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  • Mira Books A Chesapeake Shores Christmas

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  • Mira Books A Christmas Message

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  • Incredible Winston Browne

    Thomas Nelson Publishers Incredible Winston Browne

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisBeloved writer Sean Dietrich---also known as Sean of the South---will warm your heart with this rich and nostalgic tale about community, kindness, and the meaning of the everyday incredible.Trade Review'Dietrich (Stars of Alabama) imbues plenty of Southern charm and colloquialisms in a read that will appeal to people of all genders, and especially to fans of small-town living. Readers who enjoy well-developed, realistic characters similar to those from Charles Martin and Lauren K. Denton will want to watch for more from this author.' * Library Journal *'Dietrich (Stars of Alabama) lovingly depicts 1950s small-town life in this excellent outing . . . Dietrich meshes mystery and romance beautifully in this moral tale about one man set on using what is left of his life to enrich the lives of others. Dietrich's fans will love this rip-roaring, dramatic inspirational.' * Publishers Weekly *Sean Dietrich's newest novel, The Incredible Winston Browne (Thomas Nelson 2021) reads as if it is a gift from Dietrich to his readers. It is singularly beautiful . . . The Incredible Winston Browne is a wonderful book, a tale of such gentleness and love that it cannot help but be uplifting even in the face of loss and death. The writing is consistently crisp with the occasional splash of dry wit and hints of poetry, and the plotting is a fresh return to the warmth of stories like those our grandparents might have told us on the porches on a summer night. * Southern Literary Review *

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    £19.76

  • The Ultimate Journey

    Baker Publishing Group The Ultimate Journey

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    £17.00

  • Johns Hopkins University Press Elizabeth Barrett Browning Selected Poems

    Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe array of works offered is a rich one, from the religious to the romantic, the sentimental to the socially astute... In providing as representative a sample as possible without including the prefaces or extracts from the longer poems, Forster has succeeded admirably. Victorian StudiesTable of ContentsEditor's IntroductionNote on the TextPart I: From an Essay on Mind, With Other Poems (1826)Chapter 1. To My Father on His BirthdayChapter 2. SongChapter 3. The DreamPart II: From Prometheus Bound And Miscellaneous Poems (1833)Chapter 4. EpitaphChapter 5. The Image of GodChapter 6. A Sea-Side MeditationChapter 7. IdolsChapter 8. The TempestPart III: From the Seraphim, And Other Poems (1838)Chapter 9. A True DreamChapter 10. Man and NatureChapter 11. The Deserted GardenChapter 12. The Sea-MewChapter 13. A Sea-Side WalkChapter 14. My DovesChapter 15. Night and the Merry ManChapter 16. The SleepChapter 17. The Romaunt of MargretChapter 18. A Romance of the GangesPart IV: From Poems (1844)Chapter 19. De ProundisChapter 20. Past and FutureChapter 21. GriefChapter 22. Tears Chapter 23. SubstitutionChapter 24. Lady Geraldine's CourtshipChapter 25. The Lost BowerChapter 26. Rime of the Duchess MayChapter 27. The Lady's YesChapter 28. Bertha in the LaneChapter 29. Loved OnceChapter 30. Catarina to CamoensChapter 31. The Romance of the Swan's NestChapter 32. The Cry of the HumanChapter 33. The Cry of the ChildrenChapter 34. The Poet and the BirdPart V: From PoemsChapter 35. A Sabbath Morning at SeaChapter 36. Human Life's MysteryChapter 37. Question and Answer Chapter 38. Change Upon ChangeChapter 39. A Woman's ShortcomingsChapter 40. The MaskChapter 41. A Man's RequirementsChapter 42. A DenialChapter 43. A ReedChapter 44. Hector in the GardenChapter 45. Flush or FaunusChapter 46. Hiram Powers' Greek SlaveChapter 47. ConfessionsChapter 48. Sonnets from the PortugueseChapter 49. Casa Guidi Windows: Part One (1851)Part VI: From Poems Before Congress (1860)Chapter 50. A Curse for a NationChapter 51. A Court LadyChapter 52. A Tale of VillafrancaChapter 53. The DanceChapter 54. Christmas GiftsPart VII: From Last PoemsChapter 55. Lord Walter's WifeChapter 56. Amy's CrueltyChapter 57. A False StepChapter 58. My Heart And IChapter 59. Bianca Among the NightingalesChapter 60. Void in LawChapter 61. First News from VillafrancaChapter 62. The Forced RecruitChapter 63. Mother and PoetChapter 64. A Musical InstrumentChapter 65. The North and the SouthIndex of Poems

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  • The Mysteries of New Orleans The Longfellow

