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Yankinton
ISBN: HB: 9780857427960, Seagull Books, March 2021
168 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Set in the early days of the Jewish state, "Yankinton" tells the stories of refugees from the Holocaust and antisemitism who struggled to build new lives in Israel. Through the eyes of a young Orthodox Jewish girl growing up in Tel Aviv, we watch a c...
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£16,99
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Accounts and Drawings from the Underground The East Rand Proprietary Mines Cash Book
ISBN: HB: 9780857428523, Seagull Books, March 2021
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 65 colour plates
In "Accounts and Drawings from Underground", published in 2015, renowned artist William Kentridge and scholar Rosalind C. Morris brought us an unprecedented collaboration, taking pages of the 1906 Cash Book of the East Rand Proprietary Mines Corporat...
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£44,99
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All the Roads Are Open The Afghan Journey
ISBN: PB: 9780857428226, Seagull Books, March 2021
124 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In June 1939 Annemarie Schwarzenbach and fellow writer Ella Maillart set out from Geneva in a Ford, heading for Afghanistan. The first women to travel Afghanistan's Northern Road, they fled the storm brewing in Europe to seek a place untouched by wha...
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Collected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780857428370, ISBN: HB: 9780857421715, Seagull Books, March 2021
164 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
Rainer Brambach, one of the most widely appreciated Swiss poets in the 1950s and '60s, was notorious for walking to the beat of his own drum, denying convention and standing his ground against popular styles and trends. He grew up in Basel and left s...
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Culture and Liberation Exile Writings, 1966-1985
ISBN: HB: 9780857427892, Seagull Books, March 2021
624 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
One of South Africa's best-known writers during the apartheid era, Alex La Guma was a lifelong activist and a member of the South African Communist Party and the African National Congress. Persecuted and imprisoned by the South African regime in the...
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£35,00
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Dark Ship
ISBN: PB: 9780857428394, ISBN: HB: 9780857420367, Seagull Books, March 2021
520 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Growing up in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, a young Kurdish boy named Kerim has ample opportunity to witness the murderous repression that defined the era for thousands of Iraqis. In Sherko Fatah's "The Dark Ship", we experience an extraordinary new voice i...
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£12,99
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£26,50
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Death in Persia
ISBN: PB: 9780857428233, Seagull Books, March 2021
156 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Since the rediscovery of her work in the late 1980s, Annemarie Schwarzenbach—journalist, traveler, archaeologist, opium addict, and antifascist novelist—has become a European cult figure among free spirited bohemians.   Available in Engli...
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Encyclopaedia of Good Reasons
ISBN: PB: 9780857428363, ISBN: HB: 9780857421845, Seagull Books, March 2021
232 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
"My father bought me from the council for 365 francs", recalls the narrator in Monica Cantieni's novel 'The Encyclopaedia of Good Reasons'. She's a young girl, an immigrant to Switzerland whose adoption is yet to be finalized. When she finally moves...
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£11,99
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£16,00
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Great Fall
ISBN: PB: 9780857428417, ISBN: HB: 9780857425348, Seagull Books, March 2021
224 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
"On the day of the Great Fall he left nothing, nothing at all behind". The latest work by Peter Handke, one of our greatest living writers, chronicles a day in life of an aging actor as he makes his way on foot from the outskirts of a great metropol...
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£18,99
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Hangman's House
ISBN: HB: 9780857427922, Seagull Books, March 2021
356 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Set in the 1970s and '80s, The Hangman's House narrates the life and times of a Hungarian family in Romania. Those were extraordinary times of oppression, poverty and hopelessness, and Andrea Tompa's latest novel depicts everyday life under the bruta...
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£21,99
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