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ISBN: HB: 9780857428509, Seagull Books, July 2021
212 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In contemporary Norwegian fiction, Tomas Espedal's work stands out as uniquely bound up with the author's personal experiences. His first book, Tramp, introduced us to the wanderer Tomas; Against Art told us how a boy approaches art and eventually be...
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£16,99
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Yankinton
ISBN: HB: 9780857427960, Seagull Books, March 2021
168 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Set in the early days of the Jewish state, "Yankinton" tells the stories of refugees from the Holocaust and antisemitism who struggled to build new lives in Israel. Through the eyes of a young Orthodox Jewish girl growing up in Tel Aviv, we watch a c...
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£16,99
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Year of Blue Water
ISBN: PB: 9780300242645, ISBN: HB: 9780300242652, Yale University Press, May 2019
96 pp., 21x14 cm
How can a search for self-knowledge reveal art as a site of community? Yanyi's arresting and straightforward poems weave experiences of immigration as a Chinese American, of racism, of mental wellness, and of gender from a queer and trans perspective...
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Young Men and Fire Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780226450353, ISBN: HB: 9780226475455, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
352 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 12 halftones, 6 line drawings
A devastating and lyrical work of nonfiction, "Young Men and Fire" describes the events of August 5, 1949, when a crew of fifteen of the US Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fir...
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£13,50
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£19,50
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Yves Bonnefoy Reader I: Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781784100759, Carcanet, December 2016
72 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
The definitive reader for one of the greatest living French poets and translators.
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£19,99
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You Haven't Asked About My Wedding or What I Wore Poems of Courtship on the American Frontier
ISBN: PB: 9781602232358, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 2014
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones
"Nowhere / on these parchment leaves do I find / myself, my likeness, my name, / not a whisper – Cynthia – not one / breath of me". For thirty years poet Jana Harris researched the diaries and letters of North American pioneer women. While the nam...
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£13,50
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Yellow and Blue
ISBN: PB: 9781847772053, Carcanet, February 2014
96 pp., 21.3x14 cm
The poems in this book form a series of small acts of attention, repeated attempts to step outside the circle of human concern and into a wider responsibility to the natural world. "To move among / crashing pines / is spacious / and exact". "Yellow &...
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£9,95
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Young Light
ISBN: HB: 9781906497545, Seagull Books, September 2010
298 pp., 21.1x14 cm
In "First Light", novelist Ralf Rothmann paints a delicate portrait of a twelve-year-old boy named Julian growing up in a mining community in 1960s Germany. The book covers only a few summer weeks, following Julian's gradual social and sexual awakeni...
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Young Girl's Handbook of Good Manners for Use in Educational Establishments
ISBN: PB: 9780984115518, DAP, Wakefield Press, February 2010
76 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! A bestselling author in his time, Pierre Louys (1870-1925) was a friend of, and influence on, Andre Gide, Paul Valery, Oscar Wilde and Stephane Mallarme among others. He achieved instant notoriety with "Aphrodite" and "The...
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£10,99
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Yellow Studio
ISBN: PB: 9781903039854, Carcanet, March 2008
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"Yellow Studio", Stephen Romer's fourth collection of poems, returns to the erotic intensities of "Tribute" (1998), counterpointed by the rueful satire that comes with age and a disbelief at having reached 'mid-life'. In this many-angled book the poe...
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