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Poetry

The India List

Very Close to Pleasure, There's a Sick Cat And Other Poems

Chattopadhyay Shakti

ISBN: HB: 9780857424938, Seagull Books, February 2018
124 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

In the early 1960s, the Hungry Generation revitalized Bengali poetry in Calcutta, liberating it from the fetters of scholarship and the fog of punditry and freeing it to explore new forms, language, and subjects. Shakti Chattopadhyay was a cofounder...

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Biography & Memoires

The Africa List

What Is Africa to Me? Fragments of a True-to-Life Autobiography

Conde Maryse

ISBN: HB: 9780857423764, Seagull Books, August 2017
264 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Maryse Conde is one of the best-known and most beloved French Caribbean literary voices. The author of more than twenty novels, she was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2015 and has long been recognized as a giant of black femini...

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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

Francis Picabia Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 2 (1915-1927)

Camfield William A., Pierre Arnauld, Clements Candace, Calte Beverley, Verdier Aurelie, Calte Pierre

ISBN: HB: 9780300222463, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, January 2017
550 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 600 colour illus., 25 black&white illus.

The second of an important multi-volume catalogue project, this publication features work by Francis Picabia (1879-1953) that dates from 1915 into mid-1927. Beginning with Picabia's elaboration of a personal machinist aesthetic, the book continues by...

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Judaism

Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library

House of the Mother The Social Roles of Maternal Kin in Biblical Hebrew Narrative and Poetry

Chapman Cynthia R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300197945, Yale University Press, January 2017
360 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

A novel approach to Israelite kinship, arguing that maternal kinship bonds played key social, economic, and political roles for a son who aspired to inherit his father's household Upending traditional scholarship on patrilineal genealogy, Cynthia Cha...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire Buildings of Scotland

Close Rob, Gifford John, Walker Frank Arneil

ISBN: HB: 9780300215588, Yale University Press, November 2016
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire are among the least-explored counties in Scotland, but no other area can lay claim to their astounding diversity of character, from the wild remote moorland of the south to the landscape of the Clyde estuary in the north-...

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Fiction

The Swiss List

Spirits of the Earth

Colomb Catherine

ISBN: HB: 9780857423726, Seagull Books, September 2016
232 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Swiss novelist Catherine Colomb is known as one of the most unusual and inventive francophone novelists of the twentieth century. Fascinated by the processes of memory and consciousness, she has been compared to that of Virginia Woolf and Marcel Prou...

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Fiction

Classic War Fiction

Roux the Bandit

Chamson Andre

ISBN: PB: 9781612004174, Casemate, August 2016
112 pp., 19x13.2 cm

Set deep in the mountains of southern France, this charming short novel tells the story of a man from the Cevennes Mountains called Roux, who refuses to join the army at the outbreak of war in 1914. Instead, he flees and hides in the hills, only retu...

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Biography & Memoires

History of Art

Mark Rothko

Cohen-Solal Annie

ISBN: PB: 9780300219685, ISBN: HB: 9780300182040, Yale University Press, May 2016
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Mark Rothko was not only one of the most influential American painters of the twentieth century; he was a scholar, an educator, and a deeply spiritual human being. Born Marcus Yakovlevich Rotkovitch, he emigrated from the Russian Empire to the United...

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Poetry

The Swiss List

Like Bits of Wind Selected Poetry and Poetic Prose, 1974-2014

Chappuis Pierre

ISBN: HB: 9780857423382, Seagull Books, April 2016
336 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

One of the central figures from a remarkable generation of French-language poets, Pierre Chappuis has thus far only been represented in English translation in fragments: a few poems here and there in magazines, online reviews, and anthologies. "Like...

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Poetry

The French List

Inventors And Other Poems

Char Rene

ISBN: HB: 9780857423245, Seagull Books, October 2015
112 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm

One of the foremost poets of the French Resistance, Rene Char has been hailed by Donald Revell as "the conscience of modern French poetry". Translated by Mark Hutchinson, "The Inventors" is a companion volume to Char's critically acclaimed "Hypnos"....

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