    Johns Hopkins University Press The Mysteries of New Orleans The Longfellow

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    Book SynopsisThis edition marks the first time that The Mysteries of New Orleans has been translated into English and proves that 150 years later, this vast, strange, and important novel remains as compelling as ever.Trade ReviewUncovering the vices of a city that was steeped in sexual promiscuity of every variety and crimes of greed, passion and malice... Reizenstein invests a good many satiric jibes at religion, society and human nature in general. A mixture of naturalistic realism and gothic melodrama, Mysteries of New Orleans really focuses most of its attention on the city of its title. Reizenstein's greatest talent is for minute detail, and, under his scrutiny, very little that goes on in the city escapes his notice... Steven Rowan's astute and clearly written introduction and his very informative notes on each chapter are helpful in understanding the historic context of the book. His translation allows readers a glimpse into a city whose varied and intriguing population has created a potpourri as rich today as it was 150 years ago when Baron von Reizenstein took up residence and took up his pen. -- Mary McCay New Orleans Times-Picayune The essence of New Orleans is invested in a history of vice, vagrancy, and pirate vibes... What is [this] history exactly? In The Mysteries of New Orleans a novel written in the mid-nineteenth century by Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein, just published by Johns Hopkins University Press, the squalor is more vivid that anything we might mention today. The Baron was just reporting. Andrei Codrescu, NPR's All Things Considered Ethnic American literature has found legitimacy in the classroom, so this novel comes as a welcome surprise... This roman a clef include[s] scandalous depictions of salacious antebellum life amid the European, African, mulatto, and Creole societies that intermingled in the city... The book offers a rare and candid look into a much earlier time. A significant document. Choice 2003 Painstakingly reconstructed... Has... taken its place as a founding text for a city whose open and tolerant atmosphere was no longer any mystery at all. -- Christopher Capozzola Bay Windows 2005Table of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroductionSearching for a Key to The MysteriesMemoranda for the Sympathetic ReaderProloguePart IChapter 1. Lucy WilsonChapter 2. The MasqueradeChapter 3. Two SistersChapter 4. A Night After the HoneymoonChapter 5. A Welcome GuestChapter 6. Don Juan in HellChapter 7. Parasina Brulard-HotchkissChapter 8. An Intermezzo and Further Events at Madame Brulard'sChapter 9. The Southern CrossChapter 10. Mantis ReligiosaChapter 11. The Negro FamilyChapter 12. SullaChapter 13. The ManuscriptPart IIChapter 14. Jenny and FridaChapter 15. Far AwayChapter 16. The Assault on Looking-Glass PrairieChapter 17. Gretchen in the BushChapter 18. Unexpected Chapter 19. Searching for a Bride Chapter 20. Lesbian LoveChapter 21. AlbertPart IIIChapter 22. One Year LaterChapter 23. Under The Live OaksChapter 24. The Coffee PickersChapter 25. The Prince of Württemberg Chapter 26. Aunty CelestineChapter 27. Corybantic FitsChapter 28. In the Hamburg MillChapter 29. Clubmen of the 99th and 100th DegreeChapter 30. Under the BedPart IVPrologue: The Fata Morgana of the SouthChapter 31. Angel and GeniusChapter 32. On the Flight to NinevehChapter 33. InterludesChapter 34. A Parrot in Cupid's ServiceChapter 35. A Letter From the West, or, The Voice of a Friend From HighlandChapter 36. The Confession Chapter 37. Complications and RevelationsChapter 38. One Night in the Life of a Young WomanPart VPrologue: The Criminals' Dock on the MesaChapter 39. Red Today, Dead TomorrowChapter 40. The NurseChapter 41. How It HappenedChapter 42. The ReunionChapter 43. The Journey to the Place of ExecutionEpilogueNotes

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    £37.50

  • Black Cat Final Edition and Union Jack

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  • Moody Press,U.S. Not My Will How Much Will Surrender Cost

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  • MJ - Ohio University Press Goodbye Son and Other Stories

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    Book SynopsisLewis’ only collection of short fiction was first published in 1946, but remains as quietly haunting today as it was then. Set in small communities of the upper Midwest and northern California in the ’30s and ’40s, these midcentury gems focus on the quiet cycles connecting youth and age, despair and hope, life and death.Trade Review“Any consideration of the writing of Janet Lewis becomes inevitably a consideration of style. In Good-bye, Son, she exhibits a classical purity that is rare.” * New York Times *“The collection may remind you of some of the quiet stories of Willa Cather.” * The New Yorker *“(Good-bye, Son, and Other Stories) is … an unaccountably neglected book, a collection [that explores] the apprehension and experiencing of death, and the consolatory power inherent in understanding one’s place and part in the natural cycle of birth, death, and rebirth.” * Christian Science Monitor *“(Janet Lewis) is a striking example of a quiet talent working quietly through almost the entirety of a noisy, celebrity-heavy century.” * New York Review of Books *“[Lewis] thrusts us into the essence of a situation, startling us out of the role of complacent observer and into that of active participant. This steady movement and these brief revelations work together to give the stories a collective meaning.” * Western American Literature *“Janet Lewis…has now written some very fine short stories, of which at least one (‘Good-bye, Son,’ the title story or novelette), I predict will live a long time, not only in memories, but in the anthologies of outstanding short prose in which it is bound to turn up. It is a story not easily classifiable among the different kinds of supernatural tales; it is, in essence, a story of divine guidance, and as such has nothing but the appearing of the dead in common with the usual ‘ghost story.’” * Weekly Book Review *

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  • MJ - Ohio University Press The Apple Falls from the Apple Tree

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    Book SynopsisThe title of Helen Papanikolas’ second collection of short stories, The Apple Falls from the Apple Tree, is taken from an old Greek proverb and speaks of the new generation’s struggle with the vestiges of Greek customs.Trade Review“Writers like Papanikolas should live a thousand years.” * Journal of the International Greek Folklore Society *

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  • MJ - Ohio University Press The QuickChange Artist

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    Book SynopsisIn these stories of magic and memory, clustered around a resort hotel in a small Virginia community, Cary Holladay takes the reader on an excursion through the changes wrought by time on the community and its visitors.Trade Review“As for the actual characters in The Quick-Change Artist, they are some of the most unique and surprising in contemporary American short fiction. Ultimately, the most intriguing of all these characters is (the town of) Glen Ellen itself, with its ‘low locomotive thunder,’ its ‘singing rails’ luring us into a world we will not soon forget.”“There are writers who have a gift for the short story the way Coltrane had a gift for making music with a saxophone: Cary Holladay is one of those. She is a poet of the unlikely screwball tale of possibility, quick changes of connection and view that startle and delight. Holladay is one of the most exciting voices in contemporary fiction.”“These stories succeed wonderfully, flashing with insight and lingering in the mind long after they're over.”“These stories are strung together like pearls. They’re delightful and engaging and heartfelt, with quirky characters and wonderful phrasings, such as ‘supper club grief treatment.’ A triumph!”“Add my voice to the chorus of those hailing this brave new talent on the American scene. The short story is alive and well. Just open this book and see.””The sense of history weaves these stories together, creating a satisfying collection that tells the larger narrative of an ever-changing South and an always-transforming small-town America.”

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  • MJ - Ohio University Press Waste of Timelessness and Other Early Stories

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    Book SynopsisWritten when Anaïs Nin was in her twenties and living in France, the stories collected in Waste of Timelessness contain many elements familiar to those who know her later work as well as revelatory, early clues to themes developed in those more mature stories and novels.

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  • Chaos in Kabul A Malko Linge Novel 5

    Penguin Random House LLC Chaos in Kabul A Malko Linge Novel 5

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisAs U.S. troops prepare to withdraw from Afghanistan, and the Taliban is poised to take over, the CIA calls upon the Austrian aristocrat Malko Linge to execute a dangerous and delicate plan to restore stability to the region.On the ground in Kabul, Malko reconnects with an old flame and hires a South African mercenary to assist with his mission. But Malko doesn't know whom he can trust. His every move is monitored by President Karzai's entourage, Taliban leaders, a seductive American journalist--and a renegade within the CIA itself. Before he can pull off his plan, Malko is kidnapped and nearly killed. When he finally manages to escape, he finds himself alone and running for his life in a hostile city.

