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For anyone who wants to understand how a democracy slides into a dictatorship, this compelling account might be a useful place to start. It shows the grisly anti-logic of a process that was ... read more

Fateful Hours: The Collapse of the Weimar Republic

Volker Ullrich

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As the old world dies and the new world struggles to be born, da Empoli assembles a rogues' gallery of the tyrants, tech bros and billionaires constructing our present dystopia. Acerbic yet ... read more

The Hour of the Predator: Encounters with the Autocrats and Tech Billionaires Taking Over the World

Giuliano da Empoli

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A surgeon returning home from the trenches at the end of WW1 finds himself at odds with his wife and haunted by what he has seen. First English translation of this powerful 1926 novel.

A Shadow of Myself

Peter Flamm

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Four fugitives hide from Franco in the aftermath of the Civil War, fighting their desire to return home and learning to survive in the wild, unforgiving Cantabrian mountains.

Wolf Moon

Julio Llamazares

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With an introduction by Yiyun Li, this selection brings together Montaigne's profound and inquisitive essays on life, death, and how to live... Also cannibals.

What Do I Know? Essential Essays

Michel De Montaigne

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A moving portrait of a large Polish-Jewish family living in Tarnów, in south-eastern Poland, between the wars and into the shadow of WW2. This is the first novel by this prize-winning autho... read more

My Name is Stramer

Mikolaj Lozinski

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A fascinating group portrait of the journalists (including Rebecca West, John Dos Passos, Martha Gellhorn, Erika Mann and Janet Flanner) who were gathered at Nuremberg - how they behaved wit... read more

The Writers’ Castle: Reporting History at Nuremberg

Uwe Neumahr

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Arturo’s Island

Elsa Morante

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Voyeurism, tale-bearing, truth, lies and murder this time for the author of The President's Hat and many others.

French Windows

Antoine Laurain

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Unravels the myths surrounding Capote's long stint in the Catalan town of Palamos in the 1960s. Guerriero is an agile writer and one of Latin America's foremost journalists, author of A Sim... read more

The Difficult Ghost: Searching for Truman Capote

Leila Guerriero

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Another stylised classic Japanese murder mystery from the author of The Inugamic Curse and others. And what is it about cats in Japan?

Murder at the Black Cat Cafe

Seishi Yokomizo

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Set on the C?te d'Azur in the 1930s, this novel by the great publisher has never been published before.

Background for Love

Helen Wolff

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High social comedy at a dinner party that goes horribly wrong.

Cooking in the Wrong Century

Teresa Präauer

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An episodic, multi-generational tale set in the Finnish wilderness - and defined by it too.

Tangled Roots

Maria Turtschaninoff

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A string of digressions, witty asides and intellectual rabbit holes make up this essay by the late novelist and scholar of Islamic culture.

The Madman’s Guide to Stamp Collecting

Robert Irwin

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From the author of 'The Elegance of the Hedgehog' (pbk, ?7.99), a short (earlier) novel

The Gourmet

Muriel Barbery

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How do you write music to serve the socialist state? Yet that is what a generation of Russian composers had to do. Some produced superb music; many more suffered terribly in the Gulag.

The Sound of Utopia: Musicians in the Time of Stalin

Michel Krielaars

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A coming-of-age novel about eight women living in Rome both set and published in the 1930s: a fine group portrait, radical at the time and censored on first publication by the Italian author... read more

There’s No Turning Back

Alba de Cespedes

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A powerful novel drawing on the author's experience up in fascist Italy.

Her Side of the Story

Alba de Cespedes

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A Canadian architect falls from grace after accepting a dubious commission. Glamorous and propulsive, this won multiple French prizes and was longlisted for the Goncourt.

May Our Joy Endure

Kev Lambert

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A reprint of the first part of the English edition of Heuet's glorious endeavour: we hope they will do the rest!

In Search of Lost Time: Swann’s Way – A Graphic Novel

Marcel Proust

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Or a pack of lies? An Icelandic psychological thriller with a dark twist.

One True Word

Snaebjoern Arngrimsson

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A memoir of the author's clandestine explorations through the haunting nuclear wasteland of 'the Zone' that is Chernobyl is both compelling and sinister.

Stalking the Atomic City: Life Among the Decadent and the Depraved of Chornobyl

Markiyan Kamysh

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A compulsive political thriller that takes us deep into the Kremlin and the psychology of authoritarianism: at its heart is Putin's chief spin-doctor, the still centre of a delirious propaga... read more

The Wizard of the Kremlin

Giuliano da Empoli

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Weights and Measures

Joseph Roth

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A Pushkin Press reissue of this old translation, which was in fact its first translation into English (Hogarth Press, 1931).

Duino Elegies

Rainer Maria Rilke

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When the author's relationship falls apart, she finds succour in the life of a C19th naturalist, David Starr Jordan, who lost his life's work in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and started... read more

Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love and the Hidden Order of Life

Lulu Miller

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Leibniz was much more than just a philosopher. By telling his life through the lens of seven days, MK brings to life the range of this remarkable polymath.

The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Life of Leibniz in Seven Pivotal Days

Michael Kempe

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Strange fable of love, sex and morality, re-issued by Pushkin Press after their acquisition of the Peter Owen list. This won the Finlandia Prize in 2000. Translated from the Finnish.

Troll: A Love Story

Johanna Sinisalo

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A letter and a beautiful woman sweep a young hothead from Whitechapel to Constantinople on the eve of the Crimean War: there is a trail of bodies - but so far not his... A lively debut.

Murder in Constantinople

A.E. Goldin

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A classic and somewhat baroque Japanese thriller from the late 1940s: a bloodied samurai sword is found sticking out of snow, with no surrounding footprints; a newly wedded couple are murder... read more

The Honjin Murders

Seishi Yokomizo

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Fiction, philosophy and science are braided into an enquiry into the limits of human knowledge.

The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality

William Egginton

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A fascinating group portrait of the journalists (including Rebecca West, John Dos Passos, Martha Gellhorn, Erika Mann and Janet Flanner) who were gathered at Nuremberg - how they behaved wit... read more

The Writers’ Castle: Reporting History at Nuremberg

Uwe Neumahr

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A gloriously comic short novel from 1975, in which a journalist saves a hare and walks away from a wearisome life into a series of adventures with the hare as companion. Like our protagonist... read more

The Year of the Hare

Arto Paasilinna

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Not all are hidden by luxuriant, pointy moustaches... The painter's only novel is a baroque and decadent tale set in the 1930s, first published in 1944.

Hidden Faces

Salvador Dali

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Set on the C?te d'Azur in the 1930s, this novel by the great publisher has never been published before.

Background for Love

Helen Wolff

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