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Biography & Memoires

The Africa List

Of Morsels and Marvels

Conde Maryse

ISBN: HB: 9780857426932, Seagull Books, February 2020
324 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

For many, cooking is simply the mechanical act of reproducing standard recipes. To Maryse Conde, however, cooking implies creativity and personal invention, on par with the complexity of writing a story. A cook, she explains, uses spices and flavors...

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Anthropology

The Africa List

Phantom Africa

Leiris Michel

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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Fiction

The Swiss List

Soutine's Last Journey

Dutli Ralph

ISBN: HB: 9780857426925, Seagull Books, February 2020
292 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

August 6, 1943. Chaim Soutine, a Jewish painter from Belorussia and a contemporary of Chagall, Modigliani, and Picasso, is hidden in a hearse that's traveling from a small town on the Loire towards Nazi-occupied Paris. Suffering from a stomach ulcer,...

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Fiction

Writing Places Texts, Rhythms, Images

Sinha Arunava

ISBN: PB: 9780857427328, Seagull Books, January 2020
240 pp., 19x15.2 cm, 72 colour plates

There are many ways to travel between India and the UK in general, and Calcutta and Norwich in particular. You could take a plane and then the bus or the train, or perhaps a taxi. You could even sail. But what if you traveled via literature instead?...

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