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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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£9,99
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£18,99
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Masters of Art Kahlo
ISBN: PB: 9783791386577, Prestel Publishing, November 2020
112 pp., 21x17 cm, 55 colour illus.
Although her body of work is relatively small, Frida Kahlo has inspired adoration and admiration that few other artists have attained. This accessible and elegant book offers full page reproductions of a selection of her works, allowing for a broad a...
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£9,99
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Nottinghamshire Buildings of England
ISBN: HB: 9780300247831, Yale University Press, September 2020
864 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 illus.
Full of memorable and surprising buildings, Nottinghamshire is a county that rewards close investigation. Great medieval churches are represented by Newark, Worksop Priory, and Southwell Minster, famous for its exquisite carved "leaves". Of the count...
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£45,00
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Ben Hecht Fighting Words, Moving Pictures
ISBN: PB: 9780300251814, Yale University Press, April 2020
264 pp., 21x14.6 cm
He was, according to Pauline Kael, "the greatest American screenwriter". Jean-Luc Godard called him "a genius" who "invented 80 percent of what is used in Hollywood movies today". Besides tossing off dozens of now-classic scripts – including "Scarfac...
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Kinship by Covenant A Canonical Approach to the Fulfillment of God's Saving Promises
ISBN: PB: 9780300248432, ISBN: HB: 9780300140972, Yale University Press, November 2019
608 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
While the canonical scriptures were produced over many centuries and represent a diverse library of texts, they are unified by stories of divine covenants and their implications for God's people. In this deeply researched and thoughtful book, Scott H...
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£25,00
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£50,00
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"I"
ISBN: PB: 9780857427151, ISBN: HB: 9780857422347, Seagull Books, September 2019
384 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
The perfect book for paranoid times, "I" introduces us to W, a mere hanger-on in East Berlin's postmodern underground literary scene. All is not as it appears, though, as W is actually a Stasi informant who reports to the mercurial David Bowie look-a...
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£12,99
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£20,50
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Citizens of Tokyo Six Plays
ISBN: PB: 9780857425515, Seagull Books, September 2019
360 pp., 19x15.2 cm, 7 halftones
"Citizens of Tokyo" is the first collection in English of plays by one of Japan's most important contemporary playwrights, Oriza Hirata, whose works have been performed all over the world. The first part of Citizens of Tokyo, "At Home and Abroad," pr...
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£25,00
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Jabotinsky A Life
ISBN: PB: 9780300244380, ISBN: HB: 9780300136623, Yale University Press, May 2019
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm
Vladimir Jabotinsky (1880-1940) was a man of huge paradoxes and contradictions and is one of the most misunderstood Zionist political leaders – a first-rate novelist, a celebrated Russian journalist, and founder of the branch of Zionism now headed by...
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£10,99
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£18,99
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Thomas Wilmer Dewing: Beauty into Art A Catalogue Raisonne
ISBN: HB: 9780300219210, Yale University Press, January 2019
1056 pp., 31.1x24.8 cm, 637 colour illus.
Best known for his interiors and landscapes featuring beautiful women in artful poses and subtly related color harmonies, Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938) lived and worked at the forefront of developments in modern American art. His paintings, which...
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£250,00
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Dorset Buildings of England
ISBN: HB: 9780300224788, Yale University Press, May 2018
864 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 128 colour illus., 80 black&white illus.
Fully revised, updated, and expanded, this book offers a fresh and comprehensive account of the buildings of Dorset, one of England's best-loved and most beautiful counties. With its wonderful variety of building stones, Dorset offers visual pleasure...
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£60,00
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