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Notes from the Dream House Selected Film Reviews 1963-2013
ISBN: PB: 9781784106027, Carcanet, October 2018
320 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"Notes from the Dream House" is a 'best of' selection of reviews by the celebrated Observer film critic Philip French. Spanning half the history of cinema, his reviews cover a great variety of films, from westerns and gangsters to art movies and musi...
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Clinic, Memory
ISBN: PB: 9781784103200, Carcanet, February 2017
80 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
Elaine Feinstein's poems are the harvest of a lifetime in literature. This selection, made by the author herself, gathers work from over half a century of published writing, and is completed by a section of new poems. The selection ranges from early...
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Portraits
ISBN: PB: 9781847772152, Carcanet, February 2015
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Elaine Feinstein has always written with most intensity about people. In this book, she remembers friends she has loved, writers she has known and literary figures from the past. She writes of the Russian poet Bella Akhmadulina with tender admiration...
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After Lermontov Translations for the Bicentenary
ISBN: PB: 9781847772756, Carcanet, April 2014
240 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841) is best known in the West today as the author of the novel "A Hero of Our Time". But at the time of his death, aged only 26, he was widely regarded as Russia's greatest living poet. He achieved almost instant fame in 183...
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BBC National Short Story Award 2013
ISBN: PB: 9781905583638, Carcanet, October 2013
116 pp., 17x11 cm
Edgar Allan Poe once claimed the greatest literary works were those that could be read "in one sitting". "Brevity must be in direct ratio of the intensity of the intended effect", he argued, once the effect has been established, of course. The stori...
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Swift
ISBN: PB: 9780856464430, Carcanet, May 2012
72 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
In Jennie Feldman's second collection, the earth-shy bird of the title flies high above the territorial rivalries of its region. From the Middle East, "Swift" ranges across Europe to Scotland, always on the lookout for what coheres in the world and i...
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Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781847771216, Carcanet, February 2012
256 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
From his first wartime collection evoking a generation's experience of a country made strange by blackouts and air raids, the "vivid allegorical / Reality of gun and hangar", to the consolatory wisdom of the "Last Poems" of 1993, Roy Fuller was a poe...
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Parade's End, Volume IV Last Post: A Novel
ISBN: PB: 9781847770158, Carcanet, July 2011
338 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"Last Post", the fourth and final volume of Parade's End, is set on a single post-war summer's day. Valentine Wannop and Christopher Tietjens share a cottage in Sussex with Tietjens' brother and sister-in-law. Through their differing perspectives, Fo...
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Parade's End, Volume III A Man Could Stand Up: A Novel
ISBN: PB: 9781847770141, Carcanet, April 2011
400 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"A Man Could Stand Up", the third volume of "Parade's End", brings Ford's characters to the "crack across the table of History", across which lie their uncertain post-war futures. Divided into three parts, the novel is a kaleidoscopic vision of socie...
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I Found it at the Movies Reflections of a Cinephile
ISBN: PB: 9781847771292, Carcanet, March 2011
220 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
For nearly half a century Philip French's writing on cinema has been essential reading for filmgoers, cinephiles and anyone who enjoys witty, intelligent engagement with the big screen. His vast knowledge of the medium is matched by his love for it....
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