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Fire Above, the Mountain Below
ISBN: HB: 9780857427793, Seagull Books, July 2021
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Reinhard Jirgl's strikingly individual novel The Fire Above, the Mountain Below demonstrates that he is not only unorthodox in his approach to language, but also difficult to pin down in terms of any genre. Weaving together elements of crime story, C...
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£21,99
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Fount of Time The Last Kindom II
ISBN: HB: 9780857428493, Seagull Books, June 2021
342 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Last Kingdom is a set of books that... is neither philosophical argumentation nor little disparate, scholarly essays, nor novelistic narrative; gradually, for me, all genres have fallen away".   So writes Pascal Quignard of his monumental book serie...
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Fire Doesn't Burn
ISBN: PB: 9780857427229, ISBN: HB: 9780857420473, Seagull Books, September 2019
272 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Almost twenty years after the fall of the wall, the Kreuzberg district of Berlin has become unbearably trendy and deeply unappealing to Alina and Wolf. They move to Muggelsee, at the city's bucolic border, where the differences between East and West...
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£11,99
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Flying Mountain
ISBN: PB: 9780857427205, ISBN: HB: 9780857424747, Seagull Books, September 2019
392 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
In a publishing world that is all too full of realist novels written in undistinguished prose, discernible only by their covers, "The Flying Mountain" stands out – if for no other reason than that it consists entirely of blank verse. And that form is...
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Francis Picabia Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 3 (1927-1939)
ISBN: HB: 9780300243727, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, March 2019
464 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 525 colour illus.
This third volume in a planned four-volume catalogue raisonne of works by the French avant-garde artist Francis Picabia (1879-1953) includes paintings and selected drawings dating from mid-1927 through 1939. Innovative collage-paintings and flamboyan...
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£135,00
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Fear of Mirrors
ISBN: PB: 9780857426413, Seagull Books, March 2019
332 pp., 20.1x15.7 cm
In this novel from esteemed political writer Tariq Ali, a father, Vlady, loses his job when he refuses to renounce socialist beliefs in the newly unified Germany – and as a result wants to explain to his alienated son what their family's long and pas...
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£14,99
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Father's on the Phone with the Flies A Selection
ISBN: HB: 9780857424723, Seagull Books, February 2018
80 pp., 19.5x13.9 cm, 75 colour plates
To create the poems in this collection, Nobel Prize–winner Herta Muller cut up countless newspapers and magazines in search of striking phrases, words, or even fragments of words, which she then arranged in a the form of a collage. "Father's on the P...
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Fear, Reverence, Terror
ISBN: HB: 9780857424358, Seagull Books, August 2017
208 pp., 19x15.2 cm, 73 colour plates
We are surrounded by images, fairly drowning in them. From our cell phones to our computers, from our televisions at home to the screens that light up while we wait in the grocery store checkout line, images of all kinds are seducing us, commanding u...
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Fighter Aces Knights of the Skies
ISBN: PB: 9781612004822, Casemate, June 2017
160 pp., 19.8x12.5 cm, 30 black&white illus.
Just over a decade after the first powered aeroplane flight, fearless pioneers were flying over the battlefields of France in flimsy biplanes. As more military aircraft took to the skies, they were equipped with weapons and their pilots began to deve...
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From the Berlin Journal
ISBN: HB: 9780857424334, Seagull Books, June 2017
136 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
Max Frisch (1911-1991) was a giant of twentieth-century German literature. When Frisch moved into a new apartment in Berlin's Sarrazinstrasse, he began keeping a journal, which he came to call the Berlin Journal. A few years later, he emphasized in a...
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