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Notes on Book Design

Amanda-Li Kollberg

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A Shining

Jon Fosse

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After Sex: 2023

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A superb biographer, Schiff has turned her attention from Vera Nabokov and de Saint-Exupery to one of the lesser-known American Founding Fathers.

The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams

Stacy Schiff

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Che Guevara

Jon Lee Anderson

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The Overloaded Ark

Gerald Durrell

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English Journey

J. B. Priestley

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Comic and melancholic: tales of very human frailty.

The Beauties: Essential Stories

Anton Chekhov

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A strange and darkly comic novel about a young tennis coach, his pupil, a crumbling castle where towels behave in a sinister manner... This is the first time this modernist-gothic masterpiec... read more

The Possessed

Witold Gombrowicz

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Short stories from the author of The Makioka Sisters and In Praise of Shadows. One of Pushkin Press's pleasing small paperbacks.

The Siren’s Lament: Essential Stories

Junichiro Tanizaki

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A novel in vignettes, by a cult author only lately back in print, in which a feckless American finds herself adrift in Europe.

Motion Sickness

Lynne Tillman

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An old Christmas chestnut from 1951, this tragicomedy dishes up a dysfunctional family, an exploding Christmas tree and sharp claws.

Mistletoe Malice

Kathleen Farrell

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A new collection of disarmingly titchy poems, bristling with 'the thrill of mortality'. Funny, wise.

Musical Tables

Billy Collins

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His work, life, views.

The Mirror and the Road: Conversations with William Boyd ...

Alistair Owen

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A delightful catalogue to the recent exhibition held in Brecon, which looked at the two years Jones spent in in a small village in the Black Mountains in the mid-1920s, recovering (somewhat)... read more

Hill-Rhythms: David Jones & Capel-y-ffin

Peter Wakelin

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These small utopias were described by one interviewee - a gardener with an impressively Eeyore-like dispostiion - as '51 per cent hard work, and 49 per cent disappointment'. They've never be... read more

The Allotment

Colin Ward

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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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A welcome reissue of his superb 1987 book about his Russian family, who rose to influence under Nicholas II.

The Russian Album

Michael Ignatieff

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A fine collection of short stories about older women, by a new kid on the block who happens also to be an older woman.

Cat Brushing

Jane Campbell

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A collection of Stein's fiction and essays, including portraits of Alice B. Toklas, Juan Gris, Picasso and Matisse. One of Pushkin Press's pleasing small-format paperbacks.

Every Day is To-Day: Essential Writings

Gertrude Stein

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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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Witty, romantic, light but undeniably literary... the great Chilean novelist has done it again. There are echoes of Auster in his writing: a relish for books about books, stories within stor... read more

Chilean Poet

Alejandro Zambra

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A memoir by the half-Italian, half-Latvian writer about returning to Riga, to her childhood there and to her murdered Jewish father, told through the careful piecing-together of memory, docu... read more

Return To Latvia

Marina Jarre

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Five stories - from a young artist and a deserting soldier to an old man reminiscing beneath a lime tree - all interwoven by the common threads of war, memory and German history.

German Fantasia

Philippe Claudel

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Preparations for a 40th in rural France get eerier as the day goes on. Mrs Dalloway but stranger, and longer… and much more violent.

The Birthday Party

Laurent Mauvignier

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AZ conjures lives, relationships, families, political upheavals in just a few paragraphs. This clever, tranquil novella begins with a professor telling his stepdaughter a bedtime story about... read more

The Private Lives of Trees

Alejandro Zambra

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Powerful tale of espionage and love in the early years of the Syrian war. By a former CIA agent, this was published in 2021 in the US and only now in the UK, propelled by word of mouth.

Damascus Station

David McCloskey

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From the author of Stag's Leap, which won both a Pulitzer and the T.S. Eliot prize in 2012.

Balladz

Sharon Olds

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The literary fl?neur wanders amongst places and objects, images, film and ideas: a series of short, discursive essays that are the more brilliant for being unassuming.

Affinities

Brian Dillon

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The Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins descends on seventeen-century Essex, where he finds himself oddly fascinated by a 'peculiar' young woman. A historical novel with real bite, which rec... read more

The Manningtree Witches

A. K. Blakemore

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A new collection from the award-winning Sheffield poet: the Lake District, Greenland, women's bodies...

The Illustrated Woman

Helen Mort

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Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath ...

Heather Clark

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Those who read Clare’s Something of His Art, about J S Bach, or The Light in the Dark: A Winter Journal (or others) will know that Clare is a writer of exquisite sensibility and nuance. ... read more

Heavy Light: A Journey Through Madness, Mania and Healing ...

Horatio Clare

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Michel the Giant: An African in Greenland

Tete-Michel Kpomassie

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Real Estate

Deborah Levy

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A powerful coming-of-age story - and its consequences for others - by the French-Mauritian writer who won the Prix Femina des Lyceens for The Tropic of Violence.

The Sky Above the Roof

Nathacha Appanah

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