    10 in stock

    £13.46

  • Revenge of the Kremlin 6 Malko Linge Novel

    Penguin Random House LLC Revenge of the Kremlin 6 Malko Linge Novel

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisIn this gripping, tightly plotted tale of espionage, Malko Linge investigates the suspicious death of a Russian oligarch in London.   Boris Berezovsky is living in exile in London to avoid the wrath of Vladimir Putin. One morning, the unlucky oligarch is found dead in his bathroom, an apparent suicide.   Their suspicions aroused, MI5 opens an investigation—but Prime Minister David Cameron orders the case closed. Alarmed at the renewal of Russian Cold War tricks and Moscow’s increasingly close ties to London, the CIA dispatches Malko Linge to investigate Berezovsky’s death and the British cover-up. With help from an alluring former CIA handler, Malko dives into the search for hard evidence of the Kremlin’s involvement in the affair—putting himself directly in the crosshairs of the world’s most efficient assassins.

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    £13.46

  • Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The Handsome Mans De Luxe Café

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  • The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine 16 No 1 Ladies

    Random House USA Inc The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine 16 No 1 Ladies

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisFans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma  Ramotswe—with help from her loyal associate, Grace Makutsi—navigates her cases and her personal life with wisdom, good humor, and the occasional cup of tea.Precious Ramotswe, the esteemed proprietor of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, now faces her greatest challenge yet: a vacation! Business is slow at the agency—so slow in fact that, for the first time in her distinguished career, Mma Ramotswe has reluctantly agreed to take a holiday. The week of uninterrupted peace is cut short, however, when she meets Samuel, a wayward young boy with a troubled past. Moreover, Mma Ramotswe can’t help but wonder how the agency is faring in her absence. Her worries grow when she discovers that Mma Makutsi is handling a rather delicate cas

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    £14.36

  • The Ghost in the Electric Blue Suit

    Random House USA Inc The Ghost in the Electric Blue Suit

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    Book SynopsisAgainst the wishes of his family, David, a college student, takes a summer job at a run-down family resort in a dying English town. It was at this very resort that David's biological father died fifteen years earlier. But something undeniable has called David there, a deeper otherworldliness that lies beneath the surface of what we see. And as David joins an eclectic group of staffers, strange occurrences take hold, including the vision of a lonely, blue-suited man wandering the town.

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    £14.36

  • Bennington Girls Are Easy

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Bennington Girls Are Easy

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  • The Telling

    Random House USA Inc The Telling

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    Book SynopsisFrom the bestselling author of Longbourn comes a ghost story that is a thrilling—and sometimes chilling—tale about two women, separated by almost two centuries, grappling with change and loss.After her mother dies, Rachel sets off alone to pack up and sell off the remnants of her family’s isolated country house. But from the moment she steps through the front door, she feels that the house contains more than she had expected. Generations earlier, a young housemaid, Lizzy, called the same dwelling home. On course for a life of service no different from her mother and her mother’s mother before her, Lizzy’s world is upended by the arrival of a mysterious lodger. Interweaving the two narratives, Jo Baker brings these women, both struggling against their stations and their duties, vividly to life.

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    £14.36

  • Random House USA Inc Love and Other Consolation Prizes

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    Book SynopsisFrom the bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet comes a powerful novel, inspired by a true story, about a boy whose life is transformed at Seattle’s epic 1909 World’s Fair.“An evocative, heartfelt, beautifully crafted story that shines a light on a fascinating, tragic bit of forgotten history.”—Kristin Hannah, author of The Nightingale For twelve-year-old Ernest Young, a charity student at a boarding school, the chance to go to the World’s Fair feels like a gift. But only once he’s there, amid the exotic exhibits, fireworks, and Ferris wheels, does he discover that he is the one who is actually the prize. The half-Chinese orphan is astounded to learn he will be raffled off—a healthy boy “to a good home.” The winning ticket belongs to the flamboyant madam of a high-class brothel, famous for educating her girls. There, Ernest becomes the new houseboy and befriends Maisie, the madam’s precocious daughter, and a bold scullery maid named Fahn. Their friendship and affection form the first real family Ernest has ever known—and against all odds, this new sporting life gives him the sense of home he’s always desired. But as the grande dame succumbs to an occupational hazard and their world of finery begins to crumble, all three must grapple with hope, ambition, and first love. Fifty years later, in the shadow of Seattle’s second World’s Fair, Ernest struggles to help his ailing wife reconcile who she once was with who she wanted to be, while trying to keep family secrets hidden from their grown-up daughters. Against a rich backdrop of post-Victorian vice, suffrage, and celebration, Love and Other Consolations is an enchanting tale about innocence and devotion—in a world where everything, and everyone, is for sale.Praise for Love and Other Consolation Prizes“Exciting . . . [Jamie] Ford captures the thrill of first kisses and the shock of revealing long-hidden affairs.”—Kirkus Reviews   “Strong . . . A laudable effort that shines light on little known histories.”—Library Journal   “Poignant . . . Vibrantly rendered.”—Booklist    “Combining rich narrative and literary qualities, the book achieves a multi-faceted emotional resonance. It is by turns heart-rending, tragic, disturbing, sanguine, warm, and life-affirming. Perceptive themes that run throughout culminate at the end. A true story from the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition inspired this very absorbing and moving novel. Highly recommended.”—Historical Novel Society (Editors’ choice)“Ford is a master at shining light into dark, forgotten corners of history and revealing the most unexpected and relatable human threads. . . . A beautiful and enthralling story of resilience and the many permutations of love.”—Jessica Shattuck, author of The Women in the Castle“All the charm and heartbreak of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet . . . Based on a true story, Love and Other Consolation Prizes will warm your soul.”—Martha Hall Kelly, author of Lilac Girls

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  • House of Echoes

    Random House USA Inc House of Echoes

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    £12.33

  • The Virgins Daughter

    Random House USA Inc The Virgins Daughter

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    Book SynopsisA captivating historical novel that poses the thrilling question: What if Elizabeth I, the celebrated Virgin Queen, gave birth a legitimate heir?—the first installation of the Tudor Legacy trilogy “[Laura] Andersen brilliantly blends the history and historical characters we know into her wondrous new world.”—RT Book ReviewsSince the death of her brother, William, Elizabeth I has ruled England. She’s made the necessary alliances, married Philip of Spain, and produced a successor: her only daughter, Anne Isabella, Princess of Wales. Elizabeth knows that her beloved Anabel will be a political pawn across Europe unless she can convince Philip to grant her a divorce, freeing him to remarry and give Spain its own heir. But the enemies of England have even greater plans for the princess, a plot that will put Anabel’s very life and the security of the nation in peril. Only those closest to Elizabeth&mdas

