya Krik - infamous mob boss, and one of the great anti-heroes of Russian literature - to the devastating semi-autobiographical account of a young Jewish boy caught up in a pogrom, this collection of stories is considered one of the great masterpieces of twentieth-century Russian literature. Translated with precision and sensitivity by Boris Dralyuk, whose rendering of the rich Odessan argot is pitch-perfect, Odessa Stories is the first ever stand-alone collection of all the stories Babel set in the city - and includes tales from the original collection as well as later ones. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Forging of a Rebel Arturo Barea (Author) Ilsa Barea (Translator) (Translated by) Series:
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25 Jul 2018
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Language: English Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 768pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782274940 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-494-0 ISBN10: 1782274944 EAN: 9781782274940 x Description: The Forging of a Rebel is an unsurpassed account of Spanish history and society from early in the twentieth century through the cataclysmic events of the Spanish Civil War. Arturo Barea's masterpiece charts the author's coming-of-age in a bruised and starkly unequal Spain. These three volumes recount in lively detail Barea's daily experience of his country as it pitched toward disaster: we are taken from his youthful play and rebellion on the streets of Madrid, to his apprenticeship in the business world and to the horrors he witnessed as part of the Spanish army in Morocco during the Rif War. The trilogy culminates in an indelible portrait of the Republican fight against Fascist forces in which the Madrid of Barea's childhood becomes a shell and bullet-strewn warzone. Combining historical sweep and authority with poignant characterization and novelistic detail, The Forging of a Rebel is a towering literary and historical achievement. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
For a Little While Rick Bass (Author) Series:
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02 Feb 2017
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Translated From: English Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 480pp h234mm x w153mm ISBN13: 9781782273042 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-304-2 ISBN10: 1782273042 EAN: 9781782273042 x Description: 'These stories are adventurous, wise and unexpectedly beautiful' Lorrie Moore 'A rich collection of stories by a major American writer' Annie Proulx Rick Bass is unsurpassed in his ability to perceive and portray the enduring truths of the human heart. Collected here for the first time is the definitive volume of his stories, selected from thirty years of work. To read his fiction is to feel more alive, and to be captivated by his expression of the vastness of human experience, and the awesome beauty of the natural world. The men and women in these stories live with intensity and tenderness, struggling against their fate at the moment of recognition. Rick Bass's sentences resonate with lush and exquisite language, and his writing can both shock and astonish. The stories collected in For a Little While - brimming with magic and wonder, filled with hard-won empathy, marbled throughout with astonishing imagery - have the power both to devastate and uplift. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
For a Little While Rick Bass (Author) Series:
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04 Jan 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 480pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782273066 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-306-6 ISBN10: 1782273069 EAN: 9781782273066 x Description: 'Bass is, hands down, a master of the short form, creating in a few pages a natural world of mythic proportions' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 'A rallying cry against our modern, urban existence... a celebration of being wild' THE TIMES 'A rich collection of stories by a major American writer' ANNIE PROULX Rick Bass is unsurpassed in his ability to perceive and portray the enduring truths of the human heart. To read his fiction is to feel more alive, and to be captivated by his expression of the vastness of human experience, and the awesome beauty of the natural world. The men and women in these stories live with intensity and tenderness, struggling against their fate at the moment of recognition. The stories collected here - brimming with magic and wonder, filled with hard-won empathy, marbled throughout with astonishing imagery - have the power both to devastate and uplift. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Allure of Chanel Professor Euan Cameron (Translator) (Translated by) Paul Morand (Author) (Author) Series:
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30 Mar 2017
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 184pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782273677 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-367-7 ISBN10: 1782273670 EAN: 9781782273677 x Description: Coco Chanel invited Paul Morand to visit her in St Moritz at the end of the Second World War when he was given the opportunity to write her memoirs; his notes of their conversations were put away in a drawer and only came to light one year after Chanel's death. Through Morand's transcription of their conversations, Chanel tells us about her friendship with Misia Sert, the men in her life - Boy Capel and the Duke of Westminster, artists such as Diaghilev, her philosophy of fashion, and the story behind the legendary Number 5 perfume. The memories of Chanel told in her own words provide vivid sketches and portray the strength of Coco's character, leaving us with an extraordinary insight into Chanel the woman and the woman who created Chanel. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The King in Yellow Robert W. Chambers (Author) Series:
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25 Oct 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 160pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782273769 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-376-9 ISBN10: 178227376X EAN: 9781782273769 x Description: I cannot forget Carcosa where black stars hang in the heavens; where the shadows of men's thoughts lengthen in the afternoon... I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth - a world which now trembles before the King in Yellow. The weird tales in this slim volume are all linked by a play, the second act of which reveals truths so terrible and beautiful that it drives all who read it to despair: The King in Yellow. These four macabre, uncanny and unsettling stories are some of the most thrilling ever written in the field of weird fiction, and since their first publication in 1895 have become a cult classic, influencing many writers from the renowned master of cosmic horror H.P Lovecraft to the creators of HBO's True Detective. Contains: 'The Repairer of Reputations', 'The Mask', 'In the Court of the Dragon', 'The Yellow Sign' _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Short Life of Pushkin Robert Chandler (Author) Series:
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25 May 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 160pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782273448 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-344-8 ISBN10: 1782273441 EAN: 9781782273448 x Description: In Robert Chandler's exquisite biography, literary giant Alexander Pushkin, lauded as the Russian Shakespeare, is examined as writer, lover and public figure. Chandler explores his relationship to politics and provides a fascinating glimpse of the turbulent period Pushkin lived through. The book acts as a succinct guide for anybody trying to understand Russia's most celebrated literary figure and also illuminates the wider historical and political context of early nineteenth-century Russia. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Beauties: Essential Stories Anton Chekhov (Author) Nicolas Slater Pasternak (Translated by) Series:
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05 Oct 2017
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h165mm x w120mm ISBN13: 9781782273806 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-380-6 ISBN10: 1782273808 EAN: 9781782273806 x Description: Without doubt one of the greatest observers of human nature in all its messy complexity, Chekhov's short stories are exquisite masterpieces in miniature. His work ranged from the light-hearted comic tales of his early years to some of the most achingly profound stories ever composed, and this variety of tone and temper is collected in this essential new collection. Chekhov wrote stories throughout his writing career, and this selection has been chosen from amongst his life's work, including many of his greatest works, alongside unfamiliar discoveries, all newly translated. From the masterpiece of minimalism 'The Beauties', to the beloved classic 'The Lady with the Little Dog', and from 'A Man in a Box' to the bitterly funny 'A Blunder', the stories collected here are the essential collection of Chekhov's greatest tales. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Life Archibald Colquhoun (Translator) (Translated by) Italo Svevo (Author) (Author) Series:
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24 Jan 2018
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Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 320pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782274131 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-413-1 ISBN10: 1782274138 EAN: 9781782274131 x Description: 'If you have never read Svevo, do as soon as you can. He is beautiful and important' New Statesman 'A master' New Yorker Alfonso Nitti, tormented by the demands of his bank job, longs to be a poet. He also seems to be falling in love with Annetta, the vain and arrogant daughter of his boss. In this tale of the frustrated existence of a bank clerk with a poetic soul, the clash between the emptiness of Alfonso's daily life and his artistic aspirations has devastating consequences. A Life is the highly personal, semi-autobiographical first novel by Italo Svevo. A failure on first publication, it wasn't until the young James Joyce read this book that A Life finally gained the recognition it deserved, and Svevo was celebrated as one of the greatest Italian modernist novelists. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The King of Fools Frederic Dard (Author) Series:
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04 May 2017
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 160pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782271970 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-197-0 ISBN10: 178227197X EAN: 9781782271970 x Description: From the moment he first gazes at Marjory across the roulette table in the Cote d'Azur Jean-Marie is entranced, and when their feverish holiday romance comes to an end he decides to take the biggest gamble of his life - to follow the beautiful Englishwoman back to rainy Edinburgh. But no sooner has Jean-Marie arrived than his luck runs out. He is drawn into an impenetrable mystery and soon, with blood on his hands, trapped in the grey-granite labyrinth of the city, he is running out of time to save his sanity and his life. The King of Fools is a fiendish tale of passion, betrayal and murder. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Executioner Weeps Frederic Dard (Author) David Coward (Translator) (Translated by) Series:
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02 Mar 2017
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 160pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782272564 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-256-4 ISBN10: 1782272569 EAN: 9781782272564 x Description: Winner of the 1957 Grand prix de la litterature policiere
It was fate that led her to step out in front of the car. A quiet mountain road. A crushed violin. And a beautiful woman lying motionless in the ditch.
Carrying her back to his lodging on a beach near Barcelona, Daniel discovers that the woman is still alive but that she remembers nothing - not even her own name. And soon he has fallen for her mysterious allure. She is a blank canvas, a perfect muse, and his alone. But when Daniel travels to France in search of her past, he slips into a tangled vortex of lies, depravity and murder. The Executioner Weeps is a macabre thriller about the dangerous pitfalls of love.
