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Efina
ISBN: HB: 9780857421708, Seagull Books, February 2014
208 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
T. , an acclaimed but ageing actor, and Efina, a passionate theatergoer, are engaged in an obsessive love affair that careens from attraction to repulsion. They compulsively write letters – often to express their intense dislike of one another – whic...
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£16,00
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Shadow of Things to Come
ISBN: HB: 9780857420992, Seagull Books, September 2013
168 pp., 25x15 cm
In an unnamed African nation, the people are subject to a state of perpetual warfare and to an Orwellian abuse of language that strips from language its meaning and renders life senseless. And in a bare room lit only by moonlight, a young man hides,...
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Sculptors of Mapungubwe
ISBN: PB: 9780857425898, Seagull Books, June 2013
304 pp., 25x15 cm
In the timeless kingdom of Mapungubwe, the royal sculptor had two sons, Chata and Rendani. As they grew, so grew their rivalry – and their extraordinary talents. But while Rendani became a master carver of the animals that run in the wild hills and l...
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Legend
ISBN: HB: 9780857421029, Seagull Books, June 2013
144 pp., 25x15 cm
In this strikingly original memoir, Marie Bronsard reweaves the history of her family – and the legend of her grandmother – leaving no stone unturned and no skeleton in the closet. Egocentric and domineering, Bronsard's grandmother was once a vibra...
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£14,50
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Abolition of Species
ISBN: HB: 9780857420329, Seagull Books, May 2013
552 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The world as we know it is over. Man's reign on earth has come to an end, and the reign of the animals has begun. The indifferently wise Cyrus Golden the Lion rules the three-city state that is now what remains of Europe. Yet, other forces stir while...
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£19,00
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In Dreams
ISBN: HB: 9780857420299, Seagull Books, January 2013
116 pp., 19.8x13.9 cm, 24 colour illus.
In Paris, Montreal, Seville, Berlin and towns large and small, Diane Meur has dreamt – and she has remembered her dreams. In this small volume the author shares her dreams of the years 2008-2010, a time of global upheaval that happened to coincide wi...
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£15,00
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Waste Land
ISBN: PB: 9780857420411, Seagull Books, October 2012
80 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, halftones
In Martin Rowson's "The Waste Land", private detective Chris Marlowe is tasked with getting to the bottom of the most impenetrable of all modernist mysteries: namely T. S. Eliot's "The Wasteland". Cunningly contrived, this irreverent graphic parody i...
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£13,00
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Noah
ISBN: HB: 9780857420466, Seagull Books, May 2012
186 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
As the current global recession stubbornly persists and financial experts around the world struggle to prevent further financial collapse, everyone has a theory about how to save the economy. But perhaps no idea that has been proffered is as radical...
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£14,50
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Tale of the Talking Face
ISBN: HB: 9780857420053, Seagull Books, October 2011
48 pp., 28x28 cm, many illus.
In "The Tale of the Talking Face", eminent Indian artist K. G. Subramanyan offers a stinging parable of democracy gone wrong by narrating and illustrating the story of a princess whose autocratic rule brought nothing but suffering to her people, desp...
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My Mother's Lover
ISBN: PB: 9780857425263, Seagull Books, August 2011
130 pp., 20x13 cm
It's Switzerland in the 1920s when the two lovers first meet. She is young, beautiful, and rich. In contrast, he can barely support himself and is interested only in music. By the end of their lives, he is a famous conductor and the richest man in th...
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