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    £12.34

  • The Cry of the Halidon

    Random House USA Inc The Cry of the Halidon

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    Book SynopsisAlex McAuliff has received an offer he can’t refuse: two million dollars for a geological survey of Jamaica. All Dunstone Limited requires is his time, his expertise, and his absolute secrecy. No one—not even McAuliff’s handpicked team—can know of Dunstone’s involvement. But British Intelligence is aware of the deal, and they’ve let Alex in on a secret of their own: The last survey team Dunstone dispatched to Jamaica vanished without a trace. Now it’s too late to turn back. Alex already knows about Dunstone—which means he knows too much. From the moment he lands in Jamaica, Alex is a marked man. On an island paradise where a beautiful woman might be a spy and every move could be his last, Alex’s only clue to survival is a single mysterious word: Halidon.   Praise for Robert Ludlum   “Don’t ever begin a Ludlum novel if you have to go to work the next day.”—Chicago

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  • Until the Dawns Light

    Schocken Books Until the Dawns Light

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    Book Synopsis***NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER (2012)***From the award-winning, internationally acclaimed writer (“One of the best novelists alive” —Irving Howe): a Jewish woman marries a gentile laborer in turn-of-the-century Austria, with disastrous results. A high school honor student bound for university and a career as a mathematician, Blanca lives with her parents in a small town in Austria in the early years of the twentieth century. At school one day she meets Adolf, who comes from a family of peasant laborers. Tall and sturdy, plainspoken and uncomplicated, Adolf is unlike anyone Blanca has ever met. And Adolf is awestruck by beautiful, brilliant Blanca–even though she is Jewish. When Blanca is asked by school administrators to tutor Adolf, the inevitable happens: they fall in love. And when Adolf asks her to marry him, Blanca abandons her plans to attend university, converts to Christianity, and leaves her family, her friends, and

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    £20.80

  • Northwestern University Press Triquarterly 101

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  • Northwestern University Press Triquarterly 102

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  • Northwestern University Press Triquarterly 103

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  • Harbart

    New Directions Publishing Corporation Harbart

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    Book SynopsisThis beloved cult novel—about a young man who makes a business of relaying messages from the dead—is now in a sparkling English translationTrade Review"What is needed [now] is a kind of novel that attends to how society is being organized by certain vested interests; a novel that goes to the heart—rather, goes for the jugular—of the economic system itself. Harbart is prophetic of this tradition to come." -- 4Columns"Harbart is a haunted man—a victim-participant in the forward march of capitalism and of the impetus to assign significance to the pointlessness and chaos of material existence. Banerjee’s acrobatic translation is both enormously fun and true to the radical content." -- Asymptote"Harbart reads like Rainer Maria Rilke’s Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge set in Calcutta. Featuring a young man with an open channel to the dead who drinks and grieves to excess, it is a mosaic of manic and immersive episodes. It is a spinning drunken stumble through a city that feels menacingly sensual." -- Nate McNamara - Lit Hub"Often described as a ‘magic realist’ and compared with Bulgakov, Mr. Bhattacharya won the Sahitya Akademi award for Herbert, which many critics have called anarchic. He relentlessly wrote about the marginalized, the city streets, slums and dark alleys, using satire, dark humor, and fantasy to telling effect to highlight oppression and exploitation." -- The Hindu"Bhattacharya occupies an uneasy place in the pantheon of Bengali greats—celebrated, disillusioned, and most subversive." -- The Indian Express"Swift and strange, Harbart tells the story of its titular character, an orphan whose life is characterized by loss and longing: a sweeping view of the richness and the turmoil of Bengali culture, literature, and politics in the twentieth century." -- The New Yorker"A remarkable resurrection, one that erupts full-blooded, alive with laughter, stink and rage." -- John Domini - The Washington Post"An astonishing novel, zany, terrifying, and liberating in equal measure, by a writer who was a visionary." -- Siddharta Deb

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  • The Fool and Other Moral Tales

    New Directions Publishing Corporation The Fool and Other Moral Tales

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    Book SynopsisFrom the brilliant, sui generis Anne Serre—author of the celebrated Governesses—come three delicious, thoroughly out-of-the-way tales.Trade Review"Serre’s language is tight and fabulist, a slim and sensuous fairy tale that reads like something born from an orgy between Charles Perrault, Shirley Jackson, and Angela Carter." -- Full Stop"In three mysterious tales, Serre explores the moral implications of self-destructive impulses, storytelling, and sexual taboo. Serre, one of France's finest fabulists, returns in full force in this strange, beguiling collection about the perils of desire in all its forms." -- Kirkus"Three wild novellas—tied together with dream logic, each of these stories plumbs the depths of desire, morality, and our willingness to go on an unpredictable ride." -- Katie Yee - LitHub"Hypnotic, enchanting." -- Publishers Weekly"Drawing on fairy tales and psychoanalysis, pornography and poststructuralism, Serre constructs stunning and searing stories. Dreamy and deeply sexual." -- Publishers Weekly (starred)"Serre’s collection speaks bravely, poignantly and perversely to the hazards of alienation—from one’s self, from those around you—while also illuminating the blessings and curses, the gifts and sacrifices, of being called to dwell in the gauzy world of stories." -- John Biscello - Riot Material""With its psychological reality infused with fabulism, Serre’s fiction seems to have invented its own genre of literature. The Fool & Other Moral Tales is an impeccable collection."" -- Ankita Chakraborty - The New York Times"Genuinely original—and, often, very quietly so. Prim and racy, seriously weird and seriously excellent—The Governesses is not a treatise but an aria, and one delivered with perfect pitch." -- Parul Sehgal - The New York Times

