Paris - A Short History by Jeremy Black
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Once described as "that metropolis of dress and debauchery" by the Scottish poet David Mallet, Paris has always had a reputation for a peculiar joie de vivre, from art to architecture, cookery to couture, captivating minds and imaginations across the Continent and beyond. In Paris: A Short History, his ...Show more
The Vast Extent - On Seeing And Not Seeing Further by Lavinia Greenlaw
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From the renowned poet, novelist and memoirist, and ingenious constellation of writings on light, image, seeing . . . and the unseen. From the celebrated poet, novelist and memoirist, The Vast Extent is an ingenious constellation of "exploded essays" about light and image, seeing and the unseen. Each i ...Show more
Mary Or, the Birth of Frankenstein by Anne Eekhout
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Gothic, fantasy-tinged historical fiction, delving back into the teenage years of Mary Shelley to find the inspiration for Frankenstein __________ 'A fantastically moody, unsettling novel, with a teasing, enigmatic atmosphere entirely its own' Sarah Waters 'A beautiful, hallucinatory dream of a novel ...Show more
Change: A Novel by Edouard Louis
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The major new novel from the international bestselling author Edouard Louis - about social class, transformation, and the perils of leaving the past behind. One question took centre stage in my life, it focused all of my thoughts and occupied every moment when I was alone with myself- how could I get th ...Show more
One Woman Show by Christine Coulson
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Prized, collected, critiqued. One Woman Show revolves around the life of Kitty Whitaker as she is defined by her potential for display and moved from collection to collection through multiple marriages. Coulson precisely distils each stage of this sprawling life into exhibition wall labels, every brief ...Show more
Rebel Island: The incredible history of Taiwan by Jonathan Clements
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The gripping history of Taiwan, from the flood myths of indigenous legend to its Asian Tiger economic miracle--and the renewed threat of invasion by China. Once dismissed by the Kangxi Emperor as nothing but a 'ball of mud', Taiwan has a modern GDP larger than that of Sweden, in a land area smaller tha ...Show more
Nadezhda in the Dark by Yelena Moskovich
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'Yelena Moskovich is a true original, a literary titan, an innovator' JENNI FAGANA queer anthem for doomed youth by the author of Virtuoso and A Door Behind a DoorOn the longest night of a Berlin winter two women sit side-by-side. Both fled the Soviet Union as children, one from Ukraine, and her girlfri ...Show more
The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada
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The English-language debut of one of the most powerfully strange young voices in Japan. Told in three alternating first-person narratives, The Factory casts a vivid--if sometimes surreal--portrait of the absurdity and meaninglessness of modern life.
The Britannias: An Island Quest by Alice Albinia
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The story of Britain told through its islands - a personal journey through an ancient landscape The Britannias tells the story of Britain's islands and how they are woven into its collective cultural psyche. From Neolithic Orkney to modern-day Thanet, Alice Albinia explores the furthest reaches of Brita ...Show more
Tabula Rasa - Volume 1 by John McPhee
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A literary legend's engaging review of his career, stressing the work he never completed, and why. Over seven decades, John McPhee has set a standard for literary nonfiction. Assaying mountain ranges, bark canoes, experimental aircraft, the Swiss Army, geophysical hot spots, ocean shipping, shad fishing ...Show more
Homer and His Iliad by Robin Lane Fox
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A thrilling study of the greatest of all epic poems, by one of the world's leading classicists Homer's Iliad is the famous epic poem set among the tales of Troy. Its subject is the anger of the hero Achilles and its dreadful consequences for the warring Greeks and Trojans. It was composed more than 260 ...Show more
Every Man for Himself and God against All: A Memoir by Werner Herzog
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Werner Herzog is the undisputed master of extreme cinema: building an opera house in the middle of the jungle; walking from Munich to Paris in the dead of winter; descending into an active volcano; living in the wilderness among grizzly bears - he has always been intrigued by the extremes of human exper ...Show more