'The French master of noir' Observer
'Unsettling... worthy of Agatha Christie at her devious best... classic French noir' Guardian
'Hugely atmospheric' The Times
'Spellbinding' Wall Street Journal
'Disturbing from the outset with strong echoes of Simenon' Sunday Times
Frederic Dard (1921-2000) was one of the best known and loved French crime writers of the twentieth century. Enormously prolific, he wrote more than three hundred thrillers, suspense stories, plays and screenplays, under a variety of noms de plume, throughout his long and illustrious career, which also saw him win the 1957 Grand prix de la litterature policiere for The Executioner Weeps. Dard's Bird in a Cage, The Wicked Go to Hell, Crush, The Gravediggers' Bread and The King of Fools are also available or forthcoming from Pushkin Vertigo. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Gravediggers' Bread Frederic Dard (Author) Frank Wynne (Translated by) Series:
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27 Jun 2018
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 160pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782272014 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-201-4 ISBN10: 1782272011 EAN: 9781782272014 x Description: Putting dead bodies in the ground for a living could give anyone ideas... Blaise is out of work and down on his luck when a chance encounter with a beautiful blonde has him hooked. He'll do anything to stay by her side, even if it means working for her husband, a funeral director. But as everyone knows, three's a crowd. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Suspicion Friedrich Durrenmatt (Author) Series:
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13 Jul 2017
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Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 160pp h178mm x w111mm ISBN13: 9781782273400 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-340-0 ISBN10: 1782273409 EAN: 9781782273400 x Description: INSPECTOR BARLACH HAS A YEAR TO LIVE, BUT HE'S NOT GOING QUIETLY When Inspector Barlach notices that a successful Swiss surgeon bears a striking resemblance to an infamous Nazi war criminal, a suspicion begins to gnaw away at him - could they be one and the same person? Determined to expose the monster behind the surgeon's mask, the ailing inspector checks himself into the doctor's exclusive clinic. But all does not go to plan, and soon Barlach realizes that he is at the mercy of his own prey. Will he find a way out before it's too late? Suspicion is a dark mystery about a dying man's struggle to destroy a wickedness _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Judge and His Hangman Friedrich Durrenmatt (Author) Series:
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20 Apr 2017
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Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 128pp h178mm x w111mm ISBN13: 9781782273417 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-341-7 ISBN10: 1782273417 EAN: 9781782273417 x Description: A genre-bending mystery recalling the work of Alain Robbe-Grillet and anticipating the postmodern fictions of Paul Auster and other contemporary neo-noir novelists. Inspector Barlach forgoes the arrest of a murderer in order to manipulate him into killing another, more elusive criminal. This is a thriller that brings existential philosophy and the detective genre into dazzling convergence _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Pledge Friedrich Durrenmatt (Author) Joel Agee (Translated by) Series:
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26 Jan 2017
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Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 160pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782273394 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-339-4 ISBN10: 1782273395 EAN: 9781782273394 x Description: "'It's a promise, Frau Moser,' the inspector said, impelled solely by the desire to leave this place. "'On your eternal salvation?' "The inspector hesitated. 'On my eternal salvation,' he finally said. What else could he do? When a young girl is found brutally murdered in a Swiss mountain forest, the brilliant Inspector Matthai can't put the case behind him. Not even when a local felon is arrested. Not even once the suspect has confessed. Matthai promises the girl's mother that he will stop at nothing to find the real killer. Adapted into a Hollywood film, The Pledge is the chilling story of a man in desperate search of the truth. A man driven to sacrifice everything, to commit acts of cruelty and obsession in a desperate search for a killer he can't find. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Execution of Justice Friedrich Durrenmatt (Author) Joel Agee (Translated by) Joel Agee (Translated by) Series:
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24 Jan 2018
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Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782273875 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-387-5 ISBN10: 1782273875 EAN: 9781782273875 x Description: A respected professor is dead - shot in a crowded Zurich restaurant, in front of dozens of witnesses. The murderer calmly turned himself in to the police. So why has he now hired a lawyer to clear his name? And why has he chosen the drink-soaked, disreputable Spat to defend him? As he investigates, Spat finds himself obsessed, drawn ever deeper into a case of baffling complexity until he reaches a deadly conclusion: justice can be restored only by a crime. This is a captivating neo-noir classic from the master of the genre. The Execution of Justice is a dark, wicked satire on the legal system and a disturbing, if ambivalent, allegory on guilt, justice, violence and morality. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Laura: A Journey into the Crystal Sue Dyson (Translator) (Translated by) George Sand (Author) (Author) Series:
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21 Feb 2018
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 128pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782274148 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-414-8 ISBN10: 1782274146 EAN: 9781782274148 x Description: A strange andcompelling tale of love and a fantastical crystal world, by the great classicauthor 'Her voice can be intimate, unpretentious, gentle,sympathetic, and disarmingly honest' New York Times Whileworking in a small geological museum, Alexis Hartz meets his cousin Laura, whohas discovered a way to enter a geode. Travelling through a vast and glitteringlandscape of brilliant crystals, Alexis falls passionately in love withLaura. But when they return to the ordinary world, onlyfriendship remains. He yearns for the perfect world of the crystals, andreturning there becomes a perilous obsession. But is the crystal world as realas it seems, or is his mind succumbing to its dark powers? Firstwritten in 1864, this little known work by George Sand is a fantastical novelin the truest sense of the word. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Johnson's Brexit Dictionary: Or an A to Z of What Brexit Really Means Harry Eyres (Author) George Myerson (Author) Series:
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29 Mar 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 144pp h178mm x w111mm ISBN13: 9781782274988 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-498-8 ISBN10: 1782274987 EAN: 9781782274988 x Description: 'A delight' Stephen Fry BLUNDER To mistake, grossly, to err very widely. 'Someone has blundered'(Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 'Charge of the Brexit Brigade') EUTHANASIA An easy death. Strangulation by EU regulations, according to Brexiters. 'Brexit' seems to mean many things, but none of them is clear. Fortunately, help is at hand from Harry Eyres and George Myerson, who offer us pithy and incisive definitions of the key terms associated with this momentous process. From 'COCK-UP' to 'WRETCHED' via 'BUFOON' and 'MAY', Johnson's Brexit Dictionary is a delightful, witty and essential compendium inspired by Dr Johnson's original, and updated for our turbulent times. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dear Reader Paul Fournel (Author) (Author) David Bellos (Translated by) Series:
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03 May 2018
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 176pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782275220 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-522-0 ISBN10: 1782275223 EAN: 9781782275220 x Description: Old schoolpublisher meets e-reader: chaos ensues There's a lotof good to be said about publishing, mainly about the food. The books, though -Robert Dubois feels as if he's read the books, but still they keep coming backto him, the same old books just by new authors. Maybe he's ready to settle intothe end of his career, like it's a tipsy afternoon after a working lunch. Butthen he is confronted with a gift: a piece of technology, a gizmo, areader... Dear Reader takes a wry,affectionate look at the world of publishing, books and authors, and is a veryfunny, moving story about the passing of the old and the excitement of the new. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
No Place to Lay One's Head Francoise Frenkel (Author) Series:
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25 Jan 2018
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 304pp h216mm x w135mm ISBN13: 9781782273998 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-399-8 ISBN10: 1782273999 EAN: 9781782273998 x Description: In 1921, Francoise Frenkel - a Jewish woman from Poland - opens her first bookshop in Berlin. It is a dream come true. The dream lasts nearly two decades. Then suddenly, it ends. It ends after police confiscations and the Night of Broken Glass, as Jewish shops and businesses are smashed to pieces. It ends when no one protests. So Francoise flees to France, just weeks before war breaks out. In Paris, on the wireless and in the newspapers, horror has made itself at home. When the city is bombed, Francoise seeks refuge in Avignon, then Nice. She fears she may never see her family again. Nice is awash with refugees and terrible suffering; children are torn from their parents; mothers throw themselves under buses. Horrified by what she sees, Francoise goes into hiding. She survives only because strangers risk their lives to protect her. Set against the romantic landscapes of Southern France, No Place to Lay One's Head is a heartbreaking tale of human cruelty and unending kindness; of a woman whose lust for life refuses to leave her, even in her darkest hours. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Willow King Meelis Friedenthal (Author) Matthew Hyde (Translated by) Series:
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05 Jan 2017
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Language: English Translated From: Estonian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp h216mm x w135mm ISBN13: 9781782271741 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-174-1 ISBN10: 1782271740 EAN: 9781782271741 x Description: Estonia, at the end of the seventeenth century: Laurentius arrives in the country, accompanied by a rose-ringed parakeet and hounded by melancholy. He has come to study the latest research - on bloodletting, the evil eye, the position of the soul in the body . . . Meanwhile the poor are being devoured by hunger and the city walls of his university town don't keep them out; in his feverish sleep he dreams of a king with a high crown, and his waking life is stalked by paranoia. Compelling, evocative and beautifully written, The Willow King is an unsettling tale of a time of witchcraft, of public executions and public dissections, when science and the supernatural were intertwined. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Slow Boat Hideo Furukawa (Author) David Boyd (Translated by) Series:
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30 Mar 2017
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Language: English Translated From: Japanese Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 128pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782273288 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-328-8 ISBN10: 178227328X EAN: 9781782273288 x Description: A startling novella from the heir to Haruki Murakami and Gabriel Garcia Marquez Trapped in Tokyo, left behind by a series of girlfriends, the narrator of Slow Boat sizes up his situation. His missteps, his violent rebellions, his tiny victories. But he is not a passive loser, content to accept all that fate hands him. He attempts one last escape to the edges of the city, holding the only safety net he has known - his dreams. Filled with lyrical longing and humour, Slow Boat captures perfectly the urge to get away and the necessity of finding yourself in a world which might never even be looking for you. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Land of Smoke Sara Gallardo (Author) Jessica Sequeira (Translated by) Series:
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25 Jan 2018
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Language: English Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp h165mm x w120mm ISBN13: 9781782274032 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-403-2 ISBN10: 1782274030 EAN: 9781782274032 x Description: Dazzling, hallucinatory stories by Sara Gallardo, a rediscovered Argentinian contemporary of Garcia Marquez An old man wakes up one morning to find that his beloved garden, the envy of all his neighbours, is floating away - with him on board; a bored young woman decides to start a new, double life in Buenos Aires - with the useful prop of a spare head she keeps in her closet; a meek German missionary leaves Paraguay for the Pampas, completely unprepared for what he will encounter there at night. Land of Smoke is the first English translation of this recently rediscovered major Argentinian writer. Dazzling and hallucinatory, the stories collected here recall the masters of magical realism - but with Gallardo's distinctive, idiosyncratic slant. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fat City Leonard Gardner (Author) Series:
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26 Jan 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 192pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782272557 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-255-7 ISBN10: 1782272550 EAN: 9781782272557 x Description: 'Tremendous' Geoff Dyer 'A pitch-perfect account of boxing, blue-collar bewilderment and the battle of the sexes' San Francisco Chronicle A major cult film directed by John Huston Stockton, California: a town of dark bars and lunchrooms, cheap hotels and farm labourers scratching a living. When two men meet in the Lido Gym the ex-boxer Billy Tully and the novice Ernie Munger - their brief sparring session sets a fateful story in motion, initiating young Munger into the "company of men" and luring Tully back into training. Fat City is a vivid novel of defiance and struggle, of the potent promise of the good life and the desperation and drink that waylay those whom it eludes. This acclaimed American classic tells of their anxieties and hopes, their loves and losses, and the ephemeral glory of the fight. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Beggar and Other Stories Gaito Gazdanov (Author) (Author) Bryan Karetnyk (Translator) (Translated by) Series:
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Pub Date:
28 Mar 2018
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h165mm x w120mm ISBN13: 9781782274018 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-401-8 ISBN10: 1782274014 EAN: 9781782274018 x Description: 'Gazdanov is amodernist master' -- Irish Times 'TheGazdanov revival... is nothing short of a literary event' --TLS In a Paris underpass, dirtyand dressed in rags, stands a silent beggar. In the evening, he walks thedeserted streets; at night, he sleeps in a small, foetid crate vacated by thedeath of another beggar. He is poor and he is ill, but, on reflection, he isfree. Never before published in English, this landmarkcollection represents a series of six compact miniatures by modernist masterGaito Gazdanov. From the exploits of a secret agent on a mission to SovietRussia, to the drama of an adulterous affair with the power to destroy a womanand her family, these lyrical stories have itall. Translated with intelligence and grace by BryanKaretnyk, The Beggar and Other Stories shows the author ofThe Spectre of Alexander Wolf at his very best. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Simple Story: In Search of Argentina's Gaucho Dancers Leila Guerriero (Author) Thomas Bunstead (Translator) (Translated by) Series:
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Pub Date:
27 Jul 2017
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Language: English Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 160pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782271734 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-173-4 ISBN10: 1782271732 EAN: 9781782271734 x Description: 'An epic of noble proportions' Spectator A thrilling journey in search of the legendary malambo dance of Argentina, and one Gaucho who faces the biggest contest of his life Every year, at the height of summer, the remote Argentinian village of Laborde holds the prestigious national malambo contest. Little known outside the Argentinian pampas, the malambo is a centuries-old gaucho dance, governed by the most rigid rules and shatteringly physically demanding. It is the object of obsession for thousands of young working-class men, who sacrifice their spare time, their bodies and what little money they have to try to win the title of Malambo Champion. The twist is that a Malambo Champion may never compete again. In 2011, Leila Guerriero travelled to Laborde for what was supposed to be a brief investigation into this intriguing contest. But on the second night, one dancer's towering performance takes her breath away - he doesn't win, but Guerriero, irresistibly drawn, spends the next year following him in his preparations for the 2012 festival. In this remarkable work of reportage Guerriero proves herself to be as sharp-eyed as Gay Talese, as lyrical as Norman Mailer. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Uncannily Strange and Brief Life of Amedeo Modigliani Celia Hawkesworth (Translator) (Translated by) Velibor Colic (Author) (Author) Series:
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25 Jan 2018
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Language: English Translated From: Croatian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 144pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782274971 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-497-1 ISBN10: 1782274979 EAN: 9781782274971 x Description: A scintillating account of the Italian painter's short, anarchic existence, published in time for a major exhibition of the artist The life of the painter Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) was chaotic and tragically brief. This evocative novel captures the full essence of his Bohemian lifestyle. His lover Jeanne He'buterne, the prostitutes who were his occasional models, and other colourful visitors come and go through his Paris studio. Spanning the turbulent last months of Modigliani's life, conjuring up the strange workings of the painter's troubled and often drug-fuelled mind and its expression in his paintings, this novel conveys something of the intense artistic life of Paris in the first decades of the twentieth century. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
An Untouched House Willem Frederik Hermans (Author) David Colmer (Translated by) Series:
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05 Jul 2018
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Language: English Translated From: Dutch, Middle (ca. 1050-1350) Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 96pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782274445 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-444-5 ISBN10: 1782274448 EAN: 9781782274445 x Description: A partisan fighting with the Red Army in Germany comes across a grand, abandoned house, seemingly untouched by the devastation sweeping the country. Exhausted, he falls asleep in the living room, but wakes to find a German patrol marching up the garden path. His only hope is to pose as the house's owner, but how will he keep up the pretence when the real owner returns? Dazzling, dark and scorchingly violent, with the breakneck pace of a thriller, this timeless classic is a vivid depiction of what happens when the mask of decency is cast aside in the savagery of war. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sand Wolfgang Herrndorf (Author) Tim Mohr (Translated by) Series:
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30 Mar 2017
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Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 448pp h216mm x w135mm ISBN13: 9781782271284 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-128-4 ISBN10: 1782271287 EAN: 9781782271284 x Description: Somewhere in the North African desert, a man with no memory tries to evade his armed pursuers. Who are they? What do they want from him? If he could just recall his own identity he might have a chance of working it out.
Elsewhere, four westerners are murdered in a hippy commune and a suitcase full of worthless currency goes missing. Enter a pair of very unenthusiastic detectives, a paranoid spy whose sanity has baked away in the sun, and a beautiful blonde American with a talent for being underestimated.
