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Fire Above, the Mountain Below
ISBN: HB: 9780857427793, Seagull Books, July 2021
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Reinhard Jirgl's strikingly individual novel The Fire Above, the Mountain Below demonstrates that he is not only unorthodox in his approach to language, but also difficult to pin down in terms of any genre. Weaving together elements of crime story, C...
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£21,99
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It All Tastes of Farewell Diaries, 1964-1970
ISBN: HB: 9780857427809, Seagull Books, May 2021
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
It All Tastes of Farewell is a frank account of one woman's life and loves in 1960s East Germany. As a writer, Brigitte Reimann could not help but tell a compelling story, and that is born out here in her diaries, which are gripping as any novel. She...
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£25,00
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Kong's Finest Hour A Chronicle of Connections
ISBN: HB: 9780857428479, Seagull Books, May 2021
342 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 114 halftones
In a world full of devils, the giant ape Kong defends what he loves the most. But who and what is this undomesticated animal? Might it reside within us? As we tread confidently, is this where the earth opens up beneath us?   In Kong's "Finest Hour",...
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£27,99
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All the Roads Are Open The Afghan Journey
ISBN: PB: 9780857428226, Seagull Books, March 2021
124 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In June 1939 Annemarie Schwarzenbach and fellow writer Ella Maillart set out from Geneva in a Ford, heading for Afghanistan. The first women to travel Afghanistan's Northern Road, they fled the storm brewing in Europe to seek a place untouched by wha...
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£9,99
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Dark Ship
ISBN: PB: 9780857428394, ISBN: HB: 9780857420367, Seagull Books, March 2021
520 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Growing up in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, a young Kurdish boy named Kerim has ample opportunity to witness the murderous repression that defined the era for thousands of Iraqis. In Sherko Fatah's "The Dark Ship", we experience an extraordinary new voice i...
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Death in Persia
ISBN: PB: 9780857428233, Seagull Books, March 2021
156 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Since the rediscovery of her work in the late 1980s, Annemarie Schwarzenbach—journalist, traveler, archaeologist, opium addict, and antifascist novelist—has become a European cult figure among free spirited bohemians.   Available in Engli...
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£9,99
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Great Fall
ISBN: PB: 9780857428417, ISBN: HB: 9780857425348, Seagull Books, March 2021
224 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
"On the day of the Great Fall he left nothing, nothing at all behind". The latest work by Peter Handke, one of our greatest living writers, chronicles a day in life of an aging actor as he makes his way on foot from the outskirts of a great metropol...
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£18,99
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Lions
ISBN: PB: 9780857428264, ISBN: HB: 9780857424303, Seagull Books, March 2021
104 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
For distinguished philosopher Hans Blumenberg, lions were a life-long obsession. "Lions", translated by Kari Driscoll, collects thirty-two of Blumenberg's philosophical vignettes to reveal that the figure of the lion unites two of his other great pre...
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£9,99
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£20,00
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Moor
ISBN: PB: 9780857428332, ISBN: HB: 9780857423689, Seagull Books, March 2021
476 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
It's the early 1970s and Dion Katthusen, thirteen, is growing up fatherless in a small village in northern Germany. An only child plagued with a devastating stutter, Dion is ostracized by his peers and finds solace in the company of nature, collectin...
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£22,50
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Mr Zed's Reflections
ISBN: PB: 9780857428219, ISBN: HB: 9780857422248, Seagull Books, March 2021
144 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Any new book by poet, essayist, writer, and translator Hans Magnus Enzensberger, one of the most influential and internationally renowned German intellectuals, is cause for notice, and "Mr. Zed's Reflections" is no exception. Every afternoon for almo...
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