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Kong's Finest Hour A Chronicle of Connections
ISBN: HB: 9780857428479, Seagull Books, May 2021
342 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 114 halftones
In a world full of devils, the giant ape Kong defends what he loves the most. But who and what is this undomesticated animal? Might it reside within us? As we tread confidently, is this where the earth opens up beneath us?   In Kong's "Finest Hour",...
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£27,99
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Keats's Odes A Lover's Discourse
ISBN: HB: 9780226762678, University of Chicago Press, February 2021
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"When I say this book is a love story, I mean it is about things that cannot be gotten over – like this world, and some of the people in it". In 1819, the poet John Keats wrote six poems that would become known as the Great Odes. Some of them – "Ode...
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£16,00
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Knives We Need
ISBN: PB: 9780887486678, University of Chicago Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, February 2021
64 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The Knives We Need is a settler-colonial coming-of-age tale, set in landscapes in Palestine and the United States. In short, iterative lyric poems, Nava Etshalom combs through disastrous settler genealogies. Wittily, meticulously, the collection unpi...
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£13,00
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Keeping Time A Novel
ISBN: PB: 9781946724281, University of Chicago Press, Acre Books, March 2020
304 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
A crumbling marriage. An ancient mystery. And a way to change the past... When archaeologist Aaron Keeler finds himself transported eighteen years backward in time, he becomes swept up in a strangely illicit liaison with his younger wife. A brillian...
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£16,00
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Kingdom of Love
ISBN: PB: 9781784108571, Carcanet, September 2019
72 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"A Kingdom of Love" is a lyrical interrogation of the place of the sacred and profane in a demythologised world from poet and Anglican parish priest, Rachel Mann.
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£9,99
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King of China
ISBN: PB: 9780857427311, ISBN: HB: 9780857421654, Seagull Books, September 2019
192 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
When Keith Stapperpfennig and his family give their grandfather the trip of a lifetime – an all expenses paid holiday to any destination in the world – the eccentric old man arbitrarily chooses China, and he asks Keith to accompany him. But when Keit...
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£16,00
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Korean Treasures, Volume 2 Rare Books, Manuscripts and Artefacts in the Bodleian Libraries and Museums of Oxford University
ISBN: HB: 9781851245260, Bodleian Library Publishing, May 2019
160 pp., 25x21 cm, 120 colour illus.
Many important and valuable rare books, manuscripts and artefacts related to Korea have been acquired by donations throughout the long history of the Bodleian Libraries and the museums of the University of Oxford. However, due to an early lack of spe...
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£35,00
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Kite
ISBN: PB: 9780857426369, ISBN: HB: 9780857420435, Seagull Books, March 2019
303 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Rich and multilayered, with elements of both memoir and fiction, Dominique Edde's "Kite" defies categorization. Beginning in the 1960s and ending in the late '80s, it is at once a narrative of a passionate, and ultimately tragic, relationship between...
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£14,99
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£19,00
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Karimayi
ISBN: HB: 9780857423900, Seagull Books, August 2017
296 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Chandrasekhar Kambar is one of the most accomplished Indian writers working today. In each of Kambar's novels, the archetypical Mother, Karimayi, is at the center. The narrative of "Karimayi" moves through an astounding time span, beginning with the...
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£18,50
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King in the Golden Mask
ISBN: PB: 9781939663238, DAP, Wakefield Press, May 2017
176 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm, 2 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! First published in French in 1892 and never before translated fully into English, "The King in the Golden Mask" gathers 21 of Marcel Schwob's cruelest and most erudite tales. Melding the fantastic with historical fiction, t...
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£12,99
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