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Chattertooth Eleven
ISBN: HB: 9788024615738, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, May 2009
224 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 36 colour illus.
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In 1922, the same year that saw the establishment of the Czechoslovak Football Association, a former singer and cabaret director from Prague published a novel about soccer. Eighty-six year...
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£19,00
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Shanghai Dancing
ISBN: PB: 9781885030429, DAP, Kaya Press, April 2009
468 pp., 22.9x15.9 cm, 44 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! After 40 years in Australia, Antonio Castro packs a bag and walks out of his old life forever. The victim of a restlessness he calls "Shanghai Dancing", Antonio seeks to understand the source of his condition in his family'...
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£16,99
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Classic Starts: Little Men Retold from the Louisa May Alcott original
ISBN: HB: 9781402754234, GMC Group, Sterling, March 2009
160 pp., 19x13.6 cm, black&white illus.
This sparkling sequel to the beloved "Little Women" follows the grown-up and married Jo, mistress of Plumfield, a school for boys (and a few girls, too). The fun begins with a new arrival, Nat Blake; it is through his eyes that we first meet Plumfiel...
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£5,99
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Classic Starts: Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass Retold from the Lewis Carroll original
ISBN: HB: 9781402754227, GMC Group, Sterling, March 2009
160 pp., 19x13.6 cm, black&white illus.
Nothing's more magical than going down the rabbit hole and through the looking glass with Alice. There, in worlds unlike any other ever created, conventional logic is turned upside down and wrong-way round to enchanting effect. Children will love rea...
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£5,99
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Satyrica
ISBN: PB: 9781857547832, Carcanet, January 2009
320 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Petronius lived during the reign of the notorious emperor Nero, a writer in a decadent empire, and in Frederic Raphael he finds a translator who brings his words vividly alive. Petronius' Rome is not the noble civilisation of classical ideals; his Ro...
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£12,95
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