Museum Visits
ISBN: PB: 9780300254112,
Yale University Press,
March 2024
152 pp., 19,8x13,8 cm
152 pp., 19,8x13,8 cm
The daring, mischievous micro-essays of award-winning French humorist Eric Chevillard, published in English for the first time.
Eric Chevillard is one of France's leading stylists and thinkers, an endlessly inventive observer of the everyday whose...
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12.99 GBP
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Liberty over London Bridge
A History of the People of Southwark
ISBN: HB: 9780300272208,
Yale University Press,
February 2024
304 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 32 colour and black&white illus., 2 maps
304 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 32 colour and black&white illus., 2 maps
The first complete history of Southwark, London's stubbornly independent community over the Thames.
Southwark's fortunes have always been tied to those of the City of London across the river. But from its founding in Roman times through to flourish...
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20.00 GBP
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When I Passed the Statue of Liberty I Became Black
ISBN: HB: 9780300270976,
Yale University Press,
February 2024
304 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 60 black&white illus.
304 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 60 black&white illus.
The lost memoir of Britain's first Black Olympic medal winner – and the America he discovered.
After winning Olympic medals for Britain in 1920, Harry Edward (1898-1973) decided to try his luck in America. The country he found was full of thrilling...
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18.99 GBP
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Exiled Shadow
ISBN: HB: 9780300265729,
Yale University Press,
January 2024
376 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm
376 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm
A virtuoso collage novel about narrative, identity, and exile, from international literary sensation Norman Manea.
In this vibrant mosaic of voices, sources, and stories, the protagonist, known only as the Nomadic Misanthrope, leaves communist Roma...
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20.00 GBP
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Body of the Soul
Stories
ISBN: PB: 9780300270938,
Yale University Press,
January 2024
168 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm
168 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm
A new collection of stories by the acclaimed Ludmila Ulitskaya, masterfully translated into English.
While we can feel, know, and study the body, the soul refuses definition. Where does it begin and end? What does the soul have to do with love? Doe...
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14.99 GBP
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Barefoot Doctor
A Novel
ISBN: PB: 9780300274035,
ISBN: HB: 9780300259636,
Yale University Press,
November 2023
272 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm
272 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm
A profound, poignant story of a village healer and her community, from one of the world's great contemporary novelists.
In rural Yun Village, herbalist Mrs. Yi lives with her husband in a cottage at the foot of Niulan Mountain, where she gathers he...
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11.99 GBP
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18.99 GBP
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Dickensland
The Curious History of Dickens' London
ISBN: HB: 9780300266207,
Yale University Press,
August 2023
288 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 24 black&white illus.
288 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 24 black&white illus.
The intriguing history of Dickens's London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis for more than 150 years.
Tourists have sought out the landmarks, streets, and alleys of Charles Dickens's London ever since th...
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20.00 GBP
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Tales of Tangier
The Complete Short Stories of Mohamed Choukri
ISBN: PB: 9780300251357,
Yale University Press,
July 2023
264 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm
264 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm
The complete short stories of acclaimed Moroccan author Mohamed Choukri, translated into English and collected in one volume for the first time.
Mohamed Choukri's vivid stories invite the reader to wander the streets of Tangier, the ancient coastal...
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10.99 GBP
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Isaac Murphy
The Rise and Fall of a Black Jockey
ISBN: HB: 9780300254426,
Yale University Press,
June 2023
192 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 10 black&white illus.
192 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 10 black&white illus.
The rise and fall of one of America's first Black sports celebrities.
Isaac Murphy, born enslaved in 1861, still reigns as one of the greatest jockeys in American history. Black jockeys like Murphy were at the top of the most popular sport in Ameri...
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18.99 GBP
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By the Rivers of Babylon
ISBN: HB: 9780300233414,
Yale University Press,
June 2023
248 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
248 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
A profound and genre-defying work of literature about love, death, and illness from one of Portugal's most celebrated writers.
Incapacitated after the removal of a malignant tumor, the narrator, Antonio, spends his days in a Lisbon hospital endurin...
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16.50 GBP
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