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Poetry

Semibreve

Deane John F.

ISBN: PB: 9781847772695, Carcanet, May 2015
120 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

John F. Deane is a vital presence in contemporary Irish poetry. The poems in "Semibreve" combine lyric grace with a fiercely questing intelligence, pushing against the mysteries of faith in a fractured world, paying tribute to the value of human life...

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Fiction

The French List

Someone's Trying to Find You

Auge Marc

ISBN: HB: 9780857422439, Seagull Books, May 2015
152 pp., 20.3x13.9 cm

As he leaves the cinema where he has just watched "Casablanca", one of his favorite films, Julien is approached by a mysterious young woman, Claire. Unbeknownst to Julien, Claire has been following him for several days. Outside the cinema she relays...

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Literary Criticism

Scholars, Poets and Radicals Discovering Forgotten Lives in the Blackwell Collections

Ricketts Rita

ISBN: HB: 9781851244256, Bodleian Library Publishing, March 2015
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 48 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.

Exploring the Blackwell Collections (publishing and bookselling archives), Rita Ricketts discovered diverse characters associated with this world-famous company, between 1830 and 1940. There is a tailor's son saving souls, a reluctant radical, a hamm...

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Fiction

Side of Paradise and Other Classic Works Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection

Fitzgerald Scott F.

ISBN: HB: 9781435146198, GMC Group, Barnes & Noble, February 2015
864 pp., 27.6x21.6 cm

If the Roaring Twenties are remembered as the era of flaming youth , it was F. Scott Fitzgerald who lit the fire. His semi-autobiographical first novel, This Side of Paradise, became an instant best-seller and established an image of seemingly carefr...

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Literary Criticism

Gender Studies

Sexuality of History Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830

Lanser Susan S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226187730, ISBN: HB: 9780226187563, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 1 line drawing

The period of reform, revolution, and reaction that characterized seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe also witnessed an intensified interest in lesbians. In scientific treatises and orientalist travelogues, in French court gossip and Dutch cou...

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Literary Criticism

General

Shrapnel Minima Writings from Humanities Underground

Chakravarty Prasanta

ISBN: PB: 9780857421876, Seagull Books, December 2014
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This collection of essays, fiction, poetry and discussions, derived from the cult Internet magazine "HumanitiesUnderground", provides entry into some of the most burning issues in the humanities in contemporary South Asia. The anthology brings toget...

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Poetry

Silent Highway

Howell Anthony

ISBN: PB: 9780856464522, Carcanet, November 2014
96 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

The centrepiece of "Silent Highway" is the title-poem which celebrates the role of the river Thames in the life of London. It is written as a sequence that looks at history and the present: from Pocahontas's voyage to the arrival of the "Windrush" br...

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Fiction

Suspended Sentences Three Novellas

Modiano Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9780300198058, Yale University Press, November 2014
232 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

Although originally published separately, Patrick Modiano's three novellas form a single, compelling whole, haunted by the same gauzy sense of place and characters. Modiano draws on his own experiences, blended with the real or invented stories of ot...

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Fiction

Suki

Namjoshi Suniti

ISBN: HB: 9789383074105, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
264 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

In "Suki", Suniti Namjoshi weaves a witty and delightful tapestry from threads of longing, loss, memory, metaphor, and contemplation. Taken as a whole, the picture she draws is a stunning evocation of the love and friendship shared between herself an...

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Poetry

Shadow of a Cloud but No Cloud

Killarney Clary

ISBN: PB: 9780226177984, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
88 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

"Shadow of a Cloud but No Cloud", the latest collection from enigmatic prose poet Killarney Clary, is a book-length sequence of unnumbered, untitled poems, each evoking a clear moment in time. The details on which Clary chooses to focus suggest a nar...

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