Sand is a gripping thriller - part Pynchon, part Le Carre, part Coen brothers - an unsettling, caustically funny tale of pursuit and madness.
"A gripping and brilliantly funny thriller" Focus
"His was an extraordinary mind" Guardian
"A great writer. A smiling, friendly, sympathetic nihilism shines through his prose" Frankfurter Rundschau
"Enigmatic and moving" Die Zeit
Born in 1965, Wolfgang Herrndorf waited until 2010 to make his literary breakthrough with Why We Took the Car, which has sold more than two million copies in Germany, has been translated into thirty-four languages, and was made into a feature film. By this time he was already suffering from an incurable brain tumour. He continued to write for the next few years, completing Sand, which won the 2012 Leipzig Book Fair prize. When he died in 2013 he was recognized as a unique and brilliant literary talent. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sand Wolfgang Herrndorf (Author) Tim Mohr (Translated by) Series:
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28 Mar 2018
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Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 448pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782274414 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-441-4 ISBN10: 1782274413 EAN: 9781782274414 x Description: Somewhere in the North African desert, a man with no memory tries to evade his armed pursuers. Who are they? What do they want from him? If he could just recall his own identity he might have a chance of working it out. Elsewhere, four westerners are murdered in a hippy commune and a suitcase full of worthless currency goes missing. Enter a pair of very unenthusiastic detectives, a paranoid spy whose sanity has baked away in the sun, and a beautiful blonde American with a talent for being underestimated. Sand is a gripping thriller - part Pynchon, part Le Carre, part Coen brothers - an unsettling, caustically funny tale of pursuit and madness. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Down for the Count Martin Holmen (Author) Henning Koch (Translated by) Series:
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06 Jul 2017
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Language: English Translated From: Swedish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 304pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782272182 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-218-2 ISBN10: 1782272186 EAN: 9781782272182 x Description: Harry Kvist walks out the gates of Langholmen jail into the biting Stockholm winter of 1935. He has nothing to his name but a fiercely burning hope: that he can leave behind his old existence of gutter brawls, bruised fists and broken bones. But the city has other ideas. Nazis are spreading their poison on the freezing streets, and one of Kvist's oldest friends has been murdered. Before he can leave Stockholm's underworld for good, he must track down the killer. As Kvist uncovers a trail of blood leading to the highest echelons of Swedish society, the former boxer finds himself in a fight to the death with his most dangerous opponent yet. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Slugger Martin Holmen (Author) Annie Prime (Translated by) Series:
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06 Dec 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 304pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782272199 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-219-9 ISBN10: 1782272194 EAN: 9781782272199 x Description: Stockholm, 1936. Harry Kvist, a bisexual ex-boxer now playing his trade as a debt collector, is bitter, angry and more alone than he has ever been. When his friend, Father Gabrielsson, is found brutally murdered by the altar Katarina Church, it doesn't look as if the police are interested in finding the culprit. So Kvist decides to do it himself. As he investigates he uncovers a trail leading all the way to Nazi Germany where fascists are plotting a takeover in Sweden. But does Kvist have the strength to go to the final round with them on his own? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Bear and the Paving Stone Toshiyuki Horie (Author) Professor Geraint Howells (Translated by) Series:
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24 Jan 2018
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Language: English Translated From: Japanese Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 128pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782274377 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-437-7 ISBN10: 1782274375 EAN: 9781782274377 x Description: Winner of the prestigious Akutagawa Prize, three dream-like tales of memory and war
Visiting a friend in the French countryside, a man finds himself cast into the quandaries of historical whim, religious identity, and seeing without sight; a walk along the seashore, upon the anniversary of a death, becomes a reverie on building sandcastles; and an innocent break-in at the ruins of an archbishop's residence takes a turn towards disaster.
In three stories that prove the unavoidable connections of our past, Toshiyuki Horie creates a haunting world of dreams and memories where everyone ends up where they began - whether they want to or not. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Hideout Egon Hostovsky (Author) Fern Long (Translated by) Series:
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02 Mar 2017
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Language: English Translated From: Czech Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 128pp h165mm x w120mm ISBN13: 9781782272403 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-240-3 ISBN10: 1782272402 EAN: 9781782272403 x Description: A powerful and moving novel about one man's final, fatal, heroic act of resistance in Nazi France When a Czech engineer arrives in Paris in 1939, he cannot know that three years later he will be in hiding, confined to the damp, dark cellar of a French doctor. Alone with his memories, he writes to his "dearest Hanichka", confessing everything: the hope of a love affair for which he travelled to Paris, the discovery of the German warrant for his arrest, and the murder he was forced to commit. A claustrophobic classic of Czech literature, The Hideout is one man's last love letter to his wife. As he contends with his failing eyesight and the loss of his teeth, so too must he grapple with the guilt of leaving his family and the dwindling hope of ever returning home. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland Nicolai Houm (Author) Anna Paterson (Translated by) Series:
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24 Apr 2018
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Language: English Translated From: Norwegian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 192pp h216mm x w135mm ISBN13: 9781782273776 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-377-6 ISBN10: 1782273778 EAN: 9781782273776 x Description: A MOVING ANDCOMPELLING EMOTIONAL MYSTERY, BY ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING NEW TALENTS INNORWAY, PERFECT FOR FANS OF ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE,RACHEL CUSK AND IAN MCEWAN 'Insightful... unsentimental... andso believable' -- Dagbladet AnAmerican woman wakes up in a tent in the Norwegian mountains. Outside a stormrages and the fog is dense. Her phone is dead. She is completelyalone. Her name is Jane Ashland, and her life has spiralledout of control. Moving between Jane's past and thisextraordinary remote landscape, Nicolai Houm weaves a dramatic trail ofsuspense through one woman's life - via love, grief, and a devastating accidentthat changes everything. The Gradual Disappearanceof Jane Ashland is a compelling, beautifully-written tale of life atits most glorious, and most terrible. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Only Killers and Thieves Paul Howarth (Author) Series:
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23 May 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 416pp h216mm x w135mm ISBN13: 9781911590033 ISBN13: 978-1-911590-03-3 ISBN10: 1911590030 EAN: 9781911590033 x Description: Tommy McBride and his brother Billy return to their isolated family home to discover that their parents have been brutally murdered. Haunted and alone, their desperate search for the killers leads them to the charismatic but deadly Inspector Noone and his Queensland Native Police an infamous arm of colonial power whose sole purpose is the 'dispersal' of Indigenous Australians in protection of settler rights. The retribution that follows will leave a lasting mark on the colony and the country it later becomes. It will also devastate Tommy - and destroy his relationship with his brother, forever. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Only Killers and Thieves Paul Howarth (Author) Series:
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23 May 2018
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Language: English Translated From: English Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 416pp h216mm x w135mm ISBN13: 9781911590064 ISBN13: 978-1-911590-06-4 ISBN10: 1911590065 EAN: 9781911590064 x Description: A powerfully told, gripping novel of family, guilt, empire, and race set in the dusty, deserted outback of Queensland in the 1880s. Tommy McBride and his brother Billy return to the isolated family home to find their parents have been brutally murdered. Haunted and alone, their desperate search for the killers leads them to the charismatic and deadly Inspector Noone and his Queensland Native Police - an infamous arm of colonial power whose sole purpose is the 'dispersal' of Indigenous Australians in protection of settler rights. The retribution that follows will not only devastate Tommy and his relationship with his brother, but leave a terrible and lasting mark on the colony and the country it later becomes. This is a stunning debut from a major new talent. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Secret Passages in a Hillside Town Pasi Ilmari Jaaskelainen (Author) (Author) Lola Rogers (Translated by) Series:
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07 Dec 2017
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Language: English Translated From: Finnish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 416pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782273370 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-337-0 ISBN10: 1782273379 EAN: 9781782273370 x Description: An atmospheric love story with a twist by the author of The Rabbit Back Literature Society
In a small hillside town, Olli Suominen - publisher and discontented husband - is constantly losing umbrellas. He has also joined a film club. And Greta, an old flame, has added him on Facebook.
As his life becomes more and more entangled with Greta's, and his wife and son are dragged into the aftermath of this teenage romance, Olli is forced to make a choice. But does he really want to know what the secret passages are? Can he be sure that Greta is who she seems to be? And what actually happened on that summer's day long ago?
Absorbing, atmospheric and often very funny, Secret Passages in a Hillside Town is an intoxicating novel about the grip of the past and the romance of what has been lost. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Unhappiness of Being a Single Man: Essential Stories Franz Kafka (Author) Alexander Starritt (Translated by) Laurent Moreau (Illustrated by) Series:
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Pub Date:
25 Oct 2018
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Forthcoming
Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h165mm x w120mm ISBN13: 9781782274391 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-439-1 ISBN10: 1782274391 EAN: 9781782274391 x Description: Kafka, whose name has generated an adjective, is one of the best loved writers of the twentieth century. Known for his dark, enigmatic stories, for the absurd nightmares he depicts, his extraordinary imaginative depth is clear in stories from 'A Hunger Artist' to 'The Verdict'. But Kafka also wrote fizzingly funny, fresh stories, and The Unhappiness of Being a Single Man contains all the aspects of this genius: the wit and the grit; the horror and the humour; the longing and the laughing. They range from bizarre, two-sentence stories about Don Quixote to the famous brutal depiction of violence and justice that is 'In the Penal Colony'. In a nimble new translation by the acclaimed Alexander Starritt, this collection of Kafka's essential stories shows the genius at his very best. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Record of a Night Too Brief Hiromi Kawakami (Author) Lucy North (Translated by) Series:
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Pub Date:
26 Jan 2017
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Language: English Translated From: Japanese Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 160pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782272717 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-271-7 ISBN10: 1782272712 EAN: 9781782272717 x Description: The Akutagawa Prize-winning stories from the author of Strange Weather in Tokyo In these three haunting and lyrical stories, three young women experience unsettling loss and romance. In a dreamlike adventure, one woman travels through an apparently unending night with a porcelain girlfriend, mist-monsters and villainous monkeys; a sister mourns her invisible brother whom only she can still see, while the rest of her family welcome his would-be wife into their home; and an accident with a snake leads a shop girl to discover the snake-families everyone else seems to be concealing. Sensual, yearning, and filled with the tricks of memory and grief, Record of a Night Too Brief is an atmospheric trio of unforgettable tales. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ms Ice Sandwich Mieko Kawakami (Author) Louise Heal Kawai (Translated by) Series:
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26 Apr 2017
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Language: English Translated From: Japanese Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 96pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782273301 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-330-1 ISBN10: 1782273301 EAN: 9781782273301 x Description: A quixotic and funny tale about first love - from the Akutagawa Prize-winning author
Ms Ice Sandwich seems to lack social graces, but our young narrator is totally smitten with her. He is in awe of her aloofness, her skill at slipping sandwiches into bags, and, most electric of all, her ice-blue eyelids. Every day he is drawn to the supermarket just to watch her in action. But life has a way of interfering - there is his mother, forever distracted, who can tell the fortunes of women; his grandmother, silently dying, who listens to his heart; and his classmate, Tutti, no stranger to pain, who shares her private thrilling world with him. Tender, warm, yet unsentimental, Ms Ice Sandwich is a story about new starts, parents who have departed, and the importance of saying goodbye. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash Eka Kurniawan (Author) Annie Tucker (Translated by) Series:
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Pub Date:
06 Jul 2017
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Language: English Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h216mm x w135mm ISBN13: 9781782272441 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-244-1 ISBN10: 1782272445 EAN: 9781782272441 x Description: Ajo Kawir is one of the toughest fighters in the Javanese underworld, his fearlessness matched only by his unquenchable thirst for brawling. But the young thug is driven by a painful secret - he is impotent. When he finally meets his match in the shape of the fearsomely beautiful bodyguard Iteung, Ajo is left bruised, battered and overjoyed - he has fallen in love. But will he ever be able to make Iteung happy with a pecker that won't stand up? Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash is a gloriously pulpy tale of bloody fists, broken hearts and dueling Jakarta truckers, from the Man Booker International-longlisted author of Beauty is a Wound. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash Eka Kurniawan (Author) Annie Tucker (Translated by) Series:
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Pub Date:
26 Jul 2018
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Forthcoming
