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Contributors include Anthony Anaxagorou, Alexandra Pringle, Cecile Pin and the islands are in the Outer Hebrides, the Tyrrhenian Sea, the Andaman...

Over the Water: Essays on Islands

Various

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Compelling and mysterious, this is the story of a young Englishman in Iran in 1974 who falls in love with a Persian girl, only to be separated by the Revolution. It soon appears that the pr... read more

A Good Place To Die

James Buchan

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A celebration of London life.

Look Here: On the Pleasures of Observing the City

Ana Kinsella

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SM describes her book as the shroud that she was unable to weave for her mother, who was killed during the genocide of the Tutrsis by the Hutus in Rwanda.

The Barefoot Woman

Scholastique Mukasonga

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In this brave memoir, Bhutto considers the reverberating loss of her father (assassinated in her teens). She has a consoling familiar - a Jack Russell - at her side.

The Hour of the Wolf

Fatima Bhutto

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Twenty-five years have passed since Roy moved from Delhi to a derelict cottage in the old hill station of Raniket.

Called by the Hills: A Home in the Himalaya

Anuradha Roy

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A young woman falls for an older actor when working in a seedy, 1950s' repertory theatre company. This semi-autobiographical novel, first published in 1989, has lost none of its sting.

An Awfully Big Adventure

Beryl Bainbridge

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This early novel follows two young female employees of a London wine-bottling factory. A grubby, funny, macabre re-issue.

The Bottle Factory Outing

Beryl Bainbridge

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A troubled boy in a 1970s' English boarding school grapples with alienation and desire in this fierce coming-of-age story.

Jean

Madeleine Dunnigan

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Two estranged sisters are reunited in their childhood home to sift through their belongings and their past. By the author of Winter in Sokcho and The Pachinko Parlour.

The Old Fire

Elisa Shua Dusapin

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The wit of Frank O'Hara meets the poignancy of Marcel Proust in this succinct memoir of the 1970s' New York literary scene.

I Remember

Joe Brainard

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A seething dissection of respectability.

Other People

Celia Dale

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A love story in - and of - Croatia.

Slanting Towards the Sea

Lidija Hilje

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Brilliant evocations of vast spaces, isolation, nondescript places and disjointed ways of life, by a native of Patagonia. Published in Spanish in 2005, this is its first English translation.

False Calm: A Journey Through the Ghost Towns of Patagonia

Maria Sonia Cristoff

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Freewheeling: Essays on Cycling

Imogen Binnie

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History, memory and identity in the Donbas region, told through many voices.

Life in Spite of Everything: Tales from the Ukrainian East

Victoria Donovan

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The lives, loves and betrayals of a group of friends are revealed in their letters. Translated from the Italian.

The City and The House

Natalia Ginzburg

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The Odd Woman and the City

Vivian Gornick

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A reissue of one of Gallant's two novels: a mother and daughter wander from Venice to Cannes to Paris. Superficially glamorous, their lives are in fact constricted, their physical displaceme... read more

Green Water, Green Sky

Mavis Gallant

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Reprint of a fine novel shortlisted for the 1981 Booker Prize, in which a couple fall in love during a day trip on the Rhine in 1851.

Rhine Journey

Ann Schlee

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By a fine and motley crew that includes Tessa Hadley, Roger Deakin, Caleb Azumah Nelson and Amy Key.

By the River: Essays from the Water’s Edge

Various Contributors

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Travel memories - some imagined, such as a performance of 'Hamlet' off the African coast, in 1607 - from the amiable author of A Pike in the Basement: Tales of a Hungry Traveller.

Who’s There?: Travels in Place and Time

Simon Loftus

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An excellent Catalan novel from the 1970s, about flight and return, in which the Civil War still looms over the tail-end of Franco's era and modernity blooms. A marvellous evocation of Barce... read more

The Time of Cherries

Montserrat Roig

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Ancient beliefs clash with Catholic missionaries in colonial Rwanda.

Kibogo

Scholastique Mukasonga

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Two ladies recently released from Holloway set up a nifty line in swindling. First published in 1988, this is a re-issue.

Sheep’s Clothing

Celia Dale

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A memoir set in rural Wyoming where Ehrlich moved in 1978 after the unexpected death of her partner. There is grief, of course, but there are also cowboys and beautiful descriptions of the A... read more

The Solace of Open Spaces

Gretel Ehrlich

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Sidestepping the incipient Algerian War of Independence, a young Algerian Jew leaves Paris for a lakeside town in the French Alps. Years later he is haunted by this seemingly idyllic summer.... read more

Villa Triste

Patrick Modiano

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The attraction of opposites on the French Riviera - the bohemian and the strait-laced - has lasting consequences for its adolescent protagonists, which play out over a decade. Well-structure... read more

A Wreath for the Enemy

Pamela Frankau

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Short stories from the author of 'Real Life', short listed for the Booker Prize in 2020.

Filthy Animals

Brandon Taylor

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Another of Ginzburg's lambent, ironic novellas: this time about a spoilt boy who grows into a feckless youth. Both he and his parents are blinded by unrealistic hopes, while his sister (the ... read more

Valentino

Natalia Ginzburg

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A snakes-and-ladders novella about the misplaced confidence of a bossy widow, whose aspirations to a life of refinement and social elevation bring about her downfall. Ginzburg, as ever, is l... read more

Sagittarius

Natalia Ginzburg

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Contributors include Cal Flynn, Eley Williams, Ned Beauman and Evie Wyld.

Dog Hearted: Essays on Our Fierce and Familiar Companions

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

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Scanlan's prose is pared back to the bone in this slim novel about an Iowa horse trainer and the scuzzy, feverish world of racing with its trailers and motels...

Kick the Latch

Kathryn Scanlan

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The writer's personal history interwoven with Chile's past, especially the Pinochet era and its extrajudicial killings.

Voyager: Constellations of Memory

Nona Fernandez

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Essays by the author of Indelicacy and two short story collections.

A Horse at Night: On Writing

Amina Cain

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M.F.K. Fisher is, in our opinion, the greatest and most entertaining writer about food there has ever been - but we are far from alone in this. A wonderful reprint.

An Alphabet for Gourmets

M.F.K. Fisher

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