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Poetry

Torchlight

McDonald Peter

ISBN: PB: 9781847770912, Carcanet, February 2011
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

"Torchlight" explores the haunting persistence of memories, and the acts of remembrance which preserve and shape them. In his fifth collection, the Northern Irish poet Peter McDonald ranges across a wide poetic landscape, from Belfast in the troubled...

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Poetry

Taller When Prone

Murray Les

ISBN: PB: 9781847771230, Carcanet, November 2010
72 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

"Taller When Prone" has at its heart Les Murray's celebrations of the rural world in Australia and elsewhere, evoked with a deep understanding of landscapes, and the seasons, working lives and languages that have shaped them. Stories and songs, fragm...

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Literary Criticism

Thinking in Circles An Essay on Ring Composition

Douglas Mary

ISBN: PB: 9780300167856, Yale University Press, October 2010
192 pp., 21x14 cm, 14 black&white illus.

Many famous antique texts are misunderstood and many others have been completely dismissed, all because the literary style in which they were written is unfamiliar today. So argues Mary Douglas in this controversial study of ring composition, a techn...

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Poetry

Tourist in Hell

Wilner Eleanor

ISBN: PB: 9780226900322, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
96 pp., 21.5x13 cm

Eleanor Wilner's poems attempt to absorb the shock of the wars and atrocities of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. In their litany of loss, in their outrage and sorrow, they retain the joy in life, mercy for the mortal condition, and pr...

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Film Studies

Literary Criticism

Typhus

Sartre Jean-Paul

ISBN: HB: 9781906497422, Seagull Books, August 2010
212 pp., 20.1x23 cm

Set in Malaya during the British protectorate, Sartre's "Typhus" centres on the improbable couple formed by the disgraced former doctor Georges, who has sunk to the lowest depths of a highly stratified colonial society, and Nellie, a down-at-heel nig...

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Philosophy

Literary Criticism

This Is Enlightenment

Siskin Clifford, Warner William

ISBN: PB: 9780226761480, ISBN: HB: 9780226761473, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
568 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 line drawings, 24 halftones

Debates about the nature of the Enlightenment date to the eighteenth century, when Imanual Kant himself addressed the question, "What is Enlightenment?" The contributors to this ambitious book offer a paradigm-shifting answer to that now-famous query...

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Tigers at Awhitu

Broom Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9781903039991, Carcanet, February 2010
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

Sarah Broom's poetry profoundly engages the landscape of her native NewZealand. Experienced as both nurturing and menacing, tender andindifferent, it is the context within which other terrains areexplored: heightened states of awareness, the physical...

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Fiction

Treatise on Elegant Living

de Balzac Honore

ISBN: PB: 9780984115501, DAP, Wakefield Press, February 2010
112 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Honore de Balzac's 1830 Treatise on Elegant Living was a keystone text on dandyism, preceding Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly's "Anatomy of Dandyism" (1845) and Charles Baudelaire's "The Dandy" (in "The Painter of Modern Life", 18...

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Through the Square Window

Morrissey Sinead

ISBN: PB: 9781847770578, Carcanet, November 2009
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

Sinead Morrissey's fourth collection explores fertility, pregnancy, and the landscape of early childhood in poems that are by turns tender, exuberant and unsettling. Pitched against the envious dead, these diverse narratives of birth and its conseque...

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Fiction

Talking About Detective Fiction

James P. D.

ISBN: HB: 9781851243099, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2009
144 pp., 19.6x12.9 cm

To judge by the worldwide success of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie's Poirot, it is not only the Anglo-Saxons who have an appetite for mystery and mayhem. Talking about the craft of detective writing and sharing her personal...

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