Language: English Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782274285 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-428-5 ISBN10: 1782274286 EAN: 9781782274285 x Description: Ajo Kawir is one of the toughest fighters in the Javanese underworld, his fearlessness matched only by his unquenchable thirst for brawling. But the young thug is driven by a painful secret - he is impotent. When he finally meets his match in the shape of the fearsomely beautiful bodyguard Iteung, Ajo is left bruised, battered and overjoyed - he has fallen in love. But will he ever be able to make Iteung happy? Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash is a gloriously pulpy tale of bloody fists, broken hearts and dueling Jakarta truckers, from the Man Booker International-longlisted author of Beauty is a Wound. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A World Gone Mad: The Diaries of Astrid Lindgren, 1939-45 Astrid Lindgren (Author) Sarah Death (Translated by) Series:
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Pub Date:
26 Oct 2017
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Language: English Translated From: Swedish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 240pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782273073 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-307-3 ISBN10: 1782273077 EAN: 9781782273073 x Description: 'A breathtaking read' - Die Welt One of the twentieth century's greatest children's writers - and the creator of Pippi Longstocking -reveals her very personal take on the Second World War Before she became internationally known for her children's books, Astrid Lindgren was an aspiring author living in Stockholm with her family at the outbreak of the Second World War. These diaries, until recently stored in a wicker laundry basket in her Dalagatan home, offer a civilian, a mother, and an aspiring writer's unique account of a world devastated by conflict. In these diaries Lindgren emerges as a morally courageous critic of violence and war, as well as a deeply sensitive and astute observer of world affairs. She provides insights into the Soviet invasion of Finland and the ambiguities of Swedish neutrality, and asks questions about the nature of evil, and our capacity, as individuals, to stand against such malevolent forces. Alongside political events, Lindgren includes delightful vignettes of domestic life: shortages of butter, blackouts, dinner menus and children's birthdays, and moving descriptions of her marriage. And these diaries also reveal her emergence as a writer: the bedtime stories she invented for her daughter during this terrible period eventually became Pippi Longstocking, one of the most famous and beloved children's books of the twentieth century. Posthumously published in Sweden to great acclaim, and now available for the first time in English, illustrated with family photographs, Lindgren's diaries provide an intensely personal and vivid chronicle of Europe at war. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fraulein Else F. H. Lyon (Translator) (Translated by) Arthur Schnitzler (Author) (Author) Series:
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06 Jul 2017
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Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 112pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782273714 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-371-4 ISBN10: 1782273719 EAN: 9781782273714 x Description: 'A tour de force' - Evening Standard Fraulein Else's stay with her aunt at a fashionable spa resort is interrupted by the arrival of an express letter. The letter is for Fraulein Else, an end to innocence. Into Else's nineteen-year-old romantic, capricious thoughts enter new, upsetting realities, and a new unwelcome power comes to exert itself over her. Schnitzler's novella is an extraordinary exercise in character, as compelling as it is psychologically acute. A piercing story of power and sexuality, Fraulein Else shows how brittle decency can be, how venal life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Bird Cottage Eva Meijer (Author) Antoinette Fawcett (Translated by) Series:
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Pub Date:
29 Aug 2018
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Language: English Translated From: Dutch; Flemish Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 256pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782273936 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-393-6 ISBN10: 178227393X EAN: 9781782273936 x Description: I want to find out how they behave when they're free. Len Howard was forty years old when she decided to leave her London life and loves behind, retire to the English countryside and devote the rest of her days to her one true passion: birds. Moving to a small cottage in Sussex, she wrote two bestselling books , astonishing the world with her observations on the tits, robins, sparrows and other birds that lived nearby, flew freely in and out of her windows, and would even perch on her shoulder as she typed. This moving novel imagines the story of this remarkable woman's decision to defy society's expectations, and the joy she drew from her extraordinary relationship with the natural world. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fortunes of France 4: League of Spies Robert Merle (Author) Series:
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27 Jun 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 672pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782273929 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-392-9 ISBN10: 1782273921 EAN: 9781782273929 x Description: An uneasy peace reigns in France, but behind the scenes Catholics, Protestants and the agents of foreign powers are still locked in secretive, bloody combat. As his country's future hangs in the balance, Pierre de Siorac's apparent employment as a doctor masks a more deadly occupation-as a spy working for King Henry IV and his ally Elizabeth I of England, using fair means and foul to protect the peace of two realms. As the plots against his king thicken and the Spanish Armada prepares to sail, Pierre finds himself struggling to save not only his country, but the lives of his entire family. With his back to the wall, he will need a keen wit and a steady sword arm to fight his way to safety. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fortunes of France 1: The Brethren Robert Merle (Author) Series:
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27 Jun 2018
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 416pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782275077 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-507-7 ISBN10: 178227507X EAN: 9781782275077 x Description: The Perigord of sixteenth-century France is a wild region-its steep, forested valleys roamed by bands ofbrigands and gypsies, its communities divided by conflict between Catholics and converts to the new Protestant faith. To this beautiful but dangerous country come two veterans of the French king's wars, Jean de Siorac and Jean de Sauveterre: The Brethren-as fiercely loyal to the crown as they are to their Huguenot religion. But they are far from secure-religious civil war looms on the horizon,famine and plague stalk the land, and The Brethren must use all their wits to protect those they love from the chaos that threatens to sweep them away. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fortunes of France 2: City of Wisdom and Blood Robert Merle (Author) Series:
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Pub Date:
27 Jun 2018
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 576pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782275084 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-508-4 ISBN10: 1782275088 EAN: 9781782275084 x Description: During the French Wars of Religion only fools walk the streets at night unarmed, while a profession of faith in the wrong company can lead to a knife in the back. Lawlessness and religious hatred threaten to tear the whole country in two. Now an adult, Pierre de Siorac must travel south on dangerous roads to the great university town ofMontpellier, accompanied by his strapping but naive brother Samson and the crafty Miroul. Well-armoured, with swords and pistols at their belts, the trio are confident of repelling any bandits who cross their path, but away from the safety of their Perigord home they will encounter many new dangers, and delights. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fortunes of France 3: Heretic Dawn Robert Merle (Author) T. Jefferson Kline (Translated by) Series:
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27 Jun 2018
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 608pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782275091 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-509-1 ISBN10: 1782275096 EAN: 9781782275091 x Description: After a deadly duel with a jealous rival, Pierre de Siorac must travel to Paris, to seek his pardon from the King. In the capital city he finds a world of sweet words and fierce pride, where coquettish smiles hide behind fans, and murderous intents behind elegant bows. But the court's elaborate social graces mask a simmering tension that will soon explode to engulf the entire city. When it does, Pierre faces the greatest challenge of his young existence-not merely to win a royal pardon, but to escape from Paris with his life, and the lives of his beloved companions, intact. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Vanish in an Instant Margaret Millar (Author) Series:
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25 Oct 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782274797 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-479-7 ISBN10: 1782274790 EAN: 9781782274797 x Description: On a snowbound night near a small Michigan town, Virginia Barkeley is discovered staggering around, covered in blood and blind drunk. Nearby, wealthy lothario Claude Margolis is found dead, stabbed several times in the neck. The case seems open and shut. Even Virginia thinks she probably committed the crime, although she cannot for the life of her think why. In this classic noir tale of blurred guilt and flawed innocence, a cynical lawyer uncovers the desperate lives of a group connected only by a gruesome murder. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Man in a Hurry Paul Morand (Author) (Author) Professor Euan Cameron (Translator) (Translated by) Michel Deon (Introduction by) Series:
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04 May 2017
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 384pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782273691 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-369-1 ISBN10: 1782273697 EAN: 9781782273691 x Description: A feverish classic from one of the modern masters of French prose No one can keep up with Pierre Niox, the speediest antiques dealer in Paris - although not necessarily the most competent. As he dashes about at a dizzying pace, his impatience becomes too much to bear for those around him: his manservant, his only friend and even his cat abandon him. He begins to find that while he is racing through life, it is passing him by. But when Pierre falls in love with the languid, unpunctual Hedwige, the man in a hurry has to learn how to slow down. This feverish classic by one of the modern masters of French prose is a witty and touching parable for our busy times. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Peace Machine Ozgur Mumcu (Author) Mark David Wyers (Translated by) Series:
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31 May 2018
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Language: English Translated From: Turkish Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 224pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782273943 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-394-3 ISBN10: 1782273948 EAN: 9781782273943 x Description: We'll create a machine. A peace machine that will put an end to all wars. As the twentieth century dawns the world stands on the brink of yet another bloody war. But what if conflict were not inevitable? What if a machine could exploit the latest developments in electromagnetic science to influence people's minds? And what if such a machine could put an end to violence for ever? The search for the answer to these questions will lead our hero Celal away from his unassuming life as an Istanbul-based writer of erotic fiction, and on a quest across a continent stumbling headlong towards disaster, from Istanbul to Paris and Belgrade, as he struggles to uncover the mystery of The Peace Machine before time runs out for humanity. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Karate Chop Dorthe Nors (Author) Martin Aitken (Translated by) Series:
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31 Aug 2017
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Language: English Translated From: Danish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 96pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782274322 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-432-2 ISBN10: 1782274324 EAN: 9781782274322 x Description: In these glittering, very funny stories, the acclaimed Danish writer Dorthe Nors sketches ordinary lives taking unexpected turns: a son's love for his father is tested when he suddenly discovers its fragility; a woman in an abusive relationship seeks to better understand the choices she has made; a man with dreams of self improvement is haunted by deceit; and a daughter watches on silently as her mother's search for meaning ends in madness. Blending compassion with dark delight, Nors conjures up a flawed, unsettlingly familiar world with each cautionary glance - as fresh moments of wonder, romance and frail beauty are unexpectedly infiltrated by depravity, isolation and despair. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Minna Needs Rehearsal Space Dorthe Nors (Author) Martin Aitken (Translated by) Series:
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31 Aug 2017
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Language: English Translated From: Danish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 96pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782274346 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-434-6 ISBN10: 1782274340 EAN: 9781782274346 x Description: Minna is feeling desperate. Lars has just dumped her by text message. Her friends are constantly flaunting their lovers, children and dogs (with Facebook as their cruel accomplice). And her neurotic sister is everywhere she turns. Minna needs security, and a place in Copenhagen to practise her music. Minna wants a child. Minna needs to stop being answerable to everyone. So, with only Ingmar Bergman for comfort and company, she decides to take a trip away from it all. In this highly original, playful, poignant yet funny novella, Dorthe Nors explores our struggles to find love, relate to others and simply be heard above the relentless noise of the modern age. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mirror, Shoulder, Signal Dorthe Nors (Author) Misha Hoekstra (Translated by) Series:
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23 Feb 2017
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Language: English Translated From: Danish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 192pp h216mm x w135mm ISBN13: 9781782273127 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-312-7 ISBN10: 1782273123 EAN: 9781782273127 x Description: 'Dorthe Nors is fantastic!' Junot Diaz 'Nors' writing is by turns witty, gut wrenching, stark and lyrical.' Los Angeles Times Sonja's over forty, and she's trying to move in the right direction. She's learning to drive. She's joined a meditation group. And she's attempting to reconnect with her sister. But Sonja would rather eat cake than meditate. Her driving instructor won't let her change gear. And her sister won't return her calls. Sonja's mind keeps wandering back to the dramatic landscapes of her childhood - the singing whooper swans, the endless sky, and getting lost barefoot in the rye fields - but how can she return to a place that she no longer recognises? And how can she escape the alienating streets of Copenhagen? Mirror, Shoulder, Signal is a poignant, sharp-witted tale of one woman's journey in search of herself when there's no one to ask for directions. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mirror, Shoulder, Signal Dorthe Nors (Author) Misha Hoekstra (Translated by) Series:
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23 May 2018
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Language: English Translated From: Danish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 192pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782273141 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-314-1 ISBN10: 178227314X EAN: 9781782273141 x Description: Sonja's over forty, and she's trying to move in the right direction. She's learning to drive. She's joined a meditation group. And she's attempting to reconnect with her sister. But Sonja would rather eat cake than meditate. Her driving instructor won't let her change gear.
