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62 writers from 1920s' Paris are reimagined by Guilac as shop keepers... Andre Gide for instance, standing in the doorway of a grocery called Les Caves du Vatican. Delicious and clothbound ... read more

Boutiques Litteraires: Henri Guilac’s Literary Boutiques ...

Lauren Elkin

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£100.00

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Brought up in late-Victorian Presbyterian Aberdeenshire, McBey became a war artist in WW1. A decade later he married the American Marguerite Loeb and went to live in Tangier, in a house on O... read more

Shadows and Light: The Extraordinary Life of James McBey ...

Alasdair Soussi

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£29.99

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Painter, explorer, writer, archaeologist and theosophist, Roerich was a key figure for Diaghilev and Stravinsky for whom he designed sets and costumes (including The Rite of Spring). He was ... read more

Nicholas Roerich: The Artist who would be King

John McCannon

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£37.50

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Kreidolf (1863-1956) was a Swiss painter and leading figure in the Jugendstil movement who also wrote and illustrated children's books. In this enchanting tale from 1924, three gnomes set ou... read more

The Gnomes’ Winter Journey

Ernst Kreidolf

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£12.99

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Karl Braun is German, cultivated and self-effacing; he tunes pianos for a living. When he moves into a boarding house in Pimlico, everyone assumes that he has fled Nazi Germany, when in fact... read more

The Glass Pearls

Emeric Pressburger

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£9.99

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Morally complex, stunningly written and brimming with imagination and empathy, this story is set in Nazi-occupied Warsaw in 1944. Censored by the Communists after the war, the novel was firs... read more

The Beautiful Mrs Seidenman

Andrzej Szczypiorski

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£9.99

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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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£10.99

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Explores the history of the translation of classical Greek literature into Latin. Far from being inevitable, as it seems seen from the C21st, the Roman adoption of Hellenic classics was an e... read more

Beyond Greek: The Beginnings of Latin Literature

Denis Feeney

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£25.99

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First published in 1924, this is at once a tragicomedy and an anti-romance. At its centre are the children of Albert Sanger, a bohemian and profligate composer said to be based on Augustus J... read more

The Constant Nymph

Margaret Kennedy

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£9.99

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Including examples from Xinjiang, Tibet and Inner Mongolia, this specialised survey covers an immense sweep of history, from the C8th BC to the middle of the C20th. Illustrated; clothbound ... read more

Dragon & Horse: Saddle Rugs and Other Horse Tack from China and B ...

Koos de Jong

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£51.00

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This montage weaves together memories from Bergman's childhood and adulthood with all their subtle parallels. Film-like, dream-like and beautifully crafted, this self-portrait is startlingly... read more

A Magic Lantern

Ingmar Bergman

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£18.00

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Witty, tangential, self-deprecating, Amis's autobiography is not a chronological procession of memories but a frenzy of footnotes, asides, literary zigzags through time and space. It's funny... read more

Experience

Martin Amis

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£12.99

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Explores the lives of American women in 1960s' Saigon.

Absolution

Alice McDermott

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£16.99

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Dr. Evans has been producing these pamphlets for over two decades. Very delightful they are too, and especially welcome in the absence of JJN's Christmas Crackers. Dr. Evans has been rash e... read more

Wonders and Absurdities 2023: A Country Doctor’s Commonplace Sel ...

Philip Evans

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£9.00

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