Dr Work's Leopard
Life with Appa
ISBN: PB: 9781784108038,
Carcanet,
March 2025
96 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
96 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
For several years Sujata Bhatt has been working on two parallel projects, a new collection of poems to be called "Habitat" (her most recent book was "Poppies in Translation" in 2015) and her Appa stories, a move into prose. Appa is a physician, a fat...
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12.99 GBP
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Sea of Ink, Forest of Pens
The Art of the Quran in the Hossein Afshar Collection
ISBN: HB: 9780300278828,
Yale University Press,
February 2025
208 pp., 27,9x22,9 cm, 125 colour illus.
208 pp., 27,9x22,9 cm, 125 colour illus.
A spectacular study of calligraphy, the most esteemed form of visual and textual expression in the Islamic world, through a storied collection of Qur'an manuscripts.
Spanning more than a millennium, from the seventh through the nineteenth century,...
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30.00 GBP
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No One Will Know You Tomorrow
Selected Poems, 2014-2024
ISBN: HB: 9780300275469,
Yale University Press,
January 2025
248 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm
248 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm
A selection of the exquisite, passionate verse of the Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish, superbly translated into English.
Born in Jerusalem in 1978, Najwan Darwish is one of the most beloved poets of the Arabic-speaking world. In this definitive col...
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20.00 GBP
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Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey"
A Biography
ISBN: PB: 9780300272475,
Yale University Press,
January 2025
302 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
302 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A worldwide exploration of the history, purpose, and inescapable influence of the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" that will inspire readers to think anew about Homer's work.
No one knows whether Homer was a real person, but there is no doubt that the epi...
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14.99 GBP
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Philosophy of Translation
ISBN: HB: 9780300247374,
Yale University Press,
January 2025
248 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
248 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A deep dive into the nature of translation from one of its most acclaimed practitioners.
Avoiding theoretical debates and cliched metaphors, award‑winning translator Damion Searls has written a fresh, approachable, and convincing account of what tr...
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20.00 GBP
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Collected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781800173330,
Carcanet,
November 2024
244 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
244 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
This "Collected Poems" spans Mimi Khalvati's nine collections and includes previously uncollected poems.
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18.99 GBP
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Invisible Dog
ISBN: PB: 9781800174511,
Carcanet,
November 2024
144 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
144 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
Fabio Morabito is one of Mexico's best loved and most entertaining contemporary writers, his narratives marked by a humane irony and a philosophical resignation to the vagaries of his society and the irresistible tyrannies of time. Some of his poems...
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12.99 GBP
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One Little Room
ISBN: PB: 9781800174498,
Carcanet,
November 2024
96 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
96 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
The poems in "One Little Room" enter and explore confined spaces in history and personal memory. The spaces prove not to be as small as they seem from the outside: they expand and interconnect to produce new and dazzling perspectives out of the limit...
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11.99 GBP
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How to Write a Bestseller
An Insider's Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction for General Audiences
ISBN: PB: 9780300267167,
ISBN: HB: 9780300267174,
Yale University Press,
November 2024
232 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm
232 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm
A bestselling author's definitive guide to writing and publishing research-based nonfiction for a wide audience.
Writing fact-based nonfiction for large general audiences requires two different skills: the ability to conduct rigorous research and t...
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15.00 GBP
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35.00 GBP
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Billy "Nibs" Buckshot
The Complete Works
ISBN: PB: 9781800174436,
Carcanet,
October 2024
128 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
128 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
This collection of 200 tankas has no Great Purpose, apart from explaining the Meaning of Life. In an firework-display of 31-syllable sparkles, probably set off by accident, it lights up any corner of things done, thought, felt, seen, suffered & enjoy...
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12.99 GBP
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