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    £11.39

  • The Marvellous Equations of the Dread

    New Directions Publishing Corporation The Marvellous Equations of the Dread

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisThe ancestors have awakened. Somebody has called them. The long-dead are stirring. Jah ways are mysterious ways.Trade Review"A lyrical convocation of reggae, roots healing, the history of Half Way Tree, of duppies and fearsome body-swapping, of dangerous youthmen and deliberate revolution—here is prose steeped deep in portents, parables, and a profusion of signs. Marcia Douglas lets the sounds fall from on high, in prose that chants down Babylon and confirms the coming, sweeter than can be reckoned, of Zion." -- Caribbean Beat"Marcia Douglas’s book is as marvellous as its title – one of the most stunning new works of Jamaican fiction I have had the pleasure of reading. The novel that is not unlike the island that it tries to capture – as musical as it is brutal, and here is writing as full of poetic heft as it is of narrative drive; even as you want to linger and relish in the language, the novel demands that you turn the page." -- Kei Miller"The spirit of Bob Marley dominates this novel, which evokes the rich, bottom-heavy sounds of Marley's music. You can't tell the living and the dead here without a score card, and a score card would be too linear... Think of this book as a haunted island with spectral voices and inscrutable mysteries." -- Kirkus"The Marvellous Equations of the Dread: A Novel in Bass Riddim... has the air of a spell. A beautiful and otherworldly book; a work of poetry steeped in history and rich with imagination. Douglas has a way of conveying the sense of wonder that powers the island's creative spirit. Douglas writes with an almost Biblical diction...Weaving a complex and warmhearted tale — one told through multiple voices — against a backdrop of violence. She can be uproariously funny too — the patois practically jumps off the page, and things can go from light to dark in an instant. Her chapters are tracks that all work well as singles, but when played together pulsate with great power." -- Juan Vidal - NPR"Mind-blowing." -- Publishers Weekly"Rhapsodic, poetic, scripturally engaged and endlessly inventive. Not only is the electric atmosphere of Jamaica evoked with sensuousness, delicacy and love; so is the ‘dub-side,’ a studio yard just the other side of death, where Bob Marley and a toothless and lisping Haile Selassie discuss the relative merits of routes to Zion." -- Review 31"A magical realist journey through the history of Rastafarianism, Bob Marley & Jamaica—not necessarily in that order. Rhapsodic, poetic, scripturally engaged and endlessly inventive. Not only is the electric atmosphere of Jamaica evoked with sensuousness, delicacy and love; so is the ‘dub-side,’ a studio yard just the other side of death, where Bob Marley and a toothless and lisping Halle Selassie discuss the relative merits of routes to Zion." -- Review 31"A powerful woman-centered version of Jamaican her-story." -- SX Salon"Calling Marcia Douglas's new novel, The Marvellous Equations of the Dread, "original" would be so lazy, a banal understatement bordering on pointless. Also tempting, because the book evades pithy description, at least one that makes any sense. But here's a shot: Bob Marley has been reincarnated, in a manner of speaking, as Fall-down man, joining other recently revived ghosts—including but not limited to Marcus Garvey, Haile Selassie, and the Queen of Sheba. They're hanging out in the clock tower of Half Way Tree, a Kingston intersection notable more for its history than its traffic. What are they doing there? Beyond Jah, who knows? The Marvellous Equations is a marvelous tour through time and Jamaica's often tumultuous history, an ode to Rastafarianism, reggae music, and its resilient and resolute people, all inextricably intertwined." -- Jon Foro - The Amazon Book Review"Miraculous." -- Matt Alston - The Believer"Massively creative, The Marvellous Equations of The Dread draws from—and continues—a long Caribbean musical tradition." -- The Millions"Brave and strange: in the great cosmic scheme of this book there's constant traffic between this world and the next." -- Colin Grant - The New York Review of Books"Marvellous Equations of the Dread is a celebration of the conflicted Jamaican experience. The women in Marcia Douglas’s books are proud women: they are the descendants of Queen Nanny, the Maroon chieftain who, according to legend, could catch the bullets of the British soldiers between her teeth." -- The Rumpus"A pulsating tale revolving around the return of Bob Marley’s spirit on a Kingston street corner dubbed Half Way Tree—it's about the transmigration of souls, Rasta dreams, and the powerful vibrations of consciousness passed down through generations. A whirlwind of a novel that sways to an irresistible beat." -- Vanity Fair"Marvellous Equations of the Dread harkens back to the past of slavery, oppression, and violence to account for the situation in Jamaica today...Mystical." -- World Literature Today"A vast panorama of a small corner of Kingston, a musical novel where the music is reggae, a historical documentary set in the present: As the illustrious and anonymous living and dead materialize to reenact, retell, and undo their life stories, it’s impossible to resist reading these voices out loud, adding your own to this orchestrated hubbub." -- Eliot Weinberger"A rollicking, music-rich, dream-filled, polyphonic tour through Jamaica’s past and present, both in this world and, on the “dub-side,” beyond it, The Marvellous Equations of the Dread is a masterpiece of linguistic and narrative inventiveness, a contemporary literary marvel." -- John Keene

    10 in stock

    £12.99

  • The Samurai New Directions Classics

    New Directions Publishing Corporation The Samurai New Directions Classics

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisOne of the finest novels, from “a masterly historical writer” (David Mitchell) Trade Review"A narrative of austere power." -- Adam Mars-Jones - Financial Times"Thick with adventure." -- The Millions"A historical fiction with meanings for many cultures and all seasons, and a great travel narrative; its re-creations of place, from marshy north-east Japan, to the storm-tossed eastern and western oceans, to the deserts of Central Mexico, to the pomps of Baroque Madrid and Rome, are extraordinary. The Samurai is animated by a rich and full spiritual vision." -- The New York Times Book Review"Endo to my mind is one of the finest living novelists. " -- Graham Greene

