Why Are You Shouting?
ISBN: PB: 9781800174535,
Carcanet,
July 2024
128 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
128 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Longlisted for the Read Russia Prize 2018; Shortlisted 2020
Shortlisted for The Ledbury Forte Poetry Prize 2018
Longlisted for The International Dylan Thomas Prize 2018
"Why Are You Shouting?", James Womack's fourth Carcanet collection, thinks abou...
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12.99 GBP
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C. S. Lewis's Oxford
ISBN: HB: 9781851245642,
Bodleian Library Publishing,
June 2024
232 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 30 colour illus., 16 black&white illus.
232 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 30 colour illus., 16 black&white illus.
The fantastical fictional land of Narnia, famously reached via a magical wardrobe, has many connections to the world in which its creator C. S. Lewis lived. The influence of Oxford can be seen not only in medieval buildings and towers but also in the...
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30.00 GBP
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Catullus
Selected Poems
ISBN: HB: 9780300275292,
Yale University Press,
June 2024
168 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
168 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A vivid and musical rendering of the poetry of Catullus, whose passionate verses have captivated readers for centuries.
In the fourteenth century, a manuscript surfaced in Verona that had been lost for more than a thousand years: the poems of Catul...
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20.00 GBP
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Orwell's Ghosts
Wisdom and Warnings for the 21st Century
ISBN: HB: 9781911723028,
Hurst Publishers,
June 2024
224 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
224 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
For sale in CIS only!
With Orwell claimed by all sides of the culture wars, returning to his own world and words offers sharp and surprising lessons for today's crises.
Seventy-five years after "1984" first published, George Orwell is back. Progre...
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20.00 GBP
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Ambush at Still Lake
ISBN: PB: 9781800174122,
Carcanet,
June 2024
96 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
96 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Forward Prize for Best Collection 2020
Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award 2020
Shortlisted for The Polari Book Prize 2021
Caroline Bird's new poems show us the ambush of real life that occurs in the stillness after the happy ending. This is a c...
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11.99 GBP
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From Base Materials
ISBN: PB: 9781800174160,
Carcanet,
June 2024
96 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
96 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
These poems are apocalyptic and sensory, coming from a place of hurt and love, of the human spirit struggling to transcend "base matter" and make sense of the world.
"From Base Materials is rich and various in its occasions. It ranges thematically f...
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Shark Nursery
ISBN: PB: 9781800174146,
Carcanet,
June 2024
96 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
96 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Eigse Michael Hartnett Poetry Award 2018
"The Shark Nursery" consists of three interlocking parts: poems arising directly from lockdown, poems about lives lived in an online reality, and animal poems. The animal poems draw on the rich tradition of...
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11.99 GBP
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Kafka
Making of an Icon
ISBN: HB: 9781851246229,
Bodleian Library Publishing,
May 2024
192 pp., 25,9x23,7 cm, 100 colour illus.
192 pp., 25,9x23,7 cm, 100 colour illus.
Franz Kafka died in 1924, when he was not yet forty. During his life he published only seven small books, but he left behind three unfinished novels and a mass of stories, reflections and personal writings which were published after his death. His no...
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35.00 GBP
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Enheduana
The Complete Poems of the World's First Author
ISBN: PB: 9780300276763,
ISBN: HB: 9780300264173,
Yale University Press,
May 2024
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 2 black&white illus.
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 2 black&white illus.
The complete poems of the priestess Enheduana, the world's first known author, newly translated from the original Sumerian.
Enheduana was a high priestess and royal princess who lived in Ur, in what is now southern Iraq, about 2300 BCE. Not only do...
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14.99 GBP
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18.99 GBP
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Provincials
Postcards from the Peripheries
ISBN: HB: 9780300266139,
Yale University Press,
May 2024
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
An enchanting and joyous exploration of life and creativity at the geographical edges of the modern world.
Who is a provincial? In this subversive book, Sumana Roy assembles a striking cast of writers, artists, filmmakers, cricketers, tourist guide...
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16.99 GBP
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