And her sister won't return her calls. Sonja's mind keeps wandering back to the dramatic landscapes of her childhood - the singing whooper swans, the endless sky, and getting lost barefoot in the rye fields - but how can she return to a place that she no longer recognises? And how can she escape the alienating streets of Copenhagen? Mirror, Shoulder, Signal is a poignant, sharp-witted tale of one woman's journey in search of herself when there's no one to ask for directions. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Cake Tree in the Ruins Akiyuki Nosaka (Author) Ginny Takemori (Translator) (Translated by) Series:
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Pub Date:
25 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Language: English Translated From: Japanese Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 160pp h165mm x w120mm ISBN13: 9781782274186 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-418-6 ISBN10: 1782274189 EAN: 9781782274186 x Description: 'I am still unable to leave the burnt-out ruins' Akiyuki Nosaka, 2014 In 1945, Akiyuki Nosaka watched the Allied firebombing of Kobe kill his adoptive parents, and then witnessed his sister starving to death. The shocking and blisteringly memorable stories of The Cake Tree in the Ruins are based on his own experiences as a child in Japan during the Second World War. They are stories of a lonely whale searching the oceans for a mate, who sacrifices himself for love; of a mother desperately trying to save her son with her tears; of a huge, magnificent tree which grows amid the ruins of a burnt-out town, its branches made from the sweetest cake imaginable. Profound, heartbreaking and aglow with a piercing beauty, they express the chaos and terror of conflict, yet also how love can illuminate even the darkest moment. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The End of the Moment We Had Toshiki Okada (Author) Series:
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Pub Date:
28 Mar 2018
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Language: English Translated From: Japanese Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 128pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782274162 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-416-2 ISBN10: 1782274162 EAN: 9781782274162 x Description: Two brilliant,multi-layered stories from the winner of the Kenzaburo Oe Prize: the best contemporary Japanese writing 'Nothing short of superb... This book gives me hope for the future of Japanese literature' Kenzaburo Oe, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature In two stunning tales by novelist-playwright Toshiki Okada, characters stagger and thrash, bound by a generational hunger for human connection. On the eve of the Iraq War a couple find unexpected deliverance - fleeting and anonymous - at a love hotel. And wheels spin as a woman aches for something more from her husband, even as she knows she has enough.
Snapshots of moments high and low, these stories introduce us to an unsettlingly honest voice in contemporary Japanese fiction. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Hotel Silence Augur Ava Olafsdottir (Author) (Author) Brian Fitzgibbon (Translator) (Translated by) Series:
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21 Feb 2018
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Language: English Translated From: Icelandic Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782274216 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-421-6 ISBN10: 1782274219 EAN: 9781782274216 x Description: 'Olafsdottir's specialty is the small journeys we take to save ourselves and the ones we care for. She is the heart's finest map-maker' Sjon Winner of the Icelandic Literature Prize<
Jonas feels like his life is over. His wife has left him, his mother is slipping deeper into dementia, and his daughter is no longer who he thought. So he comes up with a foolproof plan: to buy a one-way ticket to a chaotic,war-ravaged country and put an end to it all. But on arriving at Hotel Silence, he finds his plans - and his anonymity - begin to dissolve under the foreign sun. Now there are other things that need his attention, like the crumbling hotel itself, the staff who run it, and his unusual fellow guests. And soon it becomes clear that Jonas must decide whether he really wants to leave it all behind; or give life a second chance, albeit down a most unexpected path... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
War in Val d'Orcia: An Italian War Diary 1943-1944 Iris Origo (Author) Series:
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Pub Date:
22 Feb 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 320pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782272656 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-265-6 ISBN10: 1782272658 EAN: 9781782272656 x Description: The bestselling diaries of WWII in Tuscany, with a new introduction by writer and social historian Virginia Nicholson, and stunning rediscovered photographsAt the height of the Second World War, Italy was being torn apart by German armies, civil war, and the eventual Allied invasion. In a corner of Tuscany, one woman - born in England, married to an Italian - kept a record of daily life in a country at war. Iris Origo's compellingly powerful diary, War in Val d'Orcia, is the spare and vivid account of what happened when a peaceful farming valley became a battleground. At great personal risk, the Origos gave food and shelter to partisans, deserters and refugees. They took in evacuees, and as the front drew closer they faced the knowledge that the lives of thirty-two small children depended on them. Origo writes with sensitivity and generosity, and a story emerges of human acts of heroism and compassion, and the devastation that war can bring. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Images and Shadows: Part of a Life Iris Origo (Author) Series:
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22 Feb 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 384pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782272663 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-266-3 ISBN10: 1782272666 EAN: 9781782272663 x Description: The lucidly written memoir of Iris Origo, the writer of the bestselling War in Val d'Orcia It has only been through my affections that I have been able to perceive, however imperfectly, some faint "intimations of immortality" Images and Shadows is the story of those affections: for a loving, shy father, who died when his daughter was very young; for a vital, headstrong mother; for friends and family, alive and dead. And for the places Origo lived: Ireland, America, England; the childhood home in the hills above Florence; and her own beloved La Foce - the desolate, deforested estate which she and her Italian husband bought, and into which they poured the energy and patience of their best years. Iris Origo (1902-1988) is best known as a biographer and war diarist. But in Images and Shadows she writes with characteristic grace, wit and humility, almost reluctantly, about herself. Reissued with newly discovered photographs, it is both a moving insight into a lost age, and an illumination of the life and loves of an endlessly curious and thoughtful woman. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Last Attachment: The Story of Byron and Teresa Guiccioli Iris Origo (Author) Series:
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01 Jun 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 576pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782272670 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-267-0 ISBN10: 1782272674 EAN: 9781782272670 x Description: The last - and arguably most intense - love affair of one of the greatest British poets Teresa Guiccioli was just nineteen, and recently married to a jealous husband nearly three times her age, when she met Byron. He was one of the most infamous men in Europe; she was an inexperienced but beautiful provincial noblewoman. For the next four years, until Byron went to Greece, this formed the basis of a passionate, scandalous, and very intense love affair. Iris Origo, bestselling biographer and author of War in Val d'Orcia, was the first to have access to over a hundred love letters and family papers from the time of this affair. She uses these to illustrate the moving story, told with authority and clarity, of Byron and Teresa's turbulent romance. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Study in Solitude: The Life of Leopardi - Poet, Romantic and Radical Iris Origo (Author) Series:
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01 Jun 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 416pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782272687 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-268-7 ISBN10: 1782272682 EAN: 9781782272687 x Description: An extremely moving account of the lonely life of the unloved and tragic genius - described as "the greatest modern Italian poet" 'Love me, by God; I need love, love, love, fire, enthusiasm, life. The world does not seem made for me' Giacomo Leopardi, considered the greatest Italian poet since Dante, was one of the most radical thinkers of the nineteenth century. He also regarded himself one of the most miserable and unfortunate people to have lived. Born to strict parents in a provincial town in 1798, he had a lonely childhood, and he spent his time largely in his father's library. He suffered from a debilitating illness, and his short life was full of pain. But this pain and misery gave rise to some of the most intense and brilliant poems ever written in the Italian language. In this poetic biography, Iris Origo, author of the bestselling War in Val d'Orcia traces the short and lonely life of this conflicted poet. Written with generosity and understanding, A Study in Solitude is a sharp, moving portrait of a frail and frustrated genius. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Chill in the Air: An Italian War Diary 1939-1940 Iris Origo (Author) Lucy Hughes-Hallett (Introduction by) Series:
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Pub Date:
04 Oct 2018
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Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 192pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782273578 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-357-8 ISBN10: 1782273573 EAN: 9781782273578 x Description: Iris Origo, one of the twentieth century's great diarists, was born in England in 1902. As a child, she moved between England, Ireland, Italy and America, never quite belonging anywhere. It was only when she married an Italian man that she came to rest in one country. Fifteen years later, that country would be at war with her own. With piercing insight, Origo documents the grim absurdities that her adopted Italy underwent as war became more and more unavoidable. Connected to everyone, from the peasants on her estate to the US ambassador, she writes of the turmoil, the danger, and the dreadful bleakness of Italy in 19391940. Published for the first time in paperback, A Chill in the Air is the account of the awful inevitability of Italy's stumble into a conflict for which its people were ill prepared. With an introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallett, the award-winning author of The Pike, and an afterword by Katia Lysy, granddaughter of Iris Origo, this is the gripping precursor to Origo's bestselling classic diary War in Val d'Orcia. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Evening Descends Upon the Hills: Stories from Naples Anna Maria Ortese (Author) Series:
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Pub Date:
24 Apr 2018
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Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 208pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782273356 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-335-6 ISBN10: 1782273352 EAN: 9781782273356 x Description: A stunning classic set in Italy's most vibrant and turbulent metropolis - Naples - in the immediate aftermath of World War Two. These lively and superbly written stories helped inspire Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels. Ortese's work was also championed by Italo Calvino, who was her Italian editor. The stories and reportage collected in this volume form a powerful portrait of ordinary lives, both high and low, family dramas, love affairs, and struggles to pay the rent, set against the crumbling courtyards of the city itself, and the dramatic landscape of Naples Bay. This classic is exquisitely rendered in English by Ann Goldstein and Jenny McPhee, two of the leading translators working from Italian today. Included in the collection is 'A Pair of Eyeglasses', one of the most widely praised Italian short stories of the last century. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Beautiful Bureaucrat Helen Phillips (Author) Series:
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Pub Date:
13 Apr 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 192pp h216mm x w135mm ISBN13: 9781782273325 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-332-5 ISBN10: 1782273328 EAN: 9781782273325 x Description: A New York Times Notable Book Best book of the year in the New York Times, Bustle, Time Out, The Atlantic, Slate, Electric Literature'Funny, sad, scary and beautiful. I love it' Ursula K. Le Guin If the job market hadn't been so bleak during that long, humid summer, Josephine might have been discouraged from taking the administrative position in a windowless building in a remote part of town. As the days inch by and the files stack up, Josephine feels increasingly anxious in her surroundings - the drone of keyboards echoes eerily down the long halls, her boss has terrible breath, and there are cockroaches in the bath of her sublet. When one evening her husband Joseph disappears and then returns, offering no explanation as to his whereabouts, her creeping unease shifts decidedly to dread. Both chilling and poignant, this novel asks the biggest questions about marriage and fidelity, birth and death. Helen Phillips twists the world we know and shows it back to us full of meaning and wonder - luminous and new. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Some Possible Solutions Helen Phillips (Author) Series:
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Pub Date:
03 Aug 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782273424 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-342-4 ISBN10: 1782273425 EAN: 9781782273424 x Description: "Fascinating, unsettling and beautifully written" Emily St John Mandel "Strange and profound" New York Times<br> What if you knew the exact date of your death? What if your perfect hermaphrodite match existed on another planet? What if your city was filled with doppelgangers of you? In these remarkably inventive stories Helen Phillips' characters search for solutions to the problem of survival in an irrational, infinitely strange world. We meet a wealthy woman who purchases a high-tech sex toy in the shape of a man, a mother convinced that her children are from another planet, and orphaned twin sisters who work as futuristic strippers. As they strive for intimacy and struggle to resolve their fraught relationships with each other, and with themselves, we realise these dystopias are uncannily close to our own world. By turns surreal, witty, and perplexing, these bewitching stories are ultimately a reflection of our own reality and of the biggest existential questions we all face. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Beautiful Bureaucrat Helen Phillips (Author) Series:
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Pub Date:
27 Jun 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 192pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782273653 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-365-3 ISBN10: 1782273654 EAN: 9781782273653 x Description: A New York Times Notable Book Best book of the year in the New York Times, Bustle, Time Out, The Atlantic, Slate, Electric Literature'Funny, sad, scary and beautiful. I love it' Ursula K. Le Guin If the job market hadn't been so bleak during that long, humid summer, Josephine might have been discouraged from taking the administrative position in a windowless building in a remote part of town. As the days inch by and the files stack up, Josephine feels increasingly anxious in her surroundings - the drone of keyboards echoes eerily down the long halls, her boss has terrible breath, and there are cockroaches in the bath of her sublet. When one evening her husband Joseph disappears and then returns, offering no explanation as to his whereabouts, her creeping unease shifts decidedly to dread. Both chilling and poignant, this novel asks the biggest questions about marriage and fidelity, birth and death. Helen Phillips twists the world we know and shows it back to us full of meaning and wonder - luminous and new. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The New Sorrows of Young W. Ulrich Plenzdorf (Author) Series:
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Pub Date:
24 Apr 2018
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Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 144pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782274452 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-445-2 ISBN10: 1782274456 EAN: 9781782274452 x Description: 'I was just a regular idiot, a nutcase, a show-off and all that. Nothing to cry about. Seriously' Edgar W., teenage dropout, unrequited lover, unrecognized genius - and dead - tells the story of his brief, spectacular life. It is the story of how he rebels against the petty rules of communist East Germany to live in an abandoned summer house, with just a tape recorder and a battered copy of Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther for company. Of his passionate love for the dark-eyed, unattainable kindergarten teacher Charlie. And of how, in a series of calamitous events (involving electricity and a spray paint machine), he meets his untimely end. Absurd, funny and touching, this cult German bestseller is both a satire on life in the GDR and a hymn to youthful freedom. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Evenings Gerard Reve (Author) Sam Garrett (Translated by) Series:
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Pub Date:
27 Sep 2017
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Language: English Translated From: Dutch; Flemish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 320pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782273011 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-301-1 ISBN10: 1782273018 EAN: 9781782273011 x Description: 'I work in an office. I take cards out of a file. Once I have taken them out, I put them back in again. That is it.' Twenty-three-year-old Frits - office worker, daydreamer, teller of inappropriate jokes - finds life absurd and inexplicable. He lives with his parents, who drive him mad. He has terrible, disturbing dreams of death and destruction. Sometimes he talks to a toy rabbit. This is the story of ten evenings in Frits's life at the end of December, as he drinks, smokes, sees friends, aimlessly wanders the gloomy city streets and tries to make sense of the minutes, hours and days that stretch before him. Darkly funny and mesmerising, The Evenings takes the tiny, quotidian triumphs and heartbreaks of our everyday lives and turns them into a work of brilliant wit and profound beauty. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Childhood: Two Novellas Gerard Reve (Author) Sam Garrett (Translated by) Series:
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Pub Date:
01 Nov 2018
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Forthcoming
Language: English Translated From: Dutch; Flemish Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 128pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782274582 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-458-2 ISBN10: 1782274588 EAN: 9781782274582 x Description: In Werther Nieland, young Elmer longs to make friends and tries to control the world around him by forming secret clubs, of which he is always the president. When he invites Werther to become a member, a game of attraction and repulsion begins. What follows is psychological masterpiece; Reve brilliantly conjures up a child's whole world, full of oppression and enchantment. Set during the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, The Fall of the Boslowitz family sees a boy watch as the family of one of his friends slowly falls apart. This is a deceptively simple story imbued with subtle horror. These two classic novellas, from the giant of post-war Dutch literature Gerard Reve, have all of the uncanny atmosphere and the incisive, dark wit of The Evenings. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
In the Restaurant: From Michelin stars to fast food; what eating out tells us about who we are Christoph Ribbat (Author) Jamie Lee Searle (Translated by) Series:
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27 Sep 2017
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Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 224pp h216mm x w135mm ISBN13: 9781782273080 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-308-0 ISBN10: 1782273085 EAN: 9781782273080 x Description: 'A playful story, most entertaining, and wonderfully documented' Ferran Adria 'An entertaining smorgasbord of tasty stories that build into a deeper picture of the places where we eat, from fast food joints and cafes to the temples of gastronomy.' Hattie Ellis What does eating out tell us about who we are? The restaurant is where we go to celebrate, to experience pleasure, to show off - or, sometimes, just because we're hungry. But these temples of gastronomy hide countless stories. This is the tale of the restaurant in all its guises, from the first formal establishments in eighteenth-century Paris serving 'restorative' bouillon, to today's new Nordic cuisine, via grand Viennese cafes and humble fast food joints. Here are tales of cooks who spend hours arranging rose petals for Michelin stars, of the university that teaches the consistency of the perfect shake, of the lunch counter that sparked a protest movement, of the writers - from Proust to George Orwell - who have been inspired or outraged by the restaurant's secrets. As this dazzlingly entertaining, eye-opening book shows, the restaurant is where performance, fashion, commerce, ritual, class, work and desire all
come together. Through its windows, we can glimpse the world. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
In the Restaurant: From Michelin stars to fast food; what eating out tells us about who we are Christoph Ribbat (Author) Jamie Lee Searle (Translated by) Series:
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Pushkin Press
Pub Date:
26 Sep 2018
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Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782273110 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-311-0 ISBN10: 1782273115 EAN: 9781782273110 x Description: The restaurant is where we go to celebrate, to experience pleasure, to show off - or, sometimes, just because we're hungry. But these temples of gastronomy hide countless stories. This is the tale of the restaurant in all its guises, from the first formal establishments in eighteenth-century Paris serving 'restorative' bouillon, to today's new Nordic cuisine, via grand Viennese cafes and humble fast food joints. Here are tales of cooks who spend hours arranging rose petals for Michelin stars, of the university that teaches the consistency of the perfect shake, of the lunch counter that sparked a protest movement, of the writers - from Proust to George Orwell - who have been inspired or outraged by the restaurant's secrets. As this dazzlingly entertaining, eye-opening book shows, the restaurant is where performance, fashion, commerce, ritual, class, work and desire all come together. Through its windows, we can glimpse the world. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Soul of the Border Matteo Righetto (Author) Howard Curtis (Translator (FR, IT, SP)) (Translated by) Series:
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04 Oct 2018
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Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 224pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782274650 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-465-0 ISBN10: 1782274650 EAN: 9781782274650 x Description: The de Boer family are tobacco growers, working on terraces in the Veneto region of northern Italy. Life is hard, and the father, Augusto, occasionally supplements their income by smuggling tobacco across the border into Austria. Sometimes he takes his daughter Jole with him, and father and daughter journey together on the perilous route over the mountains. But Augusto mysteriously never returns from one of these trips, and Jole, driven to provide for her family, inherits her father's smuggling route. Accompanied only by her horse, Sansom, she must retrace the dangerous journey through the spectacular landscape, hoping for a good trade in exchange for her tobacco, but also to discover the truth behind her father's disappearance. Written in a spare crystalline prose and filmic in scope, Soul of the Border is an epic story of revenge and salvation, a ferocious tale of violence and corruption, and a journey into the wild.
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Love in a Bottle Len Rix (Translator) (Translated by) Antal Szerb (Author) (Author) Series:
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04 May 2017
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Language: English Translated From: Hungarian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782273684 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-368-4 ISBN10: 1782273689 EAN: 9781782273684 x Description: Hungarian Antal Szerb is best known in the West as the author of three extraordinary novels, most notably Journey by Moonlight (1937), and a highly entertaining study of the Ancient Regime in France: The Queen's Necklace (1942). This selection of his stories and novellas, set variously in mythical times and in the London and Paris of the twenties and thirties, reflects his love of life and the irrepressible irony that is his trademark. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Get Well Soon Marie-Sabine Roger (Author) Series:
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29 Jun 2017
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Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782272168 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-216-8 ISBN10: 178227216X EAN: 9781782272168 x Description: Saved from drowning in Paris's River Seine, a sixty-something misanthrope finds himself stuck in a hospital bed for six weeks while he recovers, but if he was hoping for a peaceful convalescence he's out of luck. As he looks back on his life, the good and the bad, he makes some unexpected new acquaintances, and just when he thought life had no more surprises in store for him, he finds out he was wrong.... As an unlikely cast of characters come to visit at his bedside, he finds it harder and harder to maintain his splendid, miserable isolation. This is a wickedly funny and heartwarming story of healing and companionship _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
School of Velocity Eric Beck Rubin (Author) Series:
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27 Jul 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9780993506291 ISBN13: 978-0-9935062-9-1 ISBN10: 0993506291 EAN: 9780993506291 x Description: 'A hugely impressive first novel about music, friendship and obsession' David Nicholls
Jan - a virtuoso pianist - is about to go on stage to perform his solo. But, once again, the music he hears in his head is not what he is supposed to be playing, and it threatens to sabotage his performance. As he struggles with this hidden anguish, he remembers his intense high school friendship with magnetic, eccentric Dirk. It began like a game, with Dirk playfully stealing Jan's first girlfriend. And it continued like a game - a friendship with an undertone of intimacy and danger. When they reunite as adults, Jan is forced to question everything. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tench Inge Schilperoord (Author) David Colmer (Translated by) Jon Gray (Designed by) Series:
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27 Apr 2017
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Language: English Translated From: Dutch, Middle (ca. 1050-1350) Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 192pp h216mm x w135mm ISBN13: 9781782272342 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-234-2 ISBN10: 1782272348 EAN: 9781782272342 x Description: Jonathan has returned from prison to his largely deserted, run-down neighborhood. He has returned to his mother, to his dog, to filling the hot days with walks on the dunes and caring for the fish he keeps in an aquarium in his bedroom - struggling, like him, to survive the oppressive summer heat. But there is a young girl with a chipped front tooth living next door, and feelings he thought forgotten are coming back to Jonathan. His growing obsession with Elke threatens to overwhelm his whole life, as well as hers, but he is determined to make the most of this second chance he has been given. He is determined not to let it happen again... Tench is criminal psychologist Inge Schilperoord's daring first novel: unnerving, morally complicated and utterly gripping, it moves brilliantly through true darkness. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Late Fame Arthur Schnitzler (Author) (Author) Alexander Starritt (Translated by) Series:
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23 Aug 2017
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Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 160pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782273707 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-370-7 ISBN10: 1782273700 EAN: 9781782273707 x Description: Winner of the Newbery Honor: the delightful tale of a wandering good samaritan dog, by the author of Shrek!
Dominic has decided it is time for a change. So he packs up his hats and his piccolo, and sets off into the unknown. But no sooner does he feel the air on his snout and the grass beneath his paws, than disaster strikes: he encounters the dreaded Doomsday Gang.
But Dominic is not one to complain - and nor is he one to lose a fight. As legend of his victory over the villains spreads, more and more creatures turn to him for help: a 158-year-old turtle, a heartbroken wild boar, and a family of grateful geese all encounter Dominic's heroism and generosity.
But his trials are far from over: the Doomsday Gang is alive and kicking, and how can one young dog face a mob of hooligans alone?
