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Fire Above, the Mountain Below
ISBN: HB: 9780857427793, Seagull Books, July 2021
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Reinhard Jirgl's strikingly individual novel The Fire Above, the Mountain Below demonstrates that he is not only unorthodox in his approach to language, but also difficult to pin down in terms of any genre. Weaving together elements of crime story, C...
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£21,99
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Fount of Time The Last Kindom II
ISBN: HB: 9780857428493, Seagull Books, June 2021
342 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Last Kingdom is a set of books that... is neither philosophical argumentation nor little disparate, scholarly essays, nor novelistic narrative; gradually, for me, all genres have fallen away".   So writes Pascal Quignard of his monumental book serie...
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£18,99
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Four Shakespearean Period Pieces
ISBN: PB: 9780226785226, ISBN: HB: 9780226785196, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones
In the study of Shakespeare since the eighteenth century, four key concepts have served to situate Shakespeare in history: chronology, periodization, secularization, and anachronism. Yet recent theoretical work has called for their reappraisal. Anach...
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£76,00
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Fabulous Monsters Dracula, Alice, Superman, and Other Literary Friends
ISBN: PB: 9780300255355, ISBN: HB: 9780300247381, Yale University Press, November 2020
256 pp., 19.7x15.2 cm, 38 black&white illus.
Alberto Manguel, in a style both charming and erudite, examines how literary characters live with us from childhood on. Throughout the years, they change their identities and emerge from behind their stories to teach us about the complexities of love...
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£12,99
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£14,99
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For Now
ISBN: HB: 9780300244649, Yale University Press, October 2020
96 pp., 17.8x12.1 cm
In this raucous meditation, Eileen Myles offers an intimate glimpse into creativity's immediacy. With erudition and wit, Myles recounts their early years as an awakening writer; existential struggles with landlords; storied moments with neighbors, fr...
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£12,99
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Fat New and Uncollected Prose
ISBN: PB: 9780887486623, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, October 2020
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Selected from the past twenty years of W. S. Di Piero's prose writings, Fat displays the range and intensity that caused Poetry magazine to call him "probably the most consistently compelling and idiosyncratic prose writer among contemporary American...
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£16,00
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Further News of Defeat Stories
ISBN: PB: 9781938769641, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, September 2020
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Steeped in a long history of violence and suffering, Michael X. Wang's debut collection of short stories interrogates personal and political events set against the backdrop of China that are both real and perceived, imagined and speculative. Wang plu...
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£15,00
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FURY
ISBN: PB: 9781784109905, Carcanet, August 2020
144 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
The sixth Carcanet collection from Ted Hughes Award-winner and creator of the popular "Writing Challenges" literature podcast, this is Morley's most political work yet. He gives imaginative voice to the natural world and those silenced or overlooked,...
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Found Architecture Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781784109318, Carcanet, April 2020
144 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
The first UK Selected of one of the UK's most acclaimed contemporary poets.
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£14,99
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Flourish
ISBN: PB: 9780887486555, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, February 2020
96 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
In "Flourish", multiple meanings catch light – as the leaves of growing things might, or the facets of cut gemstones, or a signal mirror flashing in distress. These poems explore themes of thriving, growth, innovation, and survival, while immersing t...
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