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In Praise of Shadows
Vintage Design Edition
2024 || Paperback || Junichiro Tanizaki || Vintage Publishing
Reading it, you will be led by Junichiro Tanizaki's light touch into a mysterious and tranquil world of darkness and shadows, where gold flashes in the gloom and a deep stillness reigns.
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Amsterdam
A brief life of the city
2024 || Paperback || Geert Mak || Vintage Publishing
A magnet for trade and travellers from all over the world, stylish, cosmopolitan Amsterdam is a city of dreams and nightmares, of grand civic architecture and legendary beauty, but also of civil wars, bloody religious purges, and the tragedy of Anne Frank.
After the Quake
2024 || Paperback || Haruki Murakami || Vintage Publishing
Tales of upheaval and confusion, longing and love in the aftermath of the Kobe earthquake. For the characters in after the quake, the Kobe earthquake is an echo from a past they buried long ago. Satsuki has spent thirty years hating one man: did her desire for revenge cause the earthquake? Miyake left his family in Kobe to make midnight bonfires on a beach hundreds of miles away.
Fourteen-year-old Sala has nightmares that the Earthquake Man is trying to stuff her inside a little box. Katagiri...
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The Trader, The Owner, The Slave
Parallel Lives in the Age of Slavery
2024 || Paperback || Professor James Walvin || Vintage Publishing
James Walvin offers a new and an original interpretation of the barbaric world of slavery and of the historic end to the slave trade in April 1807. John Newton (1725-1807), author of 'Amazing Grace', was a slave captain who marshalled his human cargoes with a brutality that he looked back on with shame and contrition.
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The Age of The Strongman
How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy around the World
2024 || Paperback || Gideon Rachman || Vintage Publishing
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The Bookseller of Florence
Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Manuscripts that Illuminated the Renaissance
2024 || Paperback || Dr Ross King || Vintage Publishing
Before long, with the enterprising nuns working tirelessly as typesetters, the Ripoli Press began printing a series of books and pamphlets that triggered an explosion of ideas in politics, philosophy and religion.
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Pepita
2024 || Paperback || Vita Sackville-West || Vintage Publishing
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JULIET NICOLSONVita Sackville-West was an extraordinary woman from a long line of extraordinary women – this book tells their stories.
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Guns, Germs and Steel
(Patterns of Life)
2024 || Paperback || Jared Diamond || Vintage Publishing
Read this specially designed new edition of Jared Diamond’s Pulitzer-prize winning exploration of what makes us human. Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe?
Sapiens
A Brief History of Humankind: (Patterns of Life)
2019 || Paperback || Yuval Noah Harari || Vintage Publishing
Yuval Noah Harari's bestselling phenomenon now in a beautifully packaged new special edition. Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old.
My Antonia
2019 || Paperback || Willa Cather || Vintage Publishing
Willa Cather’s best-loved novel, and the final book in the Great Plains trilogy, is a beautiful portrayal of friendship, longing and growing up in frontier Nebraska. When young orphan Jim Burden is sent to live with his grandparents in Nebraska, he finds himself growing up alongside Bohemian immigrant Ántonia Shimerda. Their childhoods are full of shared adventures but as they grow their paths diverge, spurred on by the dire poverty of the Shimerda family.
Yet Jim will never forget Ántoni...