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Fear of Mirrors
ISBN: PB: 9780857426413, Seagull Books, March 2019
332 pp., 20.1x15.7 cm
In this novel from esteemed political writer Tariq Ali, a father, Vlady, loses his job when he refuses to renounce socialist beliefs in the newly unified Germany – and as a result wants to explain to his alienated son what their family's long and pas...
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£14,99
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Book of Liszts Variations on the Theme of Franz Liszt
ISBN: HB: 9781906497941, Seagull Books, June 2011
460 pp., 24.3x16.3 cm
The extraordinary career of Franz Liszt (1811-1886) as a composer, conductor, and virtuoso pianist – whose incomparable skill and personal charisma dazzled audiences all over Europe, from London and Paris to Berlin, Moscow, and even Constantinople –...
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Victor Halfwit A Winter's Tale
ISBN: PB: 9780857425836, ISBN: HB: 9781906497644, Seagull Books, May 2011
208 pp., 25x15 cm, 208 colour illus.
One night in the middle of winter, as deep snow covers the mountains and forests, a doctor is crossing the ridge in Austria from Traich to Foding to see a patient. He stumbles over a body in the darkness and fears it is a corpse. But it's not a corps...
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£25,00
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£19,00
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Unlikely Progeny
ISBN: HB: 9781906497668, Seagull Books, December 2010
132 pp., 25x15 cm, 10 colour illus.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger has mastered poetry, novels, and the intricate balance between history and fiction, but he's never done anything quite like this before. For the writing of "Unlikely Progeny", Enzensberger developed a persona – Linda Quilt -c...
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£16,50
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Young Light
ISBN: HB: 9781906497545, Seagull Books, September 2010
298 pp., 21.1x14 cm
In "First Light", novelist Ralf Rothmann paints a delicate portrait of a twelve-year-old boy named Julian growing up in a mining community in 1960s Germany. The book covers only a few summer weeks, following Julian's gradual social and sexual awakeni...
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£16,50
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Kyoto List
ISBN: HB: 9781906497583, Seagull Books, September 2010
334 pp., 24.1x16 cm
If it takes only a few rogue financiers to collapse the economy, can one earnest investment officer save the dollar from collapse? Ken Murai, the protagonist of this fast-paced novel by Michael S. Koyama, is a young officer in the Japanese ministry o...
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Prose
ISBN: PB: 9780857425768, ISBN: HB: 9781906497569, Seagull Books, August 2010
162 pp., 21.3x13.7 cm
The Austrian playwright, novelist, and poet Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989) is acknowledged as among the major writers of our time. The seven stories in this collection capture Bernhard's distinct darkly comic voice and vision – often compared to Kafka a...
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£12,99
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Queen of Jhansi
ISBN: HB: 9781906497538, Seagull Books, August 2010
344 pp., 22.4x14 cm
Lakshmibai, the Queen of Jhansi, a legendary Indian heroine, led her troops against the British in the uprising of 1857, which is now widely described as the first Indian War of Independence. The image of the young warrior queen who died on the battl...
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