    10 in stock

    £12.99

  • Happiness as Such

    New Directions Publishing Corporation Happiness as Such

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisThe hauntingly beautiful epistolary novel from “a glowing light of modern Italian literature” (New York Times Book Review) Longlisted for the PEN Translation AwardTrade Review"Where it shines is at the line level, where Ginzburg and Proctor together often strike perfect notes." -- Bradley Babendir - Chicago Review of Books"Happiness, As Such is a tragicomedy of manners about an Italian family whose only son flees the country after being persecuted for his political activism. Published in Italy in 1973, it’s primarily a series of letters between the estranged son and his friends and family back home. If that sounds uneventful, rest assured it’s just as compelling as The Dry Heart." -- Chicago Tribune"The web of connections between private and public life, between the intellectual and the emotional and the political, is delicately visible, only occasionally breaking the surface." -- Lidija Haas - Harper’s"A deliciously arid novel." -- Interview Magazine"A swiftly moving blend of dialogue and letters, the novel speaks to Ginzburg's remarkable range as a writer: beneath the currents of humor and wit is a subtle work of insight and feeling. Another masterpiece from one of the finest postwar Italian writers." -- Kirkus (starred)"Ginzburg writes with humor and pathos. Epistolary, family exposes each to the other and we soon recognize that happiness is defined as mundane visitations, daily routines, and reactivated memory of joy as seen through loss." -- Lucy Kogler - Lit Hub"Ginzburg modernizes the form...Between generational differences, genealogical secrets, former and secret lovers, and the desires and limitations related to real and aspirational social milieux, Ginzburg seems to suggest that in the sphere of the family there is always more to tell, and differently." -- Los Angeles Review of Books"The voice is instantly, almost violently recognizable — aloof, amused and melancholy. The metaphors are sparse and ordinary; the language plain, but every word load-bearing. Short sentences detonate into scenes of shocking cruelty. Even in middling translations, it is a style that cannot be subsumed; Natalia Ginzburg can only sound like herself." -- Parul Sehgal - New York Times"Magnificent...This is a riveting story about how even when a family drifts apart, the bonds of blood relations supercede the deepest disagreements." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Ginzburg is a unique voice and there’s a direct simplicity to her prose that makes her dry observations all the more riveting " -- Hephzibah Anderson - The Guardian"Candor and lies, love and exasperation, farce and inconsolable grief are seamlessly compounded in this very funny and deeply melancholy book. After devastating loss, which is to be feared more greatly—that nothing will ever be the same, or that many things will be more or less the same? Life goes on, all too recognizably. “You can get used to anything when there’s nothing else left,” says one of the characters toward the end." -- Deborah Eisenberg - The New York Review of Books"A wonderful act of virtuosity." -- Joan Acocella - The New Yorker"Happiness, as Such, translated by Minna Zallman Proctor, is from 1973, by which point Ginzburg had mastered her method and was complementing the sharp, glittering edifice of her prose with buried seams of humor and pathos. " -- Sam Sacks - The Wall Street Journal"Natalia Ginzburg is a fierce writer. She trusts in things—in the few objects that can capture the emptiness of the universe." -- Italo Calvino"The voice of the Italian novelist and essayist Natalia Ginzburg comes to us with absolute clarity amid the veils of time and language. Ginzburg gives us a new template for the female voice and an idea of what it might sound like. This voice emerges from her preoccupations and themes, whose specificity and universality she considers with a gravitas and authority that seem both familiar and entirely original." -- Rachel Cusk"Her sentences have great precision and clarity, and I learn a lot when I read her." -- Zadie Smith

    10 in stock

    £12.78

  • New Directions Publishing Corporation Mazurka for Two Dead Men

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisA New York Times Best Book of the Year Nobel Prize Laureate Trade Review"Cela never forgets that the mazurka is a dance. He writes with gusto about that fundamental two-step of human existence: sex and death." -- Los Angeles Times"The definitive novel of how the Spanish Civil War was actually experienced by ordinary people." -- Newsday"If there is any Spanish novelist who deserves the Nobel Prize on the merit of narrative experimentation alone, it is without a doubt Camilo José Cela." -- Miguel Ugarte - The Nation"His most mesmerizing fiction, about life during the first four decades of the twentieth century, a life so brutal that the Spanish Civil War, when it occurs, seems a mere continuation of the ordinary. A fiendishly haunting story." -- The New York Times"Cela is the Goya of Franco’s Spain." -- Paul West"There is a secret slot for Cela at his best, as one of the great prose stylists, plural, of Spain—a man dangerously like us." -- Roberto Bolaño

    10 in stock

    £14.24

  • W. W. Norton & Company Novel 11 Book 18

    10 in stock

    a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

    10 in stock

    £12.34

  • Star

    New Directions Publishing Corporation Star

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisFor the first time in English, a glittering novella about stardom from “one of the greatest avant-garde Japanese writers of the twentieth century” (Judith Thurman, The New Yorker) Winner of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese LiteratureTrade Review"Mishima is famous both for writing and for dying. Or, strictly, for attempting hara-kiri. Perhaps surprising, then, is that Star is about shooting a blockbuster: not an Ozu or a Mizoguchi but a cheap Yakuza flick. Mishima himself starred in Afraid to Die, Yukoku, Black Lizard, and Hitokiri and knew first-hand his subject the vapidity of fame. Startling, is its lack of artifice: yielding grace from pulp." -- Oscar Mardell - 3:AM Magazine"This 1961 novel is finally getting the translation it has so long deserved. The psychologically complex story of Rikio Mizuno, young star of a series of gangster films, is based in part on Mishima’s own experiences as an actor. This is a landmark novel of 20th century Japan, and you no longer have to learn Japanese to read it." -- Jeff Somers - Barnes and Noble"Mishima nicely captures the alter-world of stardom—a sharp little novella." -- Complete Review"This little novella gives a bang-filled rush, reflecting on the empty deceit of fame and the psychology of celebrity. Once you're on top of the world, can you ever escape it?" -- Literary Hub"An exquisite contemplation of existence and death, and Mishima’s prose is extremely powerful and the translation finely executed." -- Los Angeles Review of Books"A startlingly modern, hypervisual jewel." -- Patti Smith - New York Times Book Review"Mishima's glitzy melange of playboy paranoia and heartthrob ennui cracks the proverbial 15 minutes wide open, spilling all the juicy details regarding fawning sycophants, monotonous re-shoots, and the anesthetizing effect of prolonged exposure to the limelight. Death-haunted and contemptuous, Star is a sneering "up yours" to celebrity and fanaticism depicted in panoramic decadence — though, notably, nowhere is its critique more biting than when gazing at its own fractured reflection. A rain-slick melodrama dripping with bored excess, this is a pocket guide for the sexy and disaffected." -- Powell's Books"Mishima’s ethereal 1961 novel, published for the first time in English, showcases the strains of fame on a young movie star. Mishima is a master of the psychological: this nimble novella about the costs and delusions of constant public attention will resonate with readers." -- Publishers Weekly"Enormously relevant" -- Spectrum Culture"Written shortly after Mishima himself starred in the yakuza-centered Afraid to Die, his slim novella—smoothly translated into English for the first time by prize-winning Sam Bett—is a raw, scathing examination of fame." -- Terry Hong - The Booklist Reader"Mishima is like Stendhal in his precise psychological analyses, like Dostoevsky in his explorations of darkly destructive personalities." -- The Christian Science Monitor"A short but intense psychological ride. Sam Bett has given the book a colloquial translation that powerfully evokes a mood of Hollywood’s Golden Age." -- Kiri Falls - The Japan News"Star isn’t merely a treat for completists, but a happy reunion with a genius." -- The Japan Times"Mishima was one of literature’s great romantics." -- Jay McInerney - The New York Times"Star, the novella Mishima published in 1960, is now open to rediscovery thanks to an adroit, colloquial translation into American English by Sam Bett. It offers us a snapshot of a twenty-three-year-old, up-and-coming movie star, Rikio Mizuno. In Star, the world of film is, it seems, all artifice, both on and off screen, a world where everyone dons masks as a service to public tastes and desires while peering into mirrors of narcissistic self-regard. Literary genius" -- Damian Flanagan - The Times Literary Supplement (London)"Star, translated from Japanese by Sam Bett, is a strange, avant-garde novella following a young actor who [receives] the kind of attention that could drive any person slowly insane." -- Thrillist "Best Books of 2019""This pitch-perfect novella from Yukio Mishima tells the story of a young film star disenchanted with the trappings of fame. Drawing on his own experiences as an actor, Mishima’s Star is a stunning addition to the oeuvre of one of postwar Japan’s greatest storytellers." -- Thomas Gebremedhin - WSJ Magazine"There may be no writer more autobiographical than Yukio Mishima. He resembles Ce´line and Genet, writers who were not political writers but who were working out the crisis of being alive, the crisis of experience itself. That’s precisely the way it is transcendent—it goes beyond the visible world into a world in which being alive makes sense." -- Philip Glass

