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By: Octavio Paz
ISBN: 9781846559938
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Publication Date: Feb 2015
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In 1951 Octavio Paz travelled to India to serve as an attach in the Mexican Embassy.
'The Antipodes of Coming and Going' is a lyrical remembrance of Paz's days in India, evoking with astonishing clarity the sights, sounds, smells and denizens of the subcontinent.
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By: Arthur Japin
ISBN: 9780099479031
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Publication Date: Aug 2006
UK Publication Date: 6th July 2006
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Tells a story of innocence and experience, and love and sacrifice, taking the reader on a journey from the canals of Amsterdam to those of Venice, and painting a portrait of the eighteenth century.
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By: Isaac Bashevis Singer
ISBN: 9780099422662
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Publication Date: Dec 2001
UK Publication Date: 1st November 2001
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In this autobiographical work, specifically mentioned in Issac Bashevis Singer's Nobel Prize citation, Singer remembers his childhood in Warsaw, and especially the bet din, or Jewish Court, in his father's home on working-class Krochmalna Street.
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By: Christopher Woodward
ISBN: 9780099289555
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Publication Date: Nov 2002
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Why are we so fascinated by ruins Woodward looks back to the start of the cult in the 18th century, when follies were built in English landscape gardens. He examines Nazi fantasies, the shattered Statue of Liberty in the film "Planet of the Apes" and the Chelsea Flower Show's "Millennium Ruin".
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By: Marybeth Hamilton
ISBN: 9780712664462
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Publication Date: Mar 2008
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Everyone knows the story of the Delta blues, with its fierce, raw voices and tormented drifters and deals with the devil at the crossroads at midnight. This book rewrites that story.
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By: Karen Armstrong
ISBN: 9780099555476
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Publication Date: May 2011
UK Publication Date: 3rd March 2011
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The foundation stone of Jewish and Christian scriptures, the power of the Book of Genesis lies in its stories - Creation, the Fall, Cain and Abel, Noah, Abraham, Jacob and Joseph. Karen Armstrong traces the themes and meanings of these stories, examining what they can still tell us about the human quest for meaning.
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By: Adam O'Riordan
ISBN: 9780701185053
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Publication Date: Jul 2010
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Adam O'Riordan's remarkable first collection traces the hidden paths from past to present, from the lost to the living, seeking familiarity in a world of 'false trails and disappearing acts'.
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By: Peter Matthiessen
ISBN: 9781787300170
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Publication Date: Dec 2017
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On a hot June morning in 1975, a shoot-out between FBI agents and American Indians erupted on a reservation near Wounded Knee in South Dakota. After eight years of court battles, ending with a Supreme Court judgement, Mathiessen won the right to tell Peltiers and his peoples story.
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By: Per Petterson
ISBN: 9780099520740
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Publication Date: Dec 2007
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Early one morning Arvid finds himself standing outside the bookshop where he used to work, drunk, dirty, with two fractured ribs, and no idea how he came to be there. He does not even recognise his face in the mirror. It is as if he has dropped out of the flow of life.
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By: Nevil Shute
ISBN: 9780099530046
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Publication Date: Oct 2009
UK Publication Date: 3rd September 2009
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It is the rainy season. Drunk and delirious, an old man lies dying in the Queensland bush. In his opium-hazed last hours, a priest finds his deserted shack and listens to his last words. Half-awake and half-dreaming the old man tells the story of an adventure set decades in the future, in a very different world...
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By: Manuel Rivas
ISBN: 9781846555558
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Publication Date: Apr 2011
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A glorious cast of animals and birds, as well as humans, relate the magical stories that form the plot of Manuel Rivas's extraordinary novel. In a nearby cellar, half the parish are found to have transmigrated into spiders, snails, toads-Manuel Rivas's story emerges like spirals of smoke, in a series of memorably poetic images.
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By: Helen Simpson
ISBN: 9780099546122
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Publication Date: May 2011
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Poignant, funny and perceptive, Helen Simpson's fifth collection of runs the gamut of emotions and deals with birth, death and everything in between.
