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Tale of the Talking Face
ISBN: HB: 9780857420053, Seagull Books, October 2011
48 pp., 28x28 cm, many illus.
In "The Tale of the Talking Face", eminent Indian artist K. G. Subramanyan offers a stinging parable of democracy gone wrong by narrating and illustrating the story of a princess whose autocratic rule brought nothing but suffering to her people, desp...
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£19,00
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It Was Just, Yesterday
ISBN: PB: 9781905583379, Carcanet, September 2011
152 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm
The characters in Mirja Unge's debut collection are all, in their own way, evading something; whether failing to confront the true nature of an encounter, or avoiding responsibilities as a parent, sibling or friend. Abuse, betrayal and neglect lurk b...
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£7,99
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On Flying Objects
ISBN: PB: 9781905583386, Carcanet, September 2011
168 pp., 12.9x19.8 cm
The men in Emil Hakl's fiction are, like the title of one story, oddballs. Whether evading the expectations of adult life, or finding themselves drawn to characters they're simultaneously repulsed by, each one holds a mirror up to the peculiar failin...
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£7,99
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Stricken Field A Novel
ISBN: PB: 9780226286969, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
328 pp., 20.5x13 cm
Martha Gellhorn was one of the first – and most widely read – female war correspondents of the twentieth century. She is best known for her fearless reporting in Europe before and during WWII and for her brief marriage to Ernest Hemingway, but she wa...
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£13,00
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Paris Peasant
ISBN: PB: 9781878972101, DAP, Exact Change, September 2011
228 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm
Not for sale in Estonia! "Paris Peasant" (1926) is one of the central works of Surrealism, yet Exact Change's edition is the first U.S. publication of Simon Watson Taylor's authoritative translation, completed after consultations with the author. U...
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£13,99
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Blue Octavo Notebooks
ISBN: PB: 9781878972040, DAP, Exact Change, September 2011
120 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm
Not for sale in Estonia! From late 1917 until June 1919, Franz Kafka ceased to keep a diary, for which he had used quarto-size notebooks, instead writing in a series of smaller, octavo-size notebooks. When Kafka's literary executor, Max Brod, publi...
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£12,50
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Robinson Crusoe
ISBN: HB: 9781402784064, GMC Group, Sterling, September 2011
288 pp., 20.3x15.6 cm, black&white illus.
At first, Robinson Crusoe finds himself with little hope of survival when he is shipwrecked on a deserted tropical island. He begins to write in a journal of his fight to live, recording every incredible step forward and each miserable setback that b...
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£8,99
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Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
ISBN: HB: 9781402784026, GMC Group, Sterling, September 2011
96 pp., 20.3x15.6 cm, black&white illus.
The respected Dr. Jekyll appears to have fallen under the spell of a disreputable character named Edward Hyde. Hyde has access to Jekylls bank account and Jekyll has named Hyde as his sole heir in a recently drafted will. And there is something even...
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£8,99
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Firebreak A Parker Novel
ISBN: PB: 9780226770659, University of Chicago Press, August 2011
304 pp., 20x13 cm
Between Parker's 1961 debut and his return in the late 1990s, the world of crime changed considerably. Now fake IDs and credit cards had to be purchased from specialists; increasingly sophisticated policing made escape and evasion tougher; and, worst...
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£11,50
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Flashfire A Parker Novel
ISBN: PB: 9780226770628, University of Chicago Press, August 2011
288 pp., 20x13 cm
Between Parker's 1961 debut and his return in the late 1990s, the world of crime changed considerably. Now fake IDs and credit cards had to be purchased from specialists; increasingly sophisticated policing made escape and evasion tougher; and, worst...
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£11,50
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