    10 in stock

    £8.99

  • On the High Wire

    New Directions Publishing Corporation On the High Wire

    10 in stock

    Book Synopsis“On the High Wire is fascinating to read. You will learn about the man, his work, his passion, his tenacity and lucidity” (Marcel Marceau)Trade Review"In the hand it feels like a guidebook and reads like a dream diary. The book is both of those things." -- Michigan Quarterly Review"What most recommends On the High Wire is the voice of its author. Petit’s style, true to his title of the Magician of High Altitudes, captivates." -- Zach Davidson - The Brooklyn Rail"What sets Philippe in a class all his own is his restless quest to conquer the greatest physical heights, achieving a precise balance of chaos and creativity. He is an inspiration." -- Mikhail Baryshnikov"Philippe Petit is an artist whose theater is the sky." -- Robin Williams"This is a book of instructions to those who will dare one day the impossible. It shows the art to fill and illuminate the Void, a void between two towers, two edges of a ravine, or two planets, or the space between heart and mind. A wire connects what would have been separated in loneliness forever. I salute you, Philippe, the Fragile Man of the Wire, the Emperor of the air. Like Fitzcarraldo you are one of the ever so rare and wondrous men: a Conquistador of the Useless. I bow my head in reverence." -- Werner Herzog

    10 in stock

    £10.44

  • New Directions Publishing Corporation The Chandelier

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    Book SynopsisIn paperback, Clarice Lispector’s explosive and surprising second novelTrade Review"Lispector’s signature narrative style, which borders on stream-of-consciousness, is the vehicle for Virginia’s existential dilemmas and her observations about a world from which she often seems removed. The Chandelier includes all the earmarks of Lispector’s other work, too: a deep anguish, a search for the heart of human existence, and the unbearable weight of a solitude that is imperative to ultimate freedom." -- Eric Becker - Americas Quarterly"It is a lyrical outpouring of sensation and perception...Lispector is up to some extraordinary things." -- Martin Riker - New York Times Book Review"The revival of the hypnotic Clarice Lispector has been one of the true literary events of the 21st century." -- Parul Sehgal - New York Times Book Review"It's a shaggy stop-motion masterpiece, plotless and argument-less and obsessed with the nature of thought....Every page vibrates with feeling. It's not enough to say that Lispector bends language, or uses words in new ways. Plenty of modernists do that. No one else writes prose this rich." -- Lily Meyer - NPR"Lispector’s second novel is a breathless, dizzying and multi­sensory dive into the mind...The first English translation of The Chandelier is a major event, offering the anglophone world an insight into Lispector’s early grappling with the shapes and rhythms of thought." -- The Times Literary Supplement"The Chandelier is an extraordinary book." -- Reinaldo Laddaga - 4Columns"A vulnerable and moving performance—with a heart-stopping payoff....an undeniable quantity of genius." -- Parul Sehgal - New York Times Book Review"Lispector's signature brilliance lies in the minutely observed gradations of her characters' feelings and of their elusive, half-formed thoughts." -- Kirkus"The Chandelier will reward those who enjoy challenging works about the power of the mind and about how we might grow up—without destroying who we have been, without fearing who we might come to be." -- Music & Literature"This is a haunting family fable, and will fascinate those seeking a glimpse at Lispector’s genius in development." -- Publishers Weekly"[L]yrical, sensual, philosophical...gorgeous, unsettling prose..." -- The Nation"One of the twentieth century’s most mysterious writers. " -- Orhan Pamuk"Better than Borges." -- Elizabeth Bishop"Utterly original and brilliant, haunting and disturbing." -- Colm Tóibín"The Chandelier is not a book to be read at a fast pace, but rather one to be slowly sipped and savored, a few pages at a time—one that forces us to find other modes of reading, of approaching literature, committed to finding the pleasures of the text." -- Christina Soto van der Plas - The Los Angeles Review of Books"Virginia’s memory of the chandelier as an adult is as strange and ambiguous as the rest of the moments in the novel, deeply introspective and without a clear meaning, but the energy and spiritual wonder of her descriptions make the cryptic writing all the more resonant and spiritually urgent for both her character and her reader." -- Mike Broida - Electric Lit

    Out of stock

    £999.99

  • Some Trick

    New Directions Publishing Corporation Some Trick

    3 in stock

    Book SynopsisHailed a “Best Book of the Year” by NPR, Publishers Weekly, Vulture, and the New York Public Library, Some Trick is now in paperback Finalist for the Saroyan Prize for FictionTrade Review"DeWitt certainly has some more tricks up her sleeve." -- Chicago Review"Brilliant and inimitable Helen DeWitt: patron saint of anyone in the world who has to deal with the crap of those in power who do a terrible job with their power, and who make those who are under their power utterly miserable." -- Sheila Heti - Electric Literature"I like dry humor with a stick of dynamite strapped to it. The forthcoming collection Some Trick by Helen DeWitt, is probably the most recent example." -- Sloane Crosley - New York Times Book Review"A gem: one of fiction’s greatest minds—dazzling." -- Publishers Weekly"One definition of a genius is that she is so dissatisfied with the way the world is that she compels it to adjust to her, rather than following the usual course of adjusting to it. How do you get a complacent world to stop talking and pay attention? Some Trick suggests that the answer involves stubbornness, oddity, and a great deal of talent." -- Adam Kirsch - The Atlantic"DeWitt's style is brilliantly heartless, and cork-dry." -- James Wood - The New Yorker