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By: Ben Okri
ISBN: 9780099983002
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Publication Date: Jun 1993
UK Publication Date: 18th March 1993
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Whether the subject is a child's eye view of the Nigerian Civil War, Lagos and the spirit world or dispossession in a decaying British inner city, Okri's lyrical, poetic and humorous prose recreates the known and the unknown world with startling power.
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By: David Greene
ISBN: 9781846556166
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Publication Date: Nov 2011
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Have you ever thought your cat was 'almost human' If so, you'd only be partly right, as the remarkable abilities of these creatures make them not so much human as superhuman. Every cat, from the humble tabby to the rare Persian, is capable of mental, physical and even extrasensory feats unique in the animal kingdom. This title deals with cats.
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By: A.L. Kennedy
ISBN: 9780099433484
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Publication Date: Jul 2003
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The twelve stories in Indelible Acts are variations on a theme of longing - the unassuagable human need for contact, for completion, for that most fugitive gift of all: reciprocal love. In the title story, two lovers confront their lusts amid the ruins of Rome;
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By: Marina Warner
ISBN: 9780099154518
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Publication Date: Apr 1993
UK Publication Date: 18th February 1993
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Inspired by The Tempest, Indigo traces the scars of colonialism across continents, family blood-lines and three centuries.
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By: Clive Stafford Smith
ISBN: 9780099572190
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Publication Date: Jul 2013
UK Publication Date: 22nd August 2013
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Shortlisted for the 2013 Orwell Prize.
THE STORY CONTINUES: TWO NEW CHAPTERS FOR THE PAPERBACK EDITION
In 1986, Kris Maharaj, a British businessman living in Miami, was arrested for the brutal murder of two ex-business associates.
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By: Pierre Magnan
ISBN: 9780099565321
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Publication Date: Apr 2011
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Early one morning in the hills of Provence, Pierrot, a fifteen-year-old boy out hunting for snails, stumbles across the dead body of Capitaine Patrocle, a celebrated hero of the Resistance.
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By: Ray Monk
ISBN: 9780099433538
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Publication Date: Nov 2013
UK Publication Date: 7th November 2013
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Having formed suspicious connections in the 1930s, in the wake of the Allied victory in World War Two, Oppenheimers attempts to resist the escalation of the Cold War arms race would lead many to question his loyalties and set him on a collision course with Senator Joseph McCarthy and his witch hunters.
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By: Jennie Rooney
ISBN: 9780099523574
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Publication Date: May 2009
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Stephanie Stanford, recently widowed, must tell her family the truth. Meanwhile, Michael's memories are squashed into a shoebox (along with Queen Mathilda's Dickin Medal for Bravery - for pigeons) ready for his move to hospital. But Anna, a young healthcare assistant, has the patience - and rare tenderness - to eke out his story.
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By: Desmond Morris
ISBN: 9780224101356
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Publication Date: Apr 2016
UK Publication Date: 7th March 2016
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One of the best chronicles of human intimacy--from the handshake through the twelve stages that people pass through on their way to the total sexual embrace.
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By: Peter Zimonjic
ISBN: 9781784701970
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Publication Date: Oct 2015
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On the morning of 7 July 2005, Peter Zimonjic, a Canadian journalist living and working in London, was travelling on an eastbound Circle line train heading towards Edgware Road.
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By: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
ISBN: 9781846559266
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Publication Date: Oct 2014
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After his expulsion from Russia in 1974 for undermining the Communist regime, Solzhenitsyn wrote a secret record, while it was still fresh in his mind, of the courageous efforts of people who hid his writings and smuggled them to the West.
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By: Philip Ball
ISBN: 9780099590439
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Publication Date: Aug 2015
UK Publication Date: 30th July 2015
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If you could be invisible, what would you do The chances are that it would have something to do with power, wealth or sex. Perhaps all three. Impulses like these have always been at the heart of our fascination with invisibility. This book offers a history of humanity's turbulent relationship with the invisible.
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