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Fiction

Suspended Sentences Three Novellas

Modiano Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9780300198058, Yale University Press, November 2014
232 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

Although originally published separately, Patrick Modiano's three novellas form a single, compelling whole, haunted by the same gauzy sense of place and characters. Modiano draws on his own experiences, blended with the real or invented stories of ot...

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Poetry

Bay Psalm Book

MacCulloch Diarmaid

ISBN: HB: 9781851244140, Bodleian Library Publishing, November 2014
304 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm

"The Bay Psalm Book" was the first book to be printed in North America, twenty years after the arrival of the Pilgrim Fathers in Massachusetts. Now extremely rare – only eleven copies survive – it is also the most expensive book in the world, fetchin...

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Poetry

Aviary of Small Birds

McCarthy Woolf Karen

ISBN: PB: 9781906188146, Carcanet, October 2014
88 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

"An Aviary of Small Birds" is both elegy to a stillborn son and testament to the redemptive qualities of poetry as a transformative art. Here, birth paradoxically becomes the moment of death when, after long labour, the baby's heart gives out. Howeve...

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Poetry

Gumiguru

Muzanenhamo Togara

ISBN: PB: 9781847772572, Carcanet, October 2014
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

Gumiguru is the tenth month of the Shona calendar – a month of dryness and heat before the first rains fall and rejuvenate the land. Togara Muzanenhamo's second collection is a cycle of poems distilling the experiences of a decade into one calendar y...

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Biography & Memoires

Poetry

Shackleton A Life in Poetry

Mayer Jim

ISBN: PB: 9781909930100, Signal Books, October 2014
176 pp., 21.3x13.2 cm

For sale in CIS only! Sir Ernest Shackleton, known as a tough polar explorer and inspirational leader, also held the words of poets close to his heart. "Poetry was his other world and he explored it as eagerly as he did the great Antarctic spaces",...

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Fiction

Caribou Journey

Miller Debbie S.

ISBN: PB: 9781602230965, ISBN: HB: 9781602230972, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2014
32 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 15 colour illus.

An imposing line of caribou stretches for miles across the frozen tundra of Alaska. The sound of clicking hooves echoes through the air as the herd follows its centuries-old migration route. With their thick coats and their padded, shovel-like hooves...

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Poetry

Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion

Miller Kei

ISBN: PB: 9781847772671, Carcanet, May 2014
80 pp., 21.6x13.2 cm

In his new collection, acclaimed Jamaican poet Kei Miller dramatises what happens when one system of knowledge, one method of understanding place and territory, comes up against another. We watch as the cartographer, used to the scientific methods of...

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Fiction

Winter Mythologies and Abbots

Michon Pierre, Jefferson Ann

ISBN: PB: 9780300179064, Yale University Press, April 2014
128 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This welcome volume brings to English-language readers two beautifully crafted novellas by internationally acclaimed French author Pierre Michon. "Winter Mythologies and Abbots" are both set in the Middle Ages – Mythologies among the monks of tenth-c...

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Fiction

Masters and Servants

Michon Pierre, Mason Wyatt

ISBN: PB: 9780300180695, Yale University Press, March 2014
196 pp., 21x14 cm

One of Pierre Michon's most powerful works, this book imagines decisive moments in the lives of five artists of different times and places: Vincent van Gogh, Francisco Goya, Antoin Watteau, Claude Lorrain and Lorentino, a little-remembered disciple o...

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Literary Criticism

Reading Dante

Mazzotta Giuseppe

ISBN: PB: 9780300191356, Yale University Press, February 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

A towering figure in world literature, Dante wrote his great epic poem the Commedia in the early fourteenth century. The work gained universal acclaim and came to be known as "La Divina Commedia", or "The Divine Comedy". Guiseppe Mazzotta brings Dant...

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