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Mysterious Solidarities
ISBN: HB: 9780857427397, Seagull Books, July 2021
256 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
When translator Claire Methuen travels back to her hometown of Dinard for a family wedding, she runs into her old piano teacher Madame Ladon. After befriending the ageing woman, Methuen begins to toy with the idea of a permanent return to live in Bri...
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£18,99
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Modern Sovereign The Body of Power in Central Africa (Congo and Gabon)
ISBN: HB: 9780857426888, Seagull Books, March 2021
456 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The "Modern Sovereign", a notion indebted both to Hobbes's Leviathan and Marx's conception of capital, refers to the power that governed the African multitudes from the earliest colonial days to the post-colonial era. It is an internalized power, res...
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£35,00
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Moor
ISBN: PB: 9780857428332, ISBN: HB: 9780857423689, Seagull Books, March 2021
476 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
It's the early 1970s and Dion Katthusen, thirteen, is growing up fatherless in a small village in northern Germany. An only child plagued with a devastating stutter, Dion is ostracized by his peers and finds solace in the company of nature, collectin...
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£12,99
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£22,50
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Mr Zed's Reflections
ISBN: PB: 9780857428219, ISBN: HB: 9780857422248, Seagull Books, March 2021
144 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Any new book by poet, essayist, writer, and translator Hans Magnus Enzensberger, one of the most influential and internationally renowned German intellectuals, is cause for notice, and "Mr. Zed's Reflections" is no exception. Every afternoon for almo...
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£9,99
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£16,00
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My Father, the Germans and I Essays, Lectures, Interviews
ISBN: PB: 9780857428240, ISBN: HB: 9781906497477, Seagull Books, March 2021
200 pp., 22.9x14 cm
Jurek Becker (1937-1997) is best known for his novel "Jacob the Liar", which follows the life of a man, who, like Becker, lived in the Lodz ghetto during the German occupation of Poland in World War II. Throughout his career, Becker also wrote nonfic...
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£11,99
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£19,00
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Masters of Art Modigliani
ISBN: PB: 9783791386591, Prestel Publishing, November 2020
112 pp., 21x17 cm, 55 colour illus.
Amedeo Modigliani experimented with sculpture and drawing, but is primarily known for his paintings of nudes and portraits characterized by elongated figures, faces, and necks. He began painting in his youth in Italy before moving to Paris in 1906, d...
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£9,99
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Masters of Art Kahlo
ISBN: PB: 9783791386577, Prestel Publishing, November 2020
112 pp., 21x17 cm, 55 colour illus.
Although her body of work is relatively small, Frida Kahlo has inspired adoration and admiration that few other artists have attained. This accessible and elegant book offers full page reproductions of a selection of her works, allowing for a broad a...
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£9,99
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Money, Money, Money! A Short Lesson in Economics
ISBN: HB: 9780857427342, Seagull Books, November 2020
184 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
The Federmanns live a pleasant but painfully normal life in the Munich suburbs. All that the three children really know about money is that there's never enough of it in their family.   Every so often, their impish Great-Aunt Fe descends on the city....
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£16,99
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Magic Doll A Children's Book Inspired by African Art
ISBN: HB: 9783791374468, Prestel Publishing, August 2020
32 pp., 32x24 cm, 14 colour illus.
In a small village in West Africa, a young girl explains the special way she was born. Her mother had difficulty getting pregnant, so she seeks help in the form of a doll which she treats like a human baby, carrying it on her back and covering it wit...
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£10,99
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Moses A Human Life
ISBN: PB: 9780300251883, ISBN: HB: 9780300209624, Yale University Press, May 2020
240 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
An unprecedented portrait of Moses's inner world and perplexing character, by a distinguished biblical scholar. No figure looms larger in Jewish culture than Moses, and few have stories more enigmatic. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, acclaimed for her many...
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