    3 in stock

    £12.34

  • The Beginners

    New Directions Publishing Corporation The Beginners

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisQuintessential Anne Serre—this restless, prowling novel explores love as a form of greed, and confused need as one shape of bereftnessTrade Review"Genuinely original—and, often, very quietly so. Prim and racy, seriously weird and seriously excellent, The Governesses is not a treatise but an aria, and one delivered with perfect pitch." -- Parul Seghal - New York Times Book Review"Hypnotic, enchanting." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Strange, beguiling: a jewel." -- Kirkus"[A] wry, unconventional novel about a woman's desire." -- The New Yorker"Her books that have been translated into English—The Governesses, The Fool and Other Moral Tales and The Beginners—have a glamour in the older sense of the word, that of witchcraft. These are books that, in their concern with the properties of fiction—plots, narrator, genre, characters—use these very elements to beguile." -- Rhian Sasseen - The Point"The Beginners is as much a celebration of the dizzying excesses of female desire as Serre’s other work. Even in comparatively realist mode, Serre is a seductress." -- Becca Rothfeld - Bookforum

    10 in stock

    £11.99

  • Sevastopol

    New Directions Publishing Corporation Sevastopol

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisThree subtly connected stories converge in this chimerical debut, showcasing a powerful new Brazilian voiceTrade Review"Like the writers I most admire, Fraia sets for himself the hardest and most respectable task a writer can face: unraveling the mystery without revealing the secret." -- Javier Montes"A literary jewel." -- Fernanda Torres"Three stories track the wanderings of contemporary Brazilians in Fraia’s subtle and melancholy English-language debut, a collection inspired by Leo Tolstoy’s Sevastopol Sketches." -- Publishers Weekly"With deft precision, Fraia bares his characters just enough to reveal only these stories—nothing is extraneous." -- Kirkus"A truly beautiful book that is hard to describe without using words like precision, subtlety and, mostly, wisdom." -- Alejandro Zambra"These tales don’t operate the way most tales do; they adhere to their own separate sense of languid time." -- Tope Folarin - Vulture"As Sevastopol masterfully demonstrates, all one can do against time’s attrition is organize the losses into a story of the self." -- Marshall Shord - Southwest Review"Quite excellent." -- Erin Bloom - Full Stop"A vibe is, by definition, inexplicable. To say Sevastopol’s vibe is a bit gloomy, desolate, styled in a color palette that includes grays, greens, and violets, is both true and inexact. The vibe accumulates over time and amounts to something. But exactly what remains evasive, thrillingly open-ended." -- Melanie Broder - Public Books

    10 in stock

    £11.39

  • Collected Stories

    New Directions Publishing Corporation Collected Stories

    Out of stock

    Book SynopsisDylan Thomas’s magisterial stories all in one volume, available in a beautiful new paperback edition. Trade Review"Thomas meant much to me and my generation, he is still singing in his chains like the sea—a force driving the flowers." -- Seamus Heaney"His prose, his images, his stories all pulsate with life, with a beat and a variety that captivate, invigorate, and clarify." -- Los Angeles Times"Thomas’s stories appeal to me because he is required to snake his poetics in between the dialogue and exposition (such as it is), and the form reins in his Biblical tendencies. … In the same way that compilation albums often reveal the hidden strengths of a band, allowing someone else to decide what works, Collected Stories has always been my favorite Thomas, because of its balance. I need a touch of zinc white to even out the purple with this one. The demands of successful fiction bring Thomas and his rambles into the light, where we can see the triumph and regret in every drop." -- Sasha Frere-Jones - 4columns

    Out of stock

    £17.09

  • Dreams of Joy 2 Shanghai Girls

    Random House USA Inc Dreams of Joy 2 Shanghai Girls

    10 in stock

    Book Synopsis#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Astonishing . . . one of those hard-to-put-down-until-four-in-the morning books . . . a story with characters who enter a reader’s life, take up residence, and illuminate the myriad decisions and stories that make up human history.”—Los Angeles TimesIn her most powerful novel yet, acclaimed author Lisa See returns to the story of sisters Pearl and May from Shanghai Girls, and Pearl’s strong-willed nineteen-year-old daughter, Joy. Reeling from newly uncovered family secrets, Joy runs away to Shanghai in early 1957 to find her birth father—the artist Z.G. Li, with whom both May and Pearl were once in love. Dazzled by him, and blinded by idealism and defiance, Joy throws herself into the New Society of Red China, heedless of the dangers in the Communist regime. Devastated by Joy’s flight and terrified for her safety, Pearl is determined to save her daughter, no matt

    10 in stock

    £15.30

  • TransAtlantic

    Random House USA Inc TransAtlantic

    10 in stock

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    10 in stock

    £15.30

  • Random House USA Inc The Summer Before the War

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    Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A novel to cure your Downton Abbey withdrawal . . . a delightful story about nontraditional romantic relationships, class snobbery and the everybody-knows-everybody complications of living in a small community.”—The Washington PostThe bestselling author of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand returns with a breathtaking novel of love on the eve of World War I that reaches far beyond the small English town in which it is set.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND NPR East Sussex, 1914. It is the end of England’s brief Edwardian summer, and everyone agrees that the weather has never been so beautiful. Hugh Grange, down from his medical studies, is visiting his Aunt Agatha, who lives with her husband in the small, idyllic coastal town of Rye. Agatha’s husband works in the Foreign Office, and she is certai

    Out of stock

    £999.99

  • The Quick

    Random House USA Inc The Quick

    10 in stock

    Book Synopsis

    10 in stock

    £14.40

  • Random House Publishing Group The Brass Cupcake

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    a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

    Out of stock

    £999.99

  • Random House Publishing Group The Family Markowitz

    10 in stock

    a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

    10 in stock

    £15.30

  • Thirteen Ways of Looking A Novella and Three

    Random House USA Inc Thirteen Ways of Looking A Novella and Three

    10 in stock

    Book Synopsis

    10 in stock

    £14.45

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