Below is a list of all literature, poetry & criticism titles recently released or due shortly.
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Tim Stover :- Epic and Empire in Vespasianic Rome: A New Reading of Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica |
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[ Oxford University Press / Hardback - due 7/Jun/2012 ]
Epic and Empire in Vespasianic Rome offers a new interpretation of Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica, a Latin epic poem written during the reign of the emperor Vespasian (70-79 AD). Recounting the famous voyage of Jason and the Argonauts as they set off... |
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Siegfried Sassoon :- The War Poems: Arranged and Introduced by Rupert Hart-Davis |
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[ Faber and Faber / Paperback - due 7/Jun/2012 ]
Siegfried Sassoon is one of the First World War poets whose poetry has defined a generation. He published most of his war poetry in The Old Huntsman (1917) and Counter-Attack (1918). Chronologically ordered, the poems in this collection act as a... |
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Daljit Nagra :- Tippoo Sultan's Incredible White-man-eating Tiger Toy-machine!!! |
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[ Faber and Faber / Paperback - due 7/Jun/2012 ]
Look We Have Coming to Dover! , the remarkable debut by Daljit Nagra, marked the arrival of a thrilling new voice in poetry and won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection along the way. In this, his second volume, his writing shows every bit the... |
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Georges Bataille, Alastair Hamilton :- Literature and Evil |
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[ Penguin Books Ltd / Paperback - due 7/Jun/2012 ]
'Literature is not innocent', stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging its complicity with the knowledge of evil can literature communicate fully and intensely. These literary... |
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Kenneth Steven :- A Song Among the Stones |
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[ Birlinn General / Paperback - due 7/Jun/2012 ]
In the sixth century, Celtic Christian monks are thought to have made dangerous and difficult journeys from the west coast of Scotland to seek solitude in Iceland. This evocative, pared-down sequence of poems - the imaginary fragments of a lost... |
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Kingsley Amis :- New Maps of Hell |
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[ Penguin Books Ltd / Paperback - due 7/Jun/2012 ]
In this hilarious, inspiring and provocative series of essays, Kingsley Amis introduces every reader to the wonders and value of science fiction writing. From the extraordinary ideas but sexless science of Jules Verne to the power of H. G. Wells'... |
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Roberto Saviano, Oonagh Stransky :- Beauty and the Inferno |
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[ Quercus Publishing Plc / Paperback - due 7/Jun/2012 ]
Roberto Saviano is best known for his work on the Italian mafia, but Beauty and the Inferno, winner of the European Book Award 2010, also tackles universal themes with great insight and humanity, with urgency, and often with anger. This important... |
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Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch :- Banjo |
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[ Pan Macmillan / Paperback - due 7/Jun/2012 ]
While Banjo opens with a clutch of fine lyrics, elegies and set-pieces, at the heart of Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch's new book is a remarkable tale of darkness and light, music and silence. Celebrating the centenary of Captain Scott's arrival at the... |
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Tom Wolfe :- Hooking Up |
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[ Vintage / Paperback - due 7/Jun/2012 ]
'By the year 2000 the term working class had fallen into disuse in the United States, and proletariat was so obsolete it was known only to a few bitter Marxist academics with wire hair sprouting out of their ears. The average electrician,... |
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William Sieghart :- Winning Words: Inspiring Poems for Everyday Life |
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[ Faber and Faber / Paperback - due 7/Jun/2012 ]
Faster, higher, stronger: winning words are those that inspire you on to Olympian goals. From falling in love to overcoming adversity, celebrating a new born or learning to live with dignity: here is a book to inspire and to thrill through life's... |
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