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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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Cargo Hold of Stars Coolitude
ISBN: HB: 9780857427854, Seagull Books, January 2021
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Cargo Hold of Stars" is an ode to the forgotten voyage of a forgotten people. Khal Torabully gives voice to the millions of indentured men and women, mostly from India and China, who were brought to Mauritius between 1849 and 1923. Many were transpo...
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£16,99
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Two Tongues
ISBN: PB: 9781800170001, Carcanet, October 2020
72 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Slip-ups, skirmishes and the sidelong glance characterise Claudine Toutoungi's "Two Tongues", a surreal and startling second collection that takes on the dislocations and double takes of modern life and weaves from them poems of wit, grit and delicio...
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£10,99
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Daily Henry David Thoreau A Year of Quotes from the Man Who Lived in Season
ISBN: PB: 9780226624969, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
"Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of each". Modernity rules our lives by clock and calendar, dividing the stream of time into units and coordinating every passi...
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£10,00
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Gutter Spread Guide to Prayer
ISBN: PB: 9781938769511, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, March 2020
72 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In "The Gutter Spread Guide to Prayer", Eric Tran contends with the aftermath of a close friend's suicide while he simultaneously explores the complexities of being a gay man of color. Grief opens into unraveling circles of inquiry as Tran reflects o...
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£14,00
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War and Peace Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection
ISBN: HB: 9781435169876, GMC Group, Barnes & Noble, January 2020
896 pp., 27.6x21.6 cm
Tolstoy's epic novel focuses on the chaos of battle, the horror of death and bloodshed, and the expression of the noble virtues of love and valour.
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£30,00
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Since Sunday
ISBN: PB: 9781632430731, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, October 2019
48 pp., 17.7x13.9 cm
What happens when the faith and community we once held close sours into an experience of tragedy? In "Since Sunday", we find a poet who is rebuilding a sense of faith after fleeing religious abuse. Doubt, shame, uncertainty, and the pains of loss cre...
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£11,00
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Other Presences Reading Literature Other-Wise after the Transnational Turn in American Studies
ISBN: PB: 9781512603576, ISBN: HB: 9781512603484, University of Chicago Press, Dartmouth College Press, September 2019
376 pp., 23.4x15.8 cm
"The Other Presences" presents a radically new mode of engaging with the idea of otherness in contemporary American literature. Expanding on the earlier theories of poststructuralist and phenomenologist philosophers like Berhand Waldenfels and Jean-F...
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£38,00
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£72,00
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Collected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780857427069, Seagull Books, September 2019
472 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
The work of poet Georg Trakl, a leading Austrian-German expressionist, has been praised by many, including his contemporaries Rainer Maria Rilke and Else Lasker-Schuler, as well as his patron Ludwig Wittgenstein, who famously wrote that while he did...
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£14,99
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City of Departures
ISBN: PB: 9781784107598, Carcanet, July 2019
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"City of Departures" is Helen Tookey's second Carcanet collection, following her 2014 "Missel-Child", an 'exceptional volume... from a powerful and intelligent imagination' (Jeffrey Wainwright). "City of Departures" is a collection of uncanny spaces...
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£9,99
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