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Fiction

Simone A Novel

Lalo Eduardo

ISBN: PB: 9780226207483, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
152 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 1 halftone

Eduardo Lalo is one of the most vital and unique voices of Latin American literature, but his work is relatively little known in the English-speaking world. That changes now: this masterful translation of his most celebrated novel, "Simone" – which w...

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Poetry

Complete Poems

Langley R. F.

ISBN: PB: 9781784100643, Carcanet, September 2015
144 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

R. F. Langley is known for his meticulous observation of the natural world and his highly original voice. This volume brings together his two previous Carcanet collections, "Collected Poems" (2000) and "The Face of It" (2007), along with his celebrat...

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Poetry

Steep Tea

Leong Koh Jee

ISBN: PB: 9781847772275, Carcanet, July 2015
72 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

Singapore-born poet Jee Leong Koh's first book to be published in Great Britain is rich in detail of the worlds he explores and invents as he follows his desire for an unknown other, moving tentatively, passionately, always uncertain of himself. His...

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Poetry

World Before Snow

Liardet Tim

ISBN: PB: 9781847772091, Carcanet, March 2015
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

During a record-breaking blizzard in Boston, two poets met, one American and one English. This meeting marked the beginning of a life-transforming love affair. The story is told in "The World Before Snow", Tim Liardet's tenth collection, a book of pa...

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Poetry

Rego Retold Poems in Response to Works by Paula Rego

Lowery Owen

ISBN: PB: 9781784100032, Carcanet, January 2015
128 pp., 21.5x21.5 cm

As Deryn Rees-Jones writes in her foreword, one of the most striking elements of Paula Rego's art is her ability to hint at implied narratives, to dramatise the "pause between feeling and action, between knowing and not knowing". Into this pause, Owe...

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Literary Criticism

Virtue of Sympathy Magic, Philosophy and Literature in Seventeenth-Century England

Lobis Seth

ISBN: HB: 9780300192032, Yale University Press, December 2014
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Beginning with an analysis of Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and building to a new reading of Milton's "Paradise Lost", author Seth Lobis charts a profound change in the cultural meaning of sympathy during the seventeenth century. Having long referred t...

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Literary Criticism

Gender Studies

Sexuality of History Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830

Lanser Susan S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226187730, ISBN: HB: 9780226187563, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 1 line drawing

The period of reform, revolution, and reaction that characterized seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe also witnessed an intensified interest in lesbians. In scientific treatises and orientalist travelogues, in French court gossip and Dutch cou...

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Fiction

Life-Like

Litt Toby

ISBN: HB: 9780857422071, Seagull Books, November 2014
274 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 line drawings

Emotionally compelling and formally innovative, "Life-Like" is Toby Litt's most ambitious collection of short stories to date, bringing to fruition themes first aired in his previous books, "Adventures in Capitalism", "Exhibitionism", and "I Play the...

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Fiction

The French List

We Are the Birds of the Coming Storm

Lafon Lola

ISBN: HB: 9780857421890, Seagull Books, July 2014
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"We Are the Birds of the Coming Storm" is a wild novel that oscillates between fiction and reality. The story centers on two young women: Voltairine, a dancer who no longer dances but whose body is still haunted by the movement of dance, and her soul...

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Poetry

Coming Forth by Day

Levin Gabriel

ISBN: PB: 9781847772688, Carcanet, June 2014
96 pp., 21.6x13.4 cm

Gabriel Levin's new collection breaks new ground in its formal experimentation as well as in its exploration of remote corners of the Mediterranean. The long title poem is written from the multiple perspectives of the personages in Courbet's large pa...

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