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Culture and Liberation Exile Writings, 1966-1985
ISBN: HB: 9780857427892, Seagull Books, March 2021
624 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
One of South Africa's best-known writers during the apartheid era, Alex La Guma was a lifelong activist and a member of the South African Communist Party and the African National Congress. Persecuted and imprisoned by the South African regime in the...
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£35,00
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Phantom Africa
ISBN: PB: 9780857427007, ISBN: HB: 9780857423771, Seagull Books, February 2020
720 pp., 22.8x19 cm, 37 halftones, 3 facsimiles
One of the towering classics of twentieth century French literature, "Phantom Africa" is a singular and ultimately unclassifiable work: a book composed of one man's compulsive and constantly mutating daily travel journal – by turns melodramatic, self...
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£45,00
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Mydriasis Followed by "To the Icebergs"
ISBN: HB: 9780857426543, Seagull Books, September 2019
152 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
While presenting the Nobel Prize in Literature to J. M. G. Le Clezio in 2008, the Nobel Committee called him the "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization". In M...
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Apostoloff
ISBN: PB: 9780857427199, Seagull Books, September 2019
288 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
"Gone, finito, The End, I say. A father who puts an end to it all before he wears down the whole family deserves more praise than damnation". Two sisters travel to Sofia – in a convoy of luxury limousines arranged by a fellow Bulgarian exile – to...
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£11,99
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My Mother's Tears
ISBN: HB: 9780857426529, Seagull Books, May 2019
192 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
With subtle, bemused humor and an unerring eye for human frailty, Michel Layaz writes about the hidden tensions within families, the awkwardness of adolescence, and the drama of intimacy between friends and lovers. His fifth novel, "My Mother's Tears...
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All the Land
ISBN: HB: 9780857426062, Seagull Books, March 2019
264 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
How, in 1930, did Alfred Wegener, the son of minister from Berlin, find himself in the most isolated spot on earth, attempting to survive an unthinkably cold winter in the middle of Greenland? In "All the Land", Jo Lendle sets out to chronicle Wegene...
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£19,99
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September Mirage
ISBN: PB: 9780857426321, ISBN: HB: 9780857420787, Seagull Books, March 2019
480 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Two fathers with two daughters: Martin, professor of German, writes but is studying Earth Sciences at MIT; Tariq, a doctor in Baghdad and Muna, is studying the archaeology of a region that is seen as the cradle of civilization. These two parallel rel...
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Sickle
ISBN: HB: 9780857426116, Seagull Books, March 2019
160 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
Norway. The 1800s. Endre must to take over the family farm from his father – his father, who swings the sickle and sharpens the scythe, and says this is the only way in which rocks and stones and mounts and waves can still be ours. But Endre is stran...
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Notes for a Young Gentleman
ISBN: HB: 9780857424853, Seagull Books, February 2018
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Toby Litt is one of that rare breed of fiction writers who never writes the same book twice: every time out, he takes an unexpected new tack – and his readers happily follow. ?Told in the form of the pithy, even lyrical advice a young soldier leaves...
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Last Country
ISBN: HB: 9780857424310, Seagull Books, February 2018
208 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
"Ruven Preuk stands apart from the village, on an August day in 1911, and listens". Thus begins an epic bildungsroman about the life of Ruven Preuk, son of the wainwright, child of a sleepy village in Germany's north, where life is both simple and ha...
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£16,99
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