"Steig's books are like perfect smooth stones, complete in themselves, with no seams to be found... he always has the skill to bring together what seems to be a lot of spur-of-the-moment choices and make them into stories that land so perfectly and satisfyingly and feel so inevitable in their endings" - Jon Klassen, author of This Is Not My Hat _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Spring Garden Tomoka Shibasaki (Author) Polly Barton (Translated by) Series:
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Pub Date:
26 Jan 2017
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Language: English Translated From: Japanese Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 160pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782272700 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-270-0 ISBN10: 1782272704 EAN: 9781782272700 x Description: Winner of the Akutagawa Prize, a sharp, photo-realistic novella of memory and thwarted hope Divorced and cut off from his family, Taro lives alone in one of the few occupied apartments in his block, a block that is to be torn down as soon as the remaining tenants leave. Since the death of his father, Taro keeps to himself, but is soon drawn into an unusual relationship with the woman upstairs, Nishi, as she passes on the strange tale of the sky-blue house next door. First discovered by Nishi in the little-known photo-book 'Spring Garden', the sky-blue house soon becomes a focus for both Nishi and Taro: of what is lost, of what has been destroyed, and of what hope may yet lie in the future for both of them, if only they can seize it. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Art of the City: Rome, Florence, Venice Georg Simmel (Author) Will Stone (Translated by) Series:
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27 Sep 2018
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Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 96pp h165mm x w120mm ISBN13: 9781782274483 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-448-3 ISBN10: 1782274480 EAN: 9781782274483 x Description: These brilliant essays, from one of Germany's greatest and most influential thinkers, are beautifully written and highly readable portraits of three Italian cities: Rome, Venice and Florence. Simmel saw the city as a work of art in itself, and taken together these pieces act as a powerful suite expounding that notion. A seminal work of psycho-geography, this collection has never been published together in English before. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
States of Passion Nihad Sirees (Author) (Author) Max Weiss (Author) (Translated by) Series:
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06 Sep 2018
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Language: English Translated From: Arabic Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp h216mm x w135mm ISBN13: 9781782273479 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-347-9 ISBN10: 1782273476 EAN: 9781782273479 x Description: A hapless Aleppo bureaucrat is stranded in the middle of the deserted countryside as a violent storm sets in. When he seeks refuge in an isolated old mansion, inhabited by an aged gentleman and his sinister servant, he begins to uncover a captivating tale of family secrets, lost passions, and shady dealings. He is transported by these stories to Aleppo's golden age - a time of art, music, wealth and laughter - and the all-female society of the binat al-`ishreh, a society of women who live, love, and perform song and dance together. And as he gradually realises how these entanglements of love and passion, cruelty and resentment, stretch across the generations, he discovers that his own life is also in danger. Sirees spins astonishing literary beauty out of this tangled web of family secrets, and he writes with great humour and warmth about the conflict between past and present in this surprising and unique novel about a lost world. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Dark Blue Winter Overcoat: and other stories from the North Sjon (Author) Ted Hodgkinson (Author) Series:
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12 Oct 2017
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Language: English Translated From: Multiple languages Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782273820 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-382-0 ISBN10: 1782273824 EAN: 9781782273820 x Description: This exquisite anthology collects together the very best fiction from across the Nordic region. Travelling from cosmopolitan Stockholm to the remote Faroe Islands, and from Denmark to Greenland, this unique and compelling volume displays the thrilling diversity of writing from these northern nations. Selected and introduced by Sjon, The Dark Blue Winter Overcoat includes both notable authors and exciting new discoveries. As well as an essential selection of the best contemporary storytelling from the Nordic countries, it's also a fascinating portrait of contemporary life across the region. The perfect book to curl up with on a cold winter's evening. Naja Marie Aidt (Denmark), Per Olov Enquist (Sweden), Dorthe Nors (Denmark), Linda Bostroem Knausgard (Sweden), Madame Nielsen (Denmark), Rosa Liksom (Finland), Johan Bargum (Finland), Kristin Omarsdottir (Iceland), Kjell Askildsen (Norway), Ulla-Lena Lundberg (Finland/Sweden), Hassan Blasim (Finland), Sorine Steenholdt (Greenland, Gudbergur Bergsson (Iceland), Solrun Michelsen (Faroe Islands), Frode Grytten (Norway), Carl Johan Jensen (Faroe Islands), Niviaq Korneliussen (Greenland) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Browse: Love Letters to Bookshops Around the World Ali Smith (Author) Yiyun Li (Author) Pankaj Mishra (Author) Alaa Al Aswany (Author) Michael Dirda (Author) Iain Sinclair (Author) Ian Sansom (Author) Daniel Kehlmann (Author) Andrey Kurkov (Author) Dorthe Nors (Author) Sasa Stanisic (Author) Stefano Benni (Author) Juan Gabriel Vasquez (Author) Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (Author) Series:
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06 Dec 2018
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Language: English Translated From: Multiple languages Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782272960 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-296-0 ISBN10: 1782272968 EAN: 9781782272960 x Description: A cabinet of curiosities, a time machine, a treasure trove - we love bookshops because they possess a unique kind of magic. In Browse Henry Hitchings asks fifteen writers from around the world to reveal their favourite bookshops, each conjuring a specific time and place. Ali Smith chronicles the secrets and personal stories hidden within the pages of secondhand books; Alaa Al Aswany tells of the Cairo bookshop where revolutionaries gathered during the 2011 uprisings; Elif Shafak evokes the bookstores of Istanbul, their chaos and diversity, their aroma of tobacco and coffee. Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor recalls the quandary of choosing just one book at a favourite childhood store in Nairobi, while Iain Sinclair shares his grief on witnessing a beloved old haunt close down. Others explore bookshops they have stumbled upon, adored and become addicted to, from Delhi to Bogota. These inquisitive, enchanting pieces are a collective celebration of bookshops - for anyone who has ever fallen under their spell. Contributors include: Alaa Al Aswany (Egypt) Stefano Benni (Italy) Michael Dirda (USA) Daniel Kehlmann (Germany) Andrey Kurkov (Ukraine) Yiyun Li (China) Pankaj Mishra (India) Dorthe Nors (Denmark) Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (Kenya) Elif Shafak (Turkey) Ian Sansom (UK) Iain Sinclair (UK) Ali Smith (UK) Sasa Stanisic (Germany/Bosnia) Juan Gabriel Vasquez (Colombia) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
My Cat Yugoslavia Pajtim Statovci (Author) David Hackston (Translated by) Series:
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Pub Date:
19 Apr 2018
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Language: English Translated From: Finnish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 272pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782273608 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-360-8 ISBN10: 1782273603 EAN: 9781782273608 x Description: 'A strange,haunting, and utterly original exploration of displacement and desire' -- TeaObreht, author of The Tiger's Wife, New York TimesBook Review 'Fearless, delicate, beautiful, sad,haunting and wonderful. A brilliant novel that mesmerizes with both itshumanity and its utter uniqueness' -JeffVanderMeer In 1980s Yugoslavia, a young girl namedEmine is married off to a man she hardly knows. But soon her country is torn apartby war, and she is forced to flee with her family. Decadeslater Emine's son, Bekim, has grown up a social outcast in a country suspiciousof foreigners. Aside from casual hook-ups, his only companion is a pet boaconstrictor - until one night in a gay bar, Bekim meets a talking cat. It isthis witty, charming, manipulative creature that starts him on a journey backto Kosovo to confront his demons and make sense of the remarkable, cruelhistory of his family. And soon he learns that love can be found in the mostunexpected places. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
In Search of Lost Books: The forgotten stories of eight mythical volumes Giorgio van Straten (Author) Simon Carnell (Translated by) Erica Segre (Translated by) Series:
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Pub Date:
25 Oct 2017
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Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 144pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782273721 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-372-1 ISBN10: 1782273727 EAN: 9781782273721 x Description: This is a journey in search of the traces of eight legendary lost books. The clues are fragile, the hope of finding these pages scarce. Yet, maybe, somewhere, they still exist...
They exist as a rumour or a fading memory. They vanished from history leaving scarcely a trace, lost to fire, censorship, theft, war or deliberate destruction, yet those who seek them are convinced they will find them. This is the story of one man's quest for eight mysterious lost books. Taking us from Florence to Regency London, the Russian Steppe to British Columbia, Giorgio van Straten unearths stories of infamy and tragedy, glimmers of hope and bitter twists of fate. There are, among others, the rediscovered masterpiece that he read but failed to save from destruction; the Hemingway novel that vanished in a suitcase at the Gare du Lyon; the memoirs of Lord Byron, burnt to avoid a scandal; the Magnum Opus of Bruno
Schulz, disappeared along with its author in wartime Poland; the mythical Sylvia Plath novel that may one day become reality. As gripping as a detective novel, as moving as an elegy, this is the tale of a love affair with the impossible, of the things that slip away from us but which, sometimes, live again in the stories we tell. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
In Search of Lost Books: The forgotten stories of eight mythical volumes Giorgio van Straten (Author) Simon Carnell (Translated by) Erica Segre (Translated by) Series:
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Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
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Language: English Translated From: Italian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 144pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782273745 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-374-5 ISBN10: 1782273743 EAN: 9781782273745 x Description: They exist as a rumour or a fading memory. They vanished from history leaving scarcely a trace, lost to fire, censorship, theft, war or deliberate destruction, yet those who seek them are convinced they will find them. This is the story of one man's quest for eight mysterious lost books. Taking us from Florence to Regency London, the Russian Steppe to British Columbia, Giorgio van Straten unearths stories of infamy and tragedy, glimmers of hope and bitter twists of fate. There are, among others, the rediscovered masterpiece that he read but failed to save from destruction; the Hemingway novel that vanished in a suitcase at the Gare du Lyon; the memoirs of Lord Byron, burnt to avoid a scandal; the Magnum Opus of Bruno Schulz, disappeared along with its author in wartime Poland; the mythical Sylvia Plath novel that may one day become reality. As gripping as a detective novel, as moving as an elegy, this is the tale of a love affair with the impossible, of the things that slip away from us but which, sometimes, live again in the stories we tell. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sympathy Olivia Sudjic (Author) Series:
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Pub Date:
24 Apr 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 416pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9780993506260 ISBN13: 978-0-9935062-6-0 ISBN10: 0993506267 EAN: 9780993506260 x Description: THE DEBUT OF 2017THAT EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT FROM ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 'A gripping odyssey into one woman's online-addled inner life' -- Independent 'Reads likeThe Talented Mr Ripley for the 21st century' --Vice UK At twenty-three, AliceHare arrives in New York looking for a place to call home. Instead she finds Mizuko Himura, an intriguing Japanese writer, who she begins to follow online,fixated from afar and increasingly convinced this stranger's life holds a mirror to her own. But as Alice closes in on her 'internet twin', fictional and real lives begin to blur, leaving a tangle of lies, blood ties and sexual encounters that cannot be erased. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sympathy Olivia Sudjic (Author) Series:
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04 May 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 416pp h216mm x w135mm ISBN13: 9781911590002 ISBN13: 978-1-911590-00-2 ISBN10: 1911590006 EAN: 9781911590002 x Description: At 23, Alice Hare leaves England for New York - the city of her birth, before she was adopted by a British mother and an American father. As she falls in love with the big city, she also becomes fixated on Mizuko Himura, an intriguing Japanese writer living in New York whose life has strange parallels with her own. Their 'chance' encounter and subsequent relationship expose a dark tangle of lies and sexual encounters as three families across the globe collide, and the most ancient of questions - where do we come from? - can be answered just by searching online. Sympathy is a brilliant and deeply moving take on personal accountability, blood ties, and our tormented efforts to connect in the digital age. It examines how we relate to each other and the world around us in an age of hyperconnectivity and algorithms. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Layover Lisa Zeidner (Author) Series:
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25 Jul 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781911590019 ISBN13: 978-1-911590-01-9 ISBN10: 1911590014 EAN: 9781911590019 x Description: Claire Newbold is not your typical heroine. Smart and sexy, yes, but she's also been known to sneak into a hotel room or two without paying, seduce a teenager in wet bathing trunks, and just check out of things altogether - like her job. And her marriage. No wonder, though. Claire's been careening off heartbreak. Her only child has died. On the discovery her husband has had an affair, she takes leave of absence from her everyday life, and her behaviour drifts from illicit to erratic. No longer a mother, not sure she wants to be a wife, Claire moves from hotel to hotel, basking in the anonymity of travel and forbidden sex. As she struggles to understand her marriage and her life, she surprises herself - and us - by emerging with a new sense of redemption. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Amok Stefan Zweig (Author) (Author) Series:
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02 Nov 2017
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Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 96pp h180mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782274513 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-451-3 ISBN10: 1782274510 EAN: 9781782274513
x Description: On a sweltering ocean-liner travelling from India to Europe a passenger tells his story: the tale of a doctor in the Dutch East Indies torn between his duty and the pull of his emotions; a tale of power and desire, pride and shame and a headlong flight into folly. This is one the most intense and incisive of the novellas which brought Stefan Zweig to worldwide fame. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Confusion Stefan Zweig (Author) (Author) Anthea Bell (Translator (GER)) (Translated by) Series:
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02 Nov 2017
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Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 160pp h180mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782274506 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-450-6 ISBN10: 1782274502 EAN: 9781782274506 x Description: Roland, a young student at a new university, meets an inspirational teacher who sweeps him into his world of literature and learning. When the boy moves into the same building as the teacher and his wife, he becomes ever closer to this remarkable man, though he also senses his mentor pulling away from him - sometimes even seeming to hate him. But the truth about these feelings is something that will shape both men for the rest of their lives. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Burning Secret Stefan Zweig (Author) (Author) Anthea Bell (Translator (GER)) (Translated by) Series:
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02 Nov 2017
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Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 128pp h180mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782274520 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-452-0 ISBN10: 1782274529 EAN: 9781782274520 x Description: The Baron, bored on holiday, begins a flirtation with a beautiful woman via her twelve-year-old son. He befriends the child and charms him, all the while attempting to seduce the mother - but he cannot begin to imagine the effect he is having on the boy's life... Burning Secret is a witty, potent look at innocence, adult attraction and childhood passion. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Messages from a Lost World: Europe on the Brink Stefan Zweig (Author) (Author) Will Stone (Translated by) John Gray (Translator) (Introduction by) Series:
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Pub Date:
29 Mar 2017
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Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782272298 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-229-8 ISBN10: 1782272291 EAN: 9781782272298 x Description: As Europe faced its darkest days, Stefan Zweig was a passionate voice for tolerance, peace and a world without borders. In these moving, ardent essays, speeches and articles, composed before and during the Second World War, one of the twentieth century's greatest writers mounts a defence of European unity against terror and brutality.
These haunting lost messages, all appearing in English for the first time and some newly discovered, distil Zweig's courage, belief and richness of learning to give the essence of a writer; a spiritual will and testament to stand alongside his memoir, The World of Yesterday. Brief and yet intense, they are a tragic reminder of a world lost to the 'bloody vortex of history', but also a powerful statement of one man's belief in the creative imagination and the potential of humanity, with a resounding relevance today.
