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Orlando King
2024 || Paperback || Isabel Colegate || Bloomsbury Publishing
The masterpiece of one of the most important and overlooked British women writers of the twentieth century, with a new introduction by Melissa Harrison; 'Isabel Colegate has no rival' (The Times)
'If you are curious as to why Britain is still ruled by a tiny cadre of not-very-introspective aristo-capitalists, Orlando King is essential reading' Sunday Times
'Colegate's sharp-eyed trilogy about a young man on the make in 1930s London feels particularly resonant right now, given its acute take o...
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Untold Stories of War
2020 || Paperback || Ava Molleson e.a. || University of Groningen Press
Most of what gets published about war zones is written by a remarkably small group of people. Soldiers, journalists, politicians, public intellectuals: these are the people we turn to in times of crisis. And yet, in turning to these people we miss something very important: the voices of the displaced, the victimised, and the oppressed. The voices of the voiceless. This book is here to help change that. Containing seven beautifully illustrated stories of conflict—from the Balkans to Africa, ...
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The Way Back
2019 || Paperback || Erich Maria Remarque || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The sequel to All Quiet on the Western Front, one of the most powerful novels of the First World War and a twentieth-century classic.
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How We Disappeared
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020
2024 || Paperback || Jing-Jing Lee || Oneworld Publications
A beautiful, stunningly ambitious tale of endurance, identity, and memory, for fans of Min Jin Lee's Pachinko and Georgia Hunter’s We Were the Lucky Ones.
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Absalom, Absalom!
2024 || Paperback || William Faulkner || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
This postbellum Greek tragedy is the perfect introduction to Faulkner’s elaborate descriptive syntax. Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard roommate, are obsessed with the tragic rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen. As a poor white boy, Sutpen was turned away from a plantation owner's mansion by a black butler.