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Manon's World A Hauntology of a Daughter in the Triangle of Alma Mahler, Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel
ISBN: HB: 9780857427496, Seagull Books, July 2021
324 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
Manon Gropius (1916-1935) was the daughter of Alma Mahler, the widow of Gustav Mahler, and the architect Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus, and the stepdaughter of the writer Franz Werfel. In Manon's World, James Reidel explores the life and...
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£21,99
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It All Tastes of Farewell Diaries, 1964-1970
ISBN: HB: 9780857427809, Seagull Books, May 2021
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
It All Tastes of Farewell is a frank account of one woman's life and loves in 1960s East Germany. As a writer, Brigitte Reimann could not help but tell a compelling story, and that is born out here in her diaries, which are gripping as any novel. She...
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Seedtime III Notebooks, 1995-1998
ISBN: HB: 9780857428486, Seagull Books, May 2021
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Writers' notebooks sometimes prove more revelatory than diaries or intimate journals. At first they might appear to be rag-and-bone shops of ideas, insights, hesitations, doubts, and records of things seen, heard, read, dreamt. But eventually they co...
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£16,99
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Gazing Eastwards Of Buddhist Monks and Revolutionaries in China, 1957
ISBN: HB: 9780857428165, Seagull Books, March 2021
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 colour plates, 12 halftones
In 1957, renowned Indian historian Romila Thapar visited China, where, together with Sri Lankan art historian Anil de Silva, she worked at two cave sites that were the locations of Buddhist monasteries and shrines from the first millennium CE. The fi...
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We Defy Augury
ISBN: HB: 9780857427830, Seagull Books, November 2020
132 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, "this not to come... the readiness is all. Under the sign of Hamlet's last act, Helene Cixous, in her eightieth year, launched her new book – and the latest chapter...
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Kaddish Pages on Tadeusz Kantor
ISBN: PB: 9780857427489, Seagull Books, May 2020
64 pp., 17.7x10.7 cm, 16 halftones
Tadeusz Kantor (1915-1990) was renowned for his revolutionary theater performances in both his native Poland and abroad. Despite nominally being a Catholic, Kantor had a unique relationship with Jewish culture and incorporated many elements of Jewish...
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£13,99
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Ron Vawter's Life in Performance
ISBN: PB: 9780857425522, Seagull Books, February 2020
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 13 halftones
From 1974 to 1994, Ron Vawter was a staple of New York's downtown theater scene, first with the Performance Group and later as a founding member of the Wooster Group. "Ron Vawter's Life in Performance" is the first book focused on this incomparable a...
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£22,00
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Of Morsels and Marvels
ISBN: HB: 9780857426932, Seagull Books, February 2020
324 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
For many, cooking is simply the mechanical act of reproducing standard recipes. To Maryse Conde, however, cooking implies creativity and personal invention, on par with the complexity of writing a story. A cook, she explains, uses spices and flavors...
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Calm Fire and Other Travel Writings
ISBN: HB: 9780857425980, Seagull Books, September 2019
312 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
In these times of heartbreaking violence, clashing religions, and a seemingly never-ending narrative of dichotomy between East and West, wonder at the religion and culture of the Middle East can be in short supply. However, the lyrical and philosophi...
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I Have No Regrets Diaries, 1955-1963
ISBN: HB: 9780857426680, Seagull Books, September 2019
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"I enjoyed success too early, married the wrong man, and hung out with the wrong people; too many men have liked me, and I've liked too many men". Frank and refreshing, Brigitte Reimann's collected diaries provide a candid account of life in social...
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