"At a time of monetary crisis and political disorder, of mounting border controls and barbed-wire fences... Zweig's celebration of the brotherhood of peoples reminds us that there is another way" The Nation
"One of liberalism's greatest defenders" New Republic
"Zweig's impassioned pursuit of personal freedom seems more relevant than ever" Newsweek
"These essays, few in number but rich in content, reveal the essence of Zweig's thought... Messages from a Lost World is ably translated from German into English for an American readership by Will Stone, making it an extraordinary and highly recommended addition to community and academic library collections" Midwest Book Review
"In pieces from the 1920s and early 30s, Zweig takes it as a moral imperative to champion the cause of peace by reminding his readers and listeners that humanity could no longer afford the sort of belligerent nationalism that had led them into the Great War" Inside Higher Ed
"While it is disheartening to read these pieces today, knowing how Zweig's life ended, it is inspiring to see that they have been published. However defeated Zweig might appear to contemporary readers, however aloof or naive, his idea of the European soul is still worth defending" Northwest Review of Books
Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna, a member of a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a translator and later as a biographer. Zweig travelled widely, living in Salzburg between the wars, and enjoying literary fame. His stories and novellas
were collected in 1934. In the same year, with the rise of Nazism, he briefly moved to London, taking British citizenship. After a short period in New York, he settled in Brazil. It was here that he completed his acclaimed memoir The World of Yesterday, a lament for the golden age of a Europe destroyed by two world wars. The articles and speeches in Messages from a Lost World were written as Zweig, a pacifist and internationalist, witnessed this destruction and warned of the threat to his beloved Europe. On 23 February 1942, Zweig and his second wife Lotte were found dead, following an apparent double suicide. Much of his work is available from Pushkin Press. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Memories - From Moscow to the Black Sea Teffi (Author) Robert Chandler (Translated by) Anne Marie Jackson (Translated by) Irina Steinberg (Translated by) Series:
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04 May 2017
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Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 352pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782272991 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-299-1 ISBN10: 1782272992 EAN: 9781782272991 x Description: BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week'Wonderfully idiosyncratic, coolly heartfelt and memorable' William Boyd'One of the great writers of early 20th Century Russia' Simon Sebag Montefiore'A remarkable memoir . . . both potent and endearing' Erica Wagner, New Statesman The writer and satirist Teffi was a literary sensation in Russia until war and revolution forced her to leave her country for ever. Memories is a blackly funny and heartbreaking account of her final, frantic journey into exile across Russia - travelling by cart, freight train and rickety steamer - and the 'ordinary and unheroic' people she encounters. Fusing exuberant wit and bitter horror, this is an extraordinary portrayal of what it means to say goodbye, and confirms Teffi as one of the most humane, perceptive observers of her times, and an essential writer for ours. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Master Key Masako Togawa (Author) Series:
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09 Nov 2017
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Language: English Translated From: Japanese Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 192pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782273639 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-363-9 ISBN10: 1782273638 EAN: 9781782273639 x Description: A building full of secrets. A key that will unleash them all The K Apartments for Ladies in Tokyo conceals a sinister past behind each door; a woman who has buried a child; a scavenger driven mad by illhealth; a wife mysteriously guarding her late husband's manuscripts; a talented violinist tortured by her own guilt. The master key, which opens the door to all 150 rooms, links their tangled stories. But now it has been stolen, and dirty tricks are afoot. For a deadly secret lies buried beneath the building. And when it is revealed, there will be murder. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Lady Killer Masako Togawa (Author) Series:
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Pushkin Press
Pub Date:
24 Apr 2018
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Language: English Translated From: Japanese Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782273646 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-364-6 ISBN10: 1782273646 EAN: 9781782273646 x Description: A dizzying tale oflust and murder, from one of Japan's greatest mysterywriters. A hunter prowls the night spotsof Shinjuku But he's the one walking into a trap... IchiroHonda leads a double life: by day a devoted husband and a diligent worker, bynight he moves through the shadow world of Tokyo's cabaret bars and nightclubsin search of vulnerable women to seduce and then abandon. But when a trail ofbodies seems to appear in his wake, the hunter becomes the prey and Ichirorealises he has been caught in a snare. Has he left it too late to free himselfbefore time runs out? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Last Bell Johannes Urzidil (Author) David Burnett (Translated by) Series:
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Pub Date:
22 Feb 2017
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Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 192pp h165mm x w120mm ISBN13: 9781782272397 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-239-7 ISBN10: 1782272399 EAN: 9781782272397 x Description: The first ever English collection of stories by Johannes Urzidil - a friend of Kafka and an unjustly overlooked writer A maid who is unexpectedly bequeathed her employers' worldly possessions when they flee the Nazi occupation; a loyal bank clerk, who falls into troublesome love with a portrait; a middle-aged travel agent, who is perhaps the least well-travelled man in town; a widowed villager, whose 'magnetic' twelve-year-old daughter witnesses a disturbing event; and a tiny village thrown into civil war by the disappearance of a cheesecake. These stories, about the tremendous upheaval which occurs when the ordinary encounters the unexpected, are stunningly told, with both humour and humanity. This is the first ever English publication of these Bohemian tales, by one of the great overlooked writers of the twentieth century. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Summer Before the Dark: Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth, Ostend 1936 Volker Weidermann (Author) Carol Brown Janeway (Translated by) Series:
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Pub Date:
05 Jan 2017
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Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 176pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782272977 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-297-7 ISBN10: 1782272976 EAN: 9781782272977 x Description: A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week It's as if they're made for each other. Two men, both falling, but holding each other up for a time. Ostend, 1936: the Belgian seaside town is playing host to a coterie of artists, intellectuals and madmen, who find themselves in limbo while Europe gazes into an abyss of fascism and war. Among them is Stefan Zweig, a man in crisis: his German publisher has shunned him, his marriage is collapsing, his house in Austria no longer feels like home. Along with his lover Lotte, he seeks refuge in this paradise of promenades and parasols, where he reunites with his estranged friend Joseph Roth. For a moment, they create a fragile haven; but as Europe begins to crumble around them, they find themselves trapped on an uncanny kind of holiday, watching the world burn. 'Evocative, sharply drawn portraits... an engrossing history' Kirkus, starred review 'Sparkling...Weidermann's storytelling is piquant' Publishers Weekly 'Brilliantly researched and riveting' Die Welt _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dreamers: When the Writers Took Power, Germany 1918 Volker Weidermann (Author) Ruth Martin (Translated by) Series:
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Pushkin Press
Pub Date:
01 Nov 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 256pp h216mm x w135mm ISBN13: 9781782275046 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-504-6 ISBN10: 1782275045 EAN: 9781782275046 x Description: At the end of the First World War in Germany, the journalist and theatre critic Kurt Eisner organised a revolution which overthrew the monarchy, and declared a Free State of Bavaria. In February 1919, he was assassinated, and the revolution failed. But while the dream lived, it was the writers, the poets, the playwrights and the intellectuals who led the way. As well as Eisner, Thomas Mann, Rainer Maria Rilke, and many other prominent figures in German cultural history were involved. In his characteristically lucid, sharp prose, Volker Weidermann presents us with a slice of history - November 1918 to April 1919 - and shows how a small group of people could have altered the course of the twentieth century. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Among the Living and the Dead: A Tale of Exile and Homecoming Inara Verzemnieks (Author) Series:
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Pushkin Press
Pub Date:
28 Mar 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 288pp h216mm x w135mm ISBN13: 9781782274292 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-429-2 ISBN10: 1782274294 EAN: 9781782274292 x Description: A powerfully toldmemoir of family, separation, and the things left unsaid, in the wake of theSecond World War Raised by her grandparents i theUSA, Inara Verzemnieks grew up among expatriates, scattering smuggled Latviansand over the coffins of the dead, singing folk songs about a land she hadnever visited. Her grandmother Livija's stories recalled the remote village inLatvia left behind, where she and her sister, Ausma, were separated during theSecond World War. They would not see each other again for more than fiftyyears. Coming to know Ausma and the trauma of her exile toSiberia under Stalin, Inara pieces together her grandmother's survival throughthe years as a refugee, and her grandfather's own troubling history as aconscript in the Nazi forces. As she interweaves two parts of the family storyin spellbinding, lyrical prose, she offers us a profound and cathartic accountof loss and survival, resilience and love. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Glimpses of the Moon Edith Wharton (Author) (Author) Series:
Pushkin Blues
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Pub Date:
05 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782274469 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-446-9 ISBN10: 1782274464 EAN: 9781782274469 x Description: Nick Lansing and Susy Branch are young, attractive, but impoverished New Yorkers. They are in love and decide to marry, but they realise their chances of happiness are slim without the wealth and status that their more privileged friends take for granted. Nick and Susy agree to separate whenever either encounters a more eligible proposition. However, as they honeymoon in friends' lavish houses, from a villa on Lake Como to a Venetian palace, jealous passions and troubled consciences cause the idyll to crumble. In this beautiful novel, Edith Wharton perceptively describes the seductions and temptations of high society with all her trademark wit and irony. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Resurrection Bay Emma Viskic (Author) Series:
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Pushkin Press
Pub Date:
24 Aug 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp h216mm x w135mm ISBN13: 9781782273622 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-362-2 ISBN10: 178227362X EAN: 9781782273622 x Description: Caleb Zelic can't hear you. But he can see everything.
The prizewinning debut thriller from the new name in crime CALEB ZELIC IS ON THE HUNT FOR HIS FRIEND'S KILLER His childhood friend has been brutally murdered at his home in Melbourne. Tortured by guilt, Caleb vows to track down the killer. But he's profoundly deaf; missed words and misread lips can lead to confusion, and trouble. HE NEVER FORGETS A FACE Fortunately, Caleb knows how to read people; a sideways glance, an unconvincing smile, speak volumes. When his friend Frankie, a former cop, offers to help, they soon discover the killer is on their tail. IT MIGHT JUST SAVE HIS LIFE Sensing that his ex-wife may also be in danger, Caleb insists they return to their hometown of Resurrection Bay. But here he learns that everyone including his murdered friend - is hiding something. And the deeper he digs, the darker the secrets... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Resurrection Bay Emma Viskic (Author) Series:
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Pushkin Press
Pub Date:
05 Apr 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 304pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782273912 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-391-2 ISBN10: 1782273913 EAN: 9781782273912 x Description: Caleb Zelic can't hear you.But he sees everything. The prizewinning debut thriller fromthe new name in crime. CALEB ZELIC IS ON THE HUNTFOR HIS FRIEND'S KILLER His childhood friend hasbeen brutally murdered - fingers broken, throat slit - at his home inMelbourne. Tortured by guilt, Caleb vows to track down the killer. But he'sprofoundly deaf; missed words and misread lips can lead to confusion, andtrouble. HE NEVER FORGETES AFACE Fortunately, Caleb knows how to read people;a sideways glance, an unconvincing smile, speaks volumes. When his friendFrankie, a former cop, offers to help, they soon discover the killer is ontheir tail. IT MIGHT JUST SAVE HISLIFE Sensing that his ex-wife may also be indanger, Caleb insists they return to their hometown of Resurrection Bay. Buthere he learns that everyone including his murdered friend - is hidingsomething. And the deeper he digs, the darker the secrets... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
And Fire Came Down Emma Viskic (Author) Series:
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Pushkin Press
Pub Date:
30 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 352pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781782274551 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-455-1 ISBN10: 1782274553 EAN: 9781782274551
x Description: A SILENT SCREAM The woman can only sign two words: help... family. And then she is gone-a body lying dead in the street. A TOWN READY TO BURN Caleb's search for her killer takes him back to his hometown of Resurrection Bay. Centuries of racism have left it simmering with violent tensions, and this summer the bush is as dry as tinder. All it will take is one spark. WHAT CAN CALEB SAVE FROM THE FIRE? He is determined to pursue justice at all costs. But everything he loves is in this town. And what if the truth means his world going up in flames? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Salt of the Earth Jozef Wittlin (Author) Patrick Corness (Translated by) Series:
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Pushkin Press
Pub Date:
29 Nov 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Language: English Translated From: Polish Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 384pp h216mm x w135mm ISBN13: 9781782274704 ISBN13: 978-1-78227-470-4 ISBN10: 1782274707 EAN: 9781782274704 x Description: 'Only the villages are asleep, the eternal reservoir of all kinds of soldiery, the inexhaustible source of physical strength' The villagers of the Carpathian mountains lead a simple life at the beginning of the twentieth century - much as they have always done. They are isolated and remote, and the advances of the outside world have not touched them. Among them - Piotr, a bandy-legged peasant, whose 'entire life involved carrying things'. A notional subject of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, all he wants in life is an official railway cap, a cottage with a mouse-trap and cheese, and a bride with a dowry. But then the First World War comes to the mountains, and Piotr is drafted into the army. Unwilling, uncomprehending, the bewildered Piotr is forced to fight a war he does not understand - against his national as well as his personal interest. In a new translation, authorised by the author's daughter, The Salt of the Earth is a strongly pacifist novel inspired by the Odyssey, about the consequences of war on ordinary men. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________